BillySee58

I wouldn’t be mad about Fuente, but it is pretty discouraging to see the state he left that Va Tech program in. I feel similarly about Kevin Sumlin.

He was at Shippensburg, then Gundy gave him a chance to be the OC at Oklahoma State where he was the OC from 13-18. Since then he has held OC or similar roles at Ohio State, Texas, and now Penn State.

Not sure if his name has been thrown out, but my guy I’m hoping for is Mike Yurcich. Seems like he has a really good mix of smarts, work ethic, articulation, and ability to get a lot out of players.

Yes, they were letting people pay the blue lot fee at the lot. I came to the lot on Bonnie Brae after waiting in a long line and the only people attending that entrance to the blue lot were cops, who did not care for the explanation that blue lot passes were prepaid. They just told us our only option was to go to the orange lot.

For me it’s all about options. Apparently we really wanted Joey McGuire last year when it was looking like Littrell was going to get canned. We could’ve fired Littrell at 1-6 and maybe got a deal done with McGuire before Tech did. Instead they beat us to the punch. Maybe we don’t get McGuire even if we fired Littrell midseason last year. Point is, if there’s a guy we really want, don’t let 7-5 stop you. Especially if the 5 losses are more of the SMU variety where we aren’t particularly competitive against our future AAC opponents like SMU, Memphis, UTSA, and UAB.

Geez. I missed that, and hopefully most other people did too. In 2020, our last game of the season was against UTEP and that board was still showing stats from the SMU game that had been played nearly 3 months prior. First game of the season last year against Northwestern State it completely stopped updating in the first half. Those are just the two I remember off the top of my head but I know they aren’t the only ones. Problems happen, but our inability to get these issues corrected in real time is embarrassing.

This was my experience. Also, why wasn’t the corner end zone scoreboard/monitor showing stats or anything besides the team logos? That monitor seems to always have issues. In the past it either stopped updating the stats it showed, or was showing stats from previous games. The worst part is, like nearly all of our gameday issues, if an issue exists then you can be damn sure it won’t be fixed throughout the game.

Can you really trust a man named Billy?

If Seth wins agasinst a big home crowd as an underdog against SMU can he be forgiven for his past failures?

I agree. We have generally done a good job of keeping the top performers from those 19-21 recruiting classes that were at or near the top of CUSA, and we have swapped out the underperformers with guys from the portal. By my count we have about 11 guys who are 3+ year starters, plus our kicker and punter. This 11 also doesn’t include Adaway, Crosby, and some other guys who have starting experience back to the 2020 season. Yeah the number could be even higher if we had been able to keep the Murphy twins and Jacob Brammer, but it’s still very impressive continuity, especially in the era of the transfer portal. 11 starters in their third season of starting, and we still have a lot of eligibility among our starters. Only 5 of our starting 22 are seniors. 6 if you count Aune. So that continuity should pay dividends beyond this season.

Back to the copy/paste depth charts that don’t really get updated until players are officially reported as injured.

We also will be at home vs. on the road. I agree we will need to play a lot better to win. But I think, assuming a normal 1st game to 2nd game improvement, we look on track to at least keep it competitive. We played them close for 3 quarters in Dallas last year and I like our current team more.

Which is why I said no reason we can’t keep it close, and why I didn’t say we should do the same to SMU.

Looked like a solid team tonight. No reason we can’t give SMU a good game next week.

Correct. There isn’t a single player in the secondary who has shown to be a good FBS-level player in their 6-year careers. Very disappointing to see those same guys rolling out there and just kind of looking not good enough. Gaddie seems the closest.

Just let me get my fudged nickname explanation off

Should be a depth add. Has added a lot of size since joining college. Hope he can be a late bloomer.

I just call him The Trieb Trunk because he’s built like one and can be the foundation of our defense.

For sure, but I was just putting it in perspective of our d-line relative size. Person I was responding to mentioned him in the context of being undersized, so for reference I compared him to the player who manned his position last year. The nice thing about Trieb is that his performance from day 1 since he stepped on campus has had him as a pencilled in starter every step of the way. That’s impressive on its own.

Trieb is replacing Grayson Murphy at DE. Big bump in size there.

This is the preseason depth chart shown on page 9 of the UNT Football Media Almanac, AKA Facts and Records Book. Not sure how updated it is but helps put players to specific positions in our offensive and defensive schemes. https://meangreensports.com/services/download_file.ashx?file_location=https://s3.amazonaws.com/meangreensports.com/documents/2022/8/11/2022_UNT_Football_Media_Almanac.pdf

I stand corrected. None of the articles I could find indicated that he had finished his degree. Good find.

That’s exactly what I’m saying. Just that it appears the NCAA is making anyone who transfers a second time have to apply for a waiver, even if they sat out the first transfer. Which is why Gunnell even needed a waiver in the first place.

He does not appear to have graduated from Memphis. Also, based on the NCAA one-time transfer FAQs, being a graduate transfer doesn’t provide for an additional one-time sit out free transfer by itself. “Grad transfer” is pretty much a thing of the past. It’s either a guy using his first one-time sit out free transfer, or a the guy has to sit out a season unless a waiver is granted. We’ll see in time if the NCAA sets a precedent for allowing grad transfers to have a second transfer without sitting out. My guess from what I have read is that anyone transferring a second time has to apply for a waiver, which included Gunnell. But because he did sit out after the first one, even though it was due to injury, he was just about a sure thing to get the waiver. http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/eligibility_center/Transfer/OneTime_Transfer.pdf

Getting talked about but nothing in effect officially.