Program Future?

[UNTLifer]

So, how do you feel about the direction of our football program?

[MeanGreenTexan]

I suppose this is in response to Vito's article?
You're polling the die-hards... you know that right?  Your results will be skewed.
That said, of course I'm optimistic!

[Ben Gooding]

45 minutes ago, MeanGreenTexan said:

I suppose this is in response to Vito's article?
You're polling the die-hards... you know that right?  Your results will be skewed.
That said, of course I'm optimistic!

[Mean Green 93-98]

I voted "distraught," because a credible news source told me I was.

[Matt from A700]

I am excited. Hopefully I'm not being foolish this time (again, I'm still young).

If this bowl encore year turns out like 2014 did, I will be back to distraught.

[oldguystudent]

I numbed the pain years ago.  Very rarely feel good, bad, or indifferent anymore.  I just keep showing up.  

Edited August 23, 2017 by oldguystudent

[Withers940]

17 hours ago, Ben Gooding said:

This is great but you have to imagine it in Morgan Freemans voice

17 hours ago, Mean Green 93-98 said:

I voted "distraught," because a credible news source told me I was.

I wish ESPN would take this article and ESPN De Ocho and SHOVE IT!!

[RBP79]

I will assume we're talking about this year....not about the last 15/20 years. I'm always optimistic at the being of the year till the beat down begins. Hopefully that won't happen this year.

[untjim1995]

There's a lot of reasons to feel optimistic--we just improved by 4 games last year with a roster mostly full of people who weren't recruited by the current coaching staff and were running an offensive scheme that is 180 degrees from what we run today. Our lazy ass AD finally left and we have replaced him with someone who SAYS the right thing ad seemingly likes being here right now. We didn't bring back the colossally inept Tony Benford and paid a good price for a coach who has shown the ability to win at each place he has coached at and wanted to be our coach. And the university's President cares about sports and the funding has improved.

On the other side of the coin, recruiting here for football is simply horrendous. Fan interest and media interest is terrible for a university of our size and location. Our home schedules rarely bring us an opponent that a win could move the program upward significantly.

In the end, its still all about wait and see for me. We should be better as the years progress--but that's the eternal cry for the few folks who stick around here to follow our teams.

[UNTLifer]

I am optimistic about the direction of the program and am also optimistic that this is the beginning of a change in culture.

[MGNation92]

57 minutes ago, untjim1995 said:

There's a lot of reasons to feel optimistic--we just improved by 4 games last year with a roster mostly full of people who weren't recruited by the current coaching staff and were running an offensive scheme that is 180 degrees from what we run today. Our lazy ass AD finally left and we have replaced him with someone who SAYS the right thing ad seemingly likes being here right now. We didn't bring back the colossally inept Tony Benford and paid a good price for a coach who has shown the ability to win at each place he has coached at and wanted to be our coach. And the university's President cares about sports and the funding has improved.

On the other side of the coin, recruiting here for football is simply horrendous. Fan interest and media interest is terrible for a university of our size and location. Our home schedules rarely bring us an opponent that a win could move the program upward significantly.

In the end, its still all about wait and see for me. We should be better as the years progress--but that's the eternal cry for the few folks who stick around here to follow our teams.

There's always tomorrow to get better right?

[untjim1995]

24 minutes ago, MGNation92 said:

There's always tomorrow to get better right?

Always...and yet, tomorrow almost always delivers something worse. Although I will say that I don't believe you can go lower than having your team completely quit on you on Homecoming against a FCS school and lose by 59 points., but if we suffer another loss to replace the Portland State fiasco as the worst loss in modern college football history, I think we should just close up shop as a FBS program. I remember completely believing that the loss in 2008 at Rice, when David Bailiff called off the dogs after they went ahead 77-20 in the 3rd quarter, was the ultimate low point for us, since it was freaking alltime SWC dreg, Rice, who decided to not score 100 points on us when they easily could have. But that Portland State loss seems insurmountable to me--that we could lose another FCS game at home by 60 points just seems too horrible to imagine for any FBS program.

 

[southsideguy]

58 minutes ago, untjim1995 said:

Always...and yet, tomorrow almost always delivers something worse. Although I will say that I don't believe you can go lower than having your team completely quit on you on Homecoming against a FCS school and lose by 59 points., but if we suffer another loss to replace the Portland State fiasco as the worst loss in modern college football history, I think we should just close up shop as a FBS program. I remember completely believing that the loss in 2008 at Rice, when David Bailiff called off the dogs after they went ahead 77-20 in the 3rd quarter, was the ultimate low point for us, since it was freaking alltime SWC dreg, Rice, who decided to not score 100 points on us when they easily could have. But that Portland State loss seems insurmountable to me--that we could lose another FCS game at home by 60 points just seems too horrible to imagine for any FBS program.

 

dark days indeed.