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Hello all, Just wanted to share my gratitude for the hospitality. Denton is a great spot, loved seeing Dallas (first time), and really appreciate the dedication to your team. I hope other cal fans were gracious. I hope for both of our sakes both of these teams overperform for the rest of the season. Will be rooting for NT in the AAC.

I am the bald one. The NASDAQ though.

Man, y'all hit my sentiment just right. These guys don't realize this is our school. We went here. We love this place. This isn't a job that we're holding until a better opportunity presents itself. None of us are waiting to be promoted to Texas fans. Stop b*tching about receipts like your seat at UNT on day 1 is so hot. Do your job and make our school proud.

Cal tight end Asher Alberding UNT TE Asher Alberding

The Mean Green Baseball Project would like to wish the U.N.T. football team the best of luck this weekend in their season opener and also in their 2023 season. In a show of support we have purchased 20 season tickets per home football game which we are donating to different kids groups each game. The athletic department was very upfront with us when we met with them in that the football team does not get the support they need with season ticket sales and we are doing our part to help out. meangreenbaseball.com #Bring It Back! Doug Rush Mean Green Baseball Project President

And not sure how Morris/Mosley made it happen, but the Cougs are headed to Denton first!

What a difference a week makes. Congratulations to Coach Morris on his first victory as the leader of our Mean Green! It was nice to see that the staff made adjustments. The defense came out in a 4 man front a few times and they didn't give up a first down until the 10 minute mark of the 2nd quarter. We gave up 432 yards this week, which is a 16% improvement from last week. On offense, we had 47 rushes for 249 yards and 41 (25 completions) passes for 313 yards. We produced a total of 562 yards. We had 1 fumble (screenshot updated). The team had 9 penalties for 115 yards tonight. I am sure there will be a big emphasis on this during the next two weeks. Regardless, we won last night. GMG! Observations: Chandler Rogers was efficient and made plays last night. He had a great command of the offense and did a fantastic job throwing the ball. He completed around 60% of his passes (24-41) for 313 yards and 2 TDs. Additionally, he ran for 45 yards. It seemed most of his runs were for first downs when the pocket broke down. Overall, he was very impressive! Roderic Burns was great all night as well. He was open all night and made several big plays for us. He has 11 receptions for 134 yards. Also, shoutout to Ja'Mori Maclin and Damon Ward they caught both of Chandler's touchdown passes. Ayo Adeyi the La Tech killer had a hell of a game. He had several big runs for us last night. It seems he always does well against La Tech. I was excited to see him step up tonight. He ended up rushing for 148 yards and 2 TDs. Also, shoutout to Oscar Adaway who had 44 yards rushing tonight. He had multiple tough runs that set up first downs for us. Shout out to Noah Rauschenberg and Sawyer Evans tonight. If Pat McAfee watched our game film, I am sure he would be excited to watch these 2 guys. Noah drilled a 25, 22, 48 and 31 yard field goal (game winner). Sawyer Evans had a 64 yard punt that pinned La Tech deep. The defense played much better tonight. They gave up 82 yards less this week, caused multiple 3 and outs, and also had a few big stops on 4th down. I was encouraged to see the coaches make adjustments and play us in the 4 man front on some drives. Shoutout to Mazin "Amazing" Richards who had 5 tackles, 3 for loss, and 1 sack. It was nice to see him blitzing from the edge again. Rod Brown had 3 QB hurries tonight. He did a great job on the 4th down stop late in the game as well. Kevin Wood was our leading tackler with 9 total (7 solo). Logan Wilson was solid in coverage and had 8 tackles (6 solo) tonight. The 2 redshirt freshman Patrick Smith and Ethan Wesloski continue to have big games for us. Patrick had 7 tackles (2 solo) and Ethan had 6 tackles (3 solo). They both did great jobs making tackles in space. Bryce Linder also had 6 tackles (3 solo). It was nice to see the defense respond to the adversity they have faced the last 2 weeks. I hope we continue to improve each week and add more wins. GMG!

If we lose to ACU, I may have to officially enter the fan transfer portal.

