TheColonyEagle

I’m betting that as injuries happen in NFL camps, he’ll get a shot somewhere.

Kind of embarrassing for UTEP no?

I hear ya, but that's not realistic.... With social media being the main way 18-22 year olds communicate today...."slang crap" is what you're going to get. You might as well say " I would rather we not have any 18-22 year olds on our team. And I don't want to bury the lead here.....He seems to be saying he feels good and is ready to play. As a Mean Green fan that excites me.

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LOL...yes the stadium is not in the best location. Birmingham is a beautiful city though. The people are great. I'm trying to schedule a meeting at our home office so I can be there on Saturday for the game.

In the past 50 years....there have been....20 teams win the National Championship? Take out BYU and maybe Colorado? It's the same 20 teams to win the NC The past 20 years it's basically 4-5 teams Don't know if that's good or bad Seems bad

I lived in the Birmingham area last year and really liked the local sports talk station: JOX FM. They talk LOADS of college football. I don't live there anymore but still live stream them occasionally. This morning they were previewing UT and asked the question: "What FBS team in the state of Texas will have the most wins this year?" They are high on UT, but then went through the rest: Aggies, TTEch, Baylor....then said: of all the schools in Texas, North Texas has a great shot to win the most games in the state They are high on UAB and said that if UAB wins the west, UNT will have a hard time winning 9-10. But they think UNT has a shot to win 10 games. They do a good job of covering CUSA and give UAB plenty of mention (hard to do in the center of SEC Country) But they have always spoke highly of UNT and Seth Littrell. Can we get this season started already?!

I think it's natural....(I do it too) I'll just be glad when our program is to a point where we don't... I think we're getting there.

I look forward to the day when our past doesn't shape our perception of the program.

Just think, we have another year of him after this one. Giddy.

I hope he stays with the program in some capacity after graduation

No doubt

This is why we can't have nice things....

And once again....in true SMU style, their view of themselves falls squarely on the company they keep vs their own contribution. It really is amazing. Is there another program in the nation that is more of a “hanger on” than SMU? They have lived off that for a LONG time. Good for them for never having to prove anything themselves I guess....just ride coat tails. Was last year their best year in the AAC? Did they ever sniff competing for a conference championship in CUSA? **Edit...looks like they won the CUSA West in 2010. I'll stand corrected**

You can’t deny UCF’s recent success. And Houston’s. Memphis and S Florida have shown flashes. They have 3-4 really good programs. However, the rest of the conference is squarely in the realm of a G5.

I get the AAC's focus on the "P6" thing. However no one outside the AAC takes it seriously...but I'll give them credit for at least trying to distance themselves from the rest of the G5. The next 5 years are so critical for UNT

NEWPORT, R.I. — The trappings of American inequity dot the landscape here, as even the 1-percenters can’t help but gawk at the looming mansions on the Cliff Walk owned by iconic American families. Amid this gilded setting, the American Athletic Conference has held its Media Days since the league’s inception five years ago. And it has spent that time balancing Rockefeller ambitions on a Bundy family budget, desperately seeking a way to launch itself out of college football’s middle class. On the field, the American Athletic Conference has acquitted itself well since the football iteration of the Big East collapsed. The AAC has made clear its aspirational desires, launching a persistent “P6” campaign to include itself in the top echelon of Power Five conferences in college sports. The AAC has shown in a small sample size that it can be intermittently competitive with the top leagues in college football. That includes two marquee bowl wins the past three seasons, with Houston toppling Florida State in the Peach Bowl after 2015 and undefeated UCF thumping Auburn in the same game last season. But to change the narrative on the field, the next step for the Artist Formerly Known As The Big East is to change the financial model off it. For all of AAC commissioner Mike Aresco’s stumping for the sport’s model to change to a Power Six, there’s no chance of that transcending empty rhetoric until the league’s financial revenues look more Rockefeller than Bundy. The league is wheezing through the final two seasons of a seven-year, $126 million television contract with ESPN that was essentially a hostage negation that doubled as a TV deal. The AAC, fresh off a spate of realignment departures, did the best it could at the time and signed on for short money to be more attractive this time around. For ESPN, it has proven a grand bargain for the quality and quantity of content. (Essentially, each major conference program in the Power Five gets more television revenue annually than all 12 teams in the AAC)......... https://sports.yahoo.com/aac-tv-deal-impact-future-college-football-rights-034901284.html

What exactly does SMU add to a P5 conference. "we were ranked in the 1980s" doesn't do it

Thankfully, Littrell doesn’t seem like the guy that is satisfied with his program “staying in its lane” more like the guy that will walk up to the biggest guy on the playground and punch him in the face. Glad he’s on our side. And if I’m a P5 AD. I’m not considering someone with some of those coaches’ attitudes for a future “dream job.” What a bunch of ...........

“I think this place can be a monster,” “Why can’t this one be the next one that climbs that ladder, that you can compete for championships here and continue to rise, not just as a football program, but overall as an athletic program?” -Seth Littrell https://theathletic.com/429378/2018/07/12/how-seth-littrell-brought-a-winning-brand-of-football-to-north-texas/

I won’t be surprised. But again, there aren’t too many coaches that would turn down a UT job. And I would argue Briles got to stay close to home while moving up. (Assuming that was important?) TTech is a wildcard here.....it’s a Big 12 gig in Texas and he has experience there. I would say OU is probably his dream job but it looks like they’re set for a while. OSU would maybe be a possibility (although I don’t know why everyone says Gundy is on the hot seat.) I don’t know if staying close tonfamily is as important as it seems to Littrell. History has shown that “close to home” is probably a little overrated when it comes to coaching moves or free agents, etc. So History says the odds are certainly against Littrell staying if he continues his success. But every individual is different in what they want. I think at the very least it would take a top tier job or a P5 close to this area. For example, I don’t think he would jump at a Kansas type situation just to move up. My point is, if that ideal situation is not available yet (top tier P5, close P5) I could see him waiting it out here.

Wasn’t there a story out that he turned down one P5 interview? So yes, there are probably only 20 coaches in the country that would turn down an opportunity at a Tennessee. But Littrell has said (you can say it’s coach speech, maybe it is, maybe it’s not) he loves it here, this place “can be a monster,” if anyone thinks he wants to leave “they don’t know me” Point being, maybe it would take a top 20-30 job to pull him away. Maybe he’ll take a million a year to stay here, close to home, building a program into “a monster.” I’m not convinced that the first P5 job that comes up, he’ll jump at. If that’s the case, it may take 3 or 4 more years of consistent 9, 10 win seasons to get that Top tier offer. Maybe get NY6 Bowl mentions.... And if that’s the case. Imagine what kind of position we’ll be in IF he leaves.

That’s an interesting comparison. Harrell threw for 4555 yards his Soph year. 5705 his Jr year 5111 his Sr year He went 8-5 his sophomore year 9-4 his Jr year 11-2 his Sr year I’ll take the increase in wins from Mason’s Soph year to his Sr year

Let’s uhh.....let’s let it play out....