meangreanmick

Smu football isn’t event SMU’s team, unless you count the 14 fans that showed up for you - and 8 of them got in free.

Arkansas

No disrespect to ASU, but SMU sure seems to be oddly placing a tremendous amount of weight on a close win against ASU, a good Sunbelt team.

We are built to let opponents beat themselves, when they don’t we struggle. Thus the reality is we do very poorly against against good QB’s and our big wins are against teams that beat themselves. Last year SMU and ARK were great examples of good wins helped by really bad opposing QBs play. Offense will keep us in for awhile, but SMU will pull away. SMU 45, MG 31

Prefer Air Force. Much closer, would bring far more fans.

It’s a little sad that UTSA is playing UIW and they actually gave the game a nickname - “Hometown Showdown”.

This is a little misleading. To say attendance was "over 18.5K" for SMU, LA Tech and Rice is understating it a bit when those attendances were over 29K, 30K and 25K respectively. Also, the attendance for UIW was not a good barometer, if I recall that was the game with the big storms and the weatherman touting terrible storms leading up to that weekend, that had a huge negative impact on attendance - more so that the opponent. With an announced fo 18.5, actual would have probably been in 25ish range without the weather. The FAU game was a Thursday night after losing to ODU, weekday night games a typically poor draws for everyone, us included.

i am looking forward to the season and I love that we can be disappointed with a 9-4 record regardless of our schedule. However I think a lot of these predictions are overlooking the fact that our offensive line and defensive unit are a GIANT question mark and a work in progress at best, don’t kid yourself. We might have more depth at OLine, that doesn’t necessarily mean we are better, that means we have more players at roughly the same ability level (which is still an improvement). - we haven’t proven we can protect Fine or create running lanes with any consistency - we don’t have anyone that can consistently put real pressure on the QB without blitzing - not much depth at DL - question marks at LB Those things don’t normally add up to overachieving or winning games against better teams. We will have a winning record because we have very good skill players for our level on offense, and play some weaker teams in our conference. We are still a few years away from really taking another step up. These better recruiting classes we are landing don’t make an impact for another year or 2. i know I will get lots of downvoted for being realistic, but there it is.

I am going with 9-4 again like I had last year, but thru a different path. losses to SMU, Cal, UH and La Tech. No championship game, get our first bowl game win under SL, end Fine’s SR season on a positive note.

I mean, all he did was get drunk, and go driving around smoking dope with an illegal firearm threatening the police. I think they call that Tuesday night in El Paso.

Where did you order a custom Mean Green Yeti?

UP NEXT: The Mean Green will be either be playing in the WBI Championship against the winner of the Campbell-Appalachian State game. That game will decide whether North Texas hosts or travels for the final game. That is some of the worst writing I have read in my life. That first sentance, if you can call it that, is slightly better than babble. Do they have 1st graders writing for them now? The 2nd sentance, well even a bad writer would have maybe had the awareness to tell us which team is which in terms of whether we would be home or away for championship. But nah, they decided to omit any of the that useful info.

While its wildly negatively misleading, and I have no idea why they would do that - to state that "UNT lost in tourney" is technically correct as Vito says. It doesn't say, "UNT Lost the tourney", it says they lost "IN" the tourney, ,which as you stated, they did.

The sky isn’t falling and neither are our shots. We are 1-15 with wide open looks. Shoot 33% and this game is tied or better.

No, he won it because we played UNLV and not Utah State, And very good Troy team and FAU last year. Not even close to the same competition

I’d like to see Austin Aune in a wildcat next year.

Our game vs SMU next year will be much more difficult with Hicks gone.

Like it or not, the fact of the matter is a strong football/athletic program improves academics and academic funding for a public school like North Texas. More students come to the school, more students stay, more alumni donate when they feel more attached thru athletics. More people know about the school, it’s marketing. It’s a far more complicated equation than if we don’t pay the coach we can pay the professors. A rising tide lifts all boats.

That’s a fairly wild leap. You have to look at teams entire year. They lost 5 in a row to teams that would have beaten if they were in fact a strong team. we beat SMu and Arkansas, great. But if you look at the body of work we barely beat several bad teams and lost to a a bad ODU. You can’t ignore the bad stuff and just pick out good stuff. your basic premise is if we had prepared better we would have won. Sometimes you just aren’t as good as the other team. Go look at Billy’s post, he nailed it. We overachieved and some offensive matchups hid our weaknesses in some games in order to have at least a winning season.

Couldn’t find a pen?

They are playing USF, who has lost 5 straight. Marshall wouldn’t be having an easy time vs Utah State

I dont wish him the best. He outright said I have North Texas there if nothing better comes along. We should pull his offer and move on. We need kids that are good and want to be here, that kid has selfish written all over him and isn’t as good as he thinks he is.

Ok, must have started leaving or something. Last camera shot I saw was fairly empty.

Why do the announcers keep referring to the “big crowd”? It doesn’t look like much.

Maybe we should win our conference once or twice, before we think we are ready to jump ship to a better conference. Being the bottom dweller of anything is not a good place to be. We are on our way there, but we aren’t there yet.