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  1. Wish you well. We have some talent at linebacker but you have some experience there as well. Give it your best effort and I believe that you can succeed.
    5 points
  2. KD was good for us, he's wasn't Zac orr though. I like what we have at LB. I think we'll be ok.
    5 points
  3. Still can’t shake the disgust over this. I get it from his point of view but selfishly as a LOYAL fan who gets so rarely rewarded for it, his legacy is entirely tarnished for me. Hope that feels good for him.
    4 points
  4. Hey KC want to put in a few bucks toward the project?
    4 points
  5. Two things… 1) We have more wins than Texas Tech over the last 5 years 2) Kansas has less than 10 wins…but one of them is Texas
    4 points
  6. Former Kansas City Chiefs running back Abner Haynes has been honored by the University of North Texas with a new Unity Plaza. When you think of all of the great running backs employed by the Kansas City Chiefs over the years, it’s important to remember that the all owe something to the franchise’s first great back—‚literally the forerunner for them all—in Abner Haynes. Haynes was the first star running back of the franchise, going back to the days in which the team wasn’t the Chiefs and they were not yet located in Kansas City. Even with the Dallas Texans, Haynes was establishing himself as a beast in the backfield after winning the AFL’s first ever Rookie of the Year award in 1960. From there, Haynes would command the attention of defenses with a hearty 4.8 yards/carry average. Nearly 60 years after he was traded away from the Chiefs, he’s still No. 6 all-time on the team’s rushing yards list with 3.814. read more: https://arrowheadaddict.com/2022/06/24/former-chiefs-rb-abner-haynes-honored-university-north-texas/amp/
    3 points
  7. I'm not overly optimistic. However, the man has taken us to almost 50% (5 of 12, I believe) of our bowl games. Yes, he's lost them all. But we were playing December football under him 5 of the 12 times in our school history. That's a tip of the hat to him, but also eye opening to how poor of a football program we have. I think if he continues taking his team to bowl games, especially given our history, you have to keep him on board. Eventually, the stars will align for that elusive 10-win season/bowl championship. With that said, he's done such a mediocre job, the moment we're 4-8 and watching from the couch he has to go. So, IMO, SL has put himself in a tough position and it's certainly of his own doings.
    3 points
  8. Give the rolling eyes all you want to but the truth is when players leave this program people gush over them and follow them and give updates and yet when we sign players everyone want to point out their faults.
    3 points
  9. September 27, 2008 sitting in Rice Stadium watching a team that was woefully ill-prepared lose 77-20. October 10, 2016. Was given tickets to the Club Level. My youngest son and I then sat through a complete thrashing to freaking Portland State. Having our administration relegate us to D1AA and the Southland Conference. Sitting in Fouts many times when I could have thrown handfuls of gravel and not hit a soul. We are down but far, far from an all-time low.
    3 points
  10. Portland St. End of discussion.
    3 points
  11. The current one-time transfer exception is not good for college football. Even professional athletes have contracts that bind them to teams for certain time periods and allow organizations a fair opportunity to build a winning roster. A transfer model must be adopted that offers athletes the option to explore other opportunities, but still incentivizes schools to invest in and develop players. I propose a model where all players have the opportunity to transfer and be immediately eligible AFTER they have accumulated the equivalent of 60 credit hours at their current institution AND again after they graduate (if they still have eligibility remaining). If a player declines to transfer when they hit the 60 hours, that player loses the opportunity to transfer and be eligible immediately until they are a grad transfer. Any player may elect to transfer during the transfer window at ANY point in their career, but transferring before or after your “free” 60 hour transfer or “free” grad transfer will cause you to sit out a year AND lose a year of eligibility. Hardship waivers are no longer available for anyone. If your dog gets sick and you want to transfer, too bad. If someone in your social studies class looks at you funny, too bad. If your favorite coach gets hired somewhere else, too bad. You can still transfer during any transfer window, but there are consequences for doing so outside of your “free” opportunities. The transfer window also opens and closes in the spring. Let’s say it is open from February 15-April 15. If you opt to explore your transfer option when you are eligible, you cannot participate in offseason workouts or spring football at your current school and you must sign with your new school by X date to be eligible for the next football season. If you do not sign by X date, you must wait until the next year’s transfer window and lose a year of eligibility or you may drop down a level to Juco, FCS, DII, DIII and be eligible immediately. The 60 hours must be accumulated AT the current institution. If you graduate high school with 30 hours of college credit, that doesn’t count. Everyone starts at 0 towards the transfer requirement when they enroll at their school. This proposed transfer model allows players who fulfill their obligations as student athletes the freedom to fulfill their athletic potential while also rewarding schools for the investments they make in these players to adequately plan and build winning rosters.
