Contradicting NT Daily article

[NTEagle08]

http://www.ntdaily.com/vnews/display.v/ART...1/438eafe18dcf8

The Mean Green was in every game this season and had a chance late in every game to come away from it with a win. That shows that NT had the talent to compete in the conference, especially considering no conference game was decided by a two-possession victory. Therefore, the blame rests in one area; the Mean Green coaching staff.

Although I'm guessing the writer means conference games, because we were sure not in any of the OOC games.

[meangreendork]

At least this guy knows something about football. I don't completely agree, but I think the coaching staff has lots of introspection to do this offseason. Losing the first few games from inexperience is fine. Losing the other 6 or 7 isn't.

[GreenBat]

It was not T.J. Covington or Ja’Mel Branch’s fault for all of the personal fouls they were awarded after getting beat. It was the coaches’ fault for not having players that can obviously compete at the conference level prepared game in and game out, and competing at a level they are capable of.

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I luv it! Finally someone calling out T.J. and Ja’Mel for the frauds they are and have been ALL year long!!!!

[PlummMeanGreen]

THIS POST MOSTLY FOR NEW LURKERS BECAUSE ITS MOSTLY MORE OF THE SAME FOR GMG.COM REGULARS...

How many of you (leaving out the M.G.R.N.'s "Dee'Dickey" Kiss-Up Society); anyway, how many of you think when Coach Howard Schnellenberger brings his FAU team to Fouts Field next year (again) what kind of results we will probably have for the 3'rd year in a row against them?

Many of you will all remember the first time they beat us (in yet another, uh, "bowl year" for DD) when that 1-AA team from the Sunshine State came in with Coach Howie' and it was he who out-coached (what else is new?) Darrell Dickey, but yet the worse part of it all? How about their beating us in "Our House" in 2004? If FAU had been in the SBC and with their win over Hawaii the week before they arrived at Fouts, just which school from the Miama area would have most likely represnted the SBC in the 2004 NO's Bowl? Yet these kind of low profile losses just kept occuring during almost each of DD's 4 bowl years if one would just merely do some checking.

With such losses, I (for the life of me) cannot understand why some of you just go ahead doing the Texas 2 Step while allowing DD to do the Electric Slide (popular W. Fort Worth dance) with such losses?

Why have we set our expectations so damn low is the question many more NT alums/fans are beginning to ask (that is, those who have yet to be Dickey'ized into Stepford Eagles). What kind of message are we sending? That its just normal, hunky-dory and acceptable for "any" 1-AA school to beat us in even a year that we have gone to a bowl?

Maybe another reason Tulsa U and La Tech have obviously out-recruited UNT and even having pulled that off while we were going bowling for 4 years in a row? Please, I'm all ears here, but someone just tell me what is wrong that picture or scenario? Think such losses even take the luster off the NO's Bowl itself? Gee Willakers, no wonder our head football coach genuflects and crosses himself every time SBC Commish' Wright Waters walks into a room or is anywhere nearby.

HATE TO BE REDUNDANT (AGAIN) BUT........Another such loss (in another, uh, "bowl year" for DD) was when another 1-AA school, ie, Troy State, beat us in 2001 and (again) had they been in the SBC that same year (as they had previously wanted), guess which football team from Alabama would have most likely been the SBC's first football champion host at the New Orleans Bowl?

Many of us older types get a bit frustrated with way too much of this until we start remembering that most of you weren't around when we could (first of all) have a schedule like we had in 1975 and then (second of all) actually win some of those games from that 1975 Mean Green football schedule. Today most of the teams on many of the schedules at North Texas in the 1970's would be called "un-winnable" body bag games and just write them off as yet another Darrell Dickey OOC loss. At which point will those OOC games become a barometer of success for a UNT head football coach again?

So I suppose if you haven't tasted that kind of (higher level) success as an NT student of which that very same kind of success would (understandably) become your own personal barometer for your alma mater's football success; then maybe its no wonder why some present NT students and some young gun alums just dont' see NT in any other light than SBC/Bottom 10. (So was all that negative or would some say just being realistic)?

GOD BLESS NATIVE TEXANS (and some who got here as fast as they could)!

Edited December 2, 2005 by PlummMeanGreen

[KingDL1]

Nice to see this article in the NT Daily, at least he has some things correct and does a little nut cutting.