Harry

Darnit -- have always had our struggles with Tulane.

Exciting times!!

Broken Arrow coach David Alexander said during spring practice about Roland, "I’ve never had a player come so far as Demeco has. When he was a sophomore when he first got over here after wrestling I didn’t think that he was going to stick it out, sometime after wrestling in April he just decided he wanted to be a good football player. Demeco has transformed his body, he weighs 290, looks like 265. ... He's going to be a breakout guy, there's no doubt about it. He had a great winter, he looks great." Read more: https://www.tulsaworld.com/communities/brokenarrow/high-schools-broken-arrow-s-demeco-roland-commits-to-north/article_5a7842f5-c94b-5754-94b7-16a086736bd7.html

He took a terrible hit in the Army game. Some felt like he wasn’t quite the same after that. Also he got a lot of attention from teams later in the year as well.

This is how you build a program. We are starting to build our defensive line talent in a big way and that makes me very excited about the future. GMG!

Awesome pickup!!!

I figured that out as well 🙉

Darden seems like the forgotten man on this roster and rarely gets much mention on the preseason write ups but man that kid has talent. I could envision him becoming sort of like a Carlos Harris.

I agree with you but he doesn't seem to get many balls thrown his way. Great blocker though and underrated receiver in my opinion. If you look at most of Jeff's long runs last year Smith was making a key block.

I was thinking about this the other day and thought it was interesting.

Johnny was a good guy, but I still wonder what he could have done had he stayed here. I realize it was his alma mater and he made a lot of money, but he is not old and now he has to build his resume back up again. You know, we sort of took a risk when we hired him and gave him plenty of time to get the program off the ground. I just miss the days where coaches showed more loyalty I guess. Ahh the musings of a G5 fan lol.

FLORIDA ATLANTIC Lane Kiffin’s first season saw Florida Atlantic become the second school to finish the regular season undefeated in conference play and win the C-USA Championship Game. The Owls captured their second conference title, the first since joining C-USA and first since 2007. FAU remained a perfect 3-0 in bowl play by defeating Akron in the Cheribundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton Bowl, 50-3. Statistically, the Owls finished in the top-25 in 16 team categories, including: No. 2 in passes intercepted, No. 5 in first down offense, No. 6 in rushing offense, No. 8 in kickoff return defense, red zone offense and turnovers lost, and No. 9 in total offense and turnover margin. Florida Atlantic will enter the 2018 season with the second-longest winning streak in the FBS at 10 games. Only UCF (the Owls week four opponent) has a longer streak at 13 heading into the 2017 campaign. Florida Atlantic, which had the second-most successful first year coach in Lane Kiffin (1103), opens the 2018 season at Oklahoma, the team with the most successful first-year coach last season (Lincoln Riley at 12-2). Running back Devin "Motor" Singletary was named C-USA MVP After scoring a nation-leading 32 rushing touchdowns last season (nine more than any other player) and 33 total TDs (five more than any other player). He scored more rushing touchdowns last year (32) than previous school career record-holder Alfred Morris had in four years from 2008-11 (27). Singletary also topped 100 yards in each of the final 11 games of the season for the Owls. Both the rushing TD’s and total TD’s are new C-USA records in those categories, breaking records held by UCF RB Kevin Smith, now his running backs coach. Singletary finished fifth nationally with 1,920 rushing yards and FAU was sixth nationally in rushing at 285.9 yards per game. Senior LB Azeez Al-Shaair was a first team All-Conference USA selection who set a new FAU single-season record with 147 tackles. He posted nine games with double-digit stops and also helped the defense with 11 tackles for loss, 2.5 sacks, four passes defended and one forced fumble. Al-Shaair already holds the schools’ career tackles mark with 354. Senior S Jalen Young was second in the FBS with seven interceptions last season, returning those picks for 121 yards and a touchdown. He tied a school record with three interceptions against Marshall and had two more INTs in the C-USA Championship Game victory over North Texas. Young added 77 tackles and 2.5 tackles for loss. read more: http://conferenceusa.com/news/2018/7/5/football-fb-east-division-summer-notes.aspx

Terrible AD hire - if he couldn’t get it done at Arkansas with all their resources why in hades will he at KU? does Long have any ties with Littrell? Will he just hire Bielema? What a cluster.

