Caponi fired

[emmitt01]

49 minutes ago, WanderingEagle said:

Step 1 hire art briles as head coach
Step 2 hire gary patterson as defensive coordinator
Step 3 hire zack orr as offensive coordinator 

Step 4 enjoy some wins

Step 5: Explain why Zach Orr is the OC

[Moobs]

2 minutes ago, emmitt01 said:

Step 5: Explain why Zach Orr is the OC

My guess is that Briles is such an offensive genius and will run the offense that Orr can just come home. 
 

But I’d rather have Orr as DC and leave Gary at home. 

[Hunter Green]

1 hour ago, MeanGreenZen said:

Morris is still in good shape. His team is fun to watch and he just posted one of the highest attended games in program history. He also has a chance to win a bowl game. Something that hasn’t happened here in too long. 
All he has to do is get the defense to slightly above average and we have a legitimate conference contender and excitement heading into next season. 

I have my doubts.

[Meangreen Fight]

4 hours ago, AleAlejandro21 said:

Eh too late 

Very much so and without a bowl win at any serious program bringing him in conjunction with a never finishing a season above 0.500 would get you fired.  We don’t have body bag games maybe we should bring them back to help test and finance the cost of bad coaching hires.  😂

[Meangreen Fight]

15 hours ago, Mean Green 93-98 said:

I really hope our head coach and athletic director are not consulting a fan message board to determine major personnel decisions.

Why not because it appears they are clueless?  Doing things outside the box might yield some results and at least show fans you are really trying without regard for “Old Denton”.   Old Denton wasn’t invested in winning,  just some sort of vague local relevancy I am not sure is possible without consecutive 10 win seasons no matter the teams we have on the schedule.

Edited November 17 by Meangreen Fight

[3_n_out]

I want Coach Ed Gennero to run the show. Also, I hope we could find an old farm boy and a science teacher with one year of eligibility left to lead the team. 

[Side.Show.Joe]

I'm glad Caponi is gone. His firing is long past due. 

My problem is that most people knew during Morris' first year that Caponi wasn't the answer for our defense... except Morris. Morris let Caponi go into his first season at UNT without the players to run his 3-3-5 defensive scheme, and so UNT finished dead last in defense that season. Morris allowed Caponi to continue force feeding us the 3-3-5 going into year 2, and Caponi brought in a bunch of transfers, but the results have still sucked, even after we implemented more traditional schemes. And to make things worse... Morris has a habit of passing up points and going for it on 4th, which hasn't been successful against teams that can actually win games. Plus, Morris has no jumbo package for short yardage situations, which makes it easier for defenses to scheme against us on 4th down attempts. All of that to say, Morris is also a big reason why our defense sucks. Morris' decision making tends to place our defense in tough positions. Who is going to rein him in. 

[NT80]

5 hours ago, Glory to the Green said:

 

Just seeing this!!  Fantastic....but...why the wait??   

We could tell this was a disaster long before now.    Now the season has already been ruined and any interim can't make much impact on changes they might want to make.

Regardless.......Great news......just 11 months too LATE!

[NT80]

3 hours ago, Mean Green 93-98 said:

I really hope our head coach and athletic director are not consulting a fan message board to determine major personnel decisions.

I believe that is how a majority of changes are made at the FBS level = Fan Base and Donor pressure! 

Who else are you trying to lure to watch games and give to the program?    

[Rudy]

2 hours ago, BigWillie said:

Zach Orr is a defensive guy.

All the more reason to bring him in to be the OC. He KNOWS what defenses will do.

 

BRILLIANT!!

[NT80]

15 minutes ago, Glory to the Green said:

NT Daily reported that the AD made the firing. 

AD, as in Athletic Department (ie HC Eric Morris),, not AD, as in Athletic Director...

SPORTS: Mean Green Athletics Department fires defensive coordinator Matt Caponi

[Rudy]

1 hour ago, 3_n_out said:

I want Coach Ed Gennero to run the show. Also, I hope we could find an old farm boy and a science teacher with one year of eligibility left to lead the team. 

I wonder if there is a samurai lineback we can recruit out of the military??

[Stix]

1 hour ago, 3_n_out said:

I want Coach Ed Gennero to run the show. Also, I hope we could find an old farm boy and a science teacher with one year of eligibility left to lead the team. 

Gotta have Coach Rig as DC too.

[Glory to the Green]

10 minutes ago, NT80 said:

AD, as in Athletic Department (ie HC Eric Morris),, not AD, as in Athletic Director...

SPORTS: Mean Green Athletics Department fires defensive coordinator Matt Caponi

Geez. Thanks for clarifying. 😬

[southsideguy]

Does anyone know where the locks to the gates are?

[Tom McKrackin]

2 hours ago, NT80 said:

Regardless.......Great news......just 11 months too LATE!

It took way too long, he was paid way too much money.  Should have never been given a 2 year guaranteed contract.  Why does UNT keep spending so much money on horrible hires?

Eric Morris failed miserably in his first big hire as a FBS head coach.   Period.

Now Mosley needs to start being concerned.  His first big hire is turning out to be a bust as well.  His only saving grace is basketball but honestly Ross was already set up as a easy layup hire for him so his Morris hire is much more indicative of his abilities to identify and hire good coaches.

[Matt from A700]

Thank you. Might seem crazy now with only two games left in the regular season, but no way you get rid of him at 5-1 or 5-2, and it shows a pissed off fanbase that maybe Morris does care to build a serious contender. However, if Morris's tenure ends in failure, one of the questions I will continue to ponder is "Why did we feel like we had to give an unproven position coach the largest G5 coordinator salary in the first place?"

Edited November 17 by Matt from A700

[Venson]

9 hours ago, SUMG said:

Until Coach Keebler learns that the offense needs to complement the defense.....I'm not sure how much is gonna change.

