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Plumm should just start putting his entire post in the topic title box.

Im just reading post about how everyone is upset that we are 5-1 and we barely beat UTEP. How La Tech is pissed they lost to UAB. Then I started thinking about how I was in college. Then I realized these are 19, 20, and 21 year old kids who have been grinding in the winter, busting their ass in spring, dying during summer practice, practicing during the week, going to class, focusing on anything other than girls, dealing with life problems, taking tests, and being leaders in the community. And we are sitting here 5-1 for the first time in my lifetime bitching about COLLEGE KIDS not beating UTEP by 30 or more. They beat an SEC team in their house, then fly to back hills Virginia, then play an emotional game in conference, and then have to fly to the armpit of Texas. I think these COLLEGE KIDS deserve a lot more credit for being 5-1. I'm not going to proof read this rant sorry for the many grammatical errors.

That's like saying Tulane downgraded from the "best AAC stadium" because they used to be leasing the Superdome. Now, they're in their own on-campus stadium. It's very nice, but obviously not nearly as nice as one of the nicest sports facilities in America. Sorry, but when you're leasing a stadium, you don't "have a stadium". Therefore, you cannot "have the best stadium".

Thank you UAB for doing what we could not (but had every opportunity to). Beating La Tech put SOME life back into our pursuit of the west division. Now, for our fans who will inevitably say that UAB are now world beaters, allow me to introduce you to UAB’s one loss this season...the mighty Coastal Carolina (47-24) who boasts other wins over Campbell and Louisiana Lafayette. The path is still out there in front of us, and every team is still beatable. We just have to pull our heads out of our asses to do it.

we should all be very happy with his body language. He's pissed off. His team has lost its swagger and is underperforming. This makes him sick to his stomach. Love me some Coach Littrell.

This has not gotten as much attention as I think it deserves, but as much as we suffered last week having that last FG blocked against LaTech, we blocked a kick this week and we ended up winning by 3. I guess that is how the wheel turns.

If it's the best, I'd hate to see the worst.

They have not been happy with Stoops for some time. This was a perfect time to make the change with coming bye week.

guyton needs to make guyton's night better...

The Alamodome is a piece of junk. It's a disgrace to even put the Alamo name on it.

What do you expect from a guy named Harry Minium?

I've been to the Alamodome several times and it is not the best stadium in C-USA.

The nicest Hand-me-down stadium, yes.

If I’m Brett I’m glad I made it out of the interview with all my teeth

Would you be happy after a game you won by 3, should have won by 30, and you’re getting the Captain Obvious questions thrown at you?

Gabriel Murphy (Dallas Bishop Lynch): 10/5 vs. FW Nolan, W 48-28, 15 tackles, 3 TFL's, .5 sack Grayson Murphy (Dallas Bishop Lynch): 10/5 vs. FW Nolan, W 48-28, 9 tackles, 1.5 sacks Garrison Johnson (Manvel): 10/5 vs Houston Madison, W 63-6, 13 rushes for 76 yards and 2 TD’s, 1 sack for a 6 yard loss. Deshawn Gaddie (Arlington Lamar): 10/5 @ Trimble Tech, W 56-0, 2 assist/2 total tackles, 1 TFL, 1 Int., 1 Blocked FG, Kenneth Dotson (Houston Lamar): 10/5 vs. Houston Westside, W 41-10, Injured and has not played since the season opener. Damon Ward (Beaumont West Brook): 10/5 vs. Beaumont United, W 45-10, 2 catches for 33 yards. Asher Alberding (Houston Clear Lake): 10/5 @ Alvin, W 63-14, no offensive stats; 5 tackles & 2 TFL's. Kealon Jackson (Pearland Shadow Creek): 10/5 @ Texas City, W 59-0, 5 rec. for 67 yards & 1 TD, 1 PR for 15 yards, 2 FC Jevin Murray (Pearland Shadow Creek): 10/5 @ Texas City, 59-0, 2 solo tackles & 1 PD Will Kuehne (Owasso, OK): 10/5 vs. Norman North, W 38-7, 17 for 28 passing for 223 yards and 1 TD, 8 rushes for 44 yards. Oscar Addaway (North Little Rock): 10/5 vs. Fort Smith Southside, W 49-27, 19 carries for 144 yards and 2 TD's, Taylor Jacobs (South Grand Prairie): 10/5 BYE Dorian Morris (Mesquite Poteet): 10/5 vs. Sherman, W 29-13, no stats, possible DNP. Daxton Byers (Deer Creek): 10/5 vs. Del City, L 35-6, no stats. John Brunner (Brock): 10/5 @ Bowie, W 31-13, no stats available. Chris Cassidy (Angelton): 10/5 vs. Fort Bend Hightower, W 14-13, 238 total yards Deonte Simpson (Beaumont West Brook): 10/5 vs. Beaumont United, W 45-10, 1 rush for 2 yards, 1 rec. for 30 yards. 1 PR for no yards. Demeco Roland (Broken Arrow): 10/5 va. OKC Westmoore, W 69-10, no ind. stats, held Westmoore to 257 total yards. Jimmy Walker (Lutheran North, Houston): 10/5 vs. Frassati Catholic, W 25-7, no stats available. Kevin Wood (Converse Judson): 10/5 BYE Leandre Davis (Rosenbery Terry): 10/5 vs. Richmond Foster, L 31-7, no stats but is playing both ways.

