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Which was the most excitement and motivation he's shown in 7 years

Hey NT fans, I have been reading through some of the Gunnell talk on here. I thought I would take the time to share Seth's presser today. He gives some insight into the kind of dude Gunnell seems to be and their relationship. I know the fan base here was excited to get him when he transferred in; unfortunately injuries prevented Grant from getting a shot at filling in after Brady White's departure. Now Seth commands the Offensive side. I do believe if he gets healthy and right you have a very solid QB option moving into AAC play next year.

How much confidence would you have if you were given 2nd team reps all off-season and then saw no opportunity to play even when the starter is clearly incapable of game to game (or year to year) progression. And that’s not just a SL issue, Mac did the same.

Do you mean to tell me DD would be fired from A&M, and there's a possibility of hiring Fuente here & getting the Memphis gang back together at UNT? THE Darrell Dickey would be OC at UNT, practicing on fields that bear his name? Sign me up!

On Sept. 15,2014, then-University of North Texas football coach Dan McCarney addressed the media about a disease few knew about, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, in an effort to draw attention to it with a passion and commitment that was soon to become the norm for thousands of college football coaches and their staff. McCarney began, “For those of you [who] don't know what Duchenne muscular dystrophy is, it is an incurable disease right now, and we got to try [to] find a cure for it. And I've got a young man over in Argyle, Texas, which is pretty cool, right in our backyard; his name's Corbin Fanning. ... He's 10 years old, and he'll be at our practice tomorrow.” As is the custom with all the colleges that participate in the Coach To Cure MD, North Texas made Fanning its honorary captain for a week ahead of the annual final Saturday of September game that has more than 10,000 coaches and their staff wearing Coach To Cure patches on their arms on game day — which this year is Sept. 24. Corbin Fanning, then-North Texas coach Dan McCarney, and Michael Hope. The two boys, stricken with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, were adopted by the Mean Green as team members eight years ago. Courtesy photo It was clear Corbin Fanning and the entire Fanning family had already had a profound impact on McCarney before the then-10-year-old had even joined their team for the week. “He's got more courage than probably all of our football team coaches and players alike, blended together, put together,” said McCarney, his voice faltering. “What he's battling, life expectancy for anyone that has Duchenne muscular dystrophy, the average is about 25 years old. And we hope that by the time he gets before that age, we can find a cure.” McCarney added. read more: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/as-college-football-has-blossomed-so-has-coach-to-cure-md

I listened, & he said the word “execute” no less than a dozen times. I hope the players understand when he says “we didn’t execute”, he’s saying, “we (coaches) put you in a position to succeed with a brilliant play call, but you all suck.” Virtually no ownership.

Not really country, but I ask this question almost every Fall Saturday

Littrell has been waiting for this moment. The moment to put it all together. He runs the table. 10-2. Wins the conf championship game in front of 32,000 at Apogee to get to 11-2 and then the bowl game vs a 7-5 SEC team to get to 13-2 and finishes the season #20 in the nation. We all owe him an apology and a big fat extension.

I just want to be there when he meets with the guy running the NIL group....

It’s apparent y’all haven’t been paying attention to Grant as he’s been getting out promoting the upcoming season. Grant stated that he took what he had and made it work by using guys like JJ to keep the tempo down. He has repeatedly told people that this year will look a lot different and he will definitely have more kids in the rotation and they will significantly increase the pace! Ross is not going to have a team that doesn’t play fundamental defense, but I don’t think we will have many shot clock violations this year!

I didn’t think it was as bad as some made it out. He said they have to be better as players and coaches. He said that overall the offense did well except for 7 or 8 plays that really hurt them. The only thing he said that I had a problem with was the short yardage explanation. He says with our experience on the Oline and in the backfield that we should be able to get one yard and that we were 92% on third or fourth and short last year. My problem is, this isn’t last year bud. We are running closer to zero percent than 92% this season.

