SilverEagle

Well, Kraigthorpe was saying the same things as Graham, right before he bolted to Louisville. Geezzz, this is getting crazy.

Well, let me pose this question to any and all attorneys out there. Could Nate's (dumb-ass) statement be construed as a solicitation of a bribe. And by making that statement, could he already be in violation of an NCAA rule/statute?

Today's update. By DAVE SITTLER AND JOHN E. HOOVER World Sports Writers 1/11/2007 View in Print (PDF) Format Coach denies reports that tailback has made his mind up about NFL. University of Oklahoma football coach Bob Stoops met with tailback Adrian Peterson on Wednesday to discuss the player's future, and Stoops later adamantly denied reports that Peterson had made a decision about whether to enter the NFL Draft. "I met with him today, and he did not say he had made a decision," Stoops said in a telephone interview late Wednesday. "He has a lot of things he still wants to think over." Multiple media outlets, citing unnamed sources, reported late Wednesday that Peterson would enter the NFL Draft. Stoops said reports about Peterson reaching a decision are "absolutely incorrect. They're false. "I don't expect him to make a decision until sometime this weekend or maybe even Monday." Monday is the deadline for underclassmen to declare for the NFL Draft. Peterson has been in contact with agents, which is within NCAA guidelines. "I encouraged him to talk with agents," Stoops said. NCAA rules prohibit players from taking money or benefits from agents. However, it's common practice for players to discuss their draft status with agents.

I favor the kid from Boswell, Taylor Weidman. He passed for 2700 yards and ran for 800. He's taller (6'2" vs 6'), faster (4.5 vs 4.8), and he's already stated that he felt it would be an honor to play for Coach Dodge. He sounds real motivated to me.

When Colt Mahan (all 6'1" X 205lbs of him) got into the game this last season, he did just fine. When he came out of HS, he was pretty highly regarded, but not as highly as Mr. Padron. And he was basically the same size this last season as he was in HS.

I see a potential project in the works for someone(s)

If we get Walker, Johnson, and Padron, then we will have at least three 5-A all-state players. I've never seen us recruit that many all-state players from any classification.

Actually that's my quote, which FFR uses often. I told Rick that it was my observation that the only thing that North Texas students were ever consistent about was bitching and moaning. I went on to say that North Texas students were such prodigious complainers that someone could stand on the busiest corner on the North Texas campus and hand out $100.00 bills to students. Eventually one of them would complain that their's was wrinkled.

That's probably why TD didn't hesitate to bring is DC from Southlake with him. Very impressive stat. What's even more impressive to me is that 4 of those games were in the playoffs.

They lost, but not by much. And they almost did it by running the ball and keeping the ball away from the SLC offense. AND the only school to beat SLC during it's 5-A run (Katy) did so with a running game.

Okay, now that we've annointed Mr. Padron as the second coming of Byron Gross or Chris Hurd. Let's look at some practical matters. NO LINEBACKER is going to control the line of scrimmage. They depend on big, fast, aggressive D-Linemen to keep the OL busy, and off of them, so that they can "always be around the ball". That didn't happen very often for our last year's LB's. So, in honor of Clara Peller, I have to ask the recruitment question "where's the beef?". I know that we may have a transfer in the fold, and some are assuming that Kyle Russo (who at 6'3" X 245 is not going to tie up too many O-Lineman at the D-1 level) may join Justin Padron at NT. But I'm looking at today's ST Texas top 100, and local top 50, and there sits a 6'3" X 320lb D-Lineman with "Undecided" still next to his name. I'm having visions of not only two O-Linemen being kept busy by the guy, but possibly three. I love that we will probably get a lot of smart and savvy football players now that TD is with us. But it doesn't matter how smart and savvy you are when your opponent lines up with their 300+O-line and just runs the ball right down your throat. "Smart and Savvy" get's you to the point of attack very quickly, but it doesn't have any effect on the line surge. Especially when you're undersized.

Ok, I need some help again. Why do you have a coach for the CB's and a separate coach for the safeties? Aren't they (the CB and Safeties) supposed to coordinate their play. And wouldn't having two different coaches for those positions tend make them less cohesive?

The service academys have high expectations of all their students and athletes.

RV is the one who schedules the games....not TD.

I'll assume that TD has thought through this decision logically. I trust him to make good decisions for the benefit of his own career, and thereby benefitting North Texas in the process. If anyone hasn't figured it out yet, I don't believe in "blind faith".

....and yet no other school came along and hired him away from the Air Force Academy. That sort of thing (being hired away) happens to "promising coaches". Remember, DD was named coach of the year in the Sunbelt, yet no one came along and hired him away from us. I'm not trying to indulge in nay-saying, I just don't understand this hire. I don't know, maybe TD picked up a bargain here.

