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  1. Gave Jeff a little love: https://www.rbscout.com/single-post/2018/02/27/RB-Scout-Staff-Symposium-2018-NFL-Scouting-Combine
    6 points
  2. You sound like such a great fan, don't travel to NOLA, bc of short turnaround, then I point out two kids who I believe have all conference ability, and you say well I laugh at them. Bc our DL and LB were so bad last year we had to put the corners on a complete island all by theirselves to get double moved to death, YAH that's so easy to cover.
    4 points
  3. Leadership is all to blame. You can't force people to be fans. I wonder about those, that call out any group, whether it is students, staff, City and local area residents, or alumni. The vast number of people that are in those groups, don't read NT message boards or could be bothered with NT sports. If you want to cast blame on one administration, that is easy; Hurley. I think his 18 years at the helm, hurt NT surely in athletics, but also his basic take no chances style significantly hindered NT's overall progress. He came in after the pro-athletic Jitter Nolan and seems content with NT's reassignment to 1AA. Many including me believe that didn't have to happen. The plan was to dominate 1AA football and become a power in basketball, neither happened. That long period in football exile just about killed any interest in NT football. Hurley was followed by Pohl, who was much more pro-athletic than Hurley. However, any gains he made in athletics were minimal. He failed to recognize what a liability his AD was. Bataille, came next and I am not sure how much of the above about her athletic decisions were true. It was clear that athletics had little priority in her NT career. Again RV continued on, despite little advancement of the athletic program. RV always seemed to circulate excuses for his bad hires, IMO he is totally responsible. Next, Rawlins; who I believe begin to turn things around. Again, unbelievably he retained RV; he did however significantly increase the funding of athletics at NT. The hiring of McCarney signaled the turnaround of athletics at NT. He was a bad hire based on results, but it was not because he was a bargain hire like almost all his predecessors at NT. Smatresk has not only demonstrated he is pro-athletic, but has build NT into an athletic program that should be at the top of CUSA. He was the fifth president, RV served under. Truly, amazing; you have to give RV survival credit. I don't blame RV, it is the administrations that hired and kept extending new employment contracts. RV was never ready for his position at NT and his continued employment at NT continued to hold NT back for 15 years. This combined with the Hurley reign are the two leadership factors that have most hindered NT athletics. It should be noted that the BOR is probably more important than the presidents in athletic status. So good or bad the BOR is a partner in the progress.
    3 points
  4. This is not on the fans. Anyone that paid any attention at all at that coaching regime knew the wheels were wobbling during the 2013 season. It was very, very easy to see. Just win more than you lose, be competitive in your losses and a fan base with pride will grow. People that are sports fans are prideful people. They are typically competitive people. These type of people are not going to stand by and watch their team get drug through the mud year in and year out. We can't catch lighting in a bottle for a couple years (Or in your analogy, 1 year) and just expect 31K at Apogee every Saturday. Sustainability has to be the expectation.
    3 points
  5. 3 points
  6. Yea I know. Lots of tats and nice cars though.
    3 points
  7. Whatever their stated budget status, someone will still be dropping bags for their hoops program. After "landing" Mitchell Robinson (#9 national recruit per 247sports) in 2017, WKU is reportedly in on Charles Bassey (#3 national recruit) in 2019... https://www.courier-journal.com/story/sports/preps/kentucky/2018/02/14/western-kentucky-basketball-mix-nations-top-2019-recruit-charles-bassey/332583002/
    2 points
  8. That has already been done at most colleges. I always wonder why someone doesn't sue because of the lack of men's sports compared to women. Look at what most colleges offer in the way of men's sports, basically what NT sponsors plus baseball. Many sports colleges offer are essentially only female such as volleyball, soccer, rowing, equitarian and tennis. Yes, football skews the scholarship numbers in favor of men, but being football is by far the most important sport at almost all fbs programs, it should be treated on some type of exception basis. There has to be some common-sense correlation to number of available participants, financial implications including cost to benefit ratio, and popularity with fans.
    2 points
  9. The problem is you believe there IS a reputation for most G5's outside of G5 fans. People know who Boise State is, they know UConn. If they are older, they know UNLV hoops. They know SMU, Rice and Houston and if they live in the east, they know Temple and UMass. The rest of G5 is basically hometown heroes at best. When AState and App State signed home and home with Miami there was a fan complaining about going home and home with a CUSA (AState) and FCS (App State). The vast majority of people making up television audiences can't tell the schools apart. When AState rolled ULM after ULM beat Arkansas there were people asking why Arkansas had played someone from Arkansas State's division. I cannot imagine with four of the 10 FBS conferences and 2 FCS conferences in Texas that the casual fan in Texas does a great job keeping things straight. How many alums of the G5's even know? The attendance figures around G5 suggest that a huge swath of alums and students couldn't answer questions on who their alma mater plays because they don't go to the games.
