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17 minutes ago, GMG24 said:
This squad has a chance to be VERY special. Potential for 5 guys to be legit scoring threats with another 2 to develop and just take the shots provided. I am really excited about Moore’s potential to develop, he’s done some good stuff in limited minutes offensively.
We can still lock you down but more weapons. And the fellas coaching em up ain’t bad.
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15 minutes ago, BigWillie said:
Not sure in this analogy that Aune is "smarter" than Fine. I would take other factors into play like SoS.
No I’m saying Fine is like the smarter student in the analogy.
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43 minutes ago, emmitt01 said:
Let me just ask you this simple question.
Assuming we win today, if I told you that your choices heading down to San Antonio were:
1) Mason Fine in his prime
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2) Austin Aune on the absolute best day of his career
Who are you trusting to lead us against UTSA? And be honest.
Fine. I don’t get the fixation on this. Someone can get a better grade on a test than someone who is smarter than them. That doesn’t mean there’s an asterisk next to the score or anything.
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1 hour ago, emmitt01 said:
It is clear Seth is abandoning what we do well (run the ball) to pad Aune’s numbers.
Now we can have records that don’t tell the true story.
Aune could throw it 180 times today and he’d still have less pass attempts than Fine did in the season he set the single-season TD pass record. Even if he was throwing more today to get the record, Aune would still have gotten there on less passes. Wet field and defense loading up to stop the run is a more likely explanation for why more passing makes sense.
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LBSU led by leading scorer Joel Murray, younger brother of JJ Murray.
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Showing as 8.5 point favorites right now
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8 minutes ago, emmitt01 said:
I was a bit skeptical of this explanation, so I checked UTSA’s depth chart to see if others are kicking our tail in recruiting while being “young” like us.
Good lord, UTSA better win this year because their starters are VERY senior heavy.
One thing I’ll say about that is that schools treated the COVID year differently with how they list their eligibility on their rosters. After the 2020 season, we listed our players with the exact same grade classification in 2021 that they had in 2020. Most schools, including UTSA, did choose to progress their players’ grade classifications forward a year like what normally would have happened.
So UTSA does have a lot of players listed as seniors who are eligible for another season due to the 2020 COVID eligibility freeze, including Frank Harris and Zakhari Franklin. They are listed as seniors but have the same eligibility as guys like Deshawn Gaddie and Jyaire Shorter, who we list as juniors.
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8 minutes ago, MrAlien said:
I am a little surprised that not one AAC school made the schedule, though I understand why SMU wouldnt want to play us. TCU probably had a lot of interest from around the country.
But the one school I would have thought to be interested in playing at UNT is Texas A&M, they narrowly missed the NCAA tournament last year, they will probably end up on the bubble again this year, so beating other bubble teams (especially away) might make them look good come selection day. Granted they do have SMU at home and Memphis away.
I suggest listening to Mccasland talk about the scheduling in this podcast:
In college basketball, it’s all about record and Quad 1 and Quad 2 wins (to a lesser degree). And with Quad 3 and 4 record, the committee doesn’t care about those but they do care how many Quad 3 or 4 losses a team has. That’s what gets evaluated when it’s time to pick at-large NCAA tournament teams.
In order for a home game to count as a Quad 1 win, the opponent has to be a Top 30 NET team. Mccasland explains how teams don’t want to play us, even at their place, because the risk of losing to us isn’t worth the reward of a possibly Quad 3 win, or at best a Quad 2 win. Losing to us at home is either going to worsen the Quad 2 record or show up as a Quad 3 loss, neither are going to help an at-large bid.
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7 hours ago, Glory to the Green said:
This doesn’t look good, Mean Green Faithful. I hope I’m missing something.
We have 8 scholarship seniors, 1 of which is our punter and another 1 of which is our kicker which are positions that Littrell has never offered scholarships to High School players from. You don’t sign 20 high school kids when you’re only graduating 6 non-specialists.
It’s going to be a small class of traditional recruits, with players transferring out likely to get replaced with players transferring in.
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Huge pickup for a variety of reasons! Most of which is this kid can play! Very physical highlights for a CB.
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1 hour ago, greenjoe said:
Has anyone ever returned to a school previously attended ?
Yes. I remember Frankie Ferrari, San Francisco’s point guard when we played them in the CBI Finals, did this. He started his career at San Francisco, went to a JUCO, then went back to San Francisco.
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1 hour ago, UNTLifer said:
Perry and Huntsberry are listed as seniors. Do they have access to an additional year due to Covid? Same with Jones and Ousmane that are listed as juniors?
Yes they do. The players who show as “5th” or “6th” are the ones truly in their last year of eligibility.
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3 hours ago, NT80 said:
Southern Nazarene does show us on their athletic site schedule, but listed as an Exhibition, and not reflected in their season record. That's how most schools list exhibitions.
I think Paul Quinn was a last minute addition to both schedules. It looks like they just are not maintaining their athletic website with changes, scores, or news.
You’re right, they usually do show it as an exhibition but to your point, last minute schedule and doesn’t count towards their record. I’m sure they aren’t too concerned in the AD about getting it updated.
