[A Year Ago]

1 hour ago, Meangreen Fight said:

We lost in a Bowl that claimed 12,000 in attendance.  There might be more people on campus during the fall semester on an away game Saturday.   🙄.  If you were one of the few UNT Football fans who watched or went to the game I applaud your loyal support.  But I don’t know what you are saying.  They lost to a Boise State program in such good shape their head coach Andy Avalos  got fired just a month ago.   Bowl games are worthless now more than ever because any of your players that put on an impressive show might use that to jump into the portal.
 

sidebar: I would love to add Andy Avalos to the defensive coaching staff as a replacement in waiting for Caponi. 

Seth Littrell coached them to that bowl game but not in that bowl game. Bennett coached that bowl game. Bowl attendees did have the chance to see the new coach (Morris) during the pregame stuff though. I don’t know how you specifically pin that particular low attendance on Littrell, if he was the big issue wouldn’t more folks have come out to show their support for the AD in firing him and also for the newly hired coach?

[8 years ago today]

42 minutes ago, Cougar King said:

I thought he turned it down because he didn't want to retain certain K-State people. 

[North Texas Portal Entry Thread]

3 minutes ago, NorthTexasWeLove said:

I think I'll do exactly what I want to do. 

Good for you, I’m sure the petulance will take you far.

[Graduation Requirements]

1 hour ago, Graddean said:

Many colleges require a minimum number of hours to be completed at the institution to receive a degree.  The number is typically about 30 or the equivalent of two full time semesters.

Thank you. Rogers has most likely completed 30 hours since he arrived before last spring.

[North Texas Portal Entry Thread]

3 minutes ago, NorthTexasWeLove said:

I expect nothing of real substance from you. And it's not your fault at face value, as a lifetime government employee, you can't help but not be useful. Typical predicament. 

There is absolutely no reason to attack this man for the job he has done his entire postgraduate life. He is out there doing work most of us don’t have the stomach for. Talk all the smack you want about his opinion but do not attack the man for his profession or his character. 

[So when they leave us do we let them come back?]

55 minutes ago, Andrew said:

I legit wouldn’t take a million dollars to transfer out of UNT. 

You are either already wealthy or have never had to struggle financially in your lifetime.

[Quarterback]

With only Head and the Hawaii transfer left, I’d ask Ruder to come back for his covid year but he won’t.

[North Texas Portal Entry Thread]

54 minutes ago, Jdawg48 said:

Lol has it ever been this bad where majority of our stars/starters leave like this? At this rate?

Nope. Say what you will about Littrell but he always seemed to keep the core together.

[Quarterback]

On 11/30/2023 at 9:10 PM, UNTLifer said:

For one, he stated in the recent DRC Mean Green newsletter that "We have a lot of confidence heading into the off season.  We understand how close we are."

 

On 11/30/2023 at 10:21 PM, Cr1028 said:

Last March Gumms was talking about why he chose to stay at North Texas and how spring workouts were going with the new staff while on Sanoe’s show. A week later he entered the portal. Until week 1 of the 2024 season comes, I’m not convinced of anything.

[Bloesch promoted to Cal's OC]

Well deserved 

[North Texas Portal Entry Thread]

9 hours ago, TheReal_jayD said:

I’m sure this was meant to be a facetious comment.. but outside of Maclin, Ayo, Wilson, Miner and Febechi I don’t see staff losing any sleep over any one else that has hit portal so far. And 3 of the 5 I listed were walk ons and 1 of the others only offer out of portal was UNT. Sucks losing them. But it’s happening to everyone. There is over 1000 guys in portal right now. Almost 10 per team

No disrespect was attached to my comment. I was simply saying what I had seen said. It was in no way a swipe at you.

[The NT Purge of 2023]

42 minutes ago, Jonnyeagle said:

Wow never seen so many defections at one time.  Very difficult time but hopefully we can add some from the portal to replace as well.

I think it is largely because of how they narrowed the portal to two windows instead of being open ended like it used to be.

[North Texas Portal Entry Thread]

Just now, UNTFan94 said:

That’s a fair point. I just get really nervous when I see the university that I dearly love struggling so much!!

@TheReal_jayDsays that most of these guys were encouraged to leave so take that as you wish.

