UNT about to enter a huge week in its season

[Eagle1855]

Easily the biggest game in the history of the program. How we perform in this game will affect our ability to recruit for the next decade -- and possibly the next two eons. If we cannot play well against a P5 team like Indiana, what hope is there for ever getting a baseball team in Denton? Or better yet, how can we expect to resolve our accounting issues if we can't even move the chains on third down? Dajon needs to play well, if for no other reason than the fact that our eventual Tier One status depends on. I will literally die if we lose.

[UNT90]

It's not big, it's huge:

Thanks, Debbie Downer.

[untjim1995]

Before Mac got here North Texas didn't even have hyperbole. We had to settle for slight exaggeration.

So true...like saying that if Todd Dodge had led us to a win over Ohio at Fouts in the rain, then we would have officially turned the corner as a program in 2009--just a slight exaggeration.

[MeanGreenTexan]

I've heard from everyone I've ever talked to that if UNT can't win this game, the University will explode as soon as the clock hits 0:00.

[VideoEagle]

I've heard from everyone I've ever talked to that if UNT can't win this game, the University will explode as soon as the clock hits 0:00.

No, the Universe will explode. Go big or go home.

[greenminer]

Mean Green nation has been building up for this IU game since 1953. About as epic as it gets.

[TheFranchise]

If hyperbole loses, hyperbole should be hyperbole'd.

It's not like this is the greatest hyperbole in the hyperbolic hyperbole of hyperbole hyyperbole.

http://youtu.be/4vTc88Govj4

[HoustonEagle]

I actually agree with Coach Gooding on this one.

Coach? Did he already hang up his QB cleats and put a headset on?

[TheFranchise]

Coach? Did he already hang up his QB cleats and put a headset on?

Yeah, he said something about being athletic and in shape, that he could coach a quarterback to throw better than 15 yards in a game and that if Mac is looking for another OC/Position Coach, he's available.

Edited September 30, 2014 by TheFranchise

[H-towngreen]

Biggest game in the history of western civilization???

If we lose Benford should be fired

[untjim1995]

Biggest game in the history of western civilization???

If we lose Benford should be fired

If we win, Benford should be fired...if the game gets called for unforeseen reasons, Benford should be fired.

[VideoEagle]

Biggest game in the history of western civilization???

If we lose Benford should be fired

Don't make me wish we'd lose!

I'm starting to get a positive feeling about this game. But, I had cheap Asian food for lunch and it could just be gas.

[keith]

Why? ... Why? ...Why?

[Ben Gooding]

Yeah, he said something about being athletic and in shape, that he could coach a quarterback to throw better than 15 yards in a game and that if Mack is looking for another OC/Position Coach, he's available.

You people.

[pastorgrant]

http://youtu.be/4vTc88Govj4

LOL i was thinking about this routine the whole time reading about Vito's hyperbole.

Great minds think alike and I guess ours do too.

[KingDL1]

So you guys are saying it is the most

M-o-n-u-m-e-n-t-a-l

Game

EVER!!!!

[eulessismore]

So you guys are saying it is the most

M-o-n-u-m-e-n-t-a-l

Game

EVER!!!!

There is so much riding on this one game, it's ridiculous. One game, that can:

1. Make difference between a winning and losing record (after 5 games).

2. Make the difference between a winning record and just breaking even for out of conference.

3. Give us some idea of what our season will be like.

4. Give us some idea of what our quarterbacking will be like for years.

5. Show us what the sports future of our university can be like.

6. Show what beating the hoosiers can look like to the basketball coaches.

7. Show the world that Coach Mac is perfect against the big 10 while coaching the Mean Green.

[meangreenthirteen]

There is so much riding on this one game, it's ridiculous. One game, that can:

1. Make difference between a winning and losing record (after 5 games).

2. Make the difference between a winning record and just breaking even for out of conference.

3. Give us some idea of what our season will be like.

4. Give us some idea of what our quarterbacking will be like for years.

5. Show us what the sports future of our university can be like.

6. Show what beating the hoosiers can look like to the basketball coaches.

7. Show the world that Coach Mac is perfect against the big 10 while coaching the Mean Green.

They would most likely be too confused to understand what that means.

[TheFranchise]

They would most likely be too confused to understand what that means.

I can see it now. Benford exits the stadium saying, "I get it now. In order to win we need to play football. That's the key to our success." He then heads to the closest Barnes & Noble in search of this book:

[The Fake Lonnie Finch]

I'm not sure how to make this clearer, but Dajon himself has said he didn't know the playbook. Multiple other people have said he was not in game shape. It isn't a question of skill, it's a question of readiness. He was not ready to play in that game. If he had been ready at all, he would have played at some point.

Multiple people with connections to the team said he wasn't ready. The coaches said he wasn't ready. He himself said he wasn't ready. Why is this such a difficult concept for you to grasp? A lot of people who were closer to the situation than you have repeated said what you are stating is incorrect.

This doesn't mean he isn't ready now, just that he wasn't ready then. This happens a lot in football, people get better with the passage of time, practice and study.

Stop, unless you drink the Dajon Messiah kool-aid. I don't know why it's not obvious to you that because we beat Nicholls State that we also would have beat Texas. Where are your powers of deduction, VE?

We all know that Texas has fallen to a level probably below Southland Conference-grade. Henderson State would obviously scorch the 'Horns as badly as they did Nicholls, and on the road in Austin no less.

It's highly unlikely that in all of his years of coaching defenses that Charlie Strong would have been prepared for a kid like Dajon who just read the playbook the week of the game. That's where Strong has made his bones - not knowing what a quarterback will do. The guy's totally lost. He's just kind of accidentally had great defenses and winning records everywhere he's been.

Edited October 1, 2014 by The Fake Lonnie Finch

[SilverEagle]

I'm not sure how to make this clearer, but Dajon himself has said he didn't know the playbook. Multiple other people have said he was not in game shape. It isn't a question of skill, it's a question of readiness. He was not ready to play in that game. If he had been ready at all, he would have played at some point.

Multiple people with connections to the team said he wasn't ready. The coaches said he wasn't ready. He himself said he wasn't ready. Why is this such a difficult concept for you to grasp? A lot of people who were closer to the situation than you have repeated said what you are stating is incorrect.

This doesn't mean he isn't ready now, just that he wasn't ready then. This happens a lot in football, people get better with the passage of time, practice and study.

...and it was very obvious that Greer wasn't either. I still can't believe that he was our best option for the Texas game.