So as hot as it was yesterday at the Cal game, I felt like it may not have been in the top 5 hottest UNT games in the last 20 plus years. I got there around 10:30 and there was some decent cloud cover most of the day, even a light breeze to boot. If you were lucky enough to be on the alumni side it was almost pleasant at times, especially in the second half. The hottest UNT football games I can recall were Baylor at home in 2003 (the game away in Waco was also hot in 2004) and another one was our first home game against Rice in Fouts Field September 11, 2010. The Baylor home game was notorious as the UNT concessions ran out of bottled water in the second half. Cal game GMG tailgate (9.2.23), Jase Earle, Mike Randle, JD Davis and Head Coach Ross Hodge The announced home crowd was 21,350 for Cal and that seemed about right. I thought the alumni section looked decent and the students were a little light. The 3pm start time is tough. On the postgame show, Hank lead into the Coach Morris interview by saying that playing a P5 to open the season could go wrong and thus was a risky proposition for a program like UNT. I disagree with that. The program absolutely should be able to take on a quality opponent to start the season and the performance in these types of games should be held to a very high standard. These pay for win games against lessor competition give us no idea where we stand and worse a false sense of security, Among the many visitors that came by Tony’s GoMeanGreen.com tailgate on Saturday, we were especially pleased to welcome Head UNT basketball Coach Ross Hodge, along with assistant Jace Herl and 4 mainstays on the 2023 NIT Tournament Championship team, Aaron Scott, Moulaye Sissoko, Rubin Jones and Matthew Stone. What a great group of young men we have here. They took pictures and hung out with the fans and watched the end of the TCU Colorado game (which was a barnburner). Intelligent and well-spoken, these kids are great athletes but even better people. If there is any consistent theme coming out of the absolute drubbing UNT received from the Bears on Saturday, it is that in this new era, the portal, and teams like Colorado and yes Texas State figured it out faster than many others. It’s not that UNT was not using the portal as best they could, but Colorado and Texas State took it to a whole new level. They were landing top notch P5 transfers in big numbers, which computes for Neon Deon and his Colorado program which is heading to the Big 12. In fact, there is irony in the fact he beat one of the very best at playing the transfer portal and NIL in the past few years in Sonny Dykes who landed the TCU job primarily because of his portal and transfer work at SMU. The bad news is that Texas State does not have the resources that North Texas does, and they were able to make it happen anyway. As much as I would love to focus primarily on high school players, the NIL combined with the transfer portal have diminished those opportunities. You don’t have 4-5 years to build a program anymore. And Texas State head coach GJ Kinne is the real deal. GoMeanGreen.com has a new team of contributors who will be assisting in covering the team this year, the one and only JD Davis is back covering recruiting and everything else with UNT sports as he does so very well including articles, podcasts, social media, and the kitchen sink. We are welcoming back our good friend Lorenzo Robles, who will also be assisting us with his excellent content as well as his computer expertise and great photography. A new face is Miles Meador who is actual a current UNT student, and big UNT fan who will be our man on the ground in Denton and will be covering the team and taking photos and video as well as giving us the student perspective. DC Matt Caponi (Courtesy UNT Athletics) The reality is you cannot run the 3-3-5 defense without athletes. And right now, we don’t have enough of them. And that was the worst tackling technique I have ever seen. Defensive Coordinator Matt Caponi has his hands full this season. On a positive note, I think our secondary is pretty good. But what does it say when your leading tackler in the Cal game (9) is Jaylen Smith, a walk-on from Hamilton, Ontario? Early line for the roadie against FIU in Miami is -14. FIU barely beat Maine 14-12. Looking at the schedule, this may be one of the best chances to grab a win early on and the second half of the season is looking frightful with SMU, Tulane, Memphis and yes even UTSA in a close loss to UofH will be very difficult games to win. Morris really needs his first road win at UNT in a big way this week. And as always, Go Mean Green!

Lets get a count here How many of you get tired of going to home openers and seeing our team get their butts kicked?

