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Oh no! A running QB that has a highlight! We better cancel the game immediately.

Well, this would be ideal. We would basically be combining our best offensive player in school history (MF would do well with some of those 2013 weapons, even in that dinosaur offense) with our best defense over the last decade. I believe that UGA game in 2013 in this scenario would be a fun one too. Could've been a table running type year. We need to get some guys like that back in here that are blood thirsty; Orr, Akunne, Abbe, Sarge, Trice, Lee, etc. We have some guys that sort of fit that mold, but philosophies can bring out the best in players or it can expose all of their weaknesses. We are setup right now to feast or famine on defense and the 3-3-5 tends itself to be a little more finesse and softer. The constant running of base 4-3 puts itself out there on display and tells the opponent, "Here we are, come get it." That 2013 was such a bland team to watch, but the defense may have been more entertaining to watch than the offense and that's rare air in the 21st century.

This is 100% speculation. King is a true dual threat type guy. It's all philosophy of the coaching staff that determines what brand of football they want their QB playing. Mike Leach or any disciple of would take Mason Fine over King most days. Urban Meyer or any disciple of would take King over Mason Fine most days. When you're not too busy blatantly trolling, you talk in sweeping generalizations too much on here.

Does the UH board have an obsessed UNT fan on there all the time or something?

Without question. I'd take that bullet 10/10 times.

It's difficult to take this as gospel. If true, this is a huge disservice X coach was doing to his own high school players by not giving them every available platform. Hard to imagine a HS coach would do that just because X college coaching staff hasn't stroked his ego enough.

Definitely. Something strong is in the water down there. The self entitled unearned arrogance runs unprecedentedly deep. Academically, they act as if they are or did attend Harvard or Cambridge. Athletically, they act as if they are the UCLA basketball team from the 60s/70s or the Alabama program of this era. ATM is nothing except money spenders and grossly underachievers. Texas A&M have won three national titles (1919, 1927 and 1939).

I can get on board with a lot of this. I would probably put Charlotte in the sure win category, but I guess I would have put ODU in that category last year. But on the basis of both teams playing peak level football, I would put Charlotte in there. UTSA is always a hairy game. I wish we would just throttle them and get it over with. UAB and MTSU, both wildcards with a lot of moving unknowns and missing variables. Probably closer to the 'sure win' than 'probable', but I see credence in having them where you do. SMU is always a toss up. And traveling to USM is never easy. I truly believe, that if our offense can find momentum in your probable loss teams, we can legitimately compete in all three of those games. I think we owe LaTech a punch in the throat and that will be on our teams mind. We need to be competitive with UH just because it perceptionally needs to happen, and I think we can be. Cal is the complete wildcard. They looked pitiful in their bowl, and from a declining conference. But they beat both USC and Washington last year, the representatives in the Pac12 Champ game. Then got smoked by some pretty average Pac12 teams as well. Week 2 last year they beat Weber State 33-20. IF they take us lightly like they took Weber, I really, really like our chances.

I guess that's all you took from that, but ^. To add...Of that 1.2 billion campaign, 633K donors donated, 55% as first time donors, and 207 donated over the 7 figure mark. I just pulled those figures. I was only aware of the 1.2B off hand. I would't call it unprecedented for a coach to be fired from a major sport at a major school based on results only after 2 years, but it's very uncommon. It would also make the job very unattractive for many of coaches. We can agree to disagree, and that's fine.

Chad Morris will be the head coach at Arkansas in 2020. The schedule sets up relatively nicely for them this year and I expect them to contend for a bowl. To your point, the people of Arkansas were upset with him during the season and even with the hire, you're right. But he's doing a full rehaul and Yuracheck, given that Morris is his hire, is going to give him at least 3 years to makes strides. Also to note, Auburn makes more revenue in athletics than Arkansas every single year. I believe Arkansas is usually in the 10-12th range in the SEC and AU is almost always top 5. Auburn just completed a non-capital project donor campaign that raised 1.2 billion dollars. AU trumps Arkansas in just about every measurable facet from athletics to academics. Nonetheless, I see where you may see the Arkansas tie there and how he could go there and do well. And Arkansas has operating cash to blow. The are SEC after all, so they get that tie-in money. And I think they just blew around 12 million getting rid of Brett Bielema. But Morris is there until at least the end of 2020. And if you don't think that Fat Jimmy is going to be pulling strings to get one of his clients into the seat of a high profile job where he just lost a client then I'm not sure what to tell you. Jimmy has maneuvered himself into a very privy situation and it's another reason why SL to AU makes sense.

