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This conference should be a lot more than a 1 or 2 bid conference for the NCAA tourney.
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The votes are almost even. I don't understand the people who believe he needs another year to get "his players" in. I hope they know a lot more about football than I do because I just don't see it.
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If he is not fired by Monday November 13, 2023; I don't know if this program is serious. We are not going bowling so pull the plug on this DC now.
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6 minutes ago, NT93 said:
Seems as though we’re running a new DC through here every year or two.
Unfortunately, that's what you get when you get these Mike Leach Air Raid disciples. They wouldn't know defense if it gave them 10s of millions of dollars. We need to cut our losses and go after a a good FBS DC. I am thinking JMU's DC. He may not want to come here, but he sure as hell would earn a hell of a lot more money if he did.
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8 hours ago, Mrs. Esterhouse said:
Keeping my fingers crossed that we lose Caponi in the off-season (if not sooner)
I am wanting him gone sooner. This Monday morning would be good for me.
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I know some wanted a blowout, but I was at the game and it never felt like we would not win this game. They were in complete control of the game. It almost felt like they were just conducting a scrimmage and trying to work out some kinks.
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They just beat a good Rice team again today (3-2) to get the weekend sweep. They have not swept Rice in over 10 years if ever according to the ESPN announcers. Once Porter gets in the taller players she was saying she wanted, this team could be great. We are definitely outsized, but athletic. Imagine that athleticism with some size.
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They are both true. If it was me, I am replacing Caponi and Jon Cooper. The defense moved to last in the FBS and the Offensive Line seriously underperformed considering we only lost one guy from last years starting O-line. With a little better protection, I feel Rogers would be the top QB in the conference and one of the best in the nation. The defense, there are just no words for how bad they were.
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I have seen enough of Caponi to know he isn't the guy. I get he is a 3-3-5 guy, but a good DC should have a good mix of knowledge of different schemes so that he can adapt to what he has and not just what he wants. I am not the smartest guy in the room and do not claim to be, but Caponi sucks at his job. He needs to go. Morris may as well fire him now because the last two games are meaningless as far as getting to the post season. All they are good for now is getting in work and getting people some experience to build on. At least show the players, fans, and fans who donate that you are serious about winning and that you are willing to make moves towards that end. If not, I feel you run the risk of guys bailing for what they see as greener pastures. You run the risk of losing potential recruits because they are seeing the worst defense in the country and have no desire to be a part of that. Plus, you run the risk of donating fans alienating the program because they don't want to continue to waste their money on a bad product that they do not think will get better with Caponi as the DC.
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Maybe the NCAA should have done the same with Frank Harris. That dude has been playing college football for like 7 years.
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Firing SL wasn't the mistake. It was hiring Eric Morris that was the mistake.
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I feel better after knowing we pulled his offer vs he left. I was thinking he got a look at Caponi's trash defense and said I can do better and develop somewhere else even if it's ULM because this trash they are rolling out is not going to get me better.
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Expect him to say something similar to this "After much discussion with my family, I have decided it is in my best interest to decommit from North Texas and I will be committing to Kansas State. God is in control and has a plan. Please respect my decision."
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On 10/27/2023 at 7:04 PM, rojomojo said:My fraternity just canceled our tailgate for tomorrow.
C'mon a fraternity? That's all males right? I have to ask in this day and time. You should have told them what we told guys in the Army when they complained about austere conditions. We would tell them to "go and get the sand out of their C**ts." You can add in any two letters you want for the stars, but I am sure you will come up with a similar thing.
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On 10/27/2023 at 10:14 PM, NT80 said:
Sounds like a pretty wimpy fraternity.
I know when this movie came out it was all about comedy, but is it me or does it seem like more and more UNT students are starting to look like this group? I see a lot of weird looking students around Denton more so than in the past.
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On 10/27/2023 at 10:40 AM, DentonLurker said:
This isn't surprising to me at all. With the rising cost of attending college/NIL/etc, I don't blame students one bit for pushing back on mandatory athletic fees. Part of me feels like Athletics has even brought this on themselves. With athletes getting NIL deals and whatnot, if I'm a non-athlete, why would I vote to pay for you to get to play when you may already be getting paid through NIL?
This. When students see 85 scholarship players for football and scholarships being given across the board in other sports and they are struggling to pay or having to take out loans that will take them years to pay back, I can see the resistance. In their mind, why would I pay more for something that is going to cost me when those that are in athletics can walk away debt free and that I paid for them to be debt free and I am stuck paying off a student loan. Their thinking is probably they already get paid via scholarship let alone NIL money. I know not all athletes get full scholarships, but the average student probably doesn't know that.
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22 minutes ago, meangreenbob said:
How is he inexperienced. He was a head coach at Incarnet Word. Football is football.
I say inexperienced because he obviously didn't get a good lesson at UIW because he still looks wet behind the ears.
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49 minutes ago, 3_n_out said:
This offense continues to be brilliant. Now and then, we shoot ourselves in the foot, but we will be able to hang with anyone punch for punch.
I know some of you don’t like moral victories, but losing by less than a TD total to arguably the two best teams in the conference is a definite something to hang your hat on. We’re a tier below, and this is what we will suffer through until the staff makes the necessary corrections within themselves to do their jobs better or find others that will. It’s great to see this effort and performance by those kids, but it still sucks to lose.I was for a moral victory last week, but this is not a moral victory. This is an inexperienced HC getting out coached. This is a horrible DC. The players didn't lose this game, the coaches did.
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6 hours ago, Andrew said:
I’m sick of the teases! When is Stone Cold going to come out on his four wheeler flying down the field and span the breaks to smash some bears and throw them down mid field! Enough teasing and make it happen UNT!
