TIgreen01

Those calling for Ruder…umm, did you miss last season? He has absolutely no feel for touch passes or ability to lead receivers. Deep throws require both. He was just not ready for FBS. Is it possible he improves? Sure, but we’d have been hearing about it by now. I’m not holding my breath. Great kid and leader, and still rooting for him, but I don’t think you see us bringing in so many transfers if the coaches were seeing progression with him or anyone else on the roster.

Maclin doesn’t displace one of the WRs?

It’s paramount to have expectations and goals. It’s also good to know when you have a good one and enjoy the good times. He might be the best DC to coach at UNT, which is saying something. We’ve had a rough patch since Skladany retired, though. It’s ok to have fun, no?

Man this guy is great. We are lucky he’s here.

I’m suggesting we, along with 100+ current FBS members, are relegated to a non-playoff or somesuch division. There will only be 30 or fewer schools playing football in the top division.

The difference, of course, is that the entire country can unite behind our athletes. Fans are not left behind. With this changing college landscape many of us are going to be left without a team to root for…at least at the “highest” level.

A lot.

Why would that be better? We’re currently grouped with ALL of the above schools. Taking out the top 30-40% revenue schools separates us from those schools in all sports, not just football. We’ve already demonstrated that we can compete in several sports. It’s really only the football power structure that keeps championships there out of the reach of the majority of schools competing in FBS.

I don’t get all the questions about fit. If his dream school is Baylor as we all assume. There are more similarities between SMU and Baylor than Baylor and UNT.

They don't have any fans. Problem solved.

Who says Hodge stays? If Mac is getting a huge bump, I'd expect Hodge and the rest of the staff would too. It's always been a package deal, from my understanding. His staff is his team. SMU, at least in name, still has 'Methodist' in their name. Whether or not you or I think they have embarrassed/disgraced their represented church, Grant is a Christian and that could absolutely be a draw for him. That said, uprooting from Argyle to Dallas may not be AS far as moving across the country---it is STILL uprooting your kids from their schools and friends. Is he living in Argyle and driving to downtown Dallas every single day and working the long coaching hours along with that? I expect that his better half will have something to say. End of the day, SMU is a lateral move with potentially better pay if we can't/won't step up to meet it. Hopefully this is a leverage play and we play ball. He and his staff have earned a raise.

I'm still just shocked that they have actual fans...or people pretending to be. Looking at their game attendance would lead you to believe otherwise.

Yep. You get the feeling it wasn’t what was drawn up in several other games, but it’s what we got. Grant has quite the coaching job this offseason.

I’ll drop the niceties and criticize. That last play of regulation was disappointing. It’s one thing if we hadn’t closed out so many games already with last second threes by Perry. Virginia knew that was coming and we should’ve tried something else. Period.

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