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50th time, Jason Bean did not backup Rogers. The coach alternated series with Rogers. I attended 3 games and followed Lake Ridge on TV during the playoffs. In fact, I don't remember Rogers playing deep in the playoffs. High School: • Rated a three-star prospect by 247Sports composite rankings and 247Sports. • Received offers from Colorado State, Liberty, Louisiana Tech and SMU. • Passed for 1,682 yards and 20 touchdowns, and rushed for 694 yards and three touchdowns for a Class 5A Division I state quarterfinalist as a senior. • Passed for 2,956 yards and 29 touchdowns, and rushed for 530 yards and seven touchdowns as a junior. • Second-team all-district 10-5A selection as a junior. https://www.maxpreps.com/tx/mansfield/lake-ridge-eagles/athletes/jason-bean/football/stats/?careerid=khdn945e2bv33

How will Andrew feel when he learns that a kid hit the portal? "We should disconnect from him. He simply ran away. We need to stop normalizing selfishness. It’s destroying college sports. I will never change my mind on this. Ever. I don’t care who it is or what team it happens to. It needs to stop. One transfer and no NIL. Needs to be fixed ASAP."

I didn't mean to hurt your feelings. The kid was 4th string on a .500 team. So you feel we shouldn't try to upgrade the roster, including running back? Why are you so defensive about this particular player? As though the majority of the kids on the team don't bust their ass? "most fiercely competitive, overachieving, players that ever put on a NT uniform". Really? If he felt that way and/or the coaches, he may not have hit the portal. Kudos to him though, he followed his parents and a sibling to KState; where he mostly played on special. We had a need at RB and he moved over. Good story. I stand by my opinion that we need to always try to upgrade the roster at all positions. As for as other NT RB's that brought notoriety to the program with their impact: Patrick Cobb, Lance Dunbar, JaQuan Wilburn, Jeffrey Wilson, DeAundre Torrey, Kevin Galbreath, Antoine Jimmerson, Eric Pegram, Malcolm Jones, Bernard Jackson and Adeyi to name a few.

I think effective immediately, Juco will become the attractive route to take for many kids and college recruiters. Why go straight out of high school to a 4 (or 5) year university only to sit and redshirt. Go to Juco for 2 years of development, start from day 1 then take advantage of 4 additional years of eligibility at the U? College recruiters can pickup up "ready to play" juco kids that now have 4 years of eligibility left. Obviously, the current 4-5 star high school recruit will continue to go directly to the U to take advantage of the largest NIL deals. Anyway, just a thought

Overall depth and size should be much better. Would like to see more explosive (All-Conference) guys on offense. More to come

Sounds like it may be time to take smaller projected attendance games to the Snake Pit.

Nothing new here. When I was in high school, the only school that advanced to the playoffs was the district champion. For whatever reason, the UIL allows 4 teams today. Majority of lower seeds almost always get blown out in the first round. Same with the NCAA basketball tournament that expanded from around 12 back in the 70's to 65 or 66. Most result in blowouts. I agreed with a modest expansion but not the current 65. They are now talking about over 70. Everything is 100% about money and the quality of the product left some time ago.

Seems like a lot of coaches take new jobs right before bowl games. https://gobearkats.com/news/2024/12/1/football-keeler-to-step-down-as-bearkat-head-coach.aspx

Similarities Very similar: Products of winning programs. DeSoto should have won at least one State Championship under White and Jimerson did. Both are/were pass first quarterbacks though dual threats to take it to the house from the pocket or roll outs. Both are/were high IQ quarterbacks that rarely make mistakes. Huge passing/rushing yardage throughout their career. Both are/were undersized by P4 standards Both were surrounded by exceptional P4 talent with explosive offenses Both ran/run 4.4 40's. Neither received serious offers to play QB Differences Jimerson is about 5-11, 165 to White's 5-7, 155. White was the starter for 2 years and Jimerson since his freshman year. Jimerson may be better passing out of the pocket. Both are/were equally accurate passers, White may have been a tad better. White committed to UNT as his lone offer before committing to TCU. Jimerson committed to TCU first before signing with UNT. Though White decommitted from UNT, I still feel he was the better overall HS quarterback; with less weapons. RB Dontre Wilson was a national recruit that committed to Oregon but signed with Ohio St. Just some thoughts

Can never have too many good quarterbacks

Rice really needs to drop sports. Damn!

Chris Jimerson Jr., 3-4 year starter, North Crowley HS. https://www.hudl.com/profile/16387038/Chris-Jimerson

We need upgrades everywhere. Porter shined at times but he isn't/wasn't going to take us to the promise land.

https://247sports.com/college/north-texas/article/north-texas-lands-first-transfer-commitment-with-sam-houston-linebacker-trey-fields-242152109/

How impressive is it for them to learn that the coach is in NYC supporting his 0 star recruit; that he coached up to be a Heisman finalist? Coach O can step up.

He was prominently situated in a number of shots immediately behind the dignitaries.