Side.Show.Joe

NO!

Any bowl situation but this... North Texas fans will stay home. Texas State will travel and have a home field advantage in our backyard. And we will lose. Morris has not beaten a team with a winning record this season. I pray the AAC has enough sense than to hurt our conference by arranging this match-up.

This team struggled to hang on to a 21-point first half lead today. This North Texas team didn't beat a single team that finished with a winning record this year. So, I'm not buying them beating a team with a winning record in a bowl. I wish I could believe, but I just haven't seen anything that might give me hope.

The local bowl approach is small time, but after finishing the season 1-5, we don't really deserve anything better. I really hate the Frisco Bowl.

The AAC has 8 bowl eligible teams. Not sure they have enough ties for everyone. If there are more eligible teams than spots, not sure how much horse trading will happen.

Until we have a jumbo package, with a QB under center in short yardage, this Morris offense will remain a gimmick. Just sad.

North Texas should still win this game, but the fact that Temple, one of the worst programs in the G5, can come back on us and make it competitive, proves that this team is very soft. I can't see a scenario where we win whatever 3rd rate bowl we play in.

It appears the camera crew was trained on offensive graduate assistant, Blaise Bentsen. It says a lot about how Morris has impacted the perception of our football program, when none of the announcers recognized that he wasn't actually our head coach. I wish the North Texas leadership would get serious about building UNT football into a real program that would be respected within the FBS landscape.

I appreciate that he obviously keeps track of the dialogue from this board. And I appreciate that he named the very concerns posted by many of us and owned those issues. But, I'm troubled that he could not state a plan to address our problems, other than to say, "we have to do better". That is what Littrell used to say. Anyway... Happy Thanksgiving. Let just be thankful for what we have and enjoy our basketball team playing in primetime tonight.

I pull for the program. I wanted Morris to be the answer, but he has proven to be just the next bad coaching hire in our decades long struggle to find a real coach. I have come to the realization that North Texas will remain a basic program until someone in our leadership gets off their ass and actually hustles to find a real coach. Other G programs do this every few years, as they lose real coaches to higher paying power programs. I can not express enough how put out I am with our football program at this moment. Sure, we can beat Temple this weekend, but what does that prove? .... Nothing. Temple is a bum, just like most of the other teams we're beaten this season. And in my honest opinion, that wouldn't represent a movement in the right direction. Firing Morris would, but only if we actually went out and lured an actual winning coach from the Belt, C-USA or MAC. That's what serious programs do.

Losing too many games seems like cause to me.

How much of that $300K is from a bottled water endorsement?

I'm sure RV didn't care about the verbal demands of fans either, until they flew a banner calling for his job. And comparing our situation to every other sub .500 team is disingenuous. Just in the AAC... FAU, Charlotte & Tulsa have already fired their 2nd year coaches. If they can afford to fire their coaches, but we can't then Mosley isn't qualified to be our AD. Under Mosley and Morris this football program is still a sh!t show. Name the other FBS teams that started their season 5-1 and have now lost 5 straight games? I'll wait.

It shouldn't. Football and basketball are the premium sports. Bigger paychecks should demand bigger results. Morris has shown me no growth and nothing that merits him deserving a third year to F things up again.

Not sure why you got a down vote for posting this. Seems like a reasonable request of our AD. Our volleyball coach actually had a winning record in conference play (27-24). That is much more than I can say for Morris, since he is 5-10 in conference play. Hopefully, Mosley will pull the plug on the Morris era tomorrow.

This team is soft because our coach is soft.

I'm not rooting for Temple next Saturday. I'll never cheer for UNT to lose. But, even if UNT beats Temple by 100 points, Morris still needs to be fired. This season started 5-1. There is no excuse for dropping 5 straight games. Just like there is no excuse for blowing 21 point lead to an interim head coach... at home no less. The portal changes everything. That's why other AAC programs are able to fire their coaches in their 2nd seasons at their schools. Morris has already had two season to fix the defense. He hasn't been able to fix it. I can't think of any reason why he might magically figure it out this off season. These are Morris' FBS wins this season... USA 6-5 (bowl team) Wyoming 2-9 Tulsa 3-8 (Fired their 2nd year coach) FAU 2-9 (Fired their 2nd year coach) Morris has built a team that for the most part, only beats bums. We saw this movie before with Littrell. I'm done with this crap. It's time to rebuild.

Based on the on our record, it looks like Morris' current recruiting hasn't got the job done. I think the idea is that a new coach and staff would be more successful at luring better players in the portal and on signing day.

Is it time to contact members of the BOR and express our frustrations? Change is certainly needed. I remember when a banner was flown during one of their meetings.

I whole-heartedly disagree. We are not a mob. We are the fan base, and the only ones that actually give a crap. That's why we are demanding more than the sh!t show that is currently being feed to us. I refuse to marginalize the frustration of our fans. And if our AD can't or won't fund a Morris buyout, then he needs to be replaced too. Our stadium is usually half full on game day, when we have around 400,000 alums within an hour of campus. It is time we get someone that can build a real program in Denton, not make excuses for why we should continue to accept failing in football.

Why does Morris still have to be here next season? FAU was able to fire Herman in year two. Tulsa fired Wilson in Year two. Charlotte fired Poggi in year two. All three were hired the same year as Morris. Why can't Mosley fire Morris in year two? If three of our peers in the AAC can fire coaches in year 2, why can't North Texas?

I agree with this 100%. Only a soft team gives up at 21-point lead to lose a game.

Sheffield dropped some passes, but this loss isn't on him. He wasn't sending in bad plays for the offense, or playing on the defensive side of the ball, or kicking field goals tonight. When a team has as many issues as we had tonight, the blame falls squarely on the coaches.

I could never cheer against tour team, but..... When this big of segment of our fan base is reduced to cheering against our team's success, it is past time for our AD to step in and fix this sh!t. We have to have a change at head coach.

With the exception of Cobbs, I agree. It is time to clean house.