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https://collegefootballnews.com/2019/04/north-texas-football-preview-prediction-players-2019?utm_source=CFNFB&utm_medium=FB&utm_campaign=affref&fbclid=IwAR1ke1n4J1Opr0ZepNxKX2SOBrR-iVcxg7upI7PAzri2TVzroUpqsc64KJ8 Once again, the North Texas offense will be a big, big problem....for the rest of Conference USA.

I'm debating with Vito on Twitter about this and I know some people may disagree, but to me, Houston is our biggest OOC game. -They are the marquee G5 program in the state and have been one of the best in the nation for a decade. -Even though they're not the rival SMU is, they're still an in-state rival that we're trying to catch in terms of facilities and on-field success. -We directly compete against them for lots of recruits every season. -The game itself is going to be a bigger event than the SMU game. Houston always brings a ton of fans and I can easily see this game being a sellout if both teams get off to a good start.

OUR KICKBALL CLASSIC BENEFITING OUR UNT SPIRIT SQUADS HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO THE POSSIBLE HEAVY RAINS ON SATURDAY! WE WILL NOT PLAY THIS WEEKEND...SATURDAY OR SUNDAY. Our scheduled "rain day" of Sunday is now out as facilities has decided to cover the softball field to protect it from possible heavy rains Saturday and will not uncover it until Monday. So, we now look for an alternative date. The event is still on...just will be on a different date and perhaps at a different field as well. I will post here as soon as we know the details. Very sorry, but we can't fight Mother Nature on this one. Please spread the word so others will know of the postponement.

Good. Get the buyout so high it makes Fat Jimmy uncomfortable. To add, I think Litrell is gone after this year. And I have a decent idea of where he'll go. And that program can afford any buyout that gets attached to SL contract.

Exactly! Which is why it is important to the program’s future to increase his buyout for another program to pay.

DRC: https://www.dentonrc.com/sports/a-way-too-early-look-at-north-texas-football-schedule/article_3845d7c7-3eac-5204-9320-4e0ce8e36d0b.html

Hoping for a better season than what this publication is predicting. A win against SMU will set the tone early and I’m feigning for North Texas to win back to back games against those smug b*st*rds. The Houston game could potentially be a sell out if this team is at least 3-1 come September 28th. -GMG

I would agree. Honestly, I get tired of the articles about our series with smuT and how they have dominated it over the years. Since 1990, smuT leads the series 4-5, but I feel like we are passing them by as a program. They keep throwing money at a losing proposition. Dallas doesn't care about them and based upon their attendance, their students and local alumni don't either, but the money behind the program keeps them afloat so they have something to brag about. They are a program on its deathbed. UH, on the other hand, is very similar to us as an institution and we are right behind them as a program. The above is 100% accurate.

Just a heads up, nothing finalized. I'm sure they'll increase his pay as well as his buyout. (P.S. LET'S GO DALLAS STARS!)

DRC: UNT has some holes to fill and several prospects it is involved with as the late signing period approaches https://www.dentonrc.com/sports/unt-enters-key-period-in-run-up-to-opening-of/article_bab19490-da8f-5d90-8d13-c55ed486c49e.html

Size, speed and agility don't equal good hands. I wish Guyton the best, hope he gets drafted and has a Hall of Fame career, but he didn't have his best year last year. That could have been for a number of reasons. I think the dirty hit he took against Army negatively effected him. Maybe he didn't want to take another one of those a jeopardize a pro career. I really don't know. I liked the young man, how he came here and worked hard after transferring from ND and a JUCO and I will be his biggest fan, but last year wasn't his best.

DRC: https://www.dentonrc.com/sports/colleges/wednesday-practice-notes----backups-benefiting-from-extra/article_9d472cd4-dd62-5deb-b46c-6578f74bfe46.html

So having a future superstar like Luka doesn't do it for you?

