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  1. I'd like RV to surprise the heck out of me and actually schedule a *gasp* 7-game home schedule in 2019 or 2020. And if I'm greedy, I'm even asking for a lowly P5 like Indiana, Northwestern, Wake Forest, Oregon State, Colorado, Virginia. Make it a home game in '19 and an away game in '20...or an away game in '19 with a home game in '20 and a bought opponent in '20 like Lamar.

    2019 season

    Home – Abilene Christian, Army, Virginia
    Away – SMU

    2020 season

    Home – SMU, Lamar
    Away – Army, Virginia

    -or-

    2019 season

    Home – Abilene Christian, Army
    Away – SMU, Oregon State

    2020 season

    Home – SMU, Oregon State, Lamar
    Away – Army

    I'd also like my own private island too, though, and I don't think that's happening, either :ermm:

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  2. If history is either 1) an indicator for future results or 2) repeats itself, then scheduling 3-6 years out might set us up for success in terms of besting a big name program at home. In Coach Mac's 12 years at Iowa State, his best year was year 6 and his other non-losing seasons were years 7, 8, 10, and 11.

    In 16 years as a head coach, Mac has #hit6 six times...

  3. – I have been asked repeatedly (and justifiably so) about UNT’s schedule for the next few years in football in the wake of the release of this season’s slate. I have talked to multiple people and have been told that I should be able to get the information on the Mean Green’s nonconference games for the next few years shortly. Several of those games have been in place for a while.

    courtesy of Brett Vito:

    http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2015/02/monday-afternoon-notes-unt-football-schedule-hoops-notes.html/

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  4. sneaking-mounts.jpg

    To be fair, I gained a lot of the notoriety and crap from when I was 18. I make no excuses for being an idiot online, I was just young and passionate.

    I still get into spats on Twitter, but I have tried considerably to change over the years, as I got older.

    I occasionally posted on it still once I started FillApogee as recently as last year, but decided to start new because I created a lot of enemies under that old name.

    perhaps you can truly show penance by giving us the three names we so desire.

    2016:

    2017:

    2019:

    if you won't give us the names, how about some helpful hints? You can even make them as obscure as you'd like - we have some pretty talented sleuths around here...

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  5. There are actually secured games for these years and there's a poster of them up in the football office.

    Per the article, RV said : "we have secured six home games for the next four years already" So who are these secured home games in 2016, 2017, and 2019? if they're secured then announce them

    It's been a week, and we still haven't heard a peep about these secured home games.

    to the posters who are buddies with RV...can you snap a quick photo of this poster on one of your visits to his office?

    to any current students: can you take a few minutes to go by the AC and take a quick photo?

    Brett Vito, will you have a blog post with this valuable information?

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  6. Similar to women's basketball coach Mike Petersen's proclamations that he had never lost a first round conference tournament game upon arriving in Denton (and then promptly going 0-2 in such games), Dan McCarney has long held up the consecutive winning seasons in Apogee mantle as a point of pride for our program. My question for you is this: will we #hit5 in 2015? With only 5 home games, there's no chance for a push...

    as a bonus exercise, I ask you to rank the home games in terms of winnability.

    My take:

    1. Portland State - Money games should always be won by the school forking over the dough.

    2. UTSA - a fifth year program replacing a boatload of starters. Until that Southern Miss debacle, Danny Mac had been undefeated at home in October and is still undefeated at home on Halloween - so there's that. Although we are 0-2 against Coker and his boys...

    3. UTEP - the Mean Green is 3-1 in home finales under Mac. UTEP's strength is toting the rock. Will the front seven step up and stifle the Miner rushing attack or will we be too beat up after a bruising three game road tour?

    4. WKU - I thought about putting Rice here since WKU is returning most of their squad and is the early favorite to win the East crown, but that's a long trip and the 'toppers will be coming off of Rice and MUTS while the Eagles will be rested after a, hopefully, easy win against Portland State. Plus that October home record thing listed earlier...

    5. Rice - could possibly win the West. Plus that win in Houston last year was pretty thorough. I could easily flip this one with WKU.

    2011 home record: 4-2

    2012 home record: 3-2

    2013 home record: 5-1

    2014 home record: 4-2

  7. There are actually secured games for these years and there's a poster of them up in the football office.

    Anyone on campus got a few extra minutes to spare to do us all a good favor and post these games?

    I promise to +1 your next 10 posts regardless of if I agree or not.

    I, likewise, commit to providing a +1 on the next 10 posts of the GMG denizen who provides photographic evidence of said poster.

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  8. Who are our home games in 2016 and 2017.

    This.

    Per the article, RV said : "we have secured six home games for the next four years already"

    announced home games for the next four years are (not including the unannounced 4 conference home games per year):

    2016: SMU

    2017: Army

    2018: SMU, Incarnate Word

    2019: Army

    So who are these secured home games in 2016, 2017, and 2019? if they're secured then announce them

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  9. - C-USA is obligated to release its schedule for next season to TV networks on Sunday (February 1). The 2015 schedule is expected to be released to the public early next week.

    - the schedules weren’t discussed during this week’s meetings, but "it was a subject in hallway meetings and over dinner."

    - The 2015 season is problematic because there are only 13 weeks in which to play 12 games – one less than usual. One model C-USA officials appear to favor would have conference schools play the same schedule as last season, with the sites reversed. In that scenario, Charlotte would play UAB’s schedule.

