here were times last season when North Texas didn’t need to excel in all phases of a game to come out with a win.
The Mean Green’s standout defense was perfectly capable of carrying the load.
UNT forced turnovers in vital spots and came up with defensive touchdowns in wins over Rice and Louisiana Tech when the Mean Green’s offense struggled.
When UNT coach Dan McCarney looks at his team five games into its season, he sees an entirely different situation.
“There isn’t one phase of this team that can carry the Mean Green of 2014,” McCarney said on Monday. “We have to be good on offense. We have to be good on defense.
We have to be good on special teams. Clearly last year, there were games where our defense could carry our football team. You don’t see that now. I don’t see it at all.
There is not one phase that can carry the other phases until they get to where we want them to be.”
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