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About three days ago. Just because it's trendy, doesn't mean it's good.

Looking for the post that says I don't like Denton. Don't seem to find one. Tell me when you do. Denton is fine; looking like a hobo isn't. Let's hope.

Twentieth. And, by the end of the 20th Century, kids in their teens and twenties weren't trying to look like 60 year old hobos. Fast forward to the 21st Century: kids in their teens and twenties look like they slept curbside next to a brown paper sack containing an empty bottle of Thunderbird or Boone's Farm. It's a bad look - as bad as anything kids in the late 60s or any year in the 70s threw down. Horrible. Looking dirty and unkempt all the time. Shave and clean up before you foist yourself upon the public. Have some pride.

How much do shaving razors cost? I thought the players were getting stipends now. Can't they afford shaving razors?

Assume they can all catch. Fine. But, with the "throw five yard behind or in front of" the line of scrimmage, what matters is how well they block.

Show me the PR UTSA generated for their invitee.

Yes. Although, my assumption is that the execution will be better, given that we haven't hired a high school coach who then turned around and hired a staff of high school coaches. Also, Littrell opens against SMU, not Oklahoma. We already know SMU sucks. So, his introduction to the head coaching world will be far less vicious than Dodge's was.

So, blame RV for no one getting invited to the combine? Do we, then, credit him for guys who made it to The League while he's been AD? http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/O/OrrxZa00.htm http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/D/DunbLa00.htm http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/A/AwasAd20.htm http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/C/CobbPa00.htm http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/K/KassBr20.htm http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/O/OlawJa00.htm http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/R/RobeCr00.htm http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/S/SpenCo20.htm

The coach who gave Colin Kaepernick a scholarship also offered Vizza a scholarship. So, I agree with you. Problem, though...I doubt Vizza would have beaten out Kaepernik had he accepted the offer from Nevada. Maybe he'd have been happy to bide his time. I agree that I'd like to have seen Vizza with a more experienced coaching staff, and a scheme that offered more than five linemen blocking.

Why did we fire McCarney if it was RV's job to get the players ready to play, perform, and get ready for the draft? We've got that RV is supposed to discipline instead of the coaches. RV is supposed to check out who is working out instead of the S&C coach. Now, he's also responsible to getting players draft ready instead of the S&C coach and position coaches? What are the coaches supposed to do while RV is doing their jobs for them? Show up on game day with their shirts on forward?

A UTSA player invited. Wow.

Pretty awesome. Hope we can put together some # 1-type defenses again under Littrell. Would take a ton of pressure off the offense as we look for a QB of the future.

Look, Greer is a good kid, okay? He didn't go out and embarrass the school off the field, or pull Carlos Harris type antics on the field. He wasn't cut out to be a QB at this level, and that's fine. Thousands upon thousands of kids are not. Plus, Greer was not along on our roster - NO QB on our roster was FBS material over the last two seasons. Chico screwed up, okay? If Greer can hook on with an FCS or D-II, there's no shame in that. Few high school players/JUCO players ever start even at those levels either. So, starting there is no knock on the kid for what he can do. It's just unfortunate, in my view, that he was led on here by a coaching staff who couldn't tell FBS-level talent at QB from FCS/D-II level talent. It caused him to take a lot of undue criticism that, really, should have been directed 138% at the coaching staff. My hope is that he does catch on somewhere FCS or D-II and does really well. Would love to see him take a school to the playoffs in whatever level he ends up playing.

Am I the only person who didn't know Wade Phillips' daughter is an actress/belly dancer? http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0680855/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

Look, few people are thrilled that we've had to get by with this type of recruiting class. We ditched football in the 80s and fiddle in the 90s. Nobody waited for us to catch up. Blame lies everywhere. However...the hope with Littrell is this: schools like Baylor, Houston, and TCU also stumbled through years of futility until they found guys who could coach up their two-star and less recruits to overachieve year after year after year until the programs got their sea legs. I've said before, the program won't be turned around in recruiting class, but by coaching. It's a simple as that. Because of the 80s and 90s, the best we'll be able to hope for is to be a G5 power. That would be fine. But, Littrell...or someone else...will have to do what Franchione/Patterson did at TCU, Briles did at Baylor, and Briles/Sumlin did at Houston.

Jakii Moore was a senior last year, right? So...wouldn't it make sense that he's no longer on the roster. I'm just taking a swinging, wild-ass guess here. I could be wrong here. He was one of the UAB refugees looking for a place to finish. Anyway, hope he had fun doing was football players do...and, GO Rams!