THE WORST thing about this whole deal is the “poop” sandwich of wanting SL to lose and not wanting to see the kids lose.

please someone listen to it and tell me what he said. I just cant stand to even listen to him anymore

That's just how baby giraffes walk.

Nice to see Mr Munoz part of the Presidents Cup World team. LIV took a few of the really good Latin players and it provides an opportunity for Sebastian. GMG

The main difference between UNT and teams like UNLV, UTSA and SMU is the quality and amount of portal players coming from high level FBS programs. Most here will agree, Seth was very late to the game in terms of setting the stage for being a portal destination. Sonny figured this out sooner than most. But so did Traylor and Arroyo. Signing lower level portal transfers is not going to cut it against transfers from Alabama, Arkansas, Ole MIss, Oklahoma and Texas. The lack of bringing in a quality QB other than Mason Fine is also a huge red flag. Again, if this was year 2-3 maybe you swallow your pride and hope for better.

I have no problem with Mazin Richards coming here and playing. It's kind of bad that he beat out other DL here that had multiple FBS offers. He's averaging 5 tackles a game and does have 1.5 sacks on the year. The problem is the lack of overall talent on defense.

I think we underestimate the quality of the guys Mac is bringing in this year. Jayden Martinez is a stud and a lights out shooter. That will open things up in the middle. Nobody was guarding TBIII on the perimeter last year. Eady is a long, athletic guard than can shoot the three too. Adding another legit big man to backup Abou will serve us well. Overall, this team is bigger, longer and has better shooters.

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I was in book advertising purgatory. Anyway, Neal Brown can't #17. He has to be Top 5. There is no sign growth at WVU. His saving grace is that WVU doesn't have the money to outbid anyone, so maybe that's why he is so low on the list?

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Skip Holtz would be a nice hire, no doubt. He's been a solid coach for a long time. The thing with La Tech is that their football program is their primary window to the school--they have used it to promote their school for 50 years. It's what they depend on for getting students, getting donations, and getting fans. They skimp on a lot, but their talent level in LA is huge, too. They don't accept losing for long in Ruston, similar to the way that Marshall and USM run their football programs or how the basketball program is run at WKU. Losing is not an option--USM fired a football coach after one year of a 5-year deal because he went 0-12 in 2013. It's obviously not how we look at sports and winning--we kept Todd Dodge, Tony Benford, and now, Seth Littrell, for an extra year to save money. We either don't have the money or we won't spend the money. Either way, winning ain't important here...and if you do accomplish anything of a decent amount, you're getting a big extension and not getting fired until you are affordable to let go.

Oh man, if it's truly between those two, it likely means we still have Littrell around. Because I'm willing to bet a new HC & OC will want to bring in a new QB. Sam Pittman is the Head Coach. Absolutely nothing wrong with an OL coach (or RBs, or LBs, or Safeties, etc....) being a HC at all. Do you know who Arkansas' OC/QBs coach is though? I'll give you a hint, he grew up a QB in an offensive system that is INCREDIBLY effective.

It was a classy reaction by him. Not sure I could pull that off within a few hours if I ever got canned from my job (then again my buyouts doesn't get me the same amount of grey goose)

I believe Aune will be the QB for this season unless he gets hurt or forgets how to hand off the ball. Next year’s QB battle will be between Gunnell and Ruder. Hopefully this experiment using an offensive line coach as a QB coach will be recognized as a mistake and we get a QB coach that can help them with their mechanics. Proper technique really does matter.

Yup but because our reputational economics afford us only one beat guy he can’t push the boundaries for fear of losing what leverage he does have. More interest is coming and I’m not blaming Bret and as a long time Seth homer I think Seth has taken advantage of that leverage quite a bit by being short with him and not giving much meat on the bone with answers. I understand that is probably just a personality thing but it probably afforded Seth a lot of space to hide and maybe even unintentionally abuse that situation. Respect and appreciation to both of those guys for their efforts. I just think it’s sad we don’t have more interest driving more critical takes and equally more respect for such interest from a head coach.

