9/5 Houston Baptist vs North Texas

[keith]

15 minutes ago, Stix said:

According to Dave, it's the first time ever in college football to have a final score of 57 - 31.

When ever an obscure college football record comes up in a trivia game, I just answer confidently and loudly, “that’s easy, The University of North Texas Mean Green.”  It doesn’t matter if it’s right or not.  The next day no one remembers the question or the answer.  They just remember, “The Mean Green!”  That’s how you build a fan base out of those that have no affiliation with the University.   

[All About UNT]

Highlights (Both Sides)

 

[Pavlovs Eagle]

This thread was made more enjoyable by our newest and most controversial GMG.com user: @TruthWins 

Thanks Coach!

[El Paso Eagle]

7 minutes ago, Pavlovs Eagle said:

This thread was made more enjoyable by our newest and most controversial GMG.com user: @TruthWins 

Thanks Coach!

Seems every season someone shows up to take over this role

[RiseUNT]

2 minutes ago, El Paso Eagle said:

Seems every season someone shows up to take over this role

Is it the same person?

[Green Crazy]

This game was disappointing defense, QB play and OL.

[El Paso Eagle]

3 hours ago, PlummMeanGreen said:

   ✳️ I took this pic at beginning of 2’nd quarter.  Considering all things—not a bad show from fans.  The club level seating looks fairly packed.

 

Question - I thought mask were required inside the stadium? Crowd shots showed a lot of people not wearing them

[UNT 90 Grad]

13 minutes ago, El Paso Eagle said:

Question - I thought mask were required inside the stadium? Crowd shots showed a lot of people not wearing them

Not required when eating or drinking. 

[Pavlovs Eagle]

23 minutes ago, El Paso Eagle said:

Question - I thought mask were required inside the stadium? Crowd shots showed a lot of people not wearing them

Most of the college games on Saturday and Thursday night featured people not wearing their face masks.  I think the eating and drinking happening was a contributing factor, as well as it being incredibly humid since it rained 30 minutes before gametime.

There's always the Beer Face Mask though... With NCAA approved licensing it would only cost 85 or 90 dollars!

 

[Side Show Joe]

I'm going to go ahead and take off my green glasses and post a few observations from tonight's game, because despite the record setting offensive production, this team still has some of the same issues from last season.

 

1. Bowen's defense needs to get a lot better. Bowen's system gave up 568 yards of offense and 31 points  to an FCS team tonight.

2. We didn't record a three-and-out until half way through the 3rd quarter. And this was against FCS talent.

3. Our offensive line was descent in pass blocking, but still bad at run blocking. This was also against FCS talent.

4. Adaway looks like the real deal (5 carries/ 118 yards/ 2TD's), especially since the o-line wasn't really blocking well. Glad I adopted OAIII for the season.

5. Bean looked better than Aune.

[GrandGreen]

49 minutes ago, Green Crazy said:

This game was disappointing defense, QB play and OL.

I guess a record total offense yards was just not enough offense.

If you didn't appreciate Bean's first start at QB, I question your football judgement.

The defense was bad, but did improve during the game until the subs took over. 

[outoftown]

4 hours ago, UNTLifer said:

He's below that based on tonight considering we saw Siggers, Torrey, Adaway, I. Johnson and E. Johnson.  I always had high hopes for him.

That is tough for him. But literally all of those guys looked decent to outright great, so I'd say it is less because of his quality than because of everyone elses. Definitely the deepest position NT has right now.

[97and03]

8 hours ago, TruthWins said:

Wanna bet your life savings on it? 

Tate there could be minors on this board. Don’t worry we won’t tell your probation officer. 

[TheColonyEagle]

As for the defense:

The stats look bad...but HBU does have a really good offense and a really good QB. 

However I think the D gives me a little hope. They got a lot of yards between the 20s but we held them out of the end zone, tackling was VERY good. I don't think I saw a missed tackle until late in the game. They adjusted after HBU started strong and a lot of their yards and 2 of those TDs came after the game was out of hand and their starting QB was still in against what had to be 3rd and 4th stringers...

 

[CMJ]

Guarded optimism on the offensive side.

 

Fear on the defensive.

[El Paso Eagle]

9 hours ago, GrandGreen said:

I guess a record total offense yards was just not enough offense.

If you didn't appreciate Bean's first start at QB, I question your football judgement.

The defense was bad, but did improve during the game until the subs took over. 

