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  5. 2018 Schedule Thoughts

    in Mean Green Football

    Posted · Edited by TheColonyEagle

    4 hours ago, wardly said:

    Defense suspect. I hope I am wrong, but where do you see major improvements in defense that gave up about 7 touchdowns per game [I don't remember exact number ]? Not talking about Iowa, but SMU,FAU,Troy?

    I agree with what Silver said above. We don't need a drastic improvement in defense. Generally the getting burned deep is a positioning problem: i.e. mental. That can be fixed with experience in a system. (A system by the way that was in year 1 last year if I remember correctly) But yes we need to improve. My argument is more consistency on offense will help our defense. In the 4 games you're talking about, our big losses, our offense was just as big a problem as our defense. Not enough points and too many turnovers:

     

    vs SMU - We scored 10 pts in the 1st half (shutout in the 2nd qtr) and only had 17 pts through 3 qtrs. Plus we had 2 INTs

    vs FAU (1) - We scored 7 pts in the 1st half (shutout in the 1st qtr) Plus we had 2 INTs

    vs FAU (2) - We got SHUT OUT in the 1st half. (That can't be understated....this offense went into the lockeroom at halftime of the Conference Championship with a big goose egg on the board). Plus we had 2 INTS

    vs Troy - Better...we scored 20 pts in the first half but had 5 turnovers in that game. And in the 3rd quarter we lost the game. We only had 3 points while Troy scored 3 TDs on one long drive but also 2 drives of 27 yards, and 13 yards


    We are not going to have 2002 or 2013 UNT D. But our offense should be powerful enough to constantly put pressure on the other team and I would expect that to happen with these players coming back in their 3rd year in the system. As good as the offense was....there is still a lot of room for improvement. Namely finishing drives and reducing turnovers.

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  6. 2018 Schedule Thoughts

    in Mean Green Football

    Posted · Edited by TheColonyEagle

    55 minutes ago, wardly said:

    Guys, what concerns me is that we won every close game last year, several on the last play. That takes a certain amount of just plain old luck.I think we caught lightning in a bottle last year , and cannot overstate the value of Moore. I still think we field a competitive team,but are looking at a 7 win season. Losses at home to SMU and FAU, on the road at Arkansas,UAB, and ODU.

    I would say a team full of underclassmen yes....it can take luck. The offensive POY was a sophomore and as great as he was...he still threw too many picks. We depended on Moore last year because this offense full of sophomores didn't finish drives at times lasts season. I expect more TDs next year.

    Wouldn't you expect those same players with another year under their belt to overcome some of the issues from last season, learn from it and grow? Why would we expect to see less wins with basically the same team coming back...all with more experience? This years' players have the same names but they have another year of experience and time in this system. We're not going from year 1 to 2, we're going from year 2 to 3.

    Why would we not expect forward momentum? If I compare this team to what we've always seen with UNT then sure...7 wins is reasonable. If I don't use the past as a lense to judge the 2018 team then 7 wins = disappointment.

    #Hit10

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  7. Dude Perfect at the Super Pit

    in Mean Green Basketball

    Posted

    On 6/6/2018 at 12:09 AM, WaxaWarrior2016 said:

    Great publicity for the Mean Green! Dude Perfect is one of the most followed channels on YouTube, they get a TON of views! Headquartered in Frisco, they've hit pretty much every major university in the metroplex (TCU, SMU, and now UNT), now if we could just get them into Apogee!

    They are absolute YouTube stars.

    My kids LOVE them

     

  9. AD is posting real donor numbers

    in Mean Green Football

    Posted · Edited by TheColonyEagle

    As for who we play....I don't really care.

    But regarding Army....another way to look at it:

    Does the 1 game playing them offset the coaching staff's opinion that taking a week in the middle of the year to totally turn your practice upside down has an effect on the season? Especially if they don't HAVE to...(not in conference) In other words does the negative of playing the one game vs Liberty offset the positive of playing a high profile program for one game when you compare that game to the momentum of a full schedule. Does 10-2 with a win vs Liberty look better than 8-4 with a game vs Army? (Assuming you believe what seems like the coaching staffs thoughts on disrupting practice in the middle of the year)

    If you take out the HOD bowl loss (because it was the last game of the year), after we beat Army the other two times we played them in season, we were 2-7 and our defense was not good in those losses. We were perhaps lucky we got a massively down Rice the week after last seasons game then we gave up 41 and 50 the next 2 games. Yes the opponents were good but we should've been peaking in games 13 and 14 on the year.

