Post-Game Interview

UNTflyer · September 2, 2011

Coach Mac sounds pissed!

yyz28 · September 2, 2011

Good.

UNTflyer · September 2, 2011

Yeah he said if he hears any excuses or finger pointing they won't be on this team.

GabeGMG · September 2, 2011

Can you summarize for those that are unable to listen? Thanks!

THOR · September 2, 2011

he won't take excuses...very simple...all are accountable, including him...don't dick around with this dude if you want to play

UNTflyer · September 2, 2011

I'm willing to give this guy as much time as we gave Dodge, but this one was painful to watch.

I think we go 0-5, then win 4 straight.

Mean Green 93-98 · September 2, 2011

Good interview. I think he knows the buck stops with him. He said, "Hopefully we'll be the most improved team between week 1 and week 2." I certainly hope so, especially from that 1st quarter.

KingDL1 · September 2, 2011

Good because we should all be pissed!

MrStrange62 · September 2, 2011

yeah... he looked pissed the whole game

KRAM1 · September 2, 2011

Well, plain and simple, this was tough. Could be first game jitters from the players AND the coaching stff. But, frankly, I expected better from both. Am I going to cry and piss and moan, no, but I did expect a more creative game plan on offense, better tackling and a bit better play by the freshmen and from our QB. This is going to be a learning process and Coach Mac and Co. Has some work to do, but all is not lost. I still see a 5 win season, not sure about that 6 and 6 thing any longer, but folks, it is not time to panic. We all remember that first game of the Dodge era inNorman. Well, this was bad, but not that bad, and we have the Coaching staff to make faster corrections in both scheme and personnel.

Let's all realize what this was and stay the course. It may get even worse before it gets better this season, but it will get better. Book it Danno!

KingDL1 · September 2, 2011

On 9/2/2011 at 2:58 AM, UNTflyer said:
I'm willing to give this guy as much time as we gave Dodge, but this one was painful to watch.

I think we go 0-5, then win 4 straight.

Not me I think Dodge got a year too much time for sure, and really two years too long for the way we played. We need to see consistent marked improvement and we did not.

If Coach Dan is half the coach I think he is we will see plenty of improvement over the first season. I did expect more from the first game.

Green Mean · September 2, 2011

If he wasn't pissed he should have been fired after his post game press conference. That being said hopefully this team and coaching staff nuts up like crazy to make the stadium opener a lot more memorable than this turd they put out tonight.

SilverEagle · September 2, 2011

On 9/2/2011 at 2:58 AM, Mean Green 93-98 said:
Good interview. I think he knows the buck stops with him. He said, "Hopefully we'll be the most improved team between week 1 and week 2." I certainly hope so, especially from that 1st quarter.

Well, statistically, the biggest improvement has always been between week one and two.

The biggest weaknesses of last years team (and several years before) was it's inability (unwillingness?) to fly to the ball, and it's inability to wrap-up once a defensive player got his hands on an opponent.

From what I observed, nothing has changed.

Edited September 2, 2011 by SilverEagle

aprice · September 2, 2011

On 9/2/2011 at 3:06 AM, KRAM1 said:
We all remember that first game of the Dodge era inNorman. Well, this was bad, but not that bad

The only reason it wasn't that bad was because we played FIU, not OU... If it were OU, it would have been that bad, and probably worse.

mgfan · September 2, 2011

on a good note osborn looked pretty dang good.... but again FIU could have been going half speed b/c they were up by so much,

greenminer · September 2, 2011

On 9/2/2011 at 3:16 AM, SilverEagle said:
Well, statistically, the biggest improvement has always been between week one and two.

The biggest weaknesses of last years team (and several years before) was it's inability (unwillingness?) to fly to the ball, and it's inability to wrap-up once a defensive player got his hands on an opponent.

From what I observed, nothing has changed.

Emmit touched on it: it looks like this is going to take more than one off-season to fix.

Did anyone record the post-game coach interview? I want to hear how mad DMac was.

Keith7 · September 2, 2011

On 9/2/2011 at 3:16 AM, SilverEagle said:
Well, statistically, the biggest improvement has always been between week one and two.

The biggest weaknesses of last years team (and several years before) was it's inability (unwillingness?) to fly to the ball, and it's inability to wrap-up once a defensive player got his hands on an opponent.

From what I observed, nothing has changed.

But, but but the circle drill!!!

Hunter Green · September 2, 2011

On 9/2/2011 at 3:16 AM, SilverEagle said:
Well, statistically, the biggest improvement has always been between week one and two.

The biggest weaknesses of last years team (and several years before) was it's inability (unwillingness?) to fly to the ball, and it's inability to wrap-up once a defensive player got his hands on an opponent.

From what I observed, nothing has changed.

It's hard for a team to fly to the ball when you're getting your ass handed to you.

UNT90 · September 2, 2011

On 9/2/2011 at 3:20 AM, aprice said:
The only reason it wasn't that bad was because we played FIU, not OU... If it were OU, it would have been that bad, and probably worse.

No, the only reason it wasn't that bad is because FIU let up. They could have scored 49 in the 1st half.

UNTflyer · September 2, 2011

On 9/2/2011 at 4:45 AM, UNT90 said:
No, the only reason it wasn't that bad is because FIU let up. They could have scored 49 in the 1st half.

If I'm the AD and my coach let up in the first half, I'm firing him.

Eastwood Eagle · September 2, 2011

Yeah no way they let up in the first half. We actually showed up in the second quarter to minimize damage.

SilverEagle · September 2, 2011

On 9/2/2011 at 2:55 AM, UNTflyer said:
Yeah he said if he hears any excuses or finger pointing they won't be on this team.

At last Sunday's Cannon practice, Coach Mac stopped by to offer words of encouragement to the Talons. He finished off by saying that he would not promise a win this week, but he used this quote from "Braveheart"

"Where are you going?"

"I'm going to pick a fight."

"... Well, we didn't get dressed up for nothin."

He said "we're going to go down there and pick a fight".

I think he forgot to tell the team.