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Maybe. If our quarterback led the second worst performing offense in the entire FBS, would Morris keep him as the starter for a second season to prove himself? Probably not and the same should apply to Caponi. Demote him or fire him and give someone else a chance. He's never even been a DC before except for 2008-10 at Division III Washington & Jefferson. It might not be the right coaching job for him.

Ha! Got a little carried away. It only felt like 5,211 yards a game.

It shouldn't take a home run hire to replace the coach of the second worst performing unit in the FBS. I was going to say worst but I checked and USC has taken the bottom spot at 5,266 yards to our 5,211. That performance got Alex Grinch fired with two games left in this season. Coordinators are not head coaches. They don't deserve multiple seasons to prove themselves. If the results are dismal, give 'em the Bathroom Monkey treatment and order a new one.

I guess it's possible that, like Dez Bryant, he made a football move. But when do refs ever call it that way and say that what happened out of bounds did not matter?

It wasn't in the end zone, though. Watch the zebras on any catch where the receiver goes out of bounds. They focus on them all the way through hitting the ground before signaling catch or incompletion. The rule should be that what happens out of bounds is irrelevant, and if you have possession when you go out it's a catch.

If the receiver falls to the ground they have to retain the ball throughout that process. It's a dumb rule but they always call it that way.

Is there a guy standing next to you holding your Diet Coke?

Didn't know Tulsa is 17-7 against us. In my memory we made many crossings back over the Red River with their heads on a pike.

Nice recovery speed by Nelson preventing that long bomb.

I'm finally ready to say it: I have some concerns about our defense.

It's a victory that isn't moral and when the game is over you are crying happy tears in your beer instead of sad ones.

It was a bummer to lose that one but I loved watching the Mean Green climb all the way back and take the lead. It gives you confidence that the resilience and pugnacity of the team has carried over from last season.

How many regulars here ever had their butts in Fouts cheering for North Texas when Fry was coach? The closest I get was being a kid who watched a few games on a UHF channel when Bill Mercer was calling the games, and Fry left when I was 11 so I might've watched a Jerry Moore- or Bob Tyler-led team.

North Texas has the 11th best offense in the FBS by total yards per game (471.3). If we had an average defense instead of the one giving up the most yards in the FBS (477.7), I could see us having 3-4 more wins.

I don't think Traylor is a big enough name. A&M reaching into the G5 to get Traylor would be a lot like when Florida did the same to get Napier. Napier was 40-12 in four seasons at Louisiana. Traylor is 37-13 in four seasons at UTSA. There is one important difference -- Traylor has connections all over Texas and Napier didn't have them all over Florida. But I don't think that will get him the job over much bigger names in the P5. It also doesn't help that the Gators currently stink under Napier.

So did Florida. Since Urban Meyer left in 2010 they've fired coaches so quickly that it has all fallen apart for them. Billy Napier is under .500 as their coach after two seasons and they just gave up 701 yards on defense, the worst in school history.

How do you fire a coach mid-season who went 10-4 (8-1 conference) last year and is 22-14 overall? Boise State has lost their minds.

SMU comes out for a Friday night national TV game dressed in uniforms that look nothing like themselves and are ugly as hell. By creating new uniforms all the time Oregon caused a Miami Vice effect on the rest of the NCAA. Teams think if they do the same thing they will look that good, but it never works for anybody else. In my freshman year of college we all thought we could pull off the Don Johnson look of sports coat, T-shirt and stubble. Instead we looked like this.

App State has only been 3-6 once in the last 30 years -- the 2013 season. They've been a consistent winner since the 1980s.

Feeling strong Denton County vibes from this trailer for the movie. One of my relatives knew the sons growing up.

Is anyone surprised the Sun Belt is putting butts in seats, given the way its teams have played in recent years and the quality of some of its newest members? The conference got a lot better after we left, which is as disappointing as seeing your ex living their best life, but it is what it is. We got Judy McLeod and they got App State, which sells out games because they win consistently, not just because Boone has fewer entertainment options.

The 26-game conference winning streak and first bowl win in 56 years were not bland. Excellent summary of our coaching history overall, but Dickey deserved a more positive description than "bland as dishwater." He lifted the program up higher than we had been in a long time, even though it all ended in embarrassment, a coach fistfight at halftime and rec league jerseys.

If we could just start the game like it was halftime and we were two touchdowns behind, we might be able to beat them. Tell Caponi to pretend that adjustments are needed because what we're doing on defense isn't working.

Vegas thinks there is a 10 percent chance we will beat SMU, if I converted the odds to a percentage properly.

A team has 22 starters except for Colorado, which has 21. Even if half of Kinne's starters were actually from Incarnate Word, the idea that bringing in a bunch of Incarnate Word players was an advantage for him is far-fetched. For the love of God it's Incarnate Word! A school that small which wasn't playing even FCS football 12 years ago isn't churning out players who can win at the FBS level. If Morris had arrived and brought in five Incarnate Word transfers we'd have thought "sweet Jesus our cupboard was bare."