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17-19 in three seasons. That is good considering where UNT was, but there is still plenty of room for improvement. I trust Mac to a certain degree, but I do not trust blindly. And the fact that I am not yet sure wheter to trust him to manage the QB thing well, when no QB he recruited to UNT has done anything substantial yet seems a fair thing to me.

First: I will believe Navy will not chicken out and really play in the AAC when I see them on the field with the logo on their chest. Then: yes there may be a bit more recognition at the top of the AAC, but it is not the kind of recognition that gets recruits panties wet, nor the kind that gets you thousands more spectators in the stands. The two things you say are not about to change much for the better for the AAC. Their tv contract is clearly better than C-USAs.... but it is brand new if i recollect correctly. The problem is more that C-USA s contract will come up and with the new membership it might get a worse one (or it might not, hard to say right now, but the timing for C-USA seems more favorable than it was for the AAC who did the tv deal in the middle of realignment insecurity). The bowls... well I guess the fat lady has not entirely sung there yet, but even the guys on the AAC fan boards opined that Banowsky thoroughly wiped the floor with Aresco when it comes to bowls, and with the new contract period starting next year... The main problem with staying in C-USA is more that if the AAC asks someone like southern miss or let's say Marshall, they might jump to be with their 'old rivals'. If C-USA manages to remain together for 2-3 years without any bad noise about someone leaving, then I think the conference will erase a good bit of the perception deficit it has against the AAC.

Ok I stand corrected there.

The problem with running the ball in the beginning is you need some modicum of success in the first half to be able to keep doing it. If you are down 20 points and keep having drives with one or no first downs you will have to pass. In that case whether you pass or not is not the cause for success, but rather the outcome of your success. At the beginning of the season we kept having slow starts with running, and then we started passing in the second halfs and were not half bad at it. When the OL started figuring out how to run block in the latter part of the season, that sure made it easier to keep pounding it in the second half. Without looking it up, I don't think we ran all that much against ball state in half number 2 either, just to give another example. I am still not convinced Macs "old style stubborn" is always a good idea.In particular I still think that UNT still has potential to improve quite a bit in the "remaining unpredictable for the opponent" category when it comes to when do we run and when do we pass.

I don't agree. There is nothing really for north texas that says that the AAC is better than the C-USA. Maybe after new TV deals come out for c-USA and if they are bad. The AAC It is even more spread out, and the teams still in there have barely more name recognition than those in C-USA. No reason to leave for that place right now.

can anyone find out where BCs kickoff return number ranks in the history of all FBS... ought to be quite high up I'd gather.

I kinda doubt this is an accident

Don't get me wrong, I hope your right... but then again UCF looks plenty capabale of pulling a Fresno State. They are a team superbly capable of playing up or down to their competition. Chances aren't that low, that it might bite them.

Easy there... UCF is not as good as advertised. Took them 59 minutes to win against a 2-9 USF team that got blown out at home by mcNeese state and FAU this season, and last minute heroics to beat a 2-9 temple team that lost to Idaho and Fordham. SMU might not have to be good to win that one.

This was one of the more awesome endings I have ever seen.... just right beside the tipped hail mary Auburn had last week. somehow I want their luck to run out now though.

not only that. they win by 30 at UAB... ...i guess they might almost feel like they got momentum going into the off season

Guess I just gotta complain and then things ll start getting better. Blocked punt touchdown sure is nice

Not good so far. one miscue after the other.

and it is a too good day for 5-6 teams. San Jose state jost managed a win against Fresno

Nice. I guess this means UNT is done with WR for this year.

pick 6 for Marshall. still 20 minutes to play, but it feels like this is over. edit, also: cougar high 34, the pink ponies 0. 2 minutes left in the 3rd. Both results make me happy.

He's gotta be approaching 100 yards today

He's definitely been quite electric today

Just as a question: is the pick'ems over after this or will the championship game (nad maybe even the bowl games) be part of this? Depending on this i kind of change tactics.

Yes people not being eniterly happy with 7-4 is rising expectations and a sign of progress. The general meltdown after the UTSA game on the other hand I am not so sure. The UTSA game is the only game where some people before the season said that they don't care what the record would be, this was a must win game. And it was. This defeat will haunt the program for some time.

This is why this game is so important: NT needs to make evident and obvious to recruits what the members of this board already know: UNT and UTSA may be in the same conference, but they are not in really in the same league.

Totally agree, except that the new president is not here yet and really has to wait 21 days even doing things unofficially, before the board approves him... and this can't wait that long. So this is on the current people.

I don't know what exactly to make of the season. What I do know is that I'd find it pretty distasteful if UTSA (who is seeded number 1) would win a C-USA championship before UNT does.

Marshall wins the 5th set 15-12 , and the match 3-2 Good serving by Marshall/reception trouble for UNT were probably what did UNT in. The outside attackers looked a bit tight in set 5. All in all a very enjoyable match. Pitty the season is over. Nice job by the girls. Go Mean Green.

sorry was 25 15 still good, just not thaaat good