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Defense was ok. Not great, but not bad. Showed flashes of stopping the run. Secondary was aggressive in the run game. D-Line and linebackers need to get more involved. More pass rush also. But didn't give up any big plays. Offense 1st team looked good. Scored almost every possession. Running backs a little banged up so didn't see them all. Stone was with 1st team QB. Looked accurate. Ran the offense well. Good timing with receivers. Cash was 2nd team QB. Looked solid. Good arm, but a little late on a couple of throws. Ran the ball well when he had to scramble. Reese was 3rd QB. Didn't do much. Missed some receivers and completed a couple of short passes. Overall a good scrimmage. Looked better than this time last year. O-Line will be solid. Kicker made a 51 yarder during live scrimmage. So that's good. Saw Chandler Morris there watching. Not very big. Smaller than Stone. Will be interesting to see how things play out this summer.

He deserves to be the starter if he beats out Chandler Morris.

Meh. This is North Texas basketball. I expected to win.

Because our Tylor Perry transferred there for "greener NIL pastures" and they're now with us in the NIT. Abou Ousmane, who transferred to Xavier is also playing in the NIT. We would have won many more games, easily qualified for the NCAA Tournament, and probably made a very good run if both of those players remained at North Texas. They should have been star players on this years Cinderella team in the tourney, but have been relegated to the role of forgettable journeymen in mediocre seasons at their current schools. It's a high price to pay as they will both miss the tremendous exposure they would have received. Oh well.

Kid was a class act, represented us well, daggered UAB to win the NIT, never said a bad word about us and left because of this F’ed up NIL that paid him a quarter of a million which would be hard to turn down. How about we treat him with the same class? Kid doesn’t deserve this. I was critical of him when he left, but he’s a class young man. Time to let it go.

Sriracha won the Corgi race. And it wasn't even close. Immediately entered the transfer portal. GMG

I hate the portal business. That is all.

First year in a tough new league with a brand new coach. I give us a B.

Layne's grandmother is bravely battling cancer and his decision was based on staying closer to her and the rest of the family as they support her during this difficult time. UNT did the right thing for this young man by letting him out of his signed NLI.

With the athletics department recently posting a Director of Marketing and Fan Engagement position, I thought this would be a good time to revisit some of the ideas we had - you know, us! The people who don't get paid to think of these things. Maybe we can help the new guy/gal out. This thread is for ideas other than the inevitable "Just win, baby." comment!! Some thoughts I had: Bring back the homecoming parade. The student interest/sustainability is BS. And also, pick a game that'll make the mostly unengaged alumni say, "Wow, this is good football. Our defense doesn't look like the worst in the country. I'm going to come back." Gotta be September 28th vs. Tulsa this year (November 9th vs. Army should be a higher attended game anyway). Promote the skills and productions of other student organizations at games. Organizations who may be made up of students who don't normally like sports. Have student musicians/bands perform national anthems or halftime, have pregame art galleries, screen Media Arts film festival winners at halftimes. Do whatever it takes to stabilize the Greek presence at football/basketball games. Extend tailgate season to weekend conference home games in basketball, move them inside when it's cold. Incentivize RA's to have their floors/dorms out at games. Run campus buses strategically to provide transportation to games. Go back to putting bus trips together for away games in the area (SMU, UTA, etc. etc.). Have a ticket center in the UNT Union/bookstore, somewhere almost all students visit daily, plus almost every visitor. Signage everywhere on campus promoting games. Students should never not know "when the next game is." Start a mailing campaign offering four free tickets to every household in Denton, Wise, and Cooke Counties (possibly even Collin and Grayson Counties since there are no major universities there either). Not sure what the cost of this would be, but the combined population of these five counties in 2020 was 2,216,730. So you could start with the promotion for football, at least expand it to men's/women's basketball, then depending on the cost even expand it to the other three spectator sports, although "supplies" will be even more limited for those sports. Or go county-by-county year after year. Hopefully you get several hundred or a few thousand new sales leads out of this. The next year, send the mailers out to only the households who didn't take advantage while trying to sell tickets to the people who attended. Rinse and repeat for 3-5 years. Until we can regularly fill up our student section, extend the free ticket program to Denton high school (or Denton County high school) students, maybe limiting to a certain number per school. Have each high school get their own tailgating area. This may be tricky from a liability standpoint though? If a high school kid wants an alcoholic beverage I'm sure he/she'll have no problem getting it. Work with some of the local community colleges to provide the same opportunity for football - like NCTC and Collin College. Loosen up media credential ability while we continue to get little coverage. Allow/encourage local Denton high school newspaper/video production/photography organizations to be a part of North Texas game days. Beyond our basic First Responder days, Parents weekends, work with the closeby districts who have education foundations to have "Gainesville ISD Day" or "Decatur ISD Day" at DATCU/the Super Pit where part of each ticket purchased goes to their foundation. Or could be an elementary/middle school PTO. Every TV in a public space on campus should be playing our away games for any sport. Arrange watch parties for the dorm TV's. Like student emails allows students to access Microsoft programs for free, extend this to Disney bundles (Disney+/Hulu/ESPN+). Showcase our university by operating our facilities as premier venue options. We're not getting any premier concerts after all the new venues that have been built around the area since 1974, or even 2013. But DATCU should be hosting a higher-class playoff football game every Friday/Saturday it's available till the state championship. Same with the Super Pit. What else?

