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16 minutes ago, UNTLifer said:
Listed at 6'6" 295 lbs. while running a 4.9.
Originally from Brockton, MA
https://www.hudl.com/profile/17183352/Malcolm-AlcornCrowder
**Bonus points if you can tell me what hall of famer is from Brockton.
Sounds to me like the Brockton Mauler....Rocky Marciano.
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I don't understand how the Ivy League schools are 1-AA if they don't give scholarships. Division 3 does not award scholarships but all other divisions do.
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On 9/17/2023 at 3:50 PM, outoftown said:
I don't see Wichita State on that conference slate. Is that an error or is that correct?
We play at Wichita State (maybe) the last conference game. We play all of the 13 members; five of them twice. We are the 14th member.
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On 9/11/2023 at 10:44 AM, southsideguy said:
good to know, I was thinking we didn't have a lot of home games in conference play
On the schedule shown earlier in this thread...the first five shown are home and away, the next four are home only and the last four are away only. That gives us 18 conference games...nine home and nine away.
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It's true that there have been plenty of disrespectful comments but most are deserved. Some were aimed at Coach Morris but a lot of them were aimed at the DC. Speaking of him, did anyone ask why he switched back to a three man defensive line after success with the four man DL? We just don't have the personnel to run the three. It seems to me that it would take three Booger Kennedys to run that successfully (which we don't have of course...who does)?
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Look at the Mountain West. It cost them $34 million if they want to leave with less than two years notice...and they only receive $4 million per year. SMU was getting at least twice that much.
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The next five games will be fine.
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2 minutes ago, Side.Show.Joe said:
That's a punt. Where has this guy been?
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I believe that when the Big East broke up and Connecticut left the renamed American Athletic Conference, I assumed that it would be re-classified a mid-major conference. Evidently, Memphis, Houston and Cincinnati were considered strong enough to keep the rating.
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As we used to say in West Texas...Dimmit to Hale Center.
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It's funny, when you have that kind of speed with those hands, you seem much larger than 5-5, 140.
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La Tech 42
Mean Green 38
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6 hours ago, MeanGreen4Life1998 said:
Thank god..not sure the defense will do anything to stop La Tech but atleast the passing game will be better
Agree, but maybe with this offensive lineup we can outscore La Tech.
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11 hours ago, GMG_Dallas said:
Justin Fuente won 4 games his first year at Memphis in 2012. Yes, however, Memphis won 2 games in 2011, 1 in 2010, and 2 in 2009. He took over a bad squad.
Willie Fritz won 4 his first year at Tulane in 2016. Again, Tulane won 3 games each of the previous two years. Somewhat immediate improvement and it was a bad program. He took over a program with 1 winning season since 2002 and has given them 4 seasons at .500 or better, a modern-day rarity for Tulane. His 2 win season is an outlier.
Matt Rhule is the only one of those three who had a worst record than the year prior to him taking over although. Temple won 4 the year before he took over and 2 his first year with some 4 losses of 3 points or less.
I don't think Morris' situation compares to the coaches you mentioned. Time well tell if Morris is the guy but there's no sugar coating the start of his era.
Not in the two games played but I will give him some credit for this recruiting class being an improvement over most of the past classes. I believe that he has established many good connections with coaches that will help in the future if we can make winners of them.
Added thought. The Portal was especially unkind to continuance of what we had last year. Maybe our worst year for losses.
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11 hours ago, GMG_Dallas said:
Justin Fuente won 4 games his first year at Memphis in 2012. Yes, however, Memphis won 2 games in 2011, 1 in 2010, and 2 in 2009. He took over a bad squad.
Willie Fritz won 4 his first year at Tulane in 2016. Again, Tulane won 3 games each of the previous two years. Somewhat immediate improvement and it was a bad program. He took over a program with 1 winning season since 2002 and has given them 4 seasons at .500 or better, a modern-day rarity for Tulane. His 2 win season is an outlier.
Matt Rhule is the only one of those three who had a worst record than the year prior to him taking over although. Temple won 4 the year before he took over and 2 his first year with some 4 losses of 3 points or less.
I don't think Morris' situation compares to the coaches you mentioned. Time well tell if Morris is the guy but there's no sugar coating the start of his era.
