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Hell yeah, all three of my step-brothers go to or went to tech. Could be a great family event.

Just hope he remembers where he was always wanted, not who wants him all the sudden now that their other plans fell through.

Why did you send me there Harry, that was a depressing thread. A quick "terms applied to North Texas guide": Bottom of the barrel, dumpster fire, dead end, coaching graveyard etc. Yikes. Long way to go, but we can do it.

Really wish Herman would have stayed put at this point...

I'd sign just to get out of Amarillo... I loathe that place.

http://sportsday.dallasnews.com/college-sports/collegesports/2017/01/25/smu-shoots-since-deleted-report-football-program-exits-surprise-drug-test The follow up.

That 2012 class had 6 three stars, and was ranked 11th. Last year they went 8-5, the season before, 9-4 and 10-3. The recruiting has improved year over year each class getting better under Fuente. Memphis also runs a "system" offense. Of course give me as many 3-4 star kids as we can get, but clearly there is a process right? I'm interested in seeing how this all plays out.

Let me rephrase, is there a better blueprint to follow in your opinion, given the facts of UNT's situation? Memphis would be a respectable level of achievement over the next few years if the turn around continues.

@TheReal_jayD I mean, there are worse models to follow... No?

Seth obviously isn't willing to wait to get closer to the scholarship limit. He and the staff feels like they need more players now. With the in-season attrition, and the attrition that happens with a coaching change, depth was clearly and issue. Have we gotten any comments on the staffs recruiting strategy from them? Have they given us insight into the bigger picture? Maybe, in the paper version of the DRC or the NT Daily I missed the part where someone has asked the coaches these questions and gotten a little insight? It seems during recruiting season, in a season we're taking an unusual amount of blue shirts, having some coverage of that sort of thing would happen. We can speculate but i'd like to get something from the staff. The only staff I know who's ever taken more is last years South Alabama. They took 14.

We also haven't stopped the scholarship player bleeding. Ivery, Goree, etc. We just need to boslter our numbers for these next couple of years. Obviously we have to get to where we're keeping the kids around, or else the gamble goes to shit.

Witherspoon is a blue shirt.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/florida-recruiting/blog/os-sp-recruiting-insider-chris-hays-0123-story.html TLDR: Kid is committed thinks he has a scholarship, AD tells his dad he doesn't. Kid is scrambling for a home

Small town. He does have film. I'm guessing none of the recruiting services have given it a watch and given him a ranking and none of them have been to that small town to watch him play or the teams he plays against. It's the digital age, it would only take time, but because our recruiting web pages aren't really subscribed to, largely in part to our great efforts here on the forums, ranking solo offer kids for UNT, outside of the area, is not a priority. Until we give them a reason to financially, it will stay that way.

6,756 is the population of Loranger, La. Loranger (pronounced Lo-RAHN-jer) is an unincorporated community in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, U.S.. It is the location of one property listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the parish: the Loranger High School Auditorium. It is the location of Loranger Elementary School, Loranger Middle School, and Loranger High School. Each school serves a wide geographic range of families living in and around the very rural Loranger area. The Loranger School District is bordered by the school districts of Folsom, Amite, Independence, and Hammond. The community has two grocery stores, Loranger Supermarket and Piggly Wiggly, a Dollar General, a donut shop, a tanning salon, a beauty shop, many different houses of worship, a popular snowball stand, and a restaurant called Chris's (formerly Tallo's). Each October, people from all over the U.S. travel to Loranger for a two-day event, Old Farmers Day, held on the Brunett family's farm. The event portrays the way our forefathers lived, worked, and enjoyed rural life. Life in Loranger revolves around sports (mainly football), the annual Mud Bogg held during the summer months, and other activities popular in this region, such as hunting and fishing. Former U.S. Representative James H. Morrison, a native of Hammond who held Louisiana's 6th congressional district seat from 1943 to 1967, spent his later years in Loranger

