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  7. North Texas Portal Entry Thread

    in Mean Green Football

    Posted

    12 minutes ago, Arkstfan said:

    Sliding down a rabbit hole here, but this crap would be easier to swallow if this unregulated mess were more like soccer. 
     

    Imagine every high school player in football and basketball signed a four year contract. Say $30,000 a year. 
     

    Freshman year kid is AAC or Sun Belt player of the year. Texas Tech, OkSt, UCF want the kid. He wants to leave. UCF is offering $100,000 a year for the remaining three years.  Has to pay 10% of the deal to buy his release. $30,000. 
     

    Only played a year but buyout means played at no cost. 
     

    Or maybe stud player from Plano gets $250,000 a year from Texas. He’s good not that good. Texas is stuck with him and he’s stuck on the bench but he likes coaches at UNT. Green say we will pay $75,000 a year. Texas is on the hook for $175,000 but Texas has leverage too. They tell him agree to cut salary to $100,000 and we will make up difference. Kid says nah make it $150,000 and we have a deal so kid is playing at UNT for $150,000 school only pays half. 
     

    Meanwhile Arkansas offers a kid $50,000 because he’s a project. AState offers him that as well because he’s quality depth if nothing else. Hogs like what they see when he’s on campus but he’s a couple years from SEC ready. Hogs tell him we want you to get experience in games. Shop him around and agree to loan him to AState for a year at $15,000 Hogs pay the rest. 
     

    Being able to profit from identifying talent and developing that talent changes the Charlie Brown I got a rock in my Halloween sack nature of how it works now. 

    This is what I would like to see too. Some teams also include a sell-on clause where they get a percentage of any future transfer fees because they were the ones that found and developed the talent initially. Don't know if this specifically would work in football, but I would definitely like some kind of system where the original school gets some percentage having developed the kid in the first place. This system is the only thing keeping a lot of lower league teams from continually losing good talent for nothing to big spending clubs like Man City, causing them to go bankrupt and ceasing to be a club.   

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  8. North Texas Portal Entry Thread

    in Mean Green Football

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    14 minutes ago, Mean Green 93-98 said:

    I don't know what to think about that team.  They were all over the place this year.  Giving up 77 points to Arkansas State is pretty awful.

    Yup, they were up and down but had some good wins. It was especially good considering their history. Point is that this can be an opportunity if done correctly. Now is the time to recruit pieces that fit your system.  image.png.cd1da8911b17aae7dca7bfdf2ec0ab26.png

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  13. Should Caponi get another year?

    in Mean Green Football

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    This 3 man front was the worst defense I have ever seen. If we didn’t get gashed for 5 yards a run, the opposing QB had all day to throw. There were instances where they would rotate between a 3 and 4 man front which worked when they did. My thing is, you have the worst defense in the country, why the lack of adjustments? I get there is a long term plan for a 3 man front you need to recruit for but we clearly lacked that personnel this season.

    They honestly looked incompetent constantly trying make this thing work when it clearly didn’t and we would have at least made a bowl game if we had even a semi-decent defense.

    At this point, I am resigned to the fact Caponi will be back at least one more season (to my dismay tbh), but next year will be the thinnest of margins. If that defense loses us multiple games like it did this season, I will personally run Caponi out of town

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  15. Rogers

    in Mean Green Football

    Posted · Edited by UNT Texas Hooligan

    Bean has done decently with an absolutely loaded team. Great defense, great receivers, running backs, etc. It's honestly mainly been his job to just not screw it up which he has done periodically. For every 50 yard touchdown run is an equally boneheaded interception or overthrowing a wide open receiver. NGL, the defense, receivers managing to get 10 yards of separation, and running backs averaging almost 5 yards a carry won that game for us but he did make plays when he needed to so I have to give him his props.   

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  16. UTSA Athletic Fee Failed

    in Mean Green Football

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    19 hours ago, Monkeypox said:

    LOL. Skip Holtz won 6 straight bowl games before getting blown out in the NO Bowl in 2020 (6-1 in bowl games). He went 64-50 at La Tech with 6/9 winning seasons, all 6 in a row. His teams played in 3 CUSA Championships, losing all 3, but 2/3 were close games.

    Seth Littrell was 0-fer in bowl games. He was a .500 coach here, with 3/7 winning seasons. He got blown out in his two Championship games and got us destroyed in every bowl game but the 2016 HOD Bowl.

    These guys are not even in the the same league. Holtz has won 152 games and had winning records at 3/4 schools. He did more with less at La Tech than Littrell did here, and Littrell made 2-3x what he did.

     

    19 hours ago, wardly said:

    My point is that the La. Tech fan base wanted Holtz gone and like us this season are non the better for it . I always though La. Tech under Holtz made the most with the least while schools like A&M made the least with the most. I have nothing but respect for Holtz and glad he finally got big payday in Birmingham.

    Who's to say we aren't better for it? These coaches are still new and haven't even gotten a full recruiting cycle under their belts. They are also still figuring out their system. I bet you a Littrell coached team would have gotten blown out by Tulane and Memphis, and definitely wouldn't have had the same second half fight this team showed. 

    I've seen plenty from the recruiting, to the offense, to the willingness to adjust and try new things for me to be optimistic that these coaches will figure it out. I have no doubt they will make recruiting the defense a priority this offseason like they did the offense this past offseason. #LittrellOut

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  20. Rough Times in Hattiesburg

    in Mean Green Football

    Posted · Edited by UNT Texas Hooligan

    2 hours ago, El Paso Eagle said:

    I had forgotten about that. If I remember correctly, their fans made quite a few comments when they left and had quite a few choice words to say about the teams from CUSA when they were going to the American.

    Yup, talked about how they were cutting the deadweight (us), how the Sun Belt was going to be light years ahead of the American (called it CUSA 2.0), etc. Them and Marshall fans talked incessantly on their way out so I don't feel sorry for them in the slightest. 

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  22. Wren Baker

    in Mean Green Football

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    2 minutes ago, NorthTexasSportsNetwork said:

    He did this, and I know this has been talked about before, but him holding his tongue after the disaster start in 2021 is the reason we are in this situation.

    end of story.

    Agreed. He did good things here but he really screwed us in the end. Should have fired Littrell years ago so we aren’t experimenting with a new staff our first year in a new conference 

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