@thehoosierhuddle Well when everyone wants to schedule you for their Homecoming, ya gotta do what ya gotta do. Hopefully we are no longer everyone’s +1 for Homecoming
As a new coach, knowing that this game is not one they're likely to win, they're going to try to implement and run the stuff that they are going to use throughout the year. In game one of a new regime, you're not going to see wildly different stuff than what you've seen in a coach's previous stops unless he's hired coordinators that indicate an entirely new philosophy is coming.They’ve negated our Staffs super power which is film study…
Neil Brown brought in something like 72(!) new players… Some of them are bound to be halfway decent…
I’m guessing that we see something close to, or better than, a mid-level MAC team effort from these guys, add in the “we’re playing the defending national champs, let’s show the world who We are” twist and we might get much more of a game from these guys than most expect…
Historically, we’ve started relatively slowly in our early games, so this one may have a few unpleasant surprises for us based on the past.
here’s a YouTube preview:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LIj-SctGQBU&pp=0gcJCYsCo7VqN5tD&ra=m
Hard to tell with basically everything being new for them. If they were returning their staff, and a bunch of players from last year's team, I'd predict a relatively close game. But then, the spread would also reflect that. Like our team 2 years ago, its probably next to impossible to predict what UNT will look like early in this new staff's first year.
I think IU would likely thump a B10 or SEC school, in a similar situation to what UNT is, so this shouldn't be a nail biter by the end of the game. But I wouldn't be surprised to see it close for a while.