[North Texas Portal Entry Thread]

@UNTFan94 I love Todd Dodge, truly, but I think he is happy doing what he is doing. He gets to enjoy football at his own pace now. I just had my kids in one of his minicamps this past weekend. He is holding another one this weekend. Best quarterback coach in the country as far as I am concerned. Anyways, I don’t think he wants to go back to the requirements of a full-time gig. He gets to enjoy his family and friends too much to go back to the daily grind. Now if you want to take advantage of that connection and make the most of it, you probably need to do your best to grab Riley Dodge instead. I think that would be a stellar hire.

[Playoff bracket predictions?]

If you are of the mindset that FSU shouldn’t be in bc they wouldn’t be favored in a head to head over Texas or Alabama right now, then you should also be of the mindset that Texas shouldn’t be in bc if they played tomorrow they would definitely be dogs to Georgia and probably Ohio State too.

[Playoff bracket predictions?]

Plain and simple Texas lost to Houston except for extremely questionable calls. I’m sure the powers that be did what they could to keep Texas afloat.

Reminds me of when the refs gifted them the win over us too.

Part of the time-honored tradition of referees screwing other teams to the benefit of Texas.

 

[Playoff bracket predictions?]

FSU got jobbed so ESPN could put Texas in. The big 12 is weak. They beat Bama when Milroe was a shell of the player he has become. Georgia losing grenaded the whole thing.

[Quarterback]

1 hour ago, UNTLifer said:

For one, he stated in the recent DRC Mean Green newsletter that "We have a lot of confidence heading into the off season.  We understand how close we are."

Last March Gumms was talking about why he chose to stay at North Texas and how spring workouts were going with the new staff while on Sanoe’s show. A week later he entered the portal. Until week 1 of the 2024 season comes, I’m not convinced of anything.

[Quarterback]

40 minutes ago, Shark84 said:

Do we know for sure that Rogers will graduate this spring or does he need to wait until grades are in to be able to use the free transfer? 

Don’t know about his grades but do know that, unless he took a hiatus from school, this spring would be his 10th semester and even at the minimum fulltime per semester credit hours of 12, he’d be right around the number of credits needed to graduate.

[Quarterback]

28 minutes ago, peanuts104 said:

We had a true freshman on the roster this season, Dylan Gebbia. So it'd be Head and Gebbia. I wonder if Stone leaving is an indication that Rogers is staying though.

I hope so but I don’t trust anything until the first game week comes. Most of the spring we were led to believe Jace Ruder was the clubhouse leader as the starting quarterback only for him to become a linebacker by the end of the season. Then we had players at other positions that transferred out dang near to fall practice. This portal stuff has everything out of whack.

[Quarterback]

So with Earle transferring and Ruder moving on, if some P5 came and snatched Rogers, would we have anyone besides JD Head?

[North Texas Portal Entry Thread]

2 hours ago, SMU2006 said:

Revenue sharing is on the way without a doubt (and good for the players).  That will have a self-regulating effect on the market/NIL.

How would that work though? Schools like Texas and A&M I could see that working for but what about schools like yours where money is mostly generated by donations and not necessarily generated by demand for the product. I am not being disrespectful here, the same would apply to us minus the donation part. 

[North Texas Portal Entry Thread]

8 hours ago, C Rod said:

Chandler Rogers liked this post. 💸💸💸

It would be borderline criminal for anyone to tell him to pass on an opportunity like that. I know we’d all like to keep great players forever but if Chandler (or Tylor Perry for that matter) came up to me and said “I love it here and I know you love the mean green, what should I do?” I would tell them ten times out of ten that you can’t pass up an opportunity like that because it may never present itself again in your lifetime.

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

https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2023/11/29/steele-dripping-springs-face-off-with-trip-to-state-quarterfinals-on-the-line/
 

Chance to stream him playing this weekend.

[Jon Cooper gone?]

2 hours ago, Jdawg48 said:

Offensive Analyst Jason Smith posted this a few minutes ago. He also played in NFL and works with the O Line too.

 

Can we assume he gets the O Line Coach role?

That would be phenomenal. He is great and the players love him. #2 pick in the draft right behind Matthew Stafford.