    2 points
  10. NMSU is a good hoops program and brings value to basketball. There is only one CUSA team rated ahead of NMSU. That was true last year as well. The year before that 2 CUSA were rated higher. This would make you dejected? Texas State sucks at football and basketball but they've spent some on facilities and hey they are in Texas they can replace the close game you lost with Tulsa. ULL has been spending money, they had a losing year in football but they look like an at-large in hoops this year. Troy has been rated higher than all but one CUSA the past two years in football. Arkansas State has been rated higher than half of CUSA every year since 2011 and had a season ahead of all of CUSA and several with only one or two ahead and is spending a bundle on facilities, new indoor practice facility, new video boards for football and hoops, new press box, new end zone facility. Would really ruin your reputation to be affiliated with AState. 2005 to 2012 North Texas in football finished ahead of zero of those Sun Belt schools every year except 2010 and then only topped one of them in 2011.
    2 points
  11. Leach had bad defenses, but I can guarantee you his weren't as bad at Tech as Coach Bro or Littrell at UNT(So far)
    2 points
  12. NMS, LaLa, Troy. You’re out of your mind. We have got to stay out of places like that. That jackass ODU writer was talking about JMU too. Same type of nonsense. Why not put Nacogdoches and Abilene on your list of fantasy destinations?
    2 points
  13. Any ideas on why Connor Howard left?
    2 points
  14. At the time, I uploaded a photo of the Independence bowl during the first half. USM looked like they had way less than 10k fans in the stands. I think people are overestimating how many fans we would have had at a mid week game at 1pm outside in crappy weather. Most all of the G5 bowl options are pretty crappy from either a calendar, destination, or opponent standpoint.
    2 points
  15. RV, is that you? You can't blame the fans, current or old, of the apathy that surrounds the program. This falls on the AD, primarily the previous Prez/AD as well as the AD/Prez that dropped us down to 1AA. A metric shit ton of blame falls directly on those 4 sets of shoulders.
    2 points
  16. Guys, one on one routes are a joke. QB has all day to throw with no OL getting pressured into him. Not saying they don't time them, but it's ridiculous. Also. Mark this down, Cam Johnson and Nate Brooks both end up all conference corners. They've both got ability out of this world. Here's to hoping ole Nate can get them right.
    2 points
  17. I think it's a trucking company. I can't be sure though.
    2 points
  18. DRC: Trevor Moore won't be easy to replace, but UNT has a high-end talent expected to step in with Cole Hedlund http://www.dentonrc.com/sports/mean-green/2018/02/28/unt-special-teams-outlook-2018-college-football-season-replacing-moore-wont-easy
    1 point
  19. Yea I didn’t remember him doing much other than returning a few kickoffs last season but it surprised me that he would leave after getting playing time as a true freshman walk-on.
    1 point
  20. They didn’t formally announce anything that I saw this season but I saw someone had said they went to one..
    1 point
  21. Me too and If I'm wrong I will be handing you beers with a sad face
    1 point
  22. It was UNT decision. People have tweeted in the past about how is it that the Dallas Stars could not have a UNT night, and the response was along the lines of UNT never contacted us or never got back to us.. The teams love these things because it’s easy and cheap to get a hat, etc made when fans are buying a ticket for $20
    1 point
  23. Based on what I read in the past about why UT was not included in the first few years of this promotion, I'm guessing this is a UNT decision.
    1 point
  24. While I do think the 2013 recruiting showed very little promise, the actual on-field results and what appeared to be solid coaching were great signs. And we had that great rival of UNT, SMU, on the home schedule for 2014. So why the DROP in season tickets? It wasn't because of the recruiting stuff or "wobbling" of the coaching staff. It was because the AD was a freaking lazy idiot. That entire department couldn't peel a banana correctly under his direction. So many people had problems with their accounts and ticket purchases. Literally, every week back then, we would have people complaining about some issue(s) that the AD had caused. IOW, they were always working on fixing problems than actually working to get season ticket holders re-upped or to get new ones involved. There was no new graduate program for season tickets at a discounted rate. And when you did interact with the AD and staff, it was completely obvious that you weren't a part of the UNT 17,s o you didn't really matter much. As Wren Baker continues to learn and grow as an AD here, it just shows you how refreshing it is to see someone who actually is TRYING. Sure, the BOR and administration have given him more than RV ever got, no doubt. But maybe if RV didn't just sit around and act like a bump on a log, as the Old Denton mindset of only paying $300k for a head coach in football and men's basketball was in play, perhaps things could have been different for him, too. But he found the easy (lazy) path by just squeezing 17 people as hard as possible to get the stuff done that the BOR wouldn't cover back then. Eventually, the fallacy of making your job security insulated with 17 big donors came to its obvious end, as you cannot suffer colossal losing and buying out of major contracts in the three main revenue sports he made the hires for. That loss to Portland State, while completely embarrassing beyond words, was the point where we hit rock bottom as an institution regarding football. From then on, the football coach, AD, and mens basketball staff have all gotten fixed with solid replacements that have made the previous people in those spots look ridiculous for having ever been in those spots for so long. The fans have shown that they will come out in football if you start winning and are playing someone that people have heard of. Basketball had shown that same thing in the latter JJ years, so I think McCasland will see the same thing if he can get this thing completely turned around like we think he can. When that last part happens, and assuming that SL or whoever follows him when he gets hired away continues to win here, WB will have the choice of jobs ahead of him higher on the food chain--and he will ever deserved those opportunities in every way.
