Baylor vs. SMU Game Thread - 6pm ESPN

[ChristopherRyanWilkes]

SMU DL is very small. Mac very well may be licking his chops right now while we are here sweatingbullets. 

Not worried about their defense, I'm worried about our offense. 

[GOMG2013]

I have to admit it's pretty impressive that Morris managed to field a team made up entirely of his 25 recruits. 

if you are just trying to win an arguement, you win...this is not a mac recruiting issue.

 It's a playing young guys issue.  SMU is putting freshman WRs out there, freshman rbs, and they let matt davis take his lumps last year.  

Matt davis is not much different than last year, but he has more talent at the skill positions.  His ability to run is the biggest problem.  His throwing still is not impressive.  The coach has given davis the green light to run and use his athleticism.  

If you want to take a shot at mac, it needs to be playing older guys and not trusting his youth.  Picking test taking and off the field intangibles over athleticism.  

 

 

Edited September 5, 2015 by GOMG2013

[Harry]

SMU's secondary seems a step slow as wel.  Perhaps we could beat them deep.

[Ben Gooding]

SMU's secondary seems a step slow as wel.  Perhaps we could beat them deep.

Unless it's pop routes I doubt it. Gotta have a QB that can throw it deep. 

[GreenTexan13]

SMU is done... BU might score another 2 touchdowns before this game is over. I will admit that I underestimated SMU's offense this year. But hey, we have one more week to now prepare for these guys. SMU has no idea what 2015 UNT is going to look like.

[GOMG2013]

SMU's secondary seems a step slow as wel.  Perhaps we could beat them deep.

stop it.  We are going to look at the film and say, hey Baylor was able to run the ball on SMU.  We can control the clock and wear them down...

[UNTexas]

Well said. It isn't appropriate to trash 18-22 year old men. It is far better to crush the 50 year old men.

[letsgiveacheer]

McNulty has proven to be a class act. We should do the same.  If we are not happy with this team we should direct our criticism at the paid professionals that run it.

Preciously right.

[ChristopherRyanWilkes]

I'm trying to find the positives like you guys with the first week bye but can't see it. If it was so advantageous due to the other team not having film on you why wouldn't other college teams do it? If it doesn't affect us this week we know it will as the season wears on. I think there is something to getting the first game jitters out. 

[Got5onIt]

On a very positive note, I just got my Bluray copy of Fury Road. 'Bout to pop it in and enjoy it in my home theater with an ice cold glass of DP...

[greenit]

Positive Note:  Looking at Baylor fans in the stands, they have as many variations of green amongst their faithful as we do.  Funny.

[James329]

SMU's secondary seems a step slow as wel.  Perhaps we could beat them deep.

Hahaha our qb can't beat anyone deep when the WRs have to stop and wait for the ball.  

Edited September 5, 2015 by James329

[HoustonEagle]

I'm trying to find the positives like you guys with the first week bye but can't see it. If it was so advantageous due to the other team not having film on you why wouldn't other college teams do it? If it doesn't affect us this week we know it will as the season wears on. I think there is something to getting the first game jitters out. 

 

Having a first week bye is terrible and was a total fuck-up by our AD.  I would love it if we started each season with an FCS team.  (Just not NDSU)  

[James329]

This game got out of control, but SMU was much better than anyone expected. I was hoping it would stay close and Mac would think " Hm, maybe there is something to this whole offense thing..." Not likely. We will need to be much improved if we have any ideas of winning next week. 

[greenit]

SMU passed for a total of 166 yards.  With 46 of it coming on SMU first play of game (31 on another).  They rushed for 203 yards, with 115 of that coming from the QB (on 24 rushes).  It was not exactly an offensive explosion from SMU.

Matt Davis (QB) line - Passing - 16/23 166 yds 2td 2int  (very McNulty like), Rushing - 24 for 115yds (not McNulty like). 

[Cr1028]

SMU passed for a total of 166 yards.  With 46 of it coming on SMU first play of game (31 on another).  They rushed for 203 yards, with 115 of that coming from the QB (on 24 rushes).  It was not exactly an offensive explosion from SMU.

Matt Davis (QB) line - Passing - 16/23 166 yds 2td 2int  (very McNulty like), Rushing - 24 for 115yds (not McNulty like). 

If only we had a coach that wasn't too stubborn to use a qb that could run for 100yds.

[North Texas Shep]

So SMU is better than expected but they could not keep their foot on the pedal. We need to be able to keep it going all 4 quarters and I think we can beat them. I am ready for next Saturday. 

