BillySee58

We only have one player on the roster who runs out of eligibility after this season, and that’s Robert Allen. We also already have a class of 2024 Commit in Jaylen Washington. My guess is we are saving that spot rather than wasting it on a Bryce Zephir type that would just tie up a scholarship for future years without actually helping the team.

We have an open spot

I think we’re just listing sizes honestly and accurately instead of the time-honored tradition of adding 10 lbs to everyone’s weight and 2 inches to everyone’s height

I think it’ll be a 3-man rotation at the 4/5 positions. It’s what we saw from Mccasland most years. 19-20 it was Geu and Simmons starting with Bell off the bench, and when Bell came in Geu either went to the bench or slid to the 5. 21-22 was similar with Bell and Ousmane starting and Scott off the bench, with Scott either coming in for Bell or sliding Bell to the 5. I expect something similar for the current team. Allen backing up both Scott and Sissoko. With his size and skill set he should be able to play both the 4 and 5 spots.

The athlete designation is given by the recruiting services. Not by our coaching staff. He’s going to play linebacker here. A lot of times the “athlete” designation is given when a player is going to play a different position in college than what he played in HS, or he plays multiple positions in HS that he could potentially project to in college. For example, with a high school QB who projects as a receiver, that player is most likely going to be classified as an athlete because it is hard to rank that player amongst receivers who are actually playing receiver in high school. Hard to call a high school QB “the number 8 receiver in the country” when he has never caught a single pass in high school due to playing QB, for example.

I believe he was signed to an Exhibit 10 already

Having realistic dreams of catching a top 25 team in Denton and dropping them

I think this is a fair concern. Especially because he has the prototypical height. Bean’s offer list looked better, but pretty comparable to Bryce Drummond and Cade Pearson, better than Kason Martin’s and Fine’s. Will definitely give Morris the benefit of the doubt. QB is one of the positions I probably care the least about offer lists, surprisingly. Get a guy you like and develop them. In a year it doesn’t matter if your offer list looks like Jace Ruder’s, Stone Earle’s, or Chandler Rogers’.

Once again the impact of the extra COVID year is completely omitted from these type of conversations. 5 classes of college athletes were each granted an extra season of eligibility, and teams did not add extra scholarship spots on their teams. A huge bottleneck was created with players graduating high school but not having a proper departing class to make room. Of course not everyone who entered the portal was able to find a home. There was a huge surplus of players both in the portal and not in the portal. But that never seems to be taken into consideration with the portal panic.

Wow, just realized that Wisconsin game is off the schedule. Was supposed to be a buy-game in 2025.

Part of it is that we had OOC series scheduled against Tulane and Memphis plus seemed to be expecting the annual SMU game as well. With all of those becoming Conference foes that put us back to the drawing board with some OOC games.

I think we’re starting to see that. The impact of the COVID year is usually understated in these “issues.” Because of the free COVID year, a ton of dudes in college football have graduated with still 2-3 years of eligibility left. Grad transfers don’t have to sit out. We now have the last 3 HS classes that were not playing college football during the free 2020 season. As those older dudes phase out and with a lot of guys having already used their sit-out free transfer, I think it’s going to be a little more reasonable.

I am going with Tight End Josh Smith. Think he’s going to be a dude who just gets open and picks up first downs.

Yeah d-line is the biggest need in this class imo. Also hoping for some O-line guys to develop behind the current crop that is primarily juniors, and LB as we don’t really know what we have behind Brown and Wood who are both upperclassmen. Looking more for quality over quantity at LB. Get a QB, 3-4 d-linemen/edge, 2-3 o-linemen, and 1-2 LBs.

Yup. We have one receiver on our roster over 6’ tall and that’s 6’1” Trey Cleveland who will be a senior when these kids get on campus.

Eric Morris has landed 22 High School commits at North Texas since being hired. Of those 22 commits, 2 have decommitted. It’s easy to draw attention to the decommits and transfers and act like it’s all because of NIL or Transfer Portal, but it seems like most UNT fans ignore the context of the coaching change or guys getting an extra COVID year. Before the coaching change, in 2022 we returned 16 of the 19 (including K and P) of our starters who were eligible to return from 2021. 1 of the guys we lost was a guy who played 5 years for us, and the other 2 were the Murphy twins. Guys generally stay. If we start losing a ton of guys who actually committed under Morris, or start losing a bunch of starters who Morris brought in, then there would be more validity in the concern.

Eh. He’s a 5’5” receiver. Don’t need him to beef up. Get open and make people miss.

Truly amazing film. If he’s 3-4 inches taller he’s getting offered by everyone. Fortunately even at his height he is going to be able to get open and make dudes miss just fine.

Good info as always. Thanks 👍

I say it is reason for excitement. Sure gives you a better shot at signing the kid than if they commit somewhere else. Also, building recruiting momentum helps. Other recruits take notice. And as JayD said, signing a big recruit doesn’t guarantee you’re going to keep them past a season anyways. But if the coaches build the right culture you have a much better shot at keeping your guys, especially when there is no coaching change. Same thing applies to commits.

Seems like Jacques Spradley-Demps tweeted out his commitment last night. He’s tagging Mike Roach from 247 in the reply to his 🧩 tweet. Don’t think he’d be tagging a 247 guy if he was just tweeting a random tweet showing his interest in UNT. Would be a big one.

He has pulled 3 of the 6 highest composite rated HS recruits in the school’s history in the 20+ years that those ratings go back. We brought in P5 transfers who actually had starts/legit stats under their belt which Littrell was not doing and G5 transfers who actually were full-year starters, not just part-time. I agree under his first full cycle things haven’t felt much different than what Littrell was putting together this time of year. But I think there has been a step up. Particularly with recruiting at the top HS programs and transfer portal.

https://247sports.com/player/cash-mccollum-46117493/ https://www.on3.com/db/cash-mccollum-152213/recruiting/

Hodge lands another former 4 star with Big XII starting experience

Not seeing Ethan Miner either. Hopefully it is something similar with him at Arkansas State. https://meangreensports.com/sports/football/roster/ethan-miner/6072