* I pull for one school, and all of its teams. The only professional sport I watch is golf. There are no Ranger, Stars, Mavs or Cowboys wins to salvage a weekend. North Texas is it. I invest a lot of emotional capital, along with a few bucks, in my passion, my hobby. * Pretty sure there is not a single player, coach or athletic department employee who has been here as long as I have. The school and the name last, no human does. I pull for the school and the name. Everyone else is temporary. I deeply care about this school, and its most passionate and long(er) time fans, like Gray Eagle, SUMG, FFR, et al. * The three hours before the game, tailgating, do salvage some of the mood swing I get from a loss, any loss, but especially losses like Saturday. Yesterday, it was gumbo, cornbread, pre-game Scotch (Laphroaig this time), pre-game pickle and some really great family, including my son who has never missed a home game in his 27 years, and friends. Thanks also to @Pete Hadley for the nice welcome and parting gift, @malonebbqsauce. Maybe I need more Scotch next game. * I try to wait 24 hours after a loss before paying much attention to gomeangreen.com. It is always nice to see how moods change from ground zero over the next 24-48 hours. * I am a loud, often sarcastic fan. I yell when we win, and when we lose. I don't yell against players. Almost every fan that was sitting in my seats before I got there, and who we have to negotiate with to get the seats we paid for, abandons the general area I am sitting in well before the game ends, usually before the half. If you are planning to study at the game, you will probably move also. * The 2Q Earle to Maclin bomb was thing of beauty. Seems like the ball was in the air for 23 seconds and Maclin ran to that ball like few could. I was almost drowned out by the other fans in Sections 109 and 110. * @aztecskin, MGN now on Substack, put things in perspective. If North Texas didn't come out in the second half, we would have scored the exact number of points and gained 9 less yards. @Venson suggested, and I concur: start Stone, put in Ruder if needed. If he doesn't emerge, Stone should be the starter for the rest of the year. * I gripe about the petty when the play on the field puts me in a bad mood. Petty like the much-hyped water stations. No one, security, other vendors, etc, knew where they were. When I spent about half of the third quarter looking for them, I found one that was empty and one other. On the way, I tried three water fountain stations. One worked. Petty like giving a decent amount of money to the program and buying approximately 80 football tickets a year for the games (48 of them season tickets) and having to pay $15 to print my tickets. Petty (not) like having to ask people to get out of my seats for something like the 70th straight game....every game since the stadium opened. Three different ADs have heard my complaint now, along numerous other department employees, including the 3 or 4 humans over the last decade or so that have invited me to breakfast once a year. Question for athletic department: will you print my tickets if I buy the breakfast next time another human? * All that said, after dropping by gmg.com this afternoon, I come to one conclusion: I suspect no other group of college fans demands more and gives less. We get what we pay for. You lads and lasses still need some venting, it appears. Flame away. GMG

Scattershooting while wondering whatever happened to former UNT running back Eteka Huckaby… Well at times it wasn’t pretty, and at the end I about bit my nails off, but in the final result UNT and new head coach Eric Morris scored a huge and much needed win over La. Tech on the road 40-37. Morris did the thing good coaches do, he switched everything up starting with a new starting quarterback in Chandler Rogers who showed everyone he can turn it up when the lights are on. Rogers threw for 313 yards and 2-TD passes; he also rushed for 35 yards on 9 carries. But beyond the stats, he looked like a leader out there, whether it was laying pancake blocks or giving formation instructions to his receivers. This was the guy we beat out some good teams for in the portal and he showed everyone what he could be when the big game lights come on… …Other changes of note that made an impact on the win, Febechi Nwaiwu the former offensive lineman walk-on from Coppell who was a freshman all American in several publications last season at guard was moved to tackle by Morris and staff just prior to this season and it wasn’t working. For La. Tech, they moved him back to the inside at guard and put Jett Duncan back out at tackle and they both had great games leading the way for Ayo Adeyi to gain 148-yards on 19 carries and 2 TD’s… …UNT made similar changes on the defensive side, moving back to a 4-3 set-up and it immediately yielded some good results as end Mazin Richards was all over the field again, with 5 tackles (4 solo) and a sack. Kevin Wood is starting to play like the player we knew prior to his injury, leading the team with 9 tackles and a pass deflection… …Most importantly, this team fought back and overcame some scalding adversity after the road loss against FIU. As pointed out by the great @jtm0097, “The defense came out in a 4 man front a few times and they didn't give up a first down until the 10 minute mark of the 2nd quarter.” That’s a dramatic improvement especially when you consider it was on the road. And Rogers deep ball was on point forcing the defense to respect our passing game. The only issue on offense was that we did not always perform in the red zone. Defensively, we must get better at tackling. Of course, allowing La. Tech to rattle off 23 points in the 4th quarter after being down 16 starting it was extremely concerning. Luckily, we will have two weeks to work on that with the bye week before Abilene Christian at home… …Was neat to see UNT Head Coach Eric Morris jump on the GoMeanGreen.com post-game show live with host JD Davis last night, right after the game was over. The enthusiasm and excitement were evident and as a fan it was fun to watch. This UNT AD staff under newly hired Jared Mosely has been pretty good about providing the fans access and this was just another example. Here is hoping that this will continue for many games to come… …VARIOUS AND SUNDRY – The last time UNT had defeated La. Tech on the road was 2017 and it was close too 24-23. UNT FG Kicker Noah Rauschenberg was a stone-cold killer yesterday, icing the game with a key FG with just seconds left in the 4th quarter, but also had 4, count them 4 total field goals for the game, with one in the 2nd quarter being 48-yards. Punter Sawyer Evans was super solid as well with a 60.5 average in the game. It’s still early in the season yet, but Special Teams Coach Drew Svoboda is doing a really nice job filling in some big shoes and stabilizing this key position. UNT may need to roll out the NIL wagon quickly for transfer WR Ja’Mori Maclin, as this speedy young sophomore is starting to turn some heads across the country with his hands and ability to get open. Also having NFL bloodlines doesn’t hurt with his brother Jeremy being a 2x consensus All American at Missouri, and 1st round pick with the Philadelphia Eagles. GMG Game Photo Credits to the great Miles Meador Enjoy the bye week and see you in a couple! And as Always, Go Mean Green!