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40 minutes ago, cousin oliver said:
Hopefully just an oversight.
It’s an official game for us but not for them. Allows them to not have to put the loss on their record. Southern Nazarene was the same.
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9 minutes ago, untphd said:
Just wow. If you look at the bottom of the poll, you can see who voted. Yea, they voted for themselves.
Takes more than that. Also, they were 28th in last week’s AP poll. Just appears to be where they are regarded, with or without their own vote.
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2 minutes ago, Andrew said:
Thanks. I will tell my Mother in law he texted and said some Mavs were there according the broadcast.
which apparently she didn’t like. She said some former player was doing it and was awful and annoying. 😕
Yeah, DJ Draper was the color commentator with Hank Dickenson doing play by play on the ESPN+ broadcast.
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1 minute ago, NT80 said:
Yes, Fresno only lost by 6 to a 4-0 San Francisco team. As long as we stay healthy, I think Grant has a deeper team this year. He will yell them into shape. The road trip tournament coming up will be a good bonding time and test to get used to playing away from home.
Yeah we look pretty close to where one would hope we would look like early in the season, with new pieces working their way in. Jones, Eady, and Huntsberry were 1-15 from 3 today and those are the catch and shoot threes that we should hit with regularity. I think those guys will start to hit, based on their track record, and that will make us tough. In addition to Ousmane hopefully getting back on track. Again, something I expect given what we’ve seen him do.
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14 minutes ago, Andrew said:
Yeah was it Dorian Finny Smith at the game under the goal? They said two Mavs at the game.
*Finney-Smith. And it was Josh Green who was there. Baker for Fresno State was Green’s former teammate at Arizona.
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9 minutes ago, Andrew said:
The good news is the rest of our schedule coming up doesn’t look too difficult. The bad news is Fresno was a very bad team and we couldn’t beat them by double digits at home.
Let’s not over exaggerate. They aren’t a great team but they aren’t very bad. A very bad team is like a bottom half SWAC or Southland team. They were a middle of the pack Mountain West team, which is a better conference than CUSA. I doubt last year’s team beats them by more than that. That’s about how much most of our CUSA home wins were by, save for the very bottom of the conference teams.
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I would say no but I would at least forgive him for the sins of his past
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1 hour ago, 97and03 said:
Don’t bring your horrible Twitter energy here. Stick to being respectable.
Read the news
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One thing I have noticed about Garrett Riley is that he kind of looks like the USC Head Coach Lincoln Riley
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2 hours ago, MeanGreenTexan said:
Has it? I suppose I haven't been watching that closely.
Eyeball test tells me he still misses on some easy passes (where he makes the right read, but throws the ball at a receiver's feet, or out of bounds).
Yeah he has generally thrown from a more consistent base this season. He definitely still misses easy passes but I don’t think any QB coach is going to turn Aune into a QB who doesn’t. The improvement in production and effectiveness is evident.
If it were a traditional QB coach then I think he would get more credit as a QB position coach improving the play at his position than Bloesch is currently getting. There wouldn’t be so much nitpicking about how every other variable is the reason why and the actual position coach element is not a real reason why. That’s the basis of my original post here.
2 hours ago, MeanGreenTexan said:He's had some bad drops as well that aren't on him. Maybe I'm spoiled by Fine & shouldn't expect that kind of play, but I have to think we'd have been much more competitive in those non-conference games, and possibly unbeaten in C-USA play if we had a QB with better mechanics in making throws. I know part of your argument is that some folks are staring at comp% only, and that's not fair, but on that same token, you can't just ignore it either.
This is in reference to me talking about how Mike Jackson only brings up completion percentage and interceptions. I’m not saying completion % should be ignored, just that it’s arguing in bad faith to ONLY bring that one up repeatedly. I’m bringing up all the stats, but usually focus on passer rating/QBR since those stats that gauge body of work in totality are usually the most accurate.
I haven’t ignored completion %. I’ve admitted it isn’t good but it’s still 6% up from last year, which is a pretty impressive jump. Sure the starting point was low, but bringing a QB up 10% in completion percentage is borderline unrealistic.
2 hours ago, MeanGreenTexan said:
And Bloesch could be coaching those mechanics... I dunno. I doubt it though.In the end, regardless of WHY, the credit for NT's offensive improvement, and all of Aune's #'s is Bloesch. Period.
See this is the part I feel like you’re not willing to budge on that I feel you should (just my opinion). There are many analysts out there on ESPN or other platforms that break down film, including QB play. Quarterback is not some secret society that only those inside can ever learn how to understand it. It’s a position like any other.
It’s the most important position but Bloesch has been coaching football for 14 seasons now, and had responsibilities outside of just O-Line for many of those dating back 12 seasons ago when he was a High School OC. He knows what good QB mechanics look like, he knows what bad QB mechanics look like, and he knows what QBs need to do in order to play effectively within the offense. It’s simplistic to think a Broyles award nominee OC isn’t capable of coaching up the most important position in his offense simply because that isn’t the position he played.
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San Jose State (11/25/22)
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San Jose State beat Oakland 80-67. They move on to the 5th place game tomorrow against Ball State.