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fans will get to see what Fine can do with a real legit O-Line, where he has time to throw and check.

Will definitely be watching. Players in the shrine game two years in a row is a good sign for the program.

Feeling really good about the trajectory of the team. Not feeling great about the end of that game.

Great game. Amazing how much better the team looks as compared to our game against Arkansas. Super Pit looked great on television, announcers were good and the crowd sounded great. Proud of the team. If they keep improving, they can do great things. Reese looked like the player he was at Odessa College last year. Nice to see him contributing, and Draper played well. Too bad he isn't two or three inches taller.

Sorry, I find this to be terribly inaccurate statement and not needed. Their star player hit the shot at the end and we had our shooter bring the ball up. I would have like to see Hamlet bring the ball up and then have the option of going to either Gibson or Draper outside, or drive to the basket trying to draw contact.

There are many cases where surgery is not needed for a partial tear. It all has to do with knee stability. I am 100% sure he has been working with an orthopedic doctor who is giving him advice based on his injury. I had a partial tear of my ACL with no stability issues. Recovered in 4 months then had another 3 months of heavy PT. Played 2 more years on the offensive line without braces, jumped out of airplanes for 4 years, and then played 3 years of Rugby at UNT with no issues. At 49 it does sound like popcorn when I walk...

Good game by the Mean Green. Great hustle outrebounding a taller team of that caliber. Just couldn’t overcome the officiating. The Super Pit can be such a fun experience when there’s a decent crowd. Keep the hustle and defense up and we might do something in conference? Rick

Sucks to lose that one but basketball is fun again. On the way home I got angry thinking about where we could be if Benford never happened.

The most disappointing thing is we had a Power conference team at home...on the ropes. We just don't get many visits from brand name schools, when the opportunity is there for a win...gotta snatch it.

Well, could this game feel any more North Texas?

One more ride together for Fine & Hamilton.

While that is true, they also accomplished Seth’s mission before he ever laid it out. I’ve never heard him say “our goal is to win more games than we lose”, I have heard him say for 3-4 years now “win our bowl game” and yet he has been blown out in two of the three he has coached in. Don’t get me wrong, I love Seth and hopes he stays long enough to retire from North Texas but he is never going to win a bowl game or conference title without a top-notch defense. It has to be a priority both in coaching and recruiting. My hope is that his choice for DC will remedy this but we won’t know until they come on board. 3 things HAVE to get better with the new DC. Quarterback pressures, turnovers, and tackling. Edit: And aggressiveness, we need an attacking defense again where the opposing offensive players are afraid to catch or run the ball against us for fear of being lit up.

We should have won the game. But at least we didn’t get our doors blown off. I hope that experience is enough for those students to come back and bring their friends.

Also had three clutch FTs.

We didn't have a TO to take at the end...we'd already used them all up.

OU lead the first minute and the last minute and basically nothing in between. Still proud of the guys tonight

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?

If I'm a P5....I have to be asking what has Bill Clark actually done? Besides beat up a really bad conference with players no one else was allowed to play with and not play anyone in OOC. He's not unlike Littrell in some regards. Both rebuilt programs from the scrap heap. Both have never beaten anyone of consequence. Both have ridden the hype train fueled on their records vs the worst conference in FBS and their program's history. Clark was just able to do it with different rules. I understand his program was gone for a few years but it's not like their players left. They got to hang onto them and then get other players that didn't have to follow the same rules as everyone else. Hell....shutting down their program was actually good for them. What kind of shape would they be in had they kept plodding along before the shutdown....they wouldn't have won the conference, they wouldn't be building a new stadium, etc unless what happened to them had happened. I'm not saying "hey go shut down your program and it will be good." But you can't argue that it hasn't been good for UAB where they sit in 2019. And there's not enough to show from Bill Clark at this point. He hasn't proven anything of substance to warrant a P5 job yet. He's going to have to do it a few more years.

Maybe other programs see this too..... He won't be playing his 30 year olds against G5s....maybe they want to see one more year...how he recruits?

If I may opine, I think Fine will shine at the Shrine

off subject. but got updated list of DC candidates. Good looking group.

For both of them.

The band is great, but someone over there needs to figure out how to play with the flow of the game. When we are on defense, they play extremely loud on 2nd down. Fantastic. But there has been countless times where they don't make a peep on 3rd. That needs to change. Also if I hear one more peep out of the band when we are on offense I am going to lose my mind. The band should not play on offense. You should be able to hear a pen drop in Apogee when our team is preparing to snap the ball. Not that it makes me some expert, but I was in drumline in high school (even considered trying out for the NT drumline, but decided to move on from that) and even our small school crappy band knew when we were suppose to play in the stands.