Big guy here.

UNT Head Football Coach Eric Morris was a guest speaker at the monthly San Antonio Quarterback Club luncheon on Tuesday September 19th at the beautiful Quarry Golf Club. Here is Part 1 of excerpts from his informative and interesting segment from the event. How did you feel after the big win against La. Tech? It was big, we had been working hard all week and sticking to our mission, day out and doing the right things on the field and off. The kids are getting their act in order and our GPA went up over two points the first semester. I was like, those are all things that mean a lot. Our kids were doing the right things on and off and it translated into success against La. Tech. Talk about your journey from UIW to North Texas We had some real success there (at UIW) and felt like it was time to take a shot at playing a little bit bigger brand of football, so we went back up to Washington State and took our quarterback with us, who I think will be a great player in the NFL here in a couple of years, Cam Ward. I knew it was going to be a struggle, you know, talking to those guys up there that didn't feel like they were where they were before offensively, since coach Leach left. And really, I got the job because of Coach Leach. The AD at Pullman was the same guy that hired him at Washington State, and he called Mike and said, “hey, if you're gonna let anybody run their offense who would you want to run it? And so, he sent me in. So, I just thought it was good for me, at that time in my career, to make that move and so we went there, and I signed a three-year contract, extremely happy about the move. I took my wife and my two young boys up to Pullman, Washington. We traded our water skis in for snow skis. They love the snow. You know, we really wanted to be there. I was telling Robert earlier we built a beautiful house there and we lived in that house. My wife did a phenomenal job decorating it. I lived in the house for two months before I got the call to come back to North Texas. And so, my wife wasn't very happy. She spent a lot of time in Pullman to build that beautiful home. But then how could I pass it up? Texas kind of got me where I am today and I am thrilled to be at North Texas. Tell us your thoughts and experience with the Portal and NIL It has been an interesting, you know, case study for the future in my opinion. I've never been a huge believer in the transfer portal. That's not how I want to build a program. I think it's hard to build them to last that way and to sustain a great culture. And so, you know, hindsight is 20/20, as we go through it. You know we formed great relationships I felt with the kids that we had there (at UNT). But with the money that some of these schools are paying them like it's become a little bit ridiculous. So, we did a good job with retention, although once these kids graduate, they have the freedom to go where they want. They could transfer as many times as they wanted, and so we had six key starters that left after spring ball that went to the SEC for money and whatnot. And so, you know, I took over a team that that had been to the C-USA conference championship and played Boise tough in a bowl game. They played UTSA last year in Conference USA, so I didn't want to come in and just blow the whole thing up and you know, because these guys have had some success, I wanted to be respectful of that. And so, to be honest. With you, I didn't do a lot of things my way. Or should I say the way that we did it at Incarnate Word and now in hindsight it it's kind of bitten me in the tail a little bit, to be honest with you because, at the end of the day those kids I had built great relationships with, I mean they left for bigger and better places. We have great case studies now and I really think this will all even out at some point. I mean, so we're tracking them every week, right? So, there's six guys that all transferred out via the portal and NIL and only one of them is a backup and the rest are on the bench and he's playing just a few minutes, so the data has been pretty compelling. All these guys that left were all Conference USA players. Now they're going and they're on the bench and their backups, right? Maybe that's what they want. Maybe it's not, but it's pretty remarkable. Just the transformation of this and what is taking place in the portal. But for us to be able to build a roster has been challenging. You know, for me, we felt some challenges the first year in this thing because we just lost so much production, we lost our two best linebackers. We both lost both of our best tight ends, our top receiver. And this is all post spring and so it put us in a little bit of a predicament. But at the same time, I think, you know, I kind of I went away from some of the things that I truly believed in. I think momentum is like one of the key words in all of college football and to gain positive momentum is tough in any corporation or organization. Gaining positive momentum is also so hard initially - like it takes so much time, so much effort, so many things to happen right. And when I'm taking