meangreendork

Scrappy's new bod is cool...the head looks kinda generic.

MG61- you're right. MTSU tends to out-recruit every year, and with NT having almost 1/2 of it starters fresh last night, MTSU WAS the better team. That is, until the game started. 5 turnovers and 14 points later, NT is the better team.

I'm betting the scouts factored his sickness and the QB in last night.

I think Meager can do this. 10-15, 122+ and NO turnovers. His play obviously fared better as his lack of turnovers didn't cost NT a single point. Marks (who is a bloody accurate QB) cost his team the game.

JQ was excellent for a man minus 30% water weight and fighting a stomach virus. Think of it like this: we all know how hard it is to go to class or go to work while we have a fever or even a cold. Now try upping the effects of a cold by 10 and try running around and getting hit. That's what JQ did last night. He's a hard-nosed guy, and I admire him for even wanting to play- I can't say how impressed I am with his ability to perform with a new QB on his first game against that type of D. For next year- I have a feeling that Brandon Jackson has the potential to step in where JQ was. He needs the balls to go his way and I bet he'll show us something special. With Meager's speed and improved throwing, I think we could have a well-balanced O next fall.

No, we're not too powerful for the SBC. We saw that last night. We saw that our team is good enough to dominate the SBC, but not walk in to the SEC and have a good chance of a winning season. It's not so much the player skill, but the recruiting power that NT is still in the progress of grabbing. Thanks to great publicity, the recruiting power of NT is getting better, but not at the goal I'm sure Dickey and RV want. We have a good team- we saw that the new guys really have the ability to rip up the field. The D really impressed me; with what's almost an all-new D that had little rest between drives, they still held the MTSU O to just 7 points. No UNT D has held a MTSU Offense to that score since I've been here. So think of it like this- the D bent at times when it's broken in the past. The Offense really had it tough. MTSU fought against Bama and already had that tough game under their belt when we came to their house against Littlejohn and the MTSU LB corps. Our inexperienced QB and new members of the OL performed well under those conditions.

It doesnt matter, really. The unis still look good, they say North Texas, and they are green. It's not the new one, but not everything is in the new shade yet. I would'nt spazz over it.

I was worried he'd turn a Rhett Bomar performance in. BUT- Danny really stepped up and delivered a solid game. Good first game, Danny.

It's all barely a change from the old one. Different letters? Okay, whatever.

I thought the D held well in the red zone, especially when causing the TO's. You can't really fault them when they don't have time to sit down and take a breather. Try running the length of a football field, then try running it again right after that. I'm almost certain your first time won't be as hard as the second time running. Yeah, we got lucky, but we all know this is how 1st games can be. A new QB, new DLine, new DBs, and running into an 8-man box...give the team a little break here. Don't freak about RB carries. Switching off means less chance for injury and it keeps them both fresh. When the other team's fast guys are breathing hard, we can put the other RB in and cut a swath right through them. And at any rate, it was kind of a necessity since our QB was untested.

The commentators made too much of it. Stupid people.

I don't think it bothers Jamario too much. He doesn't seem like a primadonna sort of guy. He knows he owns the spot for at least next year, and he also knows PC has more experience and leadership. I'm sure the splits will be better even, but I think it was a smart call to run Cobbs, especially in the blocking aspect. I was just hoping to see some big numbers, although I know it's game 1 of the entire season, and those tend to be rough when the opposition is on even terms with you.

I feel bad for their injured player. He just saw the end of his last season in college football, and no one should ever have to handle something like that. As for the fans...yeah, this should've been THAT game. At some point, I thought it was going to be THAT game. In the 1st half, with our running game slowed, Meager still shaken, and the D staying on the field for long stretches...yeah, I thought it could be a MTSU win if they played a smart and error-free game.

Look at it this way- D was good. O needs improvement. It says that the team needs game time, which is what they got. They didn't do well in the 1st half. Well, think of that as something like the first season game. They made some changes and Meager got a little more settled as the 2nd half started. The W is in our column, so that's all that really counts, right? Let's wait and see how much crow they eat. I don't know about the Tulsa game. I do know the team is getting better and prepared for the rest of conference play as well as the LaTech game.

MT can't beat an inexperienced and 1st game NT... if they can't do the job then, I don't think they ever will. They did well offensively, but they didn't get the ball in, and they kept handing the ball over. So yeah, they did okay, but a million yards don't mean jack unless they have points attached to them. I think Meager has a lot of possibility. He got the ball to a sick JQ under real pressure. He could be a great QB. He just needs time. And oddly- the OL needs work, or we just don't need to run into an 8man box. As for Tulsa...I'm uneasy, esp after their OU performance.

That's what we needed! Now, the Offense just needs to wake up and Dickey needs to not call run plays like the one at the end of the 1st half!

OU pulled it away, 30-15 or something like that. Thing is, they did it with no passing and the legs of Adrian Peterson. OU had a close shave today- a poor QB, a shaken OL almost cost them the game. Bomar gave Tulsa two INTs that had the OU D not stepped in at the last moment, would've made the game a lot closer than it was...if not give Tulsa the game. OU owes Peterson the game ball for this. The big scare for me is Tulsa's TE #20. He caught just about everything near him...against a D that's supposed to be able handle someone who isn't that fast. Let's hope Meager has more in him than Rhett Bomar, that the OL will hold better (I'm sure it will), the WR's do their thing (they will if Meager passes well) and that the D can watch that Mills guy. Still- OU's really taken a step down. If I'm a Sooner fan, I'm wondering why I'm breathing a sigh of relief after beating Tulsa, not laughing at the enormous score gap that OU's normally enjoyed (95-0, last two meetings).

Dickey needs to watch Tulsa's #20, Mills. This guy isn't fast, but he runs smart routes and catches like he's got stickum on his gloves.

The game has me a little freaked. Tulsa shouldn't perform like this, even against a crippled OU. Let's just hope OU is having a really, really, really bad early season. Because in my head, I'm worried about having Tulsa play our team... 7-3 Tulsa, 2nd quarter

That was a sweet win for Ohio- a TD INT for the second time that game. Oh- I caught the Nevada game....it was painful to watch.

OU can't produce effectively on offense (prolly for the same reasons they fouled up at TCU), but their defense hasn't seemed to hold off Tulsa. They're running and passing all over the OU D. Or maybe that's just because the game is still in the early 2nd qtr.

Heart- NT by 21. Head- NT by 14. Really Conservative Guess- NT by 3->7

NT by 14! I don't know why, but every year, the staff finds a way to beat MTSU. Every year for the last 4 years, MTSU is supposed to win. Every year, they lose. It's always a close game, but it always falls in NT's favor. The year of the first NT trip to the NO Bowl, NT was supposed to be smashed at home. They won. The next year, they went without the starting QB...they won. Next year, the team had to reload the secondary and RB positions and they won. Last year, the D was the weakest I've seen it, had a new RB...and still won.

NT by 14. Now, we know what happened with the OU game. We know that the QB royally kicked the dog, but we also know that OU had a relatively new O-line. In our case, the QB is new, but the only new guy on the O-Line is the center. Now I'm not saying that's not important, but it won't kill the offense. On the other side of the ball, the D-line is all new, but they've had to go toe-to-toe with an experienced O-line and 2 great RB's. If that's not as good as actual game time, I don't know what is. LBs are strong, and the secondary has plenty of people who are capable of a lot of great things.

After the UT game last year and knowing that our team isn't really experienced and still coming together at nearly every position, CFN sounds like they're on to something.