Time for a look back at last basketball season. The season was both encouraging and extremely disappointing at the same time. The three major factors of the season: Early success with very easy oc schedule. The problematic year for NT's best returning player. Injury plague that ruined both the conference and total season. NT started the season 12-1 with a much criticized oc schedule. The only loss to a good OU squad away. Notable wins included away at New Mexico, away at Indiana State, and a tournament championship in Hawaii. Much criticized slate and I think to some degree unfairly. Add a couple of ranked teams and assume losses in the pre-season and NT would still have had the best oc in the conference and at that point one of the hardest schedules. Roosevelt Smart was a returning all conference player who averaged 19.5 pts. and 4.2 rbs in that year. He had a pre-season injury that he was slow recovering from and never regains the shooting touch he had in his first year with the Green. His number dropped to 10.7 pts and 3.6 rbs per game. He went from setting the NT records for threes and 3 shooting of .378 to a .274 percentage. NT went 8-10 in conference including a losing streak of 7 games to end the conference season. Then went 1-1 in the tournament. Injuries are out of anyone's control and all teams deal with them. However, out of all NT conference loses, only 2 were played with a full roster by NT. Woolridge, who most agree was NT's best player this season, was out or limited in 6 of those lost games. Duffy and J. Simmons were also out for multiple loss games. NT was not a deep team as late season exposed. NT was a balanced scoring group with an almost unbelievable 6 players averaging double digit scoring. McCasland almost exclusively played a 4 guard offense and defensive intensity was required. On the positive side, most surprising was the play of Gibson and prior walk-on Draper. Gibson was the leading scorer as a freshman at 12.6 pts a game and shot threes at a .393 pace. Also did a good job taking over the point for an injured Woolridge. Draper who was pressed into a lot more minutes than anticipated because of injures, shot the highest 3% of .415 and played decent defense at 5'10". Biggest disappointment has been discussed, Smart's off year. Jahmiah Simmons was also somewhat disappointing based on the fact, McCasland brought him with him from Arkansas State and he had a redshirt year to improve. In his defense, he was forced to play basically the 5 spot in McCasland's defense. J. Simmons' numbers actually declined from his freshman year at ASU were he scored at 6.4 and had 5 rbs a game compared to the past year's 3.5 points and 4 rbs. Woolridge when not injured, was the best player on the team and one of the best in the league. Zack Simmons continues to improve and should be a bigger part of the offense. Duffy and Miller, both were good shooters and rebounders for NT despite a year of playing primarily much bigger players. Outside of Zack, NT's other bigs remain a mystery. Alcindor playing little and showing little in a few games to lose his redshirt. Tikhonenko a 6'10 supposed shooter injured and maybe gets another redshirt year. Muhammed who was redshirted, although at 6'7 listed as a guard. In summary, this could not be rated a stellar year despite 21 wins. This team did not come close to challenging in CUSA, but that couldn't happen with the injury situation. Even without the injuries, West Kentucky and ODU would probably have been significantly better teams. NT with less injuries could and should have been capable of competing with the rest of CUSA.

https://247sports.com/college/north-texas/Article/North-Texas-Mean-Green-football-spring-offensive-depth-chart-131010403/

May not like him as a head coach, but he is a highly respected, and rightfully so, QB coach.

Love this. We are continually trending up. Go Stars! Thank you, Dirk

Jackson is the second highest rated prospect to ever sign with UNT (slightly behind Jordan Williams).

Okie State or Ark

I have no idea—Ben Gooding might know. But some P5 will come calling again. He’s been interested in Tennessee but got no interest back from them after applying. KSU had him if they had let him bring his coaches he wanted. I’d imagine the third time will be a charm. If I had to guess, a school like Ole Miss would fit the profile. Pay a shitload of money to him and let him rebuild their program back up again from where they were when Hugh Freeze got fired.

Great move to extend the contract!

Another poster (too lazy to look it up) posted early on in the season that we were going to miss Lawson. I disagreed at the time, but in retrospect, I think this poster was correct. One of our major problems down the stretch was the lack of depth and a mid range game. Lawson would have definitely helped in these areas. Losing Holston was also a blow to our depth. I really scratch my head on this one. Holston's role at Indiana St. was pretty much what it would have been here. He was also a mid range swing type of player that could also play post. I realize that heavy turnover is just a reality in college ball these days, but we lost a couple of proven contributors that could have chewed up some valuable minutes. We did not replace the talent/experience for this season. The guys that took the scholarships may prove to be good future investments, but did nothing for us this year.

