BillySee58

Number 1 on my wishlist right here

Wondering if it may be an event in lieu of the official visits they never got to have.

None of the transfers have been added yet, unless they were on campus in the spring.

Ooh, just now seeing this. Hell yeah!

Maybe, but the incoming freshmen have been listed on the roster for weeks now. Except him.

Couldn’t find my last thread but the roster has been updated for incoming freshmen and with players’ new numbers. Some interesting new number choices. All of the freshmen we were expecting to appear are showing up except Running Back Signee Keith Jackson. Still May so hopefully he makes it just fine, but a little concerning. Also, the newer transfer portal commits are not on the roster yet (Tommy Bush, Enoch Jackson, Dillon Francis, Sean-Thomas Faulkner, etc.) https://meangreensports.com/sports/football/roster/2021?&sort=class

Again, I think this would not be as big an issue if a full senior class had not been given eligibility to come back next year. If those guys had been pushed out 1. Less players would have transferred out to find playing opportunities elsewhere and 2. Teams would be more inclined to keep their players since they would already be losing seniors so losing a bunch to the portal but only being able to bring in 25 would mean losing more players than they can sign. Tykieast Crawford’s can happen, but they can and have happened before the transfer portal as well. Maybe they will happen more frequently now, but I don’t think that’s enough to alter your recruiting.

Going away? No. But there are undoubtedly less HS kids getting FBS scholarships across the country. Look at Texas State’s class. None. https://247sports.com/college/texas-state/Season/2021-Football/Commits/ Teams are losing 10+ guys to the portal and replacing them with 10+ guys from the portal. But that eats into the 25-per class signing limit, so they can only bring on 10 or so high school kids when they used to bring in 20-25. People continually overlook the impact everyone getting a free season of eligibility is having and are attributing it all to the portal. There is essentially one senior class exiting, split up between the end of last season (2020) and the end of next season (2021). After 2022 teams will finally have a full senior class departure. At that point they will have to replenish, not just swap out. Hopefully by then we see something in place so that teams can replace the transfer they lose AND still bring in HS and JUCOs to replenish lost Seniors.

Yup. Have to change the rule. Something like 25 spots for high school and JUCOs (like normal), 10 for D1 scholarship transfers. Also, if a team loses 20 scholarship seniors and 15 guys to the portal, if they went and got 15 guys from the portal they’d only have 10 spots to replace the departing seniors. Because of seniors getting an extra year this isn’t really affecting teams, but it will and the last thing we need is kids not getting scholarships because of the 25-limit when spots are available on the 85.

Here is the current rundown of scholarship players. We have 10 and we get 13, so 3 spots left to give: PG - FR Rubin Jones, SO Tylor Perry SG - JR Mardrez McBride, SR JJ Murray SF - FR Matthew Stone, FR Aaron Scott PF - SR Thomas Bell, SR Jahmiah Simmons C - FR Abou Ousmane, FR Chrisdon Morgan

Senior

We gave up 42.8 points/game last year. This has us giving up 28 points/game. If we improve our defense by 13 points/game, I fully expect us to add more than just one additional win from last season.

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.