MeanGreenMailbox aka TFLF

Can I let apathy keep me from voting, then? In my wife's home country, Mexico, they use these: So, in Mexico, if you don't have one of those, you don't get to vote. Gee...I wonder how well the Mexicans/Hispanics here would react if we used the same standards for voting as Mexico does? Think there'd be any lawsuits for asking people to actually prove they are who they say they are AND that they are citizens of the country? Nah...I'm sure they'd be just fine with it here. How soon can we start!

http://forum.huskermax.com/vbbs/showthread.php?84597-JUCO-DE-Raveon-Hoston-Update-Not-going-to-happen/page6 You can google around for the Alabama offer. There's nothing there...except his word, and an offer from Alabama A&M. From the Lincoln Star Journal...Lincoln, Nebraska...home of the University of Nebraska. Maybe they're a little more connect to what's going on with Nebraska football than our "resident guru." http://journalstar.com/sports/huskers/life-in-the-red/recruiting-huskers-looking-into-los-angeles-juco-de/article_a5ccec8c-214c-11e6-b077-d3fc37e5fa0b.html Los Angeles Valley College defensive end Raveon Hoston told HuskerOnline.com's Sean Callahan that Nebraska has been in contact with him in recent days. NU hasn't offered a scholarship. Hoston said Nebraska defensive coordinator Mark Banker was set to meet Monday with a Los Angeles Valley academic counselor. There may be eligibility hurdles for Hoston to clear before he can attend a four-year school. Again, the contention was the old coaching staff didn't seek out this type of recruit. The truth is, they did. And, they also landed one last summer. Additionally, the one they landed had actually been committed to a P5 until his grades came up short after high school. Hoston's academic weren't in order after high school, he attended three colleges, then garnered some G5 offers and had Nebraska coaches visit the final of his three JUCOs attended. In the end, it didn't meet Nebraska's academic standard. The original "big players" Memphis and UCF seem to have stopped playing after February's signing period. Good get by our coaching staff. But, not as unheard of as some here claim it to be. The last coaching staff was many things, and it didn't get enough recruits to compete beyond 2013. But, to say that they weren't trying is simply a lie.

No sign of an offer from Alabama anywhere, research it. Alabama A&M, yes. The Crimson Tide, no. Nebraska didn't offer. They had a coach meet with his academic advisor at his junior college. They gathered transcripts for him from three different community colleges and found that he didn't qualify academically to get into Nebraska even though he was set to graduate from the third community college. No offer extended. Can only assume the other legitimate offers - Memphis, UCF, and Syracuse - were the same story. Everyone else was pretty much FCS or Sun Belt. Congrats to the new coaching staff for doing what the other coaching staffs before it did - recruit year round. Glad he's getting an opportunity here; hope he can hack it better than McNair.

These will go on for decades, like asbestos suits: http://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/college/vols/2016/06/09/ex-university-tennessee-safety-sues-sec-ncaa-owens/85642348/

Look, I can dream big, really big for my alma mater; but, I don't let it cloud my grasp on reality. If the kid had been offered a scholarship by either Alabama or Nebraska, he'd have taken it. Coaches say all kinds of things to kids. Or, to be more realistic about it, kids sometimes think coaches say things to them. That aside, the point was that Mac's staff also brought in highly regarded, summer recruits who were late chosing because of academics. The contention was that we'd never seen anything like this before when, in fact, we did see something like it less than a calendar year ago. Again, hope the kid sticks it out longer than McNair. McNair was the more highly regarded of the two, but I hope Hoston stays nonetheless.

That's kind of the point I try to relate. If Morris can hit just 55% of his passes (low for today's short passing-based offenses), we'd likely win at least two more games, no matter what the defense does because our conference competition is so...weak. If Morris can hit a Derek Thompson 2013-like 64%, we'll be challenging for a bowl game.

Agree. I think many "private" zoos, like some stuck out in the middle of Oklahoma off I-35 should be disallowed.

And, so, let's move back out of Fantasyland where a recruit held offers from Alabama and Nebraska, but chose us: http://www.scout.com/player/198732-raveon-hoston/recruiting And, here again, Rivals' take on it...no offers from either Alabama or Nebraska: https://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/maple/158793 Alabama and Nebraska and may have sniffed around Hoston, but there was no offer. But, here...let me go to Fantasyland with you: http://espn.go.com/college-sports/football/recruiting/player/_/id/153185/darrien-mcnair Looks like McCarney's staff's summer snag last year had actual offers from Florida, Mississippi State, Kentucky, and Louisville; Hoston's highest official offers appears to be Kansas and West Virginia. So, again...nice to have picked up both of them. Reality is, both coaching staffs made summer hauls of players we don't normally get. We have taken on these (often) academic casualties of the recruiting process no matter who the coach has been. Hope Hoston sticks around longer than McNair did.

