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Greatness. Cute kid btw.

Great.......was waiting for that....a +1 for FMG.

They play FIU on Saturday.

Yeah, but you're a bigshot in town. You probably get a police escort.

I'm guessing the event is still on. There's an ad for it in the paper. Plus, no cancellation e-mail. I live here in Denton, and unless the roads improve considerably, I wouldn't go. We have no home basketball game on Saturday....wish they would reschedule it then. As a matter of fact, we have no game Saturday home or away.

http://highschool.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1183896

I'm guessing this could be a LB commit since we lost Hunt?

For some reason, that link to the D-RC is broken. Anyway, Brett speculates that we're going to steal Dallas Woodrow Wilson LB Chad Polk on signing date. He is currently committed to Sam Houston State. May be a great player though, who is being shunned because he's undersized....

Not a bad grade from ESPN on this kid. I initially was underwhelmed by the commitment to SHSU: http://insider.espn.go.com/college-football/recruiting/player?id=92787&_slug_=chad-polk&action=login&appRedirect=http%3a%2f%2finsider.espn.go.com%2fcollege-football%2frecruiting%2fplayer%3fid%3d92787%26_slug_%3dchad-polk

Make up your own mind as to how big of a surprise it is: http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/

DCTF describes him as having "good feet" and as being "aggressive." I like those things in an O lineman.

http://houston.scout.com/a.z?s=215&p=8&c=1&nid=5118493 Marble Falls is 4-A....so this kid comes in much more tested...than Okafor.

Excellent pickup.

Agreed. Tony can't practice or compete (according to non-qualifier rules). He has to keep his hoops chops somehow.

I asked Kendra about that yesterday. She said they would monitor things...and get the word out as quickly as possble, if they cancel it. I just hope they don't jump the gun and cancel it too early. Things should be a lot better by tomorrow evening. But I do understand it's a tough call---if you do cancel it, you want the most amount of time for getting the word out. (BTW...there's an ad for it in today's DRC).

Yeah.....both the guys from Copperas Cove are going to be fun to watch the next three years. (Brandin and Breeland).

I'm sorry buddy. My bad. And to everyone....my point isn't that we're having de-commits.....there seem to be a lot more of them for every school this year. I think our staff is putting together a helluva class....very proud of them.

I'm guessing the high schools will be open by Wednesday. But if not....I can see a delay in getting LOIs, since I presume the kids fax them from school fax machines. Anyway, Oklahoma may be shut down for days....and we have one commit up there. Maybe not....but I could see us having to wait a couple days before knowing our final class.

It seems to me that there have been a lot more decommits this year than in past years. I'm not just talking about us...talking about all schools.

I never said there was no hope. I just said I think the prospective signee has the LOI in hand before signing date. Now, a player might have numerous LOIs (from the various schools that are after him). That's where the hope would be...that Carr and Hunt have UNT LOIs and might send them in. But I don't think being the first school to fax a player on Signing Date gives you an advantage, as I presume the various LOIs are already with the player.

I may be wrong on this......but I think potential recruits already have their LOIs in hand before signing date. I think the only faxing on that day...is from player to school. Also, I think said players may have numerous different LOIs in hand (from different schools).

Not sure about that, FMG. I think between now and signing date....is a No Contact period. So not sure how much magic could be worked by Gaines.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/tulsa/football/recruiting/player-Chaz-Sampson-114941

In November he gave a Verbal to La. Tech. And we weren't mentioned as one of his finalists. Seeing that he's now opened things up again....La. Tech might be out of the picture. And since we are now being mentioned....maybe that bodes well for us. Anyway....we do need another O lineman in the class.

Here's the story... http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/high-schools/football-news/headlines/20110131-late-blooming-football-players-from-dallas-area-attracting-plenty-of-college-interest.ece