Seth Support

[NT80]

27 minutes ago, Cr1028 said:

As of right now, 4 of them did or do.

Thanks for looking them up. 

So, 9-1 in the last 10 CUSA games sounds really impressive just looking at that stat.

Then you find that only 4 of those 10 teams had winning records.  I'm glad we won them, but like last year we got all excited for the Bowl after beating UTSA, then get thrashed by a 6-6 Miami-Oh.    It just brought back to reality how skewed our perception of our success was during that 6-0 run to end the regular season.  

[Cr1028]

14 minutes ago, NT80 said:

Thanks for looking them up. 

So, 9-1 in the last 10 CUSA games sounds really impressive just looking at that stat.

Then you find that only 4 of those 10 teams had winning records.  I'm glad we won them, but like last year we got all excited for the Bowl after beating UTSA, then get thrashed by a 6-6 Miami-Oh.    It just brought back to reality how skewed our perception of our success was during that 6-0 run to end the regular season.  

In the bowl we were without 25% of our offensive yardage and 30% of our touchdowns from the regular season by missing Torrey and also without our top defensive back in Sanders.

[NT80]

5 minutes ago, Cr1028 said:

In the bowl we were without 25% of our offensive yardage and 30% of our touchdowns from the regular season by missing Torrey and also without our top defensive back in Sanders.

But Jekyll Aune was there:

A. Aune 15-32, 228 YDS, 2 INT

[Cr1028]

31 minutes ago, NT80 said:

But Jekyll Aune was there:

A. Aune 15-32, 228 YDS, 2 INT

I can’t argue with that.

[dodgefan]

How many years left on his contract?

[PlummMeanGreen]

17 hours ago, KingDL1 said:

Jim, I think that is a bit apples and oranges the Cowboys did not need support from from a head coach to be popular. North Texas doesn't have the fanbase to endure a coach with a personality like Seth. I went to church with Landry and he was a pretty good speaker. 

(Still trying to learn brevity is the wit of soul—I know I have a long ways to go)

You were a member of Lovers Lane Methodist Church, Tony?

My all time hero as a kid funeral was held there.  #7 of the NY Yankees.  At age 14 I was privileged to see “the Mick” hit the 1’st home run on the debut night of the Astrodome—April 9, 1965. I was with 2 very special people that night—my mom & dad. 

Your thoughts on our situation I respect.  Winning cures cancer & true, we haven’t had near enough wins, but like much of America I subconsciously pull for the underdog & on GMG Seth is a most definite underdog.   
🟢••• Tomorrow at the Unity Plaza Dedication (1:30 pm) I hope I get to shake hands with 2 black men who were underdogs in the mid-1950’s. They stepped on the campus of a traditional Caucasian university to integrate North Texas. God I hope the black UNT students (with white, brown, yellow, etc.) attend this historical  event en mass.  Get Abner to talk about he & Leon’s experience when the Mean Green took a train from Denton to Houston to play the UH Coogs.  That story will move many to tears. 
 

Anyway, I hope all will take time to enjoy the UNT Homecoming & give the SL thing a short vacation.  There was a time in the last 2 seasons I thought he might need to be replaced, but we’ll see.  Like most, I hope we win on Saturday because doggone it—it’s our school. The UNT football team deserves a sellout. Lots of tickets have already been sold—we’ll see. 

Note:  How about that quickly rescheduled Homecoming Bonfire last night? Harry sent this pic to me from his IPhone. 

GMG!

Edited November 4, 2022 by PlummMeanGreen

[meangreenbob]

I highly recommend everyone acquire and read the book, The Game Changers by Jeff Miller. Forward by Joe Green. 
Copyright 2016
 

I promise you, you won’t be able to put it down once you start reading it. 

Edited November 4, 2022 by meangreenbob

[Wag Tag]

How his team last year and this year has overcome adversity, define Seth. Obviously the team has bought into his personality! Just win. GMG 

[Coffee and TV]

15 hours ago, Cr1028 said:

 

Yes. Figured out how to beat teams in a conference we won't be in next season, granted some of those teams will be coming with us. 

