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Not by me. This "bowl" is a turd. Many of you don't want to read this, but I'm going to post it anyway because it needs to be said..... North Texas went 1-5 to finish the season 6-6. I would have preferred Mosley turned the smu bowl down and kept the team at home, then accept this POS against Texas State. Maybe next season we will earn a real bowl, or get a real coach. Mosley better buy all the students tickets he can get his hands on and bus the students over with the band, or Texas State will certainly have the home field advantage. (Personally, I doubt even our students want to watch this sh!tty bowl)

This is true. Yet many around here are content to make excuses for mediocrity, and accept second-class status in DFW.

SMU has certainly passed us by. But, I disagree that we should accept our place as a lesser program, and be content with their crappy bowl. We have to want more, or we might as well close up shop and be a basketball school.

Yeah, because we fired our first Littrell and fans that had been sitting at home most of the season, had hope for our future, and came out for the bowl. Our second Littrell is still here, so we don't have any way to sell this bowl to disgruntle fans. UNT needs o be sent away for our bowl game. It would be the best thing for our program right now.

It's not jealously. It's just looks small time to play in their stadium, while they are in the playoffs. It isn't a weird take. You know the announcer are going to bring it up during the game. So, even if we win, we lose. If Mosley wasn't considering this perception when weighing our options, then he doesn't need to be our AD.

I don't view playing Albuquerque as better than playing in Dallas. And I don't view playing a MAC team as being better than facing a Belt team. But, the optics of the New Mexico Bowl against a MAC team, would be better for us.

This would be the worst possible ending to an already bad season. I have zero interest is seeing North Texas play an FCS call up on SMU's home field, while the ponies are playing in the Playoffs. I really hope our AD has better sense than to go for this. Just send us to New Mexico and give us our random MAC opponent.

I really like this hire. Cassity was one of my top choices. Glad to see a guy that has done it successfully at a program with even fewer resources than us. But, C-USA is loaded down with weak competition. I hope he can bring the same results against a tougher AAC schedule.

I have zero social media. Is this true? Does Morris block our fans?

How Boise-esque of them. I'm jealous, and wish we had such standards in Denton. Maybe one day we will have great leadership too.

NO!

Any bowl situation but this... North Texas fans will stay home. Texas State will travel and have a home field advantage in our backyard. And we will lose. Morris has not beaten a team with a winning record this season. I pray the AAC has enough sense than to hurt our conference by arranging this match-up.

This team struggled to hang on to a 21-point first half lead today. This North Texas team didn't beat a single team that finished with a winning record this year. So, I'm not buying them beating a team with a winning record in a bowl. I wish I could believe, but I just haven't seen anything that might give me hope.

The local bowl approach is small time, but after finishing the season 1-5, we don't really deserve anything better. I really hate the Frisco Bowl.

The AAC has 8 bowl eligible teams. Not sure they have enough ties for everyone. If there are more eligible teams than spots, not sure how much horse trading will happen.

Until we have a jumbo package, with a QB under center in short yardage, this Morris offense will remain a gimmick. Just sad.

North Texas should still win this game, but the fact that Temple, one of the worst programs in the G5, can come back on us and make it competitive, proves that this team is very soft. I can't see a scenario where we win whatever 3rd rate bowl we play in.

It appears the camera crew was trained on offensive graduate assistant, Blaise Bentsen. It says a lot about how Morris has impacted the perception of our football program, when none of the announcers recognized that he wasn't actually our head coach. I wish the North Texas leadership would get serious about building UNT football into a real program that would be respected within the FBS landscape.

I appreciate that he obviously keeps track of the dialogue from this board. And I appreciate that he named the very concerns posted by many of us and owned those issues. But, I'm troubled that he could not state a plan to address our problems, other than to say, "we have to do better". That is what Littrell used to say. Anyway... Happy Thanksgiving. Let just be thankful for what we have and enjoy our basketball team playing in primetime tonight.

I pull for the program. I wanted Morris to be the answer, but he has proven to be just the next bad coaching hire in our decades long struggle to find a real coach. I have come to the realization that North Texas will remain a basic program until someone in our leadership gets off their ass and actually hustles to find a real coach. Other G programs do this every few years, as they lose real coaches to higher paying power programs. I can not express enough how put out I am with our football program at this moment. Sure, we can beat Temple this weekend, but what does that prove? .... Nothing. Temple is a bum, just like most of the other teams we're beaten this season. And in my honest opinion, that wouldn't represent a movement in the right direction. Firing Morris would, but only if we actually went out and lured an actual winning coach from the Belt, C-USA or MAC. That's what serious programs do.

Losing too many games seems like cause to me.

How much of that $300K is from a bottled water endorsement?

I'm sure RV didn't care about the verbal demands of fans either, until they flew a banner calling for his job. And comparing our situation to every other sub .500 team is disingenuous. Just in the AAC... FAU, Charlotte & Tulsa have already fired their 2nd year coaches. If they can afford to fire their coaches, but we can't then Mosley isn't qualified to be our AD. Under Mosley and Morris this football program is still a sh!t show. Name the other FBS teams that started their season 5-1 and have now lost 5 straight games? I'll wait.

It shouldn't. Football and basketball are the premium sports. Bigger paychecks should demand bigger results. Morris has shown me no growth and nothing that merits him deserving a third year to F things up again.

Not sure why you got a down vote for posting this. Seems like a reasonable request of our AD. Our volleyball coach actually had a winning record in conference play (27-24). That is much more than I can say for Morris, since he is 5-10 in conference play. Hopefully, Mosley will pull the plug on the Morris era tomorrow.