NorthTexasWeLove

Yeah. Sort of so. As an alum, fan and regular attendee of athletic games. If I see what I perceive to be a detrimental error to OUR athletic program taking place, it's sort of OUR job to point it out ad nauseam. I thought that's how it worked being a fan and what not? Is that not how UNT fans are? Or shall I just reach down, grab my ankles, and say thank you after every poor decision happens?

Dunno. It's like, not my job. But if this is the best UNT can do, then I guess it's the best UNT can do, right?

Great recruiting debate. Thanks.

Bowen will have better NFL prowess only based on the schools he's coached at. Reffett has been a 'G5' lifer.

No one is trying to get Venables. But, again, was this Plan A? As if you know. But I like to ask the question regardless. Because it doesn't feel like Plan A. And it's an upgrade in philosophy only. As we know and as his history suggests, it's not a result based upgrade.

You talk in outliers when you talk recruiting. Outliers is not the sole premise on having a solid foundation to build a program on. It's great to pull those diamonds up. The programs that recruit with consistency are the programs that are going to be putting themselves in positions to win football games. Recruiting has been just about turned into a science. And every expert that has associated themselves with this science will disagree with your outlook. Go do your own research. Go back 10 years and look up the 10 best recruiting 'G5' programs in the country. And then correlate that recruiting to their on the field success, good or bad. Then go look at the worst 10 recruiting programs in the country. And then correlate that recruiting to their on the field failures. You'll see this just doesn't happen on a whim or luck. There's a method to the madness, and stars/offers matter.

Charlotte and Rice most certainly did. Not LaTech and SoMiss. The recruiting you don't believe in is typically why SoMiss and LaTech have winning programs. On the contrary, the lack of recruiting is why Rice and Charlotte are doormats. This isn't all some big coincidence.

I do understand that. Does this strike you as Plan A? Is this an upgrade from Reffett?

I think it needs to be pointed out... This post is a decade old made by this KU fan after Bowen was brought on by greygoose.

Could've fooled me watching them play defense. Point is, the hire doesn't make sense. It doesn't feel like a plan A or even a plan B decision. It feels like a "he'll do" decision. The program is in a pretty vulnerable state right now. Making "he'll do" hires at this point feels dangerous. As another poster said, it feels like a Cosh hire. And that's not to say he'll be as bad as Cosh this go around, but there's nothing substantial to say he's going to get the defense humming.

This dude is a joke. He's here to save face regardless of decisions made, hires, on the field results, etc. Saint Littrell.

Meh. I wasn't overly underwhelmed with the Reeder hire bc we weren't sure really what we were getting. So it was a true TBD experiment. We know what we're getting here. Silver lining, at least we're moving away from the stack D.

Let's go grab Mike Canales and make this circle complete.

Not a proven bad DC. That would have satisfied me. An unknown would've been better than a retread who has a proven track record of being pedestrian at best.

Listen to yourself. SL could steal your girl and slap your mom and you'd be standing there defending his pimp slap technique with an as a matter of fact time.

Doo. Doo.

Those last 4 or 5 spots could be pivotal, good or bad.

Juco DE

Apogee, SoMiss, ABQ, Cotton Bowl, LaTech, nutsack, SMU, Arkansas. Guess I'm only at 8. Feels like more.

Pretty low life stuff, for sure. Kid is certainly not opposed to getting swindled and pimped in the name of nepotism.

I really hope he went the OCS route and didn't just enlist with no guidance.

You think that's just the grad transfer thing?

He sounds like season mode NCAA 2014. Pretty basic.