BillySee58

“Well, your AD sure does care about your school, son.”

Commits to LSU. We were his first D1 offer very late in the process for a typical D1 recruit (December of his senior season) and he ends up with offers from LSU, Georgetown, Auburn, Va Tech, VCU, Ole Miss, and DePaul among many others. Very telling on our scouting abilities, both from a standpoint of finding these under the radar guys and evaluating them. I’m usually not big on praising our coaches for efforts where we don’t actually land the player, but it’s impressive what they are doing. Looking forward to what they have cooking for the 2021 class.

It’s kind of like a post but instead of cutting across the field at more of a 30-45 degree, it’s a much tighter angle and more dependent on the coverage, as it’s usually meant to wedge in between a corner and the safeties and linebackers in the middle of the field. Kind of like this Shorter TD last year 137ACDEC-6174-4DEA-8774-492EED27D7B2.MOV

Lot of love for Bean in this one. Sounds like he had a good day without turning the ball over.

Commits to Texas

Adding him and/or Farrell would be great. Although it doesn’t show that Tulsa offered Farrell so maybe not as much prior relationship as with Bray.

My guess is he said that because Mayes, Walerius, and Littrell all follow him on twitter, even though we didn’t officially offer him out of high school. Like Gray said as well, also a potential connection with Bloesch. A guy who started 10 games as a redshirt freshmen at OSU should have a pretty good market, including P5s. This would be a tough pull but would also be a much needed upgrade to a position we have not recruited all that well at the HS level.

Yes, both Gibson and Woolridge were listed in the transfer portal before they announced/decided which school they were going to. Woolridge announced he was transferring in early May and committed to Gonzaga in June. Gibson announced he was transferring on April 3rd and committed to OU on April 13th. They both showed up in the transfer portal as uncommitted transfers during those in-between periods. https://dentonrc.com/sports/breaking-news-ryan-woolridge-to-transfer-from-unt/article_b11cba1f-d99f-5f95-a353-c9e66331fa1e.html https://dentonrc.com/sports/mens-basketball-gibson-set-to-transfer-from-unt/article_73f4b7de-1ef9-5ae5-91d6-ea41fee7ab62.html And I agree that there are players who will transfer but have not done so yet. But at this stage those would almost assuredly be sit-out guys, not immediately eligible guys.

I just don’t know how much there is available to add to the current bench at this point in time. The time for cutting and replacing dead weight was in April and May.

How is that strange question? You do have a list of available players. Just look through the transfer portal, or look at other lists compiled by ESPN, Jeff Goodman, etc. I did and I had trouble finding any immediately eligible grad transfers whose stats at their previous school suggested they would be improvements over our current guys. A guy eligible now who we could get playing experience for the next season would have to be some late high school or JUCO signee, or a grad transfer who has multiple years of eligibility (tough to find in April and May, really hard to find now). Finding a good Freshmen seems most possible, especially if they’re a late qualifier. I think Mccasland will make good use of the spot too. I just also think a sit-out guy makes the most sense, especially since those guys will continue to come available over the next few months whereas the grad transfer, JUCO, and 2020 HS markets are pretty dry by this point.

I’m confused by parts of your post. It’s not a matter of finding a player who WANTS to sit out. I am proposing looking at players who HAVE to sit out a year due to transfer rules, and who would potentially have multiple years of eligibility. Who are some guys eligible this season, not currently on a roster, who we could add and would compete for a starting spot? Right, this is what I was saying. What other circumstance did you think I was proposing? That we sign someone who is immediately eligible and ask them to take a standard redshirt? Again, who is an eligible grad transfer currently available who you think could upgrade our roster? There are some intriguing sit-out guys in the transfer portal currently but I wasn’t able to see any potential starters out of the remaining grad transfers. We lost a guy who wasn’t going to play meaningful minutes. If our coaches didn’t think the other 12 scholarship players were enough to form a solid rotation then I think they would have moved on from Alcindor months ago when the grad transfer and JUCO market was still ripe.

That puts us at 12 scholarships being used out of an available 13. With 4 key seniors this year it would be nice to opportunistically use that spot on a transfer who becomes available. Let him sit this year then be in position to take over a starting spot after Hamlet, Reese, Bell, and Simmons graduate. https://meangreensports.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster

Well yeah, that’s part of my point. But unless you had to cut employees and salaries because your company had to make a public health decision that negatively impacted profits, this isn’t exactly a similar comparison. You’re basically just stating that cutting jobs sucks when you know the faces you’re impacting, and especially if you yourself are being directly impacted. Which is obvious. But because we know that, doesn’t that prove my point that someone whose pay is at stake probably shouldn’t be in charge of making the decision because they might choose the option where they continued to get paid over the best decision for public health, if those options were directly opposed? And I’m not saying cancelling the season is the right call. Just that with a matter of public health the call shouldn’t come down to someone having to choose between jeopardizing the future of their own job or continuing to be paid.

He is a scholarship transfer from University of Kentucky

Shouldn’t a public health decision be made by people who aren’t influenced by their own personal paycheck? Back when the main focus was about flattening the curve and keeping hospital capacities where they needed to be, we had a more defined, measurable goal on where things needed to be. As the quote in McMurphy’s points out, there has been a shift from the focus being on flattening the curve to long-term health impact and liability. Which essentially necessitates a bubble-type solution like the NBA has, where you can get zero cases. Hard to imagine what circumstances will be necessary for college football to return.

Ragsdale and a host of walkons have been added to the roster

He was listed at 6’4” 285 on the 2018 roster, but not sure if he cut weight between spring 2019 and fall 2019

Blue shirts can still be on the roster before they are placed on scholarship just like regular walkons, so whether or not he is on the roster is more an issue of him getting here than strategy. And for blue shirts they can be moved to scholarship basically right after fall camp starts. Unless the rule has changed, they don’t need to wait until the semester starts.

Also, recent RB commit Ikaika Ragsdale from Las Vegas has not yet been added to the roster.

The roster has been updated for players’ new heights and weights. Previously was still showing listed height and weight numbers from last season. Lot of impressive gains, especially considering the circumstances the last 5 months. Here a few things I saw as notable: - New walk-on DT Ca’Maurie Johnson https://meangreensports.com/sports/football/roster/ca-maurie-johnson/4756 - Defensive end signees Jonathan Pickett and Kortlin Rausaw are coming in at 6’3” 270 and 6’3” 275 respectively. Seemed like they could outgrow DE, but didn’t expect they would have so soon. Already decent size for 3-techniques. - Projected starting tackles Jacob Brammer and Brian Parish are up about 20 lbs each to 300 and 290 respectively. Anterrious Gray has cut about 30 lbs since arriving on campus. - The linebackers have beefed up as well. KD Davis up to 229 lbs. Murphy twins are close to 240. Wonder if we might see them at JACK. - Still just one punter on the roster. https://meangreensports.com/sports/football/roster/2020?&sort=position

Hmm. Where have we heard these words before? Justifying hiring high school assistant coaches as D1 assistants, maybe?