Ran across this website this morning. Never seen it before; maybe some of you all have. A different spin of stats; at least some that I'd never seen: http://www.footballstudyhall.com/pages/2015-north-texas-advanced-statistical-profile Pretty interesting. Glossary to help sort it out: http://www.footballstudyhall.com/2015/2/9/8001137/college-football-advanced-stats-glossary

How? We have most of the old Sun Belt in the C-USA. It's was like getting a divorce, but then marrying into the same family again.

So, this is what? http://www.meangreensports.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/malik_dilonga_847242.html http://espn.go.com/college-sports/football/recruiting/player/_/id/137911/malik-dilonga http://www.meangreensports.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/jareid_combs_970187.html https://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/7905 http://www.meangreensports.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/jarrian_roberts_847349.html Criticism of defensive tackle recruiting, I believe, is fair game. Not so much criticism of defensive ends. We have good defensive ends for 2016. Raveon joins a group that is already pretty good. In 2016, Reveon will join fellow upperclassmen at DE: Seniors Malike Dilonga, Jaried Combs, and Jarrian Roberts, and Redshirt Junior Andy Flusche and Junior Tillman Johnson. DE is hardly the unit we should be concerned about in 2016. The only question regarding the DEs is whether Tillman Johnson has recovered from injuries enough to put together in 2016 they type of season he had in 2014. Many of us have long wonder why the same type of recruiting wasn't matched at defensive tackle. Mac's problem was not finding an FBS-level QB, first and foremost. Second, he couldn't get enough FBS-level DTs. I think that is the main story of his failure. After Derek Thompson left, we really had nothing at QB, so we gamble on some guys and lost. And, teams were able to just crush our 4-3 defense that hadn't developed enough DTs for this level of play. Hard to win when you can't move the ball on offense, or stop the run on defense.

Well, we had our best football successes as North Teas State...so, it tends to stick with people who are not closely associated with the school. By the way, I still with myself saying East Texas State instead of Texas A&M - Commerce. Old habits die hard.

Really? Zoos are just entertainment centers for kids? http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/lake-county-news-sun/news/ct-lns-lincoln-park-zoo-reintroduces-wildlife-lake-county-st-0415-20160414-story.html http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Oakland-Zoo-Helps-Preserve-Endangered-Puerto-Rican-Crested-Toad-332990021.html http://cincinnatizoo.org/conservation/saving-animals/ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-do-zoos-help-endangered-animals/ http://blogs.plos.org/scied/2013/03/11/zoo-education/ http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/endangered_species/zoos/index.asp?article=whatzoosdo The examples are endless. What needed to happen at the Cincinnati Zoo was for the mother to be more attentive and careful with her child. The 24/7 news/opinion machine is horrible with this kind of thing - an isolated incident gets blown way out of proportion. So, you have people calling for the end of organizations that do great good, and employ many people who do fantastic work in their fields...all so a twitterer can feel assuaged in her misguided guilt about an animal being kept at a zoo. Stupid. Please, colleges and universities, please teach critical thinking and writing skills to your students. This begs the deeper question: have colleges simply become four year day care centers funded by the government under the guise of "student loans?" A fantasy gap between high school graduation and the reality of a future job at McDonalds, Wal-Mart, or a telemarketing call center? When I read these types of things from college students, I seriously lean towards believing that is what college has become. Where is the blame? The student is too naive to think lucidly, but the colleges don't seem to care as long as the money pipeline from the student loans keeps flowing in. Awful. I blame colleges more than I do students. The adults who teach at colleges should know better than to let kids fester in their immature thought processes. Critical thinking and writing should be required for all freshmen.

beIN. Thanks for the football programming, Qatar.

One thing is for sure in all of these discussions: they are not discussions about RV, helmet stickers, or uniforms. So, at least we've moved the needle a bit towards actual on the field issues this offseason.

Yes. It's not necessary to resolve it - Harrell has already said he expects Morris to win the job easily here. It's resolved.

Riddle me this, Batman, if Quinn Shanbour was only at Oklahoma State in the spring how is it that he was on OSU's roster in the fall, in their media guide, and mere days before the 2013 season, still being reported as a QB in the fold? http://newsok.com/article/3874321 Also, and, not to throw more cake into the fire, but... ...some Quinn Anthony Shanbour on facebook says he was at OSU from 2013 to 2014: https://www.facebook.com/quinn.shanbour So, there's that to feed the conspiracy theory that he was, indeed, at OSU for a full year...fall football included. In the end, does it really matter where he sat on the bench in 2013? He couldn't work his way through what was at Oklahoma State. He hasn't been able to work through a terribly less talented lot here in Denton in 2014 and 2015. Due to the failing upward principal alone, he may get to stand up and hold the clipboard and sign in plays to Alec Morris in 2016...if the late signing JUCO doesn't prove better at clipboard holding and signing.

