BillySee58

Gotcha, my bad

Well, I’m sure there is one teammate who wouldn’t. But either way that wasn’t either of the parties I was referring too. Jake Bentley did this in 2016 at South Carolina. Graduated high school before his senior season would’ve started and ended up starting 7 games that season. I also remember Jarnell Stokes, a basketball player, graduating a semester early his senior season and joining the Tennessee basketball team during December of what would have been his senior year in high school. Those were pre-NIL. If he only has one class left heading into his senior year it’s clear Ewers and his family have been working to make this a possibility years in advance, before NIL was a thing. He didn’t just sign up for summer school last month and knock out a year’s worth of classes to go chase NIL money. Also, the 3 QBs currently competing for the starting job at Ohio State are freshmen. Probably makes sense to try and nudge into that mix now as opposed to next year when one of them is a sophomore returning starter.

“What the hell” seemed to imply a negative connotation to your view on the situation but you’re right. You didn’t there was anything wrong with it. Just seems like even prior to NIL this would be beneficial to both parties.

What’s wrong with graduating high school and enrolling a year early?

By my count, we have 82 scholarship players and 65 have 3 or more seasons of eligibility left if they want it.

https://meangreensports.com/sports/football/roster/2021?&sort=position The 2021 Roster has been updated on MeanGreenSports. The updates are a little confusing and will cause for more confusion down the line, but it’s consistent with what I’ve seen at other schools. Most noticeably, Jace Ruder and Greg Francis have been added. Ruder is showing as a Junior but he technically still has 4 years of eligibility left. A host of walkons added as well. All players did have their grades rolled forward but any player who was playing in 2020 WILL get to have an extra season if they want. For example, Deshawn Gaddie is listed as a Junior but he still has three seasons left of eligibility if he wants. Originally it was announced that everyone’s eligibility would be frozen for a year due to COVID, but instead the players’ eligibility does advance forward a year like normal, they just get to take their extra season if they choose after their original eligibility clock would have expired. The only players who aren’t eligible to return next season are listed as “5th” for their grade classification. The players listed as “SR” can come back next season if they choose.

If Wren leaves I think I’d prefer that it be while Smatresk is still here.

Looks like the re-arrangements won’t take place for a while. Lot of time for subsequent dominoes to fall.

Right, which is why I’m saying that’s the same whether we are in the AAC or CUSA.

Yeah idk how exactly it goes down. Point is if UNT gets left out of whatever super conferences are created, AAC vs CUSA probably doesn’t make all that much of a difference. Certainly not to the point of considering AAC membership the “boom” and staying in CUSA the “bust.”

Yup. Which is why I was sure to include the “again” haha.

If things really do go to Super Conferences, it’s honestly BIG XII or bust. Five 16-team Super Conferences probably means anyone not in that group of 80 schools might as well be playing FCS.

It sucks we aren’t in better position at this point in time. Hanging on to RV as long as we did may come back to bite us again.

Commits to WKU

Well, they are gone. Hopefully permanently, but even just temporarily it is much more pleasing to look at these type of schedules.

Mavericks do not currently have a draft pick in this year’s draft

Neutral site matchups with Kansas, UMass, and Tulsa are all testaments to how far our program has come. Gone are the days of playing Maryland Eastern Shore, Maine, and Saint Peter’s in the Wolfpack Classic.

Guess he is playing DT. Can’t remember if Vito or Brune said that was the case in spring, but I remember at least one of them reported as such. Mccrae and Novil inside with the Murphy twins outside definitely sounds like a solid group on paper.

In that way, we might be. Looks like our non-conference schedules are shaping up with 4 types of games: 1 - Preseason tournament games 2 - Road games at High Major and At-Large caliber Mid Major programs 3 - Home and homes with top quality Mid Major programs and hopefully High Majors 4 - Home games with no return games from Sun Belt and lower competition Wren might just feel like at this point he can get better quality programs than UTA to take up spots in that 3rd category. In 19-20 we hosted Little Rock, who went on to win the Sun Belt regular season title that year, and it appears as though there was never going to be a return game there. I don’t know if we really have the status to be “big-timing” UTA, but Wren’s job is to put together the best schedule he can. If that means home & homes and neutral-site games with programs like Nevada and Tulsa in lieu of a UTA series, then that’s what he has to do.

I wouldn’t expect return trips to Denton from any of our non-conference road opponents from last year’s schedule. Those games seemed to be last-minute scheduled games rather than any sort contractual series’. UTA on the other hand, that does seem strange for that series to seemingly be discontinued.

Reunion with Mike Miller

It’s kind of a default thing. Not gonna show a dude who never even took a snap in spring showing as the starter. There’s no evidence, so it’s hard to make the claim that Ruder is the projected starter. Alternatively I remember at least one magazine in 2013 showing Brock Berglund as the projected starter.

CFB Film Room showed Aune as having graded top 20% in most areas. Statistically, not opinion formed.

https://collegehoopstoday.com/index.php/rothstein-files/matchups-set-for-2021-espn-events-invitational/

Thanks for putting this together. So far Baker and Mccasland’s MOs have been to release the schedule later than our peers. It’s nice to have a pieced together schedule for reference since the real one is typically not released until a matter of weeks before the season starts.