8th Year of his coaching at UNT

GoMeanGreen1999 · September 17, 2006

This is to all of the DD supporters....

What do you still see DD doing here? Where is it exactly that you see him taking this team? WE can get a total of 86 yards of offense with the former NCAA rushing title winner, two years older, plenty of time to build an even stronger O-line to support him, and this is what we get. How many more years do we need to give DD to take us to the next level before you think he might not be the one to do it?

Just curious.

foutsrouts · September 17, 2006

Sure the SMU win was nice, but I'm convinced that DD can't coach at our level and win OOC games. He needs to be in a BCS conference where they can recruit offensive linemen that can handle his never ending power offensive game. He and Flanigan just can't get it through there heads that you have to run an offense to fit the personnel that you are able to recruit. A smash mouth offense MAY work for us in the Belt, but against other D1 conferences it is just not working.

Mad Hatter · September 17, 2006

"A smash mouth offense MAY work for us in the Belt, but against other D1 conferences it is just not working."

I think you may be on to something. I wonder if our coaches don't approach these games to win (not that they don't WANT to), but that they use these games as ways to get ready for conference. W need our O-Line to know the right schemes/blocks to run J-Mo up the middle when we get to SBC play. Could it be that rather than going out of their way to try to win these games, they're using them to be ready for conference?

If this is the case, what's more improtant? OOC wins or SBC wins? Troy has had good luck in OOC wins but struggles with SBC, they seem to be the darling of the conference though. Everyone wants to be like them. But if you can win conference, you go to a bowl which is big for students, alumni, boosters, etc.....

What do you think?

Edited September 17, 2006 by Mad Hatter

September 17, 2006

"A smash mouth offense MAY work for us in the Belt, but against other D1 conferences it is just not working."

I think you may be on to something. I wonder if our coaches don't approach these games to win (not that they don't WANT to), but that they use these games as ways to get ready for conference. W need our O-Line to know the right schemes/blocks to run J-Mo up the middle when we get to SBC play. Could it be that rather than going out of their way to try to win these games, they're using them to be ready for conference?
If this is the case, what's more improtant? OOC wins or SBC wins? Troy has had good luck in OOC wins but struggles with SBC, they seem to be the darling of the conference though. Everyone wants to be like them. But if you can win conference, you go to a bowl which is big for students, alumni, boosters, etc.....
What do you think?
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R-E-S-P-E-C-T! Where do you get it? By being competitive and tough, regardless of the competition or by dominating seven St. Mary's Sisters of the Poor? (Which by the way we have seldom been dominant). At this point in time, there is little respect for members of the Sun Belt. Troy is beginning to make a statement for itself but it can't do it alone. Until every SBC member can be competitive (or preferably win) against the rest of Division 1-A we will be thought of as 1-AA in disguise.

I've even gotten a little disconsulate about going to a bowl because I'm pretty certain that we (read also SBC) are not going to win. The turning point was when Southern Miss handed us our ass. They were what a bowl team should look like IMO. Now, if we just want to have our little conference championship without a bowl, I might go for DDs philosophy.