DRC: UNT can win when it isn't playing its best, plus a look at the larger role Rico Bussey is taking on https://www.dentonrc.com/sports/the-monday-edition-of-what-we-learned/article_dfba95f3-dba4-5fc7-b5f1-a607ca9ec41d.html

Once you consider the source and read some of his previous articles, you will understand that he is senile at best.

Has this guy even been to the Alamodome? I don't think the Alamodome is the worst stadium - ever been to Rust On, how about UAB - but it's not the best.

Vote early and often, Mason is still ahead!!! WIN GAMES BEAT smiss GO MEAN GREEN

I think we play for championships, not the love of the Tech message boarders.

Plumm, we need a thousand more fans just like you. Keep on keepin on! GO MEAN GREEN!

Halfway thru the season and we lost to the only team we played that had a winning record. Of our remaining games, only UAB is in the plus column. Until we beat someone that has won more than they have lost its difficult for me to gauge how good we really are.

Non-sense to some makes total sense to progressive dreamers & from one who has been around college football the last 50 plus years. UNT for 47. Around these parts you get piled on because you have the audacity to forget our not so successful athletic psst & suggest a larger Apogee would help us get Top 25 schools into Denton. Sure we wouldn’t fill it all the time but neither are P5 schools filling their stadiums now but... they will with the right opponent when something is on the line. Note: When UNT hosts Texas Tech in a few seasons that game could easily draw 40,000 fans, but about 8K to 10K Red Raider fans are not going to get into Apogee unless they buy their tickets much earlier than Mean Green fans. UH was my first inspiration who I took to Denton upon transferring there actually thinking UNT could emulate much of what the Cougars did since the 1960’s when I first began following their advent into the Southwest Conference. Saw some pretty high brow stuff as a UH fan including the Astrodome match between Elvin Hayes & (then) Lew Alcindor. ✔️ Oh, well, I just remember in the annals of Texas college football when an Oklahoma-born HFC at UT totally ran out of Longhorn QB’s due to injuries. DKR then pulled a DB from the secondary named Allan Lowery—turned him into a QB who (as I recall) took his team to the Cotton Bowl that Fall. That make sense? Desperate times (& the rest of that quote). UNT has no power back at the moment who can do what #23 could do so might a a bit of creativity (a la Darrell Royal) be in order to get a sizable bone crunching back put in the backfield during certain situations? GMG!

There was a moment in the LaTech post-game presser that struck the same way as well. He was answering a question about Hambone wearing 75, and it seemed like he was about to play into the AD's marketing staff wanting things that way, caught himself, and said, "no, I shouldn't say that." Took a beat, and gave again one of his go-to platitudes.

False. UNT/UAB/LaTech could all 3 way tie if La Tech wins out and UAB wins all games except against UNT False 2: LaTech can lose to Mississippi State with no conference implications...

If I'm a player or assistant coach and I see that post game interview with Littrell I'm sayin ..."oooh sheeeeeiiiitt !! "

Yup, back in the lead at least for an evening. We made up a 278 vote deficit in a matter of 14 mintes. Good job. Rick

Point taken.

https://freepicks.picksandparlays.net/more-free-picks/college-football-picks/southern-mississippi-at-north-texas-101318-college-football-picks-and-predictions/ The Mean Green have a great offense and it is going to really dominate over the Golden Eagles defense that has had its fair share of struggles on the season so far. Look for the Golden Eagles offense to be able to actually be able to do decent, but the pass defense of the Mean Green will slow down Abraham, which cannot be said for the Golden Eagles pass defense against Fine. Final Score Prediction, North Texas Mean Green win and cover ATS 35-24.

We are 5-1 on the season. I was disappointed with the UTEP win last night but started to question myself and my expectations. I realize now that I didn’t just want a win, I wanted a blowout. I wanted to show the college football world that we were as good as everyone talked about after the 4-0 start and SMU/Arkansas dominations. After years of following this program I fell victim to believing the “miracle” season was here. We were going to elevate ourselves to the upper tier of college football. We’d be considered a powerful program that really should be playing in a higher tier conference. No longer would be little old North Texas. No longer would our Alumni send more time/money following UT and A&M instead of their own school. They’d have to believe. LaTech was just a hiccup. By coming back and beating the crap out of UTEP, maybe we’d get back some of the mojo. These were my thoughts and why these last 2 games have been so disappointing. I fell for the hype. I wanted it to be true and for the whole world to see UNT the way I want them to be. We are 5-1. Regardless of the scores we’re still in a great spot. This may not be the year we thrust ourselves into the national spotlight, but the culture is changing at North Texas. We’ve got record large donations coming into the program. We’ve got an awesome recruiting class waiting to make their mark. Things are changing and I (and maybe others) need to enjoy the good without worrying about living up to the hype. This has been a great way to start the season. I have no doubt we’ll be in a bowl game somewhere. We’re making progress.