over as the leader of a conference championship caliber team. And initially you have positive momentum like. I mean, it's such a joy to go to work every day. Everybody listens to what you're saying. They believe in it. But on the contrary, like when you get negative momentum, especially in a football building or a program, like it really takes the life out of you. I mean, for three weeks we had the worst start to the season that we could have had imagined and for three weeks I didn't sleep a wink; my wife's worried about me. I'm young and I'm going through these moments of doubt wondering what am I not doing right? And so finally, just after we ended up losing to Florida International, I just totally reset the vision that I had for the program. And I told the guys, and it was clear what my vision was, and they were going to be with us or they're going to be out. And they're going to be part of the problem or part of the solution? No more excuses. How did you overcome the rough start to the season? And so, I just took a chapter from you know my mentor, Michael Leach. Which, you know there were so many things that Mike taught me, on how to build a program from the ground up. But we went all in on it and over the last two weeks I've suspended 12 guys and 7 other starters they didn't play against Florida International. We suspended our starting corner and middle linebacker last week because they didn't get their study hours and one of them was 17 minutes short of it so we've kinda gone back to drawing a line in the sand and just doing it the way that we've done it in the past now. We have built this sense of accountability which it was hard for me to, like, do those things at first because they had so much success and I didn't want to come in and act like we just needed something completely different. And then you just don't know until you know, right? And so, it was such a big learning lesson for me and then even last week we went to La. Tech and played extremely well on offense and let them back in it. I think they scored 23 points and got a couple on-sidekicks to tie it in the in the fourth quarter. We had a minute left, and we went on a great two-minute drive, kicked the field goal, and won the game just as time expired. But it's just been so refreshing like to me and it's like I will forever remember this for the rest of my life as, for as long as I'm coaching. It is sort of like I let my guard down. And we spent the whole spring establishing a culture and a vision of it. But I did a bad job of really day in day out of telling these kids we're doing right and I let too many things slide to be honest with you and it showed up and our discipline, our penalties, I mean all the little things were showing up on film of the accountability piece to it right? And everybody knows that that football is one of the toughest sports out there? And I think that you know me at the at the helm of this thing allowing these things to just be brushed to the side and not enforcing you know any kind of accountability on the kids really took a step back and caused us to probably lose a game that we shouldn't have and so it was a very big learning lesson for me and the staff. Talk about your mentor Mike Leach Just another cool story I brought up about Mike earlier but, you know, it's been a very emotional year for me. Just because everything was Leach and he's been my guy and I missed him so much especially my phone calls with him all the time. But I was actually sitting so in the staff room at Washington state, exactly where Mike always sat at the head of the table. That was my seat as the offensive coordinator in our staff room and so the day he died, I got a phone call from Sharon, his wife, to tell me that he had just passed and I was actually sitting in his seat, that I remembered him sitting in the last time I was on staff with him. So, it was a super emotional day for me. Obviously to be there, and to remember all those great memories I had. And the very next morning at 6:00 AM, we're about to get on a plane to go to a bowl game and I got a phone call that I would be the next head coach at North Texas. And I was sitting in this seat again when I got the call. And so, another surreal moment for me that someone that was looking down on me and you know, I know he'd be super proud of me, and I know a bunch of people in here have fond memories of Mike but… I am sorry to end this whole thing on a note like that but that's all I got. Editors note: We were treated very kindly from the San Antonio Quarterback Club staff who rolled out the red carpet and we wanted to share a link to their charity whose mission is to promote, support and financially assist the Gridiron Heroes Spinal Cord Injury Foundation, which provides acute and long term resources to individuals who have sustained a spinal cord injury in a high school football-related event. San Antonio Quarterback Club Link Part II can be found here and, as always Go Mean Green!

A fire the head coach thread a couple of weeks into his first football season is pretty embarrassing and disappointing too.

