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Fitz has been nothing short of spectacular. Maybe Cooley can find us a DC and some great JUCO players to bring on over to UNT.

Hal Mumme needs to go. Talking about needing a D-Coordinator, Mumme has never been able to hire the right guy.

If I was Dodge, I would try to find a proven D-1 AA defensive coach with a proven track record.

Allen falls apart in the playoffs.

Totally awesome for Monroe. Sun belt is closing that gap slowly.

Awesome coverage of UNT, despite the loss. Vizza and the game have been featured all weekend. Dodge called a great game offensively and Vizza absolutely threw darts or ringers or whatever you want to call his precision. Given a little time, this guy can bring it and he is only a true freshman. OL and WR's were outstanding. Beat Ark. State on Thursday. It will be tough with a short week and having to travel. These guys plays their hearts out.

So I guess, Coach Dodge has a conspiracy against Meager? Makes no sense to me. True freshman QB's especially with such a young OL can only do so much. Here is a little story (KBJ) about the Number college QB recruit in American last season. A little story about the Irish and Jimmy Clausen. Clausen, who is 1-5 as a starter, was not available for comment Thursday. But he said two weeks ago that he thought watching Notre Dame's 38-0 loss to USC from the sideline helped him. "It slowed down a lot for me when I was on the sideline," he said. "You can see coverages slow down. You can see what defensive tendencies are. I think that's the biggest thing." "You could see that he had some pep in step, so to speak," Weis said. Clausen is 81-of-141 passing, a 57.4 completion rate, for 618 yards with five interceptions and one touchdown. By contrast, Evan Sharpley, who started the past two games and has played in eight, is 77-of-140 passing, a 55 percent completion rate, for 736 yards with three picks and five touchdowns. The hope is Clausen will start the final three games. "That's the intent," Weis said. "We're trying to get some continuity here down the stretch." .................................................................

KBJ is justed pissed off that Meager isn't starting. I don't believe we have taken a step back in the QB position at all this season nor for the future. We haven't taken a step back by playing Mosely, and your gonna see Breece play more for Brandon, and that won't take us a step back, either. I will take several of the freshman and the heart and the way they play, all day. Sorry KBJ. I look at Stafford's numbers and see in his true freshman season (with a much more experienced line and set of coaches) that he had 16 int's to only 8 TD passes. I look at Mosely and see nothing but heart and determination not only in his running style but its his blocking. I look at Dibrell and see a kid who has not put the ball on the ground and made plays. The future is bright.

Hey KBJ, The problem is not Meager vs. Vizza vs. Riley. The problem is we are getting schooled. The staff is learning at warp speed and it is obvious that this staff may need more than two seasons, Riley starting next season or not. I'll still take the 18 year old over the 22 or 23 year old any day of the week and twice on Saturdays. Vizza's got more heart, talent and leadership than a guy that has been on campus for four years. You have to be blind not to see that. Vizza has a competiveness that Meager has never shown. Not ever. Vizza may never get it done. That is cool with me. Riley may eventually start next season and that is great. But Meager will never establish himself as the leader of this team again. Better get used to that KBJ. That is in concrete. Dodge has put Meager on the shelf. Now if Meager has balls and the heart to keep playing, he would do, what so many others have done, and align himself with a great AA program and prove TD wrong. Just like Dustin Long or like Josh McCown did.

Dodge's comments that the defense played good enough to win is absurd. Dodge is too much of a high school coaching legend to admit it, but folks we are getting schooled. Dodge and Mendoza are getting schooled and definitely learning on the run, Everything is just flying right past them at light speed. I will not be convinced otherwise. But no one is going to admit it. Leftwich might be the senior statesman but his OL is getting their butts handed to them. I am not convinced its the players as much as I am the scheme and the soundness of our play calling when you really think about it. Instead of 4 wide, how about freaking 3 and leaving a TE to block the edge that a 215 pound safety is crushing our QB. Dodge must learn to protect the QB with Max protect schemes. No way any QB can takes those hits and keep getting up. I admire Vizza's courgage but he got physically beat up. I will be surprised if he plays this week considering his beat down. Why won't Mendoza play with 5 DB's against teams with so much speed, i.e. MTSU. Take out a LB and lets line up speed on speed. We are running everything like SLC but the problem is that Dodge and Mendoza are facing coaching and talent that meets or exceeds UNT's. This Troy game should have been in the 60 or 70's, very easily. The turnovers only made the game score closer, it didn't give a chance to win. So many of the turonvers were near or in our endzone where they were about to score.

Dodge is going to have to take some of the heat on this one and take some off his players. He finally figured out during the game that they were on to his hand signals, that is why you saw Tune and one of the other coaches signally in the plays in the second half. Dodge will also have to go to some H back, TE looks, for pass protection. If you look at Florida, Missouri, Texas and so many others, the TE stays in when they sense maximum blitz. TD is learning on the fly just as much as anyone. This doesn't make him a bad coach but he is learning at the collegiate level.

This summed up our day on Offense. The speed off the corners killed us all day, and Vizza is still being tackled today by Troy. I am surprised he lasted the first half more less the entire game. That is a problem when you have no TE. You cannot max blitz protect, like most spread teams do when they are coming at you with 6 and 7. Dodge, in my opinioin, will change to some TE formations next season to avoid teams that have better athletes.