Not in the two games played but I will give him some credit for this recruiting class being an improvement over most of the past classes. I believe that he has established many good connections with coaches that will help in the future if we can make winners of them.
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1 hour ago, Hunter Green said:
Is this the announcement we were waiting for a couple of weeks ago but never heard from?
I'd say yes. This is a Sept. 12 repost of an August 31 original post.
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1 hour ago, untjim1995 said:
Who is at the press conference from the media besides Vito and the NT Daily reporter? Because that is also an issue in that nobody from DFW cares enough to send anyone up to Denton to ask tough questions, too.
As far as I know Bret still functions as the UNT reporter for the Dallas Morning News. It could be different now because the Record-Chronicle has a new owner. If so, that needs to be negotiated with the Morning News.
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57 minutes ago, TreeFiddy said:
Coach, here is a suggestion on how to improve tackling. Don't wait until the season starts to make it a priority. And don't wait until the season starts to suddenly realize that you may be a little undersized to run your defensive scheme. He should have been hammering the portal after the Spring if he did not think he had the personnel needed to be competitive, much less successful.
He does not get any points from me by showing up to his weekly press conference giving BS coach speak about taking accountability after your team looked completely unprepared in doing to play two weeks in a row. The time to take accountability was the day he was hired, not after the season starts.
Hard to imagine the type of dysfunction present on the defensive side of the ball just suddenly appeared in the first game without any warning.
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Just looked up his total defense rankings while HC at UIW from 2018-2021. #111, #115, #95, #95 out of 123 teams. Looks like he has a history of not knowing how to teach his teams to tackle. Awesome.
I realize that defense is not his forte. He should have defensive coaches that know how to teach tackling and coach defense. It seems that the runner and sometimes the receiver sticks close to a blocker forcing arm tackles instead of being able to wrap up.
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5 hours ago, MeanGreenTexan said:
This was what I was kinda worried about when we fired Littrell, but went cheaper on Morris. Everyone said it was OK, because our support staff salaries went up as a result, and I must admit, that’s a good thing. But it’s certainly a gamble. There’s that old saying… “you get what you pay for.” There’s no coupons when it comes to CFB coaches.
Actually, I thought that Morris was offered close to what Littrell was making but he took less with the difference going to the assistants and recruiting staff.
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17 minutes ago, NorthTexasWeLove said:
I'd think that he has put plenty of heat on himself over what's transpired.
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The one good thing about this staff is they are good recruiters. I'd hate to lose the good recruiters if they are good coaches also.
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1 minute ago, NorthTexasWeLove said:
If tremendous growth and downright change doesn't happen we will not win a conference game. Every team in the AAC beats FIU, except UNT.
Truth be told, no one in the AAC has played FIU this year.
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1 hour ago, GoMeanGreen1999 said:
This season is lost. With Dodge, we knew after game 1 we were in trouble. OU could have put a 100 on us that day without blinking. You are right, this season is over. This is Benford bad. Sadly, it will take years to right what this year will do to do this program. If you can't stop the other offense, it doesn't matter how many points you can score. Blows my mind how we just continue to hire the wrong up and comer hire after hire after hire in football.
I hate to see someone start with "the season is lost." How many conference games have we lost? Yes, things look dire at this point, but wait until we've dropped a conference game or two before you complain that the season is lost and you won't be back. I can easily understand your disappointment...I'm disappointed myself. But, I don't quit yet; in fact, I won't acknowledge publicly that I will ever quit (until I'm six feet under). I saw my first North Texas game in 1947 and except for seven seasons when I only saw a total of four games due to service time and living several hundred miles away for my work. I was in the area when we were demoted to 1AA so I know what it means to want to quit. So even if you want to quit or even do quit, don't publicize it. That doesn't mean don't complain.
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I'm confused. We have 12 men on the field and we didn't get a penalty?
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Here we go again.
The "Go Mean Green" was not coined by Joe's mother; it was coined (sort of) by Sidney Sue Smith Graham, the wife of Sports Information Director Fred Graham. Actually Sidney said "Get Mean, Green!" She told Fred that he should use it in his press/publicity releases. Fred first said "It sounds too corny" but later relented and started using it. It caught on and the rest is history as they say.
I believe that it was Fred that changed the "Get" to "Go."