meangreendork

The GreekRank post is really the worst part of this whole thing.

No one really, actually, knows. :?

If nothing else, Mac was willing, if not able, to do what he asked of his players - guy was always running around the complex or running stairs when he was here.

Give me someone that's been successful at the FCS level in recent years over someone that's a retread and with success that's years old and comes with staff problems.

God, please, no. Links to academic fraud, allegations of abusive language used on university staff, fired from Iowa State after 1 year, and 3 of 7 years at KU with a winning record, for a total of 50-48. No. No. No. No. No. No. I might actually stop attending football altogether if this guy is the hire. He just stinks of bad news and poor conduct.

In that alternate universe, we don't even know who he is.

I might like to see Norvell or Thomsen here, mainly because they have more skins on the wall. Norvell would be my top choice since he's worked almost exclusively at P5 schools, and at programs that have had some success. Thomsen's had success as a head coach, and that's a good sign for him since being just the OL coach at ASU isn't quite as exciting to me. Carthel's risky - I know he's done well at TAMC and he seems to be defense-minded but will build a good offense. Thing is, he seems to be the least experienced of the 3 names.

You can put up 45 points in a game and still lose. All this talk about wanting an offense-minded coach makes me want to sacrifice goats and hope the coach also understands and will act on the importance of a tough defense. Ignoring defense is like only giving yourself one plan to win a fight.

"Offensive minded coach." Or maybe a coach that understands that it's great to have a defense that creates turnovers, dominates field position and can put up 7-14 points per game. It's tied in with an offense that can spread the ball out, strike deep, and still run the ball through an opposing defense. Then, backing them both up, is a special teams unit that can block FGs and kicks, can coffin-corner teams, and hits as hard as it returns. I mean, these 3 units of football aren't mutually exclusive, bro.

Some folks missed the whole press release about Aston going off to her dream job. But don't let that get in the way of being angry.

He was like McNulty, but somehow worse. At least McNulty would attempt to pass.

At a glance, he looks good. 135-96. But looked at more closely, his last two seasons at Ole Miss suggest problems of some sort. He went 9-4 (or close) his first two seasons, then 4-8 and then 2-10. Looks like he couldn't reload on talent from the previous coaches. His time at Arkansas looks better, though. If he comes on board, he might be good as far as having good ties, but his last two seasons at Ole Miss make me wonder if he can reload a recent team.

And didn't prepare him.

I think he would've been given the benefit of the doubt if he hadn't been here so long and if he was properly developed to be the starting QB. I feel like in his underclassman years, most of the practice reps went to Thompson and when Thompson (or any other QB we started) should've sat out, McNulty should've gone in. Funny enough, that's the same thing that happened with Williams and Smith. Williams got leftover practice reps while he was here, then was expected to perform like a senior QB during his freshman year. Smith seems to be stuck with the same situation. Tbh, I think that Mac didn't really know what to do with QB development and was too interested in micromanaging that aspect of coaching to let Canales or anyone else do their job.

I'll that I'm more mad at Mac now than I was even after Portland State. It would've been one thing if Smith were a bust. But he's not. He made first-timer mistakes, but those were mistakes that would've been coached out if he got first team reps and more time at starter. If he started after SMU, this might be a 3-3 team, maybe even a 4-2 team. Just...yeah, after seeing his numbers tonight, I'm more angry at a UNT coach than I've ever been. I feel like Williams could've been special. Smith more than likely IS.

Thanks for the contributions, Rick. But where the university needs to go and how far you can take us are not at the same mile marker.

And keeping RV after this season will be the worst athletics-related decision of the year. He needs to go. Period.

Meanwhile, I wonder why Kansas is still allowed in the Big12...

Seems really premature to me. Both UNT and Washington State are in a mess.

A similar thing happened at Ohio State. They grabbed an FCS champ coach. He was successful, very successful with far less than what Ohio State had available. I think we should do the same - get a championship FCS coach or a coordinator from a highly-ranked FBS program, let them bring in a vetted staff, and as that now-HC may get pulled away, their coordinators can backfill.

You're right. The objective was to use the defense to create and take opportunities for good starting field position and for outright scores. He also went with special teams with the aim to do the same. Create turnovers and determine field position. The idea was to use both to determine the pace of the game. By luck, he had Dodge recruits that could do the work of creating their own scoring opportunities in addition to making good on some of what the defense and special teams could give them. His system requires a consistent, solid offense. Unfortunately, he didn't build one.

Probably already on it right now. While the successful programs are safe to stay without changes, I know and I'm sure the president knows that the other sports need changes in their staffing to make them move.

If I was a high school QB who has a prolific HS career and was looking at offers from different schools...I probably wouldn't choose UNT if I was likely going to throw short routes, be kept in the box, and just be the middleman between the center and RB. Coaches tend to get QBs that match their system. Mac's system was a lot like Dickeys in that it was centered around the RB, so consequently, finding a QB interested in that is going to be hard. Mac managed to find decent guys at other skill positions but they're limited by the skill of the QB. We could put NFL-prime Randy Moss and Jerry Rice on the field with McNulty and it wouldn't matter because throws would be short, long, or stared down and picked.

Keeping him around, even until the end of the season means another cluster of awful games. That means the players are going to be harder to motivate into next season, it's a bad showing for the public, and it'll likely crush hopes of decent recruiting. It'll be a short term pain but the long term will do better. Mac's gotta go. RV has to go. The new AD needs to eval the remaining football staff, toss out the men's head coach and likely the women's coach, too.

Cinders. It has to be in cinders. And really, I gotta be mad at a coach that is too stubborn or too blind to make adjustments to improve a team. It's not just his job or his future, it's the players that work hard at practice, their families, the fans, and really anyone that's ever worn green.