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Death by a thousand runs. Although I am pretty sure there was a hold on that final run

Barnett is spot on: recruiting staffs need someone there to be the bad guy, and that can't be anyone on campus, it has to be the NCAA. The coach in charge of the unofficial will not care about the time wasted by other staffers and those staffers don't have the power to say no unless the NCAA does it for them. Without an outside force stepping in everybody will rightly feel like they are in a race where they have to do this, as otherwise the unofficial 4/5 star recruit on his visit will say: "but the other university DID it! You guys don't like me / are no fun /don't respect my team mates I brought along."

45- 38 for UNT. Bet the over. I am seriously considering signing up to a betting site, just to bet the over on this one. O/U is 61.5 right now and each and every poster in this thread has guessed above that.

The first 6 quarters: a solid F. The 10 quarters since: C+. He solved the most important position which is something NT only had with Fine in the last 10 years. But there are 21 other starting positions on O and D, and most of those on D are far from where they need to go in terms of productivity. C+ is not gonna keep him in Denton 3 years from now. He needs to improve further, but it is encouraging that he at least moved in the right direction a bit. I like my coaches capable of learning from their mistakes. That was a real issue with both MacCarney and Littrell, who -once they found something that worked for one of their teams- were fairly stubborn in the years after that.

I can tell you, my baby boy is not giving up his candy freely. He will hold on for dear life.

I am encouraged by this interview. Particularly by the fact that he understands he did things wrong and is actively reevaluating his decisions all the time, and that he appears to take practical steps to change them (although when it gets to actual details there sometimes isn't so much given here, but it sounds like it had practical implications). Personally I think that may be the most crucial ability in a leader. Everybody makes mistakes, but only some are quick to address them. You need some values and some perseverance, but under SL and MacCarney, in the end it sometimes turned into pure stubbornness. I take it he will change how he handles the portal. He has to. I hope he will find solutions for the defense too. He has to as well, as otherwise he is unlikely to last his contract.

I don't see Wichita State on that conference slate. Is that an error or is that correct?

Its hard to learn how to win games. That said: what would the score have been with a referee crew that wasn't looking to keep tech in the game? I don't think it would have been close.

Seriously, Brown has taken a player and was betting on the NCAA caving as it usually does with P5. He gets pissed for not getting his way. Notice how the whole statement is very short on actual details. But I think the NCAA should generally approve less waivers. If in fact they didn't approve any wavers for any reason then everyone would know the rules and expectations would come back to what they ought to be and no judgement calls would be necessary. That would be good, because the NCAA has big conflicts of interests every time it makes judgment calls, making it easily attackable. Sadly that would take spine, which the NCAA -by the design of the P5 schools that control it- doesn't have.

Decent start to coach Calcaterras tenure.

I am sure Sujay Lama is happy at Arkansas state and Brad Stracke was just dying to coach at Odessa college. It may not look like much to you but notice how those folks -who had once been good but had been starting to stall out a few years ago - magically started pursuing new opportunities once the new AD wasn't bogged down anymore by basketball coaching search and football reorg.

Ouch. that one hurts. The men's team is really on the downswing. On a different note, UNT alumus Rosenmueller got a third place finnish on the KornFerry tour a week ago.

It was pretty obvious what Benford was after one game, as he took what was a roster full of talent left behind and the player with the most (never to be fulfilled in any way) raw talent UNT basektball ever saw and easily lost to a DII team. Notice how Wren never fired him, but rather let him coach it out until the end of his contract. Cal is no DII team, and the UNT roster left behind was not great. You could argue that Morris should have dipped heavier into the portal (which is probably true) but that sure would have been helped hade the admins taken their decision at a better date rather than wait forever to make sure that the SL and WB eras matched each other exactly in terms of football games. You can also argue that Morris went too hard on inexperienced coaches, and that may be true. However that should also give you hope that they may actually learn from their mistakes pretty quickly. They will have to, otherwise they will not be long for their business. I trust that Morris does not get to the end of his contract if things keep looking like that for two years. Jared doesn't seem to have a WB-like aversion to firing anyone.

This team is good at quite a few things. unfortunately it may not matter, because run defense is that bad.

Receivers are better than i thought they would be. Haven't seen many stupid drops yet and farily good route running actually. Plus this acrobatic catch right now. I also see potential in Earle, even though at times he seems raw.

Needed that!

I like Tejada. He has improved a lot across the last two years. But he now really needs to improve at tackling help.

Can't imagine that tackling help is anything other than a primary focus in film study on monday. It is really those cases when defenders colleague has a hold but not certainly has the guy down, where somehow our folks have failed to put in the effort.

Ott so far winning the game by himself. Other than that the defense has been good. But it has been reaaallly horrible at getting that guy down.

ok. Lets start this game over. its even and UNT has the ball first.

Well... that's better!

first offensive and defensive drives were not exactly .... not exactly (trying to find a good word... not finding anything good about them

....that....

I got to wondering: What kind of "business" offer might that be? They got a hooker problem in North Carolina? I mean if the problem is under-supply SMU has proven it is willing to whore itself out for cheaper than anyone else. If however, the problem lies in oversupply, SMU might have proposed to trade Craig James for an ACC invite straight up.

I didnßt expect this. Espeically not this fast. I get Arrescos logic that those two may not be addititve to the american looked at only by themselves. And it might well turn out that this is the right decision. But I am worried about the opportunity cost of letting the MWC have them. If the CFP stays at 6 champions +6 at larges its not a big deal. But if that number changes to 5+7 (as seems likely), then losing SMU and letting MWC have those two might well create enough of a perception gap between the MWC and AAC that it might become very hard to get teams into the playoffs. If that happens, the AAC stops being the conference from which teams move up.