I hope the last part happens. I hope fans see how we can compete at any level, and show up Saturday.

Only at North Texas would records of 22-32 and 42-64 be classified as "working"

NT 41 ---------- OU 36 Halftime Excellent twenty minutes by the good guys.

As a multiple decade basher of the band, probably the most negative I have been on the board, I think this was the best version I have ever seen at North Texas. I enrolled in '93 and graduated in '96. They were uniform and involved in the games. I have absolutely nothing to complain about this year that is not just my personal preference and that doesn't matter. Thank you Daniel Cook.

That’s not how dropping sourced info works lol

Great opportunity for him to showcase his talent. He really wasn't able to this year.

He was stepped up so much this year. It is so fun to watch! I hope he can keep this streak up

I think he's defending what Littrell has done here so far, and some people can only see through the lense of our own past... so he has to bring up 1-11. 1 down year is somewhat acceptable (it's a tough pill to swallow, though) when having 9 win seasons in between. Now, if next season is another 6-win or less season, then I'll start getting nervous.

You're defending mediocrity. My apologies...Don't let me get in the way.

Good.

This would be a great hire for them if they do it. heard son interesting names down there. https://thespun.com/college-football/houston-nutt-interested-in-coaching-job

I'm no expert but, I play one on this forum and it seems to me that when an underdog-ish team gets up 8-10 points, they start to play, "not-to-lose" ball when the strategy should be, "bury-they-ass" ball.

I love this team's defense, hustle and the way they hit the boards. I think we have the makings of a really good team. The Super Pit looked so much better on television. The court looks fantastic and the white paint really lightens up the arena. From watching on television, I really didn't think the refs were that bad. I have got to figure out a way to be in Denton when their are a couple of home games this season.

Pictures don't do the court justice. It looks much better in person. Also, we didn't use paint for the colors in the key and along the sidelines; instead it is a green or white stain which allows the grain of the wood to still show. I like the way it looks.

Bloomgren's getting a bunch of players from outside of Texas. He'll get his team up to 6-6/7-5 level and plateau there. We'll see about Clark. He's a fantastic coach, and still had a handful of old guys playing for him this year. His main offensive weapon was Spencer Brown who is graduating this year. His offense could look completely different next year. Like it or not, if you want to attract top Texas talent, you need to run a similar type of offense to what they run in high school so they can identify with what you're doing. Littrell does that, and the talent is starting to come in. Also, no one has a problem with the offense or defense when we're smashing UTSA 45-3... it's only when we're losing.

well nUTSAck needs to keep the reporters away and not give him a state issued cell phone, or at least turn off the texting.

We are clearly improving. Heartbreaker at the end. Team is coming together, we’ve just gotta figure out how to close out these tight games. The encouraging thing about the team is their defense, rebounding and athleticism. We play tenaciously on the defensive side of the ball. That will serve us well moving forward now that we’re starting to put things together offensively. Atmosphere at the Pit was great. Even though we didn’t get the W, the team put on a show against a name opponent. Fans will be back.

It worked out great until McCarney and Chico ran out of Todd Dodge-coached quarterbacks. McCarney’s downfall was meddling in the quarterback situation. If you recall, our defense was still damn good at the start of the 2014 season. It wasn’t until the dismal offense wore them down that their play started to fade. They ended the college careers of David Ash and June Jones in the first two weeks of the season. I think if Mac/Chico had done a better job with the offense, we’d have had a string of bowl wins. Defense wins championships, just ask every national champ of the playoff era. There is a reason that the highly revered (and I like him too) Mike Leach has never won an outright division or conference championship in his 18 years as a head coach. Now don’t get me wrong the defense can’t do it without an average to above average offense. But even the best offense won’t win you jack without a good to great defense.

Is Smart still on the team?

Heard 5,600+ For attendance. I’m sure the ou fans were expecting an easy win. Fooled you! GMG!

I agree. McCasland is usually good at set plays coming out of a timeout, but maybe he didn't want to allow OU to set up their defense.

FUUUUUUCK. It was there! We had them all game and they squeaked it out in the end..... FUUUUU

NT 66 ---------- OU 56 11:36 to go That was a great stretch by the guys in green.

I think Mcaslands had about enough of the refs horrible calls. Close to getting a T, but I don’t blame him. You would think OU was the home team here. Their fan behind me thinks it’s hilarious they are getting all the calls.

yeah, i think it's hard for NT students in 2019 to really understand how big things were in 2010-2013