His link was this for the lazy: he relative value of each program’s offers are determined using players’ commitments and the offers they rejected. Using this approach, it is assumed that the offers players accepted are more valuable than those they passed up. In essence, program offers are ranked by the players themselves. The steps to arrive at the offer valuations are as follows: 1) For every commitment in the past three years, pairs of “winners” and “losers” are accumulated. The “winner” in each pairing is the team whose offer a player accepted. The “loser” is each of the teams whose offers that player rejected. 2) The pairings in step 1 are used to conduct an Elo ranking. Elo is a system for generating ratings based upon a collection of head-to-head matches. A description of Elo Ratings can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system . The Elo rankings are shown in the “Commit Elo” column in the table below. 3) The ratings in step 2 give an advantage to programs that extend fewer offers, and disadvantage programs that extend more offers. This effect is minimized in this step by calculating the average Elo rating of the teams each program beat out for their commitments. These averages are shown in the “Avg. Elo Beaten” column in the table below. 4) The ratings from step 3 are distributed proportionately over a range from 10 to 100 offer points to arrive at the “Offer Value” column in the table below. In the final valuations, an offer from the highest ranked team is worth 10 times the value of the lowest ranked team. Offer Value Weightings Updated 2/6/2016 AND: ) The offers that Division 1 FBS colleges have extended to athletes are gathered from recruiting services. 2) Each offer is assigned a value based upon rankings derived from players’ commitments and the offers they decline. A description of the weighting methodology, along with the values for each program, can be found here: http://www.rankbyoffers.com/teamweightings/ 3) All of the points for a player’s offers are added together to calculate that player’s total offer points. 4) The players are then ranked based upon their total offer points. 5) To determine rankings for college recruiting classes, all of the total offer points for each of their commits are added together. The total offer points for all of the Division 1 FBS recruiting classes are then compared to arrive at the recruiting class rankings.

I like that we have a pair of two-way high school players possibly. Two that played at very good schools. We are really taking a best athlete available approach. In some cases, in spite of measurable things like height.

Here is a fascinating, simple recruiting website I think will become one of my favorites as it continues to grow. Just type North Texas in the search bar and all our commits come up. Guyton, Johnson and Krasniqi lead the way for our class currently. http://www.rankbyoffers.com/2017fbplayers/ Here is the table, under basically @BillySee58 system, of our conference sorted by AVG recruit score: RANK TEAM CONFERENCE COMMITS COMMIT LIST OFFER LIST OFFER POINTS AVERAGE Commit List Offer List 74 Louisiana Tech Conference USA 16 commits offers 3,398.56 212.41 95 Florida Atlantic Conference USA 10 commits offers 1,704.79 170.48 86 Western Kentucky Conference USA 17 commits offers 2,586.74 152.16 73 Texas San Antonio Conference USA 23 commits offers 3,423.88 148.86 82 Florida International Conference USA 20 commits offers 2,668.26 133.41 79 Charlotte Conference USA 21 commits offers 2,741.19 130.53 93 Southern Mississippi Conference USA 18 commits offers 2,003.79 111.32 89 Middle Tennessee State Conference USA 21 commits offers 2,316.36 110.30 103 Rice Conference USA 13 commits offers 1,308.85 100.68 112 Marshall Conference USA 10 commits offers 1,000.46 100.05 106 North Texas Conference USA 13 commits offers 1,211.39 93.18 100 Old Dominion Conference USA 18 commits offers 1,495.24 83.07 105 Alabama Birmingham Conference USA 21 commits offers 1,276.11 60.77 127 Texas El Paso Conference USA 7 commits offers 231.73 33.10

I'm not sure if it's applicable, but I would survey both recruits we captured and their families as well as recruits we missed on. Ask them the details of the "sales" process. Where did we succeed, what came up short of the families expectation. The best way to repair and improve is direct feedback from the people you're trying to sell to and have sold to. That's my opinion. One of the best sales managers I ever worked with would always reach out to the people who didn't purchase there, but they felt were close and would ask them why they chose the competitor. Market research is valuable.

Take the scholly...

No to mention after Wilson/Ivery we haven't seen incredible output.

To be honest, recruits love this kind of thing and it obviously makes an impact. While i'm sure compliance doesn't want to face this problem there needs to be some new, social media updated guidelines.

God if twitter contact from boosters was enforced then all schools would be punished.

While obviously it's hard to compare anyone to Gronk, I felt the same way. Just needs some college weight room to shake off that last tackle lol