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To add to your list, I expect: Major cutdown on NT turnovers: Maybe 1 pick and no fumbles 300+ yards for NT through the air 60-100 yards rushing (it HAS to pick up sometime, doesn't it?) No personal foul penalties Cut down on false starts Significant improvement in tackling I don't really see your list as a "cop-out" . I think a win against FAU on Saturday would be big for us. I'm not gonna over-react if we happen to lose this game, but I fully expect this to be a close game either way. A blowout win by FAU would definately send some bad signals though.

Much classier indeed. Not nearly the "Bang for you Buck"...so to speak.

The whole Schnelly thing is funny to me. What's that guy ever done? Oh well. To be honest, I'm all for anything that'll get NT fans fired up, and hopefully showing up in force on Saturday (even if it's a taken out of context quote). I think we all need the defense to play better this week so we can pick up our first win. Probably help with the thin skin around here

The Highway 157 in Arlington location? $1 goes a long way there.

I found several things in that thread humorous. It was just interesting that going on the road for our home opener with a new coach that they are expecting a huge blowout. I truly feel like both offenses should be effective. Seems like the team who makes improvements in defense and special teams will have the advantage here. The game should be good. In the Minnesota game, FAU's defense did not really show the ability to stop their offense.

Just trying to stir up some football discussion on the board. Not sure I've really succeded as this has all the makings of a great de-rail thread. I was getting tired of reading tailgaiting threads. I do, however, have very thin skin. I can't handle FAU picking on us. They are the big dogs after all.

FAU-NT talk This thing should be in the bag for them. If they just play within themselves, they should hang 50 points on us, no problem. A shutout is definately within the realm of possibility for FAU. Guess we should just cancel the game this weekend...The juggernaught that is FAU is just too much for us to compete with. Guess if you win by 3 over Minnesota, who turns the ball over 7 times, it gives you the "big boy voice". *Fyi, some of this post is tounge in cheek* but nobody here is really talking about the game itself. Anyone up for some football discussion?

Well played, sir. Dun,nuh,nuh,nuh,nuh...Drink a beer.

Great podcast again this week. My favorite one so far. Thanks to OldTimer for the great recruiting info/analysis. Special guest segment was really good as well. Glad he has sense of humor. Funny to hear Quoner and Tasty get a shout out from him.

What? No more Swordfighting? I'll miss those days.

Yeah...he was really saying it in a joking kind of tone with Jub-Jub. He said that offensively, you'd like to be good enough at getting the ball out of the QB's hands that you welcome the opposing team blitzing you...cause big plays can happen. Fight song plays. Conversely, if the defense comes with the blitz and gets effective pressure on the QB, good things happen for the defense. Fight song plays. To those that didn't hear the interivew, please don't take the quotes out of context. George and TD were joking around quite a bit last night. It was actually a pretty entertaining show.

Not sure about there MT-WKU score either. Seems like MT should be able to handle WKU this weekend. Don't think that one will be as close as they predict.

I wish I was around during these days...he sounds like a real character from all accounts that I've heard. Funny stuff.

Why do you insist on bringing up horrible memories. Hopefully Toure is a shooter.

Me too man...me too. One of the worst days ever being an NT fan. Getting dismantled like that at home in front of a large (for us) fired up home crowd...what a disaster.

Put this in another thread, but I'm truly interested in the response. Dodge 2007, If you don't like the kids that we are recruiting, then name some kids that we should be targeting. Who is TD just completely overlooking in the recruiting process so far this year? Don't give generic answers like "Wait till the end of the season and see". We had 9 years of that under Dickey. Give specific names of players we should target. For the record, I'm very excited about the kids that have already verballed, and am excited about the others that are being targeted.

Dodge 2007, If you don't like the kids that we are recruiting, then name some kids that we should be targeting. Who is TD just completely overlooking in the recruiting process so far this year? Don't give generic answers like "Wait till the end of the season and see". We had 9 years of that under Dickey. Give specific names of players we should target. For the record, I'm very excited about the kids that have already verballed, and am excited about the others that are being targeted.

Perfect rendition of an ass whip topic. As long as you're outside of a BCS conference, you can never win long term with the media. Past examples of former Non-BCS media darlings now turned after thoughts: BYU, La. Tech, Utah, Marshall, Fresno St, *soon to be Hawaii

"Now grab me another Dewars and water...PRONTO!"

Definately shootout (although at this point I'd be happy to see some Defense mixed in) NT gets first win. Gaudy stats all around.

I agree here. Nobody's jumping ship yet, and nobody's calling for Mendoza's head...some people (myself included) are questioning the effectiveness of the defensive scheme so far (justifiably so). When you rank 118 out of 119 in total defense, that's gonna happen. We all expect ot see a marked improvement defensively against FAU, however, if we don't see that, I'll start to become very concerned. The SMU game showed that against similar talent/speed, we will be able to move the ball offensively. Now we need the defense to step up, and hopefully that will start translating to some W's in short order.

Probably safe after their showing against McNeese St. Interesting read. It does seem that the two conferences are becoming more and more similar in terms of performance on the field.

It'll be interesting to see how SMU fares in CUSA play. If they are decent, like the prognosticators have suggested before the season, it would definately go towards proving the gains being made by the Belt. NT competed with/could have easily won that game. ASU dominated them. NT is supposed to be a bad/decent Belt team this year, and ASU is supposed to compete for the conference championship. Will be interesting to see how the rest of this year plays out.

I'd like to second that motion. Nothing makes us sound more small time than these two topics. My internal life force meter drains a little bit each time.

Yep.