    2 points
  12. I had/have several jobs, one for 35 years with the same employer. Never had to sign a contract with any of them. I could quit whenever I wanted. An athletic scholarship, however, does require a contract, and a firm commitment on the part of both the school and the athlete. It's really not as hard to understand as you're making it out to be.
    2 points
  13. They are all commitments. Sorry if you don't think players should be held accountable for their actions, but they are. At what age do you think it's ok for them to be treated and act like adults?? Welcome to the real world...
    2 points
  14. Bro, it was so bad we stormed the field after that game
    2 points
  15. As soon as someone tweets at Matthew Brune and/or Gabe Brooks and asks them to.
    2 points
  16. Funny, had this suggestion seen the light of day a year or so ago, the wrath of the NCAA likely would have crashed down upon us. Now, we make such a suggestion on our own fan board. SMU was ahead of their time.
    2 points
  17. Happy Day!!WICHITA FALLS, Texas — North Texas head soccer coach John Hedlund on Thursday was awarded as the Midwestern State University Student-Athlete of the 1980s on Thursday at the school's 2022 Nexstar Sports Awards held at the Wharehouse event center in Wichita Falls, Texas.The awards were given out in honor of MSU's centennial. Hedlund, who founded the UNT soccer program in 1995 and enters his 28th season as its head coach this year, was a Mustang men's soccer student-athlete from 1980-84 and graduated with a criminal justice degree. A two-time All-American, Hedlund guided his teams to the NAIA National Tournament three times, in the 1983 National Tournament Hedlund scored a record four goals in one game, earning Tournament Most Valuable Player. He scored 26 times and dished out 12 assists while wearing the maroon and gold. During his time in Wichita Falls, Hedlund also played for the U.S. National Team."Truly honored to receive this award tonight," Hedlund said "Some of my fondest memories throughout my career were wearing the Maroon and Gold!"After his time at MSU, Hedlund embarked on a successful 12-year professional career, before coming to North Texas.At UNT he has become the university's all-time winningest head coach by leading the Mean Green to 373 wins, 16 conference championships, seven NCAA Tournament appearances and zero losing seasons in his almost three decades in Denton.
    2 points
  18. NONo no! He has gotten bowls with 5-6 wins. That is not acceptable in year 9!
    2 points
  19. I want to laugh at this comment, but in today's college football landscape it is so true.
    2 points
  20. Bye. Hurry off campus. College football is pitiful.
    2 points
  21. The difference between now and previous downtimes is that now just feels hopeless. Any decent player we get, will just leave us for more money. How much would a P5 school have paid for a sophomore Brandon Kennedy or a freshman Jamario Thomas or a junior Mason Fine? Hard to invest in this when you get gut-punched by your all conference linebacker transferring (at the end of June!). I don’t know what the solution is, or if there will be a solution. All I know is that since the selfishness of NIL and the transfer portal hit college football, I care about it less and less.
    2 points
  22. Am I the only one that this guy started to lose a little bit of credibility when he never mentioned Tommy Bush, but then lost all credibility when he said we have one of the top WR corps in the Sunbelt?? Lol
    2 points
  23. I have a suggestion. If a player transfers and gets a NIL at the new school, they have to pay the original school the cost of attendance for the time spent. If they are going to use as as farm teams, they should have to provide some compensation.
    2 points
  24. Y'all are in an ugly place. Maybe it's wisdom, maybe it's stupidity, but with the money we are spending and with Wren in charge, I can carry confidence through this adversity unlike any previous administration/generation. When we were getting hew HCs under RV, usually after a awful situation that involved firing the previous HC, I never felt this confidence. I was always like, "Well, crap let's hope the next guy is a home run but it's probably just another next-in-line-to-be-fired guy."
    2 points
  25. Nevermind. I'm wrong. This would have to be the worst.
    2 points
  26. That's odd because when I go to MeanGreenSports (desktop & mobile) and click on "Tickets" it tells me Away tickets will go on sale 7/6 at 9 AM. No idea how you managed to find an old article
    2 points
  27. Well deserved. No need for a new $90 mil arena (save the money for a Real football coach!!), the SuperPit is a great venue, just needs some tweaks.
