[Tech Trying to Duck North Texas in 2027]

49 minutes ago, Green Lantern said:

So sad and weak. Come and play at our place but scared to play away. If you’ve gotta duck Colorado State and North Texas, you’ve got serious issues as a football program.

We could use the money. We can just beat them at their place.

[QB commit - Chandler Morris - transfer from TCU]

1 hour ago, Big Z said:

This guy can ball! Did we not go after him? 

I imagine him committing to Texas State is part of the reversal of fortunes that @Ghost of Tate was referring to that allowed us to keep Chandler Morris.

[QB commit - Chandler Morris - transfer from TCU]

1 hour ago, Dannymacfan said:

Yes scripted typically and mean nothing in my book.  Fall is what counts.

I think he means the practices in fall after Morris shows or doesn’t show.

[QB commit - Chandler Morris - transfer from TCU]

22 hours ago, Ghost of Tate said:

Well well. Reversal of fortunes.

Let’s go, Chandler!

[Breaking: Dripping Springs WR Kyle Koch Commits to North Texas]

4 hours ago, 97and03 said:

 

[QB commit - Chandler Morris - transfer from TCU]

50 minutes ago, MeanGreenTexan said:

As for how I can definitively say TXSt better than us right now:
UNT: 5-7 (down from 6-7)
TXSt: 8-5 (up from 4-8)
Common opponent: both losses to UTSA, but ours was worse.

We were not 6-7 in 2022, we were 7-5 and 7-7 if you count our conference championship game and bowl game losses. Littrell was 7-6 and Bennett was 0-1.

[QB commit - Chandler Morris - transfer from TCU]

17 hours ago, GMG_Dallas said:

You can love your father and still want to pave your own way separately. If Morris chooses to go into coaching after his playing days are over, he'll probably want to go on his own for a bit. You see it all the time in the NFL where teams are accused of nepotism in hiring practices. It took Kyle Shanahan years to get his own respect, for example. Harbaugh had nothing to prove when he hired is dad at UM.

These guys are ultra competitive. If it were me, I'd want to go on my own to prove my worth. I'd hate to be labeled as a guy who only has a job because of who my dad is.

I think the fact that he hasn’t played for his father though his 4 years of high school or his 4 years of college pretty much shows he can function fine on his own. Playing for your father or coaching under your father doesn’t seem to have set back Kendall Briles or Riley Dodge. If anything, they got a leg up because of the success of their fathers.

[QB commit - Chandler Morris - transfer from TCU]

1 hour ago, GMG_Dallas said:

Really though, y'all really think Chandler Morris, a 20 something year old college graduate student, wants to follow daddy around all the time? I know I wouldn't. Going to TSU would be my last choice if I were him.

He has proven that he doesn’t need daddy to hold his hand but some of us love our fathers and spending time with them. If my dad was back in Texas coaching college ball and I only had a year or two left I would want to spend some time with him before my hourglass ran out of sand. This is probably why Jim Harbaugh had his dad as part of the staff at UM even though he didn’t need him there.

Besides the dad/son relationship stuff, San Marcos and central Texas are a pretty sweet place to live.

[QB commit - Chandler Morris - transfer from TCU]

4 hours ago, Rudy said:

I would have thought that if he is following his dad, he would have done so by now.

 

4 hours ago, NT80 said:

Exactly.  He didn't go to Clemson when his dad was there.

https://www.si.com/college/2019/06/14/arkansas-chad-morris-son-chandler-morris-commits-recruiting

https://texashsfootball.com/highland-park-4-star-qb-chandler-morris-decommits-from-arkansas/

He was set to follow him to Arkansas until Chad got fired.

[QB commit - Chandler Morris - transfer from TCU]

56 minutes ago, wardly said:

Did his dad get the Texas State job?

https://txst.com/news/2024/1/31/football-morris-named-wide-receivers-coach-passing-game-coordinator.aspx

[QB commit - Chandler Morris - transfer from TCU]

8 hours ago, UNTLifer said:

The student body through a fit in San Marcos because De Laura had an assault charge filed against him by a woman.

https://www.expressnews.com/sports/article/jayden-de-laura-leaving-texas-state-scrutiny-18626203.php

Which left them without 3 of their top 4 quarterbacks from last season and also without their top incoming quarterback.

[QB commit - Chandler Morris - transfer from TCU]

10 hours ago, Moobs said:

We already have his commitment. There has been no actual evidence that would tell us otherwise. Just a lot of people speculating since his dad got hired at a school that needs a QB. 
 