You can't constantly be going for it on 4th down. You need to play field position. You need to learn to "tilt the field" occasionally. You need to take 3 when it's available.

So not sure that firing Caponi solves all our probs. 

I understand that his decisions to go for it on 4th down so much or not to kick FGs or play the field position game are bad decisions. Just playing Devil's advocate. Could it be that those decisions stem from a lack of confidence in the defense? It feels like he believes he has to score TDs on every possession to win because the defense will not stop anyone. So, that takes me back to he should have never kept Caponi after year one.

[GMG_Dallas]

2 hours ago, Venson said:

I understand that his decisions to go for it on 4th down so much or not to kick FGs or play the field position game are bad decisions. Just playing Devil's advocate. Could it be that those decisions stem from a lack of confidence in the defense? It feels like he believes he has to score TDs on every possession to win because the defense will not stop anyone. So, that takes me back to he should have never kept Caponi after year one.

I think this is a cop-out. He’s been doing this crap since the beginning of his tenure. The first memorable time was against Navy last year on the first drive of the game from the 1. If in the 5th game of year 1 he was already feeling like he needed to score every drive because of the defense, that's an even bigger problem.

I think not having a reliable kicker or punter is the main problem. He went for the points a few times early this season and it didn't work out. Same with some punts that just don't do a good job at flipping the field. I've mentioned in other threads that special teams has also been a problem. Evans is 89th in the country in average punt yardage. We have to have a short kicker and a long kicker. Who the eff does that at this level? That's two coordinators that Morris flopped out on. I'm just waiting on us to move on from Svobada at season's end. Was looking over his profile and I didn't know but he also has Tight Ends this year. Where have the Tight Ends been lately??

Edited November 17 by GMG_Dallas

[jtm0097]

Now that the Xs ans Os are getting fixed, we need to get the proper Jimmy's and Joe's on defense. Hopefully we see some short term improvements these next few weeks, but we need a good hire, and better players on that side of the ball this off-season.

[UNT 90 Grad]

11 hours ago, 3_n_out said:

I want Coach Ed Gennero to run the show. Also, I hope we could find an old farm boy and a science teacher with one year of eligibility left to lead the team. 

I’m concerned that the Big “O” Little “D” mentality got us to where we are.   

[UNT 90 Grad]

11 hours ago, Side.Show.Joe said:

I'm glad Caponi is gone. His firing is long past due. 

My problem is that most people knew during Morris' first year that Caponi wasn't the answer for our defense... except Morris. Morris let Caponi go into his first season at UNT without the players to run his 3-3-5 defensive scheme, and so UNT finished dead last in defense that season. Morris allowed Caponi to continue force feeding us the 3-3-5 going into year 2, and Caponi brought in a bunch of transfers, but the results have still sucked, even after we implemented more traditional schemes. And to make things worse... Morris has a habit of passing up points and going for it on 4th, which hasn't been successful against teams that can actually win games. Plus, Morris has no jumbo package for short yardage situations, which makes it easier for defenses to scheme against us on 4th down attempts. All of that to say, Morris is also a big reason why our defense sucks. Morris' decision making tends to place our defense in tough positions. Who is going to rein him in. 

Morris didn’t allow it, he demanded it.  Remember, Morris brought Caponi here because Morris said he’d struggled in the past against the 3-3-5.  Hopefully Morris has learned that just because he struggled against the 3-3-5 with his air raid (like) offensive doesn’t mean other coaches struggle with it.  (Of course, having the right horses makes a difference too.). We’ll have our answer if Morris brings in a different 3-3-5 coach, but I don’t think he will.  

[UNT 90 Grad]

8 hours ago, southsideguy said:

Does anyone know where the locks to the gates are?

#Hit6

 

[Meangreen Fight]

4 hours ago, GMG_Dallas said:

I think this is a cop-out. He’s been doing this crap since the beginning of his tenure. The first memorable time was against Navy last year on the first drive of the game from the 1. If in the 5th game of year 1 he was already feeling like he needed to score every drive because of the defense, that's an even bigger problem.

I think not having a reliable kicker or punter is the main problem. He went for the points a few times early this season and it didn't work out. Same with some punts that just don't do a good job at flipping the field. I've mentioned in other threads that special teams has also been a problem. Evans is 89th in the country in average punt yardage. We have to have a short kicker and a long kicker. Who the eff does that at this level? That's two coordinators that Morris flopped out on. I'm just waiting on us to move on from Svobada at season's end. Was looking over his profile and I didn't know but he also has Tight Ends this year. Where have the Tight Ends been lately??

Diving deeper on this team is bad for your health and your fandom.   😆Not much of what they do and who they chose to hire, retain and pay makes much sense.  Retaining Seth that last year set all this up.  Clearly only a financial decision cause he lived up to expectations and made no progress.  The anamoly was the weather aided UTSA win.  They used that as an excuse (escaping some fan scrutiny) to keep Coach Littrell.  @GMG_Dallas has some great observations here and it is impressive that he is still a fan.  I can't dive that deep or else I will freaking blow a gasket.  I might go to the ECU game just because the tickets will be so cheap.  

[3_n_out]

9 hours ago, Matt from A700 said:

Thank you. Might seem crazy now with only two games left in the regular season, but no way you get rid of him at 5-1 or 5-2, and it shows a pissed off fanbase that maybe Morris does care to build a serious contender. However, if Morris's tenure ends in failure, one of the questions I will continue to ponder is "Why did we feel like we had to give an unproven position coach the largest G5 coordinator salary in the first place?"

Optics. DB coach which you’d think is vital for running the 3-3-5 for an highly ranked (#1?) P5 team in Iowa St. And, I can also attribute that to the inexperience  of EM assembling a coaching staff. That’s my take.