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  1. 3 minutes ago, GreenEggs&Ham™ said:

    Very tough two games coming up. UTSA and WKU on the road will be challenging.

    The remaining schedule is tough except for FIU. But even FIU has improved recently.

    For me, Seth should win out the remaining schedule and win the C-USA championship to get a new contract.

     

    That bar is insanity lmao

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  2. 28 minutes ago, Wag Tag said:

    UTSA, UAB , WKY is not a soft schedule. This is a run that will make or break him. UTSA is vulnerable because of the injuries to their OL. 

    Teams that are definitely better than us, but all of them beatable if we run the way we did yesterday. 
     

    I’m very excited to see what happens. 

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  3. 12 minutes ago, greenminer said:

    You're trying to find that magic number.  You're trying to read Wren's mind.

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    Brett has been fairly complimentary of Littrell on Twitter recently. Not that I’ve necessarily disagreed with anything he’s said, I do figure that is probably an intentional stance based on some sourced information he is getting. Mainly I’m interested to know if Brett’s sources in the athletic administration are telling him “defend this guy, we think he’s doing a good job and want him to stick around.” 
     

    I’m not sure there’s a magic number of wins - but I can’t imagine they can justify extending Littrell with a losing season. And it’s almost impossible to believe they would be narrow minded enough to think we can go into the AAC with a lame duck coach. They have to either back him fully with an extension or fire him. 

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  4. 30 minutes ago, aztecskin said:

    Yeah I know what we are trying to do, but there is a point where you have to determine if your offense can be run by these players against this defense at this point in time. It’s a balance. 

    My criticism is that we either were not executing well enough (coaching/talent problem)* or not keeping the defense off balance (coaching/play calling). 

    Vs FAU all the stuff they ran that was constraint stuff (sweeps, direct snaps, QB run) kept the defense off balance. The bulk of the offense was ran well also — the throws to Shorter were on time and on target, for example. 

    * And when. We moved the ball well versus UNLV but lost three 4th and 1s. A+ grade for all aspects of the offense except short yardage, where they got F-  That brings the grade point average down a bit. 

    re: Tennessee. Hendon Hooker is balling out and for Aune has been mediocre in crucial spots in comparison. 

    It really is about the QB. That same Tennessee offense looked awful with Joe Milton at QB last year. 

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  5. Ryan Walters is over our head at this point and likely going to wait for a P5 gig. 
     

    Starting to come around on the idea of Joe Gillespie as HC and keeping Bloesch as OC. The offense has looked good and they worked together for years at Tulsa. A reconfiguration of the offensive and defensive staffs would be nice, namely adding a full time QB coach. 

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  6. 1 hour ago, BillySee58 said:

    Correct. Bloesch played O-Line for him at Houston + coached under Montgomery at Tulsa, and Tate Wallis coached under Briles at Baylor. Those are the two who spearheaded the implementation of this offense here in 2020 after we moved on from Bodie Reeder. 

    Yeah, and Heupel and Golesh picked it up from Jeff Lebby at UCF from his time at Baylor. 

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  7. 14 hours ago, meangreen11 said:

    Fan bases rarely look at their own program with rational eyes. North Texas is no different. Scour the message boards or social media and you’ll find plenty of Mean Green faithful clamoring for a change at head coach with Seth Littrell in his seventh season in charge. This despite Littrell’s success over the past six seasons. North Texas was awful before Littrell arrived prior to the 2016 season. North Texas had one bowl appearance in the previous 11 seasons and only five total from 2000 to 2015. Littrell has led the group to five in six full seasons in Denton. The Mean Green only won six or more games four times in the 16 seasons during the current century. Littrell has three in six years. 

    North Texas is 3-3 on the season and sit atop the C-USA standings with a 2-0 record. A six-win season seems inevitable for the Mean Green, which means Littrell would be responsible for more bowl berths in seven years than North Texas received in the previous 25 seasons. North Texas hasn’t had this time of sustained success since Hayden Fry was on campus in the 1970s.

    North Texas will reach a bowl and finish with at least six wins. And then I guess it is on the administration and fan base to decide if it wants to walk into the AAC with its most proven coach in 50 years or start from scratch because they feel like six bowl games in seven seasons is somehow underachieving for a program that went decades without earning any type of post season success. 

    read more: https://www.texasfootball.com/article/2022/10/08/411-from-week-5-of-the-college-football-season-texas-longhorns-favored-in-red-river-rivalry;-mad-max-duggan-takes-reigns-for-tcu?ref=article_preview_title

    I know it’s unpopular here, but I agree with you about Littrell. He has certainly raised the bar on a program that was considered a laughing stock nationally. 
     

    He’s a victim of his own success. To be frank, a lot of this is politics. If you lose the fanbase, you feel the heat. And I think he should be on the hot seat because the last three years haven’t met the standard he set in the first three. 
     

    I’ve said it before, but there is some merit to the idea stability should be the most important factor when considering how to best hit the ground running in the AAC. But at the end of the day, it’s about putting butts in seats and creating fan support that bleeds into recruiting. Littrell has not done enough of that, and my bet is he’s gone at the end of the year. 

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  8. This varies so much and I think my answer would change if asked again in a year. 
     

    The bottom line is prior to Littrell’s arrival, the football program was a bottom dweller and one of the forgotten programs of college football. He has raised the expectation along with deft fundraising by Wren Baker. 

    Given how much funding we put into the program now, we should be competing for conference titles each year in CUSA. However, unless we continue to put more money in, that same measure does not apply to the AAC when we arrive next season. I think we will be in for a major culture shock and the adjustment process might be severe. For that reason I would say my expectations of a “successful” season would likely be to reach a bowl game (and hopefully win it depending on matchup). 
     

    Our main issue is perception. Recruits don’t know how much money we put into the program. Recruits don’t see how much we’ve committed to our football staff. They still see us as a bottom dweller and a school to pick if other Texas schools don’t call. That’s the thing that needs to change - and I don’t think Littrell has done enough in that regard, even though we won 9 games two years in a row. We need a hype man like McCasland or Joey McGuire at TTU. 
     

    To answer the question directly: there’s no reason we shouldn’t expect to compete for conference titles in CUSA. Next year I think expectations change and we may spend 2-4 years acknowledging a bowl win as “successful”. 

     

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