I found this in a Colorado Springs on line publication. AFA Sports December 16, 2006 Opinion: Coach loyal to the end MILO F. BRYANT Gazette Sports columnist Fisher DeBerry could have been the Air Force football coach next season. The decision to depart belonged to him. In that respect, DeBerry left on his own terms. But, understand, the man who turned Air Force into a program worthy of national respect could have had one last fling on what he called a “good ride.” A source close to the athletic program said DeBerry could have kept his job but not offensive coordinator Chuck Petersen or defensive coordinator Richard Bell. Since 1984, DeBerry hadn’t fired an assistant. He wasn’t going to start this week. And in that respect, DeBerry was forced to resign. Athletic director Hans Mueh tiptoed around the issue Friday. “I said, ‘Fisher, we need to talk, we need to make some major changes,’” Mueh said. “And he said, ‘Yes we do.’ So then when we met we started this dialogue back and forth and had one meeting, then had another meeting and then he went off and said I need to think about this some more and then came back and said, ‘I’m retiring.’” The same tenacity and obstinate determination that took DeBerry to 169 victories and 17 winning seasons ultimately made his decision. DeBerry was too faithful to his coordinators. Strong bonds sometimes force resignations. DeBerry wasn’t the first victim of an allegiance. He won’t be the last. But that’s what happens in sports. However, in most cases, at most universities, it happens sooner. The only real surprise is that Mueh had the gumption to force DeBerry’s hand by insisting that Peterson and Bell be let go. “There comes a time in every man’s life when you have to look at the big picture,” DeBerry said Friday. “After 27 exciting and wonderful years here at the academy and 44 years of coaching, I am announcing my retirement from active coaching.” DeBerry’s total body of work has been great for academy sports. Few can dispute that. Academy brass should rename the stadium in honor of the coach. DeBerry should be afforded the deference given to all departing academy nobility. But make no mistake about Friday’s words. His words and his retirement were the ultimate result of winning and losing. We live in a society that wants to know what you are doing for me now. DeBerry didn’t want to do what others in the athletic department felt was needed to win more games. For some reason, DeBerry thought the status quo, as it pertains to his schemes, was acceptable. The Falcons finished their third consecutive losing season with a Dec. 2 loss to Texas Christian University. Something should have changed after the 2004 season and wholesale changes should have happened after 2005. That change should have been in adaptive philosophy, not necessarily in personnel. If a team doesn’t have the athletes to efficiently run its schemes, first, blame must be placed on the coach for not recruiting the right players. Then, the coach needs to adapt his schemes to the players he has. But the Falcons kept using the same schemes, and for some unknown reason expected results to improve. “ Everybody seems to be really keying on our offensive plays,” senior offensive lineman Curtis Grantham said soon after the TCU game. “Maybe mixing it up here and there could be the difference. Defenses are all starting to play us the same.” That’s because they had figured out how to stop Air Force. Contrary to DeBerry’s beliefs, few called for him to throw 40 or 50 passes a game. But it’s easy to see that quarterback Shaun Carney isn’t as good a runner as several past Air Force quarterbacks. It’s even easier to see that the size disparity between the Falcons’ offensive lines and the opponents’ defensive lines has grown through the years. The Falcons do not possess an offensive line built for plowing opponents. A great running quarterback and a mulish offensive line — more than anything else — determine the success of the option offense. The Falcons had neither. They did and still do have a quarterback, in Carney, who can pass extremely well. “You got to be willing to maybe change what you do a little bit,” former Air Force quarterback Beau Morgan said Friday. “I was shocked early in the season when I didn’t really see them throwing the ball at all. . . . I’m thinking, you got a quarterback and the best thing he does is throw the football. Why not adjust your system a little bit? You don’t always have to run the option every other play. Hand it to the fullback on first and 10. “So, things like that, where you’re not willing to change, it just catches up with you because there are other teams with good players and smart coaches, and they’ll figure you out.” That refusal to adapt caught DeBerry and held tight. If DeBerry had a willingness to change at any point during the past three seasons or in the past few days, he still would be an integral part of the football program. The head coach. Columnist Milo F. Bryant can be reached at 636-0252 or milo.bryant@gazette.com. Check out Milo’s blog, The Extra Milo, at http://milobryant.blogspot.com/ The comments about Peterson concern me a lot.

Okay, I need to understand this. They hired an OC from the Air Force Academy? Haven't they primarily been a wishbone offense for the last, oh.....thirty years? I thought we were getting excited about having a multiple set offense, and they go and hire a coach raised in the wishbone offense?

No, shouting and waving your arms coach.

I'm sure you'll get around to me......sometime.

Utah has four, and we only have one?!?!

....and that's worse than some of the things they call us now?

.....that would be a Wednesday.

If coaches are such a loyal group, then why did Kraigthorp go through the trouble of hiring "lefty" away from us, and then firing him a few years later. I remember some people being excited about our current OL coach, because he coached at Army, and wrote a book about coaching the OL. If Kraigthorp no longer wants "lefty", then TD needs to step back and think about that.

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/sports/16373267.htm