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  1. Well I got an email from ESPN letting me know that the college football season is less than a week away. No, the season already started a-holes. P5 elites gonna P5 elite I guess.
    11 points
  2. My apologies - I forgot I had a role to play. *cough* Prepare thy anus, peasants. You're going to get spanked harder than a Phi Delt on pledge night. 👍
    11 points
  3. Ask, and ye shall receive:
    10 points
  4. I saw that my logo design from a few years ago popped up on Twitter today. It reminded me that I have be wanting to revisit the design. Someone had mentioned before that they'd prefer the tri-lettering of 'UNT' rather than 'North Texas' spelled out, since it would look more symmetrical. They were right, so I made a version with that change. I also tweaked the helmets a little bit, by cleaning them up, adding some rotation, and making the logos bigger and more like they are on the actual helmets. I guess the Safeway Bowl isn't for another couple of weeks, but I still get pumped about it every year. Go Mean Green!
    10 points
  5. there was a long list of pre-existing conditions, but COVID killed it.
    6 points
  6. I have often wondered why so many sportswriters want to see greatness in SMU, even ignoring history (outside of the pre-death penalty years) to do so. I never realized so many of our fans were willing to do the same. They beat Texas State by 30 last year, scoring more than this year and holding TSU to less points than this year. Yet, somehow, when they line up against us they will magically be every bit the team they were last year??? We’re so eager to denigrate our own squad that we’re willing to over-inflate the competition to do so.
    5 points
  7. What I liked: Our corners were better than anything we ran out there last year. We played several and changed them repeatedly to keep them fresh. The last group of freshmen are not ready. It was obvious last year game 1 that we were in trouble in the secondary. Maybe not so much this year. We also did not show much variety in scheme (probably because we did not have to). I also liked that we seem to have moved a couple of guys to safety that were not playing there last year. Cam and Gibbs both were much better at safety. I think last year we were asking them to play out of position. Noted is that most of the H.B. scheme was to get the ball out quickly. They will complete a lot of short routes. At that point, you have to tackle. We tackled better than last year, but I still probably would not list that as a strength. What concerns me: That I saw, we never got out of a 3 man front, not even on the goal line. Our DL is a collection of 3 techniques. They are not built to rush the passer and cannot get to the QB when you rush 3 against 5 or 6. We got very little pressure from our down people and I don't think that we will in this scheme. Noted is that H.B. threw a lot of short routes. Their scheme is designed to get the ball out of the QB's hands quickly. It is hard to pressure that scheme. Also, we do not stunt very well from the second level. When your strength is speed, don't run into the fat guys. When the fat guy grabs you, the speed thing is over. Also noted is that when the ball is gone quickly, it does not do much good to stunt. The overall defense is better than last year's, but it almost had to be. The scheme is better. The kids are in places where they can make plays. If this defense can just be average, I think we will be okay.
    5 points
  8. My god. Between that and the Iron Skillet our trophy case is going to look like a trip to Target. How are the receivers and DB's looking? I predict we go back to the 4-3 and focus on stopping your running game and force your receivers to make plays while we go back to more of a basic Air Raid and try to flood your defensive backfield. Wondering how we are going to match up on the outside.
    5 points
  9. Quick Question, Norm: if Siggers returns to early-2019 form, would Tre+Adaway be the best 1-2 punch since Patrick-Jamario?
    5 points
  10. Can someone explain to me the benefits of running a 3-3-5 scheme? My takeaways from this particular defense at UNT is that you must have the right personnel to handle the complexities of it. I know for the most part that having extra men in the secondary have the benefit of disguising coverages and blitz packages but again, the only time that seems to work for us is when we have a skilled and mature secondary (i.e 2018 season). And in our experience, it is definitely not a forgiving system for players that can't measure up to it. My main concern is that the CB position in a 3-3-5 seem to have a ton of pressure by holding down the corners of the field with little help. I always noticed last year how our Corners almost always give about 5-10 yards of space between them and the line of scrimmage. I attribute this to not having enough talent to disrupt routes by being physical and closer to the LOS and instead hedging to prevent any large chucks of yardage by getting beat at the line. Maybe that's just part of the scheme, idk. Regardless, 3-3-5 is an interesting concept and I would hypothesize the main reason we have this defense in place is to make up for our lack in size and replace it with more available speed in terms of the players we recruit. But man, it drives me nuts that we never are able to consistently apply pressure in the backfield. It doesn't seem like a 3-3-5 prioritizes that, but rather tries to plug up as much of the field with as many bodies as possible while throwing in a blitz to try to confuse the QB/OL. Idk... anyone else have thoughts on it?
    4 points
  11. Not to mention our first TD shouldn't have even happened in the first place, but we got an EXTREMELY GENEROUS spot on that 4th down conversion.
