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Rivals is showing 24 SIGNED LETTER OF INTENT Pos Stars Ht Wt 40 RR Video Hometown Adryan Adams DB 6-1 185 - 5.2 Miami, OK Kylee Hill DB 5-10 190 4.5 5.5 Miami, OK COMMITTED/NOT YET SIGNED Pos Stars Ht Wt 40 RR Video Hometown Brandon Akpunku LB 6-0 200 - 5.2 Cedar Hill, TX Kenny Barrett WR 6-4 190 - 5.3 Mart, TX Desmond Brigham WR 6-0 169 4.55 5.4 Caddo Mills, TX Tevinn Cantly DT 6-4 292 - 4.9 Arlington, TX DaWaylon Cook ATH 6-2 187 4.5 5.5 Dallas, TX Riley Dodge ATH 6-0 183 4.67 5.7 Southlake, TX Lance Dunbar RB 5-9 185 - 5.4 Haltom City, TX Justin Edwards DB 6-1 185 4.5 5.6 Thatcher, AZ Coleman Feeley OL 6-4 287 5.27 5.4 Austin, TX Troy Franklin OL 6-5 270 5 5.4 Celina, TX James Hamilton ATH 5-10 180 4.5 5.5 Cedar Hill, TX Joe Hawthorne DT 6-4 250 4.9 5.1 Arlington, TX Royce Hill DB 5-11 170 4.52 5.3 Houston, TX Alonzo Horton DE 6-4 260 4.65 5.6 Senatobia, MS Jeremy Knott K 6-4 180 - 5.2 Miami, OK Nick Leppo OL 6-2 245 5.04 5.1 Southlake, TX Jeremi Mathis RB 6-1 205 - 5.2 Arlington, TX Jeremy Phillips QB 6-3 184 4.6 5.3 Waller, TX Forrest Rucker WR 6-5 198 4.56 5.3 Hearne, TX John Shorter DB 5-11 177 4.5 5.3 Richardson, TX Willie Taylor ATH 5-10 157 4.5 5.2 Dallas, TX Darien Williams DB 5-11 180 4.5 5.2 Vernon, TX

So true. Real division 1 schools do not sell out for a payday guarantee. If it's not home & home or at a truly neutral site, it violates the spirit of the game. North Texas has been violated for far too long.

Not bad, but I would still rather see home-and-home series with Tulsa, SMU, TCU, Houston, Rice, UTEP, NMSU, Tulane, La Tech, Southern Miss, and Memphis. Ball State and North Texas do little for each other except fill holes on the schedules. The opponents don't have name appeal in either's market and few fans will travel for these games at either local.

DeLoach is D Coach!!!

I had read that Arkansas State had also found ways to circumvent this issue concerning political correctness with Native Americans. One solution was that they would simply change their mascot from Indians to Pakastanis while another said they could even keep the Indians moniker if they put a picture of Ghandi on their helmets.

Actually I think we have a damn good ticket manager. Let Gabe know if you've had an issue with the ticket office, please don't just throw out an abstract statement like that from an anonymous poster on the message boards. It's impossible for him to correct anything if he doesn't know who is raising the concern or the nature of the complaint. I'm in no way discounting the legitimacy of your concern; if it affects you then it may be affecting hundreds of ticket customers. Please contact Gabe directly. If you don't get a satisfactory response then certainly take the issue to Hank or Rick.

CANTLY, TEVINN TAZZMAIN born 12-Sep-1990 OK, so we've finally recruited the Tazmanian Devil and he even has his own MySpace Page . (warning, turn down your speakers if you're old) Maybe some of you plumminci "young guns" can tell us what's on his site; I'm far too old for that stuff. Obviously he announces something because his last corresponance is a congrats on getting the scholarship. Oh, and his girlfriend Sarah calls him her BF and Boo, whatever that means. Hopefully that will strike fear in opposing quarterbacks.

