keith

I think it's time we re-evaluate the boxes and how important they are. These are the same we've been after forever and it's gotten us jack-squat.

Noted and I'm old enough to remember how many on this board declared FIU to be "horrible" and pointed out that they were only able to eek out a 2-point victory over Maine who is currently 2-11 in its last 13 games.

That's good because neither you or I or anyone on this board for that matter can burn the place down. That role is reserved for ADs and Coaches.

There are 7 new head coaches in The American. Players and coaches are still learning and getting to know each other all over the league. Only 2 games in, but all of them, except one, has a win.

It's fun to compare our current situation to other schools, but I'm not sure how relevant it is. I think most compare the current situation to our own recent history. It may be too early to tell, but there has already been a lot of foreshadowing and it's starting to look like a movie we've seen many, many times before. We are a fragile fanbase, so it only takes a small amount of poor performance to reinforce the "conventional wisdom" about our football program and destroy any interest or good will (no matter how small) that may have been established. On the flip side, we seem to require beating up on top-25 teams before people will even begin to take moderate interest. This next statement may be seen as hyperbole, but this game against LaTech may turn out to be the most important game in Morris' tenure (however long it turns out to be). He wins and looks convincing doing it and we might be able to generate some traction for the ACU game. He loses and/or looks unprepared or completely outmatched and the season is probably over and will sink our football program to depths that are still all too fresh in our memories. We will only sniff 20K for the homecoming game and will potentially lose a generation of students for the next 4 years or longer. For the sake of all things North Texas football, I hope he succeeds. I will admit, I was not a fan of the hire and I'm still not convinced he's the guy or whatever strategy he sold Mosely is the right one for the modern college football world. It was a massive gamble/risk, IMHO. In order to make that risk work taking, there needs to be to potential for high rewards. Let's hope Morris and Mosely hit it big for us as I don't think either one with get another chance if they don't.

Offense wins championships! Said No One Ever.

Maybe. I don't know what value these press conferences bring anymore. Coaches seem to abhor them and rarely does any new information come out of them. There's always the chance a coach blows up or goes ape-sh!t on a reporter's question, but those are few and far between. This one (and most) are filled with a bunch of platitudes, but no real insight...we got to do better, we're working hard, this is our job, need to put players in position to make plays, got to figure this out...I wonder what the word could is on "need to figure it out" during this one. Also, as a self-professed history guy, it's odd that he doesn't want to talk about last year.

Interesting and insightful. Thanks for sharing your observations.

When did we introduce the diving eagle logo? I think that's when it all started to fall apart. We somehow created an athletic spirit mark, logo, whatever with an aspect ratio that just doesn't work on football helmets IMHO. It either has to be tilted slightly which makes it look wonky, minimized so it's barely recognizable or enlarged so we only show the tips of the wing and tail feathers. Or it's connected to UNT, North Texas or Mean Green so people know what it's for and frankly looks even worse. And for the love of God can we please not put the state of Texas on our helmets (with a miniature eagle BTW). It isn't necessary and looks high schoolish. It's not like we're Rutgers where no one knows where it is...it's in our name, North Texas.

I feel this is the wrong thinking Silver. All this has done is make it harder to justify the necessary salary increase for the next (and there is alway a next) head coach. Whether we like it or not, competent head football coaches make a boat load of money. Having a big number already in the budget will make it easier when negotiations begin. First, we will start with a better candidate pool. Second, we may be able to absorb another $500K to $1M bump, but a $1.5M to $2M bump may be harder to sell (at least for a school like UNT). So, in my mind, Morris taking less and Mosely agreeing to it may have tied our hands in the future.

It was never supposed to be a turnaround...that's the real point. We were supposed to go from 6-7 wins to 9-10 wins...from playing for a conference championship to winning a conference championship...from just going to bowl games to winning bowl games. All those goals seem like pipe dreams now. Heck, even where we were (building on a moderately successful foundation) seems like a pipe dream. We've gone full reverse. This coaching staff needs to figure it out soon or none of them are going to survive.

Assuming the owner bought tickets through the AD to the bowl game, it should be straight forward cross-reference ticket sales data to letterman from the era that sported the flying worm to narrow down the possible list of owners. Then just contact each one individually. Can't imagine it's a large number.

I noticed the same thing. At first I just thought it might be because it was a C-USA production or they just didn't know who he was to pick him out of the sideline crowd.

And some say we lack traditions.

Didn't he attend a basketball game last year? I seem to recall that.

This has all the makings of a classic trap game for us as we look past LaTech and look ahead to our bye week showdown. LaTech 51 - UNT 32 I already hate this season!

When we hired Morris didn't we sign him for less than we were paying Littrell? I always thought that signaled weakness and capitulation. Since when does a D1 program hire the replacement coach that's going to catapult them into a new conference and elevate them to new heights less than the previous coach? Were we bargain hunting? Then the spin was we were going to use the savings to increase the assistant coach salary pool and get the best staff possible. Yikes.

Based on the thread title, I honestly thought the post was going to be: The biggest improvement a team makes during the season is usually from game 1 to game 2. If that turns out to be true for us, then we're in for a world of hurt.

Harry, don’t do this. It is never the answer.

Come on man, it’s just two games!! Sure, we went to bowl games, but we didn’t win any. Coaching would change that we were told. Sure, we went to conference championship game, but didn’t win any. Coaching would change that we were told. We had the talent, but we weren’t coaching them up we were told. Just wait ‘til we get a real quarterback coach, we were told. We had everything in place to elevate the program, we just needed the right coaching staff, they said.

Beginning to think GoMeanGreen is funded by the AD….that and it has way too many ads. I’ve been around since the fax days. Come on Harry.

At least we know where the “Birds Up” crew stands.

Unfortunately I don’t get a vote. However, I think they were undefeated at the time and “ranked” somewhere around that. Why the revisionist history? We beat them.

I see Coach Morris is online. How about not burning timeouts and going for 2 when you didn’t need too? Rookie mistakes.