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The guy who attended Tulane and now Duke?

No, I’m saying it is becoming increasingly smart to recruit high school players in terms of maintaining your roster. The high school signees are the ones who are much more likely to stay despite having enough success here to be able to command P4 offers through the portal. For example, Brian Nelson is a 6’ cornerback who had 4 picks this year. Braydon Nelson started 9 games as a true freshman including about half at left tackle. They would both have a host of P4 offers if they hit the portal, but they have chosen to stay. For guys who we bring in through the portal, if they have seasons where they could command as many P4 offers as the Nelsons could right now, they are basically locks to enter the portal. But the guys who have been here since they graduated high school have shown far more loyalty in terms of staying out of the portal when they have the stock to get P4 offers through it.

Yeah, take that all out, and he'll still probably make triple the next two years what I'll make my entire life.

You know not all athletes are idiots, right?

New car, stupid jewelry, poor decisions, etc & broke in five years.

Once they sign the financial aid agreement I believe they must make it through semester or transfer portal window before they can leave. I am learning on the fly as well, as this recruiting stuff changes every year I am in the game.

This is said as if he got admitted to these schools off of his hard work and dedication to his academia. lol c'mon, man.

Tax, Agent Fee, post-collegiate medical insurance (sans going to NFL) and no... this guy will be working like most the rest of us lol

Evidence that these future student athletes do not share our historical views of UNT. 17-20 y/os, having never followed Mean Green before, that have zero insight into out administration shitting beds for 50 years, or care about Vito mentioning our bowl losing streaks year after year. They CAN be sold on future successes in Denton.

I don't have any issue with players being compensated as a whole. If you want argue it's more fair that it was, sure, for the players but not the fans. The issue with the current system is the NCAA isn't paying the players and the conferences/schools aren't paying their players through media deals. The current format is not employees getting paid from revenue as it would be with any pro league or corporation, it's employees getting paid from donations with no salary cap. There is no trickle down, just chaos.

I know this is still subject to change, but with a lot of transfers signed I figure we have enough to get a pretty good idea on what our depth chart will look like next year. This includes all scholarship players and walkons who are in the depth chart. Did my best guess based on Sam Houston’s positions listed on their defensive depth chart (12 spots based on the packages) and where our guys were listed, as well as their guys who we are bringing over. Took some best guesses with guys who weren’t in the two deep/newcomers. Save your comments about how the transfer portal sucks and this could change so much between now, etc. That was always the case this many months out, but we have a pretty good idea based on the guys who actually play or we are bringing in. The bottom of the depth chart guys leaving is expected but doesn’t really change things. Asterisk indicates newcomer: Offense Z - *SR Simeon Evans RS FR Kyle Koch RS FR Mason Ferguson *FR Tyler Smith Y - SO Miles Coleman JR Dalton Carnes X - *SR Cameron Dorner RS FR Baron Tipton H - JR Landon Sides SO Wyatt Young LT - *RS SR Jimto Obidegwu RS SO Desmond Magiya RS SO Keon Johnson RS FR Christian Pettway FR Jordan Reasonover LG - SO Braydon Nelson RS FR Paul Gurrola C - RS SR Gabe Blair RS FR Amarion Berry RG - *RS SR Ugonna Nnanna RS JR Johnny Dickson RS FR Matthew Reed RT - RS SR Larry Moore *RS SO Jaymon Lamb *RS SO Julio Madero RS SO Isaac Sohn *FR Roberto Rodriguez TE - SO Brandon Young *SR Tre Williams RS SR Xzavior Kautai *RS SO Connor Vaughn RS FR Victor Aderungboye QB - *SR Reese Poffenbarger RS FR Drew Mestemaker *FR Chris Jimerson RB - SR Damashja Harris *JR Jayden Becks RS SO Makenzie McGill SO Kiefer Sibley JR Zach Evans RS FR Ashton Gray *FR Caleb Hawkins Defense DE - SR Breylon Charles *RS SO Demetrie Morgan *RS FR Josh Pierce NT - *JR Quincy Wright SO Jayden Williams SR VJ Bronson DT - *RS SR Richard Outland RS SR Fehi Vailea RS FR Jaedon Langley JACK - *SR Briceon Hayes RS FR Zhaiylen Scott *RS FR Will Smith *FR Brayden Knox SLB - RS JR Ethan Wesloski RS SR Chavez Brown *RS SO S’maje Burrell MLB - *SR Trey Fields RS SO JJ Jean-Louis WLB - SR Shane Whitter SO Kabriel Anderson-Dale FS - *SR DJ Warnell Jr JR BJ Allen RS FR Chris Gant SS - JR Evan Jackson SO Quinton Hammonds RS FR Jaydon Smith RS SR Isheem Young NB - *RS SR Da’Veawn Armstead RS SO Taylor Starling RCB - *RS SR David Fisher RS SO Kollin Lewis RS FR Gabe Stroud LCB - RS SO Brian Nelson JR X’Avion Brice K - RS SO Kali Nguma JR Blake Ford P - SR Sawyer Evans SR Seth Ford

Former Duke star Christian Laettner faces involuntary bankruptcy https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/former-duke-star-christian-laettner-faces-involuntary-bankruptcy/

This home game looks neither "packed" nor "rocking"....lol...

Let’s go!!!

Vito writes for a paper in a town that is almost completely apathetic to the program, with a sizable portion that absolutely loathes our athletic teams’ existence. Nobody with a brain should ever be surprised that Vito isn’t a UNT homer—he writes to cater to the 100 people that read the newspaper still.

