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Marshall recruits well in Florida, which is akin to selling ice boxes to Eskimos .

Its not the same players, hence not the same team. A few years ago So. Miss. won 10 or 11 games, and went 0&12 the next year.

What has happened to UTSA? They looked good against Houston and Arizona early in the season

I think we have only covered the spread once this year[sMU].

Darrell Dickey went thru the same post bowl slump. After going 8&5 in 02',9&4 in 03',and 7&5 in 04', he only won 5 games the next 2 years and was fired. Could history be repeating itself, and if so, why?

At least we could probably compete in the Belt, probably in the middle of the pack.Plus I though ULL had cool uniforms.

Pick of the litter.

With possibly a few exceptions, I don't recall us having a great deal of success with JUCO's in the past.

I thought our defensive line gave it all they had, but for a few exceptions just couldn't get the job done. My whine with coach Mac is his complaining about how hard it is to recruit in Big !2 country. Gary Patterson seemed to do a pretty job winning both the WAC and MWC titles before TCU moved up.

I thought McNulty played well. Take away a holding call that negated a touchdown pass, and a missed makeable field goal, and we are in the game. Problem is defense. So. Miss. had the ball 15 minutes more than us, and our front 4 had a very hard time putting pressure on their QB.

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I am tired of our staff using "we are in Big 12 country" as an excuse for poor recruiting. TCU was able to win conference championships in both the WAC and MWC conferences fishing in the same pool that we do. If you think that UNT is so hard to get good players to attend, perhaps you should get out of the way and let someone else have a crack at it. I like coach Mac, but we were looking for a coach when we found him.

If UNT is that hard to recruit to, how do you explain the success of ULL and Arkansas State? They are in similar sized towns in the Sun Belt, but field much better football teams that we do.

Why is it so hard to recruit at North Texas? I could understand why Fouts was a turn off, and understand that our new stadium just leveled the playing field, but what are the specific reasons that make it difficult to get players to Denton or has Dickey's statement of 10 years ago become a cop out for our current staff?

The really good programs, such as Alabama, RELOAD. The rest of us REBUILD. With no established QB and only 9 experienced players returning I don't know what REALISTICALLY we should of expected. If memory serves, most "experts" I saw [note I said "most"]had us behind UTSA,RICE, and LA TECH in the West.Having said that, I was shocked as anyone at our drubbing by UAB.We still have a chance to win a few more games, but you can let those bowl dreams go.We are a young, not very good team.And,if all else fails, why not blame the players?[sarcasm]

Why is everything about blame?Perhaps you are to blame for not giving enough money so that we could have a larger recruiting budget in order to recruit more out of state players. There is a difference between accountability and blame.

I'm sure some computer skilled fan could look up the minutes we had the ball in our 3 losses verses our opponent. My best guess is that our defense was on the field 60% of the time.

I was at the game and had a sideline pass. It's hard to beat bigger,stronger, faster. When we loaded the box to stop the run, they successfully passed. When we played back to defend the pass, they successfully ran. Until our offense gets it going, the defense will get the most minutes and tire faster. We are a young team and will, in my opinion,get better, but the growing pains will hurt.

I look at us playing a 1-AA school the same way Alabama,LSU,Texas,Oklahoma,Iowa,Tennessee,etc. look at playing us.

F.A.U. has a good team.

The Big 12 is not adding anyone unless Texas says so, and they like things the way they are now.

My adult son and I are going,staying at J.W. Marriott in Indianapolis, and catching Colts/Ravens noon game on Sunday.

Anyone else notice NW La. State beat La. Tech Saturday?

I flew with team in 1988 to Huntington for 1aa play off game. We lost 7 to 0, big fight on field, rocks thrown at our bus, bomb threat at airport. Regarding their fans,looked like a lot in inbreeding. There was a West Virginia story about young man and woman getting married, and the next day the groom took his bride back to her parents. The grooms father asked his son what the problem was on their wedding night, and son responded that his bride was a virgin. The father told his son that he had done the right thing, that if she wasn't good enough for her own family she wasn't good enough for his.

Plaza Marriott.