The players need the lesson in real life…it’ll make them tougher and better in anything they do later. Whats best for the entire program is for SL to go. He’s been shown to be nothing without Mason Fine and Graham Harrell together…absolutely nothing. I don’t know if we will be able to hire anyone who can do any better than he’s done here, but I do know his time is up.

Good for him that Vito keeps things on a positive spin. He could easily be putting out articles that are ripping set apart.

A&M not gonna spend the money to buy out Jimbo. Sip fans think Sarkisian will lead them to the promised land. For some of the others on the list, this list makes no sense.

My God, imagine anyone seeing this schedule and thinking 3 wins is the best we could do. With these great CUSA recruiting classes, too. What a colossal failure…at a bare minimum, we should have 5 wins against these spares.

He said that he has a few polos on Ebay for sale if anyone is interested.

Page 46 extends SL to January 31, 2024 and Pages 47-48 show his comp numbers through the 2023 season.

I'm good at my job, and if my boss was like "you're great, but we're gonna fire you because we hate your stupid face, and also your mom is stupid and your wife is ugly and stupid" and then gave me $1m, I'd give them a hug and say "I love you, too," on my way out the door, because money speaks louder than words.

Re-watching the tape... First throw was fine, nothing great or bad, and his feet were planted but he just didn't look like he was driving. Second throw is a play-action and our backup OL gets obliterated. Has a guy in his face, but makes an accurate throw to a WR who's being interfered with (flagged and accepted). Off his back foot, but unable to do anything about that because he has a defender hitting him. Third throw was a play-action and he either did a GREAT ball-fake or he bobbled the ball a little on the fake (or both). It threw off the timing enough that once again he had a defender in his grill and wasn't able to step into the throw. Not a great pass as it hung up there for a while, but it still got 30 yards in the air off his back foot to Maclin crossing the field and was completed. If he's able to step into it, it's probably 6. Fourth throw - pick in the end zone. Everything about this is bad. He's not under tremendous duress, the WR is bracketed, he doesn't set his feet. THIS is the jump-throw I was thinking of, and idk why it happened. This is just a bad bad bad rep. But we're at 3/4 of his passes being fine at this point, and his first inaccurate pass (might only give him partial credit for the 2nd throw). Now, I feel like I missed one, because he's listed as 2-4 with the pick, but the incomplete 2nd pass shouldn't count as an attempt. After the pick, he never threw the ball again. I was skipping around, so it's possible I missed an attempt, but I don't think so. The problem is I just don't have much to go on from his time here. He should've come in earlier against TSU, but I think SL still feels the need to get Aune as many game reps as possible.

Yeah, Steven Godfrey is really good on this stuff. I’ve said it before, there just does not appear to be an appetite on either side to extend this thing any further.

Grant Gunnell szn next week. Aune is the QB you play to keep your job, Gunnell/Head/Earl is the QB you play to attempt save your job.

Yep. Little ol' UNT is not a real player. So their coaching situation is never dire. They proved it last year when Littrell was routinely in the top 10 of this list early in the season (before his "turnaround" on the back half). When you're coming off back-to-back 9-win seasons, and you crap the bed 2 seasons in a row, then start out 1-6, that's 100% fireable for a program who is serious about winning... but not here. So, Littrell will hang out at the bottom of this list. Everyone knows he should be fired, but not everyone believes he will be.

Someone should frame this post. This board has an obsession with the phrase "Texas ties." Is it a bonus? Yes, but it's not the be-all end-all for hiring a coach. Texas is a place like any other and good recruiters will build relationships and be successful.

We do not need to pay $2 million to have a successful coach, for crying out loud, the fans wanting to throw out millions of a very finite amount for a coach is just desperation. App State, Marshall, La Tech, ULL, Troy did not spend millions to win games, but somehow we have to spend millions when the fanbase does not donate squat for the # of alumni.

I remember thinking this when we hired Matt Simon...and Darrell Dickey...and Todd Dodge...and Dan McCarney...and Seth Littrell...130 wins, 1 tie, and 209 losses later, .382 winning percentage over 28+ seasons, I'm fairly certain that I know what to expect.

