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He gave us his all for 3 years, he doesn't owe anyone anything other than to do what's right for him. I can't think of any player in a UNT uniform that put as much effort on the floor as this man did. This should be a thread celebrating his achievements and nothing else. Its the head coach's job to backfill with talented players that aren't seeing playing time at p6 programs or with high producing players at lower tier programs. That's how this works, get used to and quit crying about it. If the coach cant do it that's on him and him alone. Adapt or die

no reason to panic about anything really, i think we've seen some great performances while shorthanded, against really good teams. it is what it is, i think this team is built to really compete next year

What brought them here was 2 good teams competing against each other with an added bonus of the opponent being local. Nobody did anything extra to get people out other than both of them being good. As long as that is the focus, attendance will naturally improve.

i think he's going to do just fine in the kansas winter considering they have heaters there.

Stone Earle is probably good enough to get us 7-8 wins if we had an average defense. The problem is that we relied so heavily on the QB to get us just 5 wins and that's with one of the best QB seasons of all time. How many wins can Earle guide us to if our defense is as bad as it was last year. My guess would be 1 or 2. Its kind of unfair to put this all on the QB, what are the odds that we find a player who can repeat last year's performance in year 1? tldr; the defense's historically bad year puts unfair pressure on getting a QB to perform at all conference levels on day 1

it looks like to me like Ross has finally decided to ditch the idea of Scott/Jones being the primary scorers and ball handlers, thank god. They are fantastic role players, but i don't see them as primary scoring threats or facilitators

To me this just means they're both terrible. I'm also not a person who blames it on the scheme (3-3-5). I think the scheme can work fine if the coaches know how to implement it, which obviously this staff doesn't

yep, could easily make the argument if he was only 100th place that he needs more time to develop his guys. not when you're dead last, that indicates gross incompetence. i dont even need to see the stats to know they come out flat every single game. the lack of preparation is out of this world terrible. there is nothing to build on here, time to move on

We can't even celebrate the heritage of players with a tiny barey visible sticker on the back of a helmet without people getting offended? Not even sure why this nonsense crept it's way into a discussion about the design of the helmet, this is an extremely common gesture in many sports, let it go.

I concur. It should not be that hard to find a competent defense after building an elite offense. I think he is on to something special

That's exactly the look I was thinking. I don't get all these weird combinations, I think something simple like this could be iconic and well, it just makes sense given the mean green moniker

Does anyone disagree that these are by far the best helmets? Maybe I'm crazy, but I think it would be even better with no logo at all. Just a chrome green helmet for every uniform combination.

I'm assuming he's out there for his defense. He is long and brings good energy. I have no doubt he is capable of hitting those catch and shoot 3s, but clearly lacks confidence. I hope he finds it

if my employee can be fire for being 5 mins late in a 3 months span, I think we might have a case against caponi

I'd see your point if we weren't dead last in the FBS. You have to be next level incompetent to be last out of 130 teams. If we were 90th or 100th, I would totally agree with you. I don't see it as a risk to move on when it is nearly impossible to be as inept on defense as we currently are. I think it's riskier to do nothing, but I hope I'm wrong if the decision is to maintain the status quo

I'd love to hear what was said during the offensive game planning meetings. What do you think we should do? Run the ball a lot? Sounds good, that about wraps it up boys, good night

https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/north-texas/2007-schedule.html We were competitive in 4 games in dodge's first season and blown out in most of them... In the subsequent seasons it was no better. In case we all need a reminder

We have statistically the best offense in the American. 485 yd/game. And it not just passing 180 comes from the ground. This offense has been the most consistent in the league. Because they score in bunches and not on every drive, "they aren't very good". If my expectations were this high, I'd give up watching college football, you're just going to be disappointed every game

I'd love to see actual data on this but swear our D gives up a 40+ yard run on the opening drive every single game. I think even ACU had one. Why does this happen every single game? They seem to improve (slightly) as games go on but that's only because they start off so horrendous that even a bad performance looks like an improvement I'm comparison

The offense is very good I'll judge the head coach after the season if we don't clean house on the defensive side. It's not just coming out flat literally every game or bad schemes or bad fundamentals, it's also shockingly bad situational awareness. That said if they are able to find even a mediocre defensive staff, we'll be in the hunt for a championship.

The run D tends to tighten up as the game goes on. Every single game we allow a long run on the first drive, they just don't come in prepared

Why does it feel like we're always playing prevent defense

College football has always been top heavy. Look at our all time record vs power schools if you need a reminder...hell, look at our all time record against SMU for God's sake. I really don't think this changes anything for us

Per capita, I bet Texas isn't in the top 10 of most FBS teams. Alabama has 4, Wyoming at 1, and Oregon at 2 all have more FBS schools per capita than TX, and that's just off the top of my head without even trying hard. If we're talking about P5 schools per capita, TX is probably in the bottom 5

My guess is that our defense was so bad, it made earle look much better than he really is, which made it tough to give a fair assessment of the two. That's with giving a very generous benefit of the doubt