It was obvious from the get go that their athletes were better than ours. You could tell that during the warmups. UNT when with no speed against a spread team on defense. If you wanted a coaching clinic on how stop the spread, you saw it. (troy's defense vs. UNT offense) Our QB would barely get the snap take a one, sometimes two step drop and the blitz was all over him, the entire day. Our QB got killed. I am not sure how he got up off the ground after being hit like he did. On the other hand, our defense brought very little pressure and Omar had all day to throw. His WR's had constant separation on their routes, UNT WR's were covered like glue because they were never able to get down field to make any moves, or double moves, to get open. Our O-Line play was getting knocked off their feet and getting their ass handed to them. Dodge got out coached early on with their pressure. He never could find a way to slow down their pass rush. Our corners and safeties rarely play the ball on the deep routes. The only time they did is when Omar threw those long hanging deep balls. Defense created some turnovers, but lets be real, most of them were when Troy was going for the deep ball or when they were about to score. (except a few in the first half). UNT has NO running game. J-MO (you got to love the kid) but his days are over. Mosely runs harder and wants it more. The attitude of this team is what needs to change and we just flat out lack speed. We have no speed anywhere. Special teams have no speed and it showed the entire game. OL puts the points on the board and the defense wins it. UNT has neither. This game wasn't even as close as the score. UNT is not even near being in the league with Troy. Troy's coach explains it all: TROY, Ala. – Troy head coach Larry Blakeney saw an opportunity when he studied North Texas’ offense heading into the Trojans’ game against the Mean Green on Saturday. UNT has two sophomores and two redshirt freshmen on its offensive line who are playing in a passing offense for the first time in their college careers. Blakeney decided the best way to beat the Mean Green was to come after those players and freshman quarterback Giovanni Vizza every chance he had. That approach paid dividends for the Trojans, who sacked Vizza nine times in a 45-7 win. “We felt like we had some guys who would really give them problems in the front four,” Blakeney said. “We caught them in some protection schemes that gave us a chance to get someone free. It was a good job by our coaches and the guys executed all day.”

I personally liked the quote by Dodge in the paper calling his freshman QB, "a warrior." I don't think Dodge goes around calling many freshman that. I saw a defensive that battled their ass off for their coach. I liked that. It was so nice to see the D, have the game of the year at Fouts, after being called out. congrats to the defensive staff.

NEWS FLASH Cooley said that he told Jerry to get rid of Romo because he was nothing more than a ball boy from AA, Eastern Illinois. The ball boy still may pull it out.

Just was left a message by COOLEY that said that Romo is nothing more than a AA NCAA prospect and shouldn't be in the NFL. He is waiting for Reggie McNeal to come out of retirement.

Dodge will get it done one way or another. Effort was tremendous. We have some damn good competitors who lay it on the line. These guys are not laying down.

Cooley needs to stick to basketball and leave his football analysis in the closet.

Its called parity. The fact is that good football is everywhere on any given day.

Last time I checked our QB tonight was in his first start, is 18 years old, threw three TD's, one hell mary int. and one deflected int. ---- throws for 380 yards or so, got killed about every throw and continues to play his ass off. What I saw on TV and the announcers agreed that this QB was about as perfect as you could be in the second half and was tough as nails. Does it matter that he starts or if Meager starts, no because we have some problems on defense that are still being worked on. Any one kicking a freshman who plays with that must heart is unbelievable and doesn't know jack crap about what Dodge stands. I saw Dodge fighting for his QB to the very end. 263 yars passing in the second after settling in and getting his ass cranked up every throw. Yeah, he sucks. that is why he had Nevada, which plays pretty good football the last time I looked, wanted him as did four other D-1's. Cooley, it takes a lot of balls to call out a a true freshman that did what he did in that game.

Sig, I got a suggestion, you can become the head coach, Firefighter Rick should be the Defensive Coordinator and Cooley should be in charge of getting us Div. 1 recruits. Then UNT would really have something.

That is awesome. You hit it right on.

In all fairness to GV, he has only played against teams that have pressed our receivers the entire night. GV has not thrown one screen, not one bubble, no high percentage passes because its wasn't there against OU or ARK. DM dumps it down on a lot of third and long for short gains but no first downs. Vizza, being young, takes his shots down field and goes for the first down when its third and long and sacrifices completion percentage for a chance to make a first down. Considering that GV had not played in an entire month, I do agree that his second quarter Arkansas performance was good and very noteworthy. This dilemna will not end until GV starts a game and plays a team that we athletically match up with. Dodge knows you can't take a true freshman and give him DM's four years of experience. But at some time, he'll have to let GV spread his wings, in a game that is not totally out of control and where the defense is having to play our entire playbook.

That is pretty bold. TD has already called him one of the best D-coordinators in the nation. And now you have already ordered the statue for him. Very SLC of you. Make sure you pay for it with the SLC budget. Mendoza has never schemed against teams of this caliber nor talent of this caliber. He has always had more talent than any progam he's faced. Trinity had SLC ass beat last season and should have won, but Trinity's coach (Stevie Wonder) had a brain spasm. Mendoza and Dodge are learning in the fast lane. Traffic is going right by them but please, don't order the statue yet. I am not going to say he won't get UNT better, but sticking Mendoza further out there will make others want to chop his head off.

Damn, that might get you banned from the board. WHOA! Take care of your business before hitting Fouts, that is too much.