Agree. That's one guy where you kind of take the good with the bad. Whether it was coaches or teammates getting to him, he seemed to settle down and just play as the game progressed. I do agree that he's one you have to keep your eye on if you are the coaching staff. Anyway, GO Rams! He was a two-star recruit back in the day...so maybe there is hope for most of the players on our roster...if former Sooner Littrell pushes them as hard as former Sooner OC Mark Mangino pushed Talib's Kansas Jayhawks a decade ago: Anyway, GO Rams!

I'm pretty sure he did more good than harm. Cam's completion percentage was horrible. Talib and the rest of the Bronco DBs were ding their job. Also, he wasn't flagged in the second half. Whatever happened in half one, he got in check as the game got closer in half two.

Again, the guy was 17-1 on the season going into the game. The Denver DBs did their job. DL and LBs as well. It was probably about as textbook a defense as you'll see. Cam and those inexperienced WRs and inexperienced OL did a lot of damage to a lot of other teams with experienced players and coaches all year long. Denver's D just took it to them. If they played again today or tomorrow, the results might be different. But, yesterday, the show was Denver's D. Credit due to Wade Phillips and his charges. They put on a hell of a show.

1990-95: -As I recall, O'tays had dollar pitcher night -Rick's Place would have those 'any coin' nights where you could buy drinks with coins Don't recall what specials, if any, Riprock's ran...of course, that could be the reason Riprock's outlasted all of them as well. Anyway, I think most bars in the area had the dollar pitcher thing. Sounds like they still do. Most of the specials were run on Thursday nights back then as well. Not sure if that's still the case. Thursday seemed to be the big drinking/going out night back in the day.

Yes. My thoughts as well. Problem: Which bowl game, and which network, picks up a game between two teams no one knows about nationally? Although, you could probably say that about 75% of the bowl games these days. With UNM hosting the "New Mexico Bowl" I'll never understand why we, with out new and superior stadium, don't have a "Denton Bowl" or "Jazz Bowl" or something. (3, 2, 1...waiting for 90's RV missive to insert here.)

Jim, I commend you for your use of paragraphs. Very readable. Your content is always good; now, it's also readable. I was about to ask for your address and send you a copy of an old AP Stylebook.

Exactly. Wasn't it #1 Offensive in NFL versus #1 Defense? I think it was. I think the key was probably that Denver's defense had more veteran players than Carolina's offense. Not that Carolina didn't take it seriously, but I bet Denver too it more seriously. Plus, the Denver defense knew all season long how beat up/finished Peyton Manning was. So, they probably prepared as if they game was going to depend on them. I know it sounds silly to says this now, but...in the back on my mind, I wondered whether Denver would stick Osweiler in there for the fourth quarter. Manning couldn't get anything going, not a thing. And, some of his passes looked downright awful.

Bingo. Forgot about Everson Walls. Forgot he got a ring with the '90 Giants. Still think of him as a Cowboy. Thanks for the correction. Two Berkner DBs. KA-POW!

I hear you. But, isn't that what has separated Cam from other "athletic" quarterbacks like Vince Young, RGIII, and Johnny Maziel? He will stay in the pocket and give his receivers the chance to get open before he pulls the ball down and...gets injured because he pulls the ball down too much/runs, and give defenses more shots at his knees, etc. Young and Griffin ruined their knees early that way, thinking they could outrun NFL DEs and LBs. Sorry, fellas...there are no University of Kansas' on your schedule in the NFL. No early out of conference cupcakes to feast on and pump up your stats...and, egos. Everyone is big, fast, and strong in the NFL. NFL comes down to execution and who can stay healthy/get healthy at the right time of the season (i.e., playoffs). Also, the Panthers were 17-1. It's not like they snuck in there like the 2007 Giants, then used a miracle catch to get over. So, Cam was doing many, many things right QB-wise all season. Denver just brought their A+ game. Probably the game of a lifetime for most of those guys. Cam's a better, smarter QB than guys like Young, RGIII, and Manziel - in my estimation. I think it's what has made Russell Wilson in Seattle a success as well. He does go ahead and play QB instead of "running QB." As far as implosions go, it's defenses that will implode offenses in most cases. I think all the way back to the first real Super Bowl blowout, the Raiders 38, Redskins 9 (?) in 83/84 (?). Washington was supposed to have unstoppable receivers and runners. Oakland (Los Angeles?) shut them down. My memory is bad on dates and where the Raiders were located at that point, but their defense, I recall smothered Washington from the get go. Seattle did the same to Denver. Although, unlike the Redskins 83/84 implosion versus the Raiders, Denver was missing some of the stars on defense that game. Not saying they'd have beaten Seattle. But, the score likely wouldn't have gotten out of hand as much as it did.