[Super Pit Question]

17 hours ago, golfingomez said:

You want a stage large enough to have 1,200 grads (plus all the pomp and circumstance)???? how many of those stages are there?

The Murch is a pretty badass building for performances

Circling back around to this... two things:

1. No stage worth its salt is ever going to be big enough to hold 1200 grads plus a platform party. That's lunacy.
2. The MPAC, while certainly unique, has been falling apart and sinking for a number of years now. Besides, its only reallllly suitable for large ensemble wind, orchestral, and choral music. Anything outside of those three (read: jazz) is miserable in that space.

[Southern Mississippi (2/24/2022)]

9 hours ago, UNT Texas Hooligan said:

No trap game at all. Southern Miss is awful. This should be a bloodbath

I’ve never seen a 99% win prediction before…

[New Week]

Milwaukee
6 LSU
11 North Texas

Brune would have a field day.

 

[UAB Andy Kennedy Post Game Press Conference]

Yeah, that's a damn good presser.

[UAB (2/19/22)]

5 hours ago, UNTFan23 said:

That win probability chart! 

[Rice (2/12/22)]

2 hours ago, Stix said:

Okay, I'm usually a fan of big shiny things, but it's absolutely comical to have that size court screen system in a gym that small.

[New UNT Battle Flag?]

On 2/10/2022 at 5:07 PM, UNT 90 Grad said:

This thread makes me miss @Christopher Walker.  He would be helping us with the flag code violations this atrocity commits.  

Besides, it is too similar to UTSA’s battle flag.

Miss everyone, too. And yeah. Whole lotta 4 U.S. Code § 8 violations abound here.

However, I now live in a land that apparently recognizes no borders, whether state or federal, and you see more of the Old Doug of Cascadia than you do anything else this way:

I've raised a few eyebrows flying the North Texas Battle Flag on our street.

[Old Dominion (1/22/22)]

6 hours ago, meangreen11 said:

 

Love to see the Hamlet sweaters are still fresh.

[CFP Final 4 Guess]

Willing to bet...

1. Michigan
2. Alabama
3. Cincinnati
4. Georgia

[FBS Coaching Changes]

14 hours ago, El Paso Eagle said:

Looks like ND will hire their defensive coordinator, Marcus Freeman as their HC

And retain Rees as OC. Kind of telling on Kelly that he couldn't convince either of his coordinators to join him in Baton Rouge.

[Bowl Projections]

Would be interesting if we played Tulsa in Frisco on the 21st... as men's basketball takes on the Golden Hurricane in the Super Pit earlier that same day. Tulsa can save on some travel costs and hotel deals.

[North Texas - UTSA Official Game Thread]

[Specific Top Candidates for Next UNT HC]

9 hours ago, TheColonyEagle said:

Is recruiting our #1 problem? 

According to 247 our classes have ranked:

2018     #8

2019     #4

2020     #2

2021      #1

Seems to me our recruiting the past 3 years has been the best in CUSA. How do we get someone to get us better classes than #1 in the conference?

This also highlights how a good coach can win big NEXT season. This is not a rebuild. 

Since we're in a legitimate place for new comparisons, we should stop holding ourselves to CUSA standards. Here's our recruiting rankings in those same years amongst the lineup of the 2023 AAC that we're joining:

2018 • 10th / 14 at #101
2019 • 5th / 14 at #76
2020 • 3rd / 14 at #68
2021 • 4th / 14 at #78

+ Current 2022 • 11th / 14 at #119 - yikes

So those figures aren't too misaligned in trajectory, but the last year and a half are NOT comforting, either. What I think matters more to me, however, is the lack of development from our nice recruiting classes. Development is hard to define but NFL Draft picks is at least a metric, so here we go across the past three seasons with draft rounds in parentheses:

2019 Draft
AAC 11 • CUSA 6
*Houston 3 (1st, 4th, 6th)
Temple 3 (2nd, 5th, 7th)
Memphis 2 (3rd, 4th)
FAU 2 (3rd, 7th)
*UCF 1 (2nd)
Charlotte 1 (3rd)
Tulane 1 (7th)
*Cincinnati 1 (7th)

2020 Draft
AAC 19 • CUSA 10
Memphis 3 (3rd, 7th)
Charlotte 2 (3rd, 4th)
Tulsa 2 (4th, 5th)
Tulane 2 (5th, 7th)
Navy 1 (7th)
*Cincinnati 1 (3rd)
SMU 1 (6th)
*Houston 1 (3rd)
*UCF 1 (4th) 
FAU 1 (4th)

