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If you are afraid of the P5 breaking away from the G5, I think this is not good. This kind of exclusion from our end only reinforces the notion that we (G5) are not a part of the same game as them (P5).

Let’s put this in perspective: With Gibbs, Odom, Stoops, and others we are talking about seasoned candidates who have coordinated at the P5 level for years, including the College Football Playoff. We all have every right as fans to be disappointed in the 2019 results, and I can assure you no one is more disappointed than our leaders in Wren Baker and Seth Littrell. However, the good news is that we have raised the bar, financially and otherwise to where our AD, head coach, and key donors are willing to step up to the plate to bring in a coordinator or this caliber for a price that is possibly greater than what the previous head coach (McCarney) was making just a few years ago. If we slow down and put that in perspective, common sense would say we should be encouraged as fans and excited about upgrading the caliber of defensive coordinator at UNT. This is an exciting opportunity to take a major step forward with our program!

Yep. It amazes me that there are people who still don't get it. It would be the final nail in the coffin in separating from the P5.

Enough to throw @Harry into the mouth of a volcano? @Cerebus

4 UNT commits make the list. https://www.vype.com/recruit-scoop-vype-hot-100-for-2020-version-2-0 No. 68 Kade Bond, Magnolia, OL, North Texas Another solid Bulldog OL No. 75 Christian Lee, Friendswood, TE, North Texas Will put on weight to be a legit college TE, good hands No. 76 Loronzo Thompson, Clear Brook, WR, North Texas UNT needs athletes; he's one No. 88 Jett Duncan, The Woodlands, OL, North Texas Will be solid for Mean Green. Coachable, good size

Putting friendship in front of quality. Hope our next QB is a runner.

OK, now that the season is over, anyone care to assess the newest version of the Green Brigade? Let me start. Pre-game. We actually have one now. We start with the big announcement of pre-game starting and then the Band opens with a Fanfare. An original North Texas based composition. This is historical. No one has ever done that. Incorporating the spirit/curfew bell outline into the tribute to America routine was fantastic......and also historical. I don't think that has ever been done either. Half time shows If "Fessor Cook" and the GB keep coming up with shows like this....or better then they are really going to be deserving of the brag "Best Band in America".....but they're not there quite yet. In the stands Great energy and great promotion of fan participation. The Band was having fun and it was infectious. 👍 So how does everyone else feel?

So I know it said the 10s, but the one about the bowl win said 1st of the 21st century??? 2002????

I want this win very very badly.

Regardless, did anybody see Reeder's offense from before and think that's what we got? Did anybody wonder why we didn't get that offense? I know I did. There could be any number of legitimate reasons, including players not meshing well with it. I don't know.

Coach has fired a couple of people.

I was told that a lot of coaches using their passes have to go to the gate to get them and I don’t think they count yet. Also one told me he can’t wear an OU shirt even if they are an OU fan or coached Devion.

Bussey needs to have that surgery though and soon. It's a 9 month rehab. My son tore his ACL in March and he has just now been cleared by the surgeon to return. It's a long recovery. Surgery plays a part but you have to hit the rehab hard. And I want Bussey back. I loved watching him play.

That worked out great the last time we had it.

^^^@Harry

I don't know about Reeder but Reff was clearly coaching his ass off in the UAB game.You hear him yelling in the background while the camera is on Biagi. You can say what you want about ol' Reff's failures but you can't say it was for lack of effort or intensity.

I would think in this OC scenario Mainord would still coach WRs and they would hire a QB coach.

Hmmm. Aged about as well as mine saying Reeder was going to be a vast improvement over Harrell.

It came up near the top of a YouTube search for college football G5. Hope I didn’t ruin your day. your second comment is trollIng because you’re butt hurt the P5 won’t cooperate with the AAC and MWC. You’re stuck with us, dingleberry.

Everyone does poorly at UTEP.

Thanks. But nope. And last I checked we ARE FBS D1! Do not give in or it will forever be a regret. Get conference commissioners in these 5 conferences that have a damn backbone who are willing to fight for inclusion. Relegating ourselves, in an unforced move, would be the end of ANY legitimate college football aspirations. Might as well have all of the schools drop to FCS. Helluva way to save money if we go for this BS.

