***OFFICIAL UNT vs. SOUTH ALABAMA IN-GAME DISCUSSION***

[mgfan]

This season looks like it will be the exact same as last year. Great offense terrible defense. 

 

we gave up 582 yds of offense against a mediocre S. Alabama team. 

[El Paso Eagle]

1 minute ago, GMG_Dallas said:

Guys, on the brightside, Texas Tech's defense may be worst. ACU just got a 71 yard TD pass. Tech up 32-21 in the first half. Tech did score on a 4th and 13 (don't believe it was a good catch but oh well).

I truly admire your optimism to find a bright side that their defense might suck more than we do

[peanuts104]

2 hours ago, Side.Show.Joe said:

3 defenders out today due to recently being incarcerated.

Are they actually in jail? I thought they may have just had to sit for team violation or whatever.

[TheColonyEagle]

I said before the game that this is game Morris had to win if we’re going to show progress. And he did. We were 6 point underdogs on The road and we beat them handily. 
 

I’ll give him credit for that. I wish I could feel like all the offense we gave up was ok because we outscored them and sometimes you do what you do to win and games go that way at times. But this defensive showing was par for the Morris course.
 

With Chandler Morris at QB, this offense looks even better than last season’s. Defense looks exactly the same  

1-0

good win  

hope the D gets better  

 

[GMG_Dallas]

1 minute ago, El Paso Eagle said:

I truly admire your optimism to find a bright side that their defense might suck more than we do

I mean, ACU put up 17 first half points on us last year and we saw how bad that defense was. They have 265 yards and 21 points in 1 half against Tech. We'll see how the second half goes but that's not a good first half against an average FCS school.

[NT93]

We won by 14 points on the road as an underdog and some of you guys are bitching.  

Edited September 1 by NT93

[TheColonyEagle]

6 minutes ago, GMG_Dallas said:

Guys, on the brightside, Texas Tech's defense may be worst. 

I bet they’re not 

[NorthTexasWeLove]

On another note, I think Wren Baker is looking for another job. At least, if history is any indicator he is. WVU had their season opener at home vs a very well known brand, Penn State, and the stadium was half empty. Wonder who's skirt he's looking up nowadays. 

[El Paso Eagle]

6 minutes ago, mgfan said:

 

This season looks like it will be the exact same as last year. Great offense terrible defense. 

 

we gave up 582 yds of offense against a mediocre S. Alabama team. 

Not sure how the other games are going today but right now it looks like at least by the defensive measure of yards given up we will be the lowest ranked FBS school once again

[Travis]

12 minutes ago, rcade said:

Morris had 9 incompletions to Lopez's 23 and ran for 2 TDs to Lopez's 1. I'd give our guy the edge on numbers overall.

We so often forget the rushing as part of the Qb efforts. 

[TheColonyEagle]

4 minutes ago, NorthTexasWeLove said:

On another note, I think Wren Baker is looking for another job. At least, if history is any indicator he is. WVU had their season opener at home vs a very well known brand, Penn State, and the stadium was half empty. Wonder who's skirt he's looking up nowadays. 

Looks like he needs to blame the fans 

[Mean Green 93-98]

20 minutes ago, NorthTexasWeLove said:

On another note, I think Wren Baker is looking for another job. At least, if history is any indicator he is. WVU had their season opener at home vs a very well known brand, Penn State, and the stadium was half empty. Wonder who's skirt he's looking up nowadays. 

It was a sellout.  Yes, by the time it was a blowout fans started heading for the doors.  But WVU is not on the same level as PSU.

Not to mention they had something like an hour and a half weather delay in the second half after the game was pretty well decided.

Edited September 1 by Mean Green 93-98

[Mean Green 93-98]

Glad to get a W!

[Coffee and TV]

12 minutes ago, NT93 said:

We won by 14 points on the road as an underdog and some of you guys are bitching.  

Nothing to bitch about, but the defense is still worrisome.

[Tommy Gadberry]

Great win!

[El Paso Eagle]

3 minutes ago, Coffee and TV said:

Nothing to bitch about, but the defense is still worrisome.

Great point you can be happy that we won but realistic enough to understand that this defense is very bad

[aztecskin]

It's not good to ignore the 582 yards allowed but a good chunk of that came late when the score / deficit didn't change. The 150 yards rushing allowed is the most important stat to me. They are a good rushing team, and regularly put up 200+ yard games. Last year's USA would have run for 400+ against NT. 

The squad was down a couple of big contributors, came out and got some huge stops in the second half that helped set up the punt block, and the NT scores. That's what we asked for. We don't expect top-10 defense. We just want mid-table American defense and I think this squad can compete for a league title. 

 

Quick Reaction on MGN: https://www.meangreennation.com/p/quick-reaction-north-texas-52-south 

 

[CMJ]

Nice to get the win.  Road underdog wins are always good.

[NorthTexasWeLove]

27 minutes ago, Mean Green 93-98 said:

It was a sellout.  Yes, by the time it was a blowout fans started heading for the doors.  But WVU is not on the same level as PSU.

Not to mention they had something like an hour and a half weather delay in the second half after the game was pretty well decided.

I started watching at the start of the 2nd half and it was 20-6 and the place was a ghost town. 

[El Paso Eagle]

For me one of the things on offense that I was happy to see was the fact we weren't rushing to get plays off. I believe the time of possession was probably close to 50/50 and that will help make a difference.

[NT93]

38 minutes ago, Coffee and TV said:

Nothing to bitch about, but the defense is still worrisome.

 

34 minutes ago, El Paso Eagle said:

Great point you can be happy that we won but realistic enough to understand that this defense is very bad

I don’t disagree, but I don’t care if we give up 38 points a game as long we score 39.  The reality is that with our fast paced offense, the opposing team will have the ball a lot.  Plus, as mentioned, USA got quite a few yards when we were up and trying to keep the ball in front of us.  

Edited September 1 by NT93

[GMG_Dallas]

46 minutes ago, TheColonyEagle said:

I bet they’re not 

ACU just had a 96 yard drive to score a TD. 32-28 for Tech.

[NM Green]

That Texas Tech game might have 120 points.

Beat SFA.

GMG

Edited September 1 by NM Green

[wardly]

33 minutes ago, aztecskin said:

It's not good to ignore the 582 yards allowed but a good chunk of that came late when the score / deficit didn't change. The 150 yards rushing allowed is the most important stat to me. They are a good rushing team, and regularly put up 200+ yard games. Last year's USA would have run for 400+ against NT. 

The squad was down a couple of big contributors, came out and got some huge stops in the second half that helped set up the punt block, and the NT scores. That's what we asked for. We don't expect top-10 defense. We just want mid-table American defense and I think this squad can compete for a league title. 

 

Quick Reaction on MGN: https://www.meangreennation.com/p/quick-reaction-north-texas-52-south 

 

Defense was SOLID? You have to be shitting me. Terrible missed field goal ? Anything over 40 yards is not automatic.

[3_n_out]

I’m not a Caponi apologist, BUT maybe we should see how this defense looks with the three guys who were out. Two transfers from UT would look nice on this secondary. However, the confidence level for our DC is definitely at critical levels. Still hate to see missed tackles leading to big gainers and busted coverages. Only thing keeping the $hit from hitting the fan is we won