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  4. Never too early for 2018 rankings

    in Mean Green Football

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    1 hour ago, BTG_Fan1 said:

    We play 4 very soft teams (Liberty, UTEP, Rice, I-Word).. This slate of games is when UNT should be blowing people out and getting onto the radar of the national media.. I’m sorry but if Arkansas struggles, SMU struggles our toughest opponent will be FAU who will also be in a struggling CUSA conference. FAU took a number of schools out back and beat down them down and still was not ranked nor got a significant number of votes.

     

     

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  10. Barf

    in Mean Green Football

    Posted · Edited by pastorgrant

    21 hours ago, Mean Green Matt said:

    +1 for using bourgeoisie. Certainly not a term heard frequently among us plebeians. 

    Yeah, but I hate it when people use big words just to sound perspicacious.

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  14. Mason Fine Career Stat Watch

    in Mean Green Football

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    9 hours ago, UNT 90 Grad said:

     

    I’m not sure I understand the question.  I’m just saying that looking at where Vizza sits on the career stats after only playing for UNT in 2007-08, he’d likely be #1 in most/all categories if he hadn’t quit, opening the door for little Dodge to step in.  

    And he did it without an OL. Always loved Vizza.

  19. SMU considering Littrell among others

    in Mean Green Football

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    24 minutes ago, SMU2006 said:

    A little inside info from a friend of mine that works in the athletic department.

    -Four candidates that are on the board as of now are Jeff Traylor (interim HC), Seth Littrell, Blake Anderson, and Sonny Dykes.  All have expressed interest in the position and have/will be interviewed.  A decision is expected Monday at the latest.

    - Kevin Sumlin was in Dallas yesterday and met with SMU but has decided he's going to take a year off and see where the landscape is next offseason.  SMU was willing to increase the HC salary to 2.75M for Sumlin and increase the assistant pool by 1M across the board but Sumlin feels he can easily land a P5 job next year and will be in prime position to take over once the carousel begins again.

    - SMU had a phone interview with Texas DC Todd Orlando but apparently Rick Hart the AD felt he did not have a strong recruiting pedigree.  Also SMU felt it was a leverage play by Orlando to get more cash out of Texas.  Orlando even advocated for keeping Traylor as his OC but he's since been ruled out.

    - Jeff Traylor has the full support of the players on the team which isn't lost on Hart or the SMU inner circle of boosters.  He's a Texas high school coaching legend (like Chad Morris) and was a big time recruiter for Charlie Strong at Texas.  He's made it clear he wants the job and would take less money to assemble a veteran coaching staff.  Traylor would likely be in the 1.3 to 1.5M range with estimated assistant increases of nearly 2M.  If I had to handicap it right now he's probably the leader in the clubhouse.  

    - Seth Littrell has expressed interest in the job and would bring Harrell with him.  He's doing a great job at UNT and has a similar background to Morris.  The negative I've been told from SMU's perspective is that he and his staff have not recruited well even by CUSA standards.  Under Morris, SMU signed classes in which nearly every recruit had at least one P5 offer and landed former 4 star guys like Trey Quinn who led the nation in receptions this past year.  Formal interview likely tomorrow.

    - Blake Anderson has the endorsement of Chad Morris.  Morris was very transparent through the whole Arkansas process and when Hart asked about a recommendation Morris apparently "without hesitation" went with Blake Anderson.  He's been a pretty consistent winner and has former P5 experience.  He runs a similar offensive system to the Power Spread that Morris implemented and would be what I was told is a "safe" pick.  Again, issue is recruiting and ability to go head to head in the AAC against much better competition than what he's used to in the Sun Belt.

    - Sonny Dykes had a phone interview earlier today and from I was told it was actually quite impressive.  He's won at a place with far less financial support (La Tech) but had a really tumultuous tenure at Cal.  He's got a weird role this year at TCU that is essentially just a quality control/offensive analyst so he's certainly ready to roll if he got the nod, but I'm told that is highly unlikely. That CAL program was completely wheels off in his last year.  I'm told he is a "distant fourth" and more of a backup candidate at this point.

    -IPF breaks ground in February on the site of the Barr Pool (if you've been on campus its the swimming pool on the north side of Ford Stadium behind the dorms.  Projects at SMU do not break ground until they are 80% funded thus the delay which infuriated Morris.  He wanted to break ground in August of 2016 but SMU had just recently completed a 35M tennis facility and was in the process of raising an additional 25M for the new swimming facility across Central Expressway which opened this year.  Morris and SMU President R. Gerald Turner have butted heads a lot over this and it certainly led to some testy moments last year when Morris had a flirtation with Baylor.  The IPF is estimated to be in the 40-45M range with lead donor secured and shovels ready and will be the traditional red Georgian brick exterior to match the SMU campus aesthetic.  Morris had initially wanted a "bubble" facility similar to what the University of Texas has but Turner and the SMU BoT wouldn't go for it.  

    A lot of stuff there but figured the folks here would want to know.  If I had to make a guess I'd say:

    Traylor - 50%
    Littrell - 35%
    Anderson - 10%
    Dykes - 5%

    Best of luck in your bowl game and see you next year in Denton!

     

     

    Please no.

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  21. Mason Fine

    in Mean Green Football

    Posted · Edited by pastorgrant

    1 hour ago, greenminer said:

    They werent angry and highly motivated for revenge in the CUSA title game? That’s unsettling

    I am sure they were motivated, but FAU is better than we are and is a horrible matchup for us. Motivation could overcome one or the other, but not likely both.

  22. Mason Fine

    in Mean Green Football

    Posted

    Just now, TroyFootball05 said:

    They absolutely do:

    ESPN SOS: Troy 123, UNT 117 

    TEAMRAKINGS: Troy 100, UNT 99

    S&P+ RESUME: Troy 37, UNT 56

    Yes, in the S&P, we're getting a boost for beating LSU on our "resume". The other two clearly show that Troy and UNT have similar schedules. Both CUSA and the SBC have some terrible schools. We have a few really good ones too. 

    Our SOS was dragged down a lot by Lamar, UTEP, and Rice.

     

    For the remaining 10 games, though, the week to week schedule is significantly different.

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  25. SMU considering Littrell among others

    in Mean Green Football

    Posted

    5 minutes ago, Green Mean said:

    SMU is a lateral move IMO.  No I'm not a NT blowhard but outside of the DFW & older hardcore SWC fans, SMU doesn't move the needle at all.  They're lucky their BBall program is doing great but other than that SMU isn't viewed as something great. All SMU has been able to do since the death penalty is still latch on to their old SWC affiliation and the fact that they have money and lots of it and some donors willing to do whatever it takes to get back to what they view as prominent.  

    I think Morris kinda had a leg up even before coming to SMU...he came from a big time CFB program in Clemson, has been credited recruiting and developing Deshaun Watson and helping develop the what is now the Clemson juggernaut.  SL on the other hand came from UNC but was/is nothing near what Clemson is.  So I think even before coming to SMU & NT respectively I think Morris still had more of a leg up hype & viewpoint wise than SL IMO.

    If SL wants to leave then let him....my view of him wouldn't change one iota because such is life...people change jobs every day so they can get paid more, better opportunity etc and SL wouldn't be any different.  As I previously said I'm more concerned about what WB has planned and prepared if that situation occurs than with SL leaving.

    I agree that it is lateral. SMUg has money and a better conference, but UNT has way more potential as a program, and way more fan support (even though still lacking). 

    If he keeps winning, the money will follow here at UNT.

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