Recent content by Newpoke

After twenty years of listening to Gundy, it's nice having a coach who: 1. speaks like a normal person--no more "he likes football", "loves to compete", "doesn't say a word", 2. Actually wants to hang out with the players and get to know them on a personal level. Loving this hire more everyday.

No Blackmon or Rodruguez?

But you've got to consider that UNT hasn't been ranked in 60 years until this past season, so going up against ranked teams (assuming mainly P4 and/or upper-tier G5 teams) is still a tall order for a new/young program that's never had much success. Give him some higher level talent and let's...

I'm feeling like 8-4 is pretty doable, with likely losses to: Oregon, Houston, KSU, and TT. Anything more and I would be ecstatic.

Let what go? I was merely responding to another post stating that Gundy set us up for the NIL era. I contend that the opposite is true.

I respectfully disagree, Gundy didn't set us up for anything. Rather, he burned everything down and forced Chad to fire him due to his complacency and lack of competent leadership, to the point where we were only competitive against FCS schools. That's inexcusable.

Gundy neutered the entire offense, and ultimately, the program.

Welcome Ntmeangreen12, and thanks for the player info. EM was always my first choice and I'm thrilled that it worked out the way it did. Can't wait to see what he can do with some serious financial backing. Best of luck to UNT going forward!

I feel like we've upgraded our coaching across the board, and I believe they can get the most out of many of these portal players who may not be that highly rated. For example, the style of offense Gundy ran the past few years (no motion, no misdirection, no innovation) only magnified our...

Just doing the math based on those transferring out, it would seem we need another 8-10 OL, 8-10 DL, 5 or 6 LB's, a couple of RB's, 6-8 WR's, 6-8 DB's, etc.

So, Mestemaker hasn't even taken his visit to Stillwater, but he's already signed a $7M contract (per RA)? We sure about that?

That IS a lot of money, but that is the pay scale for top-tier QB's in the portal. There was an article linked on PFB showing that the scale was basically from $3M-$5M for highly coveted QB's, so this falls in line with what we're paying him. Sure, the level of competition was not great, but...

IMO, he was made out to be this S&C guru, but I was never impressed with our physicality along the lines, and we've suffered an inordinate amount of injuries along all position groups over the years. I think any good up and coming S&C coach could achieve the same or better results for half the...

I think he’s organizing a sleepover🤠

It'll be refreshing having an HC who actually talks to his players and coaches on the sidelines and shows excitement during a game. Gundy is a weird dude, but the fact that he never showed any emotion towards his players and never talked to them was really strange.