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The first time someone on here mentioned the possibility of Eric Morris and I looked at what he had done at Texas Tech, Incarnate Word and Washington State, I could see that his work had at least some factor in the success of quarterback at those places. It doesn't appear that he was qb coach at Tech during the time Patrick Mahomes was playing there; however, the fact that he was offensive coordinator makes me think he had something to do with Mahomes' success. And Cameron Ward was a pretty good success story at UIW and WSU. Anyone who thinks winning out there on the Palouse is easy needs to look at what the state of that program was after the tumult of the previous season and what PAC 12 programs have been doing lately.

And honestly, the loss of interest by UNT fans was not just because of the won loss record or the lack of competitiveness in big games, but the lack of quarterback development and offensive explosiveness since the days of Mason Fine and Graham Harrell. Noone after Mason left made our fan base feel like we could come from behind or hold a lead late in the game, or that, more generally, the offense could either win the game for us, or avoid losing games for us. One of the coaches some here were touting had the services of Hendon Hooker, who transferred to Tennessee and was responsible for a lot of the recent success there. His numbers really were not that great before he transferred, so some of the complaints we had about evaluating and developing quarterback talent could have been just as fairly made by fans of that well regarded and currently unemployed.

Y'all can say and do what you want, but I'm going to start buying season tickets and attending UNT football games again, like I did before 2020.

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1 minute ago, UNT86 said:

QB play has not been our issue the last 4 years.  Our inability to count on our defense has been.

I hope we get some defensive players.

Inconsistent QB play has absolutely been our biggest issue since 2020.

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8 minutes ago, UNT86 said:

Our QB play wouldn't be a problem if we didn't need to score 40 every game.

Conversely, if our offense was performing as it was supposed to, our defense wouldn't be on the field so much and exhausted at the end of the game.

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31 minutes ago, Victorygreen04 said:

Speaking of QB...Can Cameron Ward follow Morris here? 

Seems unlikely that the starting QB of a Pac12 school would transfer to an AAC school.

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Ever since I have followed UNT we have always been able to sign rb and receivers that are very talented. Now we need to get consistent on our qb play. He is the coach to make that happen! GMG 

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11 hours ago, UNT86 said:

QB play has not been our issue the last 4 years.  Our inability to count on our defense has been.

I hope we get some defensive players.

No... qb has equally been the problem 

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17 hours ago, 97and03 said:

Conversely, if our offense was performing as it was supposed to, our defense wouldn't be on the field so much and exhausted at the end of the game.

Our defense couldn't get off the field to save their lives and that's on them not the offense or QB.  How many 3rd and longs did we give up to allow the opposing team to continue a drive?  The defense gave up a last possession TD drive in the UTSA game and crapped the bed and gave up a halftime lead during the second half of the UAB game.  There is plenty of blame (or praise) to go around.  We can't lay it all on one side of the ball or player.

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37 minutes ago, keith said:

Our defense couldn't get off the field to save their lives and that's on them not the offense or QB.  How many 3rd and longs did we give up to allow the opposing team to continue a drive?  The defense gave up a last possession TD drive in the UTSA game and crapped the bed and gave up a halftime lead during the second half of the UAB game.  There is plenty of blame (or praise) to go around.  We can't lay it all on one side of the ball or player.

But, but... Aune!   Completion %!

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