As a following-fan of The Mean Green since the fall 2014 campaign (first ever game this user went to, in-person, was the rare win against SMU, in Denton), these eyes missed the Indiana win and only saw the loss to the Indiana team, at their house, with NFL-caliber TevinColeman at RB....who ATL mismanaged in-favor of that fellow Mean Green nemesis in the FAU-standout, D.Freeman.
The Arkansas road-win in front of JerryJones, himself, was, IMHO, still the "best"/"biggest" win for UNT in AT LEAST recent history, and may be for the near-future. Prove this viewer wrong this postseason and the following postseason(s)!
THAT SAID....this win, at-home, is just behind the Indiana win, IMHO. This Wazzu team is full of South Dakota FCS players and is by no means the GM3 Wazzu teams of the past, when they were, at the very least, a nuisance to prepare for for the bulk of the "real" Pac-12.
Does that take much away from this victory? HECK NO! YES, this IS something to hang the team's hats on, so-to-speak and BUILD ON in every conceivable fashion, on-and-off-the-field!
"Meaningful" victories are relative to the given team of game-time with their respective seasons in-perspective, with hindsight being 20/20, of course. With THAT said...this victory could do more for this team, this season, than those other two aforementioned victories from a standpoint of "leveling-up" players as if they were "Pokemon" or "Final Fantasy" characters! Learning how to win can come in many forms, as much as learning how to lose. One can lose close, lose big, win close, and win big. This was a case of winning big and learning how to handle it, and that is a rather sought-after experience that all teams wish to enjoy and this program has not had in quite some time! Relative to the schedules and players of those two previous, aforementioned seasons, this win could be more meaningful to the team, in the moment, relative to preparing for the far easier schedule, ripe for "experience gains" than those previous teams had to face. Those teams had a couple players who sniffed the NFL for a short period of time, and did not do too much in it (with future Cherokee-Tribe-leader MasonFine floundering as a back-up in Canada being one of the most egregious examples of wasted-potential these eyes have ever seen), but this team seems to have a handful of players that may break the UNT-to-NFL-Draft record in the coming years and that can all happen with a schedule that is prime for no more than two losses and with the potential to run-the-table, at least until either the Playoffs (fat-chance) or American Title Game (barring injuries). Am betting on the "Bowl Game Curse" finally being broken, as that is something these green-eyes have NOT yet seen in that span-of-time, being that The Heart Of Dallas Bowl was JUST before arriving in Denton.
That (thankfully false) report of an active mall-shooter story being relayed here is wild.
Glad they're safe! Am the kind to stash the kids with the mother or in a cabinet/dishwasher in the restaurant and go hunting for the shooter (being that this user rarely leaves the house/hotel without having....."something".....that can be used as a weapon in self-defense on their person, in their pockets and/or elsewhere, besides decades of prowrestling and martial-arts knowledge in muh head, and a bullied-soul that was quite angry growing up to fuel the focus). Would go "Solid Snake" on 'em like that, but also understand the "flight" and "freeze" parts of the "Flight, flight, freeze" response, and hold nothing against the frozen in most cases. Sometimes one is "the windshield/bear" and sometimes one is "the bug/salmon", and know, all too well, without getting into too deep here/now, about getting "pinched" in-between danger and locked doors and in a corner...even on campus (stupid f'n locked doors...).
Might this reader suggest, say, a pair of ladies' cuticle scissors in the pants pocket from this point forward? Not something unheard of. Heck, up in Canada, there's places where people ask each other, strangers on the street, for a "shank", or if they have one on-hand for themselves!
As a following-fan of The Mean Green since the fall 2014 campaign (first ever game this user went to, in-person, was the rare win against SMU, in Denton), these eyes missed the Indiana win and only saw the loss to the Indiana team, at their house, with NFL-caliber TevinColeman at RB....who ATL mismanaged in-favor of that fellow Mean Green nemesis in the FAU-standout, D.Freeman.
The Arkansas road-win in front of JerryJones, himself, was, IMHO, still the "best"/"biggest" win for UNT in AT LEAST recent history, and may be for the near-future. Prove this viewer wrong this postseason and the following postseason(s)!
THAT SAID....this win, at-home, is just behind the Indiana win, IMHO. This Wazzu team is full of South Dakota FCS players and is by no means the GM3 Wazzu teams of the past, when they were, at the very least, a nuisance to prepare for for the bulk of the "real" Pac-12.
Does that take much away from this victory? HECK NO! YES, this IS something to hang the team's hats on, so-to-speak and BUILD ON in every conceivable fashion, on-and-off-the-field!
"Meaningful" victories are relative to the given team of game-time with their respective seasons in-perspective, with hindsight being 20/20, of course. With THAT said...this victory could do more for this team, this season, than those other two aforementioned victories from a standpoint of "leveling-up" players as if they were "Pokemon" or "Final Fantasy" characters! Learning how to win can come in many forms, as much as learning how to lose. One can lose close, lose big, win close, and win big. This was a case of winning big and learning how to handle it, and that is a rather sought-after experience that all teams wish to enjoy and this program has not had in quite some time! Relative to the schedules and players of those two previous, aforementioned seasons, this win could be more meaningful to the team, in the moment, relative to preparing for the far easier schedule, ripe for "experience gains" than those previous teams had to face. Those teams had a couple players who sniffed the NFL for a short period of time, and did not do too much in it (with future Cherokee-Tribe-leader MasonFine floundering as a back-up in Canada being one of the most egregious examples of wasted-potential these eyes have ever seen), but this team seems to have a handful of players that may break the UNT-to-NFL-Draft record in the coming years and that can all happen with a schedule that is prime for no more than two losses and with the potential to run-the-table, at least until either the Playoffs (fat-chance) or American Title Game (barring injuries). Am betting on the "Bowl Game Curse" finally being broken, as that is something these green-eyes have NOT yet seen in that span-of-time, being that The Heart Of Dallas Bowl was JUST before arriving in Denton.
That (thankfully false) report of an active mall-shooter story being relayed here is wild.
Glad they're safe! Am the kind to stash the kids with the mother or in a cabinet/dishwasher in the restaurant and go hunting for the shooter (being that this user rarely leaves the house/hotel without having....."something".....that can be used as a weapon in self-defense on their person, in their pockets and/or elsewhere, besides decades of prowrestling and martial-arts knowledge in muh head, and a bullied-soul that was quite angry growing up to fuel the focus). Would go "Solid Snake" on 'em like that, but also understand the "flight" and "freeze" parts of the "Flight, flight, freeze" response, and hold nothing against the frozen in most cases. Sometimes one is "the windshield/bear" and sometimes one is "the bug/salmon", and know, all too well, without getting into too deep here/now, about getting "pinched" in-between danger and locked doors and in a corner...even on campus (stupid f'n locked doors...).
Might this reader suggest, say, a pair of ladies' cuticle scissors in the pants pocket from this point forward? Not something unheard of. Heck, up in Canada, there's places where people ask each other, strangers on the street, for a "shank", or if they have one on-hand for themselves!