CrackBackBlocka aka TFLF

Look, again...we defeated the Confederates, we defeated the Nazis, we defeated the Soviet Union. There is no need to glorify any of them publicly in America. These were enemies of the United States. The first set wanted to own and murder certain people. The second set wanted to murder certain people. The third set wanted to subjugate and murder certain people...including millions of their own people. Whatever their "nuanced" reasons were, the whole of their causes were clearly immoral.

Just finished rewatching. Have no idea how Byrd scored 118-110 Alvarez. Great fight, though. Rematch will be electric if it's within a year. Taking nothing away from Alvarez, hate that Byrd robs Goloviin of the chance to match or pass Mayweather's 50-0 someday.

Hey...UAB struggled at home with Coastal Carolina, okay, who is in their first full FBS season. We certainly should win by at least 14 against two-year laid off UAB at home. They are closer to Lamar-like than SMU-like.

For those not familiar with the way boxing is scored, Byrd's 118-110 card means she thought Golovkin won only two rounds in a 12 round fight. No way.

CBS Sports scored it 117-111 Golovkin. Just...again, surprised and happy to see Alvarez go 12 with Golovkin. But, there's no way he was 118-110 ahead! Last five or six rounds Golovkin kept getting Alvarez on the ropes...legitimately. I know Alvarez is a great counter puncher off the ropes, but...no way was he 118-110. Golovkin wasn't 118-110 either. Still. Wow. Don't know what else to say... other than the house full of Mexicans is happy here! Yahoo Sports had it 115-113 Golovkin; about where I had it. Crazy. Will rewatch it tomorrow.

Wow! Never thought Alvarez would go the distance. Golovkin won at least the last five or six rounds. This... ...just, boxing. Like you said, sometimes political. Great fight, but I thought Golovkin won it. Cards were: 118-110 Alvarez 115-113 Golovkin 114-114 Amazing. I thought Golovkin at 115-113 or 116-112. Wow. The judges literally saw the fight three different ways. And...again...the controversial scorecard is Adalaide Byrd, scoring 118-110 for Alvarez. Nuts. Side note: lots of pretty happy Mexicans here!

Bonus...it's Mexican Independence Day weekend. Heart is still with Alvarez, but head keeps telling me Golovkin is too powerful to just defend against for 12 rounds.

There's nothing to fix, really, because we won't play a team like this again all year. Army will run, but it will be an option-based run offense. Other than that, we should be okay. I think we all expect a win next week by 10-14 points, if not more against a new UAB. No worries unless UAB does what SMU or Iowa did to us. Doubt they will even get close.

Relax.

I think I'm just going to agree to disagree with the assessment of the defense. Iowa's #1 tailback touched the ball 10 times for 104 yards - 80 on receptions; and, had a 70+ yard TD run called back. Then, Ferentz pulled him out...in the second quarter. #2 tailback was on his way to 100 yard day until he got injured. #3 and #4 tailbacks abused us for 150+ yards on pretty average run plays. Plain vanilla kicking our front seven down the field. This wasn't the old Air Force Flexbone, Oklahoma Wishbone, or Houston Veer. They just handed off the ball and ran through and around us...with four different tailback. And, still completed passes to nine or ten different receivers. Add to that the inability to get off the field on third down, 40+ minutes of basic, 1970s run first offense shoved down our throats, and still surrendering two TDs through the air. Our defense got its ass kicked. Badly. Last week, SMU torched our secondary; this week Iowa brutalized our front seven. Let's just be glad these two games are over and there is nothing but C-USA in front of us from here on out...plus one Army game. Can still get to 6-6. But, make no mistake, the defense was manhandled today against a thoroughly disinterested team running a very simple offense game plan: line up, hand off...line up, hand off...line up, hand off...convert third down...rinse and repeat.

Darrell Dickey at Memphis, yo...just sayin'. NFL guy, though, right? First rounder. Ha! Patterson with his 85 high school QBs converted to other positions in college slammed the door on his ass.

