DRC: We are approaching 100 picks -- most of them optimistic -- entering the final hours to enter this year's Get Your Rear on the Record contest

[TIgreen01]

9-4.  We’ll win some that we aren’t expected to, but probably will lose one or two we shouldn’t.  Getting deeper at WR (and QB) will help with downfield, big play production.  With our running game we are going to have opportunities down field.  Just need to hit a few a game, like the old Buick days…

[GreenFlag]

I predict 6-7.

[MeanGreenTexan]

I'm right there with @Brett Vito

Win - TSU, UNLV, FAU, FIU, Rice, and either LATech or WKU.
Loss - UTEP, SMU, Memphis, UTSA, UAB, and either LATech or WKU.

6-6 my friends!    Then we'll get to a bowl game against another 6-or-7-win team (I like the Kent St in the Bahamas bowl prediction), and get waxed again.

#Hit6

[GrayEagle]

5 hours ago, edcollopy said:

8-4 with a bowl win to shock everyone!

If we play in a bowl, it will be our 13th game.  8+4=12 

[Withers940]

15 hours ago, Glory to the Green said:

10-4. CUSA Champs and a Bowl Win!

 

4 hours ago, dml7007 said:

11-3 with loses to UTSA, Memphis, and one sneaks up - We upset SMU at home, and win a bowl game vs a P5 team. I adding a game for the CUSA championship.

 

 

 

 

[Sig381]

6-6 At Best

[NT80]

5-7 and if Seth is not replaced....

[Brett Vito]

 

[MeanGreen01]

6-6 season play. 6-7 after bowl game. 

[WanderingEagle]

Don't care what our record is but if we lose to Smu AND Utsa AND Memphis AND don't make/lose a bowl, I will be ehhhhhhh very upset

[Moobs]

Get off to an ugly 1-4 start. 
SL finally gets the boot. 
PB takes over and a newly inspired team runs the table to finish 9-4 with a bowl win. 
 

Edited August 23, 2022 by Moobs

[Glory to the Green]

17 hours ago, Withers940 said:

 

 

[keith]

Feel like the two-deep may be better than we think, so we can weather the injury bug better than in the past.  We avoid the ill-timed mistakes, costly penalties and ground and pound our way to an 8-4 regular season record.

[MeanGreenTexan]

48 minutes ago, Moobs said:

Get off to an ugly 1-4 start. 
SL finally gets the boot. 
PB takes over and a newly inspired team runs the table to finish 9-4 with a bowl win. 
 

Highly doubtful.    Bennett is only here to 'help' Littrell.   Pretty sure he is ready to retire again after this season and hand the keys over to Gush anyway.     It will be Bloesch's show if a mid-season change is made.

[NorthTexasWeLove]

5-7. 

Mumbles gets shown the door. 

[Pellom]

6-6

I think the offense will be very good, but I’m afraid the defense might be horrid given what we lost on the defensive line. 
 

In my opinion, the early season schedule sets up pretty favorably even if you pencil in losses to UTEP and SMU.  FAU and LT at home lead me to believe 4-3 seems pretty realistic headed into UTSA. FIU and Rice to finish off the season should mean another year of bowl eligibility. 
 

My guess would be Littrell gets fired and an interim coaches the bowl. 

Edited August 23, 2022 by Pellom

[UNT Texas Hooligan]

Why the thread title change? I don’t see a lot of optimism here (with good reasons)

[RBP79]

8-5

That's if we win this weekend

Edited August 23, 2022 by RBP79

[MrAlien]

As of right now I'm thinking 4-8

 

 

[Pellom]

As with any coach on the hot seat, the results as they happen probably matter more than in a normal season. 
 

What I mean is you probably can’t start 1-5 and expect to be given the leash to turn it around. And in that scenario, with an interim coach, the roster and fanbase will probably be checked out and we’ll be debating coaching candidates. 
 

So to get to bowl eligibility, whether that means 6 wins or 9 wins, or whether it means Littrell is safe or he isn’t, we probably have to win early instead of winning late. 

[NorthTexasSportsNetwork]

3 hours ago, Moobs said:

Get off to an ugly 1-4 start. 
SL finally gets the boot. 
PB takes over and a newly inspired team runs the table to finish 9-4 with a bowl win. 
 

So what you’re saying is, you want me to join you in boos of Littrell when we get brown out by FAU?

Hahaha jk

Edited August 23, 2022 by NorthTexasSportsNetwork

[NT80]

5 hours ago, Moobs said:

Get off to an ugly 1-4 start. 
SL finally gets the boot. 
PB takes over and a newly inspired team runs the table to finish 9-4 with a bowl win. 

We can wish, but Wren said during Harry's podcast he doesn't like to fire coaches during their season.  Something to the effect the team doesn't focus on games after that.  I have seen interim coaches do very well in those situations.  

[Hunter Green]

7 - 5

Being optimistic...

[Cr1028]

1 hour ago, NT80 said:

We can wish, but Wren said during Harry's podcast he doesn't like to fire coaches during their season.  Something to the effect the team doesn't focus on games after that.  I have seen interim coaches do very well in those situations.  

That often leads the AD to have to face calls to hire the interim on a full time basis if the team marginally improves under interim leadership. That likely causes a big headache and distraction during the hiring process, especially if one of the too donors takes a liking to the interim.

I think the best plan is to know by mid-November what you plan to do and implement that plan as soon as the players leave the locker room of the last game. During that late November period, if you have decided to move on from the current coach, you quietly make sure your top targets are interested and available. You have an informal deal in place the day of the last regular season game and pull the hire trigger on the earliest day allowed by law after that.

Edited August 23, 2022 by Cr1028

[DentonLurker]

I'm going to say 8-5, including a bowl win. With at least 8 games decided by a TD or less.