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BillySee58

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  1. Hmm. Where have we heard these words before? Justifying hiring high school assistant coaches as D1 assistants, maybe?
  2. More like “we’re cancelling the championships so whatever games the schools and conferences choose to play is at their own risk.”
  3. No one has ever claimed Patterson called anyone that word. Not Dylan Jordan, not me. The point is he shouldn’t be using that word ever. He doesn’t have to say it as a re-enactment or quoting someone. It’s that simple.
  4. Patterson admitted to using a word that he should never be using. Sour grapes from the player indeed.
  5. Yeah we are clearly going for the bigger back mold over the scat back build at RB. Adaway is 6’ 215, Johnson is 6’ 200, Ragsdale officially clocked in at 6’ 213 almost a year and a half ago, and Jackson is listed at 5’10” 195. But Johnson is a step above at 247 lbs on the Syracuse roster. I would be a little surprised if we were interested because it didn’t appear to be the best terms that he decommitted under, but we’re in a great spot with our skill players so if he comes he’s icing on the cake but far from a spot of need, even if we are upperclassmen heavy.
  6. We definitely have room at RB. We have 3 scholarship senior RBs and 1 redshirt junior. Looking forward to 2022, if everyone on the roster and committed stays, we only have 4 RBs who would be on scholarship that year (Adaway, Ragsdale, Johnson, and Jackson).
  7. Last weekend we got a back with multiple PAC 12 offers, now a back with multiple SEC offers. Get all these guys on campus and put the ball in their hands.
  8. Hunt is no longer listed on the roster
  9. We should ask every other team in college football for a game before we ever agree to a deal with Liberty again.
  10. Hope would be a bad reason to not already have a 10-game conference schedule ready
  11. Hope CUSA already has a 10-game conference schedule ready to go
  12. Really like this offer and the Watkins offer. Tennessee already has 4 RB commits and Ole Miss offered 6 months ago so hard to tell if they’re still recruiting him. Could be a good time to swoop in here.
  13. We made his top 3, along with Montana State and Old Dominion. SFA and Incarnate Word eliminated
  14. Agreed. We have been beating them out a good bit lately. Maybe it’s not necessarily a bad reputation, but you often see G5 schools sign high caliber recruits from their backyard who they would not have signed if proximity had not been in their favor. Like a Miami kid choosing FAU over P5s. We have never had that situation play out for us with schools like Denton Ryan, Guyer, or Argyle. And in general, with a lot of the kids we have signed who had a lot of other options, many have been from Houston or out of state. I get not every kid wants to stay close to home, but we are clearly having MORE success in situations where we are NOT able to pitch proximity which I think says more about the area and our perception than our coaches’ recruiting abilities.
  15. I think my points can be true AND it can be true that we are improving our recruiting in the area. My points are more about the clear shift in focus away from the DFW area. We aren’t prioritizing it to the degree we have in the past, which is why we ended up with just 3 HS signees from DFW last class. Or maybe a better way to put it is we aren’t relying on the DFW metroplex to produce a large chunk of our signees. We have expanded our footprint and shifted more of our focus towards Houston and Oklahoma than we have traditionally (i.e. Dodge era, Mccarney era, early Littrell era).
  16. It’s probably just a mistake, since his actual graphic from when he committed says DL. But weird to see OL on one from our coaches.
  17. Glad to see he’s back. Also noticed this graphic from the coaches says “OL” under his name. Wonder if there is any chance that he is an offensive line commit.
  18. We’ve had this happen to us before. And it’s usually a situation where the parents/family talk the recruit out of the commitment. Usually because they want the recruit to go somewhere with higher program profile or somewhere closer to home. Maybe that’s not exactly the case here but he said he went over it with his family and ends up decommitting so there was some measure of him being talked out of it. Hopefully we have the chance to bring him and his family on an official visit and get everyone on the same page. Because it seems pretty clear we have been successful in selling him on the program.
  19. Yeah that has been the case for a while so it makes sense how ingrained it is in the minds of DFW area coaches, many of whom grew up here and know that totem pole well. I also wonder what the Todd Dodge fiasco did for our reputation among high school coaches. Is the prevailing sentiment “Todd Dodge was a great coach but he had no chance of being successful at that school” or something along those lines? And how many coaches’ opinions soured on our program because of that, because maybe they were watching more closely then because of Dodge? Would love to hear @GMG24 chime in and share his thoughts on his experience with the perception of the UNT Football program among the DFW coaching community.
  20. In Brett Vito’s recent article about the Ragsdale and Vailea commitments, he made a statement that interested me. ”UNT rarely ventures far from the talent-rich Dallas-Fort Worth area, and Texas in general, when it comes to football recruiting.” This is certainly something that had been established as a generally true statement for a while, but we are seeing a shift under Littrell. In the 2020 class we signed just 3 players from the DFW Metroplex (Kortlin Rausaw, Garnett Burke, and Tavorice Weaver). Meanwhile we signed 6 high school players from out of state, and have 4 HS commits in our 2021 class already from out of state. In Mccarney’s 5 recruiting classes we had just 11 out of state high school signees. In state, Mccarney really hit East Texas hard especially a few years in, while Littrell has actually favored Houston over DFW in recent years. What these trends seem to show to me is that these guys, both non-Native Texans, took the job and looked at the DFW metroplex early on and figured that made the most sense to focus our recruiting efforts. This obviously makes a lot of sense at the surface level, but I think both learned the hard way that UNT does not exactly have a great reputation in the area and in many ways that makes it more of an uphill battle recruiting local kids as opposed to kids out of the metroplex. We see this especially in Denton ISD and Argyle. It’s an unfortunate reality that we face in recruiting but the goal is to put together the best team, not the team with the most local recruits. It is going to take periods of prolonged winning to offset the reputation we have throughout most of the metroplex but lining our depth chart with high caliber recruits is a great start.
  21. Those leagues have all been NFL castoffs. The version being discussed in this thread would feature the caliber of players who the NFL would be looking to spend high draft picks on.
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