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3 minutes ago, TripleGrad said:
Everyone who hates Aune, this is your moment 🙂
3 minutes ago, outoftown said:Wow. Now? A different QB?
3 minutes ago, Coffee and TV said:STONE EARLE
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WB must be interviewing at GA Tech right now in Atlanta, between the broken digital board off the highway and this mess of a "broadcast" - things are literally falling apart 🤣
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Skipping the first half as well.... Interesting strategy, just straight to the 3rd quarter lol
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Help!
This is the 11-0 FAU team vs our 5-6 UNT Team....
Can someone text someone to care about doing their job right?
This is what sucks when you've watched TCU/OU, have Alabama/Arkansas and then see this crap!
LITTLE THINGS MATTER!
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1 minute ago, southsideguy said:
Looks like SL will be back?
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Very embarrassing....
Moving UP to the American Conference and the little things need to be done right and consistently.....
Thanks for sharing and here's hoping it get's fixed sooner rather than later!
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3 P5 jobs are open right now.... 30 FBS jobs came open last year.... 14 of the 30 were P5.....
https://www.collegefootballpoll.com/coaching-changes/
If 15 P5 jobs open this year, under the assumption it will be similar to last year, that leaves 12 potential suitors for him.
His name hasn't even been mentioned on the "hot lists" for current P5 openings:
There's a lot of people for these P5 jobs being mentioned other than him which places him just outside the P5 potential HC replacement talks.
If he's waiting for a P5 job, there's some risk he'd have to asses as to whether or not he's going to wait for a P5 job at the risk of missing out on a good non-P5 FBS job.
I'm guessing that none of the current P5 openings (Nebraska, GA Tech, Arizona State) have been interested in him as I don't think he would've done the interview were he in the running or under consideration for those openings.
That he did the interview and article could be his way (perhaps even on the advice of his agent) of making a greater appeal to schools beyond the P5 that he's interested in returning to coaching, P5 or otherwise.
If he's just outside P5 consideration, that would place him at the top of P6 (which I guess we are now in the American) consideration.
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Bronco *Frickin* Mendenhall
https://footballscoop.com/news/bronco-mendenhall-outlines-what-hes-looking-for-in-his-next-job
Selections from article:
"I would argue there's not a more prepared, rested, and focused head coach on Earth in Power 5 than I am right now,"
When asked how he'd respond to a hypothetical AD who asked him why he wouldn't step away again two years down the line?
"All that's happened is solidifying my true intent, which is delivering, I think, really, really strong results, especially to rebuilding programs. BYU was struggling when I inherited that program and we won for a long time. UVa, that was a struggling program when we started, and five bowl-eligible seasons in six years hadn't been done in like 22 years. That's going to happen again wherever I get to coach and it will happen for a long time, simply because of the pause. I love developing young people; I don't think there's a more impactful way to do it (than college football.) And, man, I'm young. I'm only 56, that's only getting warmed up."
Later in the article....
"The level to me isn't as important as the purpose and the alignment. I think the alignment and purpose excludes level and includes leadership. Any program that wants exceptional results on the field -- they have to want that. That has to happen because that helps the young people become and be supported. If they want young people treated really well, who do exceptional in school, who give back to the community, who are actually looking to add value to the place that they are and are aligned with that place while they're winning games, yeah, the level isn't as important as the alignment. The kids have to become something exceptional, otherwise it's just a game, and I'm not okay with it just being a game."
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"If there's great alignment with an exceptional candidate that fits a place with almost guaranteed results, man, I would look hard at that."For the Wikipedia sleuths....
Haters gonna hate, just throwing this out there since his name hasn't been mentioned on this board since 2021, maybe for good reason which I'm sure I'll be educated on shortly, but just saying the name BRONCO. FRICKIN. MENDENHALL. Goes hard!
Could be worth a look!
#GMG
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40 minutes ago, Monkeypox said:
No, I'm saying if SETH LITTRELL doesn't win 10 games this season, then HE is mediocre garbage, as that is the question asked in the thread.
For THIS coach, who got blown out by SMU again, blown out by UNLV, was pleased to be on the same field with Memphis, that he has to do the things he's never done to prove he's NOT mediocre. He's already had 3 chances not to fail in that criteria this year... and he failed.
I've seen UNT win 9 games in a handful of seasons over my lifetime. I've seen UNT lose to SMU like 80-90% of the time. I've seen us lose to pretty much every OOC FBS team since I went to school here in the 90s. I've seen us lose the vast majority of bowl games. I've seen us win few (and Seth NONE) conference championships.
So for SETH LITTRELL, my bar is not 8-9 games, because I consider that an easy hurdle given the resources this program has (resources we didn't have for most of our history) and given the garbage conference we play in, and given the time he's been in charge of it. He would get more slack if he hadn't laid an egg vs SMU, UNLV, and Memphis. But that's what he did because that's what he is.
As for the difference between .500 and 10 wins, it's not that much when it comes to SL.
