Aldo

Only 12 schools out of 232 programs didn't require subsidy in 2016. Only 2 in Texas. I understand that you're saying it's placing a burden beyond athletic departments across the country, but limiting competition solely on those figures hurts the little guy. If you're wanting to make the fiscally responsible argument, then it's to completely eliminate football programs at colleges but we all know that's ridiculous. I need me some corporate-sponsored football making billions for guys in suits in some rando office who have never played a lick of football, or know what it's like to be a college football player, but I digress.

This is the case for the majority of programs that aren't the handful big time P5s. I think USA Today had a nifty graph when we talked about this last year. ETA: Here's a link, and shows revenue vs expenses and the percent subsidized. That's a lot of programs. http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/finances/

That's exactly what someone who is a part of a conspiracy would want you to think! Where were you on July 20, 1969??

We're still going to be poor at run D

It looks like Marlins Park

I need a good pediatric dentist

While I agree with you about being viewed as a high level recruiter, he was being paid $200k last year by Kentucky.

I think "North Texas is close to home" is another point toward using North Texas (instead of UNT) in athletics because of how inclusive it is to the region.

So North Texas vs Iowa State

They pulled in a solid class after the HOD bowl iirc. (J Wilson, McClain, Ivery, Goree, Garner, etc). Capitalize on the recruits themselves? No that's a different story.

Lot's of hard hitting questions. Still have my commemorative championship helmet.

It's FSSW, no? Or TXA 21?

4.43 40 y'all

Daaaaaaaayum

I like the signing. Physical and a ball snatcher. Will fill a Tyler Wilson-type role I presume. While doesn't have great top end speed, has good acceleration and vision. Works zone defense well, which is important in this offense.

*School comes up with flashy new recruiting tool that has no bearing on life skills* Oh my God this has so much bearing on life skillls, how will they handle being adults! They're making them into sissies! Let's go back to leather helmets and pads! *Player goes through two-a-days, spring camp, summer training, fall camp, 12 football games, and possible post season*

WHAT THE F

Moar stats. Let's look at his YPA . While he had a roller coaster ride, he roller coaster'd upwards. It started leveling out (dotted line is moving average) towards his last few games between 6 and 7 YPA. Is that good? No that is subpar. Did he get better as the season progressed? Yes. He also showed he can have games above 7 ypa. He's not world beater, but Pearson and Isadore have to at least be average quarterbacks to beat Fine. That's hard to come by at North Texas.

Ok. I'll disagree. His running skills aren't great, besides scrambling. Shanbour and Means are better runners. And special teams and defense? I thought we were saying he couldn't handle the hits? I think we're all on the same page of "let the best players play", but I'm not sure the incoming QBs have unseated Fine just yet. Here's some more interesting stats while I'm at it: Fine's completion % Own 1-40: 60.9% 40-40: 58% Opp 40-1: 57.5% vs Conference: 64% vs FBS non-power 5: 63.6% So how do we decipher this? I think as they march down the field, his and Harrell's rookieness show up as they march closer to the endzone. Against conference foes, he fared well (4 out of 5 complete games vs conference he was above 64%). He slung it a total of 72 times against UTSA and LaTech for around 69% (nice). Statistically, he had some very good games, and some bad games and one awful game. He played like a roller coaster rookie.

Nearly 30% of Mason Fine's pass attempts went for first downs. McNulty and D Smith never surpassed 21% in 2015. Morris was at 25%. Also the Air Raid rhetoric 2016: 121 out of 240 first downs were due to passes vs 94 runs 2015: 83 out of 224 first downs were due to passes vs 125 runs Let's stop using 2015 as some kind of benchmark/comparison. Have to see how 2017 compares to 2016.

Calling for the benching of the starting QB for what "could be" is an overreaction. It has huge consequences. We have no idea what potential they have. Spring game says zero, and the fact that there's no starter means none of those dudes have stepped up. Have to let Fall practice play out. Do we want to go through growing pains again? Weren't we just talking about coaches should have left Morris in? The development of quarterbacks isn't easy, and throwing them into the fire slows it down instead of speeding it up as the young guns don't have time to learn the position inseason. Because they don't have the chance to fix mechanical mistakes and bad tendencies, they keep making those mistakes early on. I want to see what Pearson can do, but he needs more polish before throwing him out there. There needs to be more stability at the position. Obviously it's all on Fine to keep it stable, but to bench because his ceiling is low and not because one of the other guys has taken the position from him is not the way to succeed.

You don't think you're jumping the gun here?

Just a clarification. Both 2016 and 2015 saw 33 RZ scores, and 10 were pass TDs in 2016 and 7 were pass TDs in 2015. As has been said, Air Raid is a scheme. You work your best player. That's Wilson. ______________________________________________________ Fine was a below-average passer when compared all freshman 4 year starters the past 10 seasons (59 total). Was it by much? No. Does someone with his stats improve the next year? The numbers say yes he will improve to at least average. Is Fine a great QB? No. Will he be? No. But he's what we got - and he's more than what we've had in the last few seasons as a freshman - so let's look for something else to overreact about.

#triggered