    2 points
  28. With the ease of transferring it would appear your own personal definition of a firm commitment is actually not required, correct? A player can sign his "contract" and 6 months later leave and go to another school with no negative consequences all while never breaking any rules. If it was against the terms of the contract how are so many players transferring and not being punished in any way? You may disagree with the currently written rules, but acting like some type of binding contract is being broken when a player transfers is not reality. You don't get to apply your own personal definition of commitment and contract to things when you can clearly see that's not how things work. It's clear we just have differing opinions on this and that's fine, world would be a boring place if everyone agreed all the time. All I ask is that you keep this same mentality when we hire a new coach or bring in a new transfer player, and that goes for everyone else on here who feels the same.
    1 point
  29. Aren’t scholarships renewed annually? So really you’re talking about a one year “contract” anyway.
    1 point
  30. It’s deeply disheartening and so bad for the program. I blame Littrell.
    1 point
  31. Like it, appreciate the time you out in this little project but the NCAA would neither endorse nor enforce this because it makes too much sense.
    1 point
  32. When it comes to paying players, SMU has a lot of experience.
    1 point
  33. No. If you do that, then that agreement will have to be made anytime a player wants to leave. If you do not as a coach, it will be such that players will talk among themselves and say "coach X denies you new opportunities". The fact is simple: schools/coaches need players to commit. But in the future any rule change that wants to achieve this needs to make sure that this cannot be a one-way street. Said commitment also needs to be made and valid for schools/coaches toward the player and incur significant risks/costs if they want to break it. A bad fit needs to punish both school and player for some time, so everyone pays extra care to not take either side for granted.
    1 point
  34. A scholarship is a contract, which includes stipulations. So is joining the Marines, or buying a car, or getting married, etc. They can quit the contract, but there could be penalties. Time for them to grow up, or don't sign a contract!
    1 point
  35. Looks like a good player. I wonder where he will transfer to
    1 point
  36. Just my opinion, but Littrell raising the floor to 6-6 - that we feel disappointed by that prospect - shows just how far the program has come since he started.
    1 point
  37. 1 point
  38. Not gonna argue he loses some luster on his Mean Green legacy. The larger point I’m trying to make is that he gave us 4 seasons, include 3 starting seasons, same for Brammer, and that benefitted us more than him leaving hurt us. Fans can hate them for leaving, I don’t care. But obviously I look at things from the recruiting angle and Brammer and Davis seem to invoke fear of recruiting high school players now. We can’t look at the signees in this age as “not working out” just because they Transfer. What did they give us while they were here? Not saying you are making this claim, just clarifying my point. I’m not saying both move back to Mike. Just one of them. Most likely Wood, like you said. But the positions aren’t that different. The best two will be on the field, which could be Brown but only if he’s better, not just because that’s where he was in the spring and they weren’t.
    1 point
  39. 2010 and 2015 were pretty terrible
    1 point
  40. A change was made immediately afterward. We knew a change was coming. That was the lowest point of NT Football as a program, but fan morale the day after was not as low as it is now.
    1 point
  41. I think morale was pretty low during the Dodge years. But the expectations were extremely low back then, so it didn't seem so bad. Back then, we'd have been extremely happy with 6-6 football. Expectations are now higher than they've ever been (thanks to Smatresk, Baker, & 2016-18 Littrell), so now that we're spinning wheels at .500 football, it seems like it's the worst it's ever been.
    1 point
  42. Such a weird card to play. I've had jobs to do that I didn't want to work, but I did them anyways. The difference here is, the burden is on SL to totally fake out 80+ student-athletes who are itching to see whether you are sincere or not. If SL is half-assing this job, he's fooling a ton of people that have incredible insight.
    1 point
  43. Uhm, can't wait for softball season (reason #37) GMG
    1 point
  44. This type of player movement will only drive interest in college sports further down. We saw the same thing w/ the one and dones. It sounds like it's such a great idea, but part of the allure of college sports (or sports in general) is watching players grow, earn their time, and become great. You get to KNOW the names of the players on most teams. Other than UNT, how many of you know any players on any other teams anymore. I grew up knowing the starting five for every Big East and ACC team. Ratings and attendance are dwindling across the board!
    1 point
  45. IMO, you're wrong. He barely kept his job last year at 6-6 and won't be brought back if he repeats that. It gets murky at 7-5. It would probably depend on how competitive we are in our losses. Like if we lose to the 5 best teams on our schedule by double digits I don't think Littrell is brought back. Or if we lose ANOTHER bowl game to finish at 7-6 then I think Wren Baker will decide to move on. You can't fundraise with a .500 program.
    1 point
  46. No doubt. Plus, Coach DeLong is currently making about the same amount as what Tech's former coach was making when she was fired last month (not sure what this new guy signed for).
    1 point


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