Stone Cold was the toughest SOB in the WWE, but I don't think even he can smash some bears and throw them down field. He better stick to beer.
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46 minutes ago, keith said:
We've been at this strategy for at least 45 years and probably longer. How much more time should we give it?
It's hard to understand what motivates 17 and 18 year old brains (I'm talking about football and being recruited here people, nothing else!!). Some may not want to go to the "local" university and see being recruited to play football in another state (and Texas for that matter) as a badge of honor.
We always tout other schools wanting to dip into the Texas market for recruiting as a benefit to scheduling us. Did/do we ever take advantage of playing in Florida or other states with football talent?
All I have ever heard during a coaching change is Texas ties, Texas ties, Texas ties...ad nauseam, as if that is the single most important attribute in hiring a coach. Sometimes I feel like our fanbase is OK with mediocre success as long as the coach has Texas ties. We are collectively very myopic on this IMHO.
We do talk about people wanting to come into the Texas market because we are here in Texas. However, we have been going into the FL market for at least the last 10 years playing FAU and FIU, we have even played at FL (Mason Fine's freshman year), but it hasn't moved the needle in FL at all. I am not discounting your opinions at all. In fact, I rather like it because it shows we are passionate about NT football. We just have differing opinions on what to do to make it more relevant and to gain sustained success. I just happen to believe if you can't be successful recruiting in your own state, it's going to be exponentially harder to convince out of state kids to come here.
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14 minutes ago, keith said:
I don't know why this is such a sensitive topic for everyone. Recruiting the state of Texas has been as close to the singular focus of this program as you can get for as long as I can remember. It is the one strategy we have never strayed from. Now we have narrowed that focus to the DFW area. This is not to say there isn't a ton of football talent both in Texas and the DFW area...there is. However, we're fishing in the same pond as every other program in the state and pretty much every other P5 program in the country. Why is suggesting we be more aggressive beyond our state borders outside the Overton window of GoMeanGreen.com?
Perhaps it's a difference between recruiting and signing, but the numbers do not lie. We are heavily focused on the state of Texas. Here's a look at the current roster and the player's home state. Out of 115, 94 or 82% hail from the great state of Texas. The other 21 are sprinkled from a variety of states (and two countries!). Some will point to 21 or 18% coming from non-Texas locales as evidence of our new found recruiting strategy. Looking deeper, however, tells a different story.
First, I doubt, but I guess it's possible, we took recruiting trips to Australia and Canada, so I'm going to discount these as out-of-state recruiting efforts. That leaves 19 that came from some other state than Texas. Thirteen of these out-of-state players came to us by way of transfer from another university (home state: 3 from California and one each from Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, New Jersey, 2 from Oklahoma and one from Pennsylvania). Maybe we initially recruited these and they eventually found their way back, but it's more likely this was more a process of scanning the transfer portal. To be fair, a lot of our TX players also came to us by way of transfer, but they are native Texans.
That leaves 6 players currently on the roster that came to us from an out-of-state high school (one each from Alabama, Arkansas, California, Nevada, Ohio and Oklahoma). Maybe we're recruiting these states and just not able to convince players to come to Denton.
This is a valid topic of conversation, but for some reason is so out of bounds that we'd rather dismiss it out of hand rather than discuss it. Maybe we will eventually be successful in this strategy, but the past evidence suggests it will be a constant challenge. Or, maybe it doesn't matter at all in the age of the transfer portal where we focus our high school recruiting efforts.
I hear what you are saying, but I think every other college does about the same. They recruit their local kids and get out of state kids when they can. It's a lot harder to recruit a kid out of state where he grew up rooting for one of the states schools. For instance to convince a Florida kid to not want to go to FL, FL State, or Miami is not an easy task. His family is there. I am sure if you do the same diligence to any roster outside of Texas, you would get really close to the same numbers. Maybe the only outliers would be places so close to another state that the drive for family would not be that bad. Oklahoma comes to mind there. The drive from DFW to Norman is not that bad so of course they will get a lot of players from here. We are not a P5 program with an established winning program so convincing a kid to leave OH, GA, FL, CA, AL, etc to come play for North Texas is going to be a tall order. You have to convince your hometown kids to stay first like Miami did in the early to mid 80s and that built their program. Now, they can probably get kids from all over, but first it starts at home.
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20 minutes ago, rojomojo said:
I am saying that being stupid and expecting you can be different from every program in America and ONLY recruit in your home market is idiotic and will lead to failure every single time.
The expectation that UNT can keep top local players home instead of P5 schools, your brain is stuck in 1980.
Recruit out of state, start investing in Florida, the midwest, and Los Angeles area.
I am pretty sure they do recruit out of state. Adaway and Ragsdale are proof of that and that's just naming a couple of guys from out of state although I could name more such as Maclin and Miner. Just because they want to concentrate on this 4 county area is not a bad strategy because there is a hotbed of talent here. You seem to be the only one who thinks we or any other Texas team doesn't recruit out of state talent when it is available.
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58 minutes ago, El Paso Eagle said:
As I've asked before please show me one coach from the Mac Leach tree that has ever emphasized defense.
Is there an air raid coach that has won a championship at any level? NFL, FBS, FCS, D3, NAIA, anything? They win games by outscoring their opponents, but can't win championships because those games have great defense played whereas Leach disciples have no defense. I could be wrong though.
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If the seats are actually paid for, I have no problem with it because it puts money into the program. I just don't understand the people who complain about students sitting in them when the person who paid for them did not bother to show up.