BillySee58

I really don’t think it would be such a huge mess if the one-time sit out free transfer was not approved the same year everyone kept their eligibility frozen due to COVID. Those two in tandem are what is making everything a mess. The transfer portal has been around for 3 seasons and it was never the issue in and of itself. People act like players didn’t transfer before the portal. Main thing it really did was make the process less of an administrative and communicative burden on players, admins, and coaches.

Wait, we aren’t the same thing?

Gaddie and Sanders are the deep safeties is my understanding. Sanders was listed as the Hawk last year. I think Gaddie, Sanders, Francis, and Keelan Crosby probably get first crack at those two deep safety spots (not as sure what Bennett will call each). Then I think that 5th DB in our base will likely be a CB (I believe John Davis) but Sean-Thomas Faulkner from The Citadel will probably get a chance to play there as more of a box safety type when we want that type of personnel. That’s my gauge on what I would expect to see as of now but a lot of time for changes left.

Gaddie is starting at the other safety spot.

Nope. Monopoly guy never had a monocle.

The transfers coming in and being able to beat out our returners would be great. Especially since we are bringing back almost all of our returners. Congrats to you and your son’s flag football team! Sounds like a lot of fun.

And for reference, we typically participate in MTEs like we did in fall 2019 with the Jamaica Classic. We hosted Eastern Michigan and NC A&T in Denton, then went to Jamaica to play the other headliners like Rhode Island and Utah State. Would imagine this will be something similar.

If we’re a headliner of the MTE then we’ll probably host some low majors as part of it as well.

Commits to Texas State to play offensive line

I would say Guyton only half counts because we signed him out of JUCO. Marcus Trice is the number 1 direct P5 transfer we have had in recent years. First team all-CUSA. Reggie Pegram from Purdue was a productive back for us in 2013 and 2014. Darius Terrell from Texas was our second leading receiver in 2014. Anthony Wallace from Oregon had 81 tackles on a really bad defense in 2015, but he produced. D tackle Demonte Hood (Kansas State) and offensive tackle Trey Keenan (Texas Tech) were solid starters on Littrell’s first bowl team in 2016. From there Littrell really focused on growing this thing through High School recruiting until last year when the P5 transfers started rolling in. I think expecting P5 transfers to be stars is dangerous. Expecting them to come in and be serviceable pieces is pretty reasonable and seems likely given that they fully commit and stay healthy/out of trouble. Jyaire Shorter had 9 receiving TDs as a RS Freshman in 2019. He’s our outside guy on one side. Deonte Simpson had 517 yards in 8 games last year and will be our other outside receiver. We don’t need Bush to light the world on fire. Just need him to be a serviceable rotation receiver behind those guys.

Coming to town June 4th

Thornton graduated from Rice. Very impressive accomplishment. Hope he can get here and learn the system ASAP. Will be nice to add a proven CUSA starter to our CB rotation. We have a lot of options at CB, just need a few of them we can rely on.

Lol, SIR! He has special teams highlights on his film and blocked two punts in one game in 2019.

This is likely going to be an issue as long as the superclass of 2020 and 2021 still has eligibility.

Official visits

Correct. 2022 high school class is going to get squeezed, then 2023 probably will too. We have 66 scholarship players at the moment who are underclass men. Adding two recruiting class on top of that is going to be impossible if the team limit stays at 85, or if the budget does not allow for more. Likely will mean the end of the roster guys are going to essentially start getting cut, and unfortunately will mean less likely for them to find a landing spot. A huge amount of transfers or “cuts” is inevitable.

Sounds great. Seems like a solid special teams addition at the very least

For sure. Defensively we kept all of our experience (except Cam Johnson) and have added some solid options through the transfer portal. Bennett should have enough puzzle pieces to make things work, just have to see how quickly he can put it all together.

Unofficial visit lined up to North Texas in a few weeks.

Not to mention Tennessee, Houston, and Virginia thought highly enough of his practice film to offer him out of the portal. Also, said this in another thread but most of our portal losses have been guys who couldn’t get off our bench. Trading guys who couldn’t get off your bench for guys who couldn’t get off ranked teams’ benches seems like a good trade off. Simpson, Shorter, Loronzo Thompson, Bryson Jackson, Detraveon Brown, Caleb Johnson, and Bush are all either proven or guys who were legit P5 recruits and we don’t have any evidence that they can’t get it done at the G5 level. We don’t need them all to be all-conference guys, just need 4 or 5 of them to be reliable playmakers and we’ll be tough.

Also, the incoming freshmen have been added to the roster

Updated scholarship rundown by my count: 81 scholarship players 39 offense/42 defense by class: 7 seniors 8 juniors 18 sophomores 16 redshirt freshmen 32 true freshmen by position: OL - 13 WR - 9 TE - 6 RB - 5 QB - 6 DL - 17 LB - 11 DB - 14

Shorter was healthy for spring so should be behind him.

We have 9 scholarship receivers projected to be on the 2021 roster and 7 of them had P5 offers out of high school. One of the two who didn’t is Jyaire Shorter, who had Houston and a host of G5s, and 9 receiving TDs as a redshirt freshman. Feels like a matter of who will make the group successful, not if.