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The same way Seth doubled and tripled down on high school recruiting, zigging when other FBS coaches were zagging, we have doubled and tripled down on our DC suddenly becoming competent and our front players making huge jumps in one off season. We were bottom ten in damn near every defensive metric related to the front last year and added a handful of players who in the best case scenario will somehow be players from day one at age of 18/19 and somehow not transfer at season end. We also lost a (undersized) DE who at least ranked highly in pass rush win rate, have no impact players who had their season cut short making a comeback, the roster construction and plan for defense just doesn’t make sense and we all can see it. They didn’t even try, very few offers went out to portal DL/LB. 131 FBS schools will be scouring the portal for late entries on the DL, even the ones with depth. You cannot tell me their plan was to wait until after spring to shore up the front. This is Todd Dodge levels of arrogance thinking there will be improvement. AND we pay our DC handsomely for these services😂

Does anyone legitimately believe we will give up less than 33 PPG next season?

Yes, just a joke. Didn't intend to ruffle any feathers. GMG

I am loving the stable of wite receivers we are building here. Landon Sides, Dalton Carnes, Kyle Koch, Wyatt Young, and Baron Tipton all seem to have bright futures. If only we had hung on to Coy Eakin or had an upperclassmen like Johnny Quinn or even Michael Lawrence still playing. #GMG

The most simple play has been killing us all the way back to the year App State made our defense look comical. There is a video on youtube that breaks down the Iowa State 3-3-5 and points out how the off tackle run is the main weakness and requires the middle (star) safety to crash downhill and keep the run to 3 yards or less. It will remain a problem I'm not convinced we have the personnel to run this defense.

Yep, the Murphy twins both, too bad they may as well have never played here.

It's pretty mind blowing how 75% of the transfers are on offense and the D transfers are mostly safeties. It's like Caponi thinks the main issue last year was safety play not the front 6. You would expect a massive overhaul, because we don't return enough players on that side to hang our hat on continuity. I have gone so far beyond giving him the benefit of the doubt, but he needs to go. His evaluations are off, his game plans are bad, his lack of urgency is dumbfounding. Paying him all that money for the worst defense then watching him do the same the year after in asinine. I'm glad Morris is a better playcaller than Littrell, that's great, but he is just Littrell 2.0, and we don't have annual games with a (bad) Rice, UTEP, FIU & MTSU to rack up the wins with anymore. I'm trying to find the positives here long term with Morris and I don't see it.

Very worried. New QB learning new system, new wide receivers, 3 OL starters gone and a whole bunch of tight ends who will be very green. To think we will be anywhere near as good as we were last year on offense is foolish in my opinion. On top of that, I’m beyond concerned with the defense. I’m not sure who we’ve signed that’s supposed to be the players we need to turn around a system like this in one off season. We can’t hang our hat on continuity when we lose half of our roster. I’m hoping we field a top 60 scoring offense and can improve enough on defense to not be in the 100s, we might crack 6-6 with those figures, and that seems lofty.

One of the worst parts is players talk and when player A learns player B is making 20k more than him it breeds envy amongst teammates. All these guys and the people in their ear think they should play day one and have NFL futures. I know of a local player who went SEC and started this year but since he was offered less than other returning players who played he transferred. His Dad shopped him around with only criteria for new school being he needs a minimum of $100k. Everyone agrees something needs to be done, but nothing will be done, NCAA is toast and the sooner we accept the fact that all the millions we pour in to football would be much better invested in to basketball the better off we will be.

“pReStIgIoUs VeNuE”

Other way around he cooled on them. Not sure why we didn’t push harder for him.

I know of a local (ish) QB who got an offer from a low tier P5 school late, redshirted his first year, and then had a *decent year as a RS FR, he entered the portal and got 400k + a house on campus with all expenses paid for a year from another P5. This guy was not even on Rodgers level and he got that much. We need a T Boone Pickens to come along for us to compete now 🤷‍♂️

Was offered 150k by a lower tier P5 school. Just to give y’all an idea of what we are up against.

One of the worst parts is when they leave and get drafted (like Gabriel Murphy will this year) that school gets credit not us. This just douchebaging sucks, I hope we start funneling most NIL money towards basketball we are never going to compete for the playoff in football.

I know they're dirty as hell. I know they're scumbags who have always been content with looking the other way. I have seen a screenshot from within last two weeks of their current DC Scott Symons sending a message to a player on another FBS team about entering the portal for 2024 offering six figures to play for SMU. They are still breaking the rules and as dirty as ever. Doesn't change the fact that over the last decade their program has been a winner and is now going to be joining a P4/P5 conference. That doesn't just affect football it changes the trajectory for every scholarship athlete. It's 2023, whether we like it or not they are hanging with the haves and we are getting demolished amongst the have nots.

Not that I'm not jealous, because getting in to the ACC is a VERY big deal, and SMU deserves kudos for that, but do you believe the donors footing the bill for this move will be happy with their investment if you wind up being the Vanderbilt of the ACC?

Well damn this was my favorite commit. Not just for the offers I think even a dummy could see he will succeed at this level watching his highlights. If you go to his twitter page it's quite obvious he's not coming here expect the respect my decision post ASAP.

Awesome, gotta love the way the football team is trending right now.

Don't we have multiple unknown new commits from the past month or so?

I left at halftime I have some business to take care of man the crowd just sucks, it looked bad when I was there and looks horrible on TV. That crowd shot coming in to the second half looked BAD. I doubt that if we were 4-1 it would look much better. Just brutal. On the bright side we are playing better.

PB was a great storyteller but other than a 5 game stretch against some really bad teams, and a UTSA team that only tried for a half, his defenses were just as bad if not worse than Caponis.

So many things that reminded me of Litrell. Commitment to run on 2nd and ten plus, plus not having an under center sneak in the playbook leads me to believe Morris is not as much of an analytics guy as he claimed to be. This is going to be a long f'ing season.

That was frustrating. The incoming 98 yard TD drive will likely be more frustrating.

He has not retweeted anything about UNT in a couple months, does not have UNT commit in his bio, it's possible he is a soft commit at best at this point. Kudos to the staff, they were on him early. I stopped watching highlights of guys we offered a long time ago and only watch the commits. He is highly ranked and has the offers so it's easy for me to say, but he is really freakin good. Damn near elite acceleration, not the fastest over 50 yards but he will have a lot of YAC in college.

He was offered by Kansas State, Tulane, Memphis, and Virginia in the month of September and has a visit with Kansas State on October 20th. I hope we hang on to him I think he can play first day on campus.