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The play-by-play guys about the game winning shot : "Allen got away with a push off." Me: "GET YOUR WEIGHT UP!!" LIGHT THE TOWER!!!!

Tough to do when they anytime they get to the rim, a ref blows the whistle.

4/22 from 3 is a recipe for disaster.

This is just one of those games where the bounces don't go your way.

NIT Mou has been making flash appearances in conference play. He looks to be finding his groove.

If the AD doesn't set and maintain a higher standard for the coaches then we can't expect the students and fans to take the program seriously and show up, donate, or be involved in other ways. People want to be a part of serious organizations.

These posts defending Morris for his first year makes me think some of y'all subconsciously add a "for North Texas" qualifier to everything. Five wins is decent "for North Texas." We didn't get too much worst "for North Texas." Reality is, taking a 7 win team and losing 2 less is bad. There's no way to sugar coat that. We played in a better conference? Cool. Our 2022 and 2023 schedules had 6 common opponents. Both SL and Morris went 2-4 against those 6 common opponents (in the regular season, not counting the CUSA CCG against UTSA). The only differences are that SL beat FIU and lost to UAB while Morris lost to FIU and beat UAB. We didn't fire SL and hire Morris to do the same or worst. We made the change to do better. You can't inherit a team with a winning record and have a losing record in year 1. That's fireable for the bigger programs. If we want to join those ranks, we should set similar standards.

If SMU keeps up, they'll be a Quad 1 game on the road and maybe even Quad 1 at home. Would be big for us to get 5 more opportunities at Quad 1 and 2 games against them, FAU, and Memphis.

You'd think with the emergence of Antetokounmpo that Greeks would be more into basketball.

A little over 10 years ago, I showed up for freshman orientation with absolutely zero knowledge of college athletics. I was always a sports fan but nobody in my family had gone to college so I didn't really know much about it. My orientation leader told our group of wide-eyed incoming freshmen that UNT football was garbage and the only exciting thing about basketball was the incoming one-and-done prospect who I'd later find out was Tony Mitchell. If it's still like that, minus the one-and-done prospect to sell, that will explain why we always get the "by UNT standards" and dead student attendance. How are our orientation leaders selling the athletic programs? I've caught a few A10 and Missouri Valley basketball games and attendance always looks good, even in some of the bigger basketball arenas. Why is their attendance good but the AAC, CUSA, and Sun Belt basketball programs can't figure it out?

My bad. Yes, the team played better because they leaned on the strength of the offense which was the run game. I'm hopeful next year will be similar with the offensive linemen and running backs we've added. Run the dang ball!

But you realize Alec was a 4 year 3rd string QB or worst while Morris has about 10 starts under his belt, right? Apples to oranges.

Good question. I'd imagine he's a regular transfer coming in this spring as opposed to a grad transfer like Morris who has to wait for graduation to get that grad transfer waiver.

So Coach Burton is AAC Coach of the Year favorite at this point, right?

They have zero teams in the top 50. The highest in the Sun Belt is James Madison at 61 and the highest in CUSA is La Tech at 95. For comparison, we're at number 60.

I'm also worried about his health. My hope is with the beefed up offensive line and added bulkier running backs that he'll be kept upright more. The offensive line performance regressed last year. It's a miracle Rogers didn't get hurt. No Maclin for sure but he gets a sophomore Sides to work with. He also played with Blair Conwright at TCU. With the transfer outs, I'd imagine Conwright was going to have a bigger role next year than he did this past season and there should be some familiarity there. Plus, Morris is already going to be close with going to TCU and he's a local kid so he should be able to get unofficial reps with receivers during the spring and/or summer if that's allowed. Just running routes with a few friends. About playing from behind, isn't that where Rogers biggest moments came? The second halves against Tulane and Memphis? It would be disingenuous to say he efficiently moved the ball against good opponents until those games were out of reach. He made them close and even took the lead against Memphis but man was there some ugly football in competitive games.

I realize I wasn't specifically clear about the P5 transfer being a QB position. Being the QB1 for 10 games and getting PT as one of the 8 corners in a rotation are two completely different things. Morris has Rogers' experience but at the P5 level.

This is a very fair statement as it pertains to our history with P5 transfers. My question to you is have we ever had a P5 transfer with as much starting experience as Chandler Morris? He was QB1 leading into 2 seasons and has a good 8 or 9 P5 starts at QB. That has to count for something.

Current NET rankings as well

It's been said already but Tony Mitchell for the simple reason that we really need the size and rim protection. Actually, we'd also need his post presence on offense. We've now won 2 games without 2 starting guards. While either Hamlet or Perry would be the best player on this team, they also don't play positions of need for us right now. Comes down to Bell and Mitchell but I give the edge to TM because he's just bigger.

I don't even need to go back to the early season tournament. I just want the Boise State and Fordham wins. We'd have a Quad 1 road win against a premier MWC team and zero Q3/Q4 losses.

I think we often exaggerate injury prone when we talk about football players. Most football players get hurt and play hurt. The question with Morris isn't when will he get hurt, the question is how severe will the injury be and if he has to miss time, how much? SMU, Tulane, and UTSA all lost their QB1 to injury at some point this past season. It happens. Also, about Morris' injuries, he hasn't suffered any season ending injuries the past 2 seasons. When he got hurt in 2022, Max Duggan just took off with the starting job and never gave it back. Morris was only out for about a month.

Without knowing what his body language and tone was like, it seems like he misses Denton a bit. Like a quick flashback to happier times.

Well, thank goodness Temple at least scored 50.