Heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend...

[Jonnyeagle]

Aune has gotten a LOT better.  Completely different player than he was last year.  Is checking off receivers and making deep throws consistently.  Stays in the pocket and spiral is crisp.  Is asserting himself as the team leader.

[Snowy]

It wouldn’t surprise me. Think of how much better Mason Fine got his second year compared to his first. And IMO Aune was probably better his first year than Mason, though Mason showed a higher ceiling. Exciting times for sure. 

[Mo Green]

1 minute ago, Snowy said:

It wouldn’t surprise me. Think of how much better Mason Fine got his second year compared to his first. And IMO Aune was probably better his first year than Mason, though Mason showed a higher ceiling. Exciting times for sure. 

But has Seth gotten better?

[MeanGreenTexan]

41 minutes ago, Jonnyeagle said:

Aune has gotten a LOT better.  Completely different player than he was last year.  Is checking off receivers and making deep throws consistently.  Stays in the pocket and spiral is crisp.  Is asserting himself as the team leader.

But can he take it on the run, baby?

[UNTLifer]

5 minutes ago, MeanGreenTexan said:

But can he take it on the run, baby?

If that's the way you want it, baby.

[BillySee58]

He has always thrown a good ball and shown impressive arm strength and deep ball touch. Problem last year was consistency/accuracy. Way too many incompletions.

Statistically he was really impressive. 13/4 TD:INT, led the conference in QB rating, QB rating was better than all of Fine’s season except his Junior year, and according to PFF he was also 2nd in the nation in dropped TD passes with 5. He also was asked to make a lot of tough throws.

If he’s the guy I think it will be very imperative for him to start using the RBs and Tight Ends on check downs instead of throwing so many of these low % prayer passes. 8.9 yards/attempt last year is great. Again, it’s better than anything Fine ever had, but we need more of those 3-5 yards passes instead of 0-yard passes that keep our offense behind the sticks.

[Texas Stranger]

15 minutes ago, MeanGreenTexan said:

But can he take it on the run, baby?

 

9 minutes ago, UNTLifer said:

If that's the way you want it, baby.

I don't believe it.

Not for a minute.

[golfingomez]

remember that time someone posted a video of Josh Greer throwing in a practice facility and people got excited?

 

that's how i feel about this...

[DeepGreen]

1 hour ago, golfingomez said:

remember that time someone posted a video of Josh Greer throwing in a practice facility and people got excited?

 

that's how i feel about this...

Exactly!  I'll believe it when he can make the throw into the flat, while on the run, with a 310# Louisiana Tech defensive linemen chasing his ass!

[NorthTexasSportsNetwork]

I definitely agree. Got a chance, before they threw me out 🙄, to see what he looked like and he had several great passes to Roberts and Simpson. It’s looking like he’s been working with the first team, and I would say gained a lot of experience from last year.

 

[NorthTexasSportsNetwork]

4 minutes ago, DeepGreen said:

Exactly!  I'll believe it when he can make the throw into the flat, while on the run, with a 310# Louisiana Tech defensive linemen chasing his ass!

Luckily Ferguson is in the NFL lol

[Udomann]

2 hours ago, golfingomez said:

remember that time someone posted a video of Josh Greer throwing in a practice facility and people got excited?

 

that's how i feel about this...

I'm pretty sure half of us here suffered whiskey induced amnesia from that year...

[untcampbell]

Whisky, in this household. But both offer similar effect.

That said, a friend of a friend with that kind of news is a friend of mine, and my friends.

 

 

 

GMG

[UNTLifer]

2 hours ago, golfingomez said:

remember that time someone posted a video of Josh Greer throwing in a practice facility and people got excited?

 

that's how i feel about this...

Except Aune had good numbers last year after not playing for a number of years while chasing his baseball dream.  Two entirely different set of circumstances. 

[bstnsportsfan3]

While I really hope Aune improves, why did the staff feel like it needed to bring in a P5 transfer at the QB position of they are set on Aune? I feel like both guys can be good and we really need one to step up if we want to make any noise this year. 

[BillySee58]

4 minutes ago, bstnsportsfan3 said:

While I really hope Aune improves, why did the staff feel like it needed to bring in a P5 transfer at the QB position of they are set on Aune? I feel like both guys can be good and we really need one to step up if we want to make any noise this year. 

I feel like I see this type of outlook a lot and I don’t think it would be all that strange to bring in a P5 QB and not start him. Best case scenario Ruder is better than Aune, worst case he’s most likely still our 2nd best QB. 

We had a lot of QBs but seemingly none our coaches trust on the field outside of Aune and maybe Martin. Martin has been here 4 years and firmly behind Aune and Bean the entire time, Gilmore and Kuehne are/were non-factors in the QB race and Drummond is a true freshman. We had the scholarship and if all Ruder does is bolster our backup QB spot, that’s a pretty good use of the scholarship IMO.

[bstnsportsfan3]

15 minutes ago, BillySee58 said:

I feel like I see this type of outlook a lot and I don’t think it would be all that strange to bring in a P5 QB and not start him. Best case scenario Ruder is better than Aune, worst case he’s most likely still our 2nd best QB. 

