BillySee58

We just have 1, but we could make room. What that means is we could ask a kid or two to grayshirt, or we could blueshirt a signee. It's complicated, but we'd make room more than likely.

No. Coaches let players hold trophies all the time. Like when Orson Charles was visiting Florida and they let him hold the crystal ball. Thennnn he dropped it and shattered it.

Big time swing game. We win and we pass them. Never too early to start looking at seeding. This conference is very vulnerable and if this game is a sign on things to come, maybe we start closing these games out and get a good seed. I can't see this team doing any worse than .500 in conference.

No one is playing consistent enough to really stand out. You guys looked like you were going to, then you lost to USM w/o Appleby. Not a bad loss, but if you guys would've won you could've distanced yourselves from the pack. After UTEP, USM, and you guys it's going to be a cluster of head-scratching games and inconsistency. We fit into that perfectly.

That's what I got out of it. Obviously revamped Amon Carter as well.

Yup.https://twitter.com/gabrieldbrooks/status/426525658911485952

They're quickly becoming what Baylor was in the Big 12, pre Art Briles.

Agreed. Really like TJ's game.

The Vito article says Tauaalo will visit this weekend as well.http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2014/01/t-j-tauaalo-talks-about-decision-to-commit-to-unt.html/

Tip of the cap to you Plumm. Thank you!

Yeah, like 93-98 said, Tee Goree and Trevor Moore are the most likely. We are pretty set at slot receiver with Carlos Harris, so I wouldn't expect Fonzale Davis or Jalen Adams to have much of a chance to start. Rutherford would be best set to redshirt but we lost both our starting outside receivers so that will depend on if we can depend on Terrell, Kidsy, and Goree to be the guys we need on the outside. Maybe even Turner Smiley after his redshirt could help redshirt Rutherford, but Smiley might play slot as well. After that I could see Davis or Willy Ivery being one or both of our return men. Maybe Tauaalo could be a starter at nose tackle, but that's a situation we shouldn't want to happen unless Tauaalo is out of this world. I think he projects better at a 3-technique but we need size and nose and we don't have much. Just my two cents.

Not to mention new commit TJ Tauaalo. Him and X could be playing next to each other so hopefully they hit it off.

Read the last sentence of the article for lolz.http://bit.ly/1ibjQ6q

Semi-Milestone watch: Jordan Williams needs 27 points to get to 900 on his career. Reasonable to think he'll get it sometime in the next two games.

This. Plus that's the most important thing, especially in a traditional 1-big league Yeah he wasn't basketball Jesus, but he had just netted us essentially a top-25 recruiting class if you count Tony Mitchell. Not to mention Jordan Williams and 14 point/game scorer freshman Chris Jones were going to be added back to a team that returned all 5 starters from a Sun Belt conference championship game appearance. Really hard to see us not doing better had we had continuity but we'll never truly know. Maybe we go 12-20 still and Chris Jones and Tony Mitchell have that sophomore slump naturally. I think that'd be far from what actually would've happened but that's just opinion. I didn't follow the JJ era as close as a lot of you guys did, but it really looked like the team he left was going to be his best.

DJ Williams, Lufkin DT, commits to Kansas.

I agree with CBL but I wouldn't mind a civilized rebuttal, and subsequent discussion, by Cooley. Players have skills in high school that lead them to be successful and get D1 scholarships in these particular cases. They also have weaknesses in their games. Their college coach and the player work on cultivating these skills as well as making the weaknesses non-liabilities. Maybe a player doesn't grow new found abilities that he never had in high school, but he can learn to become a college basketball player and not just a talented player who was good in high school. John Odoh was a good shot blocker and rebounder in JUCO. This conversation started because I wondered if Benford could develop those raw skills into consistency on a D1 level, because I've seen players much more developed that he has inherited either regress or not progress enough if at all. We wouldn't have asked Odoh to do anything different than what he did in junior college. Protect the paint, rebound, and block shots. We would not have tried to develop him into an outside shooter or even much of a mid-range game. But the coaches would've had to develop him into a player who could translate his skills that he already had into being a successful D1 rebounder, rim protector, and shot blocker.

Awesome! Glad to see that continuity!

#winthewest

I like what Vito said about how Tauaalo can play either tackle position. That's what I got out of watching his film as well. He's a pretty big kid and we might need him to play the nose/1-tech but he might be better suited as a 3-tech. Also, good to hear he will be visiting with Xavier. Hopefully they can hit it off and help us get X.

You're right. Sorry Cooley. Not being sarcastic either, but it's just getting too much especially with the way these last two seasons have gone.

"These guys didn't do anything at UNT that they didn't do in HS." Well yeah. If our guys all dominated in college the way they dominated in high school and produced at the same level then we'd probably average close to 200 points.

I could not tell you exactly how the Fortenberry situation has occurred from the beginning but Vito has said that Fort is taking up one of the scholarship spots for this class. That's why we only have 1 more spot. Also the walkons who played < 2 seasons on the team before being out on scholarship are part of the class (Buyers, Kirby, and Macek) and Anthony Wallace, the Oregon transfer, is part of the class. Not saying that the walkon guys need to be added to this list, just saying that Vito said those 5 that I just mentioned are a part of the 25 max that we can sign in this class.

He's saying when you reference a player's improvement at one level, you don't use his stats from the previous level to judge his improvement. Player's numbers are naturally going to drop when they go to the next level. It's how they improve from there that judges their progression.

I don't know. There was never anything official last year, just speculation. You could say last signing day maybe? That's when we filled up on spots in the 2013 class but the coaches let him grayshirt and have a spot for this class.