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Love it!!!🤣🤣🤣

I’ll probably find myself hoping ND wins. I at least like Marcus Freeman. Wonder if they would be the first national champion to lose to a “G5” or equivalent?

4 QB’s in the portal??? Very unlikely they would have even had one on the roster for the bowl.

I love it. I’m for anything that throws a wrench in the farce known as “NIL”

Definitely need a rule to stop the faking injuries, but I don’t know if I like sitting the remainder of the drive. My big objection is that “rest of the drive” could be one play or 15 plays. Maybe have to miss a certain number of plays? I don’t know, but there needs to be something. Too bad coaches can’t just play by the rules instead of manipulating things to their advantage. Actually, this isn’t really manipulating the rules, it’s outright cheating because you know there’s no consequences.

I hope it doesn’t have a similar effect on the basketball team.

I don’t mean this as disagreeing with you, just as a thought. I think a big draw for TxSt fans is that this is new for them and they are excited about the direction of their program. In five years if they’re still going 7-5 and playing UNT in the First Responders Bowl, there won’t be near the excitement in San Marcos.

No doubt it will never happen. Just wishful thinking.

If Congress wants to help, they should require the NFL and NBA to fund their own minor league systems and let college athletes go back to being amateurs.

For some reason this reminds me of the Yogi Berra quote, “Nobody goes there anymore because it’s too crowded.”

I thought they only had 5 days after the bowl game to enter.

In fairness, his losses are to teams with a combined conference record of 68-19 over the past two seasons. We’ve gotten a bad draw of playing the top 3-4 teams in conference both seasons in the AAC. Not really disagreeing with you, just pointing out we’ve played all the best teams aside from not playing Navy this year. I haven’t looked at other team’s schedules, but I’m pretty sure we’ve had the hardest conference schedule the past two years.

The Michigan loss is the best thing to happen to them. They seem laser focused and tough to beat if they can maintain that focus for 2 more games.

I get that and I agree. I think there needs to be less reviews (or at least less time per review), but I also think it’s ridiculous to say, “They obviously missed that call, but it’s not reviewable.” I mean they spend 5 minutes reviewing a spot to move the ball 6”, but they don’t review the two 15 yard penalties I mentioned? Hell, refs mis-spot the ball a little bit all the time, but we’re not reviewing that (thank goodness). Replay should be used only for clearly egregious calls. Honestly, I don’t think I’d be opposed to only reviewing at game speed. If you can’t tell in game speed, it’s not egregious. On top of that, look how many times they go to review and still miss the call. There were about 3-4 at least in our game vs TxSt. Bottom line: Replay needs A LOT of tweaking.

There needs to be review of blatant missed calls on pass interference and roughing the passer. The whole point of instant replay is to get the calls correct. They’ll slow a video down frame by frame to determine when a player’s knee went down or to see when/if a player was out of bounds, but they can’t review a call that is obviously wrong in real time? That makes no sense.

Wow! My typing. I meant to say “You never know on here.” Most of us are on here too much. Haha.

Hahaha. You never on here, especially after a loss.

I know I probably come across as being a big fan of EM, but I’m actually one of the jurors swaying the wrong way. I was okay with him being hired, but many of the in-game decisions have soured me to some degree. I currently support him (ie: hope he is successful here), but the rope is a lot shorter.

So the coaches call the perfect play at the perfect time. QB puts the ball right in the hands of the wide open WR…and he drops it. That’s the coach’s fault?

I don’t think it’s at all problematic that have to think the coaches were surprised that Mestemaker won the backup QB job, but thank goodness it was a meritocracy. What would I would find problematic is if Mestemaker wasn’t given the opportunity to be the backup because he is a walk-on. Regarding asking too much of him, don’t you think they based it on how he was playing? The announcers mentioned that the first 15 or so plays were scripted (in no particular order) to see how things went. When it was obvious he could handle it, they allowed him to do so. Had he struggled early, I’m sure we would have seen more of a run game. You view that as bad coaching and I view it as good coaching that allowed us to be competitive as a big underdog. I agree with everything you said about the defense being bad, going for it in 4th down, passing up field goals, etc. Those things drive me nuts, but I see it all the time in other games I watch as well. I hold him accountable as well, but I just don’t blame him for every-single-thing that goes wrong.

But I don’t see anyone saying that except to counter the “we’re no better than we were with SL” talk. Saying we’re in a better conference doesn’t mean I’m happy with where we’re at, it just means I understand that 6 wins doesn’t always mean the same thing. I think this years team would beat the ‘22 team, so to me, we’re better. Again, doesn’t mean I’m satisfied. Look at high school realignment. I’ll use a made up example because I don’t feel like looking for a true one right now. Let’s say Dallas Skyline has been aligned with other DISD schools for several years and have made the playoffs each year, even winning district three times. At realignment, they are placed with Duncanville, Desoto, Cedar Hill, Waxahachie, Lancaster, Mesquite, and West Mesquite and finish in 6th place. Are they a worse team? No, but that’s what average Joe thinks because he doesn’t know any better and just looks at the record and complains that the coach needs to be fired.

Honestly, this is probably the least significant thing you wrote. I stated in a thread a week or so ago that losing a bowl game only really matters to the diehard fans of the school. What most people will remember (because the announcers said it a hundred times) is that North Texas started a freshman walk-on QB who hadn’t started a game since his freshman year in high school on the B-team and he passed for almost 400 yards and almost led them to victory. I almost feel bad for TxSt because their win was the 2nd biggest story of the game.

“If you have two quarterbacks you have none”. —John Madden *though I’m not opposed to a package of plays for Jimmerson if he’s as advertised and if he’s not the starter. It’s a looooong time until August though. Our starting QB may not even be on the roster and it’s possible that neither will Mestemaker or Jimmerson. It’s just the sad reality of college football today.

Just because the “we’re gonna get our asses kicked by TxSt.” crowd was wrong doesn’t make it a moral victory.

I agree, but that’s not the way it’s presented here. EVERYTHING is the coaches fault according to many on this forum.