EXERPT
If this were any other week, any other situation, it would be easy to jump on North Texas.
Lamenting the fact that somehow the Mean Green blew another game would seem like a good idea.
There are, after all, plenty of flaws to point out — the brain-lock personal foul penalties, the seemingly endless string of big plays UNT allowed, and the fact that special teams cost the Mean Green a win again.
Somehow, it just doesn’t seem right.
Not after what UNT went through in the hours leading up to a 28-27 loss to Louisiana-Lafayette on Saturday at Fouts Field. The Mean Green lost a teammate in Josh Rake, who died Friday from injuries he suffered in a car accident after leaving practice on Thursday.
Rake was only in his first year at UNT, but he had already carved out a place with the Mean Green, which had already been through enough. UNT had lost 10 starters to injury in its first four games and then lost another in wide receiver Tyler Stradford to a freak accident off the field late in the week.
Stradford jumped a fence while running from a pit bull at his apartment complex, landed on a lawn chair, and ended up with a bar stuck four inches into his chest, an injury that required surgery.
“It’s been hard,” UNT running back Lance Dunbar said. “We have been down all week with the things that have happened to this football team. They hurt us a lot.”
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