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Don’t waste money on curtains. Just chain off the stairs with a sign saying “Section Closed”. There are ushers at every entrance. If fans go past the chains, they can instruct them to sit in the lower section. I’ve had season tickets for years and most games the upper deck is empty. When we do play a “big game”, there will be 200+ people sitting up there on both sides. The problem is that there are 4x’s that in empty seats in the lower bowl. It would look and sound better if the fans were together in the lower bowl.

Good question. Maybe someone else can look into this. 😉

It’s puzzling how we “slow crawl” upward in attendance. When I was researching our programs averages, I noticed some programs that made huge jumps in attendance. Texas Tech being one of those. Not sure what spurred the increase. Would be nice if we figure out how to replicate this.

McCasland started reversing the attendance decline in 2018, then Covid struck 2020-2021. We dropped back down and are slowly gaining momentum again with attendance.

So J. Jones won the conference in 2007 & 2010. Those years attendance are: 2007 16 hm games 2067avg 2010 14 hm games 2716avg 2011 16 hm games 3552avg 2012 14 hm games 4006avg Benson cut attendance down to 1979avg for 18 hm games in 2016.

I know Johnny Jones was here from 2001-2012. Many of these single game records are from before him. 3 records are from McCasland/Hodge. I can’t find historical season averages. I was at the CBI games and the NIT games. None of those set attendance records.

I’ve had season tickets since the Johnny Jones era. The lower bowl was consistently full with overflow in the upper bowl. Benson’s coach disaster destroyed attendance (silver lining, I now have front row season tickets 😉). Even though the program has recovered, attendance hasn’t responded yet (both student and community). Might be because we can now watch every game on ESPN+. Also, after the game I watched channel 8 news and the sports caster never mentioned anything about basketball. UNT arguably has the best men’s basketball program in DFW area but never gets a mention. UNT is the best team nobody ever talks about.

Offense hasn’t been the problem at UNT for years. I am optimistic for the DC change for next year.

He probably has some chronic soreness like all starters do after 3/4’s of a season. I think his drop off has more to do with a decimated running game (Porter is stepping up but would never play if the others were healthy), constant restructuring of the offensive line due to injuries, and some questionable play calling by the coach. I think he is pushing too much.

Didn’t he use his redshirt last year?

Defensive recruiting/coaches have taken a backseat to offensive recruiting/coaches. I truly hope Morris quickly figures out that defense is necessary for winning. We just can’t rely on out scoring teams. I also hope Morris starts protecting the defense with his offensive play calls. When the defense just got off the field after a long drive by the other team, don’t be so aggressive with long passes that have us turning the ball over in less than a minute. Try to burn some clock and sustain a drive allowing the defense to rest and get adjustments from coaches.

Well, just enough to keep me watching.

DATCU Stadium concessions should take note of how the Super Pit concessions work. One winding line that feeds multiple registers. This is the fastest way to serve large crowds.

Kinda funny. Go Mean Green!!!

Morris said we knew Tulane was going to run the ball. We didn’t do a good job stopping the run. That really bothers me. We prepared for that and still gave up 297 yards on the ground. Is it coaching, quality of players, all of the above?

I agree we have a young defense. Unfortunately young players do make mistakes. This shouldn’t always be blamed on the coach (but a good coach will take the blame to protect a young player). My concern is can we keep the good developing players from leaving for more NIL money elsewhere? If you want to run a complicated defensive scheme but you have a constantly overturning roster, should you run a simplified scheme that you can plug young players in and have more success early on?

After the very first game with Caponi as DC I thought he needed to be fired immediately. The thought from Morris was to give him a chance to recruit his players. That happened and there was very little improvement. He has changed the base defense to a 3-4 and that’s been a little better. I just wonder if we can give him so much time for such a slow learning curve. We also are NIL money poor compared to many other teams. I don’t think we can get “more” players in the next offseason.

Yes, he is.

He is the second leading tackler. Geez…

Actually the question is ‘Where are the students?’ Most fans sit on the west side. When I looked around it was 3/4 full and the lower section of the north end zone was 3/4 full. Student section was less than half full. There was also a large Tulsa following on the east side. DATCU is loud when the students show up. Hell, I come even when we’re bad. Don’t understand why the students don’t show up when we are playing well.

This!!! East side North! West side Texas! Then go!

Absolutely! That should also bring a better TV contract in the future. There will be more viewers of UNT vs Army/Navy/Air Force than UNT vs Rice/Temple/FAU. Same goes for every other conference school.

You have 3 monsters that play the D-line and 3 fast linebackers that hit like Mack trucks. Then at least 2 safeties that read the run and become a heat seeking missile. The power programs that run this defense have all this and are 3-4 deep at each position. Very little drop off when an injury occurs or just when a starter is out for a rest break. UNT just doesn’t have monsters on the D-line that require double teams and can pressure the QB or crush run lanes. Our linebackers often have to fight off an O-Lineman because our D-line is being single blocked. Our safeties are late and diving at ankles. Even when our linebackers and safeties make a tackle it’s 5-10 yards up the field (because of our under performing D-line). On passing plays we are ineffective with blitzes because our D-line doesn’t require doubling so the blitz gets picked up. Competent QB’s have all day and our corners and safeties can’t cover forever. I know Morris has said he chose a DC that runs the 3-3-5 because he struggled against teams that did it well. We just don’t have the monsters up front that make this defense work effectively. He needs to understand this fast and change the scheme with the DC or get a new DC that will stop the run first (4-2-5).

We hit the portal hard after last season and brought in 70+ transfers. Guys that are experienced (weren’t starters or lost position due to injury) and are a better fit for our defense and offense. How come we are playing so many freshmen in skill positions, offensive line, and defensive line??? Freshmen make mistakes and need time to develop. Why aren’t the transfers playing???

I bought my tickets through the UNT this summer. We are in section 111 row 19 seats 11,12. Anyone else in this section?