Mean Green Matt

Who?

1) A little under 12,000 was the announced number. The actual was probably around 70% of that. 2) I think there is something to your thought about the novelty of the generic bowl game wearing off. 2014 HOD bowl was first bowl game in almost a decade. 2016 HOD bowl was exciting under first year Littrell. After that, our turnouts have been atrocious.

Thank goodness!

Who wants to tell him?

I’m not sure we would even be in the FCS top 25.

Highly recommend the lifetime membership.

Yes. And the North Texas side at no point was even close to full. That is objective reality. And, even if it were, filling one side of a tiny stadium is not exactly respectable. I agree the event before was well done.

I absolutely get where you are coming from, but we needed somewhere around 6% of students and alumni in this area to show up to fill that stadium. That counts 0 Miami fans, 0 parents, friends, family of those alums and students, 0 casual observers, 0 t-shirt fans, etc. We are not SMU that has next to nothing to pull from for a fan base. That makes our situation much, much worse. We could have been playing Hardin Simmons at 8am yesterday and there would be no excuse not to have 17k people there (or whatever the mysterious capacity is).

I find how we lost these games (with the exception of Army, I suppose) to be more concerning. Yes, we played some good teams, but we’ve never seemed prepared to compete.

I know this is probably worthY of a “beating a dead horse” gif, but the pit crew needs to be brought back with a legitimate effort to rebuild it.

A truly inspiring message of hope on this Christmas Eve Eve. Thank you.

We were playing a 6-6 MAC team.

Nailed it. signed, a guy who predicted a 4TD North Texas win.

I think anyone that watched the game is fully aware of how badly we were beaten. I really thought we were going to throttle them. There was a bizarre lack of intensity this afternoon.

I’m sure it will be on YouTube in short order. A TON of people were recording it. They were really good tonight.

So…don’t we still, essentially, have our pick of any FCS head coach, any FBS OC/DC, some G5 head coaches, and all the guys currently unemployed. Sure a lot of guys already got hired, but many of those got hired to jobs we couldn’t have outbid anyway. I suppose some guys that JUST got hired to jobs we would typically consider poachable may have buyouts too high. But I can’t imagine someone like Eric Morris wouldn’t still be an option even though he just took an OC job.

This is a classic sports chicken/egg argument. As simple as it is to say the team gets the crowds it deserves, you could just as easily say the sparse crowd gets the team it deserves.

I’d put the butts in seats somewhere around 8,000. A little more than one side would be filled if everyone was crammed into it.

The bowl didn’t sabotage our attendance. We did.

Seriously?

The North Texas side is not even close to full. I’m staring directly at it.

He’s been the stadium announcer for FC Dallas for a long long time. He actually grows on you after awhile.

Cannot be rationalized to have this small of a turnout given our numbers. I know we are just supposed to be happy and not think about this, but this is the #1 reason our program is where it is. With all that said, our guys need to go win this football game. Let’s Go Mean Green!

45-17 North Texas.