SL is gone next off-season and Arkansas will not be an option. I see the potential there just as you do, but the timing isn't right. AU will not touch Kiffin IMO. And unfortunately, SL due to the all the up and comers being hired away is going to be the hot name on the chopping block. And AU and their fans are very aware of SL and what he's done in Denton. So he isn't going to be that name that is hired as sort of an unknown, unless you're a very causal CFB fan...Which those casual type fans don't really exist at a place like Auburn all that much. And this is all speculation on my part. But it makes sense and the timing will be right. SL just has to make sure he doesn't go 6-6 or worse. I think that would at least force Auburn to hesitate on SL, not on firing Malzahn. I suspect an interim to finish their season and more in-season coaching change conversations taking place at UNT...let's just hope our performance doesn't bottom out this time around.

Possibly, and I think it'd be awesome. I personally don't think it will happen, unfortunately. SEC head coaches usually decompress for a year or 2 after their firings. These SEC head coaches make truckloads of money, but they're constantly under high octane pressure and you can tell for many of them have burst blood vessels in their eyes and just look like dog shit.

Yup. And he was literally on the brink of being let go this year. AU had an anonymous donor with checkbook out waiting on the administration to pull the trigger. This donor was asked to put his checkbook up due to the backlash of that kind of buyout. I think it drops down from 32 million to 25 million after the season starts.

I think UNT hiring Malzahn would be a home run hire. I have always thought of his offense as appearing to look like a typical G5 offense trying to manipulate the playbook to keep up with better players, even though his players are often times on par or better than his opponent. But his offense has tons of misdirections, motions, speed sweeps, reverses, quick throws, window dressing, etc. It's a very gimmicky system that works, but he also sprinkles in power running and heavy tempo when plays X, Y, and Z are hitting on all cylinders. With that said, I am not sure how his contract was written and how him taking a job immediately after his firing would play into what will be a massive buyout from AU. He may temporarily ride off into the sunset until that gravy train goes dry and then get back into football at a later time. If his contract was written very pro-coach like many of them are ignorantly written in today's game, then we could pick him up for cheap and he still get the majority of his allotted buyout paid to him over X years/months. Some people won't work for cheap regardless of their buyout. It's sticky in these kind of scenarios. And, of course, Fat Jimmy is Malzahns agent. So he will definitely jump through all open windows trying to pull as much money as possible from both institutions if Malzahn does take another position somewhere else.

Auburn. Malzahn is all but gone. He's being allowed to stay another year so their entire administration aren't made complete fools out of, and his buyout gets knocked down down quite a bit after starting this year as HC. SL has and will continue to be brought up in mentioning on their fan fourm. AU faithful has fallen in love with offense and will continue to demand that brand of football. AU would offer a contract (and potential buyout) that will set his kids kids up for life. AU, for the most part, will let SL bring whoever he wants and there isn't another up and coming young coach. They've all been plucked outside of Huepel, if you're buying his stock. But he didn't create, he simply got in the nice and shiny car and kept driving. If I'm putting money down on his landing spot, my money is on AU. Close second is another year at UNT.

Good. Get the buyout so high it makes Fat Jimmy uncomfortable. To add, I think Litrell is gone after this year. And I have a decent idea of where he'll go. And that program can afford any buyout that gets attached to SL contract.

Back to back? SMU now P5? Or say, "...seek wins over a P5 program in back-to-back years when they travel to Cal."

Yeah. Lazy work.

We are currently his only offer. But I like the size of him in HS. Could come in add to that frame and be a future head hunter.

Our OL must've been cut blocking this spring...

Yep. I believe a conference championship game played a role in this as well. It was approved that they could maintain a round robin format with 10 teams while having a conf champ game. The NCAA gave them the nod and they opted to hold par at 10 in order to not have to slice the pie 2 extra times. UH, Cincy, UCF, Memphis and BYU basically got catfished. Those were the 5 jockeying heavily. I believe Temple as well. Can't completely recall.

Adawa runs with power. He will get just that much more powerful throughout this offseason. I believe he will steal plenty of reps away from other running backs this season. I like Siggers' frame and potential in a slot/back role though. I think he could be very dangerous. And of course we have our knowns in Torrey and Easly if he comes back fully healthy. The addition of Adaway to this group is very beneficial. Most powerful back we have as a true freshman, and he could be a workhorse type back as a sophomore.

Bbecause I'm not going to indirectly concede to package after his departure. There will be players in line that have the ability to sustain and I expect to see sustainability.

He is the best to ever throw the ball at UNT. I am not disputing that.