A QB leader emerges ..

[BillySee58]

Really? If that's DT's fault, I think it implies he doesn't work hard enough at improving. I've never heard that feedback on Derek. I've heard the opposite. If you ask me, if he's giving it his all but not progressing, that's on Canales, not Thompson's fault.

Honestly, you're right. DT hasn't improved IMO because he is just not accurate. He does work hard and has plenty of experience.

He was 35-80 combined against Texas Southern, Troy, and South Alabama last year. That's 44%, just plain inaccurate. You can only progress so much with that kind of inaccuracy. And in Canales' case, you can only develop a qb so much when he is that inaccurate.

Edited August 18, 2013 by BillySee58

[Got5onIt]

Ehhh, not convinced yet. He's just leading the pack. If DT is the starter, his leash will be really short. Anyone remember the Maeger/Vizza/Teflon Todd debacle?

[UNT Alumni Lifer]

Just because he looks like #1 now & posssibly when the season starts, doesn't mean he'll necessarily stay that way.

[Got5onIt]

I'm also thinking because DT is the veteran guy, Mac is giving him the advantage in what appears to be a tight race.

[untjim1995]

Four conference championships mattered to me. I am probably the worse critic of Dickey, but I do get tired of people that continue to downgrade what those teams accomplished. NT never had anything close to the conference win streak from 2001 to 2004, in any classification and few teams have.

And no the cause of the downfall of Dickey was not that that the Belt teams got a little better, NT got a lot worse. Dickey rode one exceptional recruiting class for all they were worth, then waited for the next opportunity somewhere else and not much more.

I agree with this post a lot, concerning Dickey's view after that one great recruiting class really panned out on the field. He thought for sure that someone else was going to come calling because of the SBC success. The problem was that no one outside of the 15k that showed up to Fouts in that era really thought much of the SBC wins in that timeframe. Otherwise, he'd have been a head coach somewhere else. But no one even came callilng publicly to talk to Darrell Dickey. His personality and his offense wouldn't sell tickets anywhere else. I do think that we got really bad and that opened the door for the other SBC teams to take advantage of our drop off. But Troy did raise up their standards big time. Arkansas State got much better under Steve Roberts. And, of course, MUTS got much better under Rick Stockstill. The program in the SBC, and now CUSA, that resembles our rise and fall is FIU, where Mario Cristobal brought them up from the ashes to win a bowl game and become a winning program, but he eventually lost a power battle with his AD and got fired. It won't surprise me to see FIU really fail for the next few years with their new coach. Those type of removals usually don't end well for the university.

We just have to hope Coach Mac can continue to get his lines to get stronger and develop into something positive. That will help everyone, no matter who is at QB, RB, WR, LB, or DB. If we can see that improvement, I think we can compete for a CUSA championship in the upcoming years. If not, we will just start over --again--with a new regime and hope that we can eventually get competitive with the other conference schools within the next 3 years.