Questions about Mean Green football for pre game show needed

[Matthew Brune]

Hello again, it's Matthew Brune here asking for your questions regarding the football team for our pre game show this week. The Mean Green take on Southern Miss and your questions can either be about the game or the team in general or a specific player or stat you wanted our opinion on. We'll be filming this tomorrow morning, sorry for the late notice, but send in the questions and we'll be sure to send the link in here and give you all credit for the questions. Thank y'all in advance.

-MB

[AustinFromUNT]

Mason Fine currently has 1076 yards as well as 9 TDs with 3 INTs. Where do you see him finishing stats wise this season?

[BTG_Fan1]

19 minutes ago, Matthew Brune said:

Hello again, it's Matthew Brune here asking for your questions regarding the football team for our pre game show this week. The Mean Green take on Southern Miss and your questions can either be about the game or the team in general or a specific player or stat you wanted our opinion on. We'll be filming this tomorrow morning, sorry for the late notice, but send in the questions and we'll be sure to send the link in here and give you all credit for the questions. Thank y'all in advance.

-MB

Where will the video be? nTTV? 

If it's going to be on NTTV, input from others on how to increase attendance, we have had multiple threads about what some students/alumni would wanna see done.. 

Another thing to discuss is about the QB situation with It only being Quinn, Fine, and Pearson now.. Best case and worst case scenarios 

Edited September 29, 2017 by BTG_Fan1

[ScrappyD]

Who is the Mean Green's most effective offensive player (and is that player being used effectively)?

Teaching the Mean Green how to win consistently might be Seth Littrell's greatest challenge - in their last 41 games North Texas has won back to back games only once.  How close do you believe Seth Littrell is to creating an environment that can handle success?

 

 

[BTG_Fan1]

Also, what are some selling points pros/cons that should/shouldn't be used on recruits.. 

What makes UNT attractive, and what is in the future in terms of potential selling points.. and what needs to be improved besides the play in the field

Edited September 29, 2017 by BTG_Fan1

[THOR]

how do they decide what uniform to wear?  player vote, predetermined, captains?

[Harry]

When is Bryce expected to be back and how long before he will make an impact?

what is UNT's record  or w/l percentage over the past decade on road games after a home win? 

Who is an unsung hero or most improved player on the OL?

what will it take to get more student attendance?  

[LongJim]

Defensive improvement against the run has been encouraging, but long pass plays have hurt.  What's the solution?

[SilverEagle]

15 minutes ago, Harry said:

When is Bryce expected to be back and how long before he will make an impact?

what is UNT's record  or w/l percentage over the past decade on road games after a home win? 

Who is an unsung hero or most improved player on the OL?

what will it take to get more student attendance?  

Does this issue bother most of the players on the team? Do you know if they were aware of this issue prior to making a commitment to North Texas?

Also, I noticed that in late fall scrimmages, and in the Lamar game, Tony Krasniqi got a lot of playing time, and (IMHO) was doing a pretty good job of holding his own in the middle. I don't remember seeing him in the UAB game. Have they decided to redshirt him? Or is it too late for that.

Also(2), (besides changing his number from 27 to 89) what has happened to Kam Duhon? In the spring he worked himself into the two deep lineup at WR by being pretty much the overachiever that Michael Lawrence is being this fall.

[Harry]

Is transfer Greg White officially redshirting? 

[Travis]

What would Mason do for a Klondike Bar?

[BTG_Fan1]

49 minutes ago, Harry said:

Is transfer Greg White officially redshirting? 

White is a true Freshman, not a transfer I thought? 

[Mean Green 93-98]

2 hours ago, SilverEagle said:

Also, I noticed that in late fall scrimmages, and in the Lamar game, Tony Krasniqi got a lot of playing time, and (IMHO) was doing a pretty good job of holding his own in the middle. I don't remember seeing him in the UAB game. Have they decided to redshirt him? Or is it too late for that.

Once a player plays one snap of one game, it's too late to put a redshirt on him.

[UNTLifer]

20 minutes ago, Mean Green 93-98 said:

Once a player plays one snap of one game, it's too late to put a redshirt on him.

Okay, is Krasniqi injured and will he thus qualify for a RS.

Does Graham Harrell drink a pot of coffee prior to the game, down Red Bulls throughout the game, or does he always talk that fast?

[Mean Green 93-98]

2 minutes ago, UNTLifer said:

Okay, is Krasniqi injured and will he thus qualify for a RS.

Technically, that would not then be a redshirt but a medical hardship waiver.  I hadn't heard that he was injured, but it's possible.

[UNT 90 Grad]

What ethnicity is the last name "Pickle"?

Aw, missed the deadline.  Nevermind. 

[untjim1995]

8 hours ago, Harry said:

what will it take to get more student attendance?  

