Travis

I live in Boise. I was coming to Dallas from 12/22-12/29. Not going to spend money on two separate trips to the south. I am not made of SMU money. :)

Damn. I was really wanting to see them live.

Independence Bowl.

We should be able to put up some points against KState.

1. How many walkers have you killed? 2. How many people have you killed?

NT - 4 FAU - 2 Surprisingly strong defensive performance from both teams.

I feel our relationship is rather symbiotic and necessary for our own self-efficacy. Assuming we continue to agree with each other, of course.

Have we ever had a season that we beat this many bowl eligible teams? I can’t think of any other.

Thank you for this post. I gave you an upvote... If I could, I would give you more to allow you to feel the very feels I feel after reading this post. 1. I especially like it because it reinforces my pre-biased suppositions and gives a greater sense of validation to my unshakable views. 2. It needs to be equally stated that should you have presented evidence to the contrary, which would be instantly viewed as a threat and a challenge to my already set beliefs, I would have down voted you with a high degree of pleasure and satisfaction. These 2 points help my increasing need to be in control of my social world and how it suits me. Thank you for making me feel better about my life today.

That’s about right.

Ha. Just make sure they are medium rare. None of this well done BS. Fixed.

I swear you have posted this exact same thing before.

I would also like to add that it would be nice to play 'Deep in the heart of Texas' from time to time.

I miss the good ol’ days.

What is the big ten network 2? What would that be on Dish Network?? 😬

This is something that happens literally everywhere.

He will need to change a lot of things... starting with tactics like the 4-3-3. Has any team ever won with that?! Truly asking because I can’t recall. The midfield is akin to an O line or Dline in football. Games are won or lost with that unit. If you dominate the midfield, chances are you won the game. I’d go with a 3-5-2 or a 3-1-3-1-2 or even a 4-4-1-1 formation. Anything to look to control the midfield. Then I would use primarily possession to tire out the other team and keep them on their toes. Also, I would quit having my forwards simply make North and south runs. They need to draw their defenders with them and create space. So I would want to see them show more of going towards opposite post (zig zag). And I would of had a dominate midfield by pushing my outside mids wide near the lines, so when i do push a through ball most all of them would be to the flags. My outside mids should be pushing the balls in from the flags to my forwards and centers who are crashing the goal. Punching it up the middle rarely ever works. Even in the pros or international level. Also, my opposite outside mid should be playing trashman on the other side. You know how many plays we could have reset if we had an opposite mid to pick up the ball that was sent too far or redirected. But no one was ever there... that was because of formation. Lastly, as a coach I would make sure my players do everything on the ball with purpose. So no more of this just putting the ball up without any real objective. It becomes simply kick ball and it is turn over after turn over. Player ratings would have been really low for this game for UNT because of that alone. Do everything with purpose, create high percentage chances. It is these philosophies/strategies that I would have implemented and I guarantee would have changed the game. But what do I know? I can’t soccer.

I am not sayin that. He deserves the job. He just needs to change philosophies to take us to the next level.

I would say we had no midfield or offense. The D wasn’t good either but Texas just moved it better. And when we got it we just pushed it with the long ball to space hoping for some prayer instead of working the ball up with possession. Texas out possessed us and showed a lot more creativity. We only had one legitimate scoring opportunity the entire time. Which is actually one more than we had during the CUSA championship game too. I am not surprised of the outcome because this style of play will never win championships or big tourney games. And once again not only has Hedlund never won an NCAA game, he hasn’t ever scored in one either. Style and tactics means everything and we simply can’t out athlete teams in games like this as we do during the regular season. It will always be like this as I mentioned days ago in another thread.

We lack creativity. Very little smart runs and settling on unwise long balls. They don’t win you tourney games.

Looks like a classic Hedlund Coached tourney team so far.

Texas Tech got 3rd place in the Big 12 in a really weak conference that year. Their fourth place team went 8-10-2 that year. They weren't ranked 18th in the nation - they were 25th at the end and that was only because of them getting to the second round (by beating us because we played with long ball). The long ball didn't work well. We lost 2-0 and we didn't look good that game. We didn't do anything and had very little, if any, scoring opportunities. Our style of play lacks creativity against equal or greater skill teams and is likened to throwing it deep (hail mary) every time. Teams do not go far with that kind of play. It also is the easiest to contain and defend against. History shows we don't win in the tournament and that is because of our style. Hell, we were lucky just to win CUSA this year. That finals game was ugly.

Not to be debbie downer, but I am never confident with a Hedlund team in the tournament. And, I am really not confident with this one. He is a good coach that gets it done in the regular season. But, his long ball style of play really lacks possession, creativity and smart movement seems to impede our ability to get it done when it matters most. His tournament record indicates that as well since he has never won a tournament game even when playing lesser teams like SMU or Texas Tech in the tournament. I hope I am wrong this time and we get a win. But, we tend to play messy. Watching the CUSA championship showed it was no different than in the past. I hope it goes differently this time.

Is it just me or does our non conference schedule look brutal.

Would you have predicted the way it turned out?