****OFFICIAL RICE vs UNT GAME DISCUSSION THREAD****

[Glory to the Green]

Player of the Game has to be Ragsdale!  GMG!

[untbowler]

Just now, 19GMG said:

Do you usually bitch about everything or just today? Team won and are playing for a conference title next week. Stop crying 

celebrate all you want, but don't bitch when SL has run off the fans. 

This a was bad Rice team and with 2 weeks to prepare the team lays an egg and barely escapes. Makes me excited to watch them play a healthy UTSA team. 

To each and their own, scheduling after this year will be immensely tougher and many do not believe SL and staff is ready for the step up in competition. 

[UNTethered Eagle]

Did KD run up to Wren after that interception?!?

[TheColonyEagle]

Ok. Erasing that one. Got the W

lets go beat UTSA 

[jtm0097]

It was ugly, but a win is a win. Now let's go ruin UTSAs season next week.

[Salsa_Verde]

 

on to San Antonio 🤠

[Green Otaku]

This years' run to the CCG run is equivalent to the the run to become bowl eligible last year. I don't have much hope in beating UTSA, can SL finally change the narrative and win a big game? 

[UNTEngr.#43]

Got a ugly win!!!

GMG!!!

[C Rod]

I’m pouring a celebratory drink and will enjoy this win tonight. Happy Thanksgiving everyone. 

[MeanMag]

A win is a win and we are playing for a championship. That's what the fans want - A championship.

A win there is more meaningful than any win in the past several years.

Edited November 26, 2022 by MeanMag

[NorthTexasWeLove]

11 minutes ago, 19GMG said:

Do you usually bitch about everything or just today? Team won and are playing for a conference title next week. Stop crying 

[emmitt01]

10 minutes ago, Glory to the Green said:

Player of the Game has to be Ragsdale!  GMG!

I think it was Rodriguez.  If he doesn’t make that one handed catch on a bad snap, Rice has the ball deep in our territory or takes it in for a score.   He saved this game. 

[Green Otaku]

1 minute ago, emmitt01 said:

I think it was Rodriguez.  If he doesn’t make that one handed catch on a bad snap, Rice has the ball deep in our territory or takes it in for a score.   He saved this game. 

That was huge. Game saving play right there. 

[VideoEagle]

Ol’ Ugly is better than Ol’Nothin’. - Darrell Royal

[97and03]

9 minutes ago, untbowler said:

celebrate all you want, but don't bitch when SL has run off the fans. 

This a was bad Rice team and with 2 weeks to prepare the team lays an egg and barely escapes. Makes me excited to watch them play a healthy UTSA team. 

To each and their own, scheduling after this year will be immensely tougher and many do not believe SL and staff is ready for the step up in competition. 

As a counterpoint, last year it was us at 5-6, hungry and in the cold rain. UTSA folded and many fans dismissed our win as a product of the weather. I preferred to credit our preparation and resilience.

Fast forward a year and we have the inverse: a hungry 5-6 Rice team that knows to stack the run defense.  But we hold on and win. Not convincingly, but a win. I guess I am giving the team credit for pulling through. 

[meangreanmick]

I am glad we won (because it would have been embarrassing to lose a to Rice), but have have very little hope for anything but a blow out loss to UTSA.   They are sitting their starters today since 1st quarter and have a good coaching staff.   They have the probably been preparing for over a week already.  We had 2 weeks to get ready for a bad rice team and had to get some lucky breaks to hold on.  Rice beat us in just about every measurable stat except for score.

[yyz28]

This game was ugly, and I’m frustrated, despite the fact we’re about to play for a title. We have lost games we shouldn’t have this year, and I think most of the gap has been in coaching and prep. My fear is that this staff can’t or won’t come up to a higher level of competition next year. …win a title, win a bowl, you might convince me it’s possible. Perform like we normally do in post-season, and I’m not going into our first year in a new conference with this staff with much confidence. 

[Glory to the Green]

14 minutes ago, emmitt01 said:

I think it was Rodriguez.  If he doesn’t make that one handed catch on a bad snap, Rice has the ball deep in our territory or takes it in for a score.   He saved this game. 

That was a great play!  
Radio chose KD Davis. Can’t go wrong either way.  

[rcade]

7 minutes ago, meangreanmick said:

I am glad we won (because it would have been embarrassing to lose a to Rice), but have have very little hope for anything but a blow out loss to UTSA.

There's no reason for that much pessimism. We beat them up last year and when we played them one month ago in their house, only lost in the final 15 seconds.

UNT has already shown it can go toe-to-toe against UTSA for four quarters. Now we just have to step up in the biggest game of Seth Littrell's time in Denton.

[greenminer]

3 minutes ago, rcade said:

There's no reason for that much pessimism. We beat them up last year and when we played them one month ago in their house, only lost in the final 15 seconds.

UNT has already shown it can go toe-to-toe against UTSA for four quarters. Now we just have to step up in the biggest game of Seth Littrell's time in Denton.

Does anyone remember who UTSA was without in the first game, and if any of those guys are back/healthy for next week?

[meangreanmick]

6 minutes ago, rcade said:

There's no reason for that much pessimism. We beat them up last year and when we played them one month ago in their house, only lost in the final 15 seconds.

UNT has already shown it can go toe-to-toe against UTSA for four quarters. Now we just have to step up in the biggest game of Seth Littrell's time in Denton.

Hey, I hope I am wrong.  I’ll be rooting for the Mean Green always, no matter what.    But, Seth’s track record in these kinds of games (and throughout his time here) just doesn’t make me hopeful.  I hope I  am the most shocked person in Texas on Friday.

[emmitt01]

25 minutes ago, meangreanmick said:

I am glad we won (because it would have been embarrassing to lose a to Rice), but have have very little hope for anything but a blow out loss to UTSA.   They are sitting their starters today since 1st quarter and have a good coaching staff.   They have the probably been preparing for over a week already.  We had 2 weeks to get ready for a bad rice team and had to get some lucky breaks to hold on.  Rice beat us in just about every measurable stat except for score.

Yes, they beat us in rushing yards and passing yards…but lost in the biggest stat of all.  2 turnovers to our zero.  

[greenminer]

8 minutes ago, emmitt01 said:

but lost in the biggest stat of all.  2 turnovers to our zero.  

Where does Total Points Scored stand in this statistical hierarchy?

[emmitt01]

2 minutes ago, greenminer said:

Where does Total Points Scored stand in this statistical hierarchy?

1A

[Green Otaku]

37 minutes ago, meangreanmick said:

I am glad we won (because it would have been embarrassing to lose a to Rice), but have have very little hope for anything but a blow out loss to UTSA.   They are sitting their starters today since 1st quarter and have a good coaching staff.   They have the probably been preparing for over a week already.  We had 2 weeks to get ready for a bad rice team and had to get some lucky breaks to hold on.  Rice beat us in just about every measurable stat except for score.

I think everyone needs to look around and see if this feels like what a championship run should feel like. I think that says all that needs to be said about how the team has performed this year.