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Hahahaha. I thought somebody posted this, but it I was just an ad.

It is appropriate and fitting that UNT should be the team to ruin SMU's last chance to win an AAC conference championship in football. We are finally facing the ponies after we have been battle tested during the season and know our strengths and weaknesses. All the pressure is on SMU, no pressure on us. Play freely and have fun. Let's Goooooo!

This is great news. Anyone know what the value of the PUF is that UT and A&M share?

I believe the attendance number in the story is a typo, with two numbers transposed. I've seen 4415 in the box scores and that's the number I'm going with. Last night was the 3rd highest attended regular season game of the last 2+ seasons. LaTech had 8,522 two seasons ago and WKU had 5,002 last season. Off to a good start.

Do tell. The one guy that committed to ULM. Who else?

There is no long-term strategy for schools like us in the modern era of college football, unless you are defining long-term as 1 or 2 years. Recruit a HS kid, red-shirt him the first year, maybe he plays in a few games, but minimal production when all is said and done. Year two, may or may not play much. If he lights the world on fire, probably goes to the portal. So we invest 2 years and get 1 year in return. Year 2 he makes the 2-deep. We got a good one. Not a starter, but plays a lot. High potential player. Year 3 has a monster year, but goes to the portal. Invest 3 years and get 1.5 in return. We never get over the hump.

Correct. As a whole the AAC is fairly weak this season and scheduling or luck of the draw has helped the current top teams in the conference. The scheduling gods, on the other hand, were not kind to us. Taking the current top 4 teams of Tulane, SMU, UTSA and Memphis, we play all 4. Tulane plays 2 (Memphis - won and UTSA). SMU plays 1 (Memphis). Hoping they look past us to that game. UTSA plays 1 (Tulane). Last regular season game. Memphis plays 2 (Tulane - Lost and SMU). I'm not even sure Tulane is really that good this year. Their top-25 ranking is partly due to the reputation of the AAC being a strong conference. If UTSA can get by Rice and South Florida and Tulane can win out, it will make for a nice end of season matchup for the AAC.

I don't think we should get too excited about the UTSA game. They are not really that good this year. Their signature win is the 20-13 victory over a 6-3 Texas State at home the second game of the season. UTSA's 6-3 record so far is due mostly to playing a weak schedule. They have only 1 win against a team with a winning record (Texas State). Other wins over 3-6 Temple, 3-6 UAB, 4-5 FAU, 1-8 ECU and 3-6 UNT. They are playing a schedule that is almost inversely proportional to ours. They also have losses against 4-5 Houston and 3-6 Army. Besides Texas State, the only other team they played with a winning record is 7-2 Tennessee. They are not a juggernaut this year.

Be honest, how many of you had Eric Morris circled as your number one target for our head coach? How many of you knew who he was before he was announced as our head coach? He wanted to get back to Texas and we were kind enough to pay his relocation expenses. Regardless of how you feel about him, his hire was a big risk and with that comes the potential for huge returns. If he flames out, he'll be gone in three years. If he orchestrates a massive turn-around, he'll also be gone in three years. Hopefully it's the latter and he gets hired away instead of fired away.

SMU - 95.6 UNT - 4.4 Oh, wait....never mind.

Historically it seems we always played SMU early in the season (first game or two). Playing later in the season will help us and this could be a trap game for them as they look ahead to their game against Memphis next week. I don't know if any of this will actually make a difference, but this is the best setup for us in a long time.

I could tell you, but I need $475,000 first. Hahaha. Seriously, while I don't think this season was supposed to be a "rebuild," it is now. At this point, I think you have to find out what you may have to work with next year (assuming they don't hit the portal). We're young in spots, but need to get even younger these next three games. Live game experience will help next year and the staff needs to find out if we have any gamers or playmakers on the defensive side of the ball that have not have seen significant playing time so far this season.

Interesting. So, students didn’t show up at all or left early? Or maybe both. Hmmm.

Yikes. Beginning to wonder if the moment is too big for him.

Is possibly maybe the most fence-sitting option ever? Hahaha.

I have some thoughts on the genesis of this culture and how it has been purposefully nurtured and sustained generation after generation of UNT students. However, I'm hesitant to share it because it goes to a core aspect of our university and the potential steps necessary to begin chipping away at it will probably piss off a lot of people. It's something I encountered/experienced during my time in school (many years ago) and have heard repeated offhandedly by many others that came after me that I have absolutely no relationship with.

It seems there can be multiple ways to interpret what "pulled his offer after his OV" means. Perhaps it doesn't matter, but for clarity, was it pulled immediately after or at the end of his OV maybe as a result of something discovered or that happened during the OV or was there some amount of time (days, weeks, months) after his OV that the offer was pulled?

If Jared knows what’s good for him, he will burn that stupid ‘effing white squirrel costume in next year’s homecoming bonfire.

If you want the full "big time" college experience which usually means participating in D-1 college athletics, it comes with a cost. If it is not important to you or you resent paying for that experience through student fees, then the answer is to go to a different school. It really is that simple.

This is disappointing. Could not even out-draw the 10:30PM blockbuster between Montana State and Sacramento State.

Basically Army said, "get rid of SMU, then we'll join." That checks out.

So we finish 31-7 last year, win the NIT, are ranked #31 in the final coaches poll *and* in the final Kenpom ranking and drop 56 spots in the same Kenpom ranking to start off the 23-24 season? Is this all based on the loss of Perry, Huntsberry and coach Mac? I guess we will just have to prove ourselves to the non-believers all over again.

We ran the ball 24 times for 83 yards and threw the ball 51 times for 343 yards. I don't have an issue with this, because you have to go with what's working and go away from what's not. Against Tulane we couldn't move the ball on the ground so we went to the air and were almost able to pull off the upset. I appreciate that we did not stubbornly keep trying to run it up the middle, but (for this game anyway) it definitely wasn't balanced, nor does it necessarily need to be either apparently. We also won the turn-over battle which is always a plus.

So North Texas to get this excited at 3-4 and 1-2 in conference.