Auburn's Horton finds shelter from the storm By Gene Wojciechowski ESPN.com Archive from 2005 AUBURN, Ala. -- Hattie Wimberley drowned in her own house. The flood waters chased her into the attic of her New Orleans home and kept rising until the sheetrock ceiling melted into mush and dropped her into the unforgiving darkness. She was the first of Alonzo Horton's relatives to die. Four days later, only minutes before midnight, Horton's cell phone began to ring again. Those same hellish waters of Hurricane Katrina had surged into the gymnasium of New Orleans' Marion Abramson High School, which was being used as an assembly point for evacuees, and created another watery tomb. This time it was Horton's younger brothers, Jerry and Delorean, who lost their lives. "My old high school," says Horton, sitting on a love seat in the office of Auburn team chaplain Chette Williams. "The water thing was so bad, they said once they opened the door, water came rushing in. It was probably 11:58 when I found out. The funny thing about that is after I found that out, at 12:01 my phone alarm went off to let me know it was game day and that was also my little brother's birthday." Jerry would have turned 8. Delorean was 6. Depending on the rumors, second-hand accounts, and Internet reports -- and Horton has heard them all -- very few people emerged from the Abramson shelter alive. "September 3rd," says the freshman defensive end in a voice cauterized by nearly two weeks of anguish and tears. "That's a day I'm going to remember for the rest of my life." Horton's mother is safe, but his father is unaccounted for. Horton's tiny home on 4635 Dale Street in the city's Ninth Ward, not more than a 10-minute trip to the Superdome and French Quarter, no longer exists. Katrina took everything: family, home, belongings. It even tried to take away Horton's will. "When my brothers were dead and I got that call that they drowned ... somewhere still in the back of my mind and my heart I felt they're somewhere safe," he says. "I pray about that every night. But when I got that call my whole motivation to do anything was gone. It was hard for me to function. I was just ready to burst." And yet, Horton says he'll remember Sept. 3, not only because of what he lost, but because of what he gained. It was on that Saturday, two hours before Auburn was to play Georgia Tech in the season opener, that Horton stood crying by himself as his teammates and coaches assembled for the game-day ritual known as "Tiger Walk." From Sewell Hall to Jordan-Hare Stadium they walk, through streets lined with as many as 20,000 Auburn fans. Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville was one of the first to notice Horton standing near the team bus. "Tears are coming down his cheeks," says Tuberville. "What can you say? You don't have a clue what he's going through." That's not exactly true. When Hurricane Andrew ravaged south Florida in August 1992, Tuberville was an assistant coach on Dennis Erickson's Miami staff. The Category 4 Andrew (Katrina hit land as a Category 4 storm, too) made landfall at about 2 a.m. -- Tuberville remembers; he set his alarm clock so he could witness his first hurricane. Instead, he and his wife Suzanne spent the next five hours crouched on the floor as triple-digit winds arrived. "I never heard a sound like that," says Tuberville, whose home somehow survived. Meanwhile, Erickson's furniture was later found in a swimming pool. So Tuberville approached Horton and said nothing. Instead, he hugged him. Teammates, many of whom had looked out for Horton ever since that first phone call came from New Orleans, did the same. Nobody said a peep. "I looked in their eyes and I knew how much they cared about me," says Horton. "I can't have my little brothers with me, but I've got a whole team of big brothers with me." As Horton made his way to the stadium he was showered with love by perfect strangers. "Alonzo, we're here for you!" shouted a Tigers fan. "Come here," offered another fan, "and give me a hug." The tears kept welling in Horton's eyes. "But it wasn't so much tears of pain and hurt, but it was happiness," says Horton. "Every step I took I started to feel better and better. I felt like I was walking to the light. Heaven was at that Tiger Walk and at that football field." An evacuee relocation shelter is located in the Auburn area and already Horton has made nearly a half-dozen trips there. At Horton's urging, a tour of the campus and facilities was organized for evacuees. A visit to the school's equestrian center was arranged and horse rides were given to the displaced adults and children. He is trying to give them what Auburn fans, teammates and coaches have given him: smiles, hugs and hope. Horton doesn't bother asking why Katrina happened, not when so many others have suffered worse. He even refuses to call it a disaster, instead choosing to look at it as an opportunity to return the kindnesses offered him. "Right now, I've never been more proud of an 18-year-old kid in my life," says Williams, the team chaplain. "Just to see his strength and faith. He has a foundation that's carrying him through. There's only so much we can do. When the lights are out and he's in his room at night by himself, he's there alone." Perhaps not for long. The Auburn athletic department has contacted the NCAA about what the school can do to assist Horton and his family. About 30 family and extended family members have been moved from New Orleans to the Atlanta area, and there is an effort underway to relocate them to Auburn. And a day ago, Horton returned to the practice field for the first time since Katrina showed its indifference to life and all things man-made. Horton will never be the same. How could he be? But there remains one constant. Tiger Walk begins at exactly 9:30 a.m. Saturday. Gene Wojciechowski is the senior national columnist for ESPN.com.

Um, Richard Bridges was a Matt Simon signee. Both Bridges and Stack had a lot of ability but it was wasted in a system which wasn't conducive to developing quarterbacks. Hall, who had been a high school defensive back until his senior season, was able to shine because his athletic ability enabled him to overcome Dickey's system. We all saw what happened when the first and second teamers played the Dickey system and the third stringers got to play on the Green Team.