Looks like we have some OL coming in as well at some point

Fixed it for you.

UNT fans: I'M TIRED OF LOSING ALL THESE BOWLS Vito: UNT has lost all these bowls UNT fans: DAMMIT VITO

Do you side with the institutions over the laborers in every instance? Like when a union is on strike, do you blame the workers for the disruption and put no blame on corporate greed? Or do you just reserve your institution over laborer sentiment when it’s regarding college athletes?

Only 2 of our 22 starters from our last game against Temple are in the portal. The high school guys who Morris have signed have pretty much all stayed, except for the guys who weren’t getting any playing time. Out of the 2023 and 2024 high school signees signed by Morris, Tyler Mercer is the only one to start and hit the portal. The other 2023 and 2024 HS Signees who have played extensively, Braydon Nelson, Brian Nelson, Evan Jackson, Landon Sides, Miles Coleman, Wyatt Young, Jaedon Langley, Taylor Starling, Quinton Hammonds have all played extensively or started as underclassmen the last two seasons and all seem pretty committed to the program. It seems your chances of keeping a starter is far higher if that guy is someone your HC signed out of high school. It’s a stronger relationship.

They threw that ruling out. It is only for players who played Juco ball, and are exhausting their final year of eligibility THIS year. Essentially gaining 1 extra year to play. I think NCAA realized what a S*$* show they would have caused by allowing the previous ruling to remain.

lmao nice dog whistle.

EXCEPT if we win. That would be so incredible, unprecedented, and outrageous it should be a national news story for days.

This is what the NCAA was trying to stop. But the hypocrisy and greed of everyone else in the sport getting paid a “market rate” while walk-ons got nothing and scholarship athletes were eating ramen noodles in the offseason broke that model. The ONLY rational way forward to get sanity and fairness back with a large healthy FBS would about 80-100 teams coming together and becoming an actual league. No less than 50% of all revenue (not including home ticket sales and merchandise sold on campus) would be shared equally. Lots of other things would have to be done but most of them include cushy fat cat positions going away, and others taking 50% pay cuts. The athletic departments would have to surrender a lot of power to the new league/NCAA along with the revenue sharing. We all know that isn’t happening. And we are on a slow road to College Football regular season ratings going down and playoff ratings going up while it is new. Then after the newness wears off we will have FBS looking more like College Basketball. Dramatically less interest in regular season football with few being familiar with great players outside of Heisman contenders (and/or projected 1st round Quarterbacks).

To hell with coaches and facilities. NIL is the most important item in college football.

Good point. Well said And Hell no... I do not want to live in a real life Clockwork Orange. Luigi can rot

Same with any bowl we play in…it’s no different

Going to miss that guy. He is a glue guy for sure. His talent is through the roof

The reality is it’s mostly just SEC twitter and SECPN complaining. It’s funny that all these years schools like UNT have had to win a conference tournament to get into the NCAA basketball tournament because they’re from “one bid leagues” and now the big conferences are learning, even to a small degree, what it feels like to have a “good season” and still get left out.

Jerry Reed? Reeves was before my time, but Cummings, if anything, was a homer. And I loved it. He didn't shine light on a bad team, but he generally presented North Texas positively. His stories, almost daily during the season by my recall, always ended with an "Eagles Notes" section that had a series of tidbits about players and coaches. Loved reading about North Texas as it was presented by Randy Cummings. But honestly, I love reading Vito's work also. Because any coverage of NT football adds to the information than I can get from other sources or on my own. GMG

Maybe but with walkons I tend to leave them off these lists until they do crack the two deep. New DC is as good a chance as any to make a move up the depth chart.

I appreciate the new players enthusiasm but very hard to see any kind of culture being built with all the transfers in and out. It’s not just a UNT problem.

Why the snowflake reaction to a fact reported?

Say what you will about Traylor, but that team could have rolled over and died with all the injuries, but they just kept getting stronger as the year went on. This honestly may have been his best coaching job.

Of course it’s not fair but it’s far closer than it was. Or are you saying it’s unfairly weighted towards the players over the institutions now? If so, explain how? Otherwise there’s just no substance behind anything you’re contending.

When corporations are struggling, the employees absolutely are the ones who have to take the pay cuts first, or suffer by being laid off. That is the ordering in times of corporate deficits far before “key personnel” compensation is cut.

Because you’re implying they’re “guilty” just by virtue of fighting for a more fair share of the revenue that they generate for the institutions. The NCAA did everything they could for as long as they could with regards to keeping these athletes classified as amateurs so that they could cap their compensation while the value of their labor skyrocketed. Describing the players as “guilty” in that situation is very clear pro-institution framing in this case.

We need to add speed at WR

Our D is going to have size next year.

Once they sign, they are locked in.

The next “Jimmy Show”!!

Nice size and quick! 4.7

So once again Trump makes a comment that gets people riled up and yet here we are now with the Canadian prime Minister on the verge of having to step down.

You two are hilarious acting like Twitter/X was the bastion of honesty and integrity under Jack's leadership and there were zero lies and no misinformation to be found. Love how you all always throw out the term "Nazi's" but the Left's actions really exemplify that term.

Biden/Harris were doing just fine at crashing the economy with their “money grows on trees” attitude towards spending. By the way, Elon has nothing to do with the economy. His job is to cut excess like he did when he bought Twitter. Thankfully we have some people in place that know how to run businesses.

Better than the Liar in Chief we've had for the last four years and his brain dead VP that you somehow probably think were doing a good job. I have to admit I sit an chuckle at all the shit you and those from the Left called conspiracies that have ended up being proven correct.