Was thinking the same thing. First game in the post Fine era, shortened and modified fall camp,and we set an all-time record. We even used a lot of backups. And don't say "look at who we played" because we have played worse teams before.

Was very happy to see Seth play multiple QBs. IMO not having backups ready during Mason's time was one of our biggest downfalls.

[Green Crazy]

10 hours ago, GrandGreen said:

I guess a record total offense yards was just not enough offense.

If you didn't appreciate Bean's first start at QB, I question your football judgement.

The defense was bad, but did improve during the game until the subs took over. 

61% completion from Bean is worrisome against that team in my opinion. There were a couple of deep balls that he threw up there and our receivers made plays on them (white touchdown is one and I think shorter had one) and against better talent at best they are incomplete, probably intercepted.  Those inflate his numbers in a good way.  It was his first start, so I will cut him a little slack.  However, he's a red shirt sophomore and it was HBU, so not much.  He definitely looked better that Aune though.  Also, I think the play calling for him was weird and if they would have let him run a bit more it would have helped him out.  Maybe they didn't want to get him banged up.

The offensive line was creating nothing in the run game for a majority of the game.  A few long runs inflated the rushing number to looking good.

All I'm saying is the offense looked worrisome and the defense got one sack and no turnovers. Someone else has said it already, but this game reminded me of ACU from last year and we know what last year turned into. 

Some bright spots were the receivers and Addaway and Torrey. 

Edited September 6, 2020 by Green Crazy

[NorthTexasSportsNetwork]

11 hours ago, El Paso Eagle said:

Question - I thought mask were required inside the stadium? Crowd shots showed a lot of people not wearing them

I'll say this, it was so humid you could cut open the air with a knife... so hard to wear a mask mainly on the student side when the sun was in their faces for a quarter or so.

Also, it seemed the seating enforcement was taken lightly 

[Green Crazy]

47 minutes ago, El Paso Eagle said:

Was thinking the same thing. First game in the post Fine era, shortened and modified fall camp,and we set an all-time record. We even used a lot of backups. And don't say "look at who we played" because we have played worse teams before.

Was very happy to see Seth play multiple QBs. IMO not having backups ready during Mason's time was one of our biggest downfalls.

Every team has had to deal with the shortened practice schedule, so I'm not sure if that's worth mentioning.   Their offense looked good and Marshall's looked great and they were starting a freshman at QB.  Maybe if the defense played better I'd feel different.  Hopefully I'm wrong, wouldn't be the first time.

[GrayEagle]

17 hours ago, El Paso Eagle said:

I thought they said he was hurt

I don't know if he had been earlier but he wasn't at game time.  He was practicing at warmup time kicking 40 yarders.

[UNT Fan 92]

22 hours ago, greenminer said:

Based on initial impressions, what is the difference from last year?

The Baylor offense throws the ball down the field as seen last night. There is not as much pressure placed on the QB as was done with Mason in Bodies offense last year. It is all about mismatches and the run game is very important in this offense ---that is why Bloesch is here.

We also played fast which will help us in the long run. I believe these coaches are fundamentally sound and we will see this as the year progresses. Remember they will get better as games are played . We have a new team---defense changed as well as having  new offense and QB-- and not having Spring Ball will hurt at first.

We will see next game how things go. 

Bean has unbelievable athletic ability and decent arm . Aune is athletic and stronger then Bean. 

Aune has the better arm  but Bean had a better Fall practice. 

I believe we will see both of them early in our next game unless Bean gets on a roll and can't be stop.

I think and hope we will make great strides from our first game to our second game with SMU. 

 

[DeepGreen]

What was Fine's completion rate in his first game ever?

[greenminer]

34 minutes ago, DeepGreen said:

What was Fine's completion rate in his first game ever?

I think his first call came when he needed to relieve the xfer QB. IIRC he led the team on a scoring drive and the keys to the Mean Green offense were permanently his.

 

EDIT: it was SMU, and Mason was 8-11 with zero TDS. Following game was Bethune-Cookman and Mason was 11-22 0TDs.

Edited September 7, 2020 by greenminer

[Green Crazy]

In regards to the Davis bros line backers injury.  I haven't seen them on the sideline, so i think they might be covid casualties. My guess.

[Green Crazy]

On 9/6/2020 at 12:26 AM, GrandGreen said:

I guess a record total offense yards was just not enough offense.

If you didn't appreciate Bean's first start at QB, I question your football judgement.

The defense was bad, but did improve during the game until the subs took over. 

Do you see now? If not I question your football judgement. 🙂