Meangreen Fight

I would like to see all green with color reversed helmet. Green SOW Eagle on solid white helmets. White shoes and socks. May small white flying worms or jersey numbers on the hips of the pants. I think I would need to see a full mock up of my uniform combo suggestion before passionately campaigning for it also.

And you left out bad defensive play calls on key downs.

I think they are seriously trying in a half ass way if they keep him. There isn't this great untapped potential looking at Caponi and the history of the 3-3-5 at G5 level. He would have to come being mentored under Buddy Ryan, Jim Caldwell, Bill Parcells, and Dick LaBeau and highly recommended by most of them to keep him on after this trainwreck. I just don't see the upside we could miss out on by letting him go now.

But it was the wrong defense to line up in. The middle of the field was void ready for a delayed release reciever to catch and run a mile.

I swear when they lined up in that all or nothing defense on 3rd down I wanted to choke Caponi

You mean those meaningless 3 points that would have cut the lead in half at the time? 🤣

So kicking a FG down by 6 in the first half makes no sense but kicking one down by 14 does? I don't understand these coaching decisions.

Yes, I believe many would very surprised to learn we are 75 in NCAA Div 1 revenue (out of over 300 programs). But on the field/court outside of men's basketball women's soccer and softball it has be horrendously mismanaged.

Well it is a double edge sword for me. I love scooping up after market discounted club seats. I couldn't afford them otherwise. But it is sad when you can't successfully beg a friend and fellow alumni to come along for free. 🤦🏽‍♂️

If that is your argument with 5:00 minutes left in the game it makes sense. You never turn down a virtual lock to cut the lead in half in the first 2 quarters of the game.

We are down 6 not 10+ 🤷🏽‍♂️

Not gotten drunk and cursed out big donors and media? 🤷🏽‍♂️. Oh by positive you mean not just avoiding off the field negative stuff. Let me think about for a week and dig into by big bag of HR gibberish and get back to you.

Never thought after the Dodge experiment failed that our team would be so consistently bad on defense. I think you could give them the offensive signals and complete playbook and they would still be below average.

That is in spite of arguably the worse defense in the history of this program. I want the best for this program and a great offense carrying a sub 75th ranked scoring defense is not a winning formula. And mind you that an improvement to 80 for this defense in 2024 would be MASSIVE and I don't think that is a good bet. A brand new good DC hired within 7 days of this comment could get this defense to 80th in scoring even if he implemented a new scheme. I want this program to go to new heights and it hard to imagine them getting there with Caponi rolling a dramatically improved but mediocre defense in the 2025 season. You can't count on Eric Morris or any coach here averaging +35 points per game to cover for a mediocre defense . I understand the conservative logic behind possibly keeping Caponi, but for North Texas at this time I just disagree with being conservative. Going to bowls people never heard of with 4 losses or more does very little for the profile of the program and our school. That is the ceiling I see with Caponi’s 3-3-5.

I quoted this from another thread but it fits right in with this topic. I am no expert but it seems to this defense just doesn’t work without 3 down linemen getting deep penetration on running plays. I think that is the reason this defense is almost never played on traditional running downs in the NFL even when the offense is in a spread formation. Offensive lineman in the NFL will just escort the penetrating defensive so deep they aren’t in the way of the running back. I think it can work at the G5 level which is just another reason to scrap it in my opinion. Because the ultimate realistic goal for any season is getting to the 12 team playoff and winning one game. I don’t think you are ever going to do that with Caponi running the 3-3-5 with the best defensive talent rosters we get here. Say you get a Mean Joe clone great he disrupts the run play but can’t make the tackle every time then you still have the running back in open space at near the line of scrimmage. You essentially turning every run play into looking like a screen pass. That being said the only thing that gives me 5% doubt on firing Caponi is the one year. But here are some questions/considerations for few supporters and the people on the fence: Has there ever been a team that finished in the top 10 in scoring defense running 3-3-5 on 90% of snaps? If not why are we wasting time with any particular coach who can’t adjust and do different things just for one season not to be dead last in almost every defensive category? I highly doubt there has been any DC that started off this bad at program that turned it around to be one of the best in the country by year 3.

