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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.

If I'm a coach, I'm keeping a running spreadsheet of all transfers out and their performance elsewhere. Specifically those who went p4. Maclin, Gumms, Rogers. From accolades to benchwarmers.

I do not currently donate to NIL but I'm not opposed to either. What the current funds need to do is be transparent with the public so we know how much the fund has on a monthly basis, how much comes in on a subscription basis, how many one time donations come in and the amounts, and where the money goes. Maybe even set up a website with real-time numbers showing how many subscribers the funds have and the total dollar amount those monthly payments amount to. If 20,000 fans donated $10 per month on a subscription basis, that's $200,000 per month or $2.4 million per year. I'm more likely to join that donor base and give my scraps if I feel like we're close to those kinds of numbers. Currently, I feel my scraps would go nowhere because I'm not confident our funds are currently receiving that volume of donations. I'd rather not waste my scraps.

He says he's loyal. Guess we'll see.

For those plugged in to the business world around Denton or even DFW, now may be a good time to show some love: and before we complain about loyalty:

Yes, they need to play complimentary football the entire game. Not half the game each and never at the same time.

This bold part is what I'm saying. I'm not pointing all fingers at the offense. I'm just saying it's really a shame our defense held them to 17 total yards and scoreless for 22 minutes but our offense couldn't capitalize. It's a shame we botched a punt and gave them the ball at our 18 yet the defense makes a stand and forces a field goal which they then miss. Our offense did nothing but punt it back 2 minutes later. Edit to add we didn't punt it back, we again turned it over on downs on our side of the field instead of punting and giving the defense a chance. They scored the next play. You can point to potential momentum changing moments where our defense stepped up yet sadly our offense failed in those moments. Same for the defense obviously. Like you said, we need complimentary football. The deference between good and great right now.

I remember when the board freaked out over Wyoming having their best output of the season against us. They've had more yards of offense every single game since then by 100+ each game. Easy to make your claim now. We can revisit at the end of the season.

Yeah he's just not good. It's not like he had 8 rushing TDs coming into yesterday including a 17 carry 117 yard and 3 TD performance against Navy. That 4th TD is an indictment to how bad our defense is. For perspective, the most any team outside of Memphis has scored against Navy this year is 21. Anderson is responsible for that in their game alone.

Yes Memphis did shoot themselves in the foot on some occasions with bad passes/drops. I'd give you that if it were a couple drives but not 5. Like I said, 5 carries for 4 total yards. That's not shooting yourself in the foot. By the way, zero flags on either team on those 5 Memphis drives. It's not like they were gaining yards but getting called back with holds are setting themselves back with false starts. Our DBs were on them and did so cleanly and our run defense was as well. The lone sack in that span, as the play-by-play guys said, was a coverage sack. A testament to the DB performance on that play. I think I'm being mistaken. I'm not liberating Caponi of blame at all. I'm just saying if we can thrash him for terrible stretches of play, we should do the offense the same. You can't be record setting half the game and a mirage the other half.

If I told you before yesterday's game that we would hold Memphis to 5 consecutive 3-and-outs and 17 total yards over the course of 22 minutes of play but that we'd lose, you wouldn't believe me. If we do the same in the next 2 games and lose, it's a sign of an inconsistent offense. Explosive? Yes. Consistent? No. Touchdown or nothing. That's the way our drives tend to go. Stop looking at total stats of the game and so on. Look at performance during key moments of the game and it was lacking. If we could get the offense and defense performing the way they can during the same stretches of play, we'll win the next 2 games.

In a month we host East Carolina under now-interim HC Blake Harrell who was the DC. I'm expecting us to absolutely feast on both sides of the ball. I trust in our coaches to do just that.

So to be clear, you think it's acceptable to score 3 points over the course of 25 minutes of play. Got it. I'm not saying there should complete blame on the offense but sports are situational. A game is full streaks and during that period of time, our defense took over. Our offense did nothing in return. That’s not going to win games.

What does any of that have to do with the fact that our offense has been inconsistent in almost every game we've played this year? Speaking to last night specifically, our offense did nothing to separate itself during their 5 consecutive 3-and-outs. Instead it was a field goal, a fumble, and some punts. I'll break it down a bit. For 5 consecutive drives, we held them to a collective 5 carries for 4 total yards, 2 of 9 passing for 13 total yards, and had 1 sack. During that time, we put up 3 points. I'm not going to blame the defense for holding Memphis scoreless for 22 minutes because Memphis was possibly never in fear. If we love the offense when they're good, we need to love the defense when they're good. If we're going to trash the defense when they're bad, we should also trash the offense when they're bad. Can't pick and choose. The defense needs to generate turnovers. They've been terrible at that. The offense needs to take care of the football. They've been terrible in that area at times.

Not saying the defense is great by any means but we held them to 5 straight 3-and-outs from the end of the 2nd to end of the 3rd quarters. The problem is we came out of that run with 3 total points of our own. The 2 minute touchdown drives are fun but when we're not explosive on offense, we don't get a whole lot on that side of the ball either. I think we had one drive with 48 yards and no points. Everything else with no points was around 10 yards or less. It wouldn't hurt to run some clock a bit so the defense can rest. This is the same issue we often had with Littrell's teams.