NorthTexasWeLove

Reach much. You were all but certain, no wait you were certain the UAB game was a W. You even posted about their blowout loss to CC. But you are here to be super fan and breathe false hope with your neverending hint of sarcasm when things don't or didn't go as you matter of factly predicted. Now we need to be more optimistic? Welp, opinions differ. Get over it. Or try. Or whatever. I don't care what you do.

FAU are defending CUSA champs and won their bowl game. Their assistant pool and head coaching salaries are both below ours. Not to mention the ass beatings we took from them last year. I would say that's more with less to date. I can't speak of the current state of utsa football. From afar it looks to be in rough waters. They do have a 3-2 winning record over UNT. But that doesn't paint a full picture though of the current state.

What we've gotten is not what we want. And the pay is the same... What am I missing...I feel like there's a point you're possibly trying to make.

Oh dude. I'm with you. You are preaching to the choir here. I'm just stating the wasted blunder that is turning into the 2018 season.

Big picture, not much. They did beat a bad Baylor team a year or 2 ago. But so did Liberty. They have a winning record vs us. They also knocked us out of the CUSA champ game in 2013.

Oh I know. Defense will be the excuses next year. And in 2020 we'll be revamping everything with a lot of new faces hoping to just be competitive. The window is open now and instead of busting through it, we're pissing in the wind out of it. Next year's D will be similar to 2018 D. In the Mason Fine era this year's team had/has the best team personnel in terms of talent + experience to be special. This was the year. But people will put their fingers in their ears and lalalalalalala like a 6 year old before that is admitted.

Utsa is doing nothing with nothing. The other 2, yes, they are doing more with less. But no one cares about these teams, not the casuals. The causal fan has no idea who is doing what with what. Not do they know the coaching salaries. All they know is that we play football. Some don't even know we're D1. I have heard people put us in the same grouping with the likes of SHSU and ACU. Hell, a lot of people still call us NTSU with no ill will intended. We have such a small window to be good when that window opens up. We are not taking advantage of it and we're gonna be sitting on our thumb spinning all wide eyed and confused when we're 4-8 in 2020. In the grand scheme of things, we are nobodies trying to poke our heads out of the pile of ash. Losses like last night delay credibility and kills momentum.

Dang...0-2 in bowl games and 0-1 in conference champ game...That's what we're paying for? Bc I thought this HC was the highest paid with a top 2 or 3 assistant pool.

No one is trolling. But perspective from both sides does wonders. In our 2 losses, the combined record of the teams is 11-3. In our 6 wins, the combined opponent record is 16-26. We have beat 0 real FBS winning team for the only 2 teams with winning records are Incarnate and Liberty...both at 4-3. So we are taking care of business vs teams that are not very good to down right bad. And lose to teams worth a damn.

Lol...the get off my lawn bunch.the bunch that will bask in 8 wins in celebratory fashion only because, "you don't know what it WAS like". Yada yada yada. W/L, the manner in which you lose to and who it is you lose to matters regardless of the end result. But we need to be fans longer for a shitty era to REALLY appreciate the "magnitude" of 6-2. Am I missing anything?

I agree and support 1 & 2. Litrell seems too buddy/buddy to hand out pink slips. So if he doesn't want to do that then fine, but things need to be changed up. And I'm not ungrateful for where we are. 5 or 6 years ago I posted on this forum ad nauseam about expectations being the life blood of any program worth a damn. We have expectations as a fan base and this staff and admin instilled them.

This. Or just keep him home at halfback/TE and max protect. We need it if we're going to have long developing routes. For heaven sake, 3 or 4 drop backs we had a 5'7 rb having to take on 6'5 DE in passpro. That is called NOT putting your players in the best position on the field to be successful.

I think the goals have been shifted. And Rick hit right on them. I'm definitely with you...it's just an aggravating ride this year has been.

We ran the ball too much in both games, not one. Our ypc suuuuujuucccmmmksssssssz.I think on the season we are in the 3's. Our run game ONLY picks up steam when the opposition is losing and deflated (so miss) or inferior opponent (liberty). We are a passing team. We cannot run block very well <------- That's being polite vs the decent teams. MF ypa is over 8. Our ypc is under 4. In situational plays, specifically on short yardage, we are predictable and horrible. In this exact scenario we have been horrible under this staff all 3 years. We have to stop running it for the sake of running it. If the defense presents itself highly vulnerable against the run, sure, pop in a token run. But this team, with this ol and rb, cannot rely on the run game for productivity vs the decent teams. We are 6-2 because of it. No doubt in my mind we should 8-0.

Wrong. Playing with the best QB in school history, currently. The time is/was now. When this 19 class starts to make an impact we will be playing with an inexperienced QB. And I have no reason to believe any of our current guys will be Mason Fine 2.0.

Lol dang bro....4 am rage posting. Almost commendable.

Prespective? We lost to 2 very beatable teams. I don't care about what was. I care about what is. And my predictions are arbitrary to the performance and status of this team. Play calling has been suspect even in wins...in losses the poor play calling is only highlighted. I can't and will not ever have a defeatist personality. Just not in my fabric. So forgive me if I can't just overlook these pitiful blunders.

I don't know how to respond to this. So I'll just leave this as my response.

And that's the worst variable of it all. It gets me wanting to walk away when I think about that fact.

Good coordinators scheme away from their weakness. Quick passing game, air raid style, hides our OL flaws. We did it in the first half to the tune of 222 passing yards and 21 points. Then we decide to run the ball in the 2nd half and push our WR outside the numbers into long developing routes that exposes our offensive weakness. And for a DL pushing up field as hard as UAB was trying to all game long...a couple well executed screens, wr or rb, would've made them hesitate the remainder of the game. I saw no such play take place. I'm still dumbfounded by the play calling.

EJ is great. Knew he was going to be right when I saw his frame run for the first time. Kudos to him in his game and how he played. I truly think he deserves a draft night in his future.

No. Give me bein because I get a pre game of teleprompter talk of people pretending to care about us rather than a national spot light on a major network with actual eyeballs on us. Waaaay cooler

Well if he's not ready after 3 years then he's just not the guy. We aren't in week 8 of year 1.

We abandoned what was working. Not for any given reason except for "just because." SL needs to quit the bullshit coach speak about disappointment and hip check GH to the side and call his own game. GH is garbage. Year 1, suspect but benefit of the doubt. Year 2, weirdly the same. Year 3, dude sucks. He is not a good play caller. Flat out. He doesn't do anything against the grain. If I can call out route trees and play calls from a recliner pre snap, what do you think a DC getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars is capable of. Our play calling is like reading a book, a picture book.

100% this. People want to shit all over our 20 something year old player(s) but give hall pass after hall pass to this offensive scheming and play calling. The play calling lost this game. Not Jordan Murray.