Thank you for posting this Chris. Two very explosive rosters in my opinion. on the men’s side - minutes are going to be hard to come by, assuming everyone stays healthy. So many weapons. Interested to see how good the Russian is but he is basically a freshman so it will take some time to adjust to the game. Excited for the ladies as well. Velma Mitchell could provide a big boost. lots to be excited about in the UNT sports teams these days! GMG

Booger was 280 - Chapman was 250. It’s hard to compare the two. Both were very good players.

It was a brutal hit. No doubt.

Huge news!!

"What sold me on UNT was not only the fact that it’s a Division I school and in an amazing conference, but the love that I felt from both the track and the basketball coaches right away," said Henderson, who recently graduated from Martin. "My trainer told me to go where I was most wanted and I definitely feel like I belong at UNT. The coaches and teammates from both programs will look out and support me." She received an offer from UNT track first to run and compete in the triple jump, but she waited because she always loved basketball. The coaches finally reached out to the UNT girls basketball team. She'll be one of eight on the roster from Dallas-Fort Worth. The others include Mansfield Timberview's Terriell Bradley and Arlington Bowie's Jasmyne Robinson. "I didn’t have any doubts of getting a scholarship because I had plenty of great offers," Henderson said. "It took awhile, but once everything fell into place for me to be able to play both sports, I knew UNT was where I had to be." Read more here: https://www.star-telegram.com/sports/dfwvarsity/girls-prep-basketball/article214176869.html#storylink=cpy read more: https://www.star-telegram.com/sports/dfwvarsity/girls-prep-basketball/article214176869.html Read more here: https://www.star-telegram.com/sports/dfwvarsity/girls-prep-basketball/article214176869.html#storylink=cpy

Here's a quick update on where they stand on their hiring process. Looks like they want to wrap it up in a couple of weeks. Agree that it is a graveyard but damn -- they are willing to pay some serious "life insurance" lol... KU's AD search reaches final stages link from KC Star

Joe Greene met his wife Agnes at the University of North Texas over 50 years ago. This summer, Joe Greene was back near campus to announce the start of the Agnes Lucille Craft Greene Memorial Scholarship named in his late wife's honor. Agnes Greene passed away after battling breast cancer in 2015. The scholarships will be presented annually to students at North Texas whose parents have battled cancer, with breast cancer "being a particular focus since that tragically took her life." “Not only the scholarship, but my kids, Major, Delon and JoQuel, they wanted to honor their mother in that way, to put a scholarship in her name at her school that she loved so much, to provide assistance to young people whose parents also had issues with cancer,” Greene said, via Steelers.com's Teresa Varley. “It’s a doubly important angle. It’s honoring her, and helping others. It’s important for me that Agnes, her name will be serving a wonderful purpose at North Texas and students will have an opportunity to extend their education. read more: https://247sports.com/nfl/pittsburgh-steelers/Article/Pittsburgh-Steelers-Joe-Greene-honors-late-wife-with-scholarship-fund-119551445/

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Moore is a Hall of Fame football coach who won 215 games at App State from 1989-2012. He led the Mountaineers to three straight national championships from 2005-07, directed the historic 34-32 road upset of Michigan to begin the 2007 season and helped Appalachian capture 10 conference championships in 24 seasons. “The thing that happens to you when you stay some place for as long as we have, it becomes dear to you in a lot of ways — a lot more than wins and losses,” Moore said. “There’s so many things that happen in your life, so many things you have memories of that are everlasting, more and more so with 34-32 in front of 109,218 people. “My family and I can’t thank you enough for an honor like this. It truly is an honor.” Long-time Yosef Club member Robert Fox presented the award to Moore, who was greeted by hugs from family members and friends as the sold-out crowd stood to applaud. Moore first arrived in Boone following stints as a coach at five colleges, including time as the head coach at both North Texas and Texas Tech in the 1980s. He has been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame, the Southern Conference Hall of Fame and the Appalachian State Athletics Hall of Fame. read more: https://www.hcpress.com/news/former-app-state-football-head-coach-jerry-moore-awarded-the-order-of-the-long-leaf-pine.html