    1 point
  25. I got you and @Withers940 Here's hoping y'all are right.
    1 point
  26. Did not have buyer's remorse, had a nice weekend get-away in a city the wife and I had never been to. Had a lot of fun, aside from the 2nd half of football. When you are on an island like our corners were most of last year, and you are having to drive on short/intermediate routes and tackle the WR, then are successful doing that eventually you're going to get burned on a double move if you aren't perfect in your technique. Should it happen? No. But it is going to happen from time to time.
    1 point
  27. Well with the schools that are so honored, it couldn't be based on prior participation. I really would not think that the Rangers rather have a TWU day than NT. I wonder if NT just didn't want to participate or just didn't respond to an invitation.
    1 point
  28. https://www.mlb.com/rangers/tickets/specials#udays Not a joke... A&M Commerce, TWU, SFA & ACU all have days, but UNT does not. Many local school districts (Keller, Carroll, Ft Worth, Jesuit, Everman, Burleson, Arlington, Allen & Crowley) have days with the Rangers, but UNT does not.
    1 point
  29. I feel like they sat in a room with a list of free agents and asked who from the list they think would be cheap that fans would recognize their names. Now we have Colon and Lincecum. So excited for this season.
    1 point
  30. Howard played over multiple of those guys and filled in when Darden has been injured for a game.. not saying it’s not the reason, but the staff thought highly enough for him to play over some of them
    1 point
  31. Mean Greeners...time to sign up to play. We definitely need players. I will soon be posting a link where you can sign up to play and pay your player fee ($35.00). In addition, if someone would like to simply donate to the Spirit Scholarship Fun they will be able to do so through the link as well. By using the link, you will be able to receive an official UNT donations receipt. Remember...new venue...OLD Men's Gym...so we should have the advantage for the first time of playing in on an actual court. And, think of the UNT basketball history that gym has seen! Priceless...the Old SWNAKE PIT!!! APRIL 14t (A Saturday) with doors opening about 10:00am for t-shirt [pick-up and registration with an 11:00am tip-off for our game. Since we have Eastside as one of our sponsors, we will adjoin to EASTSIDE after the game for some adult beverages and fellowship! Should be a great time for all...please join us! If you have any questions, you can PM me here. I will get back with you pronto!
    1 point
  32. I'm hoping Brooks bounces back and we don't see this from him anymore. He's a Senior now, time to step up.
    1 point
  33. Yeah, they were a joke all last season. I was laughing over and over watching our secondary, many of times, get burnt in very said routes. What was the stat? 28 plays of 40 yards or more. Whew.
    1 point
  34. Can't possibly be so.....remember hearing all those yahoo players from elite schools that say they go to bed hungry and need to be paid so they can buy food, because they never have an opportunity to eat?!?!?!?
    1 point
  35. I would be shocked if any kind of alignment with CUSA/SBC occurred. For the same reasons many fans get chapped when we play them in bowl games. Most CUSA schools were SBC and have no interest in aligning with a conference they see as inferior. The numbers (budget, football rankings, RPIs in bball, etc.) say there isn't much difference but there is in fan perception. You imaging LaTech willingly aligning with Monroe or Lafayette. Or Southern Miss aligning with South Alabama? Not happening.
    1 point
  36. I would be incredibly dejected if this ever happened. All of the recent improvements... spankin-new stadium, IPF, Million-dollar coach, finally getting serious, and we just sit back and let that happen? I highly doubt Wren Baker would allow that to happen either. I really hope he's gunning for a spot in the AAC after the Big12 implodes and SMU winds up jumping with those schools to form a new conference... or possibly joining THAT conference. ...Not to mention, Rice would likely drop every single sport rather than be associated in any way with Troy's academics (and likely several of the others you have listed in that division).
    1 point
  37. Or maybe schools getting rid of football? If it stops being the cash cow it has been the last 20 years, Title 9 becomes a lot more manageable without football and its 85 scholarships.
    1 point
  38. With Title 9 compliance issues it will be the men's sports that take the hit. In the future, I believe we will see some smaller schools with very few men's teams outside of Football and Basketball.
    1 point
  39. This and winning could possibly help us move to a stronger conference?
    1 point
  40. With how things are going, soon UNT will have the highest budget in C-USA, potentially by a significant margin.
    1 point
  41. I think the greater point he is making is the one that many of us share, which is to make the SBCUSA a regional setup, not cross country conferences that overlap each other. ODU, Charlotte, and the F_Us have no business playing in a conference with us in Texas. Same with Texas State and ULL playing Appy State or Georgia Southern as conference mates. It’s dumb and the CUSA BB tournament at the Star will show that when MTSU and WKU or ODU are playing a title game in front of 250 people. This isnt brain surgery. It’s very doable.
    1 point


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