What more can you ask for?! Win or lose that one, I was at the edge of my seat. And we won! What a start to the season! Also have to commend Morris’ ability to get some studs out of the transfer portal. Portal additions Rogers and Rauschenberg both coming up huge in the clutch.

I had a great conversation with Phil at a family wedding this past summer. The way he spoke of UNT on this podcast was the exact same when we talked. He has such an optimistic outlook for UNT and such a positive regard. It was neat to talk about the Boise State bowl game and a few tidbits. All around great guy. I give him two thumbs up!

The start of the Eric Morris era at North Texas has undeniably been rocky, with two tough losses in the first two games. However, it is important not to jump to conclusions and call for a change in leadership just yet. It is easy to compare every mistake made by Morris to those made by past coaches at North Texas, but it is essential to consider the root of the current problems. The issues could stem from a variety of factors, such as personnel not fitting the scheme or players not fully buying into the new system. It is too early to determine the exact source of the problem. It is worth noting that Morris has previously built a successful program at UIW, taking them from being a bottom-dwelling FCS team to a national power. However, this transformation did not happen overnight. While some may argue that the North Texas team was not a complete rebuild, it was also not a finished product. This roster struggled to defeat teams ranked above them. It is essential to remember that other American Conference coaches have faced initial struggles but eventually turned things around. Matt Rhule, for example, won only two games in his first year at Temple but had his team in the conference championship game by year three and won it in year four. Similarly, Justin Fuente won four and three games in his first two years at Memphis before leading them to an AAC championship in his third year. Another fan favorite, Willie Fritz, won four and five games in his first two years at Tulane, but it took until year seven for them to become conference champions. Today, with the transfer portal and NIL opportunities, a team can be rebuilt relatively quickly. The point being made is that it is unfair to judge Morris based on immediate results. It is understandable that he was not able to completely overhaul the team like Deion Sanders or GJ Kinne did, as he did not take over a one-win team. However, this does not mean that the roster was perfect or complete. North Texas also lost some key contributors, and it is possible that the current roster does not perfectly align with Morris's preferred scheme. Therefore, it is crucial to give Morris time to bring in players who fit his system and identify the right players on the current roster who can excel within it. It is important to take a step back and let this process play out. Morris should be given a full season and an offseason to build the roster and implement his strategies. It is unfair to judge him without affording him that opportunity. It should be noted that Morris faced challenges by not being able to participate in the early signing period, which did not do him any favors. This is not to say that Morris is the next Nick Saban or that North Texas will win a conference championship next season. The message is simply to give Morris a chance and refrain from rushing to judgment. Let's put the pitchforks down and allow the situation to develop.

See the FIU score. We have went from a CUSA champion runner up to the worst program in college football. Last week I heard… just wait for next week. Don’t knee jerk. Nah. Prophet Travis says that the problem is all in the title of this thread. It is an embarrassment. He didn’t inherit a terrible team that we need patience with. And what holes we did have he failed to fill. This is on the AD. Both the current and previous one.

I had my doubts in the off-season. And, from what I've read, I think you did too. While we were signing an army of WR's, I wondered why there wasn't more of an emphasis on the defensive side of the ball (which is where Seth had most of hie issues). The portal was there for us. We can't bring in new players to fit the scheme now. Why were these issues not addressed over the summer? And, why should fans give Morris/Caponi a pass for not doing their jobs?

I have to disagree. I work closely with young people that are headed to college. The vast majority of those students are selecting UNT because they feel the university fits their academic goals, and they believe is trending up compared to other universities. Last year I spoke with multiple students that selected UNT over Texas Tech, OU, & Oklahoma State. And these are students that graduated in the Top 10 of their graduating class. Athletics just needs to build a football program that will help promote the narrative these students are buying into. There is a reason UNT now has over 45,000 students, and it isn't because these kids can't get into UT, A&M, or Tech.

WASHINGTON IS THE RANKED TEAM IN THAT STATE! GEEZ, WE COULDN'T EVEN GET THE FLAGSHIP UNIVERSITY??! THIS IS SUCH SMALL TIME THINKING, AND TYPICAL OL' NORTH TEXAS!! THIS JUST PROVES HOW OVERPAID EVERYONE IS OVER AT THE COUNTRY CLUB ON BONNIE BRAE!! I'M NOT BUYING SEASON TICKETS OR ATTENDING GAMES UNTIL WE GET THE BEST PAC-12...OR IS IT BIG XII, OR BIG10...WHATEVER, I'M MAD UNTIL WE GET THE BEST!! Good enough?

