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This was pitiful.

Oh shit. You mean that's not Jerry? Damn I have my cartoons from my childhood messed up. I just remember Jerry was brown. That must be Tom's nephew or something?

Is it me or is the offense going away from Wilson. It's almost as if they are purposely not giving him the ball. I understand the Tee it high and let it fly mentality, but they have to understand that Wilson is still their best player and they just do not give him enough touches per game for me. It's like they are sure Wilson will reach a 1,000 and that they are just trying to get Fine to 3,000 and Guyton to 1,000. Why else would Fine play a whole game that was over by halftime? What are your thoughts?

I agree. I think we play them again, but a win is iffy at best.

They have been overly quiet. Again, I think it's the DC with this lack of production from players who produced last year.

True. At the end of the day, he is the HC. He has to make the decision the reign in the DC on some of his calls. He has a headset and knows what he is calling. That's what good head coaches do. They reign that fella in.

Yes. The 3-3-5 doesn't work for us. We don't have the linebackers to play it. We need to move to 4-3.

he needs to stop blitzing because when you do, you leave your secondary on an island. Everyone knows with the way offenses get away with murder in today's football, DBs can only cover for so long.

I saw his after game remarks differently. He has brought up several times the defenses inability to get off the field. Looking in his eyes and hearing him say that says to me that at the end of the season, there will be a coaching change. Brown may be gone too because he was the only assistant that they didn't pay over 100k this year and that says a lot.

They have played crappy all season. The offense has just been bailing them out.

McClain played FS last year and is playing it again this year. The change is that Reffett is the lone DC. Ekeler kept Reffett in check last year and now he is gone to UNC. UNC has a good D, but their offense sucks since Littrell left. We need to find a DC and fast. We lost two coaches on the defensive side of the football. Could it have been more than them running to a P5 school? Could it have been the implosion that they saw coming and just didn't want to be a part of it?

USM and Charlotte helped us out tonight. UAB, UTSA, and La Tech all with two conference losses. UNT needs to win out and we will win the tiebreak against USM to play in conference championship. La Tech scares me though with our sub par defense.

McClain and Brooks were preseason all conference. There was talk of McClain even getting drafted. After this season, he better hope he gets a free agent shot.

You are right. I didn't think about that.

If that's true about WB, he needs to reevaluate himself and what he is doing. Right now he hasn't proved he can be a successful AD yet. Let's face it. Seth Littrell came in under RV, Jalie Mitchell came in under RV, John Hedlund has been with Soccer for awhile, and Palileo was here with Volleyball before WB. The only hire he has made is GMac and we do not know how that is going to turn out yet. He should wait until his hires and his changes start to work before he starts doing stupid stuff. The only good move he has made so far is firing Tony Benford.

Brett you are right. I wish you could have more than 5 thoughts. I would add one. UNT needs to find a DC after the season because Reffett is not getting the job done.

Exactly.

I believe the coaches have to cut their teeth somewhere and I am assuming they are using North Texas for that and I am okay with it. My problem is when a defense plays as bad as ours have this year. Even the DC at Denton High School or Ryan High School could do better. This was just embarrassing and against a team that is really not as good as we made them look tonight. ODU played them tougher than we did. Iowa didn't beat us a bad as FAU did and Iowa is a P5 school. Maybe they needed this ass kicking to wake them up. Sometimes teams get embarrassed like this and they go on a tear for the rest of the season. Sometimes they pack it in and fold. Let's hope it is the former in our case.

What happened is North Texas was Jerry and FAU was Tom.

I don't know if the wives had anything to do with this loss or not. What I do know is that this defense is giving up more points per game than they did last season. What's the difference? The difference is Ekeler is gone and Reffett is the lone DC. Maybe that's why Ekeler left. Maybe he didn't agree with what Reffett wanted and got tired of it. Reffett has been a DC before and it was short lived. He should go back to his Alma Mater which is UTEP. There is no way a defense with basically the same people as last year should be this bad except that the DC is that bad. It's too late now to change, but at the end of the season Seth needs to have that difficult talk with Reffett. If Seth is expecting to move up to a P5 school, he has got to prove that he can win in all three phases of the game and not just on offense. When a team has to rely on it's offense to bail them out, that is a recipe for disaster. It has always been true and is true now, defense wins championships.

TEXAS!!!

Weather channel pretty much is saying no rain. I think with Tillman Johnson back, we shut down their run game and force them to beat us through the air. They are not good at throwing so I say 3 sacks, 2 INTs. Then we grind them with Wilson and Smith. Once they start putting 8 in the box to slow down our ground game, it will be Fine to JG for at least 3 TDs. UNT wins 31-17.

Weather channel is now saying just cloudy with 15% chance of rain at kick off. May rain in the 4th quarter, but hopefully we have to game well in hand by then.

I agree. Keep giving him money. Why not UNT? If Patterson can do it at TCU, Littrell can do it at UNT. TCU wasn't always in the Big 12. They got an invite after being in CUSA and Mountain West because Patterson was able to build a winner there and the administration was able to keep him. Bill Snyder was able to do the same at K-State and K-State actually has an overall losing record as a football program since their inception. Snyder was able to turn things around over the last 30 years. UNT screwed the pooch the last time we had a great one in Hayden Fry. Back then though I don't believe the University was invested in building a sports program.I could be wrong about the Fry years and the University's commitment because I was too damn young to care even though I am from Denton. LOL

Personally I think Seth wants to stay in this area of the country. Whether that's Texas or Oklahoma, who knows, but I think he wants to be around here somewhere. I could see him taking the Tech job or maybe even consider Baylor, but Baylor is a mess right now. As far as GH, I think schools would want him to be an OC for a little longer. My main concern about SL was I thought he would consider going to OU as the OC after Stoops left. Especially since that is his alma mater. I just believe being a HC means more to him. I saw somewhere that OU OC gets paid $2,000,000 a year and SL will just start getting paid $1,000,000 next year so that's why I was concerned.