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He makes about $260k at SFA, $215k less than Caponi. I think the G5 DC spot is more attractive. It would put a bigger spotlight on him. I'd imagine G5 coordinator to G5 HC is more common than D2 HC to G5 HC. It could also get him a spot as a P4 coordinator but he's not making a D2 to P4 jump without first going G5. Just needs to get a foot in the FBS world as a DC to open more doors. Edit to direct the D2 stuff. He's an FCS HC, not D2. I think the point still stands.

He's now unemployed based on his Wikipedia.

Is that who was on our right, their left on every run to the left?

Tulane had TD drives of 44, 28, and 11. In every instance, you can blame the offense and/or special teams for that field positioning. Two of those caused by fumbles where we would have had the ball or had the ball and, with a "top 3 offense," could have gone down to score. We really blaming the defense for that crap?

The problem is all over the team. Poorly coached all over the field. Prior to Morris going down, 24 points on offense. Louisiana Lafayette put up 33 on Tulane a month ago. Do you think we'd get another 10 points in the final quarter of play? 5 of our 6 flags on the offense. Is that the makings of a top 3 offense? Tulane scored 3 TDs on short fields of 44 and less. Is that also the defenses fault for being put in those situations? Again, poorly coached all over. Don't care what the yardage shows.

Top 3 offense though. Forget the failed 4th and 4 on the first drive to start the 2nd half. Forget the 51 yards rushing, 20 of which came from Morris on his TD run. Let's keep pretending it's a top 3 offense. Bad opponents have made the offense look good.

Why lay down the offense to close out the half? 20 seconds, a timeout, and the sideline for the number 3 offense in the country?

Maybe we shouldn't give the opposing offenses short fields back to back drives? That's two Tulane TD drives of about 45 and 20. Blame the poor special teams if you want to blame somebody.

-1 yards from the offense and zero run plays. When the defense is gassed midway through the second and repeatedly gets torched, I don't want to see any fingers pointed at them.

Gotta get the win on coach's birthday.

My instincts say no but I personally don't know. There's a study, though. I haven't gone through it all but here it is: https://www.samford.edu/sports-analytics/fans/2023/Spending-Smart-A-Comparative-Look-at-Areas-of-University-Spending-Within-Football-Programs-and-Their-Effect-on-Wins-From-2005-2022 SMU may be the best current case study. Many of these P4 budgets are huge and they can't all win. SMU inflated their budget via boosters basically overnight to far surpass the spending of their peers. The result seems to support the idea that spending equals wins. The question then would be how much more do you need to spend compared to your peers to see positive results.

https://sportsdata.usatoday.com/ncaa/salaries/football/assistant Sort by conference so you see all the AAC at the top. A few columns to the right will show total AAC assistant pool salaries. The only AAC schools paying less than us as a total AAC pool are FAU, UAB, and Charlotte. After that it's us. Now, is our $2.4 million pool far from the top? No and the gap between us and the bottom 3 is significant but factor in the other schools' HC salaries and you'll see our total pool is significantly less than the top. Take UTSA and Traylor's $2.8 million with the $2.59 million salary pool and you get a total of $5.39 million. Memphis pays the HC $2.2 million and the assistant pool is $2.655 million for a total of $4.855 million. Us? $1.325 million for Morris and $2.4 million for the assistants for a total of $3.725 million. Navy and Army assistant numbers aren't published but I'd guess they also surpass us in total pool. Correction on this, per the USA Today link Army's total assistant pool was $2.985 million last year and their DC made $480k so more than Caponi. The link is for last year so Army was listed as Independent.

Feel terrible for his family, team, and community. Too young... Hopefully the league honors him properly. Maybe dedicated the season to him? Commemorative patches or even name the coach of the year award after him?

Is it that simple though? Our offense/special teams gave Memphis the ball at our 18. Our defense held them to a field goal attempt which they missed. The next drive we give them the ball at our 42 after a failed 4th down attempt. I've harped on it but 5 straight 3-and-outs is what our defense did. We all love to look at yardage. People have pointed at the defense for allowing 526 yards of offense. Meanwhile we put up 653 yards and scored less. Bad offensive execution in key moments is why. What's also interesting is Memphis put up 659 yards on Navy yet lost while Navy had 566 yards. Similar scores too. Yardage isn't everything. I despised the defense last year and the first few weeks of this year. Recently It's been alright. Tackling in space is still bad and we're not forcing turnovers but it's been better. Just need the HC to not be so damn aggressive on offense all the time and put the defense in better situations.

Per the AD, be there. If you can't, put it on the TV or phone. Per me, even if you can be there, leave your TV on at home with the game playing so your dog can watch. Can't hurt the ratings and the best friend should get to watch the game. https://www.wfaa.com/article/sports/ncaa/north-texas-football-espn-2-tulane/287-627eee49-9819-473b-8d6b-c471b7908ad8?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2ODhgMsqBYNqalWvWQugJ46yn1JOnDaEnY3IxlfA5lqnYvaA_S7rB5Dco_aem_1yN-WBFD6DqbddN3I-JwbQ

SHSU is proof you can win without a big NIL. This game shows just how little that 5-2 record means in today's CUSA.

The school you got your coach from.

The key to Army's offensive success is its aversion to committing turnovers. It's also something our defense is bad at forcing. In 7 games, Army has turned the ball over a grand total of 1 time. If we can win the turnover battle, I think we'll win. Had we won the turnover battle against Memphis, we'd probably have won. Not exactly a controversial idea but we need to win that battle against good teams.

We've made the G5 rankings which are worthless. We're trying to take it a step up, right? That will require a more robust NIL. If you think otherwise, I can't help you.

Yeah I agree. And the thing with the academies is they usually play mistake-free on offense. Having a QB just adds opportunity to force mistakes in my opinion but they've been great in that realm so far. They're also very physical no matter the size difference with typical FBS programs. It'll definitely be a test.

Your original gripe is the idea that we need to up our NIL game to be any good while then listing a program ranked lower than us in the graph. Zero logic. And for what it's worth, Navy and Army pay their head coaches significantly more than we do. Morris has a base salary of 900k and total compensation of about 1.3 million. Army's HC is at 2.0 million and Navy at 1.8 million. We'd also be undefeated with Army's schedule BTW. Take a look at it. Either way, NIL or not, we're not spending like the top AAC programs.

Admittedly I have not. My question to you is how much of that falls on the teams they've played? We've seen what 2-5 looks like over the years. We know how bad a team has to be on all sides of the ball to go 2-5. They've played 4 teams who are 2-5, one who's 1-6 in UAB, and ECU who just fired their coach. We'd be undefeated with their schedule too.

Neither has Army. Their 6 FBS wins are against the bottom of the AAC. A combined 12-30. The 7th win is against 3-3 Lehigh. Maybe we can ease up on the Army fear.

ULM and SHSU are not ranked on a national scale, this is just a G5 ranking. SHSU is 5-2 just like us and just got beat by Western Kentucky by 17. ULM is 5-1. Hopefully we can aspire to perform better against our peers than two schools playing in conferences we left.

Uhhh it says $5 million per year. The gap may be larger than we think.