MGB: Weekly prediction: UNT will knock off SMU

All About UNT · September 2, 2016

1 hour ago, trud1966 said:

Pep Talk time...

I bleed Green, trust me...But on paper, and if you hang your hat on statistics, the math is not on our side. Not necessarily from a talent point of view, just from the reasoning that we were awful last year, and this is an entirely new Regime, new staff, new everything. Does that mean we don't have a chance? OH HELL NO! How quickly we forget...Remember the first game at Apogee against Houston? Do you remember how amped up we were? First game at home, against a team we were supposed to lose to, on paper...Ultiimately we did, but holy crap the team was jumping on Houston early! For about the first half, the defense was Case Keenum's worst nightmare. Forced him to get called on two intentional grounding calls, and the crowd was so loud, they would get flagged for false starts. I remember watching the press conference after the game, and Case Keenum said something like "we settled down and won, but we NOT expecting that kind of energy from their stadium and team..."

My point is this....If we can jump out on SMU that early in the game, with that same kind of intensity, and the crowd make that kind of noise, then SMU will have their hands full. SMU fans love to state that their program is so much more advanced than UNT... Then why don't they come out in droves to Denton? (And I'm not just talking about 2014...That was their worst fan showing, but each time I can recall them coming to Denton in the past 30 years, it's always lack-luster...)Because they don't have that same confidence when they play us in Denton...They may like their odds "on paper" against us, but not in Denton they don't...

So everyone here needs to get to the game, and bring friends, and get violently loud. Let's help our team jump out early, and again scare their 43 fans for 4 quarters...

"Let it Fly" is not a call arms just for the team, it's for all of us...

After Saturday, we're going to put out some new stats "on paper" indeed...

See you on game day...

They have a fan on their board by the name of PonyBoss who, in all of his infinite f'in wisdom, seems to think that we should have done a 2 for 1 with them.

It's pretty clear that he is disregarded as a moron over there but nonetheless the mentality exists among some of bonehead elements that we aren't worthy of being on their long list of OOC ~~rapings~~ games

dfw175 · September 2, 2016

11 hours ago, TreeFiddy said:

Clearly a much better written piece (of unbiased journalism) that that gawdawful piece of trash that EJ Holland smoo homer wrote.

I thought Vito's piece actually was somewhat like a homer.

Ryan Munthe · September 2, 2016

9 hours ago, trud1966 said:

Pep Talk time...

I bleed Green, trust me...But on paper, and if you hang your hat on statistics, the math is not on our side. Not necessarily from a talent point of view, just from the reasoning that we were awful last year, and this is an entirely new Regime, new staff, new everything. Does that mean we don't have a chance? OH HELL NO! How quickly we forget...Remember the first game at Apogee against Houston? Do you remember how amped up we were? First game at home, against a team we were supposed to lose to, on paper...Ultiimately we did, but holy crap the team was jumping on Houston early! For about the first half, the defense was Case Keenum's worst nightmare. Forced him to get called on two intentional grounding calls, and the crowd was so loud, they would get flagged for false starts. I remember watching the press conference after the game, and Case Keenum said something like "we settled down and won, but we NOT expecting that kind of energy from their stadium and team..."

My point is this....If we can jump out on SMU that early in the game, with that same kind of intensity, and the crowd make that kind of noise, then SMU will have their hands full. SMU fans love to state that their program is so much more advanced than UNT... Then why don't they come out in droves to Denton? (And I'm not just talking about 2014...That was their worst fan showing, but each time I can recall them coming to Denton in the past 30 years, it's always lack-luster...)Because they don't have that same confidence when they play us in Denton...They may like their odds "on paper" against us, but not in Denton they don't...

So everyone here needs to get to the game, and bring friends, and get violently loud. Let's help our team jump out early, and again scare their 43 fans for 4 quarters...

"Let it Fly" is not a call arms just for the team, it's for all of us...