The guy speaking is an idiot. G5 to 1-AA? absolutely not. There is a big difference between most G5's and the FCS. He doesn't even know the difference, Idaho went to FCS, not FBS.

Nobody will out work Seth! GMG

Agree. He did not get where he is by being a "bad" coach or forget how to coach. I find it funny how people will talk about how bad a coach is when these guys would not have climbed the ladder if the could not coach.

If I am Mike L, I am staying in Pac12. SEC is a chop off heads conference if you aren't consistently winning more than 9 or 10 games it seems like. being Washington St's punching bag is better than being Alabama or LSU's. Plus somebody already said it.. Washington's coach resigned, so maybe that makes the top spot up for grabs in that state. Arkansas does need to hire a well known and sought after coach though.. Still don't understand the Chad Morris hire. You're in the SEC, you can do better..

Langston needs to be gone after early signing day if we have a recruit or two tied to him. There is no excuse for him to be around. His unit has been mediocre to terrible for THREE FUCKING YEARS.

Seems to be a lot of love and respect in that locker room amongst the players. I hope SL does “right the ship.” GMG!

It will easily be 70/30 green if not more.

DT showing no other offers, which I find strange. Our coaches should check this young man out. https://247sports.com/player/josh-ellison-46037856/

No thank you very much to FCS 2.0.

It's not so much about it being a disaster. It's much more about knowing who to hold accountable for the disaster.

I know but I was talking about his specific unit since he's only been here three years.

OSU was the first NT basketball game I ever attended my sophomore year (but first year at NT) and my senior year was the TT game. That was a fun time to be a student for basketball games.. man we were crazy!!! We don’t sit in the pit!!!

To confused, I thought this was pretty straight forward; but apparently not. Rankings by organizations or individuals that publish ratings for every D1 men's basketball team NT's rank, for example: the Massey Composite states NT is the 191 best team. 9 in CUSA, means that NT is rated the ninth best team in the league

Our 1st half of the schedule (after ULAR) is the 12 hardest in the nation

I realize that this is a different era, but we had a clear majority (2/3 at least) when we played both Texas Tech and Oklahoma State. I could be mistaken, but I don't remember it that way at all.

Dead-on... I really wonder if SL and his staff can evaluate OL. Right now, it looks like its his Achilles heal--even in the past couple of years, Mason Fine was being chased around very often as soon as he got the snap, taking some serious hits along the way that also contributed to his senior year performance being worse than in previous years. Look, McCarney had the right idea with linemen on both sides of the ball and running the ball, but he couldn't identify a QB if he tried, which based on recruiting under his tenure would suggest he wasn't trying hard at all. But, as it usually goes here, we go on the far sides of the pendulum between run-oriented and pass-oriented. Dickey and DMac focused solely on ball control and not taking chances down field unless you had to or were playing an inferior opponent. Dodge and SL air the ball out, but get their QBs crushed because their OLs never develop into much under their systems. And defensive focus was/is pretty much nil for both. Just once, it would be refreshing to get a coach who actually focused on both offensive schemes, while also giving defense its due attention. An offense that can run BOTH spread and under the center in short yardage. An offense that looks at the opponent and realizes that maybe running the ball this week will work better than airing it out on most downs. But that won't happen if you have shit on the OL, which is basically what we have had here. I'm not going to hold my breath, either, on that changing next season, even with a new QB. I suspect he will look like Danny Meager and Gio Vizza did in the first part of the Dodgeball years--getting crushed out there while learning on the job how to be a throwing QB in the spread offense.

Arkansas might have the Mississippi schools and A&M as the only teams in their division they can compete with, and even then, that's tough to imagine them beating all three of them in one year. Heck, they haven't beaten A&M in years. Throw in Auburn, Alabama, and LSU and that makes Arkansas one of the toughest jobs in the P5. Leach's agent (again) will use this to get the Pirate a raise in Pullman. Leach's quirkiness plays there--it wouldn't at Arkansas, where you have to glad hand with BMDs and politicians in that state. Leach hates those people. He loves the remoteness of Pullman, while being in a division and conference he can compete in most years. Accept for 2008, his Tech's teams never cam close to winning a division here. Now that Petersen is gone from UW, I suspect he will start finally beating them, too. No matter what, I just cant see him leaving Wazzou for Arky or Ole Miss. If he leaves there, it will be for a job like Miami , where he doesn't have to glad hand a bunch of political appointees.