    - C-USA’s bowl lineup will shift slightly. C-USA teams will meet a Mid-American Conference team in the Bahamas Bowl, a Big 12 team in the Heart of Dallas Bowl, a Mountain West team in the Gildan New Mexico Bowl, a Sun Belt team in the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl and an American Athletic Conference team in the Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl. C-USA teams went to bowls in Boca Raton and Hawaii in 2014. Those bowls shift off the conference schedule this season but will return in the future.

    http://hamptonroads.com/2015/01/odu-officials-lobbied-play-unc-charlotte-2015

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  10. 1. Indoor practice facility - football (this will only serve to bring in better recruits for the cash cow sport)

    2. 28,000+ at all home games; 3,000+ at all away games within 5 hours (the $ that comes in from near-to-sellout crowds at Apogee would be used for all of these suggestions I'm reading; highly desirable and upwardly mobile teams travel well...)

    3. Baseball

    4. Basketball indoor practice facilities (addtl upgrades to the Super Pit)

    5. enhance/upgrade track&field facilities

    1. womp womp womp

    2. womp womp womp. We haven't even hit 28k in that time...26k for UTEP on homecoming.

    3. womp womp womp

    4. done, but what little did I know about the inhabitant who was coming to reside there

    5. womp womp womp.

    6. would like to add soccer facility upgrade for our ladies. We should add brick seating for both softball and soccer to let that area become more aesthetically pleasing. Also, permanent restrooms...

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  11. Our other 6 decommits may have been a bad job on our staff on retaining commits, but I don't think Wheeler was. He got a P5 offer, which happened to be his dream school. That wasn't the case with the other guys.

    This case is a danger of recruiting the big metroplex powers. People often say "oh, we need to recruit Cedar Hill/DeSoto/Allen/Coppell/etc really hard and get a pipeline going through those schools. Talent right in our backyard."

    That's just not realistic. The kids at those schools get as much, if not more recruiting exposure than just about any other high school players in the country. If there are good players at those schools, then they're going to have good offers. Sometimes kids from those schools have even better offer lists than they should just because colleges want to get into that school. It's next to impossible for kids to go under the radar at those schools, as long as they're eligible and playing.

    Alternatively, take a look at East Texas. The example I like to give is Jeffery Wilson. If Jeffery Wilson had been playing for the schools I mentioned like the Allen Eagles instead of the Elkhart Elks, he would've had multiple BIG12 offers and could've even had offers from a school like Texas or OU. At least a TCU, Ok State, or Texas Tech. But because of his minimal exposure, he only had offers from us, New Mexico State, ULM, and Texas State. Cases like that are why I believe East Texas has and can be our biggest asset in recruiting.

    We still do need to absolutely recruit the metroplex well, including the powerhouse programs. But to land kids from those schools who are legitimate CUSA level players, you're going to have to be able to win recruiting battles. We have struggled mightily with that. That has to improve, as well as sustaining our commits.

    I once saw a graphic indicating that there are more Texas-produced NFL players born east of I45 than there are from the rest of the state combined. I 100% agree with you, Billy, that east Texas is where we should be signing a minimum of 5-7 kids per year.

  12. September 5th and 19th will be home games except that September 19th will more likely be on September 17th because we must have weeknight games now.

    I don't know. If we use up 2 of our 4 conference home games on the 5th and 17th, then we only have two total left for October and November. It's definitely possible, however I think it's more likely that we get a home game on either/or regarding those two dates. Speaking of our newest tradition (weeknight games), what if our weeknight game is for the season opener, say Sept 3? I might actually like that idea

  13. Last year, CUSA posted the league schedule on Feb. 3.

    I realize that there's no way to actually know yet which date will be the open date, but with the doldrums between the end of bowl season and signing date, I thought it might be a useful exercise to see if anyone can correctly guess which weekend will be our BYE in 2015. Winner gets a free 2014 souvenir cup, slightly used.

    Sept. 5

    Sept. 12 @ SMU

    Sept. 19

    Sept. 26 @ Iowa

    Oct. 3

    Oct. 10 Portland State

    Oct. 17

    Oct. 24

    Oct. 31

    Nov. 7

    Nov. 14 @ Tennessee

    Nov. 21

    Nov. 28

    Dec. 5 CUSA Championship Game

    9 Open Dates, 8 games. Guaranteed games with Rice, UTSA, UTEP, LA Tech, Southern Miss. The remaining three will be from the pool of MUTS, F_U twins, Charlotte, Old Dominion, Marshall, WKU.

    My personal top three contenders for open date winner are Oct. 3, Oct. 17, and Sept. 5.

    Disclaimer: I love college football in October (especially home games), so I don't really want an open date on either of the first two, but that tends to be the time frame where opening dates occur. Also, I absolutely do NOT want to be sitting at home with no game on the first weekend of the season, but being a tried and true "that's just our luck" Mean Greener, I could certainly envision a scenario where it happens to us.

    Any takers?

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  14. Ineligible due to "FCS to FBS" transition rule:

    1. Georgia Southern

    2. Appalachian State

    3. Old Dominion

    Sun Belt only has 3 bowl tie-ins and 4 eligible teams (6, but we removed 2 above):

    4. South Alabama

    MAC has 5 tie-ins but 6 eligible teams:

    5. Ohio -or-

    6. Central Michigan

    CUSA has 6 tie-ins and 7 eligible teams (7, but we removed 1 above):

    7. MUTS

    There are still two teams (Temple and Oklahoma State) that could potentially become bowl eligible this weekend. My guess is that at least one does so I added a bonus 7th team

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