Harry

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Gotta start winning more of these.

Proud!

https://one.unt.edu/mgsf

http://meangreenscholarshipfund.com/

Disappointing.

Welcome Tim. Nice pick-up at a much needed position!

Kudos to @FirefightnRick

Nice win we needed this one!

Looks like we are coming into the 2nd half with our game face on.

I agree with @forevereagle that we have come from a very low point and Littrell should most certainly be commended. However, I do think that not being blown out by a G5 program is a reasonable goal. I think it would make many of us feel even better about the program and where it is heading for the future. I also feel that there are other g5 programs with less resources who are able to accomplish this. We can as well. I think the 2013 outlier year Mac had made us all paranoid about the aftermath of successful seasons. To me the adjustments made in the recruiting staff is probably some of the best news I have seen. It tells me that they are open to making improvements and getting better results.

Agreed. I knew that the preferred walk-ons had a better chance to make the roster and get playing time or eventually a ship, but I had not seen the guarantee of a roster spot play into it.

I saw it worded in an interesting way earlier today: “”The player receive a preferred walk-on opportunity, meaning he would not receive a scholarship but would be guaranteed a spot on the roster.” it would be more appealing to be with a PWO you would have the guarantee of a spot on the roster.

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Agree with you.

https://247sports.com/Recruitment/Jyaire-Shorter-106457/RecruitInterests

You are correct. I just saw on his linked in profile he is listed as "Former athlete at University of North Texas". https://www.linkedin.com/in/connor-means/

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Still showing here: http://www.meangreensports.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/connor_means_885350.html

Darn it - was hoping we had a shot here.

Yes please!

Let me preface this by saying I am glad she has decided to end up at UNT and I wish him well. We offer him a second chance and he offers us a powerful leg. That said, I still wish he had made a different decision out of high school. He should have never gone to Arkansas. What a great story it would have been for him to play at the school where his dad has been such an icon. Now he comes to UNT due to a lack of results. Hopefully this will have a happy ending but I think he would do it differently if given the chance to go back in time. That said, kids want to take their own path in life and the lure of the SEC is strong.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. We should be rejoicing these much needed changes in our recruiting organization and personnel. Hip hip hooray! Say what you will about A&M and the Jimbo hire but he has gone out and hired some of the very best recruiters in the country as his positional coaches. Many of us know how very good Darrell Dickey is as a recruiter. This is the formula in college football right now. I realize we do not have their budget but we can still make improvements to our system and get better. I have never bought into the “things are tough at North Texas” excuse. You have to dig into the data and find out what the objections and hurdles are. Isolate the top objections and focus resources to remove them. Dickey used to lament “if we could only get them to visit [Denton] our closing percentage go way up.” Of course he has SO many more negatives to deal with back then. He could not pay his top recruiting assistants enough for any of them to stay. We became a training program for higher tier schools to pluck the cream from. They would avoid Fouts Field when recruits visited etc. and yet he was still able to land some top notch talent for a period of time. I am not saying we should be winning battles against p5’s but we should absolutely be able to compete with most g5’s based on our location alone. Littrell is a great coach but he needs a good supporting cast and system to aid in reaching our recruiting potential.