WanderingEagle

Step 1 hire art briles as head coach Step 2 hire gary patterson as defensive coordinator Step 3 hire zack orr as offensive coordinator Step 4 enjoy some wins

The only Ten I See is DT Sheffield. Beat memphis!

I couldnt agree more with all of this.... scoring first is important in competitive games but it means effectively nothing in retrospect. We won the Tulsa SFA and Wyoming games all with relative ease and got scored on first in all 3. Who cares.

We're winning at least 2 of these games. This ain't ya dad's North Texas. GMG

This is valid! I am certainly not disagreeing with this. On my podcast with with @BillySee58 I noted that I wanted us to dictate tempo after scoring first and we didn't do that. I think the mindset I'm approaching it with is, we were literally working with the worst defense in the country last year. If the next step this year is a pretty bad defense that is succeeding when it comes to "bend but dont break" then I can live with it. Better QBs then Fancher have done less against us this year.

Spare me with this. "NT will always be NT" is a loser mindset. If you want to have that mindset I can't stop you. Baylor ascended from the literal pits of an abyss MULTIPLE times! TCU ascended. SMU is ascending and overcame the death penalty. If you want to whine about "signature wins" not being wins then do that when we lose to Memphis Army or Tulane. That's the first time we've beat FAU in Boca since 2012 and our prior head coach loses that game 100/100 times. This is our first 5-1 start since 2018. If you think NT cannot ever wake up from its "sleeping giant" phase then that's fine, but it *is* a loser mindset and one I'm not going to respect. I will forever want the best for my school and athletic program.

Are a LARGE reason why this staff is winning and succeeding Was the defense bad tonight? Yep! Did the offense stall out on key drives and shoot itself in the foot more than once? You bet! Defense allows 27 and gets shredded in the first half, only allows 10 in the second half and the touchdown came as the result of a pick in our own territory. For all the criticism this defense has gotten, and much of it is valid, Morris (and to an extension Caponi) both deserve their flowers for how they've been able to make in game adjustments and correct things at halftime to keep us in games. Specifically in the 3rd quarter, we have the #1 scoring offense in all of FBS. And our defense ranks 35th in 3rd quarter points allowed. That is NOT insignificant. It is so easy to be frustrated with our defense's shortcomings. I am not arguing that. But we have to give credit where it is due.

Offense has gone 3 and out on its last 2 drives

We're 4-1 and winning lol

We had the worst defense in FBS last year and this year's unit just needs to be able to correct its own mistakes which they have. Be patient.

Give the defense some time to make adjustments, they've done it all year. Just keep scoring

Carnes!! What a throw from C4

That is absolutely a first down, what are we doing here

We can run for 400 tonight if we want to. This front stinks.

It takes sustained success over multiple years is the thing. I grew up a Baylor fan during the Morris-into-Briles years and watched it with them. Baylor didn't sell out their first home game (against SMU no less) in 2012 after they had a record breaking season and a freaking Heisman winner. I remember being at that game and pretty disappointed there were large chunks of FCS empty. Then they went on to an 8 win season and a second consecutive bowl win. Then in 2013 they won the Big 12 and went 11-1 and their season average of tickets sold was the highest in that stadiums history. I was at two games against OU and Texas that year and they were both complete sellouts if i recall. UCF didn't sell out their first game in 2018 after going undefeated and even claiming a national championship. TCU was 5,000 short of a sellout in their first home conference game as a Big 12 member in 2012. For schools like us it requires a pattern. Just simple math. Nobody cares about a team that goes 7-5 and loses its bowl every year. You can make fun of games like the Cheez It Bowl or the Pop Tart Bowl or whatever but they do matter! Gotta set a standard of winning when it counts so that it hurts when you don't. Then we won't see a half empty stadium for a 4-1 team.