North Texas: Both the Mean Green and head coach Seth Littrell have a lot of respect for each other, which is why this long-term relationship might end gracefully. UNT was whipped by a moribund UNLV program last weekend, and it’s unlikely they’ll create the bounce-back season the end of 2021 seemed to hint at. Now a significant step behind C-USA/American transition programs like UTSA and UAB, this marriage is likely over. If UNT moved now, they’d only owe Littrell around $1.9 million, although that number could go down if they fired him at season’s end or later. UNT is aspiring to Houston-levels as they enter the American, and this will be a sought-after job. LINK: https://athlonsports.com/college-football/college-football-hot-seat-watch-picking-up-pieces-at-arizona-state-nebraska-whos-next

Hell there are some guys on our defense that started at a D2 school! Who needs P5 transfers when you have the East by Southwest Rhode Island Technical School for the Blind

Yes but that’s the hope that keeps us coming back and desiring accountability. I think that concept of accountability has been the biggest hurdle. Who’s accepting the mediocrity? The “Administration” became the “big money donors”…All the while blaming the students and alumni for lack of engagement. Truth is, everyone wants to see success at this point. Don’t discount how much the large donors have given to get us to the AAC, don’t discount the students for showing up week 1, don’t discount everyone doing their affordable parts. Meanwhile let’s also all keep identifying and vocalizing our issues so they can get fixed. Respect and accountability go hand in hand. Hopefully our fanbase can navigate these waters with the right balance over this next stretches. I genuinely believe Wren and Neal and our large donors are seeing relatively clearly right now. Appreciate Seth for the good times, I think they all see the writing on the wall and things are in the works.

Same Here! Going to be something about all 3 phases and not executing

I went through all of his throws in the TSU game, and all of his throws but the pick (which was very very bad in almost every way) were good. The SMU game there wasn't much to go on. He had an early scrambling throw, believe it was his first, that he just rushed and threw at the feet of the RB like 4 yards away. Pretty awful. Then he took an ugly sack where he probably should've gotten rid of the ball (but everyone was pretty well covered), and had to throw to a blanketed WR on 4th and 9. Next drive we had a play-action on 2nd and 1, he had all the time in the world, and threw to a wide open Gumms down the sideline. Accurate throw, and one I'd expect to be made. Then from the 9 yard line, we run it twice and get nothing, so it's 3rd and goal from the 6 before we throw again. Nobody gets open, and Gunnell tosses it out of the end zone. Goes through all his reads and nobody is even close to open. 4th and goal from the 6, looks like it's a designed play to Ragsdale just past the LOS, which sounds worse than it is since the WR DO successfully clear out the underneath. But Ragsdale is a bit too wide and stumbles as he catches the ball. And there were more reports from Spring than just the coach. Local media and fans had said he looked good in Spring Practice. Not raves or calls for him to take the starting job, but just that he looked good. I'm starting to think it's less about the injury and more about rust from not playing in a long time and our offensive coaching staff/lack of QB coach, though I leave open the possibility that he's re-injured or aggravated the leg in some way. All of that said, I'm not seeing anything from the game footage that tells me he would be any worse than Aune.

Fair enough. But they didn't just roll into the Sun Belt and start kicking ass. They were 13-23 their first 3 seasons. Since then they've been on an incredible 25-3 run. A coach who can elevate a program to a new level is what we're looking for and I don't think there are many realistic options who have done that better than Chadwell.

I don't know that we're sure of what we're getting in some of our transfers (Sissoko didn't have many minutes at Cincy & Huntsberry came from D2), but I believe Eady and Martinez are going to be instant-impact players based on what they were doing at their previous schools and what we do here. Eady started every game for NDSU last season, averaging over 10pts & was all-conference DEFENSE team (you know McCasland loves that!). Martinez filled it up at New Hampshire (averaging over 15pts/gm, including a .424 3pt%), and was 2-time All-conference. These transfers are no slouches.