mad dog

Footballball.

Read more here.

Topic fail.

Just wanted to let everyone know that Addison's Oktoberfest is going on this weekend at Addison Circle Park. Come on out and enjoy steins full of Spaten, schnitzel, and sauerkraut! If I have to be there all weekend, so should you. Or something... More information available here!

North? Directly into Poland? Think those folks might be a little jumpy from the last time a swarm of people came charging over their borders? Brilliant!

I have found my ability to speak foreign languages increases geometrically with the amount of beer consumed. Just sayin...

Well, if you really want to piss off Moravians, just tell them the Hapsburgs were thinking of making a comeback. Nothing gets them going like suppression of culture by lumping them in together with Czechs and Slovaks.

Jerks or no, ties at games > muddy overalls.

Wait... aren't you supposed to be formenting revolt in former soviet bloc nations right now?

Don't know if there's any truth to this, but I've heard there is a pretty stark dichotomy in the SEC between redneck and genteel southern fandom. Schools like Alabama, Auburn, and Ole Miss observe more genteel traditions, and others like Miss. State, LSU, and Tennessee have a much higher overalls-and-straw-hat quotient. And then there are always Yankee carpetbaggers like Urban Meyer...

Yeah... i think it might have something to do with that small mountain in the middle of their defensive line.

Welcome to the board. We are all excited about Saturday!

Please remember that the football board is for football discussion. Football should be talked about, and other things you probably shouldn't bring up. Talking about football is okay, but talking about things that aren't football, or talking about football things in a non-football way, means that they aren't football, and should be discussed on the non-football board. /johnmadden Srsly, though. I wonder how many other D-1 programs have to carefully prune homo-erotic comments and go out of their way to emphasize that they aren't appropriate on a football board. Such comments will be moderated. Persistent use of such comments after warning will be result in bans. That is all.

Thinly veiled mythological joke?

Click here and enjoy!

Posting links are fine. Cut and pasting blocks of text is something we'd rather not do. Thanks!

LOL... i was thinking the same thing. Who said that? I can only remember the drop.

Well... the match was a fan favorite. Unfortunately, Tasty (black helmet, right) got in a lucky shot, and I (red helmet, left) was down for the count.

The Gio comparison was less tooting Gio's horn than saying Riley, from what I've seen, isn't any worse. And if you accept the premise that last year, a defense with a pulse would have put another 2-3 wins up, you can probably buy the conclusion that Riley's good enough to win games here at North Texas. That's all I'm saying.

What? I meant 'serve a delicious piece of apple pie a la mode to the moderating team.' What did you think? But I will duel you as long as it involves pastries, either as weapons or prizes.

I've been keeping my thoughts to myself, partially because I haven't seen an adequate sampling of our play this year, and partially because I could barely recognize the team that took the field on Thursday. However, it is also only fair to own up when you've gone on record as saying something should go a certain way. The last thing I want to do is jump the gun and declare the storm over before it truly is. But that swarming, aggressive, ball-hawking defense is making it really hard not to chug the kool-aid. As long as they can approach this effort for the rest of the season, I think they give the offense a chance to win every game except 'Bama. Before the season, I had them pegged as a 2-3 win team because 1) the defense was terrible, 2) special teams were terrible, and 3) Riley Dodge, though talented, seemed to be injury prone. Based on the available evidence, the team just didn't look that great on paper. Given what I knew before the season started, I'd come to the same conclusion 99 times out of 100. The Ball State game, though, was huge - it addressed all three questions. The defense speaks for itself. A buddy of mine texted me right off the bat saying "who are those dump trucks at DT you guys are starting?" The corners locked down their respective receivers all night long, and linebackers ran very well sideline to sideline. Special teams were by no means great or even good. It is tough to give high marks while missing two field goals, but the blocking was solid, coverage teams did their job, and I just get the feeling DeWaylon Cook is going to break one this year. I still have some questions about Riley, and I'm not ready to annoint him as a damn fine QB (not just yet, Green P1 - maybe here in a few weeks). But he answered the biggest question I had pretty emphatically when he took that huge hit on that playaction bootleg near the goal line. He got absolutely blown up on that play (and took a dog-cussing from his dad afterwards), but the fact that he can take that hit and pop right back up makes the "fragile" argument a lot more difficult. He's got a lot to prove still - his interception in the end zone hurt a lot. He overthrew several wide open receivers. He's got to stop turning his back to the defense on run plays, and continuing the carry the ball away from his body WILL result in costly fumbles. That said, he was at least as good as Gio Vizza. How many games would Gio have won last year with the defense we saw on Thursday? I said before the season that they'd need to prove it to me before I'd believe it. Now the only thing left is to prove to me you can sustain this effort through November. Looking forward to Ohio. It feels great to be competitive again. Congrats, guys.

I demand the "pie" option.

I don't know, LongJim might have something to say about the one-picture theory... But, seriously, I think you're right. I would like to think that the offense would become run-first with our skilled offensive line and stable of talented running backs. However, I have substantial doubts about the Coach effecting such a radical change, so I think it'll come down to Riley's ability to move the chains.

very funny!

3-9. But I have no idea who those wins will come against.