If he wins out, he goes 9-3 and then loses the championship game and bowl game (as is his standard), to 9-5. This makes him 46-42, or .522 for his career... 4 games over .500 with 5 wins against OOC FBS teams in 7 years.
If he goes 6-1 the rest of the way, and loses a bowl game (assuming someone else goes undefeated in conference or we lose to the other 1-loss team), then he's 8-5... 45-43 for his career.
If Seth does what I'm saying I'd need him to do, he'd go 11-3. This would make him 48-41, with a single championship and a single bowl win for his career. Certainly not shooting for the moon.
The levels I felt reading this post:
And because one was not enough for this brilliant take!
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1 hour ago, MrAlien said:
Everyone seems ready to fire this guy with out knowing who's next... do y'all really want roll the dice on another first time head coach, one with out any college recruiting experience? How many current players would you expect to stick around for that? not to mention the fact that they would probably wait until spring to put a coaching staff together leaving them way behind in recruiting and transfers.
I think a majority on this board, at least those in this thread, have already..... I'm trying to say it nicely but this has already been hashed out on this board and there are a lot of threads on these topics, recent as well, within the past few weeks, months, extending it back to last season.
There's pages and pages where folks have contributed their perspective around these exact questions/thoughts/points that you raise here, I don't know how to say nicely but I think you're a little late to the party with this.
They are worth going back and looking at as I found myself defending passionate positions which were countered and gave me great pause to think "damn, that's a really good point and blows my position out of the water." It's why I like this forum.
Maybe some will rehash it for you or can post links back to these threads but incase you don't get a lot of responses to your questions, that would be why.
I think we've productively beaten the thing to death with regards to your questions/points and from that has emerged two camps:
1) Fire SL Now (As in today, yesterday, or the day before, etc)
2) Fire SL At Seasons End
I suppose there is a third camp that this thread is trying to get some more insight on, separate from what I see as the two (and only two real options IMO) main camps or pools of thought.
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17 hours ago, bstnsportsfan3 said:
Man being an RA at the football dorms from 2008-2010 let me just say I have some stories 😂
We probably know each other.....
Someone asked for a story.... Was anyone else at Tavern when Tune got "escorted out" by some members of the defense who came to get him because he was in their talking smack after a game that he basically had a hand in losing?
I have a vague memory of it as I do most things that occurred on Fry Street after a certain hour but I remember talking about it a few days afterwards.
I'm thinking it was this game since he threw a pick six at the end of the game and gave Ohio the first lead of the game and the win.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap?gameId=292550249
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1 hour ago, Green Otaku said:
let it be know that no outcome of this season can change your mind.
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That Cowboys back up QB looks pretty good - it does suck why he's gotten his reps, but he looks pretty good!
3-0 as a starter I believe.... makes ya wonder what our backups look like, especially those we haven't seen at all or haven't seen in while.
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1 hour ago, Jonnyeagle said:I believe that was former UNT QB Nathan Tunes dog and several years ago it ran away. The head of the UNT alumni association at that time was a guy named Mark Miller and he organized a search party to help find him.
Thank you for the info. That's sad, I hope it worked out.
I've used it once when I thought something was cute - like a cute dog sticker - not sure how I think about it now.
LOL @ everyone that "Ray'd Up" my initial post 🤣🤣 I wasn't expecting that.
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12 minutes ago, GMG_Dallas said:Ok hear me out! Wren gets hired and he takes SL with him.
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Can someone fill me in or direct me to more information on Ray? Intended use, meaning, so forth.
Love dogs, am active in animal rescue, and don't want to misuse Ray in anyway.
Thank you!
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10 minutes ago, Cr1028 said:
You are the only one who said he couldn’t handle the media. I think he does a great job. Considering his experience as a professional baseball player, he should be. You said he was unfocused with pie in the sky dreams instead of focusing on the current season and I said he gave an answer about his future so he could focus on the season ahead instead of being badgered about his next step.
You literally brought up the media as an excuse for his answer as he had to deal with "constant questioning" - well if he's not being hounded, then he's what? Just being questioned about it? As in "oh you played for the Yankees, that must have been great?" and then "So Yankees, UNT, NFL? Tell us more?' - is this the constant questioning - if it is then this is where the focus should be shifted to UNT and the team, this isn't that difficult.
You admit that he is trying to focus on the season by giving "an answer so he could focus on the season" (paraphrased) you disregard or rather conveniently gloss over the fact that his answer personifies "me over we," and attempted to lead us to believe he had no other way to answer that question without talking about himself and the NFL, to which I provided at least two examples of how someone who's priority is the team over self (we over me), would answer that question.
And again, he's being badgered about the next step? Badgered? Give me a break.
Here's a response when being badgered: "My focus is being the best I can be for our team everyday. That means (pick some; studying, practicing hard, watching film, mentoring teammates). My focus and our focus is on being the best we can in practice and in the film room, putting all of our energy and effort to beating the opponent on the field on Saturday."
Or, "I'm not thinking about the NFL, I'm thinking about Memphis (or TSU, UTEP, FAU, etc.)"