It's so hard to stay interested when this kind of stuff keeps happening.

Game wasn’t near as close as this score. Hit our FT’s and we win by 15+. Best overall game we have played in a while. Four more wins.

Hard fought year. A lot of injuries and new players. But overall, I'm proud of this team and the season. Hope we can retain most of the team going into next year. I like our chances if we can.

I wish people on this board would stop being so condescending towards Stone. He wears the colors of UNT, thus he does not deserve to be bashed on this board daily. Please, have some respect for our all of our players.

Thing is this guy comes in as a new HC with tons of new players, has his best player Tylor Perry bail along with his starting post Ousmane and tons of injuries all year long. This is one of the most remarkable coaching jobs I have ever seen especially from a 1st year coach. Ross Hodge has a very bright future in coaching and dare I say Jarrod made the right hire! GMG

I think he's the one on the left?

This doesn’t really change anything for me. We went on the road and beat a team that beat us earlier in the season. That always feels good.

Let's get by Seton Hall first.

You say the money is not life changing. At his age, if he puts $100K in a Roth fund, he is able to retire a multi-millionaire at 50. That is life changing.

That was a lot more fun than I expected this year. Transfer portal notwithstanding, Hodge has us on our way.

He got married this weekend.

Bye And people wonder why interest is lagging and people don't want to go. Donate to the scholarship fund, donate to the facility's fund, donate to this collective or that for what? A kid that is just using us to move along? Getting more difficult to donate, to spend money on season tickets and to carve out time to travel to and from Denton for the games. This doesn't help. Love, A Scott. One of my all-time favorites because of the little things he does, but I honestly don't know where he thinks he will go to get more playing time.

Let’s try and be better than this. TP had an opportunity and took it (handled his departure gracefully, must add). Abou made his own decision. We don't have that season without them. Just like we don’t beat Purdue without Reese. We can be successful with class, so let’s do it.

I'm still proud of this team, never quit.

My objection is with a Mean Green player leaving to represent another college. If they want to leave early for the NBA or overseas, then I don’t hold that against them. But if they are suiting up for another school then I hope they miss every shot they take and lose every rebound. *Unless they weren’t getting an opportunity to play here. Then I wish them well.

Ed “Straight Arrow” Genaro

Was just about to post this. Pretty solid post by Kennedy.

In the last year , we beat SEC, Big 12, Big Ten in the NIT.

Rematch in NIT>

calling BS on the "girlfriend"

only 1 UNT magnet left? They must be selling like hotcakes.

Girlfriend ? Anniversary ?

cousin oliver, you need to think long and hard.

Cheer for the name on the front not the name on the back.

https://writeforcalifornia.com/p/cal-spring-practice-offensive-questions-2024 Update on Cal QB battle. Call it off topic, I don't give a shit. This guy left us and a sure QB1 position to fight for the starting job at a barely P5 school. I hope he rides that GD bench all year and doesn't see a dime from the money they said he was getting.

If he is graduating with a degree from UNT best of luck. If he is leaving for greener pastures without a degree, I hope it turns brown and he falls flat on his face

Heard Shane Porter got reps at RB and ran pretty well. Scored a rushing TD and 1 catching TD.

They lose to Indiana State. Night night.

Two hundred fifty grand isn't peanuts. I'd love to make that over 5 months!

I hope NIT Moulaye shows up.

Winning this would be nice if for no other reason than we SHOULD HAVE beaten them the first time and it'd show growth.

What being a UNT fan is like right now:

I’m good with fall competition. Whoever gives us the best chance to win is who I’d prefer to start.

AAC > SEC