BillySee58

If his season finishes anywhere close to the way it has started, coming back could only hurt his draft stock. Besides having a growth spurt, this is as high as his draft stock could be.

A few weeks ago Littrell was talking about how we got Darden after a spot opened up because of a decommit, referring to Bradley. Crazy to think about how we were upset about the decommitment in the moment but we needed it to happen to get arguably our best receiver in school history. Darden has more receiving yards in these first 5 games than Bradley does at Houston for his whole career. Also a trip seeing talk about Raveon Hoston. One of the most talked about players who never even made it on the roster.

Exactly. The Davis’, Kevin Wood, Nixon, and Howell are all 6’ or less which makes them more suited in the second level in more of a 3-3-5 stack look, which has made life very easy on opposing o-lines. Having some added length and strength off the edge was a huge plus, and the Murphy twins and Johnson are the guys on our roster suited to give us that.

Yeah, their role was much more of a traditional JACK linebacker than a defensive end. They can call it whatever they want as long as the pressure keeps coming.

Everyone’s eligibility is frozen until next season so there is no redshirting this season.

My point is transfers have been happening for decades. Troy Aikman didn’t need the transfer portal to transfer 35 years ago. I get being upset at transferring, but I feel like there is some sort of misconception about the transfer portal that seems to cause it to take on blame for transfers when it’s just a listing of the players transferring.

Responses like this make me think that people believe the transfer portal is some entity that causes more players to transfer. It’s just a listing of all players who have chosen to transfer. Not like the transfer portal has enabled players to transfer. Players have always transferred, but for some reason when it happens now there always seems to be anger directed at the portal itself.

It’s looking like he doesn’t have to worry about losing a year of eligibility. Appears to be all but a done deal that the NCAA is going to allow players a one-time sit-out free transfer starting with the 2021 season.

I may have missed the announcement, but it looks like Cal is back on our schedule at Apogee in 2023. Also hosting Memphis that year. Every current underclassman on our roster will still have eligibility that season. https://fbschedules.com/ncaa-2023/team/north-texas

He was listed in the 2-deep heading into the Charlotte game. Right behind Cam Johnson at free safety.

Yeah especially since Harry hasn’t been posting as much for you to berate him over nothing 😉

Lmao thank you, John! We’re 1-0 in her lifetime and all she knows is Bean>Aune. Hope she’s the good luck charm we needed this year. Anything to give us an edge in the crazy year of our Lord 2020.

Lol. Yeah, right to change opinion with new information. My point, which became very misconstrued, was not issue with people preferring one QB to the other, which I obviously did. It was the people whining every time the new QB was in and being quiet when he was succeeding. I have the same issue with people doing this regarding Bean as I did with Aune. Not that complicated. Want to see wins and QB development, not more flip flopping.

Sounds like you’re going to see it your way and that’s fine. I never dogged Bean, unless you consider posting where his stats were inferior is dogging, but in a QB battle those seem like fair game to analyze to me. I’ve never called for him to be pulled during the game and I’ve explicitly stated I hope our focus is on developing him and not having a quick leash so he can grow through any first-year starting QB struggles. People begging for the QB who they don’t prefer to be pulled at every chance is what’s weird to me.

This seems to be a good example of the very thought process I’m referring to. I preferred Aune, gave stats and film explanations on why, so now I’m team Aune, and I’m not allowed to root for any other quarterback of the team I root for? That line of thinking is what’s strange. That and people whining in our game threads about our QB, calling for a change while he’s throwing for almost 400 yards and 3 TDs despite 6 dropped passes, jumping for any chance to pull him instead of actually backing him. But you might be on to something. I was only first pumping with no audible sounds coming out of my mouth like normal when Bean was scoring. Maybe it was because I was in the hospital with my wife and new born, but it probably was because I can’t root for the guy unless he had the superior statistics coming into the game.

