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Its time for our weekly Q&A heading into UNT’s game against Louisiana Tech on Thursday night. Today, we are fortunate to have Sean Isabella from the News-Star in Monroe, La. You can find Sean’s stories on the News Star’s website and on Twitter at ST_IsabellaTNS. Here is what Sean had to say about the game: 1. How much has La. Tech improved this year and why? I think it’s simply the mindset. In year 1 under Skip Holtz in 2013, I could sense the team never truly believed how good they could be. Their is more of a comfort level this year, the team is closer and the confidence is growing, the same confidence that was evident on the field in Saturday’s win over UL Lafayette. Defensively, the Bulldogs are better than last year and offensively it’s not even close. La. Tech finally has a quarterback, the wide receivers can make plays down the field and the offensive line has come together. It’s night and day compared to 2013. Read more: http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2014/09/unt-la-tech-qa-with-sean-isabella-of-the-news-star.html/

Sean Isabella of the Monroe News Star is our special guest on the blog this week to talk about UNT’s game against Louisiana Tech. Isabella covers Tech for the News Star. You can find his work on the paper’s website that includes a Louisiana Tech section. Here is what Isabella had to say about Saturday’s game. 1. What happened to Scotty Young? He’s a former Denton Ryan standout that a lot of people in Denton were looking forward to seeing play this year. Simply lost his job. Young started the first two games of the season then injured his ribs against Tulane. Redshirt freshman Ryan Higgins finished the game with mixed results, but played well against Kansas, then followed that up with another solid outing against Army and has kept the job. Young hasn’t seen the field since, except for Tech’s last game against UTEP when Higgins injured his ankle and couldn’t finish the game. The ankle isn’t a concern and Young will be relegated back to backup duties. 2. Tech has gotten off to a bit of a slow start. What has been the issue? No issues, per say. A slow start was expected, but probably not to this extent. Tech lost 32 seniors last year, including its quarterback and two wide receivers, both of whom are on NFL rosters. The offense was among the best in the country in 2012, so it was somewhat unrealistic to expect the same. Having said that, Tech could easily be 4-2. Turnovers cost the Bulldogs in losses to Tulane and Kansas — the only games they were outplayed in were North Carolina State and Army. Read more: http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2013/10/qa-with-sean-isabella-of-the-monroe-news-star.html/