    4 points
  12. So I rewatched the game and I'm a lot more worried than I initially thought. They missed 3 field goals. If they make those it's a 23-19 game midway through the 3rd. They moved the ball consistently, our corners were beat deep multiple times, our safeties/LBs got beat up the seam multiple times. Bean made some questionable throws that are probably picked against an FBS team. I get they scored two TD's late to make it look more respectable but they were within 2 scores for the majority of the game. To me, that's reason to worry. I have a bad feeling about SMU if we play like we did against HBU.
    4 points
  13. Sounds like there was a lot of AD internal incompatibility, particularly after trying to sneak in a transfer accused of violent sexual assault and then attempting to hire Art Briles as OC.
    4 points
  14. If you continue these acts of civility you will most likely be banned from Ponyfans.com
    4 points
  15. Super Bowl? Bite your tongue, Alex LifeSon because it’s the.....
    4 points
  16. I like to see this https://www.espn.com/nfl/team/depth/_/name/lac
    3 points
  17. Will the Beyond the Green recaps be coming out this year? Or are they a COVID victim? Always enjoyed watching those.
    3 points
  18. Of course, I’m still trying to remember when they changed this helmet, too, because I had one of these when I was about 4 yrs old.🙄
    3 points
  19. Where's number 27? He went attaway.
    3 points
  20. Stiggers did not look like him old self against HBU. Hopefully he gets back on track.
    3 points
  21. i still thing we need to make this happen....Annual Trophy...
    3 points
  22. When we have threads about what they think of us it perpetuates the idea that it IS our super bowl.
    3 points
  23. Why not just do like ODU and pass on this season. That would balance the divisions. Go all in or all out.
    3 points
  24. But to think about this logically would eliminate the need to fret and wring our hands.
    3 points
  25. I watched the first half of y'alls game and would just say I would not worry about your defense yet. They were dinking and dunking all game. Cheap yardage. Why do anything about that? First game against HBU, no need to press and get creative. That brings me to my second point: I am sure you were playing base defense all night. Why show blitzes and schemes against HBU?
    3 points
  26. I will with hold judgement until after the SMUT game.
    3 points
  27. 2 points
  28. That really sucks. Noticed he got passed up on the depth chart by Nixon.
    2 points
  29. Not going to lie but those SMU helmets are sick and I hate myself
    2 points
  30. Difficult to recruit DTs. Easier to recruit LBs and DBs. I know there is plenty more to it but that has to be a huge part of it.
    2 points
  31. Form Provost Cowley last month: FTIC is First Time In College.
    2 points
  32. I'm in the minority here - but I think this board way overvalues our 'stable' of RBs. The common refrain I see is how any of the top four could start anywhere in CUSA. Early Siggers last was a monster - but he seemed to wear out as the season went on. Then he had that serious injury. He looks like he isn't as explosive. Torrey doesn't seem to have that top gear and isn't large enough to create his own holes. Last year with these two guys as the top, we lacked the ability to move the pile and just couldn't convert the 3rd downs. Why anyone would say Nic Smith could start at another school it beyond me. Attaway is the future. I would start Attaway and use Siggers as the relief runner and on throwing downs. I don't see how that room is full.
    2 points
  33. Should also consider his carries were mostly early and the run game in general wasn’t on track. Hopefully two weeks of OL practice and test for Siggers equals early yardage.
    2 points
  34. It’s not rocket science. Just say yes and we'll move on.
    2 points
  35. I just want to crush the hopes and dreams of the Power 6.
    2 points
  36. 2 points
  37. This season has been nothing but confusion so far. I did hear that a lot of the team was caught up in protests and such. I do t care which side of the fence they are on, but at this point, focus should be on playing football. If he let them off the reservation for that....maybe....but right now is not the time to fire someone because of a 1st game loss.
    2 points
  38. Like the O Line reviews...I don't really get the "no defense" comments... HBU has a really good offense. I believe I saw their QB was 2nd last year in passing in all of FCS. We complained the past few years about giving up big plays so we kept everything in front of us. We only gave up 1 big play with starters in that I can recall. (the busted slant) We kept them between the 20s and held in the red zone. Last year we were one of the worst in the red zone. HBU was one of the best. We were up by 40, 57-17 in the 4th quarter before they got 2 late TDs against our 3rd and 4th string. We tackled better than we have in years last night. I don't know if that's something we're stressing but their tackling was excellent. We actually made adjustments! I thought our secondary looks big. And Gaddie looks like he is going to be good. He nearly had 2 picks he jumped and they basically quit throwing to his side. As for a lack of pressure....we only rushed 3 all night but rushing more wouldn't have helped...they got rid of the ball too fast. So the scheme was right for that offense. I'm not saying this is 2001 but I saw some reason for optimism last night.
    2 points
  39. You should have waited a second for the picture...North Texas scored again on the next play.
    2 points


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