This is a personal favorite of mine: As Tech Fans, WE and only WE know what a college QB looks like. WE know college football. You can't fool us, WE are TOO SMART.

What up britches? Let's keep the train rolling next week against so miss! When was the last time we had an opportunity to become bowl eligible after seven weeks of play? #GMG

Nope. 1988 we were in the Southland Conference in Division 1AA (now FCS). Not eligible for bowls.

We have a bunch of fans that think G5 undefeated only equates to UCF-undefeated when, in reality, there are tons of examples of teams winning in-spite of many flaws and growing pains. its really frustrating trying to discuss ball with someone who can’t understand the spectrum that exists in this regard, who only believes that a winning program should be blowing people out every single week. we are not there yet. We have depth issues that are haunting us due to injuries. We have coaches that are still learning how to coach. This means we will struggle against the upper tier of CUSA. im enjoying this season still, and I honestly think the 2019 verbals - assuming they sign - will be the first big step we take into the realm of the Boise States and UCFs of the world. Not the arrival, but a big step in that direction. again, we are not there yet. We are vulnerable. But I can still love the college game and support my team.

Even if we would have won by 100 the mainstream would not care. Even if we would have gone 14-0 we would not be in the upper tier of college football. To gain attention from mainstream college football we need eyeballs and deep pockets.

@NorthTexan95 "putrid offense" is definitely new. I just see his body language: someone that doesn't want to be there, eye contact is dodgy, pissed...probably very pissed. But he has always struck me as someone who doesn't want to throw individuals under the bus and/or pass the buck, so he keeps it to the old cliches "I'm proud of...", "at the end of the day...", etc.

only a bad schedule if they don't produces Ws. don't forget, it took a CBI championship run to finish above .500 last season, so let's rebuild confidence for both players and fans before trying to wade into the deep end of a more difficult schedule

https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/soccer-women/d1/ncaa-womens-soccer-rpi

Does Southern Miss have any future NFL D-Ends? That seems to be the recipe for beating us.

Dude.............I was hacked by Johnny. Walker that is. That was a bad combo: 20 hour flight, pure exhaustion, emotional loss, shots - ughhhhhhh had to leave the country for that one. Thank you vpn’s and sling tv. Cheering from Macau this month. GMG

No, I stuck to just wishing him well.

They are pretty smug, but that poster is accurate. Smith throws a floater and that is what drove me crazy in that game. If our DB's had turned and looked, we could have had a number of interceptions.

I think the more we use Darden it will open him up to the deep ball.

If that’s what you want...

Top-tier programs are starting to face fan backlash over non-competitive games at premium ticket prices. Way past due. Hopefully poll voters will one day start hammering teams that schedule non-competitive games.

Seth has brought us so far and we turn on the coaching staff after one loss. We are 4-1 who would ever think that was possible when the season started. we would have considered our selves to be lucky if we were 2-2 going into conference. He is done a better job than anyone else that would have come to North Texas. He has raised the bar for us and we lose it after one loss. The last three years have been a heck of a ride. Enjoy the moment.

If I'm Littrell (wish I had guns like him) I might consider staying away from FSU. I know I sound crazy, but Jimbo left there for a reason. Yes A&M offered him a ton of money, but you don't just go from FSU- a program rich with history and 3 national championships within the last 30 years to an A&M program that is honestly a mediocre program in the SEC with a couple of competitive years (that's a compliment because SEC is good). There was definitely something going on and with the state that FSU football is in currently, I'm not sure I would want to take on that headache. Possibility of getting stuck at a program that may be in a rut for a while due to reasons out of a coaches control. Then it's right back down to the G5s you go. Similar to what happened with Charlie Strong (I still don't get why Texas was so bad), kind of happening with Scott Frost at Nebraska and Chad Morris right now (still first season but they've lost to everybody). Then again, you don't really get to take over a thriving program when you make the jump to a power 5 as a head coach. All that to say, I get the feeling that Littrell will stay at UNT for a bit and see it become something bigger (at least for another year or two with that buyout). Quote: "Becca and I are happy here in Denton and love North Texas, the community and everything it brings to our program and our family." Plus the interview he had with the athletic and the quote on UNT becoming a monster. Wren also said he's going to make it very hard for Littrell to leave whenever those other opportunities arise. Anyways, I'm sure all these points have been made above, I'm just too lazy to read through it all. As for now I'm enjoying the ride.