Mickey

What conference mates have an IPF? I don't recall one at Utsa, Rice or UTEP? So that does make it a game changer for us if that's true. SMU only has plans for one I think. La Tech I couldn't find one.

No, grayshirt means they offered a scholarship but the player delays participation until spring semester of first year - i.e. They skip their first fall of college football. No particpation. Greenshirt is graduate early from HS, participate in spring drills at college, participate in football in first fall of college.

Where in history has a coach ever been fired before fans thought he should be (not counting Jimmy Johnson)?

I love Dirk, but is not playing very well on any kind of regular basis. and yes, I am serious about Cuban. I love Dirk, but is not playing very well on any kind of regular basis. and yes, I am serious about Cuban. He decided to start gambling on a sign a new team every year approach, and the Mavs bar since that time has been - maybe we can make the playoffs. Since the NBA championship, they have not threatened to do anything more than beat a team that was well worse than they were. since the NBA championship and Cubans very failed new strategy, the Mavs have 4 1st round exits in the playoffs, and counting this year 2 DNQs. You call that success? I call that Benfordd because if Cuban just left things alone they would have been at least competitive for a year or 2.

This. Rankings are heavily influenced by the quantity as well as the quality.

Went to my first mavericks game this season friday vs Hawks. All I could think was, Mark Cuban has Benford'd the Mavericks. Not sure which I want to watch less, MG basketball or Mavs.

Some game as last time, just without the Army turnovers so far. Hopefully we can get some turnovers, because we have really never stopped them on a regular basis.

More of those mean green fans settling for less, settling for sub par.

If he was an OU football player, ,he would be redshirted for at least a year.

She didn't hit him, she gave a weak push that didn't even move him and a very weak touch after that. He prompted it all by following her in and going straight to her, hovering over her clearly saying something that offended her. You can't tell what happened outside the store, but he instigated everything in the store. Even if this was a guy of the same size, this was unwarranted and deserves severe punishment. If he was a regular student he would be kicked out of school at a minimum. If this was my son, he wouldn't be playing football. The school wouldn't need to even worry about whether to suspend him. He has bigger life issues to deal with. On the plus side, that's one less school my kids will have to worry about considering, I won't ever let them go to OU if this represents their values.

It says " I don't recall his context being ....". What that means for normal people is, that's not the way I remember it. In other words, I am trying to be polite while I point out that you are twisting people's words around and using them in a way that they didn't intend, - and you know they didn't intend - just like you did with my words.

I don't know about that (message spot on). While everyone probably agrees in general we don't like the everyone gets trophies approach - it's a little exaggerated. The problem in this situation is, he isn't trying to fix society, he is blaming. It sounds to me like he doesn't want to take any responsibility for losing so he is blaming the kids HE was responsible for recruiting and HE has been developing. So, kids fault he lost or did the coach not have as good of a recruiting class, gameplan, etc? That doesn't make him a loser, but blaming the kids and taking no responsibility does. Want to change what you think is a soft generation? Start by being a good role model first. Thats like saying, "with all due respect ..... F*** you." And thinking it's Ok because you said with all due respect. This isn't Talledega Nights. He spent a good while blaming the kids for the loss, then says it's on him. How noble. Tasty is right - what he is saying is true for every team in the country, why is it relavent for his loss? Mccarney - different context. I don't recall him saying that to explain HIS team issues, just a general commentary.

I kinda disagree. The 4th turnover it was 28-18 and Army had just shoved it down our throats for a TD, got the ball back and drove 65 yards before fumbling around the 12 or so, that was huge and that would have made it 28-25. Instead Wilson broke a big run and we eventually scored. 5th turnover - at 35-18, they quickly drove to our 39, could have cut the lead to 10 but we intercepted. Again huge as we had shown no signs at all of stopping them in 2nd half. They score there and we are in trouble. 6th turnover - after we couldn't do anything at all for about 3 series - Army gets the ball to start at their own 46. They score and it's 10 point game with our offense completely shutdown by that point. We needed that INT because we hadn't slowed them down much other than the turnovers. Army only punted twice, both in first half.

This. One aspect that seems to have gotten glossed over in our win - we didn't stop them other than getting turnovers. They had 400 (300 rushing) yards of offense to our 320. They had 37+ mins of possession to our 22+. So, in my opinion our coaching staff didn't really come up with a marvelous plan to stop the option attack. If I am Army I look at that and say we do the same thing and not turn then ball over 7 times, we probably win. We earned the turnovers, but that's not something you can expect again so we better come up with 1) a way to slow down their option and 2) a way to keep the ball away from them.

I think we should tone down the "beatable opponent". If we can't force a bunch of turnovers again - not a given at all - then this could be a game we easily lose. I hope we win, we can win, but this is far from a forgone conclusion just because we won the first game.

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For Texas, if your question is are they supposed to according to the rules, the answer is no. They are not allowed to recruit for ATHLETIC reasons nor give athletic scholarships. if your question is does it happen, I'm sure it does for certain questionable privates, but most don't. I'm sure there is loose recruiting in terms of coaches encouraging kids to come to their school. We did have one large private school coach loosely suggest some financial help could be found, but like Div III colleges, they work within the rules to get done what they want to get done. When my son transferred to private school we had to sign forms stating that the above did not happen. Because he is ranked in his sport, we also got an additional level of scrutiny.

The games you reference were before the Air Force loss, after which they made changes and have been rolling since. Their only point total below 40 has been 28 in a win against Notre Dame. I've seen us in person this year and I have seen Navy in person this year. They are bigger, stronger, faster than us. They play on a different level than we are right now. Our OL might weigh more, but that's not a great measuring stick. im not saying it's a body bag game, I'm saying I wouldn't pick that matchup if we have a choice.

I would have to disagree with you. Could it be that some fans want to be smart about what we are doing? We have a tiny bit of momentum, let's try to keep it. If all it took was not being "afraid" to compete in the Top 25, why wouldn't everyone do it? We should just schedule all non-conference games against Top 25 teams to show we aren't "afraid". I can't think of one example of a bottom of CFb program that raised itself up by taking inferior talent and competing successfully against Top 25, immediately and regularly. Nobody likes losing at any level. If you are trying to build a program from the bottom of college football (that's where we are), you win first on a regular basis, then you worry about the level of your competition. Right now, for us, beating sisters of the poor in the BFE bowl would be far better for the program than getting beat 70-0 in Greatest Bowl in The History of the World in front of 10 million UNT alumni (if you are going to get beat 70-0, do you really want a bunch of alumni in person watching that?).

Here you go; https://giving.unt.edu/content/giving-unt

Mixed feelings about that. After seeing what Navy did to SMU (who beat us), that could be an extreme embarrassment. Great bowl for sure, but I don't know if getting beat 73-10 in a great bowl is a positive or negative? Could we agree to a running clock? Or maybe 8 minute quarters?

Kind of hoping not Hawaii, just realized it's 12/24. Christmas Eve will be hard to talk my way into with the family.

Thank you.

That game was embarrassing, but this team did earn a bowl by winning 5 games and having great grades. Bowl games aren't some kind of post season/playoffs, we have playoffs for that. The bowls work and here is why, it made games late in the season meaningful and interesting for a lot of teams that aren't the 7 or 8 in the real playoff hunt. Meaningful college football for more teams makes all of college football better. we didn't make the rules, but according to the rues we earned a bowl game. #wrinkled100dollarbill You think Millenials, whose average age is mid to upper 20's have enough control that they created the new bowls? I will check heck on the executive management of ESPN, but I am guessing they are at least in their 40's or 50's.

Hopefully Fine and Wilson can be full speed by bowl game.