After Saturday, we're going to put out some new stats "on paper" indeed...

See you on game day...

What statistics? I don't see any statistics that make it seem like SMU is any better than we are.

Mean_Green09 · September 2, 2016

10 hours ago, trud1966 said:

Pep Talk time...

I bleed Green, trust me...But on paper, and if you hang your hat on statistics, the math is not on our side. Not necessarily from a talent point of view, just from the reasoning that we were awful last year, and this is an entirely new Regime, new staff, new everything. Does that mean we don't have a chance? OH HELL NO! How quickly we forget...Remember the first game at Apogee against Houston? Do you remember how amped up we were? First game at home, against a team we were supposed to lose to, on paper...Ultiimately we did, but holy crap the team was jumping on Houston early! For about the first half, the defense was Case Keenum's worst nightmare. Forced him to get called on two intentional grounding calls, and the crowd was so loud, they would get flagged for false starts. I remember watching the press conference after the game, and Case Keenum said something like "we settled down and won, but we NOT expecting that kind of energy from their stadium and team..."

My point is this....If we can jump out on SMU that early in the game, with that same kind of intensity, and the crowd make that kind of noise, then SMU will have their hands full. SMU fans love to state that their program is so much more advanced than UNT... Then why don't they come out in droves to Denton? (And I'm not just talking about 2014...That was their worst fan showing, but each time I can recall them coming to Denton in the past 30 years, it's always lack-luster...)Because they don't have that same confidence when they play us in Denton...They may like their odds "on paper" against us, but not in Denton they don't...

So everyone here needs to get to the game, and bring friends, and get violently loud. Let's help our team jump out early, and again scare their 43 fans for 4 quarters...

"Let it Fly" is not a call arms just for the team, it's for all of us...

After Saturday, we're going to put out some new stats "on paper" indeed...

See you on game day...

I do hang my hat on stats and historical data. They all point to us having a much better chance then you believe.

forevereagle · September 2, 2016

18 hours ago, Cerebus said:

Just go ahead and bury him in upvotes.

Tyler Maryak · September 2, 2016

commenting to keep this posting above the garbage DMN one.

UNTLifer · September 2, 2016

3 hours ago, dfw175 said:

I thought Vito's piece actually was somewhat like a homer.

dfw175 · September 2, 2016

14 hours ago, HoustonEagle said:

The reason why I asked because UNT looked slow last year when SMU played them. Just wonder if the new coach recruited more speed that would be on the field immediately.

Aldo · September 2, 2016

15 hours ago, HoustonEagle said:

^ SMU fans leaving Apogee after they lose on Saturday

1 hour ago, dfw175 said:

Just wonder if the new coach recruited more speed that would be on the field immediately.

He's got many of his recruits on the two-deep.

Withers940 · September 2, 2016

20 hours ago, Cerebus said:

Wither's actual reaction:

Now this is Comedy folks, HAHA but very factual

Cr1028 · September 2, 2016

2 hours ago, dfw175 said:

The reason why I asked because UNT looked slow last year when SMU played them. Just wonder if the new coach recruited more speed that would be on the field immediately.

The defense was plenty fast last year, the offense, not so much. Don't you worry your pretty little head though. Our offense will be noticeably faster tomorrow night.

Tyler Maryak · September 2, 2016

1 hour ago, Cr1028 said:

The defense was plenty fast last year, the offense, not so much. Don't you worry your pretty little head though. Our offense will be noticeably faster tomorrow night.

Skrillex'd "Thunderstruck"? Are you s#!tting me?? I just started a thousand year vomit.

EDIT 1: How many turnovers did we get in that game? 3? 4? Man...we're gonna need some turnovers in this game tomorrow if we wanna take it. More importantly, we can't make the dumb first year mistakes that they were making.

EDIT 2: Tucker could be something special. I don't think I was giving him enough credit in my mind. I'm excited to see what he does tomorrow now.

Edited September 2, 2016 by Tyler Maryak