HE’S STILL HERE?

meangreenbob · November 27, 2023

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UNTLifer · November 27, 2023

Did you happen to be at the UAB game?

DentonLurker · November 27, 2023

Did you write your check to buy him out?

meangreenbob · November 27, 2023

6 minutes ago, DentonLurker said:

Did you write your check to buy him out?

Why would I write a check to buy him out? I’m not the one who carelessly hired him, then foolishly signed him to a contract of 40,000k a month and then sat by and watched all season as he continued to try and force a square peg into a round hole.

meangreenbob · November 27, 2023

35 minutes ago, UNTLifer said:

Did you happen to be at the UAB game?

After 53 years of attending UNT football games I’ve earned my exemption. I’ve paid my dues.

UNTLifer · November 27, 2023

41 minutes ago, meangreenbob said:

After 53 years of attending UNT football games I’ve earned my exemption. I’ve paid my dues.

So, no, you no longer attend? I've attended for roughly the same amount of time and wondered if it were you sitting close to me Saturday.

meangreenbob · November 27, 2023

20 minutes ago, UNTLifer said:

So, no, you no longer attend? I've attended for roughly the same amount of time and wondered if it were you sitting close to me Saturday.

I try but age issues. I miss it a lot.

mgfan · November 28, 2023

Unbelievable. One of the worse in the country and still has a job. Must be nice.

Travis · November 28, 2023

1 hour ago, mgfan said:

Unbelievable. One of the worse in the country and still has a job. Must be nice.

This is why I am in wait and see mode and refuse to give a dime till I see a department with serious expectations and creates real accountability.

mgfan · November 28, 2023

3 minutes ago, Travis said:

This is why I am in wait and see mode and refuse to give a dime till I see a department with serious expectations and creates real accountability.

100%

Side.Show.Joe · November 28, 2023

Morris laid to rest any hope of him firing Caponi at his UAB press conference last Tuesday. He clearly stated he supports Caponi's direction leading our defense into next season. I'm pissed about it. Caponi was paid more than every other G5 assistant in the FBS, and produced the worst results in the FBS. And those that are paid to lead our athletics believe this is good enough. You can't make this crap up. Ever with clear data of Caponi's complete failure, Morris won't let him go. It's irritating and sad all at the same time. How can we as fans be expected to be excited about next season when our program is being held hostage by pure stubbornness. Nothing in the stats or results support Caponi returning. But here we are. Someone in the athletic department needs to step up and make this right. If more fans and students walk away from our program, those at the athletic department will only have themselves to blame. This is an issue only because those with the power to fix it refuse to do so.

You can listen to Morris' comments supporting Caponi in this press conference..........

Aquila_Viridis · November 28, 2023

That line of criticism is clearly getting to him. It would sure behoove him to elaborate as to why there is confidence and what the vision is for getting Caponi to where and when the defense is successful. I get that this whole coaching change is an investment with near term risk but also long term upside but after watching that defense in particular get burned by everyone all year, he would need to explain HOW there could be major improvement in the now near term. It’s not enough for just Coach Morris to have confidence. He should address why. That’s the only way there would be a chance of fans sharing that confidence. And if he thinks it is not important for us to share in it, that would be a mistake.

Side.Show.Joe · November 28, 2023

1 minute ago, Aquila_Viridis said:

That line of criticism is clearly getting to him. It would sure behoove him to elaborate as to why there is confidence and what the vision is for getting Caponi to where and when the defense is successful. I get that this whole coaching change is an investment with near term risk but also long term upside but after watching that defense in particular get burned by everyone all year, he would need to explain HOW there could be major improvement in the now near term. It’s not enough for just Coach Morris to have confidence. He should address why. That’s the only way there would be a chance of fans sharing that confidence. And if he thinks it is not important for us to share in it, that would be a mistake.

There is nothing Morris can say that will sell me on wanting Caponi in Denton for another season. Caponi's defense is the worst in the FBS. His defense sh!t the bed for an entire season. There is no excuse for that ever. And no Mean Green fan should be expected to accept those results as deserving of a second chance to fail at UNT. Fire Caponi!!!

UNTLifer · November 28, 2023

You get hired for a job. You aren’t provided the necessary tools (players in this case) to do your job and have to make do in year one. They hired you to run a system but those tools aren’t here and won’t be until the following year. What do you do? Do you do the best with what you are provided or do you change to a system that you are not familiar with and try to learn that on the fly for just one year until your pieces arrive? Something to consider.

Aquila_Viridis · November 28, 2023

My point is that instead of getting obviously annoyed and saying ‘we need to improve’, I’d have alot more confidence in the HC if he had a couple talking points on HOW it will improve. That would be better leadership. Instead that part was discouraging.

