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DC yes. As far as ST, I think you give him another year since this is his first year.

I remember this game. It was the most painful up until that Portland State debacle. But, Bill Snyder went on the build a winning tradition at KSU. He didn't have many resources and bigger schools with more resources could have hired him away. Hopefully we can do the same here.

I had them going 8-5 with the bowl game win, but I thought the 5 losses would be SMU, Iowa, USM, UTSA, and LaTech. I didn't see FAU coming at all.

I think the FAU game was a wake up call. I believe the team will perform better. After the beat down they took at UTEP last season, they actually did respond better against Army in the bowl game and that was and still is a team learning to win. They didn't beat Army, but they came really close and Army is much better than ODU. I, for one, believe they will respond.

Like Kurt Angle from WWE says "Oh it's true. It's damn true."

Okay. The sky is not falling. They had a bad game. Okay a really bad game. It happens in this game of football. Hell, I am a Steelers fan and and Big Ben threw 5 INTs and that's the most he has ever had in his career, but they bounced back the next week and beat undefeated KC in Arrowhead. The point is that if you play this game long enough you have a really bad game. Whether it was lack of emotion or energy or both it happens sometimes. All of us are armchair coaches and players right now. I am sure in our playing days whether it was elementary, middle school, high school or even college, there were a couple of days where you didn't feel it and it showed in the game. The question is if they can bounce back. I will continue to support the team because its where I went to school. Everywhere I have been when I tell people I am from Texas, they always ask who is my team? Texas or A&M? I always say neither. I tell them UNT. They ask why and I say simple. I didn't go to school at Texas or A&M. I only support my school and always will. Win or lose I will stay with them. We all sound like the Cowboys fans did in 1989 when Jimmy Johnson came in. Everyone was claiming how they were no longer Cowboys fans. As soon as Johnson righted the ship everyone jumped on board claiming that they had always been fans. My point after all this rambling is they will get this right and we need to stop being fair weather fans. We can criticize, but for God's sake the sky is not falling.

They shouldn't even have called this highlights because it was anything but.

Maybe it was the pool party they had that took all their energy. Their focus should have been football not a pool party.

I think this team will be okay. You play this game long enough and you will have a game like this. I just didn't expect it to be this bad of a game.

They have no choice but to bounce back. I don't think they can play a worse football game the rest of the season.

He is being paid 250k a year to run a decent defense in a less than P5 school. He is overpaid. For that kind of money, I expect results. There is a reason why defensive coaches in the NFL have more success as head coaches than offensive ones. It is usually easier to find a good OC, but hard to find a good DC. Graet Defensive HCs in the NFL: Landry, Noll, Belechick, Parcells, Shula, and Madden. The only OC coaches with multiple Superbowls is Walsh and Lombardi. Just saying, picking a great DC is key if you are an offensive minded coach and Reffet aint it.

You are spot on in your assessment.

That was my thoughts. They should have brought Shanbour in.

Thanks for the update. I still think they don't give him enough touches. At the end of the day, we are still playing with a lot of McCarney's players and they were built to run the football. All of Littrell's recruits are sophomores, freshmen, or redshirt freshmen. The ones who are not are JC players.

This was pitiful.

Oh shit. You mean that's not Jerry? Damn I have my cartoons from my childhood messed up. I just remember Jerry was brown. That must be Tom's nephew or something?

Is it me or is the offense going away from Wilson. It's almost as if they are purposely not giving him the ball. I understand the Tee it high and let it fly mentality, but they have to understand that Wilson is still their best player and they just do not give him enough touches per game for me. It's like they are sure Wilson will reach a 1,000 and that they are just trying to get Fine to 3,000 and Guyton to 1,000. Why else would Fine play a whole game that was over by halftime? What are your thoughts?

I agree. I think we play them again, but a win is iffy at best.

They have been overly quiet. Again, I think it's the DC with this lack of production from players who produced last year.

True. At the end of the day, he is the HC. He has to make the decision the reign in the DC on some of his calls. He has a headset and knows what he is calling. That's what good head coaches do. They reign that fella in.

Yes. The 3-3-5 doesn't work for us. We don't have the linebackers to play it. We need to move to 4-3.

he needs to stop blitzing because when you do, you leave your secondary on an island. Everyone knows with the way offenses get away with murder in today's football, DBs can only cover for so long.

I saw his after game remarks differently. He has brought up several times the defenses inability to get off the field. Looking in his eyes and hearing him say that says to me that at the end of the season, there will be a coaching change. Brown may be gone too because he was the only assistant that they didn't pay over 100k this year and that says a lot.

They have played crappy all season. The offense has just been bailing them out.

McClain played FS last year and is playing it again this year. The change is that Reffett is the lone DC. Ekeler kept Reffett in check last year and now he is gone to UNC. UNC has a good D, but their offense sucks since Littrell left. We need to find a DC and fast. We lost two coaches on the defensive side of the football. Could it have been more than them running to a P5 school? Could it have been the implosion that they saw coming and just didn't want to be a part of it?