A lot of lead changes and man did Rogers look great. Am I the only one who enjoyed the football game outside of the result? La Tech game should be similarly competitive. I’m thinking we rattle off the next 4.

Morris was a P5 coordinator

Much like umbrellas, schools won't allow things like metal flasks or Yetis because they could be used as a projectile or striking object by a drunk and upset fan.

We all know teams need bye weeks to rest players and, in our case, implement some much-needed changes on defense. As a fan, I'm not too fond of Saturdays without Mean Green football, but I tolerate them and cope by rewatching the previous game to see anything I missed or what we can build upon. Saturday's replay session made one thing very clear. Chandler Rogers has the elusive clutch gene and ice water in his veins. In the two drives that changed the game, Chandler Rogers put the team on his back and made the right plays when they counted the most. As you'll see below, he appeared calm, cool, and collected in the game's critical moments. Fast forward - 1:56 left in the 1st half. LaTech just gashed our defense with a 56-yard run to start off a two-play, 0:20-second scoring drive capped off with a 19-yard TD pass to Smoke Harris. 16-14 good guys, but we've lost the momentum, and we're starting the drive from our 11-yard line. 1st & 2nd downs are both two-yard gains by Adeyi. Now 3rd & 6 with 1:06 left before halftime, Rogers stands tall in the pocket and throws an absolute strike to Damon Ward for 32 yards to the UNT 47. The delivery is spot-on, placed just over the cornerback's head and right in front of the safety crashing down on the play. Without this dime throw, we end up punting from our 15-yard line and hoping and praying our defense doesn't allow another quick scoring drive in the last minute. We have a fresh set of downs, we're in the hurry-up, and the momentum is turning. The pass on 1st down is batted down at the line. On 2nd down, LaTech dials up a linebacker blitz. The extra man is picked up to perfection as Rogers reads his progressions and sees Roderic Burns gearing down his route in the soft spot of the zone. Rogers pulls the trigger for a 22-yard gain down the right-hash to the LaTech 31. The clock is moving, Rogers hurries everyone up to the line and takes a quick deep shot down the left sideline to Maclin. The ball is slightly overthrown and out of bounds near the goal line, but no harm, no foul. 0:27 left in the half… 2nd down. Chandler "Hit-Stick" Rogers delivers the block heard around the world. You know what block I'm talking about. The all-over-social-media-de-cleater sealed the backside and sprung Adeyi for 25 yards to the LaTech 6-yard line. 0:18 seconds left, North Texas timeout. LaTech is on their heels. Out of the timeout, Rogers hits a leaping Damon Ward between three defenders for the touchdown. LaTech's defense is dejected, their fans are quiet, and all you can hear in-stadium is the UNT band fired up. Eight plays, 89 yards, 1:16 time of possession, executed to perfection. UNT 23 - LaTech 14 headed into halftime. Fast forward again - UNT's defense is reeling (again). LaTech converts an onside kick and then quickly scores on a 3-play, 53-yard TD drive to cap off 17 straight points to tie the game. UNT's three-score lead has evaporated in under 7 minutes, the message board is a hot-mess, and the last time Rogers possessed the ball, he had a 10-point lead. The game appears to be headed for OT with the momentum and crowd firmly in LaTech's corner. But to borrow a legendary line from Mr. Lee Corso, Not so fast, my friend! There's still 1:04 left before OT. We later learn Coach Morris told Rogers before the final drive, "They left us too much time." First down is a one-yard pickup from Adeyi. The clock's ticking... Out of the no-huddle on 2nd down, Rogers and Burns hookup for 23 yards to the UNT 49. The throw is almost a carbon copy of the pass before the half: a beautiful zone read, with a perfect strike to Burns. Move the chains. 0:47 left in the game. Clutch. First down is a quick-hit six-yard out-route to Jordan Smart to the LaTech 45. The clock is stopped, and Rogers looks in full command of the offense. Second down is a pass batted down at the line of scrimmage. The pressure builds on a pivotal 3rd & 4 with 0:34 seconds on the clock. Our wide receivers line up trips-right, UNT calls a designed play that rolls Chandler to his right to throw on the run. The result is a well executed seven-yard pass to Burns on an out route to the sidelines at LaTech's 38-yard line — another big first down to keep the drive alive and stop the clock. With 0:25 left in the game, Chandler drops back but finds his receivers covered. The pocket quickly collapses, and Chandler scampers to the right sideline for 3 yards to again stop the clock. His awareness and athleticism under pressure avoid what would have been a disastrous sack just outside of field goal range. Now 2nd & 7, at the 35-yard line, Chandler tries for another downfield bomb, this time intended for Jordan Smart down the left sideline. The pass is right on the money; however, credit to LaTech, their defensive back does a great job breaking up the pass. On 3rd & 7, with thirteen ticks left on the clock, UNT runs a beautifully timed draw play into a blitzing defense expecting a pass. Adeyi bolts for 21 yards out of bounds at the LaTech 14 with 0:07 left on the clock, putting us well within field goal range for the win. You all know what happened next. Noah Rauschenberg split the uprights, Eric Morris notched his first UNT victory with a Stone Cold celebration to boot, and Chandler Rogers showed Mean Green Nation that he's a dawg with a clutch gene.

