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  1. If North Texas Wins Less Then 5 Games Should...

    in Mean Green Football

    Posted

    My mistake, I should have said "good enough for the UNT fans that are still around."

    As you point out, there really aren't that many of us compared to the alumni base, and the number hasn't substantially grown in the last 14 years.

    A fairly good portion of the alums that have lost/never had interest in UNT athletics make fun of the program on the rare occasion that they mention it at all.

    The fans that simply accept it really are no better, and would probably change to the above categorie if they lost interest, because they of all people know the joke of a culture here.

    The ones that are still around are the deluded dreamers, drunk on potential, who still have faith in what is possible. (I am in this category.)

    We need to win. And we need to win regularly. That's what cures all of the rest.

    So if we win less than 5 games, should he be fired? I don't know. And I don't know if it matters because it's probably not going to happen.

    I don't understand why in the 16 years I've followed this program we haven't been able to get a decent QB to commit and stick around. I'm not talking about guys who came in, worked hard and against all odds (or by attrition), found some measure of success (Hall, Thompson). Rather, it seems every other non P5 program in the state has had at least one or two special multi-year starters at QB and we've had zero. To me, that's been UNT's Achilles'. To me, that's why we've never had an upset, program-defining win. Every year it's the same discussion: Who's going to play QB?

    What would it be like to have the same QB start a couple years in a row?

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  2. If North Texas Wins Less Then 5 Games Should...

    in Mean Green Football

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    14 years of less than average is good enough for most UNT fans.

    I don't believe that to be the case. And I can prove it by pointing to attendance -- or rather, the lack thereof. I think the reality is, most UNT fans just haven't known any different and because of that, don't expect much more, and can't be bothered to get worked up about something they believe they've little control over.

  6. Scout pre-spring ranking - #99 North Texas

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    The "a couple guys graduated, a couple guys return" method is a fairly lazy way to assess a team's strengths. But he's right, to a degree: QB position is the name of the game for UN.

    If our QB play improves dramatically, who knows where the ceiling of this team will be. If it doesn't, 99th isn't out of the realm of possibility -- or probability.

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  7. BYU to P5

    in Mean Green Football

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    I actually preferred the 10-team conference setup where everyone plays everyone, but that's a thing of the past. The Big XII needs 12 members + a championship game. BYU and Cincy are the best remaining options. BYU isn't going to find a better situation than the Big XII and Cincy should make WVU happy.

    I can't see a situation where the Big XII adds an upstart Florida program. If they can't get a Florida State or Miami, I'd guess they stay out of there altogether -- else you risk diluting the brand.

    UConn is intriguing. Not something I'd ever thought of.

  10. MGB: Pre-spring questions series No. 2 -- Can UNT survive the sked?

    in Mean Green Football

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    Take away the 78 points OU scored on us in 2007 and we were right in that game, also.

    Not the way football works.

    *79

    Minor point of contention. I saw it in person. It was the worst thing I'd ever seen. Or so I thought. Then we went and played at Rice the next season..

    Regardless (and to your point) 24-point losses aren't cause for celebration. Ever.

    The only "win" on the schedule is Portland State. Improved QB play should be good for another handful of games. Markedly improved QB play could put us back in a bowl game. We're going to live and die with the play of the QB, period.

    As for the schedule being difficult, last season we had an "easy" schedule that produced 4 wins, so I think it's hard to predict anything with much certainty based on the previous year's results.

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  13. Disappointment

    in Mean Green Football

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    If you would check, at the end of the 2001 season, Iowa Sate (member of the Big XII) canceled their baseball program.

    I did look it up, but the data site I checked didn't indicate it had been cancelled, so that's my mistake.

    I don't think it invalidates the point of the rest of my post, but I sincerely apologize for the oversight.

  15. Disappointment

    in Mean Green Football

    Posted · Edited by Eagle1855

    Every SEC and Big XII program fields a baseball team. UNT and SMU are the only FBS schools in Texas who don't play baseball.

    I think it does matter. It's not going to be the sole reason someone gets in (Rice, CS-F), but it's a part of an overall resume that paints a bigger picture.

    In other words, if we were winning C-USA football year in and year out, sending a basketball team to the tourney on occasion and made a run our two into the Super Regionals in baseball, the program as a whole begins to raise eyebrows.

    So while it isn't the silver bullet, it can help show an athletic program is committed to success, top to bottom.

    If you are sitting there trying to decide between adding UNT or UH, wouldn't the fact that UH has a top-ten baseball program factor into your decision, all other things being equal?

    EDIT: UTEP and Iowa State no longer field baseball teams. This was an oversight on my part.

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  17. Rivalry

    in Mean Green Football

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    I like the idea of both mascots, in their most fierce poses, each having a rattlesnake in their grasp trying to take it from the other. In the case of the Roadrunner it would be in it's beak. At the same time, the Eagle will have it in the grasp of it's very lethal Talons. The school possessing the trophy has won the bird of prey tug-of-war for that year.

    Can it be ripping apart a pony?

  24. UH BOR chair has nuts... really stupid though.

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    I am not questioning they are not *the* destination university for recruits I am questioning the product for their praise...that is all. 4 Big 12 championships in a combined 35 years in the Big 12. 4/35. FOUR out of THIRTY-FIVE. So, it's quite apparent they don't have consistent success within their own conference let alone nationally.

    **It's going to be a long time before ATM sniffs a SEC title, long time.

    So, their product isn't the reasoning for being *the* destination. North Texas needs to do whatever they can do to figure out what the reason is and try to mirror it. We already have the not being a consistent contender in our own conference down pat....now....on a serious note what's next??

    If I'm Prez S at the end of this bball season I am sitting down with RV (if I don't already fire him) and telling him to pull out a pen and pad and write down every word I say...

    Market. Market. Market. Market. Market. Market. Market. Market. Market.

    I think most of your argument(s) make more sense if you're talking specifically about A&M, looking only at the numbers over the past 15 years. Which is not to say that I think your arguments make a lot of sense. Just that they seem to make more sense with respects to A&M than others, as the Aggies have done less with more money than almost any program I can think of. But again I am still not sure what you're so mad about.

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