Okay, but at that point the P5 will contract to the P4.

Has anyone here ever sat through a JUCO football game? In 1998, my brother and I were bored enough to wander over the what was then called the Red River Bowl over at Pennington Field between NEO A&M and Coffeyville. These were supposedly two of the premier JUCO programs at the time, where several colleges from the Big 12 and SEC sent players who didn't qualify out of high school, then reclaimed them two years later. (If I recall, Oklahoma State signee Juqua Thomas, who would later play 10+ years in the NFL was a DL for NEO.) Anyway, the level of play was terrible. These schools were ranked in the JUCO polls. It was more painful to watch than a high school game. JUCO rankings mean squat, jack. It's bad football all the way around. The main problem is, you've got new guys every year, never anyone longer than two seasons. Constant churning, so the play is terribly choppy and inconsistent. I've never looked at JUCO recruits quite the same way since that game. And, it gave me a greater appreciation for Bill Snyder at KSU. How he looks at that horsesh*t football they play at the JUCO level and somehow finds player after player is unfathomable. JUCO football recruits are an absolute dice roll. You every now and then get a player to really contribute. But, unless you are Bill Snyder, you've got to roll the dice a lot for it to pay off.

Big 12 won't raid the ACC because there is no difference in money or competition. The only real discussion of schools leaving the ACC is Clemson or FSU to the SEC. Why? First, geography. Second, the SEC is the only conference they could go to that wouldn't damage them too much economically upon leaving. The Big 12 is in shambles enough. Can you see Florida State rolling over to Texas and Oklahoma the way patsies like Texas Tech and Baylor do over money? Hell no. It wouldn't happen. Ditto Clemson. The situation for the Big 12 is so pitiful that the schools under consideration to join them are Houston, Cincinnati, and BYU. In other words, schools that will march to whatever tune Texas and OU play...and, since 2011, that has been Texas and OU getting a bigger cut of the cash than everyone else. (Note: I don't really think BYU would take less money. They have their own television station, too...and, additionally, their own religion.)

Forget the new Mountain West. Let's set our sights on what could be the new Southwest Conference when the Big 12 implodes and the likes of Baylor, Texas Tech, and TCU are left floating in blown chunks.

Compare and contrast the generations of fighters Muhammad Ali and Kimbo Slice. We're truly in the age of idiocracy.

My brother is 45 years old...and, so, not really eligible to play college football anymore? But, all the same, I'll tell him.

Again...apples and oranges. The guys you name actually started at QB in college: Romo: http://www.totalfootballstats.com/PlayerQB.asp?id=3357 Fitzpatrick: http://www.totalfootballstats.com/PlayerQB.asp?id=1259 Warner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Warner Name the college where Shanbour started within four years? Played at all, at any time? You see why these are apples and oranges-type of comparisons yet? I'm supposed to throw into the mix Shanbour not even being able to crack a kneel down in college four years out of high school to Romo, Fitzgerald, and Warner because those guys were I-AA? Saying Shanbour is short but it doesn't matter is different than saying, say, Russell Wilson is shorter but still made to the NFL. Wilson actually started at two different colleges http://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/players/russell-wilson-1.html...after taking a redshirt season. A starter as a redshirt freshman at NC State. That story line doesn't strike you as different at all than Shanbour's just because they both list a 5'11"? Again, were not into any type of well trod territory here with Shanbour. But, because we are UNT fans, starved for any type of football success, we're going to elevate him into some sort of mythical status based on...nothing really. A spring game that our new head coach said wasn't really even a spring game? Sheesh. Language warning:

Hmmm. I wonder if a shorter quarterback might have to get up on his toes a time or two to, kind of, see what's happening downfield? Also, I just have a few additional questions for the Size Doesn't Matter/Look At Doug Flutie When Linemen Weighed Only 250-270 crew: -Wasn't Doug Flutie on scholarship at Boston College from the get go? -Didn't Flutie take over the starting job at Boston College midway through his freshman year? -During his fifth year out of high school, wasn't Flutie already in the pros? The answer to all of these questions is, yes. Other than shortness, then, there really is no other similarity, football-wise, between Flutie and Shanbour, is there? And, on top of all of that, Shanbour isn't even a short as Flutie anyway! What a crock of a comparison! Taller by an inch or two, and still not doing the things Flutie was doing! KA-POW!