Venson

Just so you know, I am not the one who downvoted you, but everything you just typed is hate on Stone. If you want to indict someone, then indict McCasland because he recruited Stone. To talk about how bad he has played when he gives everything he has is hate. Then you say no one is hating on him when the comment I quoted is hate on him. Get mad if you want. I don't care. Stone is going to be a UNT grad and I am cool with that. I will not respond to this again no matter what you say. Others can feel free to comment, but I won't. I am cool with Stone giving us as you say his "hustle" minutes.

Everyone hates on Stone. I am not related to Stone, but I feel the need to defend him. Stone has never said a bad word about North Texas. He didn't walk on, we recruited him. He has given us 100% and done what he can. I am hoping he proves all the haters wrong. He is a good person and didn't transfer to a lower level to get playing time. He has played the role we have asked and not complained. Can we please stop hating on him?

I didn't know that. How can they play and it not count as a conference game. I get that they play every year no matter what, but I don't understand how two conference mates can play each other and it not count as a conference game.

And just like that, Rice took down Navy 24-10. With our defense, we would have had to score 50 to win this game.

We need to stack the box and play man coverage on the back end. I got it that they can throw better than in the past, but they are still primarily a running team and our DBs should be able to hold up in man coverage against their receivers. Should being the key word.

Rice up 24-10 late in the 4th.

So, if Rice can hold on for the win, Tulane and Army beat Navy, We win out, UTSA pulls the upset on Army, and Tulane beats Memphis, could we still play in the conference championship? That's a lot of hoping and wishing but it is possible right?

I can wholeheartedly agree with this.

All good information that you stated, but we will have to agree to disagree on this. Against Charlotte, Tulane only had 10 points. They scored all those points in the second half after Charlotte's defense was worn down because there offense was inept. Against us, Tulane had 31 points in our house in the first half. We were already giving up chunk plays on the first drive and that wasn't because the offense was moving too fast. We started the game on defense and they drove right down our throats and continued to do so. We were fooled into believing we got three and outs because Tulane would drop a wide open pass or the QB would just miss a wide open receiver when he had no pressure on him. It wasn't because we stopped them. They actually never really needed to throw. They could have continued to run and would have gotten chunk plays on that alone. It almost felt like they were practicing when they threw just to work on it. Hughes rushed for 117 on 27 carries against Charlotte. He had 195 on 30 carries against us. It is really hard for me to put any blame on the offense when the defense is so so bad. I love defense and am the first to give defenses more praise than offense, but this defense is no help. They are in fact a liability. Texas Tech is the only team to hold us under 35 points this year. If I was told we were going to score 35 points or more in all our games except one before the season started, I would have been ecstatic. The only teams our defense has held under 35 is an FCS team and two really bad FBS teams.

That's pretty good company to be amongst. I will be there Monday night to see what this 2024-2025 version of Mean Green WBB looks like.

It is a bad night for a game. I agree the election watching will take away from attendance and watching.

I get what you are saying that the offense could have done more, but damn if I put up 44 points, I expect to win a lot of football games. Unfortunately we don't because our defense is so bad. The offense before the Tulane game was averaging 41 points a game. With a halfway decent defense, that should equate to a lot of wins. There is too much pressure on our offense to score every time we have the ball because our defense cannot stop anyone with a half functioning offense when it counts and this is two years straight. Memphis beat us last year with 46 seconds left and needing a TD. They drove 75 yards and did it because of our inept D and it is still inept. Tulsa and Wyoming were like Brett Vito said "a mirage."

UTSA is not great and Memphis' offense is not great. It is just our defense is so bad. With an average defense, we would have beaten Memphis easily. Even Charlotte was holding down Tulane's offense until they tired because their offense is so bad. We may not have the worst defense in the country (close though), but we do have the worst defense in the conference.

I get that we owe him the entirety. I am asking haven't we already been paying him some of the $450k or $475k already? And if we have, shouldn't it be at least halfway paid? I am thinking we don't just pay him one lump sum at the end of each year. I am thinking this is paid out over 12 months.

At this point, we are halfway through the season. Doesn't that mean we will only owe him half his salary if we fire him? I don't know how those contracts work but if that is the case, we should owe him just under $225k. If we can't afford to pay him $225K to go away, then we have another problem too.

He won't be fired, but his contract should not be renewed.

We go 3-3-5 and we get gashed. When is Morris going to grow some huevos and fire Caponi or is he just waiting until his contract runs out?

That should have been a false start on that punt. That middle guy moved early.

I believe that was sarcasm.

How can this come back on us? He got a job paying him close to, if not more than what we were paying him. Does the contract state that if he is fired from that job that we have to start paying him again? I don't think anyone would write a contract like that.

The good thing is this is the last year that we have to pay Caponi. Now, maybe we can go find a better DC. Caponi should go back to position coaching somewhere other than North Texas.

The good thing is we will make a bowl a bowl game. The best best thing is we can get rid of Caponi with no cost.

You right.

Thanks for explaining. It went completely over my head.

I have noticed the 3-3-5 creeping in. Why does Caponi keep doing this to us? He is playing with my emotions.