Side.Show.Joe

I used to think Texas ties were an important factor to consider when hiring coaches, but now I couldn't care less. It seems we have looked for Texas ties for at least the last 20 years, and more times than not, we got burned with bad hires, especially on defense. So, I don't care if the next DC can even spell Texas. I want a guy that doesn't run a 3-3-5 and has proven he can get it done at our level. Preferably at a program with less resources. That's my two cents.

Respect to FAU for cutting their losses and having standards. I love to see actual accountability.

Johnson has had a fine season at LA Tech, but I question the caliber of opponents LT has faced. I think NIU's Benedetto defense has faced some tougher competition and had more overall success. As far as current G5 defensive coordinators go, no one has matched his defense's success statistically against a similar level of competition.

After doing a little research, it is my opinion that Benedetto needs to get the job. The dude runs a 4-2-5, and this season his defense has not given up more than 28 points in any game. That includes NIU's 16-14 win over Notre Dame, and NIU's 24-17 loss to NC State. Benedetto's defense is only giving up an average of 284.4 yard per game and 18.5 points. for comparison, if UNT's defense didn't allow more than 28 points in any game this season, the Mean Green would be 7-3 right now. And that's with Morris' questionable discissions like passing up points, onside kicks after the first drive of the game, and not having a jumbo package in goal line situations.

Let's go totally gangsta, and make a statement with this hire. Let's send notice that North Texas will not tolerate losing to the likes of UTSA. I think we could get this guy as our next DC.............. Jess Loepp https://goutsa.com/sports/football/roster/season/2024/staff/jess-loepp He is currently in his 3rd season as the Runners Defensive Coordinator. And, UTSA doesn't have enough money to stop us from taking him.

I'm glad Caponi is gone. His firing is long past due. My problem is that most people knew during Morris' first year that Caponi wasn't the answer for our defense... except Morris. Morris let Caponi go into his first season at UNT without the players to run his 3-3-5 defensive scheme, and so UNT finished dead last in defense that season. Morris allowed Caponi to continue force feeding us the 3-3-5 going into year 2, and Caponi brought in a bunch of transfers, but the results have still sucked, even after we implemented more traditional schemes. And to make things worse... Morris has a habit of passing up points and going for it on 4th, which hasn't been successful against teams that can actually win games. Plus, Morris has no jumbo package for short yardage situations, which makes it easier for defenses to scheme against us on 4th down attempts. All of that to say, Morris is also a big reason why our defense sucks. Morris' decision making tends to place our defense in tough positions. Who is going to rein him in.

No, I remember the OU debut. But that was against a highly ranked OU team. This was UTSA, and they had a losing record this season.

Agreed. Cobbs is legit. After losing his entire running back room, he took a transfer wide receiver and turned him into a beast. Porter was our offense tonight. If our other coaches were just half as good at their jobs as Cobb is, we'd have a conference title team.

Neither can tell you the job of a defense.

As far as results... No. Getting curb stomped by an FCS at homecoming is still worse. But from a coaching standpoint... it was absolutely worse. Never in my life have I seen worse coaching at the college level, than the job Morris did in the first half. Just putrid.

You are a fortuneteller, because that is our future. The #Hit6 crowd will get their wish. Old Denton lives. Morris and his staff are a joke. Someone needs to step up and demand more from this athletic department. Pathetic.

Morris has not built a tough team. UTSA has a tough team, not us. That's a big reason why they won. Our team is soft, and I think that's a big part of why we suck. I blame our coaches for that too.

Caponi never should have been back for this season. Morris did the worst coaching job I've ever seen at the college level in the first half of this game tonight Based on these facts, Morris needs to be fired. If Mosley can't afford the buyout, then he needs to be fired too. This shitshow must end.

I don't know if Morris will lose the team if we go on to lose this game, but I feel fairly confident that if he doesn't engineer a comeback win, he will lose our fan base. This sh!t is unacceptable.

I have to agree. Littrell was never going to take us where we wanted to get, but his actions on the sideline never caused our fan base to question his mental fitness either.

Morris coaching the 1st half tonight.

I have no idea what to say about this game. Piss poor play calls.... The 3-3-5.... Stupid penalties.... If Morris can't orchestrate a second half comeback tonight, he should be fired before he can get to the locker room. No fan base should be expected to endure this level of incompetence.

Tyson may be 31 years older, but he is still going to beat Paul like a rented mule. After seeing him at the weigh-in, I surmised that Tyson is in shape (for the first time in 30+ years) and still has his hand speed. Even if some of Tyson's punching power has diminished, he still has enough power to knockout a Youtuber.

North Texas needs to run it up early and put UTSA away by halftime...... The Tyson/Paul fight starts at 9.

Our defense didn't give up too many points, but they struggled to get off the field all day. So yeah, they showed up. But they didn't show up like Army's defense. In the battle of the defenses, Army defense outplayed our defense, and they did it with 2-star talent. I'd take their DC over ours. As for our offense... they got embarrassed today. My biggest problem with these spread offenses is that they can't line up and play smash mouth football when you have to have 1 yard. Morris has to install a jumbo package.

#Hit6 was our campaign over a decade ago. It shouldn't be good enough for any of us today. We should have increased our expectations by now. UNT is a 5-4 team that started the season 5-1. Now UNT is below .500 in AAC play. We beat on bums. Until we actually step up and beat good teams, we can't be a good team. So, we will now go to a POS bowl and play a team from the Sun Belt, C-USA, or MAC. Wow, does that suck. Nobody wants to pay money to go see that. They wouldn't even pay money to drive to DATCU and watch this Mean Green team face a Top #25 Army program. So our 400,000 alums will continue to stay home while programs like Army make us visitors at DATCU. I hate it. I really do. But it won't change as long as our fans and donors continue to make excuses and accept the #Hit6 mentality.

The Army fans sitting behind us were a bunch of a$$holes.

We need a jumbo package. Not sure why Morris can see it.

The regular fans in our section were surrounded by Army fans, and they acted like the owned our stadium. DATCU had to be somewhere between 40-60% Army fans for this game. Unfortunately, our team didn't put them in their place. Morris made some very questionable calls, and Army's defense (comprised of 2-star talent we wouldn't even let walk-on at UNT), made a joke of our "high-powered" offense. The Army fans near us were annoying and mouthy. They even went so far as to call Mean Green fans "a bunch of vaginas", when many fled following our first endzone pick. By the end of the game, the entire event had become an embarrassment for North Texas. So what can we really take away from this game? The North Texas football program never answers the challenge when faced with a real opportunity to be something better, and sadly our leadership believes that is acceptable. Sure, we will back into a sh!tty bowl game (against a team from a conference we left). But we won't be anything more than we are right now. We will continue to be a visitor in our stadium every time a real program shows up.

Attached is an ESPN article ranking all the FBS defenses. Being that Caponi earns more than ever other DC in the Group of 5, we should be able to hire away one of the better DC on this list. https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/42056528/college-football-2024-defense-stop-rate-week-10