BillySee58

I think coaches might be genuinely concerned that he is out of eligibility. His only season at a JUCO was the 2020-2021 school year that already didn’t count towards his eligibility. He spent 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 on FBS rosters. 5 years that were not the Covid eligibility season. I don’t think this extra season of eligibility due to playing at a JUCO applies to Chandler, and coaches probably are coming to that conclusion before offering him.

It might happen but this is just an aggregator account.

Reported by whom?

Well, we jumped up 7 spots to 51. Guess we can generally expect road wins with good margins of victory will yield pretty positive movement in the NET.

Yeah, it’s hard to get a beat on some times. I know Memphis lost that day too and at this point we have so many past opponents influencing things it’s hard to know what to expect the next morning unless it’s an obvious quality win or loss.

Probably more dependent on how our past opponents do today. UTSA’s NET is only 227, so we may not get a ton of credit for this win, but being on the road and with a nice margin of victory we shouldn’t drop.

I like how sports reference provides the SRS (simple rating system) score and SOS for each of our teams going back to 49-50. Right now the current team has the second highest SRS, behind our NIT championship team. Pretty crazy that the 6 teams of this decade comprise the entire top 6 in our school history. The Blakeley and Spika teams are the next highest, even above the Johnny Jones years. Spika years definitely had impressive results in a good conference. https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/north-texas/men/

We own them. Hell, even Benford beat them the one year we were both in CUSA!

Updated.

Here’s my updated projected depth chart now that the spring semester has started. Not sure how many if any of the true freshman are on campus for spring but otherwise this is basically our list of scholarship players for 2025 heading into spring.

He was in the portal for maybe 1 day then deleted the tweet. My guess is he realized based on the timing that he’s better off just sticking it out here in the spring and entering the portal after when there’s more of a market for teams trying to fill holes, or just staying if that makes sense. Tough to find a good landing spot with about a week before the semester starts, when he entered the portal.

Thank you, both

After the Covid eligibility freeze of 2020, you were allowed to have more than 85 scholarship players. You were allowed to have 85 plus however many seniors from 2020 you had using their extra season of eligibility in 2021. We still decided to stay at 85. We probably budget for 85 so I don’t know that the rule change will change our self-imposed number.

1. I have us at about 80 scholarship players. This count does not include Makenzie McGill who we almost assuredly need to put on scholarship to keep, and Evan Jackson who deleted his transfer portal post and hasn’t posted anything since. Also does not include high school commit Terrence Lewis who still seems in line to sign in February. That being said, we probably could sign a few more HS guys this February. We have space and likely will have more space after spring to bring in more portal guys this summer if needed. 2. Probably will have a better idea on this after spring when we have a better idea of where we still are weaker than we want to be. We have pretty good numbers at each position. 3. There definitely will be more transfers after spring but pure speculation on who. Larry Moore appears to be passed over at tackle, and I doubt he wants to spend his last season of eligibility on the bench. Same for VJ Bronson at DT. At safety I don’t expect Isheem Young to come back but I could be wrong. He came here because of Caponi and we seem to have been recruiting that position as if he isn’t coming back. BJ Allen at safety looks like he is in danger of getting passed up by multiple guys so he could be better off looking elsewhere for more playing time. I think Zach Evans is similarly buried on the depth chart. I‘d be surprised if any of those 5 guys were still here after spring. Those are 5 spots I pretty much expect to open up just based on guys who are sort of the odd men out at their spots, but looks like they’ll be here through spring to have a chance to carve out bigger roles.

It’s hard to see because schools wipe dudes from their roster when they hit the portal, save for a few exceptions like if they stay on through a bowl game. I’m sure it was at least somewhere in the high 270s or low 280s. He hasn’t updated his twitter profile in a long time by the looks of it, and he looked like an average sized FCS offensive tackle out on the field in the footage against us.

He started 9 games for them this season.

But he went in 2020, during a season that already didn’t count against his eligibility.

For sure. Rogers’ JUCO year was the 2020 season that already didn’t count towards his eligibility to begin with. The intent with that eligibility freeze that year was to make sure everyone had 5 years to play 4 not counting 2020. Not to make sure everyone had 6 years to play 5. He got his 5 non-Covid seasons at the FBS level. Agreed. Move on and save that scholarship for an actual 18-year old.

I do too. Really wanted to see what he could do under a more competent DC as an upperclassmen. Oh well. Walkon True Freshman Quinton Hammonds was listed as the first name with he and Jackson being co-starters for the bowl game. Hopefully Hammonds ends up being a stud and we don’t end up missing Jackson. Definitely a risk from bringing in a new DC but a risk we all know was needed.

Sure. And that’s part of my point. I think our fanbase has standards that forced the Littrell dismissal. My original point was in response to the “If UNT is ever going to get out of the shadow of itself, we have to stop making ourselves feel better after losses and focus instead on how to win.” I just don’t think that’s what us holding us back, as evidenced by the hypothetical backlash you mentioned that was waiting had they kept Littrell after that 7-win season.

I get all that. I think in the end it doesn’t matter if we feel optimistic after losses or come on here and talk about how we much we suck. I don’t think either approach changes our situation. The fact that we fired Littrell after a conference championship game loss indicates that we have bigger aspirations. Definitely not the move a complacent program or fanbase makes. Morris has to win something significant here or he’ll be let go. There is reason to think he can but whether you feel like he can or he can’t, we don’t have to worry about him being judged by something other than results.

We got him. Yanta, Blair, and Nnanna should be a really experienced interior offensive line with a ton of career starts amongst them. Nelson and Obidegwu at the tackles and you’re looking at an offensive line with over 110 career starts collectively at the division 1 level, by my count.

Yes, I would say most first-time transfers are either guys who want more playing time, guys whose coaches were hired away or fired, or guys whose stock is just too high for them to pass up the NIL opportunities presented elsewhere. Here is pretty much all of the guys who hit the transfer portal after the last two seasons who were actually starting or getting a lot of playing time: Chandler Morris - transferred from TCU DT Sheffield - transferred from Wash State Oscar Hammond - transferred from UCO Tyler Mercer - signed out of HS by Morris Chandler Rogers - transferred from ULM Ja’Mori Maclin - transferred from Mizzou Trey Cleveland - transferred from TTU Jordan Smart - transferred from UTPB Ayo Adeyi - transferred from Harding Oscar Adaway - signed out of HS by Littrell Ethan Miner - transferred from Ark State Febechi Nwaiwu - former walkon brought in by Littrell Phil Hill - transferred from UNLV Logan Wilson - transferred from ULM Patrick Smith - signed out of HS by Littrell By and large, the key players who we have lost to the portal were transfers here.

Morris has talked about it before but with high school signees there is a much stronger relationship built with them and their families, as well as between them and the University itself. To a high school signee, this is their home and the only college they have ever known. To a transfer portal it’s just the next stop and a chance to bump up their stock for a better NIL/program opportunity. A freshman comes in and has a good season, they’ve successfully taken the first step at UNT in the plan they laid out when they came here. A transfer has a good season here and they’ve gotten what they wanted out of our school and program and typically will leverage it into a better opportunity. In terms of retaining players, you’re gonna have more success with the guys you got out of high school. But even if it’s just for a season, you still take guys who can produce like Morris and DT out of the portal all day. All about finding the right mix now. Definitely agree about the o-line and play calling. Looks like we have some quality help coming to supplement guys like Blair and Nelson. Play calling definitely has room for improvement, especially on those money situations on 3rd down and in the red zone where we weren’t near as highly ranked as our overall offensive statistics were.