[KingDL1]

49 minutes ago, PlummMeanGreen said:

You were a member of Lovers Lane Methodist Church, Tony?

Yes sir, both on Lover's lane and when they moved to NW Hwy & Inwood. My mom volunteered for Tom Shipp. I grew up running the halls of both locations, mostly the new one. Tom Landry would be one of the people running the collection plates during a service now and then.  

[97and03]

If we wins a conference championship, he returns. If he doesn’t, he is fired. I think it’s that simple. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Coffee and TV]

1 minute ago, 97and03 said:

If we wins a conference championship, he returns. If he doesn’t, he is fired. I think it’s that simple. 🤷🏻‍♂️

It's that simple for me at this point, but I'm not the AD. 

[NT80]

25 minutes ago, 97and03 said:

If we wins a conference championship, he returns. If he doesn’t, he is fired. I think it’s that simple. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I would like to hear Wren say that.   Or anything about anything about that...

[MGNation92]

28 minutes ago, 97and03 said:

If we wins a conference championship, he returns. If he doesn’t, he is fired. I think it’s that simple. 🤷🏻‍♂️

It should be that simple

[UNTcrazy727]

28 minutes ago, 97and03 said:

If we wins a conference championship, he returns. If he doesn’t, he is fired. I think it’s that simple. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I think if we finish the regular season 8-4, he has to either win the CUSA championship or bowl game. If we drop another game and finish 7-5, he has to win the CUSA championship. 

[Udomann]

4 hours ago, MGNation92 said:

It should be that simple

Or... And hear me out... What if for 2 million a year we could do better than being blown out in a sympathy bowl?

We fell for this same snake oil the last few contract extensions. We can do better than Seth. It's that simple

Edited November 4, 2022 by Udomann

[Jonnyeagle]

10 hours ago, dodgefan said:

How many years left on his contract?

One after this season I believe.

[Coach Mac Andy]

Just bought my tickets for tomorrow and let me tell you, judging off our own map, that stadium ain’t anywhere close to a sell out.

[Jonnyeagle]

2 minutes ago, Coach Mac Andy said:

Just bought my tickets for tomorrow and let me tell you, judging off our own map, that stadium ain’t anywhere close to a sell out.

Yeah the ticket office said they expected a lot of walk up tickets because the weather looked bad earlier in the week.

[TheColonyEagle]

5 hours ago, 97and03 said:

If we wins a conference championship, he returns. If he doesn’t, he is fired. I think it’s that simple. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I think it really is that simple and I would bet Wren Baker wrote that down on a piece of paper in July and put it in his pocket like Kevin Costner in Draft Day....(just watched that the other day, ridiculous sports movie but actually quite entertaining)

 

[Jonnyeagle]

5 hours ago, 97and03 said:

If we wins a conference championship, he returns. If he doesn’t, he is fired. I think it’s that simple. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Pavlovs Eagle]

On 11/3/2022 at 8:58 PM, NT80 said:

Wren has not hired a Football HC since he has been AD.  

It would be a keystone hire for this program, and for Wren's career to this point!

Wren can do better than overseeing a football program moving to the AAC stuck on .500

And no P5 short of Vanderbilt will hire him unless he can demonstrate he can hire and exceed expectations in football.  Yes, MBB is doing well, but imagine the questioning that a prospective employer would have for him... "So you've totally turned around MBB and most other Olympic sports at UNT, great job Mr Baker!  Tell me why at the same time you've also overseen the almost decade long decline and stagnation of UNT Football even as the payrolls have grown YOY." You think any P5 is going to give a shit about the old "RV hired Littrell not me!" line?

Wren's LinkedIn profile without a decent football program is half ass at best.  A P5 would rather hire a third year Assistant AD from top 50% SEC school than a long time G5 AD with a perpetually average football program.