Or, "Whatever happens after the season happens, my only focus is on our team here at UNT and getting better everyday."
Or, "What's important is that we come in and work to get better, the NFL is not on my mind at the moment, my only focus is on our team and what we can do to get better."
Anything along those lines at those commentators are saying some version of "he's not thinking about the NFL, he's focused on the moment yada yada."
His experience as a professional baseball player as you mentioned, has clearly not helped him to be media savvy. I have previously laid out examples of how a media savvy true-upperclassmen handles these questions.
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1 minute ago, Mean Green 93-98 said:
I imagine you and he also have a different definition of "outside of local media."
Any notion that any one of our student-athletes is under any kind of media pressure, hounding, or constant questioning is laughable. Be it local, outside of local, regional, national, there is no hounding, no constant questioning, and for UNT football right now, it's probably below average coverage at best.
Media coverage and interviews are character revealing moments, and especially when it's a fluff piece with softball questions, it reveals a whole lot about priorities and where one's mind is.
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8 minutes ago, Cr1028 said:
You are crazy. His time in minor league baseball, his age, and the fact that he has a season of eligibility left is in every commentary made about him outside of local media.
You and I have a different definition of "hounding and constant questioning."
Ironically if he can't handle the ferocious UNT-Denton Media Blitz and Rabid Fanbase that never seems to leave him alone and operate under the constant barrage of questioning and the pressure of being the starting quarterback at UNT, how on earth is he going to handle the NFL? Let alone the crushing media markets like Jacksonville, Kansas City, or Buffalo?
I suppose Brett Vito might be withering away his talent by staying at the Denton-Record Chronicle for so long with his hard hitting barrage of questions and constant hounding of our student-athletes and coaches.
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18 minutes ago, Cr1028 said:
I don’t see any cockiness or looking ahead in there at all. I see a man that knows his hourglass is running out of sand and wants to move on after the season without the constant questioning of if he will return to UNT for his last season of eligibility.
Clearly he is looking ahead and this is only a small part of the larger point of focusing on the moment, being where your feet are, and having ones head in the clouds.
So far as constant questioning, this isn't the Yankees or the New York media, or Alabama, Arkansas, or UT media for that matter. No one his hounding him with "constant questioning of whether or not he will return to UNT." No one.
Read the damn room.
So twice now, he's talking about the NFL. This is not where the starting QB's head should be and I would expect a leader of this team, age be damned, to have a better understanding of the position they're in, the platform they are on and the message they're sending.
There's a reason mantras like "We over Me" exist and why coaches talk about fighting for their culture everyday.
It's why Saban talks of Belichick's "Do Your Job" (Period!) as the singular focus and responsibility of everyone on the staff from the head coach to the equipment manager, and the players, from the starters to the practice squad.
It's the quintessential rat poison and lack of focus talked about by high performing teams and coaches every week that they seek, no fight, to avoid falling into.
To use your word cockiness, I don't see cockiness, I see fantasizing about the future at the expense of focusing on the presence.
As such, I see someone who is lost and needs to be reeled in and brought back to reality; the fact that this is where our starting quarterback is, age and experience considered, is nothing short of a flat out shame and disappointment.
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23 minutes ago, Cr1028 said:
I believe you misinterpreted what was being said.
They attributed the quote "wants to give the NFL a shot" to him. Not much room for misinterpretation there, at a stretch it was implied and explicitly in the terms of "the NFL."
However, had someone else engaged him in a line of questioning around the NFL, a player who is focused on the moment would be expected to reiterate along the lines of "my focus and our focus is on this season and our upcoming opponent, we're working everyday, studying ourselves and our opponent, finding ways to get better and win ball games." If someone's persistent in the NFL-line of questioning, at the very least, a savvy upperclassmen would see where the conversation is going and conclude "whatever happens after the season happens, my and our focus is on getting better everyday."
If the NFL is never mentioned in response, and if it was in fact rebuked as in the example above, the commentators would have said something along the lines of "we asked him about the NFL and he shut down any talk of that. He said his focus is on right now and getting himself and this team in a position to win ball games."
In his six years playing minor league baseball (2 Rookie, 4 A-Level), there perhaps wasn't the focus on the moment and maximizing the opportunity on a daily basis that ultimately contributed to his lack of progression.
I could give a young, inexperienced student-athlete the benefit of the doubt, but someone who has been around a little bit, supposedly a leader on the team to say anything other than "we're not going there" when it came to the NFL talk, shows me that he doesn't quite get it.
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1 hour ago, BillySee58 said:
I just don’t understand what people have seen from Ruder that still has them intrigued.
What intrigues me is the mystery behind the year of practice, study, working to get better since he posted those numbers, how much has he improved? There's a pride factor in wanting to show he's better now than he was when he posted those numbers, a chip on one's shoulder if you will..... I think for most, the numbers you mentioned would eat away at them and motivate them to do everything they could to get better, develop, and then have the drive to show they're better now than they were a year ago.
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****OFFICIAL FAU vs UNT GAME DISCUSSION THREAD****
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