Best North Texas Offensive Player QB Mason Fine, Sr. The 5-11, 185-pound bomber has been one of the nation’s most productive quarterbacks over the last two seasons after coming on as a freshman with a nice year. He’s a decent runner when needed, but he’s been at his best when he’s bombing away down the field, throwing for over 9,400 career yards with 3,793 last season with 27 touchdowns. The two-time Conference USA Offensive Player of the Year has a good chance of finishing among the top 20 passing quarterbacks in college football history with another year of more than 3,500 yards.

I second that.

WELL...WE ARE OFFICIALLY POSTPONED! We are currently working on a make-up date. We will NOT play this Saturday OR Sunday. Why not Sunday? Well, facilities is going to cover the softball field due to this Saturday's pending rains and will not uncover it until Monday. So...no can play this weekend. Sooooo...we are now having to look for an alternate date and perhaps an alternate playing field as well. You can't fight Mother Nature I guess, and this is Texas in the spring. Please spread the word of the postponement so we don't miss anyone. Will be back with you on the new date as soon as we have it. Sorry folks, but the weather just is not cooperating.

Other than glancing up at the screen the rare occasions I eat at Applebee's or some place like that, I've been done with the NBA a long time. The attitude of so many of the players these days is a complete turnoff, and the NCAA Tournament is a million times more exciting than the NBA playoffs.

Among other department news in this update. https://www.dentonrc.com/sports/unt-notebook-fine-sees-progress-offensively-as-spring-nears-close/article_3a0022f9-a1e9-5769-b909-639dbef4cc86.html I am excited about what Reeder brings to the team.

If we can have an amazing offense and an average defense that gets turnovers

Nice article from 247 on the battle to replace Hall and Brooks. https://247sports.com/college/north-texas/Article/North-Texas-Mean-Green-football-cornerbacks-promise-to-continue-standard-set-131004291/ Brune still delivering the goods.

https://meangreensports.com/news/2019/4/9/softball-late-rally-falls-short-at-houston-baptist.aspx

Size size size! Need to get some 6’6” , 6’7” athletes! Zach in the second half of the season looked like he digressed. Might be because he had very little support and no one to rest him off the bench. We are going to miss Miller.

Got your liquid refreshment chilling in the frig! 👍👍

If history is any indication, we only lose to UTSA when we are absolutely confident in a W. Don't count your eggs, friends.

Maybe Barr's 4 pages sums up Mueller's 400. Maybe it does not. I will say that I was not surprised in the least how this finally played out. What I do wonder is how simple a person must be to look at the following list of indictments and plea deals and come away with the conclusion that the special counsel was a political witch hunt. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/list-of-mueller-indictments-783405/ We as Americans, be it left or right, should be deeply concerned about the transgressions uncovered in the Mueller investigation. If you are not I seriously wonder where your priorities lay.

Thank you Sir. Appreciate the support. See ya on the 13thg.

Last year the buyout def did not go up enough compared to the raise. given the collapse to seasons end, I get an extension, but I only get a raise if the buyout properly increases. Also: his contract needs to finally be disassociated from the president and ADs presence. That last part sure feels like a conflict of interest problem.

I've heard that too!!!!

Absolutely agree that he is gone after this year...

Not quite...one more practice. But, yep, no more scrimmages.

Yep, right there with you.

I guess we take these midweek games off to work on different things, IDK? We’ll drop another 10 points in the rpi, but a series win over wKY will help smooth things out. Rick

That might be a bit of a long postponement. 😂😂

Spurs had a visual presentation prior to the game honoring Dirk. He really got teary- eyed. I don't support pro-sports any more, but he is a class man.

We’ll still play, and I will still bring that Natty Light in the big can! 😂. Just have to find a day that works and one where Mother Nature won’t, hopefully, come calling.

That's impossible. I heard from multiple people on here that because he dropped a few passes last year, he made a colossal mistake declaring for the draft & should have come back to NT for more seasoning.

I am concerned with who McCasland is going to sign now, not a player who committed his junior in high school year and has recently signed.