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They still show on the roster on the UNT website so I'd imagine they are.

Was just about to post this. Looking forward to Saturday.

Tech starting left guard out for the year. Hopefully he recovers well. As for this weekend's game, that's an opportunity to exploit a potential weak spot of the line. Need to bring pressure and cause some confusion for the new starter. Don Williams later reported the Tech starting RB is trending towards playing this Saturday.

Sadly there's no category for almost wins and struggled to win, just wins and losses.

Do we really want judgement calls on the road against a big program, though? Replays help restore integrity, in my opinion. Granted it's not perfect but I'd rather the calls be right than just what some guy thought he saw. If I'm not mistaken, there were two UNT fumbles last night recovered by SFA where the player was down by contact. Were it for judgment calls, SFA would have gotten those balls and we probably lose that game. Is that really what y'all want instead of getting the game called correctly? As for the loud noises all the time, you can't want the young fans and students to come to the game while also removing the elements that make the atmosphere more enticing for that demographic. It's what all the big programs are doing with the constant music and flashing lights. So I ask, do you want a pleasant environment for a nice conversation or a rambunctious fanbase and full stands? Can't have it both ways.

Strangely now that I look through the roster again, none of their transfers are from TCU or Texas and most of their P4 transfers are on the offensive side of the ball, specifically OL and WR. The defensive side P4 transfers are two outside linebackers, one from Colorado and the other from Baylor. Then there's a corner back from Houston. No P4 transfers on the defensive line unless the outside linebackers line up on the edge.

I skimmed through their roster and noticed the same. It seems as though the new transfer system hurts continuity within programs but it doesn't limit the talent you can find at the G5 and FCS levels. It's just up to our coaches to capitalize.

Yes. I thought this yesterday during the game.

Some perspective on the defense for those calling it bad... without the turnovers to put SFA in scoring position, our guys held them to 7 points, forced 5 turnovers on downs, and 5 drives went 3-and-out. I wish the tackling had been better at times but considering run defense was our weakness last year, I think I'll take holding them to 2.2 yards per rushing attempt. Some more perspective... some FCS teams can be pretty good or at least play some good first halves. If you tuned in to #18 LSU vs Nicholls State in the 3rd quarter, you'd have seen a close 23-21 game. If you turned to #22 Arizona vs Northern Arizona at the start of the 4th, you'd have seen a 13-10 game. Last year's G5 darlings that are James Madison struggled to beat Gardner-Webb in a 13-6 game. We got the win. It wasn't easy. We're also missing some pieces on the offensive line so that needs to be cleaned up. At the end of the day we're 2-0 which is rare around here. Let's enjoy it a bit.

Maybe that late hit after he was already out should have penalized. Doesn't heal him but punish the play. Damn.

There's no adjustments to make other than cleaning up the penalties. We're beating ourselves and giving them 1st downs. Stop the penalties and it'll be over before the 4th starts.

I guess I'll add this here... Northern Illinois with a former Northern Illinois player at head coach beat #5 Notre Dame on the road. Before being the NIU head coach, he was the RB coach for... the Baltimore Ravens. Paging Coach Orr. Come fulfill your destiny in a few years.

Mentioned it in a thread a few weeks ago that we'd beat UTSA this year. Are we surprised they're seeing a big drop off after losing Harris?

What's with the lack of discipline? Lashlee's 4th year now, right? You'd think this stuff would get better but bad holding penalties, bad offensive line play, bad turnovers. I'd imagine he's on the hot seat even with winning the aac last year.

They have very productive D1 transfers coming in. Ken Evans Jr 6'5" guard from Jackson State: 23-24 stats 18.8 ppg 5.4 rpg 2.9 apg 39.2% from 3 Leland Walker 6'1" guard from Eastern Kentucky: 23-24 stats 15.4 ppg 2.7 rpg 4.1 apg 34.2% from 3 Ability Tandy 6'2" guard from Jacksonville State: 23-24 stats 17.8 ppg 2.6 rpg 1.4 apg 38.9% from 3 Baba Miller 6'11" forward from Florida State: 23-24 stats 7.6 ppg 4.9 rpg Then there's a sophomore forward from Louisville and another from Illinois coming in with limited playing time. Like them or not, they're going to be tough again this year. Doesn't mean we won't be better but they still have talent.

Ironically, Hunter Dozier went to Denton High School. Another local product who couldn't stay home for baseball.

Haven't seen it posted yet so here's the link. Some cool stuff on there.

And if you want to read more about the QBR: https://www.espn.com/blog/statsinfo/post/_/id/123701/how-is-total-qbr-calculated-we-explain-our-quarterback-rating

QBR is not an NCAA metric, it's an ESPN metric.

1 reception for 10 yards since leaving. Hope the money, if he got much, was worth it.

On ESPN website: "QBR:Adjusted Total Quarterback Rating, which values the quarterback on all play types on a 0-100 scale adjusted for the strength of opposing defenses faced." Who do you think ESPN views as having the better defense: West Virginia or South Alabama?

So you'd want your conference representative to get blown out on national TV in a playoff so that when your conference is evaluated everybody can point to the blowout and say you don't deserve a seat at the table? Ask me this question in 5 years after we as a conference get some playoff wins and my answer might be different. This year when they're already discussing redoing the playoff system? Give me every big win the conference can get. UTSA winning a playoff game this year would likely result in them being ranked next year as well which brings credibility to the conference and opens doors for us. Remember who does the rankings: people. And those people have a partnership with ESPN as the network their show is on so they're looking for every reason to knock down the AAC especially with contract negotiations coming up. This is not the time for our conference champ to be humiliated in the postseason.

Who's more likely to win their conference: Sam Houston State or Purdue?

No we don't. Wonder if we're too scared of getting beat deep on a play-action so we don't bring the extra personnel to the line.