[UTSA’s new Cannon is ferocious we should fear them]

But.......it’s just a box......?

[This team deserved better]

Rain was the only reason ones there today. Softball games for one of my kids was cancelled.  I won’t be at Homecoming because of another daughter playing volleyball.  I’m in my early 40’s with kids.  We came to ALL the games in the mid 2000’s before our kids got involved with stuff.  I won’t be able to make every game again until my kids are out of the house s long as they’re still involved in stuff.  Some of the older alumni (my dad for example) never cared about NTSU football and I can’t convince him to change now.   It just wasn’t ever a priority when he went to school there.

I know we could have had more students there today, but I was happy to see as many that did show up.  It’s getting better.  It’s just slow.  It’s frustrating that more don’t “jump on the band wagon”.

[CUSA Officials]

3 minutes ago, MeanGreenTexan said:

And how does a ball go FORWARDS 10 YDS, & the QB NOT be in a throwing motion?!?

Oh yeah!  This one too. Who’s supposed to call for the challenge?  The coach?  The booth?

[CUSA Officials]

Agreed.  Both calls were crap.

[Southern Miss prepares for QB Mason Fine, dominant North Texas offense this Saturday]

Early on it seemed our receivers caught everything, even the tough catches.  Now it’s like they have trouble with the wide open stuff.

[MGN: USM Preview]

Great write up.

[Confession - The hype got me]

We are 5-1 on the season.  I was disappointed with the UTEP win last night but started to question myself and my expectations.  I realize now that I didn’t just want a win, I wanted a blowout.  I wanted to show the college football world that we were as good as everyone talked about after the 4-0 start and SMU/Arkansas dominations.  

After years of following this program I fell victim to believing the “miracle” season was here.  We were going to elevate ourselves to the upper tier of college football.  We’d be considered a powerful program that really should be playing in a higher tier conference. No longer would be little old North Texas.  No longer would our Alumni send more time/money following UT and A&M instead of their own school.  They’d have to believe.  

LaTech was just a hiccup.  By coming back and beating the crap out of UTEP, maybe we’d get back some of the mojo.  

These were my thoughts and why these last 2 games have been so disappointing.  I fell for the hype.  I wanted it to be true and for the whole world to see UNT the way I want them to be.  

We are 5-1.  Regardless of the scores we’re still in a great spot.  This may not be the year we thrust ourselves into the national spotlight, but the culture is changing at North Texas.  We’ve got record large donations coming into the program.  We’ve got an awesome recruiting class waiting to make their mark.  Things are changing and I (and maybe others) need to enjoy the good without worrying about living up to the hype.  This has been a great way to start the season.  I have no doubt we’ll be in a bowl game somewhere.  We’re making progress.

[***OFFICIAL UNT vs. UTEP Game Thread***]

Tough win.  Hope this helps build confidence.  First, close, come from behind win this season. Still leaves some questions.

[***OFFICIAL UNT vs. UTEP Game Thread***]

I guess that’s one way to “catch” the ball and get receptions.

[***OFFICIAL UNT vs. UTEP Game Thread***]

I’m an idiot. I’m sitting here switching back and forth between the SMU game and the Liberty game hoping they win so our wins look better, when in reality we’re like UTSA last year that started out   3-0 and was trying to figure out how they’d be kept out of the National Championship game.  

Maybe we’re still North Texas.  Ugh. 

[***OFFICIAL UNT vs. UTEP Game Thread***]

And furthermore,  WTF with all the MF’ing drops?!?!?  We’d be blowing the doors off if some of our “sure handed” receivers could catch the bleeping ball!!

 

[***OFFICIAL UNT vs. UTEP Game Thread***]

Seriously.  WTH is that play calling??

[***OFFICIAL UNT vs. UTEP Game Thread***]

they’re not worrying about us running.  At all.  

[***OFFICIAL UNT vs. UTEP Game Thread***]

Needed that!!!!

[DRC: Injury update for UTEP]

Well crap!

[Beyond The Green]

Can't bring myself to watch it yet.

[Loss is on the Coaches]

Muffed punt, blocked field goal, missed field goal, offensive line not blocking for 2 quarters, and some questionable penalties that kept LaTech drives going in the first half.  

Coaching ? Lack of concentration?

[Will the La. Tech game be a sellout? (POLL)]

Orange is filling up fast. Big line of cars to get in.

[BTG]

Ha!  My wife and I had a discussion about him not using a cutting board.  

Great episode!

Was kind of disappointed Coach pulled back on the “getting after their ass”.

[DRC: Littrell's connection with Lovelace family, mom's love of roller skating helped lead him to Denton]

Who downvotes this?!?!?  He didn’t throw in that we lost to SEC teams the last 20 times we played them until this year.  

Good story!

[La Tech Game Throwbacks]

Is it possible the whole team wears 75?  Like they do in baseball where everyone is 42?

i guess it’s almost impossible for the refs to get the penalties assigned to the correct player.

[Question - Recruiting]

It seems like I read somewhere that we’ve finished this year’s recruiting class, and I know that just about all of them are 3 star recruits.  My question is this:  with the season we are having is it possible that a 4 Star might look at us and say that’s where he wants to go, and if that happens is there a way that we find room for him?  I realize this scenario isn’t likely but could we make a spot if that happened?  This is more my recruiting ignorance, but fun to speculate!

[This Is Something Special Beyond 4 - 0]

The multiple, large, donations this year makes it feel different.  Even if we drop a game or two we should win, it still has the feel of something new.

[And So It Begins]

TCU had this same argument before they got invited to the Big 12.  Keep winning.  All you can do is play who’s on the schedule.

[And So It Begins]

The LaTech board is already saying  “sure they’re 4-0 but they haven’t played anyone”.  Prepare yourself for this argument from everyone. It seems they hung close to LSU so they’re pretty confident since our opponents have been weak.