Sir, I was posting statistics that, to that point, were factual. I root for the Mean Green, regardless of who the QB is.

https://247sports.com/Recruitment/Davontae-McCrae-129441/RecruitInterests/ https://247sports.com/Recruitment/Jonathan-Pickett-110510/RecruitInterests/ https://247sports.com/Recruitment/Kortlin-Rausaw-116645/RecruitInterests/ https://247sports.com/Recruitment/Rayvon-Crum-137249/RecruitInterests/ Transferring in https://247sports.com/Recruitment/Jacob-Farrell-105250/RecruitInterests/

We signed 3 defensive line commits last class who all had multiple offers from P5 conference schools. The 4th d-linemen from last class is starting as a true Freshman (Tashoyn Johnson). O-line recruiting hasn’t been impressive but we just landed a transfer from Oklahoma State and got a commit from a high school offensive linemen who had offers from 4 different P5 conference schools. It is coming along on the lines, but even more importantly, I think, is the way our line has looked much improved under Mike Bloesch. He really seems to have the group playing well together and looks like he’s getting the most out of what we have.

From 2016-2018 we didn’t even have a tight end coach. Mainord was the inside receivers coach and Filani was the outside receivers coach. We also didn’t sign any tight ends in any of those 3 classes. Instead we started 4 receivers, with one inside receiver starting at the A position (Darden) and one inside receiver starting at the Y position (Michael Lawrence), which is now occupied by a tight end. For those first few years the only tight ends on the roster were Kelvin Smith and Caleb Chumley, who were both inherited from Mccarney. But we started to see a philosophical shift in 2018 as they used Kelvin Smith more and started recruiting tight ends at that time, getting a commitment from Alberding for the 2019 class, then signing Christian Lee and Jake Roberts in 2020. Now we have a tight end on the field in our base formations, even if he’s split out in the slot like Pirtle often is. Which is part of the reason I’m calling for more Khatib Lyles. Pirtle is pretty frequently lined up in the slot, as opposed to being on the line of scrimmage where the blocking requirements might make more sense to hurt Lyles’ chances.

Yeah we’re not asking him to be a focal part of the offense, but by no means is he playing at a level that can’t be improved on. I’m trying to put it nicely.

Was listed second behind Cam Johnson in the two deep a couple weeks ago.

I think this will be the mindset when Littrell wins a bowl game or conference championship game here. That he “figured things out.” When it reality it will be because the years of top recruiting classes will have given him a better roster than what he had when he was losing those games.

This Team Aune, Team Bean deal is some strange stuff. People seem to literally have been rooting against QBs on the actual team they’re supposedly rooting for.

Yeah only a fraction of our fanbase follows recruiting anywhere near as close as they follow the actual team, so I get it. If you don’t, when you see the struggles it’s like Groundhog Day. Heck, even if you do it kind of feels that way. But this is different. Littrell won those games, he built up the recruiting momentum, and he capitalized by signing better classes than we’ve seen since recruiting has really been tracked online. Firing him before those guys become upperclassmen would be counterproductive. Good chance we’d see a lot of our talent transfer with a one-time sit-out free transfer rule coming, and those good recruits we got would likely decommit. And the recruiting perception of UNT would likely go back to square one with HS coaches thinking it’s a losing program where the coach is destined to be fired rather than hired away. Long story short, we really want Littrell to work out and he’s about to get a shot with the best roster in terms of top-down talent he’s had.

We saw a taste of the young talent we have and the fruits of our recent recruiting. The talent level is only going to rise as these guys become upperclassmen and the guys from the subpar classes are replaced with more of the same recruiting we have seen from the 2019-2021 classes. Firing Littrell just isn’t happening anytime soon because of his contract, so it’s a pretty pointless conversation in that regard. Then you factor in the health of our roster down the line and our recruiting situation, it would just be counterproductive. If things are still in bad shape come 2022 then it becomes more of a legitimate discussion. The talent we should have on our roster by then will likely make things a lot clearer as well. If things are working out we’ll probably be one of the top teams in the conference, or we’ll be underperforming and losing with top recruits. Both should make for easier evaluations of Littrell as a coach.