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  1. 7 hours ago, Dannymacfan said:

    This times 1000!!   We finally have a staff that is not satisfied with taking what comes to us.  We finally are selling our strengths.  I will say Seth never complained pubically but he did not elevate our recruiting to be in line with our assets.  We have a LOT to sell at UNT.

    I wasn't aware that Seth had pubic issues to complain about, maybe that explains his demeanor at times.

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  2. Anyone else feel that the amount of offers going out lately is more of a negative than a positive?  My entire twitter feed seems filled with offers the last several days.  

    Hard to track completely but just today it appears the staff has offered at least 15 players, most of whom already have several major P5 offers.

    Just kind of feels like we are spraying out offers rather than being selective and targeting specific players or types of players.  Love seeing the staff getting after it, but doesn't seem like there is much purpose other than to offer every kid at a program that is an FBS caliber player.  Would love to hear some others thoughts on this though.

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  3. Kaedric Cobbs has torn his ACL twice in three years at UTSA so I don't think it's fair to judge his performance to this point as something we were glad to miss out on.  Was competing for the starting RB job prior to this season so just had some unfortunate luck that could have happened anywhere.  

    Agree with others on here though, kids who have the opportunity to go off and experience a new city or state are often going to do so when the alternative is going to college 10 minutes from where you grew up.

  4. 2 hours ago, GMG_Dallas said:

    Exactly. We overhype wins and call whatever happened the "winning strategy" but then wonder what happened when we get demolished. We're watching a different game if Tyrin Smith doesn't drop that deep TD to make the game 20-14. Factor in the 3rd and 17 saved by a targeting and things may not have ended the same. This wasn't as pretty as the final score indicates.

    That's how every single football game goes though..if UNT had got a block on this play or that play or Aune didn't throw an incomplete pass on whatever drive then we also would have scored more touchdowns.  You can't play the what about game and only focus on the things we did wrong. 

    Wasn't a perfect game at all, but we won by 18 and overcame a lot of mistakes on our end along the way.

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  5. 4 minutes ago, jbchis said:

    I’m trying to understand.  Why did KD not want to go to A&M?

    He would have needed to apply for a waiver since he entered the portal too late so it was pretty risky on his part to try and leave and potentially have the waiver declined.  Hope announcers don't continue to make him out to be some kind of hero because he would have been gone if he really had a choice I'm sure.

  6. I'm willing to give Aune one more shot with a healthy WR room, but it's hard to shake the feeling that we've already seen him at his best.  Decent game manager, but we will never win a game because of something Austin Aune does..on the flip side I feel that we have seen this team lose games because of something he did.

    Gunnell winning the job in 3 weeks going against a guy in year 5 with the program and 2 years as a "starter" was always going to be a tough task and I'd hate to throw him in unprepared.  Sucks that our first game is an important one, but my guess is that we turn to someone else after SMU.  Always hoping for the best though, would love to see Aune go out with a bang his last year here.

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  7. 37 minutes ago, MeanGreen13 said:

    That's why I was somewhat confused by the lackluster response from the board when he signed. he is immediately the most talented quarterback we have ever had the second he steps on campus. I understand the wait and see response because of our history but he has a really high ceiling and might end up putting us way over the top if things go well. Not to mention that we have four legit D1 WRs on the roster again (Shorter, Neville, Bush, Maclin), kind of like what Mason Fine had with Bussey, Guyton, Darden, and Mike Law. Not to mention Ward and Burns with their recent experience. The ceiling for the offense is probably higher than most people think. Potential means nothing without execution though so I am curbing my excitement to see what we have moving forward. Hope the Oline is deeper now and we can still run the ball like we did last year when appropriate. Really the offense could easily put a lot of defenses ina "pick your poison" type of predicament if the QB position hits! 

    Rambling. 

    The lackluster response from me is because he is now on his 3rd school and the only school where he got meaningful playing time could have easily been called one of, if not the worst, teams in the country.  

    The potential is absolutely there but high school stats and accolades means nothing to me when we are looking at a player who has consistently dropped to lower and lower levels of competition since going to college. To be very clear I hope he is everything he has potential to be and I am 100% on board with trying anyone but Aune since I think we've seen all we need to see there, it's just going to be a tough climb all the way up the depth chart in only a few weeks.  Completely agree on the potential of the offense this year though, if everyone stays healthy then I think this is one of the most solid groups we've had in the Littrell era outside of the QB position.

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  8. Trying not to buy into too much having to do with photos but Aune is featured in many of the promo photos and then there's this video. (which by the way is making fun of a viral video Russell Wilson made for the Broncos so that's why it's so corny)  But I would still be really surprised if Gunnell can win the job in just a few weeks of practice.

     

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  9. 5 hours ago, Jonnyeagle said:

    I wonder what Littrell thinks?  Oh I forgot he doesn’t do interviews in the off season.  Have we ever had a coach as quiet as Littrell?  Guy brings absolutely no additional exposure for the program.

    Littrell was actually sitting right next to Traylor when he answered this.  These remarks are from the THSCA convention going on in San Antonio right now.  I'm not sure if there's any video that will be posted of the session, but I would imagine Littrell made some comments about other topics.

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  10. On 7/12/2022 at 7:01 PM, El Paso Eagle said:

    While were discussing RB's here's a question - When will Coach Cobbs start getting the recognition he deserves? 

    In what way would you like him to be recognized? Not trying to be smart just asking. 

    Everyone here knows him or probably Bennett are the most important coaches on staff, and he was recently "promoted" to assistant HC which is usually just a fancy way to give someone more money without a true promotion of any kind and shows how he is viewed internally.

    I'm fine with him being our great secret for as long as possible because true recognition means being paid more to go to a P5 school.  We can dream that his NFL money and desire to not want to uproot his family make him happy here for a long time without needing to chase the paycheck, but getting offered nearly double the money would be tempting for anyone.

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