This looks potentially like a perfect case for an Invited Walk-On situation. The player can enroll and pay his way through his first year of college during his red-shirt year. If he works hard and truly is a division 1 caliber player he can be extended a scholarship offer for the next 4 years after that. We have had many players follow this route and it has been mutually beneficial to the player and to the university. Even in a worst case scenario, after that first year, the player could still leave to start his freshman season on scholarship at a Division 1AA school or at a junior college. This is not a grey-shirt offer which automatically gives a scholarship after the recuit pays his first year. Those are reserved for players that you've already been recruiting and are sure that they're what you're looking for but you just don't have enough scholarships to offer. Player Profile

When it comes to paying the bills, yes, it is. Congrats to Coach Jennings.

I think many people are missing my point. I have no more concerns about helping Texas Tech than the have about helping us. This is collegiate athletics. They were designed to create fair competition between rival universities, boost university spirit, and to create entertainment for students and alumni through home games. The LSU game fills none of those functions and contributes to THE PROBLEM. Having a home-and-home series with Tech may not be the perfect nepenthe, but it is a step in the right direction.

It's a guaranteed something, and other than the paycheck it is 100% bad for the University of North Texas. LSU should be unceremoniously dumped unless they too will offer a home-and-home series. This is an absolute no-brainer if we can get Tech to cover the buy-out fee of the LSU game.

Congrats OGG!!!

On the subject of puppets..... A Puppeteer plays with his puppets........ What does a Privateer play with?

I really hope this works out for Ramon.

I was going to answer you but you'll need to go through my agent.

Plumm has resurrected. Is this a Festivus miracle, or another clue in the Plumminci Code? Welcome back Plumm. People are probably already assigning numerical values to the letters in that latest post trying to decypher the encrypted messages.

Good idea. Maybe the light operator could practice by shining a spotlight on whoever is speaking at the podium during the football banquet. Then again, having the speeches and awards done in the shadows has become kind of a tradition.

No, not necessarily. Jeff is not the Special Teams Coach, he's the Assistant Special Teams Coach. The money may be similar, and his friends and family are back here in Texas where there is no state income tax. He could be an excellent Linebackers Coach / Recruiting Coordinator in Texas. His unique assets (recruiting contacts) aren't of any value in his current position.

Hi there. Jeff Rodgers San Francisco 49ers - Assistant Special Teams Jeff Rodgers enters his third season as the 49ers assistant special teams coach. Rodgers previously served two seasons as the special teams quality control coach in San Francisco. In 2007, Rodgers joins forces with newly appointed Special Teams Coordinator Al Everest. Last season, the 49ers special teams unit was led by K Joe Nedney, who successfully converted three onsides tries and is now five-for-seven with the 49ers. Nedney also led the team in points with 116, the second-highest total of his career. In the return game, Maurice Hicks surpassed the franchise record for total kickoff returns (57) and kickoff return yards (1,428) and also led the unit in tackles with 20. In the punting game, P Andy Lee set career highs in punting average (44.8), net punting average (36.8) and punted for more than 3,500 yards for the third time in his NFL career. In 2005, Nedney connected on 26-of-28 field goals and was NFC Special Teams Player of Week after his five field goal performance against Tampa Bay. The 49ers special teams performed well as a unit, finishing third in kickoff coverage in 2005. Rodgers joined the 49ers staff from the University of Arizona, where he spent two seasons as a graduate assistant on defense, working with the secondary in 2001 and the flex linebackers in 2002. He played four seasons at linebacker for the University of North Texas. While at North Texas, Rodgers earned his degree in business, specializing in entrepreneurship and strategic management in 2000. Rodgers prepped at Westlake High School in Austin, TX but was born in St. Paul, MN. Rodgers is single and resides in Santa Clara, CA. Years Coaching Background Head Coach 2005-Current Assistant Special Teams San Francisco 49ers - Mike Nolan 2003-2004 Special Teams Quality Control San Francisco 49ers - Dennis Erickson 2002 Graduate Assistant/Linebackers Arizona - John Mackovic 2001 Graduate Assistant/Secondary Arizona - John Mackovic

SMU only scored 9 baskets against Prairie View earlier this season. Unfortunately for Prairie View, CUSA referees were officiating the game.

If he comes back to Texas, it will be to whoever offers him the best contract. We are offering him because we are familiar with him and know his capabilities.

There were few restrictions still in place during the Phil Bennet era, now there are none. All SMU requires now is the NCAA minimum, nothing more. That's not saying that SMU will recruit LSU type players that require subtitles when they speak, but June Jones will not be challenged by any elevated requirements. SMU now requires NCAA minimum, nothing more. I believe it's in his agreement.