Why Support this Program?….Seriously!?

[FirefightnRick]

5 minutes ago, Mean Green 93-98 said:

Dickey had a great run through about 2002-03, but he had been a major loser of a head coach for years before he got to that point.

He beat Boise State, Texas Tech and Baylor and had some respectable losses against the top teams in the country, also.  I’d take that type of loser right now.

 

Rick

[FirefightnRick]

6 minutes ago, Mean Green 93-98 said:

Dickey had a great run through about 2002-03, but he had been a major loser of a head coach for years before he got to that point.

He beat Boise State, Texas Tech and Baylor and had some respectable losses against the top teams in the country, also.  I’d take that type of loser right now.

 

Rick

[FirefightnRick]

8 minutes ago, Mean Green 93-98 said:

Dickey had a great run through about 2002-03, but he had been a major loser of a head coach for years before he got to that point.

‘01 thru ‘04.  

 

Rick

[TIgreen01]

So we delete SUMG’s brilliant thread and keep this loser mentality thread.  So North Texas football.

[Mean Green 93-98]

4 minutes ago, FirefightnRick said:

He beat Boise State, Texas Tech and Baylor and had some respectable losses against the top teams in the country, also.  I’d take that type of loser right now.

 

Rick

The Baylor win was in the middle of the "great run" I mentioned above.  Yes, that stretch was fun.

As for the other two wins you mention, Dickey beat Boise State before they were anything special.  The Tech win was nice, but Matt Simon had also beat Tech just a couple years earlier.  And those two wins were Dickey's only 2 wins that season.

I personally would not prefer that type of loser right now.

[Mean Green 93-98]

8 minutes ago, FirefightnRick said:

‘01 thru ‘04.  

 

Rick

Disagree.  In 2001, there was a little run of conference wins, but we closed out the season with a loss to 1st year FBS move-up Troy, and we made a bowl appearance where we looked like we completely didn't belong.

2004 continued the Sun Belt dominance, but we again got destroyed by OOC competition.  Including losing to a 1AA (FCS) team.

Not bad years, but I still see Dickey's "great" run as limited to 2002-03.

[Cr1028]

29 minutes ago, FirefightnRick said:

What would Dickey’s ‘01-‘04 teams had done in CUSA and the American?  Strictly defense-wise I’d say they would have won at least a couple of championships.  
 

To me that’s the take away of my earlier points.

 

Rick

I agree on that point which is why I view the 2013 team as the best we’ve had in the last 25 years. Defense wins championships.

[Meangreen Fight]

4 hours ago, peanuts104 said:

Get mad at the messenger.  Can’t refute anything I said and challenge my standards for being to high.  Or offer and ideas of your own.  Great job have laughs in 70% empty DATCU Stadium.  And pick a fight with an ECU fan while you at it in person Mean Green Keyboard Warrior.  Remember it’s everyone else’s fault this program is a joke.

[Meangreen Fight]

1 hour ago, TIgreen01 said:

So we delete SUMG’s brilliant thread and keep this loser mentality thread.  So North Texas football.

Please enlighten the people who missed SUMG’s “brilliant thread” who might of missed it.  Give us a synopsis of his point.  Was is more than “throw money blindly at the program like SMU does”?

Edit for the Downvoter:  I was deadly serious albeit snarky when I asked about  SUMG’s thread.   I have spent thousands on this program over the past 20 years and I don’t ask the question about supporting it lightly.  Why besides being an alumni would you throw money at this program?  So futile it is not entertaining anymore.  All the historic excuses are gone; bad facilities, low pay, and bad conference.  We have some new excuses but nothing that programs like UTSA, Coastal Carolina, ODU, FAU and UAB haven’t dealt with far better than our program.  

Edited 45 minutes ago by Meangreen Fight

[peanuts104]

15 minutes ago, Meangreen Fight said:

Get mad at the messenger.  Can’t refute anything I said and challenge my standards for being to high.  Or offer and ideas of your own.  Great job have laughs in 70% empty DATCU Stadium.  And pick a fight with an ECU fan while you at it in person Mean Green Keyboard Warrior.  Remember it’s everyone else’s fault this program is a joke.

You didn't say anything constructive either, you're just whining.

[Meangreen Fight]

10 minutes ago, peanuts104 said:

You didn't say anything constructive either, you're just whining.

How eloquent.  Maybe you didn’t read my suggestion for going after a home grown Defensive Coach and Mean Green Letterman Zach Orr.  Or getting rid of Eric Morris in a productive fashion, letting him “resign” to be a P4 OC.  But hey that is whining to you.  🤷🏽‍♂️

[peanuts104]

11 minutes ago, Meangreen Fight said:

How eloquent.  Maybe you didn’t read my suggestion for going after a home grown Defensive Coach and Mean Green Letterman Zach Orr.  Or getting rid of Eric Morris in a productive fashion, letting him “resign” to be a P4 OC.  But hey that is whining to you.  🤷🏽‍♂️

Like I said, you didn't have anything constructive to say.

[Meangreen Fight]

1 minute ago, peanuts104 said:

Like I said, you didn't have anything constructive to say.

The question is do you?  Or are a  friend or family members with some of the overseers of this mediocrity? 

Edited 41 minutes ago by Meangreen Fight

[TIgreen01]

47 minutes ago, Meangreen Fight said:

Please enlighten the people who missed SUMG’s “brilliant thread” who might of missed it.  Give us a synopsis of his point.  Was is more than “throw money blindly at the program like SMU does”?

Edit for the Downvoter:  I was deadly serious albeit snarky when I asked about  SUMG’s thread.   I have spent thousands on this program over the past 20 years and I don’t ask the question about supporting it lightly.  Why besides being an alumni would you throw money at this program?  So futile it is not entertaining anymore.  All the historic excuses are gone; bad facilities, low pay, and bad conference.  We have some new excuses but nothing that programs like UTSA, Coastal Carolina, ODU, FAU and UAB haven’t dealt with far better than our program.  

SUMG = Stand Up Mean Green.  Believe he’s a comedian.  His thread was fun, as you might expect, but dark.  Not gonna try to summarize and get deleted.

Anyways, my suggestion is do whatever you want.  I’m tired of taking the yearly beatings that this program dishes out, too.  I’d just like to see us dump a coach within 2-3 years once we realized we whiffed.  Let’s speed up the process of finding the right one, not delay the inevitable and drag our record and fan base through years of losing and bad football.  For me, Morris was a miss from game 1.  Gave him another couple games to prove otherwise, but after finishing last year the way we did and retaining the defensive staff, it’s not gonna work.  Move on.

Edited 22 minutes ago by TIgreen01

[Meangreen Fight]

1 minute ago, TIgreen01 said:

SUMG = Stand Up Mean Green.  Believe he’s a comedian.  His thread was fun, as you might expect, but dark.  Not gonna try to summarize and get deleted.

Appreciated. 😁