Monkeypox

Again, this WOULD be accurate if some of us weren't pointing out the obvious flaws in our game since day one. I kept hearing "just win, baby," but anytime we faced a real opponent we would lay an egg and everyone would act surprised. The problems with our program have been here even when we were winning, they were just less obvious to a great number of people.

i don't think the 0-14 is correct. i believe it's actually 0-15.

yes, but it's hard to justify a 2/8 ratio, no matter what the O-line is doing. GOT to protect the ball.

The majority of the stands in any stadium are NOT filled with diehards, but with casual fans. You will not see an increase in attendance until we are a winning program that plays exciting football. That is all. What? Did you expect a ton of people to show up for a program that's only won one game, and just got blown the hell out at home by MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE? People are paying for a product. If the product is terrible, they will not put their hard-earned money into it.

it would help us blame the players if these problems hadn't been evident year-in, year-out since Dickey's been here. it hasn't been the same players the whole time, so it's obvious where the problem lies.

FIU - 20 NT - 10 12k in attendance

Suspended from the team indefinitely for violating team rules.

I mentioned him last year, so I'll do it again, though he's likely entrenched at UT... Bruce Chambers

NT - 17 MUTS - 13

Exactly... he was winning in the BIG 10, we're doing it in the SBC. And I'm willing to bet Michigan today would fire a coach well before they reached 10 bowl losses in a row.

Here's the problem with that logic: 1) We were defending conference champions four years in a row. 2) Many people here expect us to be win our conference again this year. 3) Many people here argue that being conference champions of the SBC is something noteworthy, or that it has gained some measure of respect. Now, by implying that a team that many here expect to be conference champions of the SBC should not even be competitive with those of the MAC or WAC or CUSA is a direct admission that winning our own conference is not near the accomplishment that some have made it out to be. The fact that we CAN win the SBC and not even BE COMPETITIVE* with the conference champions of other mid-major leagues simply illustrates that we are, at best, kings of the crappile that is the SBC. For its merits, I believe the SBC is getting better, and think it's a fine place for us to be for now, until WE prove we can beat anyone from other conferences regularly. *a point missed by many is that we "negative people" are not upset THAT we lose these games, but that we rarely look like we even belong in them. you don't think we COULD'VE won this game? did you see the number of opportunities we squandered in the 2nd half? i don't know about others but i'm tired of seeing it.

ding ding ding... we have a winner. if we were fairweather fans, we would've stopped coming years ago. if i were a fairweather fan, i never would've paid attention to the team after 1995.

we're slightly better, but not much. it's pretty much the same-ol, same-ol on field. we manage to put together a defense okay, offense can't move the ball even moderately against mid-majors, D gets tired, score gets out of hand, stupid penalties, major breakdowns. the team underachieves. roll in the excuse train. oh, we used to run a more option-oriented offense. we were so happy to abandon it, it took us a while to realize the new one was even less creative.

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Pat's also been doing a REALLY good job of picking up the blitz in the backfield.

Pegram played from 1991-1997. He was drafted by the Falcons, and had his best season with them when he rushed for 1185 yards and caught another 300. He was the leading rusher on the 1995 Pittsburgh Steelers Super Bowl team. That lineman for the Chiefs is Brian Waters, a Pro-Bowl caliber guard and considered one of the top in the league.

TD PATRICK FREAKIN' COBBS!

e-bone is correct. Steroids will affect you depending on how you use them. They basically shorten your recovery time/downtime from workouts and make it easier to build lean muscle mass. Thus, depending on how you work out, you can use them to bulk up, or to work on you endurance and stamina. It's up to your individual regimen, the same as it would be otherwise. Soccer players train a certain way. It's different from the training football players use. Steroids will simply enhance these workouts, not alter their purpose. Jose Canseco has written at length about them. Dude was ripped, and has all but admitted that he was lazy. He used them because they allowed him to get the same results working out only a fraction of the time that someone else would. Someone like Bonds, for example, is a workout beast. He would see very good results either way. However, adding steroids to the mix can make him downright inhuman. I've been taking a prescription drug for several years now that they say stimulates the natural production of HGH, as a side effect. Since taking it, I've gained 20 lbs (I've never been able to gain weight before). The most disturbing thing is that if I increase/change workouts even modestly, I can see a fairly drastic change in my physiology.

(Joseph) Patrick Cranshaw, certainly worthy of recognition as a character actor for half a century. Lived in Fort Worth 'til the day he died.

Insomniac in The Fort, but I'm moving out to Hollyweird next month.

Don't get too excited. It probably won't pass inspection.

I just thought I would save myself some time...

ditto...

If all he did was alter the schedule, then he still played mostly Sun Belt games (as you can't change conference games), and wouldn't have really played a difficult enough schedule. He would've had do a double-switch of sorts to put North Texas as an Independent (or SEC or Big 12 or whatever) otherwise, and still probably couldn't have played ALL the top teams (as the ones at the top on day 1 aren't the ones on the top at the end). And I agree that if the person was looking for reality, they need to up the difficulty so that a schedule played with NT vs. all powerhouses would have you looking at a winless season, not an undefeated one. I've gotten NT a #1 ranking. It doesn't happen often in the Sun Belt (and it definitely won't the first year). A #1 ranking in the game, as in real life, is hard to get. Sounds realistic to me.