Many of us had us going 1-2 the first three games, okay? Fine. We've done it. Those of us who predicted 6-6, me included, can still see 6-6 as an easily attainable mark for 2017. SMU sh*t themselves against TCU to show what they really are this week. We crapped ourselves against them, to show we are still behind them be a tiny margin (probably a one player margin...just ask Mr. Vito who that is). All in all, I think Ferentz just f*cked around all day with a vanilla game plan. Okay, fine. We got out of there without an overly embarrassing loss...a step up from what McCarney did two years ago. My overall take is this: as Jeffrey Wilson goes, so goes the Mean Green...still. He almost lit Iowa, a Big Ten school, for 100 yards. He will carry us to at least five more wins in 2017. We don't have to begin wetting the bed unless Wilson is injured. Relax. 6-6 gets us over to Amon Carter to play Army again! Rejoice! And, really, look at the really bright side...you aren't a Baylor fan, sitting at 0-3 with losses to UTSA, Liberty, and Duke! Or, a Baylor donor who will see a $1 billion Death Star of a stayjum be mostly empty for the better part of the next decade! Money well spent, Baylor grads!

Well, you're the one posting "come volunteer and show us what you got." I guess if 50 of us show up at Coach Littrell's office Monday with this thread printed out...? If you've got no authority to ask us to volunteer, why are you doing it? Get your ass back in your office and do your f*cking job. Call Tommy Perry if you need some pointers.

You win, bro. Cannot top that.

Unbelievable. If you really are a coach, and Coach Littrell sees you posting this sh*t on a damn fan message board, he should fire your ass, like, yesterday. You are responsible, not us. And, Littrell is responsible for hiring you...if you are a coach, as you insinuate. Jeez, Louise...and, I thought Dodge's "cuss patrol" coaches were a joke.

Wow. Dude, if you can't take the heat from a small fanbase like ours, how the hell will you ever succeed at a bigger school? What do expect - a pat on the back for poor special teams play? Unless the players are coaching themselves, it's on the coaches. If your players are f*cking up every game, that's a sign, bro. It's a pattern. We don't have to have played college ball or coach college ball to recognize obvious special teams f*ck ups every week. Also, you need to respect your fan base. Even though UNT has had some bad teams over the years, one area where we have almost always had great success is in special teams - particularly with punters. If you f*ck up the punt game, UNT fans will notice. We've had our share of punters play in the NFL after playing here, so we know good from bad there. And, right now, we are seeing bad.

We could re-hire the Dodge assistant who stopped down in-game to lecture players about cussing to be the "stay back" guy. He seemed to have a deep passion for non-football related sideline activity...in-game. And, we could probably get him for high school teacher/coach dough. He could be the co-special teams guy with Biagi as well. Couldn't hurt. Might help.

Those kind of answers are dumb. If he's a college coach, he should be thick skinned enough for criticism. The problems have occurred every week - versus and FCS school, a G5, and a P5. If we were golden versus FCS and G5, but got a kick blocked versus an athletically superior P5, that's one thing. But, that's not what's happening. The blame should go to Biagi, though, it should go to Littrell. Littrell is the head coach. He's the one who "agreed to part ways" with Tommy Perry, and replace him with a guy who wasn't ready for the job. If you were in Biagi's shoes, you'd have taken the job as well, with the better paycheck, and actually title role on a coaching staff. Cannot blame a guy for accepting more responsibility and pay. You have to look at the guy doing the hiring. Littrell's hiring of guys with very little experience is wearing thin. He's now 5-10 against non-FCS schools. If he thought he'd roar in here with an inexperienced coaching staff on the offensive side, then replace guys like Brad Davis and Tommy Perry with guy with almost no P5 or G5 experience...that's a bad on Littrell.