...so he says on Twitter. Well, buddy... the fans are too. And given the performance yesterday, plus you being the recruiting guy...your job just became very magnified. Hang onto this receipt. In the meantime... better start warming up that transfer portal...

Honestly, reading through this is what makes me think this coaching staff gets it and will figure it out.

It is asinine, but people should be able to post their asinine opinions as long as they don't contain threats or anything inappropriate.

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Man I really wish he was still here.

#1 Seth Littrell had seven seasons to get us to the next level. He didn't, so they made the decision to move on from him. #2 The guy they replaced Seth Littrell with may be worse than Seth Littrell. Both of those things can be true

We honestly don’t know anything about Cal, other than the fact they beat us badly. With the transfer portal, very few teams can be judged by who they were a year ago

The first game was abysmal, but I'm not ready to call the hire an out and out failure yet. Even if it turns out to be a total dumpster fire, no one can really say that after one game.

*Waiting to see who will be the first to complain about this*

Yeah. Let's boil our fanbase down to the 700 or so fans who contribute monetarily and tell the rest to get lost. That's the ticket to sold out stadiums and arenas.

Forget how stylish our uniforms look. Learn to tackle. Learn to block, throw, catch. I’m tired of uniform talk. Go back to green and white. You know, our school colors. It’s not how good you look. So just stop it!

more goes back to the BOR making what is now apparent lazy hire in promoting Mosley to be AD rather than a full search to get someone not sucked into the Bonnie Brae retirement home.

I'm ready for the Patrick Cobbs head coaching era to begin. Give me defense and give me the best running attack in the nation. 3-3-5 Defense is hot garbage and the Air Raid is played out. I'm so over this shit.

And while I am at it, I have a high school senior and we are taking college tours. The LSU tour was: Here are all the resources we are going to provide your kid to succeed in college and here are all the connections we have to get your kid a great job once they graduate. The North Texas tour was: Here is the Starbucks. Here is the Chick-Fil-A. Here is the second Starbucks… Nothing about how my kid can succeed at North Texas or why a degree from North Texas is valuable. And they didn’t even show us the Rec Center or Music Department… Whoever is in charge of the marketing of North Texas needs to hop on I-35 with Eric Morris and get the hell out of Denton.

This is computer generated. UNT is currently a 12.5 point favorite in Vegas. It started at UNT -14 but moved, likely due to incoming bets favoring FIU to cover. If UNT doesn't win by 2 TDs, it'll be a failure of a trip.

Great analysis. Thanks, Harry.

You guys can tell after one game that Coach Morris was a bad hire? Y’all are good. Real good.

this is just tacky. we shouldn't be shitting on our student athletes like this. i thought he made a tremendous effort under the circumstances. couldnt run the ball, poor game plan inferior athletes around him. was he perfect? of course not. but stone wasnt even in the top 5 reasons why we lost do better.

WHY ARE WE ALWAYS STARTING OVER? AND WHY DO WE ALWAYS ASSUME WE HAVE PLENTY OF TIME? WE DON’T. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE.

Shoutout to @Brett Vito for asking some great questions this week. I appreciate him highlighting how little our running backs have been able to produce this year compared to last year where they had 2391 yards (I believe this is what he said) Coach made it clear that this is not last year's team and that people are still hung up on last year. I also appreciate him flat out asking if we have the personnel to run the 3-3-5.

Harry, always enjoy your missives. You are a fine writer. GMG

Taking the van to get graphics today going to try to be at far north end of Blue lot