2021 Draft
AAC 19 • CUSA 4
*UCF 6 (2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th) - 8th most represented school overall in draft
*Cincinnati 4 (4th, 5th, 7th)
*Houston 3 (1st, 6th, 7th) 
SMU 2 (3rd, 4th)
Tulane 2 (4th, 7th)
Tulsa 1 (1st)
UAB 1 (4th)
North Texas 1 (4th)
East Carolina 1 (4th)
Memphis 1 (5th)

*these schools of course are onwards and upwards.

This is I think the better company we should be seeking to achieve, and thus shoot for coaches who can not only maintain and build on the recruiting trajectory – finish top 60, anyone? – but also aim for one to two draft picks a year as well.

[SL Weekly Press Conference 10/26/21]

3 hours ago, UNT Texas Hooligan said:

Has he ever said anything different in these press conferences? Think we can just stop having these for the remainder of the year. I'm perfectly fine not hearing from mumbles until his farewell note at the end of the season. 

The most predictable Bingo game we could ever play.

[What Is Our Brand???]

4 hours ago, keith said:

It's actually not the "diving eagle."  It's this:

Which is worse.

The problem with our university mark/logo (the connected eagle and UNT or even the eagle alone) is it doesn't translate well when it's minimized to fit on a web page with other school logos or on the TV screen score banner.  The dimensions are all wrong.    

Here are a few examples that attempt to use the diving eagle....

No one not from UNT would know what that white blob in the middle of the green circle is.

The second one is a little better, but again is mostly unrecognizable to anyone not already in the know.

Here's how we look on ESPN (at least they are trying to use our official logo):

Compare that to the Texas Tech (or even FIU logo for that matter):

Compare what ESPN is doing with our official logo to:

    or         

 

While we are at it (and this is going to be controversial) I think it's time for us to emphasize UNT over North Texas.  UNT is the school, North Texas is a region.  Personally, I don't like seeing N. Texas, North Tex, Nor Tex or the absolute worst, No Texas listed in various college scores.

 

 

 

You beat me to each and every point of my response. The ESPN bit in particular is continually infuriating because you know our SID was told by URCM UBSC to only reference the diving eagle-word mark and it looks TURRIBLE.

[***Official Northwestern State vs UNT GAME THREAD***]

1 minute ago, eeeeagle said:

Broadcast showed Bennett coaching a 2nd string player on the field on that last play after time expired. This is how we get better. Love the high bar that PB is setting

GMG

Jinx, you’re it.

[***Official Northwestern State vs UNT GAME THREAD***]

Awesome that Bennett was drilling into guys and coaching into the end zone even after time expired.

You love to see it.

[Ruder got 1st snaps?]

New poster has hot takes and a bruised ego.
Re-runs at 8:00 and 11:00.

[2021 Football Opponent Previews: North Texas Mean Green]

20 hours ago, ChiefTenBeers2015 said:

Sounds pretty accurate to me.

 

 

Yeah, that’s among the more thorough oppo scouting write ups I’ve ever read.

[Apogee model]

This has always been one of my favorite desk items and holds my phone while charging.

[Did anyone live at the Quad Dorms at NTSU ? One dorm mostly our football players !]

11 hours ago, UNT86 said:

They are music practice rooms now.  They are located next to Chilton and the Men's Gym.

I think there are only 3 of the 4 remaining.

Oh wow. All these years here on campus and I never realized Bain Hall and Practice North/South were all originally dorms. Makes sense.

[Can I get a second?]

On 3/30/2021 at 5:03 PM, drex said:

Is Lettrell even aware of what men's basketball has accomplished?  In the old days Hayden Fry said that basketball success and football success helped recruiting for all our teams.

Because I'm not sure if you're serious or not... 

 

 

[Can I get a second?]

54 minutes ago, bstnsportsfan3 said:

Anyone feel like a Filibuster?

Standing and talking only, or GTFO.

[CBS Sports' March Madness Megastore]

I chuckled.

[A Round of Applause for Wren...]

Every NIT broadcast I watched tonight, either in the Pit or in Frisco, media announcers called Wren out by name citing him as the master organizer of the NIT being executed this year. Dear god, we need to hold on to this guy.