Man nice win. If we had a just above mediocre defense this team would either still be in the AAC conference championship picture or just right on the outside looking in. Very well could have been juicy rematch with SMU the only AAC team that blew our doors off.

I am 100% with you on this. Because 7 years in we could objectively point out what Seth did well here. Only after losing a lot did he pivot the team to being run oriented and attempted to fix the defense. An offensive coach, running an air raid variant, who can't develope QB's to be efficient is worthless. I don't know if Morris is the right hire. But any argument that Seth should still be here and would be doing better is pure fantasy.

I am not saying he is a success. But it is beyond stupid not to expect some growing pains this year. Last year's team wasn't good. And arguing going forward with an offensive head coach who couldn't figure out the QB position in 4 years isn't smart. So fire Morris before season over who can you afford to replacement him with? Not only that putting myself in the position of any of the staff you might want to retain, I am leaving and telling everyone this is an all the sudden arrogant but trash program who doesn't have a clue. This team with all it's flaws this year is 3-4 plays from winning those close games. So instead of 7 losses we have 4 or 5 It isn't excuses but suggesting firing a head coach before 18 months on the job it just silly when there weren't lofty expectations of this team before the hire was made.

And Dickey sound have gotten financial support and never fired using that same logic. But a least he had conference titles and a bowl win. 🙄

Everything you cited is an indictment of the UNT program not just Coach Morris. This program is &$?!* garbage and has been for 25 freaking years but now you’re on your high horse defending Seth as some kind of savior. 🙄 He wasn't close to winning a conference with UTSA as it top team. Now we have to contend with Memphis, Tulane and several other programs that historically better funded than the best of the CUSA programs we left behind. We beat FIU with Seth here and no QB. No passing game and a defense hopefully better than 100th in FBS. Yes that really sounds like a winner in AAC.

Okay I got CUSA was a bad conference we left and you are citing improvement against that conference as significant. That is ridiculous to me still. So 4 years in he start building slowly? We weren't close to doing ANYTHING in AAC. Great he beats an old FIU in out if conference schedule that an his extension gets you an empty DATCU. His teams WEREN'T good after his first good QB left. So yeah you are irrational: Lifetime contracts for anyone who comes to UNT and not horrible. 🙄

I am 100% with you if the DC isn’t fired sometime this week or immediately following the next game. The only way being dead last in FBS defense is excusable is if you’ve lost your top 3 defensive starters to season ending injuries, you are playing out of conference "body-bag" games against top 10 ranked teams. And you are statistically the best offensive conference from top to bottom.

Thinking Seth’s team runs game is so dominant they beat anyone on this year’s schedule other than FIU is pure delusion. You have to have a good defense (or at least ranked above 80 in FBS) to make that work. We weren’t close to UTSA the second game last year. They beat nobody the caliber of Tulane, Memphis, California, they aren’t getting close with a QB throwing around 50% completions who isn’t scary run threat. Cannot believe we have people pining for mediocre Seth 🤦🏽‍♂️ irrational and sad.

Below 0.500 against FBS that entire time. What are you talking about? The only improvement was 2020 to 2021. Seven years in and we are a pitch fork crowd? No heir apparent QB on the roster, best defensive players leaving mediocre defenses? Are you on this man’s payroll? How about you extend some of the patience you had for Seth in years 5-7 to Eric’s FIRST SEASON. 🤦🏽‍♂️

Because teams aren’t frozen in time. Rosters change and coaches learn. Their coach was a rookie last year and would probably have new strategies for the things Seth & his staff liked to do. To expect the same results with lessor players at key positions on offense and defense isn’t logical. FIU already has the same number of wins they had last year. Seth teams were not on an upward trend.