[Aldo]

I'm in Edmond tonight watching little bro in first marching band outing (Santa Fe vs North, Preston in attendance reppin UNT) so I only caught a few minutes on my phone. 

Checked the stats postgame...

RUN THE BALL 120 TIMES 

[UNTLifer]

Dear Lord, SMU got a first down.  How will we ever compete with them?  Between bashing McNulty, bashing Mac and bsshing RV, ghis place has become a total ass whipping.

[James329]

if you are just trying to win an arguement, you win...this is not a mac recruiting issue.

 It's a playing young guys issue.  SMU is putting freshman WRs out there, freshman rbs, and they let matt davis take his lumps last year.  

Matt davis is not much different than last year, but he has more talent at the skill positions.  His ability to run is the biggest problem.  His throwing still is not impressive.  The coach has given davis the green light to run and use his athleticism.  

If you want to take a shot at mac, it needs to be playing older guys and not trusting his youth.  Picking test taking and off the field intangibles over athleticism.  

 

 

Yet much better than our starter. 

Dear Lord, SMU got a first down.  How will we ever compete with them?  Between bashing McNulty, bashing Mac and bsshing RV, ghis place has become a total ass whipping.

Some people are capable of seeing progress, and some aren't I guess. Our offense couldn't move the ball against a meh Texas team. Smu, was able to move the ball vs a ranked team better than we have this decade. So yeah, we are going to notice that. 

Ultimately it was one half of one game. We will see on the field. But I think SMU showed more skill than most of us anticipated. We will all be there cheering on our team next week regardless. These are just observations of one game. 

[MeanGreen55]

Hahaha our qb can't beat anyone deep when the WRs have to stop and wait for the ball.  

I literally LOLed at this 

 

but I hope that doesn't happen this year

[TheWestie]

Things to think about:

Baylor's WRs are typical Big12/SEC receivers: big, built dudes, who power through DBs.
We have a lot of very athletic, very acrobatic WRs in Carlos, Tee and Rutherford. (I base this on Carlos' style of play the last two seasons and the Carthage Boys' play their senior season in HS and their debut in this year's spring game). Baylor aired it out and relied on their WRs to get loose because of their strength. The Ponies DBs had a hard time containing them and I think they'll have trouble with our receivers as well, as long as we can get the friggin ball launched their way. 

Baylor QBs ran well when they had openings and Ponies d-line looked like they'd forgotten to cover the QB at times. Mini Mac has gotten better at reading openings and going for a keeper, but is still too slow to rely on this. But if the Pony D gets caught looking again next week that opens up tons of room for the QB to move and creates passing opportunities from open space. 

Baylor didn't use a hard-running, punch-you-in-the-face-and-call-yo-momma-a-bad-name RB attack so it remains to be seen what the Pony defense will do about The Jimmy Show and.

Green Brigade is gonna be there next weekend. Even if it's polos and chinos we still win that matchup. 
 

 

[97and03]

Was thinking the same. Their 6-3 receiver had 3 TDs.

[GOMG2013]

SMU had some nice athleticism out there.  They are fast.  Their dbs made some mistakes, but they are fast enough to keep up with our wrs.  Both teams threw it up, even if it was decent coverage.  They threw the ball expecting the wr to make plays or pull away at the end.  I will be shocked if mac allows this type of throw.  It's not considered "smart" football.  We don't /can't throw through tight windows.  Only if they are wide open or we are desperate.

Both Baylor and SMU also had young talent on the field.  I am sure those players have been working with the 1s from day one.  Probably named immediate starters. They made mistakes, but they weren't killed for it.  That is not macs style.  I am sure goree, rutherford, and Thompson has not had a lot of work with the 1s and we cannot expect a similar showing.  Throwing them in there this week at the last minute won't cut it either.  We may see them in a few packages though.

We are going to run. Our best shot at winning is getting after davis and containing him.  Stop his running, we win the game.  He has accuracy issues. If cosh comes with the lb covering wr ish we did last year, then we are in trouble. Even an average qb can take advantage of that match up.  We should expect to see a lot of marshall, fernandez, and whitfield.  And from the looks of it, they will get a lot of work.

[UNT90]

Dear Lord, SMU got a first down.  How will we ever compete with them?  Between bashing McNulty, bashing Mac and bsshing RV, ghis place has become a total ass whipping.

maybe either one of the 3 should do something to shut us up?

 

Maybe Mac and Mini Mac will, but RV has proven time and again that he won't and never will.

Edited September 5, 2015 by UNT90