Until we hear that UNT is actively seeking another QB or Chandler announces he’s going somewhere else, then I’m going to believe he’s still coming here.  

It just seems strange that Jayden de Laura withdraws from TSU-SM on Jan 24 and 2 days later Chad Morris becomes the passing game coordinator. A guy that just happens to have a P5 experienced quarterback in his family that is only verbally committed to this point.

[QB commit - Chandler Morris - transfer from TCU]

Regardless of whether he intends to transfer to TSU-SM or not, he won’t play in spring practice at either school, and it seems he would have little good reason to say “no thanks” to us until after he graduates from TCU and has the ability to truly commit somewhere by enrolling.

[ESPN 2024 Top 75 Recruiting Classes]

We are above the schools ranked 71-75 only because our class size is bigger. They all have a higher average player ratings than we do. 

[Kratch that, we need a new LB Coach]

21 hours ago, UNTLifer said:

Zach Orr

I imagine you were being funny but it would be a really good idea to ask Zach if he has anyone with experience that he would recommend.

[President Smatresk Resigns]

2 hours ago, MeanGreen_MBA said:

I saw that he was going to take a teaching position at UNT in biology.  I kind of like that for him. 

I had no idea he was even a biology professor until right now. Thank you.

[Most Conference Championships of All-Time]

That’s amazing considering we haven’t won one in 2 decades.

[Meet the Baltimore Ravens New Defensive Coordinator]

Anybody remember the North Texas head coach that got Zach to come to North Texas? He should get more credit for the talent he left us with.

[Dr. Phil giving a Go Mean Green shoutout]

2 hours ago, Mean Green 93-98 said:

Wasn't that Wren Baker behind that?

I thought it was Seth’s relationship with Jim Ross that got the ball rolling.

[Dr. Phil giving a Go Mean Green shoutout]

Love it any time a celebrity shouts out the Mean Green. It was super cool when Seth Littrell was able to get Stone Cold to do it.

[Since we love to keep up with Todd Dodge]

18 hours ago, DeepGreen said:

I don't think DACU Stadium was around in the Dodge days.  I have no hard feelings towards Todd Dodge.  Sad that he brought in some High School coaches as his assistants.  Besides, he's from my hometown and was a great football player back in the day.  Todd didn't work out at UNT, any more than several other mistakes we brought to Denton.

I will always believe that without the base of quality players Todd Dodge built we do not win that 2013-14 HOD bowl. I also think he had a hand in getting DATCU stadium built despite many saying that he had zero to do with it. 

[QB commit - Chandler Morris - transfer from TCU]

17 hours ago, TheReal_jayD said:

That is what they offered Chandler Morris. He had another 6 figure Mountain West offer but it came with a car as well. It came directly from Chandler. I am fairly confident it is accurate. 

Then what did we offer to beat that? And is it safe to assume Rogers was not staying for that amount?

[Since we love to keep up with Todd Dodge]

On 1/27/2024 at 7:48 AM, emmitt01 said:

It appears that he is set to take over as head coach of Lovejoy high school. 

The man is a true pioneer, taking on the Herculean task of winning at places like Southlake Carroll, Austin Westlake, and now a school where they went 12-2 last season.  

Maybe Lovejoy isn’t satisfied with 12-2 and wants to win a state title. Westlake and Southlake seemed to enjoy the number of football state titles Todd Dodge won them that was not matched by any other coach for those schools before or since.

[Since we love to keep up with Todd Dodge]

30 minutes ago, Rudy said:

In Dodge's case, I'd call him extremely lucky and good at picking school districts with the money and resources to be successful at the high school level.  A "legendary" coach would have had some type of success at the high school level.  

Hasn’t he had “some type of success” at the high school level?

[Since we love to keep up with Todd Dodge]

2 hours ago, emmitt01 said:

Led?  
 

Leading is taking a team that DOESN’T have more resources than all of its opponents to a place they haven’t been before…it is not taking an already successful program with incredible resources to the place that they will naturally reach.  
 

I’d like to see how he’d do at a place with few resources and without an established tradition of dominance…maybe a place like North Texas.    Guess we’ll never know how that would turn out though. 🤔

This is just sour grapes. Tom Rapp didn’t win squat at Carroll before Dodge got there. Ledbetter won 4 3A titles in 16 years. Dodge won 4 5A titles in 7 years.

Westlake had only won a single title before Dodge got there and that was way back in 1996 with a future NFL hall of famer at quarterback. He won 3 there. Coppell has tremendous resources and hasn’t won any state titles. 

Rip him if you want for the college stuff but he is a very good high school coach.