No one really believed we'd win. Did we keep it close, or did Ferentz just take a lot of guys out early? Yes, their top two backs got dinged, but it didn't matter. Wadley had 104 yards on 10 touches in a little over a quarter. The transfer from Nevada was on his way to a 100 yard rushing day before he went out with an injury just after half time. Problem: their third and fourth team runners lit us up for 153 yards on 30 carries with 2 TDs. That's pretty good production from your #3 and #4 back. I think Ferentz probably kept Wadley out after his ankle was dinged because they have Penn State next Saturday night. The upside for us is that I think it's pretty safe to say that we won't face a C-USA opponent who goes 4 deep at tailback without much fall off. Just watching it, Iowa didn't have a fancy offensive plan, even from the start. I think they went straight vanilla on us. Guessing their offense spent most of the practice week preparing for Penn State as well. They had 57 rushes, 27 passes. Two TD passes even with that limited amount. I'm not sure what the complaining about the officials was, Iowa was penalized 10 times as well, so...it was really just pretty sloppy on both sides at times. These types of games are probably taxing on the referees because they know one side has the better athletes. They have to be expecting lots of holding calls from outmanned lines desperately clawing at bigger, stronger D-linemen for 60 minutes. Finally, our special teams is disastrous. I don't buy into the "you can't stay somewhere too long" theory. Normally, a special teams coach moves up within a coaching staff and is given more responsibilities, maybe with RBs or TEs, sometimes with OLs. Perhaps, Perry brought this up to Littrell and was told to walk. If that's the case, then it was a mistake on Littrell's part. Perry had more experience than almost all the other offensive coaches. I'm sure Biagi is a nice kid, but he has far less experience than Perry...at a time when our offensive coaches have far less experience than our defensive coaches. The thing I hate to think about is coaches and players coming in here and using North Texas as, "well, I can try here, and if I fail, no one will notice." That's why we have Division II school players starting for us. It may also explain Littrell's decision not to hire more experienced guy to coach the offense and, now, special teams. I don't like my alma mater being the "try out" or "last chance" school for players or coaches. If that's what's happening...not happy.

The joke is truly on us - Ekeler probably would have been a better choice of head coach.

Bean ran for 500+ yards and 7 TDs last year. So, it's not that he can't run. Head coach is the same, but they've only thrown 32 passes in their first two game. Rogers has started both games, and they are running him more than passing. Sonething has changed. Either: -Rogers is so good, he can't be on the bench; a real playmaker. If so, why are we not being the first to offer him? -Bean is hurt -They've changed the offense, and Rogers is simply better running it than Bean. No matter which it is, our scholarship offer guy is not getting much...and, certainly not in a pass first offense. I guess the most disappointing aspect of it to me is that it shows our coaches are recruiting scared. Lots of early offers, maybe too many to guys who are not FBS players. We are getting quantity, for sure, but not quality from an FBS-ready standpoint. If we have another losing season, it will be more of the same for the 2019 class. If we have a fifth losing season in a row in 2018, third in a row from Littrell, that's when I say, cut him loose. A few people have talked up little Carthel for years, and he's turned around A&M-Commerce in very short order. We would have nothing to lose because we will have tried everything else over a 20-30 year span: -Offensive coordinators: Dickey and Littrell -Old, small time program builders: McCarney -Hot high school coaches: Parker and Dodge -Position coaches: Simon That would leave two untapped sources: (1) defensive coordinator, or (2) lower division success story, like Carthel. It doesn't matter to me which it will be. But, the recruiting effort has to pick up. FAU is playing big schools tougher immediately under Kiffin. UTSA is skinning P5?schools and playing them tough. Arkansas State is now a bowl regular and giving P5s all they want. No more excuses. We're always told to wait. Then, we lose and sit back and watch class after class of lightly recruited players be signed. It doesn't work. Accountability all around this time, please.

You guys...it's Mike Ekeler.

Ekeler?

Matthew Baldwin, the Lake Travis QB who committed to Colorado State, is starting this year: http://www.maxpreps.com/athlete/matthew-baldwin/afzABvP_EeS-8KA2nzwbTA/gendersport/football-stats.htm I assume Aaron Allen, the Missouri City Ridge Point QB who committed to Louisiana Tech will start also when their season kicks off this weekend. Two games have been cancelled due to the Hurricane Harvey situation. Someone has posted that La. Tech pulled Bean's offer before Allen committed. Does anyone know for sure whether Colorado State also pulled their offer, causing Bean to default to us? If so, the question then becomes, did the La. Tech and Colorado State coaching staffs get told by the Lake Ridge staff that Bean would not be the starter in 2017? And, if so, was our staff also told? Which all could lead to the questions, whose coaching staff really has stronger ties and relationships with Texas HS coaching staffs? Ours? La. Tech's? Colorado State's? Remember, all of these QB commit in about the same time period. So, someone knew something. Colorado State's commit is starting. La. Tech's probably will. Ours isn't.

Vito?