keith

We compete individually as institutions, but conferences also compete against each other. You compete by strengthening yourself and other times it may be by weakening your opponent. I caught some of the Oregon State/San Jose State game and they had MWC Commissioner Gloria Navarez in the booth and took the opportunity to ask her about the world of realignment and her recent meeting with OSU and WSU. She was, of course, all politically correct and coy in her responses, but had a big Cheshire cat smile on her face the whole time. Probably means nothing, but could mean something. Obviously nothing substantive came out of the interview.

Will we survive the heat and humidity or wither away like Cal? The defense "finds something" and the Mean Green come out on top 51-50.

You know, we'd be pretty good as long as we play teams that are significantly worse than us.

So we've gone from not accepting mediocracy to excusing a blow-out loss in our home opener where we didn't look like we belonged on the same field as, it's OK, it's just one game? You know what they say, you only get one chance to make a good first impression. I'm sure all the new students that showed up had heard since the start of school that "our football team sucks, but the band is great" just had that confirmed and indelibly imprinted in their minds. Every effing time we have an opportunity to turn the corner or make a statement or just build on some minor success, we blow it.

They need to go to the archives and watch how Kenny Buyers made tackles (before he was moved to the offensive side of the ball). Our players bouncing off is because they are going in too high and is another symptom of being smaller/lighter than the other guy. They can still be effective if they focus on technique and Buyers is a great example of it.

I hear a lot of excuses.

Hopefully, "this was one game" rationalization doesn't turn into "this was one season" rationalization in a few months.

It was against the same defense, so there’s that.

Exactly. As long as you’re looking in the mirror, lose the visor and mustache. The Ted Lasso look isn’t working.

So you’re saying we fired one coach to replace him with a coach that does the same thing? Makes sense.

Not sure what the F that tweet means, but it’s dangerously close to “it’s hard in Denton”. This coaching staff is losing it after one game.

Did we have a game plan? What was it? Or were we counting exclusively on Texas heat?

Because the strategy was to hire a HC with Texas ties and recruit DFW high schools. We are so out of touch with the state of college football.

A head coach can only do so much, but he is the captain of the ship and sets the tone and priorities for the program. He owns the results we see in the field. We are small, slow and not very athletic. We lost a ton of talent to the portal. Not sure if that’s because we didn’t “recruit” the players we already had and chose to focus on local high school players that aren’t going to help this year. I’ve only watched future opponents FIU, LaTech and UTSA this year. FIU is going to be better than people think and UTSA is going to clobber stomp us.

In that case, I’ll have what he’s having. Hahaha. During the second half I actually felt sorry for the commentators.

How about after two halves? Did he look prepared to you? Did he make the right decisions? Did he put players in the right place to make plays? Were football fundamentals we displayed acceptable? Did he put us in a position to win?

Have they published the coaching hot seat list yet?

I touched on this when our schedule came out. We will get better as the season progresses, but it will be just in time for the strongest opponents. Don’t get your hopes up.

Cal didn’t realize that they could have had this sort of schedule instead of the ACC. They might be rethinking their decision.

Hey QQ, when does Cal start withering under the Texas heat?

Please share your secret.

4 quick TDs and we are right back in this thing!

It was just a matter of time.

But, but…Texas. We are small and slow. At some point we need to get our heads out of our ass and realize that while there is a ton of football talent in Texas, we’re not getting it.

We’re getting schooled by a bad team and the first half of our season is the easy half. Buckle up mean green fans. It may be a long season.