    You can draw your own conclusion but it seems like the coaching staff doesn't like disrupting practice momentum and maybe they do feel it affects the team. You can argue that that's weak and the coaches should be able to handle that. I get it. But it seems like there's risk\reward at play here and the program is removing risk. We are on the verge of somethign big picture here and we're walking that G5 wire where we have NO ROOM for error and we can't take chances on losing games. If the coaches think maintaining practice momentum for every week helps the team win more games....then so be it.

    Seems the coaches have spoken and the AD backed them. If we go 10-2 this year and are a top 10 G5, it's not going to matter that we played Liberty. Big picture, sacrificing the one marquee matchup that the fans might enjoy for a shot at upping our national profile with a 10-2 or 11-1 season may be worth it. Fans would enjoy seeing UNT get national attention as well.

    And as for the LIberty game specifically....this team should be well coached and mature enough to not look past Liberty. Our talent and continuity in this system should be too much for them to handle. That Baylor win last year should help us. They'll hear it 100 times in the week leading up to that game. This game shouldn't be close.

     

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  12. 2018 Schedule Thoughts

    in Mean Green Football

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    With what we have coming back, in their 3rd year in the system, with the schedule... 

    * I expect to average over 40 per game this year

    * I expect to beat SMU 

    * I expect to at the every least....make Arkansas really sweat

    *I expect to play MUCH better against FAU at home and be in position to win that game (I think they'll take a step back this year...they have EXTREMELY unproven coordinators...Briles is legit)

    * I expect to win the West

    * I expect to be a top 10 G5 team

    If we're 8-4 this year, I'll be disappointed. I don't care how we're doing compared to "do you realize how this program has played the past 20 years?" That has nothing to do with my expectations for this coaching staff and this group of players in 2018.

    CUSA offensive player of the year returning at QB with all of his receivers, another year of the oline gelling and the 3rd year in this system.

    10-2 or 11-1 is not crazy for this team.

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  13. What is the G5 model program we should aspire to?

    in Mean Green Football

    Posted · Edited by TheColonyEagle

    Harry, I would agree with your three examples. Boise is obviously the G5 example and has been for several years. From a size standpoint, UH is similar however they still (believe it or not) have SWC cred. Which we don't have. So from a perception standpoint, they will always have that going for them...especially local media perception.

    One thing all of the high profile G5 programs have, and it seems to be a prerequisite for being considered in the upper echelon...they have wins over P5s. Big wins. Boise is still getting the benefit of beating OU. UH started beating big programs. UCF beat Auburn. 

    We have to win these and get ranked.

    We have an infrastructure in place:  Facilities, numbers, size, location. This is actually a leg up and an advantage....a lot of teams that may win....will never have that...

    However

    We have to check off two more boxes: beat a big boy, get ranked.

    Once we do...I think we we will see this thing explode.

     

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  16. Could Mason Fine join the 5,000 yard Club?

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    22 hours ago, Aldo said:

    Looking at sports-reference, there have been 15 passers with 5,000 yards in a season (with repeat QBs like Harrell).

    14 winning teams.

    1 losing team (5-7 Mahomes' Tech).

    Passing a lot on a team built to pass a lot works, y'all.

    Well...there  you go. Thanks for looking that up

     

    I also agree....our offense isn't really designed to throw for 5,000 yards. We run the air raid but not the typical Mike Leach throw it 60 times a game version. 

  17. Could Mason Fine join the 5,000 yard Club?

    in Mean Green Football

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    6 hours ago, meanrob said:

    If gets 5,000 yards then I doubt we have a great season. Probably means we were behind a lot. 

    If he had similar stats to last year with an uptick in completion percentage and a downtick in INTs, we'll be just fine. 

     

    Agree. They run the air raid but it’s not the typical version. Running the ball is important. And they’ve been successful. 

    I wonder how many of the 5,000 yard passers were on winning teams. 

  22. Distancing ourselves from Army rivalry is still a head scratcher to me...

    in The Eagles Nest (There Should be Pie For Everyone Forum)

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    As for getting out of the Army series....

    I see it as a head coach with his eye on the big picture and an AD that supports the head coach.

     

    So I'll defer to the two guys running the program. As far as fan experience....I'll take wins. That's what I enjoy. So if the HC thinks getting out of that series improves preparation and keeps the team in a better rythm for the long haul....I support it.

     

     

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  25. Coaches Caravan

    in Mean Green Football

    Posted

    1 hour ago, MrStrange18 said:

    How do one of these go down? Never been... so if we show up 15-20 mins late are we still good to go?

    Seemed fairly laid back to me. We were 10 min late or so. There's nothing formal about it.....we walked in, got a pic with Scrappy, went to the bar and mingled around. Coach Littrell was standing there talking to a fan....Cool event. I recommend it.

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