Since we don't normally play people that most casual football fans care about, especially college kids that have plenty of things to do on a Saturday, this is always going to be a challenge. As someone mentioned earlier, the Thursday night game appeals to the student body since its not cutting in on their weekends. This isn't a North Texas problem, its a G5 problem, especially if you aren't winning much against programs people care about. Let's face it, we have beaten Lamar and UAB this season, while getting skull-crushed by SMU and pretty much driven into the ground in the 2nd half by Iowa. These kids know SMU and Iowa. They don't know or care about UAB. When we play UTSA next at home, it'll be interesting to see how attendance is for that game, especially if we do lose on the road at USM. UTSA will probably bring a decent crowd with them, so if the students aren't there, it'll make it that much worse. But I don't get the feeling that the strong majority of Denton or UNT students cares much about UTSA the way we do on gmg.com--and its not even close compared to how UTSA feels towards us. We are their SMU game, their game that they use to show their fans and alumni that they are moving up the college football landscape here in Texas at a rapid-fire pace.

[UNTLifer]

1 hour ago, UNT 90 Grad said:

What ethnicity is the last name "Pickle"?

Aw, missed the deadline.  Nevermind. 

Who has that last name?

[EagleMBA]

2 hours ago, UNT 90 Grad said:

What ethnicity is the last name "Pickle"?

That is easy.  Those people with the last name "Pickle" are Absorbaloffs.  Pictured below is an athletic Absorbaloff offensive lineman, right after a game...as you can tell, he has eaten several linebackers.  OT but can we recruit this kid?

[Marty]

Will Kevin Dillman ever play a down of football at NT?

[UNT 90 Grad]

2 hours ago, UNTLifer said:

Who has that last name?

Ashley Pickle

 

[EagleMBA]

Ashley must be adopted because she CLEARLY does not resemble an ethnic Absorbaloff!

Abzorbalovians are a sapient species that are humanoid in appearance, and have the ability to absorb the body of their victims, including their knowledge, memories, and consciousness, from touch alone. Abzorbalovians come from Clom, which was the sister planet of Raxacoricofallapatorius. Similar to Raxacoricofallapatorians, Abzorbalovians have yellow-green skin (hence "Pickle"), three digits per hand and feet, as well as a tail. They have hair growing from their heads and numerous warts. Their faces contain many folds with posterior part of their cheeks lined with warts. They have humanoid eyes and mouth, and their skins are covered with darkly pigmented spots that are very visible at the scalp. The faces of the victims the Abzorbalobians have absorbed are embedded on the body of the latter. Abzorbalovians are technologically advanced, or have access to advanced technology as indicated by the presence of the Abzorbaloff on Earth.

Edited September 30, 2017 by EagleMBA

[SilverEagle]

11 hours ago, untjim1995 said:

Since we don't normally play people that most casual football fans care about, especially college kids that have plenty of things to do on a Saturday, this is always going to be a challenge. As someone mentioned earlier, the Thursday night game appeals to the student body since its not cutting in on their weekends. This isn't a North Texas problem, its a G5 problem, especially if you aren't winning much against programs people care about. Let's face it, we have beaten Lamar and UAB this season, while getting skull-crushed by SMU and pretty much driven into the ground in the 2nd half by Iowa. These kids know SMU and Iowa. They don't know or care about UAB. When we play UTSA next at home, it'll be interesting to see how attendance is for that game, especially if we do lose on the road at USM. UTSA will probably bring a decent crowd with them, so if the students aren't there, it'll make it that much worse. But I don't get the feeling that the strong majority of Denton or UNT students cares much about UTSA the way we do on gmg.com--and its not even close compared to how UTSA feels towards us. We are their SMU game, their game that they use to show their fans and alumni that they are moving up the college football landscape here in Texas at a rapid-fire pace.

I looked on the official NCAA site for the school by school attendance numbers for the 2016 FBS Division 1 season. I plucked out a few interesting numbers. For instance, being in the B-12 is no guarantee that you will have great attendance based on your "known" opponents. The average home attendance for Kansas in 2016 was 25,828. Being in the Mountain West and having all the "name" opponents they play is no guarantee either. Colorado State averages 27,600, and the only game in town for the state of Wyoming (the U of W Cowboys) averaged 21,288 in 2016.I was also shocked to find out that Oregon St (Pac-12) averaged 37,622.

Here is the link

http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/Attendance/2016.pdf

And BTW, UTSA averaged 23,038 last year, while we averaged 19,878.

 

 

[GangGreen]

a/s/l?

[untjim1995]

8 hours ago, SilverEagle said:

I looked on the official NCAA site for the school by school attendance numbers for the 2016 FBS Division 1 season. I plucked out a few interesting numbers. For instance, being in the B-12 is no guarantee that you will have great attendance based on your "known" opponents. The average home attendance for Kansas in 2016 was 25,828. Being in the Mountain West and having all the "name" opponents they play is no guarantee either. Colorado State averages 27,600, and the only game in town for the state of Wyoming (the U of W Cowboys) averaged 21,288 in 2016.I was also shocked to find out that Oregon St (Pac-12) averaged 37,622.

Here is the link

http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/Attendance/2016.pdf

And BTW, UTSA averaged 23,038 last year, while we averaged 19,878.

 

 

Good stuff, Silver. If you suck as a P5, even playing great names won't help you tremendously...but are issues are both a bad reputation and never playing anyone besides SMU that our students care about.