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I can help both of them... drive the dang ball to the hoop see it go in a few times, buggs take the wide open 3's you get off dribble penetration from a team mate and lets do the dang thing! I was pleased with Jones, and Walker with how aggressive they were to the basket yesterday. Every guard should be following suit. I also enjoyed Aaron Scott finally getting back to being aggressive and looking to get his shot off the bounce. This team should push every team we play in conference IMO. The determining factors in how long we can stay in the competition will depend on 1. Rueben and the bigs staying out of foul trouble 2. How well we share the basketball offensively. I think when those things happen we are a tough out, because lets face it the defense hasn't even taken a step sideways I think they've progressed we are longer and more athletic. I would really like to see Moore used instead of Noland bringing the ball up the court when Jones comes out. Noland will struggle in conference play when Jones has to get a break. Moore must be behind defensively that is the only thing I can think of that is keeping him off the court. I would assume if you are Hodge you have to know Jones is gone after this year so get the young guy some minutes in non conference and see if he can earn more or if he isn't ready you know by conference play. That is my last head scratcher for this ball club. He really is the next PG but doesn't play much.

So far a good pivot! Walker is an elite on ball defender. I’m not sure in all my years watching UNT we’ve had a better one. I’m fairly young but been watching since I started school in 2009

Yes, I hope to see the same addressed. We seemed to drop 8 a lot and LBs running to places on field where no WR was within 10/15 yards I’d like to see guys when they turn to their zone with nothing threatening eyes back on QB for help with scramble drill. The other option which is prob better imo is to bring an extra person via pressure from any level Corner, Safety, or LB that’s what makes 3-3-5 so tough is pressure can come from anywhere on the field with multiple coverages matched behind those blitzes

Defensively the DL wasn’t as big of an issue as everyone is making it out to be, linebackers and safeties have responsibilities in run game and they did a poor job of filling those roles. Only time I had a problem with 3 down was when teams got in 12 personnel and lined up in double tight and we had 3 guys on LOS and they had 7… I’m not the smartest guy but that allows all 3 DL to be double teamed with an extra to leave for a backer. I could see them grabbing one more DL if a GameChanger becomes available.

If he is, I’d hope we can try and get him the help he needs.. I highly doubt he made it all that time at LSU without someone trying to get him help, but he’s back with his HS coach where to my knowledge he didn’t have issues.

I’d do it exactly how he’s doing it understanding in a year or two maybe 3 after production those guys will probably enter portal. I’d probably have addressed DL a little harder via portal, but that’s their decision. The problem is with each room I don’t know what they have eligibility wise. You have to balance a roster you can’t have a DL room full of 9 seniors and 2 freshman then you’re stuck with what you can bring in. You’d like to have 2/3 in each class as far as eligibility 3 with 1 year left 3 with 2 years left, 3 with 3 years, and 2/3 with 4 years left that way you aren’t chasing your tail one year bc 6/7 young men out of the room graduate

No such thing as falling through the cracks. Not in this day and age with twitter and instagram access to every coach in the country. What has changed is the recruiting landscape. The P5 will primarily LIVE in the world of the portal, and 4 and 5 star athletes. 5 star is basically predicting the kid is a 1st round NFL talent, 4 star is a chance to get drafted more or less. 3 star they just slap those ratings on guys like hot cakes because its easy and they're lazy. P5's used to drop from the 4 stars when they lost out on them or someone flipped them, would then come and raid a team like say North Texas who had some really good 3 stars committed and they'd offer and the kid would typically chase the bigger offer. Now that the portal is here instead of them trying to find a HS kid they just use a college kid who already has experience with college life, practice, academics etc. Now there is an abundance of kids like a majority of the ones we signed that lets face it prior to the portal UNT doesn't land 2/3 of the class.

None of us have ever experienced this (I don't think) He went from being one of the top recruited, top ranked, the GUY at his HS to not sniffing the field. That can definitely do stuff to one's mindset. I have no clue about any of it other than from players I've had who weren't nearly as talented as him who went through the same thing being the guy in HS then get to college and for whatever reason don't crack the field. You go from football being everything and most of the reason people know who you are, to not playing. Harder on young men than one would think.

Don't know if he's the top target..there are some really good QB's in the portal available. NIL will probably knock the top 1/2 of QBs out of our range due to the amount of $$ thrown their way.

Any more info on him? I can do some digging but I've looked at so many names the last 48 hours I have no idea who is who

Yeah everyone will be mad with this offer, but when you have a LS who is an issue then everyone wants to blame someone. Good for the staff for identifying this area of need and addressing it the best way they know how, with a scholarship for the young man.

I believe we have 3 or 4 spots left based off Morris' comments in press conference that is after the new additions today. I bet it will be 1 QB and 3 DL or 2 QB and 2 DL

If he got a post he is on scholarship

Yessir. Not to take away from the HS Signees because they're going to be those dudes. This cat is SPECIAL, hard to play RB at LSU...I have no problems with this pick up at all.

Patience. Trust them, they got some left I wouldn't be surprised if you see 2 and maybe a couple DL (I'm not sure how many we have left haven't done the math yet and don't know who is on scholly currently on roster)

EWWWWWEEEEE LETS GO!!!! This dude TORCHED US IN HS one of the best HS Backs I coached or played against.

Now he is here. I can sleep easier

ANOTHER ONE!! LETS GOO

They typically are pretty lazy and just give a kid a high 2 star or low 3 star and move on. They did re up a few of our signees to mid/upper mid 3 stars but haven't got around to the newer commits yet.

They haven't ranked any of them as portal players yet, just like they haven't ranked 5/6 of our HS Signees... They're lazy as hell they rank the top 30/35 programs for everything then get around to all the other stuff when they can.... Brutal

Pre-Portal I would completely and totally agree with you. However, now that the portal is here there are ALOT more players available that wouldn't be if the portal wasn't here. In turn that allows for better players to fall to lower level teams, what I would look to for each of the individual cases where you may be concerned about a "Flip" is how many other schools offered the kid. The more schools that think the kid is worth a scholarship, the more likely they are to be a player at that level. Like you said there are outliers but those are more miss than hit. Example: I have a 6'4" 275 17 year old Guard/Center who played LT for us. He has multiple Juco offers and a few D2, one FCS has come through but hasn't offered yet. HC from Angelo State told him in my office, pre-portal you are a Power 5 kid you have great length and frame, it is a shame what the portal has done to recruiting, BUT I am now able to talk to young men like you and have a chance to recruit you.

They have like 6 HS guys to rate that is screwing our standing. Haven't rated any of our transfers...

Correct it can all change in the spring, by my calculations (I could be wrong) we have 3 scholarships left again I could be off. You can sign however many scholarships you have available. The catch, you have to balance your roster so you aren't stuck with 80 Freshman and RS Freshman and 5 Seniors. You must constantly manage and manipulate your roster to stay as balanced as you can.

Very much so! I took my oldest to the game he goes to their elementary and we watched their playoff game at home. He would disappear then BAM 6

They just got the 4 star Lake Dallas WR to sign to Memphis going to have some talent! Think Purdue cooled off on him not sure why..