Side.Show.Joe · November 28, 2023

5 minutes ago, UNTLifer said:

You get hired for a job. You aren’t provided the necessary tools (players in this case) to do your job and have to make do in year one. They hired you to run a system but those tools aren’t here and won’t be until the following year. What do you do? Do you do the best with what you are provided or do you change to a system that you are not familiar with and try to learn that on the fly for just one year until your pieces arrive? Something to consider.

That's just an excuse for failure. The offense didn't have what they needed either. We haven't had a real QB since Mason Fine graduated. But, those coaches did their job and went out and found the right pieces and we ended up with the 8th best offense in the nation. Rogers wasn't just sitting on the bench for the past 3 years. No, our offensive coaches evaluated our needs and went and got him from the portal. Our special teams coaches went out and grabbed Rauschenberg from the portal. Caponi didn't do his job. He didn't adequately evaluate his players and he didn't go get the players he needed to field a successful defense. He failed at his job. And he was paid more than ever other assistant coach in the Group of 5. That's an embarrassment. And, that's entirely on him. Caponi doesn't deserve another year at UNT. He should be fired.

DentonLurker · November 28, 2023

8 minutes ago, Aquila_Viridis said:

I’d have alot more confidence in the HC if he had a couple talking points on HOW it will improve.

Meh, if it’s personnel (as I tend to think it is) then a good coach isn’t going to publicly throw players under the bus. If it’s making any staff changes, again, he’s not going to say anything publicly until they make a change. So what are you wanting those talking points to be?

DentonLurker · November 28, 2023

There are so many excuses for not supporting this program financially it gets exhausting. I’m just thankful we tax the students and don’t give them a choice. Otherwise, this program would be FCS or D2.

”I’ll support the program when <insert random measure of success>.”

Side.Show.Joe · November 28, 2023

6 minutes ago, Aquila_Viridis said:

My point is that instead of getting obviously annoyed and saying ‘we need to improve’, I’d have alot more confidence in the HC if he had a couple talking points on HOW it will improve. That would be better leadership. Instead that part was discouraging.

Yeah, I have no interest in hearing Morris talk about how anything will improve defensively until Caponi is replaced. I have no confidence in Caponi. And the longer Caponi remains, the less confidence I have in Morris. There are a lot of good offensive Air Raid coaches that fail as head coaches because they can't field solid defenses. So right now, Morris is looking a lot like Littrell, and we don't need more of that.

Cr1028 · November 28, 2023

1 hour ago, DentonLurker said:

There are so many excuses for not supporting this program financially it gets exhausting. I’m just thankful we tax the students and don’t give them a choice. Otherwise, this program would be FCS or D2.

”I’ll support the program when <insert random measure of success>.”

Yet there was the call that the financial backing of this program would fall of a cliff if we let Seth Littrell continue coaching after losing his second conference championship game. It would be far more cost effective they said to pay him $2M+ to go away and pay another guy at the same time to be the new coach rather than letting him coach in the AAC. There must be some money somewhere.

untbowler · November 28, 2023

if Caponi was not the highest paid DC in the G5, this conversation would be not as brutal, but Morris and Mosley paid him top $$$ for crap results, do not want to hear how he did not have the tools, if he did not have them , he should have hit the Portal and recruiting trails harder. Tired excuse, we paid Top $$$ for s**t results, that is why so many are pissed, if we paid him $200k, would not be as harsh.

mgfan · November 28, 2023

I’m having trouble believing morris can make the tough decisions. Rogers was clearly the qb from the start and our defense is terrible.

Eagle-96 · November 28, 2023

Caponi is the highest paid assistant coach in G5. This netted us the WORST defense in all of FBS. The fact that we are even having a discussion about bringing him back is the most UNT thing ever.

Turns out we’re not serious about football.

meangreenbob · November 28, 2023

The problem is, we needed a real coach. Someone who could analyze the situation, fill the gaps where needed and implement a system that best utilized the talent we had. What we got was an individual who relied on his P5 employer attracting the needed talent at Iowa St.
He knows nothing else. He’s limited in his knowledge and implemented the only system he was familiar with. Unfortunately his lack of expertise cost this team a bowl game and maybe even a chance at the AAC title.
Hiring P5 coaches is not necessarily a good thing. Many are incapable of thinking outside the box at the G5 level.

Edited November 28, 2023 by meangreenbob

Cr1028 · November 28, 2023

17 minutes ago, meangreenbob said:

Hiring P5 coaches is not necessarily a good thing. Many are incapable of thinking outside the box at the G5 level.

I agree. Many times they don’t understand the grind and the limited resources of the G5 level when compared to the P5. You need a different level of hunger and tenacity than at the well-funded P5s.