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They brought Grant Tisdale in but it doesn't seem he was the answer or he would have gone in over the walk on freshman.

No Doubt.

He missed a game maybe 2, but he is a very valuable piece to the offense. It looks alot different when he's out there. I believe he played the last game injured as well.

We do, 250,000 alumni each give 5-10 bucks 5 = 1.25 Mil 10 = 2.5 Mil I find it hard to believe that each of our alumni can't give 10 bucks. That is a 1 time donation as well.

Chandler is rumored to be at 750K

Nope, he's going P4 going to get a good chunk of $$

Don't hold your breath. $$ will make a lot of people leave. The sad part is all but a very select few of our guys who leave make the field where they leave. They are just being added as depth.

Don't think so, but I am sure he is in on gameplanning/scheming.

I totally understand the frustration ( no one is as frustrated as the next true UNT alumni/Fan.) The roster has been rebuilt, the reality is you don't win a lot of games when relying on Freshman - Sophomores to be the main contributors. The jump from HS to College is vast and takes time to adjust to typically. I would say if we are experiencing the same issues in year 3 then its time to hit the panic button. We have shown to have the capability to play with the top of the top in our league. Yes we crapped the bed at some point, yes it absolutely needs to get fixed. If you fire Morris now, you're going to be dealing with the same stuff next 2 maybe 3 years as a roster gets totally rebuilt. The portal will decimate a roster in HC Turmoil. I believe some of the hoarding that the big boys do of the good OL/DL will slow when they limit roster sizes FWIW so guys we're losing out on may be forced to fall to us due to numbers.

Not sure everyone is understanding of college football landscape. Miami paid a transfer DL $250,000 AND THE DUDE DOESN'T PLAY, He is a back up (insurance policy if you will.) I totally understand on not wanting to throw money at players but the reality is if you can pay, kids will join. If not, you're relying on finding kids who don't care about money (GOOD LUCK) and just want to compete and win football games. On our current roster 4 players from Littrell era contributed to wins this season. Jordan Brown, Damon Ward, Jett Duncan, and Rod Brown. We played 10 games with a very sub par DC. We did not pursue the portal near hard enough to help fill holes in the defensive scheme. IMO at our level we should be a 4 down front with the ability to hop in and out of 3 down when needed in favorable down and distances. 46 players on the current roster are Jr or Sr. The vast majority of this roster are So, RS Fr, and the biggest group being true Freshman. You don't win a bunch of games at any level with a bunch of true freshman. The fact we've been in them to compete has been a miracle (No I am not happy we aren't pulling them out or winning.) The young and transfer talent they have brought in is encouraging to me personally. Should we play better, should we be making more plays, ABSOLUTELY. However, coach can't catch the ball for guys, coach can't catch wide open TD's for guys. Coach can't magically make a walk on WR/ ST guy into a bonafide D1 RB. Our scholarship RB's have been banged up like crazy and we have relied on a walk on, and 2 True Freshman RB. I think we go to Temple, play very well and get into a bowl game and then its on. Coach lost our most productive OL in pregame to a freak injury...... PREGAME. Sometimes the ball doesn't bounce your way. Is he perfect? no, but to call for the staff and his job is silly in year 2. The guy did a total rebuild last year and had us IN games with a completely rebuilt roster. He needs to make the right DC hire in the offseason. My pick is La Tech current DC. We will see what happens.

Last conversation I had with the Division 1 coaches who came through, they believe walk-ons may still exist and simply be funded through NIL. That was before this article was released so that could change, but as of a few weeks ago, that was the plan that seemed to be floating around.

sounds like he will be playing both WR and CB for us. Think the other schools had him pegged on one side of the ball or the other.

He put it in his twitter bio but no reference to the ranking. Could be one of the in state local places that rated him as such. I don't care what star he is I really like his tape. He can MOVE

Alot of HS kids rely heavily on being a lot better athlete than the kids they're tackling. I don't have too much concern about that as thats the guys who make 2-300 thousand a year to coach's job to fix and clean up IMO

you watched his tape yet? Thats a big boy that moves well. Plays RB for them and takes one 70 on his first play to the house. He can RUN. You don't have to have Giant LB's in the 3 down stuff... Football players are just that. Size aint everything. You can find a lot more Zach Orr's than you can over sized LB's who got recruited because they are 6'3 225...especially at our level. The bigger they get the higher level they go. Unless NIL is involved which we have virtually none.

The schools that do it right send the kids a graphic or two to post in their announcement... im just sayin

You wouldn't take a new job if they offered you 400,000 more than your current salary?

He is getting 400,000 of those dollars you claim he isn't.

Hmmm That is interesting. I wasn't aware he entered. Must have seen the writing on the wall that he wouldn't be able to play here... Very weird.

I am confused. I did not make any spring practices and was too busy trying to look up new players during the scrimmage to really be able to watch OL play specifically.

It is the next best Bball league so the big boys come poach it, and we go to other conferences and do the same. It is a vicious cycle.

Agree! It also allows for a much more high percentage throw instead of the vertical ball that is so prevalent in offenses like these.

Does not necessarily mean we pulled it, he may have asked. We don't have to release him from his NLI National Letter of Intent, but can choose to do so.