BillySee58

And yet potentially losing them is a reason you don't want to part ways with a coach who can't run a successful program?

I hope our athletic department reads this thread. It really is embarrassing. It's one thing when they make excuses for why we've had such awful records in revenue sports lately, or say it's only a minority who are unsatisfied. But they can't scoff at the high school coaches complaining and saying it's an inferior process to other schools.

68 teams will make the NCAA tournament this year without Brown, Holston, Lawson, Combs, etc. A good coach can get us there at some point, with or without them. Those players will graduate at some point anyways. No guarantee those guys leave just because Benford does, anyways.

Of course all kids should look at the depth charts of the schools they're considering. But at the same time, these kids want to make it to the NFL. They aren't going to make it to the NFL just because they chose a school where the playing time came by easier.

No, not QB. It's one thing when we consider a 6' QB being undersized. He's half a foot shorter than that. He could've been better than our QBs, but still not what we need. Ready for those standards to raise, haha

It's been a thing for years on this board. Not one isolated comment. Yeah, they're a great team, but they had a 2-star freshman LB play a lot for them this year. Zach Orr's little brother, who we offered. People were making it sound like he'd never play there. And, again, pretty much happens every time. They've also had plenty of great players who weren't highly recruited. Even walkons like JJ Watt and Jared Abbrederis.

He's their punt returner

I've said it before, and I'll say it again, it's silly for people to assume that when we go head to head with P5s for a 3-star that he's destined to ride the bench if he chooses the P5 school. Every P5 school in the country has had plenty of 3-stars become key players, including Alabama. Every P5 all conference team has 3-stars. Like @GMG24said, people were saying the same thing about the Orr brothers. The choice is not ride the pine there or be a 4-year starter here. Get used to legitimately going after kids with one or more P5 offers, and sometimes them choosing P5. And some of those guys going on to start at P5 schools.

He played 10 games this year, which means he will have played more than 25% of SMU's games this year (especially because of the postseason ban). So he shouldn't be eligible for any sort of waiver to get him a redshirt this year, especially considering the circumstances of why he's not playing do not constitute any type of "hardship." He will have to sit out one more semester for transfer rules, and has one season of eligibility left. If he sits out next semester and then plays once the fall semester ends then he'd get a shortened season for his senior year. Or he could sit all of next year and then be eligible for the entirety of the 2017-2018 season.

Probably only get him for a half season, unless he sat out all of next season

I think that may be giving too much credit. Vernon Adams was an FCS all-american and he came in at Oregon and was one of the best QBs in the PAC-12. Smith was nowhere close to playing on that level. And I don't know about Mcnulty. Not only were we his only D1 offer, but he didn't have any FCS offers and he plays in a region of the country with plenty of FCS schools nearby. And he didn't exactly prove too be underrated.

Yup. Although LSU is easier to recruit to than UNC, Indiana, Arizona, or Tech. But, again, they are competing against schools on their level for recruits. I agree. I don't know that it's a good hire from a game day product standpoint.

But they aren't having to recruit players who have offers from all those schools. Look at most of the players we've had selected to all-CUSA. 3-7 FBS offers. They aren't too different from us in that they can easily sign a class of those type of prospects and have a really good class. I don't know if it'll be a good hire from a coaching standpoint, but I believe he'll do a good job bringing in talent, on a CUSA level.

Less than RV. I'm starting to have little doubt in my mind that RV is allowed to make the next basketball hire.

I don't get that statement, and you're not the only one who has made it. Of course it's easier to recruit to LSU, but he's also having to win battles against teams like Texas, Alabama, Florida, Auburn, etc. to win recruiter of the year honors. He won't have as much to pitch at UTSA, but he's going to be recruiting against CUSA, Sun Belt, and MWC schools instead of national powerhouses.

From an eligibility standpoint, you're right. But redshirting is tough for some kids, going from playing every down for years to sitting out a whole season. Throw in being the only kid from Florida on the team, and the fact that the first semester of college is the toughest, not playing can make the kid want to leave. If he's playing at least he's carving out a role on the team and wouldn't want to lose that progress by transferring.

Right. However, like @Wag Tag says, this kid could play multiple positions. That's a nice fail safe

I don't know. I think you can get a decent gauge on their talent but not necessarily how well they'll translate to the next level based on the other many factors that it takes. Like work ethic, adapting to more people, not being the best player for miles anymore, etc. For example, Jeffery Wilson. In his film he outran 2A/3A guys every time even though his straight-line speed could've been matched more often on the upper classifications. Outrunning those kids does not always mean you can outrun D1 DBs. But his one-step cutting ability translated the same whether his highlights were against a 2A school or a 5A school (biggest at the time). Cutting like that is impressive and hard to stop, even for D1 defenders.

It wasn't good English but I got lazy. I was just saying a QB completing less than 50% in high school likely translates to less than that on the FBS level. Or, if anything, a tad higher.

In a way, I don't mind. Sometimes with out of state kids, especially for us considering we don't have many, it's better to not redshirt. Let him play and he may be less likely to transfer right away. Only Florida kid on the team, and redshirting may make the transition here that much tougher.

All are on the first page of google image search for "North Texas football"

Damarcus Smith completed 60% of his passes in junior college, and still completed under 47% of his passes this year on the FBS level. Means completing 49% of his passes in high school does not sound like a good translation.

They messed up with the Rice game announcement as well. It's embarrassing how often that stuff happens.

For that reason, plus the time crunch, I think you'll see us save some scholarships for next class. You could see us save 5 scholarships and only sign 20, then sign a class of 30 next year while Littrell has time, for example. But yeah, this class is very important too.

He has Oklahoma State commit on his Twitter, but that makes sense that he's a PWO. No offers on his rivals page, and very little else outside of that. Interesting prospect. Great numbers.