[Monday morning 8.17.15 Periscope Feed (9:45AM)]

it was a good one, but the OL-DL trench battle seemed to lack the pop and energy of previous installments.

[LB Lajaylin Smith no longer with the team]

[GMG.com Twit my Tweet 8.14.15]

A SMU tweet and another for Notre Dame?

[Got my season tickets today]

Yeah, but what about making love at midnight?

[16 WR's?]

Only 7 scholarship players.

[DRC Tuesday story: McCarney, UNT players miffed at low projections]

I would appreciate you not changing my quotes to make your point.  If you think a fifth year coach is burdened by program history, a history he should have been well aware of, that fine; but that is certainly not my view.   

Uh. Ok. 

First time on the internet?

But I will leave your quotes alone from now on as to not upset you.

[What new UNT Player will you keep an eye on in 2015?]

Because if you don't have anyone on the dline who can the offensive linemen off of them it won't matter anyway.  It's hard for us to recruit dlinemen, if we can't recruit them we have to fake it with what we have.

It's ugly, but it's better than the alternative, and it won't change until we can actually hall enough FBS dlinemen to fill out all the roster spots.

Based upon what I saw in the drill videos (and the numbers of DL we have) I think we can leave him at LB.

[What new UNT Player will you keep an eye on in 2015?]

I would strongly consider lining McNair up at defensive end.  If he's 250+ as a true freshman, goodness with his frame he could be 270 or more at some point.  What a great addition he will be.

Ugh. How about we leave some LBs with size at LB for a friggin' change?

[DRC Tuesday story: McCarney, UNT players miffed at low projections]

Low expectations are based on an awful performance the last 4 decades last year, nothing else.   If this motivates the team, than great; but it is not worth public airing. 

FIFY

[DLine Video From Today's Practice]

Most of the D line looked pretty good in these drills. Combs was unstoppable. DEs kind of feasted on the OTs. Kind of worrisome. Rice was outstanding at OG.

Tillman looked good, as did TJ.  I noticed that Julius Combes out of Washington DC was in there as well and looked good. Big guy at 313. Freshmen looked good. 

[What new UNT Player will you keep an eye on in 2015?]

After watching him catch a ball while doing a backflip (see the MG Blog) I have to go with James Gray.

[2014 OL Brad Lundblade (Liberty Christian)]

 

That's just crazy.

http://drchighschoolblog.dentonrc.com/2015/08/liberty-ex-lundblade-earns-scholarship-at-osu.html/

 

 

[One clear advantage UNT has over SMU]

Dancers just are not as hot as they used to be.

 

There. I said it.

 

 

[Attendance graph for each UNT home game of the 2011-12-13-14 seasons]

Well as a fan that lives 1000 miles away from Denton now, I cant even tell you how much it means to me to be able to watch my beloved Mean Green on TV. But aside from my selfish reasons, I would think having televised games has a positive impact on recruiting... which leads to more wins... which leads to better attendance. 

Me too (5959 miles)

[MGN Inside the Numbers: North Texas Offense Must Improve Explosiveness]

The link you supply says: 

Last updated - January 14, 2013 Through games of January 8, 2013

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This one has 2014 and has LaTech at #5, with a 1.14 margin (42-26, both highest in top 50)

http://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fbs/current/team/29

Shows us at 22-22. You can do that math.

This site shows us at tied for 14 in 2013, with a +11 (34-23) margin (.85)

http://www.cfbstats.com/2013/leader/national/team/offense/split01/category12/sort01.html

Both our 4 win season under Mac at 0 TO margin. 5-7 year 19th with .67.

 

[Craig James sues Fox Sports claiming religious discrimination]

Oh please tell me how this isn't a pie forum thread???

[Barbershop Podcast #142]

I am pretty sure Evan third personed himself in his post. 

 

Baller.

[2015 North Texas Football Hype Video]

Well done 

[What's In the Locker: New Uniforms]

couldn't agree more...these new unis are beyond sad & depressing...even the players in the video look depressed...

we're doing it wrong...again

go meh green 

 

like kids with cancer sad and depressing or more like refugees with missing body parts from land mines sad and depressing?

just trying to understand the scope of this tragedy.

[MGB: Well, there you go. New uniforms]

As long and the purses and heels match. And you can just change your nail polish for away games. 

 

Bunch of women.

[Unified Fan Chant or Cheer During SMU Game?]

Here is one that I have been kicking around for a bit. I have been contesting for years that we should try to incorporate more EPL style songs into game day...but without the cussing and cockney accents

Here is a pretty simple one that would set us apart from the rest of college football. Instead of going into the same ol - na na na na hey hey hey goodby. 

Change it up to a variation of an Arsenal Giroud chant. To the chorus of Hey Jude.

Na na na nananana nananana You Loose

http://fanchants.co.uk/football-songs/arsenal-chants/olivier-giroud/

Of corse it could only be sung in the last minutes of a game that we have in the books.

Im going to bring my kazoo and get this fired up in my friendly corner of the endzone 

Have you never heard Peacock and I sing "Who's your father, referee?"

[MGB: Well, there you go. New uniforms]

I will have to see them in action to fully judge, but first glance: I like!

[UNT's Biggest Rival]

Other. Our only rival is our BOR, Lee Jackson, and past presidents.

[GMG.com Podcast is Back for 2015]

Meh

[McNulty deserves his chance]

As we found out over the past few seasons, we're going to need Smith to be good at test-taking (to gain Chico's approval), and minimizing mistakes (to gain McCarney's approval) during the Fall.  Screw up one (or both) of those, and he's not going to sniff the field ahead of McNulty.

This. Exactly this.