I absolutely love the America the Beautiful into into the National Anthem, and the halftime space theme performance is great. I still wish we would show the same respect that the UT band showed us in Austin a few years ago by playing the alma mater of our opponents who come in without their band. If our opponents bring their band, give them time to play their alma mater. It saddens me when we take the band to SMU and other locations and are not given a chance to play ours. Let's set a good example by showing respect to our opponents. That said, my only complaint is the Green Brigade was too loud when in the stands and playing between every play - especially last Saturday with not enough fans to absorb the sound. I must add that the part of the halftime where the UNT and Houston bands played together was really special.

THIS!!!!

Come on we had two first year starters at the position- one of which was a freshman. And a Freshman backed him up.

I wouldn't say terrible, one constant was bad angles though. We couldn't play man coverage well, those blitz packages we were able to use last season went out the playbook and we forced very little turnovers when that was our calling card in 2017 and 2018. I also think we were as weak as we have ever been at the OLB and nickel spot. Losing two corners really good corners and replacing them with first year starters hurt as well. We simply did not have the personnel to run the 3-3-5. A new DC is unlikely to run the 3-3-5 again, we will likely see 4 down lineman next season. I wonder what this means for our fast, but undersized linebackers who started this season. And if we are running a 4-3, who the hell plays interior DL alongside Novil next year?

But not by much. I can only give what I find listed. The fact that Troy, ULL ULM, Mercer etc were also there plus Kansas doesn’t make the point that we are 4-8 due to poor recruiting by us and better recruiting by them.. The other three, like the O lines at Rice and La Tech are similar in talent. They are just coached better. That’s fact. Rick

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/12/02/bernardine-evaristo-claims-cultural-appropriation-total-nonsense/

North Texas’ men’s basketball team (3-5) got back on track Monday after making a short road trip to Arlington, Texas in which they took down the University of Texas-Arlington (4-5) by a score of 77-66. The Mean Green won following a week-long break after dropping both of their games in the Jersey Mike’s Jamaica Classic. “We played how we wanted to play,” head coach Grant McCasland said. “It was great to see our guys be able to step in there and have so much success.” It was the 58th meeting between the Dallas-Fort Worth area rivals in which North Texas increased its advantage to 32-26. The Mean Green shot an efficient 50 percent from the field and 37 percent from beyond the arc. They finished with better percentages than the Mavericks who shot 42 percent from the field and 36 percent from downtown. “You could tell our defense was playing a really good team,” McCasland said. “They were able to maintain physicality and we guarded all the way down the stretch.” The Mean Green got going early on offense in this one after outscoring the Mavericks 35-23 in the first half. Numerous players for North Texas scored in double digits against the Mavericks including the starting backcourt of redshirt sophomore Umoja Gibson and redshirt junior guard Javion Hamlet. They both led the game in scoring with 18 each, combining to shoot 50 percent from the field and from beyond the arc as a pair. “Give [Hamlet] and [Gibson] credit,” McCasland said. “They really got loose and put the pressure on them View Full Article

What about Charlie Strong over Orlando? Known as an elite DC.

Short timing routes were our bread and butter on first and second down and those disappeared with the Reeder hire. We were always facing 3rd and long, and we didn't exactly have a dominating OL that could block efficiently for that. Mason was trying his darndest and getting killed for it.

It makes sense for our potentially next 4 year starter build the right relationship from the front with a good coordinator. Reeder might have been good and just had a weird chemistry with Mason. We won't ever know. You can't have that talent and only coach him to 4 wins. Man, chemistry is fickle. I see a young up and comer joining Seth's team to lead this vital side of the ball. It is after all the face of Mean Green football. This will be good for Seth too. He needs freshness on the staff like the players do. I saw a lot of happy faces on the sideline this Saturday. The coaching staff was having to get them riled up to match UAB's emotion on the other sideline. They immediately went from having socializing having fun to being back dialed into the game. Strange. We almost derailed the West Champs. GMG