MGB: Carlos Harris comes to defense of McNulty

[Brett Vito]

MGB: UNT wide receiver posts series of Tweets defending Mean Green quarterback

http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2015/09/carlos-harris-defends-andrew-mcnulty.html/

[Christopher Walker]

Not blaming him for trying, Carlos.

We're blaming McCarney and Canales for not realizing McNulty's lack of playing ability woefully dwarfs whatever heart or leadership character he may have.

[Eagle-96]

So now we're a nobody if we haven't played college football. Awesome attitude.

[Green P1]

Even Carlos won't come out and say he thinks McNulty is any good... Just that he tries hard 

[SilverEagle]

The most impressive thing I saw from McNulty last night was his poise. He got d-linemen in his face more than once and just calmly step out of the way and then moved around to gain some time to throw......or throw it away. 

The other impression that I came away with was that McNulty was obviously given strict orders to not try to make a play with his feet. He never crossed the line of scrimmage once..,...even when it looked like he had plenty of running room. And McNulty is fast enough to have made a few plays with his feet last night. SOMEONE obviously ordered him not to do it.

[GOMG2013]

Carlos likes the fact that mcnulty has tunnel vision for him and he will get passes.  

[untbowler]

Carlos please STFU and just play the game and ignore comments, please get these kids off twitter because all it does bring attention to themselves.

[Quoner]

Carlos please STFU and just play the game and ignore comments, please get these kids off twitter because all it does bring attention to themselves.

Yeah, Carlos. Endlessly bitching online is for adults with aliases! 

Edited September 13, 2015 by Quoner

[Rudy]

What's next,.calling us MFers?

[eulessismore]

I had tired head, and thought at first the thread title was "Carlos Harris comes to defense of McCarney".  Defending McNulty I'm ok with; apparently he was following instructions.

Edited September 13, 2015 by eulessismore

[JesseMartin]

Well Carlos didn't say anything that you can really argue against.  McNulty is an awesome guy and an awesome leader with great work ethic (and I'll agree with SilverEagle about the poise, as well).  He has just about everything you could ask for, but just isn't athletically talented enough to *consistently* make good plays at the FBS level.

[man-up UNT]

You either have talent or you don't! McNulty can't throw a good ball and is frickin slow. That's like asking the accountant to head the audit team at my CPA firm, but he can't add or subtract...good god this is not rocket science. 

[EagleMBA]

Thumbs up to Carlos for speaking up. We have loads of receiver talent, including Carlos, and would like to see the damage they will do. Personally, I just want to see someone under center who has the ability to throw strikes to Carlos and the rest so they can spread the defense and take some of the pressure off our running game. We are simply one-dimensional at this point and we will get beat to death every week unless that changes.

[UNTexas]

Of course he'll defend his teammate. Not a shocker. He should. However, every player on that team knows they have serious problems at QB. Especially Harris, he has to try and catch the trash throws. He wouldn't be talking about any of this if we had even an average QB. Working hard doesn't mean he's got talent to play the game. 

[Andrew]

I will say i am very loyal to UNT athletics and never miss a basketball or football game, but there is clearly an issue with McNulty. Announcers can see it, referees can see it, opposing teams can see it (they stack because they don't respect his arm), opposing fans can see it, and the UNT fans can see it. Something is being spread around the team. I'm guessing the belief that if we all praise McNulty and make him captain eventually his ability will improve. I'm sure he is a good young man, but he is not a good QB. I wish they would stop forcing it down the fans throats....

[Eagle-96]

I don't doubt that AM has a great work ethic and practices hard. I don't doubt that he is well liked and respected. I don't doubt that he gives 100% every time he steps on the field. I just don't think he has the talent to be an FBS quarterback. Hard work can only take you so far. 

[greenit]

So Carlos, when we had the ball at the 10 yard line in the 2nd quarter and on 3rd down you turned in and McNulty threw it out, who was that on? Instead of a TD, we settled for a FG.

 

[Travis]

I wish work ethic was the problem. 

[Ben Gooding]

Yeah, Carlos, we know he's a try harder and as you practically said, he's doing his best with limited talent. Most get it, most don't accept it. 

[MeanGreen13]

Oh Carlos, your youth is showing. Do we really expect a 21-22 year old to ave any perspective when addressing the fan base? especially when all he hears from the coach is how the fans don't support enough? Carlos Harris can't possibly understand that people don't have to support this crap. We, the so called "fake fans" go completely out of our way to support a team that doesn't show that they are willing to do something different to be better. and we all do it because we love NT and what this university has done for us. The real world doesn't have athletic scholarships so when we get off of work (no Carlos, the football players are not the only ones who work hard) and spend our hard earned money on you, we expect you to do something with it. Never forget that you exist because of us, we do not exist to serve you. i am glad you have your teammate's back, but never bite the hand that feeds. never insult the only people in the world stupid enough to give a crap about UNT football; that's just dumb. 

[Travis]

I think you can criticize and still be a fan. 

The requirement for a supporter/fan does not mean having to blindly follow and just accept things. The bottom line is this is our entertainment dollar. And those in the football program are in the entertainment business. We don't have to shoot sunshine up anyone's butt. For us fans, we don't have to do anything. And technically those in the football program don't either.  But, with all the options out there, we get to be choosy. The truth is the unt football (and athletics) program needs us more than we need them. It is good business to be inclined to listen to those who care or even potentially care. Take the criticism for what it's worth... Sure.  But we don't have to play football to be right about what we say just like we don't have to be a politician to rightly criticize policy. 

Edited September 14, 2015 by Travis

[MeanGreen13]

Also, you were still in Junior high during the "darkness" Carlos, just stop it. I'm sorry but this really got under my skin. 

[GrandGreen]

Unfortunately, it is part of being QB; the most visible and important position on any team.  I do agree with Harris, that it was the whole offense who had problems.   Blocking was bad, and McNulty had mustangs in the backfield with him on most plays.   Not a surprise with basically a new offensive line, but it certainly didn't help the skill positions. 

 

 

 

[Ben Gooding]

TE and slots need more targets. Way more targets. Routes take less time to develop and QB doesn't have to have arm strength to get the ball to them. When TE's and slots were targeted we saw success. Everything to the perimeter was a failure. Tempo has to stop. We don't have the play caller to run such a thing. It'll just continue to put our decent defense in vulnerable situations. 

[greenit]

I believe we only had one drive that was not ended with a turnover and went 3 and out