We had a lot of QBs but seemingly none our coaches trust on the field outside of Aune and maybe Martin. Martin has been here 4 years and firmly behind Aune and Bean the entire time, Gilmore and Kuehne are/were non-factors in the QB race and Drummond is a true freshman. We had the scholarship and if all Ruder does is bolster our backup QB spot, that’s a pretty good use of the scholarship IMO.

Again i truly hope Aune is the answer, but I would be underwhelmed if we transfer in a P5 QB and be satisfied he is our back up. I was disappointed in Alec Morris too when he came in from Alabama but got replaced by a freshman…. Turned out that freshman was pretty dang great and maybe Aune will be too, but doesn’t mean I wouldn’t be disappointed as I truly feel Ruder was not brought in to be the back up. 

[Jonnyeagle]

18 minutes ago, BillySee58 said:

I feel like I see this type of outlook a lot and I don’t think it would be all that strange to bring in a P5 QB and not start him. Best case scenario Ruder is better than Aune, worst case he’s most likely still our 2nd best QB. 

We had a lot of QBs but seemingly none our coaches trust on the field outside of Aune and maybe Martin. Martin has been here 4 years and firmly behind Aune and Bean the entire time, Gilmore and Kuehne are/were non-factors in the QB race and Drummond is a true freshman. We had the scholarship and if all Ruder does is bolster our backup QB spot, that’s a pretty good use of the scholarship IMO.

Seems like Littrell does this a lot.  Harken back to Alec Morris the Alabama transfer QB.  He was sort of like an insurance policy in case Greer or whoever didn't work out and whatnot.

[UNTLifer]

6 minutes ago, Jonnyeagle said:

Seems like Littrell does this a lot.  Harken back to Alec Morris the Alabama transfer QB.  He was sort of like an insurance policy in case Greer or whoever didn't work out and whatnot.

I believe Morris was committed prior to Littrell arriving.

[BillySee58]

5 minutes ago, bstnsportsfan3 said:

Again i truly hope Aune is the answer, but I would be underwhelmed if we transfer in a P5 QB and be satisfied he is our back up. I was disappointed in Alec Morris too when he came in from Alabama but got replaced by a freshman…. Turned out that freshman was pretty dang great and maybe Aune will be too, but doesn’t mean I wouldn’t be disappointed as I truly feel Ruder was not brought in to be the back up. 

Yeah for sure, I get being disappointed by that should it happen. But at the end of the day the QBs we signed from 2017-2020 (Pearson, Bean, Martin, Kuehne, Gilmore) are all either gone or have not really proven themselves in the coaches eyes. You need more than one playable QB.

If we hadn’t signed Morris in 2016 then we probably don’t make it to a Bowl Game that year. He was huge in winning that 5th game against Southern Miss and actually finished with more TD passes than Fine that season.

[BillySee58]

11 minutes ago, UNTLifer said:

I believe Morris was committed prior to Littrell arriving.

Littrell brought Morris in. 

[NorthTexasSportsNetwork]

6 minutes ago, BillySee58 said:

Littrell brought Morris in. 

If I remember correctly, he came in the summer? I’m trying to remember who the first signee was

[BillySee58]

11 minutes ago, NorthTexasSportsNetwork said:

If I remember correctly, he came in the summer? I’m trying to remember who the first signee was

Morris graduated from Bama in fall 2015 and joined North Texas after Bama won the CFP that January 2016. We also signed Bryce English that winter but the first two signees were DE Joshua Wheeler and OL TJ Henson, iirc. That was back when only JUCOs signed on December signing day.

[Wag Tag]

1 hour ago, bstnsportsfan3 said:

Again i truly hope Aune is the answer, but I would be underwhelmed if we transfer in a P5 QB and be satisfied he is our back up. I was disappointed in Alec Morris too when he came in from Alabama but got replaced by a freshman…. Turned out that freshman was pretty dang great and maybe Aune will be too, but doesn’t mean I wouldn’t be disappointed as I truly feel Ruder was not brought in to be the back up. 

One of the biggest mistakes Seth has made. Bowl game, we win he would of been MVP. Alec was a very classy guy.

[UNT18Grad]

3 hours ago, bstnsportsfan3 said:

Again i truly hope Aune is the answer, but I would be underwhelmed if we transfer in a P5 QB and be satisfied he is our back up. I was disappointed in Alec Morris too when he came in from Alabama but got replaced by a freshman…. Turned out that freshman was pretty dang great and maybe Aune will be too, but doesn’t mean I wouldn’t be disappointed as I truly feel Ruder was not brought in to be the back up. 

Maybe we should put less meaning behind the term P5 QB, or P5 anything.  Countless players get evaluated incorrectly every year, unless a player has actually played meaningful minutes at a P5 school then all they are up to this point is a player that for whatever reason has not been able to find the field at the FBS level.  Sure maybe they had a few P5 offers coming out of HS however many years ago, but most of the time if they are coming "down" to UNT it's because they couldn't earn playing time.