BillySee58

Again, there's a difference between giving Shanbour some respect and giving the undisputed backup spot and inside track at next year's starter role to a walkon who has never stepped foot in a D1 game.

Shanbour is a walkon. There's a big difference between giving a walkon a chance and banking on him being your backup this year and starter next year. That's a dangerous strategy.

I don't know. Most of my teammates, the school they ended up going to didn't visit them for spring ball. It's surprising, but as long as constant contact and effort is made in the individual recruitments, it's not a big deal IMO. Wouldn't hurt, but it doesn't seem to be a common deal breaker. Can't say that's the case for all recruits.

247 has his recruitment with us, Nevada, and Texas State listed as warm. 15 total offers. Would be a huge win

We kept hearing that we had 1 spot left after signing day. We've since signed 4 (Hoston, Peters, Wyche, and Thomas). We still haven't hit 25 for the class I don't think, so if that's the hard max ten we could conceivably.

Thanks! I was skeptical because none of the guys who cover Bama or Nebraska for rivals or 247 verified the offer, but I doesn't matter either way when it comes to my excitement on getting him.

So did Alabama and Nebraska actually offer? Vito's article said they just showed interest. Either way he's a stud, but can you clarify @TheReal_jayD? Johnson, the linebacker from Arizona Western CC, was originally a Nebraska commit although they were no longer recruiting him when we got him.

I hope in a year or two. Mccarney signed three players with 10+ offers in 2014 (Goree, Miles, Chumley) and two more in 2015 (Dillman and McNair). The problem has been not enough players with good offer lists. Too many signees with 2 or less other FBS offers. I'd like to see us get to the point where just about every commit has at least as many FBS offers as Donovan, and many with more. As for JUCOs, it's always different. JUCOs usually don't have the volume of offers that high school kids do, because not every coach is looking for JUCOs at every position, but they are with high school kids.

The thing about the term "3-star" is that it's very broad and ambiguous. For one, there are four major recruiting services. One guy can like a kid's film and boom, he's a 3-star. Also, some 3-stars have offers from schools like Alabama and Florida State, while some have little or no offers. Also, since we don't have subsites through the major recruiting sites, the analysts have no incentive to re-evaluate the kids we go after. In short, the majority of kids we recruit are evaluated so sporadically, they just don't end up being rated on anywhere near equal terms. Thats why I look at offer lists. Our recruits are evaluated seriously and consistently by college coaches, so they are good indicators of what kind of a prospect a kid is. Where I want us to be is, if we sign 20 high school kids, for about 2-4 to be sleepers with none or one other FBS offer, about about 6-10 with two to four other FBS offers, about 6-8 with five to nine other FBS offers, and about 3-4 with 10+ other FBS offers.

Over half, 13 of the 24 signees in Mccarney's last class (2015), were rated as 3-stars by at least one recruiting service. About avg to slightly above compared to Mccarney's O-line signees' offer lists. Probably on par with Trussell's offer list (New Mexico, ULM, SMU), and behind the offer lists of Jordan Murray, Creighton Barr, Boone Feldt, Cyril Lemon, and Chris Miles. Not quite on par with the only high school o-lineman Littrell has signed in Chandler Anthony. Better offer list than Micah Thompson, Grant Shaw, Travis Ellard, Ryan Rentfro, Sorge, Walker, Nelson, Fortenberry, Munden, and Woodworth. Hopefully this is at least the average offer list/prospect of our o-linemen commits/signees going forward. Solid.

He didn't have much difficulty getting players he wanted from New Mexico or NMSU. But he did lose too many players we wanted to UTSA. Got some too, like Goree and Chad Davis among others, but we should honestly own UTSA.

Congratulations, Josh! We need to make a living out of beating these schools on the recruiting trail.

Mac may be partially to blame on the FCS teams, but the 5-home game seasons are on RV scheduling too many bodybag games. Tennessee and Iowa were scheduled before Mac was hired. Playing two of those in the same season almost ensures a 5-home game season. That can't happen going forward.

I wish we had Southern Miss progress.

What progress culminates in a 1-11 season?

Commits to San Diego State

Take the time we need. This is huge.

Transferring to Coffeyville Community College.

I don't know why this is so hard to understand

I try my best to be grateful in life, but all the truth stretching and lying (factually based) that we had to hear and read from RV really was right up there with the awful record of his hires, for me. Makes it hard for me with RV. I am grateful to not have to hear about how Benford won 18 games his second year, or how Tulsa caused our second 5-game home schedule, when in actuality we replaced it with two home games so it really resulted in more home games for us.

Friedo is a great guy. Thanks for listening

Finally

Even if we're doing good, people are always going to point to players doing well elsewhere who we should've recruited. All that matters is that we're getting good players ourselves, and I don't care who we should've gotten.

Finley, the QB, is actually going to NC State. Announced that decision yesterday, I believe. Or at least that's when I saw it.

Michigan offered