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We had that coach. Darrell Dickey. And 80% of y'all complained about those low scoring games, not enough passing, etc.

Let the record reflect that the "crappy" conference we left ended up with 2 teams ranked in the CFP Top 25. Coastal Carolina at #12 and Louisiana-Lafayette at #19. Let the record also reflect that the allegedly superior P5 Pac-12 ALSO has 2 teams ranked in the CFP Top 25. USC at #17 and Oregon at #25. Who woulda thought the SUN BELT ends up having a better conference than the Pac-12? That's really impressive and good on 'em. The gap isn't so big between certain superpower conferences and others IMO.

Welp, yet another CA institution heads to TX. Haha

More unimpressive than Andrew McNulty slinging it around the field for 105 yards in a stellar 17-14 win over FIU back in the McCarney era? I think that's some "recency bias" kicking in. 🙂

I guess I'm a little confused. All week I've heard that UTSA is not our rival, it's not really a big game, yada, yada, yada. But when we lose, NOW it's a big game, now it's Seth can never win big ones, yada, yada, yada. It's in basically every thread. Can we at least be consistent about this? Maybe do a poll to determine once and forever more if UTSA is our rival? Otherwise, nothing says inconsistency more than a GMG football forum.

Mike Doocy and his diary is feeling kind of down today.

Does anyone chuckle at people with unrealistic expectations? "Hey, great job North Texas! You went 10-1 ... but you had a bad game against SMU. Littrell ... you're fired. Let's get an all new-coaching staff in here and rebuild this thing in 3 to 4 years with their new philosophy". So it sounds like you'll only be happy if we go undefeated every year? Pretty tough bar to clear. My advice would be to buy a lot of TUMS because we're not going 10-1. In a related note, I'm assuming you picked UNT to go 11-0 in Brett Vito's "get your rear on the record" contest or whatever he calls it?

I think the Stars Stanley Cup game had something to do with the amount of people leaving early. We actually were one of those groups. Our 10 left at the end of halftime to set up the TV in our tailgate area and watch the Stars kick some ass. Pretty memorable experience watching the Stars underneath the stars. Yes, it's a one-off to leave that early but a Stanley Cup appearance seems to come around once every 20 years or so around here, so gotta take advantage.

Let me 2nd El Paso Eagle here. Sometimes I can't believe what I read on GMG. Scoring 57 points and setting a school record with 700+ yards in total offense (perfectly balanced between rushing and passing BTW) is "terrible" and you weren't impressed. What exactly would impress you? 700 yards passing from Bean and 8 TD's? If a record setting offensive night is lame for you, I'm sorry but you're going to have a miserable season.

The SEC is only doing conference games. All non-conference games were canceled. (Thus, why A&M is out).

Hello -- I'm here for the topic of "C-USA to decide on fall sports soon". Can someone please point me to the correct link? I seem to have stumbled into another "RV sucks" thread. Thanks. 🤪

I have an idea -- change the title of what we're doing from "football games" to "protests" and the football season is saved! Thousands will be allowed in the stadiums with little to no social distancing and the benefit is you'll have media and local politicians behind this idea 100%. Win-win for all.

Another add-on to the 1988 team -- not only did they beat Texas Tech and pretty much Texas (if replays were done back in 1988 like they are now it would no longer have been North Texas 24 Texas 13 Referees 14) but they also beat the heck out of Rice as well. Going 3-0 against the Southwest Conference for all practical intents and purposes is not too shabby.

This is why a certain side of Congress is trying to get immunity for businesses & institutions as it pertains to Coronavirus claims. Otherwise you will see MANY businesses and colleges close their doors waaaay longer than necessary in fear of exhaustive litigation expenses from ambulance chasing trial attorneys who are looking for their next big meal ticket. Nevermind that a customer or employee likely can't prove they got the virus from a particular establishment -- it'll be the "hey, you made me go into work and that's why I caught the virus -- I'll settle for $______ to make it go away". This will kill any hopes of the economy restarting -- thus, why it's important to have legal protections built in...

That is crazy! Only one -- repeat ONE -- 6-6 team was left out this season. If the same # of eligible teams held true next year, that means FIVE teams with losing records would go to a bowl game. Are there no such thing as standards for the NCAA? They have the power to say no more. SMH.

I'll just wait to see what the results are. We can't judge a hire on Day Zero. Yeesh. Some of you would likely be complaining if SL hired Wade Phillips as DC.

Guess I'll go first since I posted the topic. haha. 1) Clearly Louisiana Tech got the best of the 8 bowls with a date against a big name brand school like Miami (FL). Makes sense as the date is right after Christmas and that is an easy trip for La Tech fans to make. Any other conference mates that ended up there would have probably drilled attendance. 2) Poor Appalachian State. Top 20 team and you're having to play a team that just got waxed by 40+ points in the CUSA Championship Game. They deserved a date against a P5 team to showcase what they can do. New Orleans is great & all but I bet they would rather be playing anywhere they could against a P5 team, even if it ended up with them getting moved around. 3) Speaking of moved around, it was interesting that CUSA ended up not being in the New Mexico Bowl, which we were contractually tied to. Instead they put in a MAC team. 4) Basically all the bowls WE wanted to go to in the past (First Responder, Armed Forces & Independence), THIS is the year they finally all got filled by CUSA teams. Just our luck. Ugh.

Our conference bowl line-up for this year is as follows: Dec. 20 Bahamas Bowl 1 p.m. (ESPN) Charlotte vs. Buffalo Dec. 21 Boca Raton Bowl 2:30 p.m. (ABC) Florida Atlantic vs. SMU Dec. 21 Camellia Bowl 4:30 p.m. (ESPN) Florida International vs Arkansas State Dec. 21 New Orleans Bowl 8:00 p.m. (ESPN) UAB vs. Appalachian State Dec 23 Gasparilla Bowl 1:30 p.m. (ESPN) Marshall vs. Central Florida Dec 26 Independence Bowl 3:00 p.m. (ESPN) Louisiana Tech vs. Miami (FL) Dec 30 First Responder Bowl 11:30 a.m. (ESPN) Western Kentucky vs. Western Michigan Jan 4 Armed Forces Bowl 10:30 a.m. (ESPN) Southern Miss vs, Tulane Thoughts?

So, what you're saying is the headline Sad: Jacksonville State drops football is "fake news"? Sad! 😋 Thank you for clearing up who really dropped the football program.

@El Paso Eagle -- um, I 100% agree with you. I was using sarcasm to point out GH IS good and this board overreacted (shocker) about GH not being very good and we need someone else, yada, yada, yada. In fact, the guy was so "bad" he got promoted to the OC of a P5 school.

Hmmm, my guess would be no. Graham Harrell was such an ineffective OC here that half of this board bitched & moaned about his playcalling for quite some time. Surely someone who was incapable of being a capable OC in CUSA wouldn't be considered for a HC in CUSA? 😋

Rick -- you're doing a bit at this point, right? It's gotta be. There's no other explanation for continuing to resurrect this thread to tell us what a football genius you are. Now if you picked 4-6 at this point for North Texas, come start a thread about being Nostradamus. Thx. P.S. I'm not a genius. I had us at 9-4.

That's exactly what I thought too. That's why they play the actual games. That was crazy!

And sometimes you restart an old thread to comment multiple times about just how right you were in the prediction department. 😉

I personally think this was well played by unBEARableCalFanatic. Gotta give credit when credit is due.