Marty

Yeah, he averaged 5.3 yards per carry in the one game he played last year. This magazine has Riley Dodge, Rex Burkhead of Plano, and D'Anton Lynn of Celina on the cover. Available at Kroger, Tom Thumb, 7-11, and Albertson's.

Picked up a free magazine at Krogers yesterday called "On The Ball", it's a metroplex sports magazine. In their high school preview, they have Wylie RB Chris Givens (6'0", 200 lbs, 4.41) as considering NT. He has also received offers from Wake Forest, Wisconsin, UNLV, and Utah. Don't know where they get their information but it's a neat little magazine especially since it's free.

You could park out at the Outlet Mall, there's plenty of spaces out there!

"There's no Q.B. controversy unless I let it be."

What a great spokesman for N.T. It's refreshing to hear all the positive talk!

Tune did kick in high school.

Man, that Kaiser is huge, hope he turns out to be a player.

http://www.theoldcoach.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=51986

J.T. Smith Beasley Reese

Playing tight end. Looks like he's got a nice ponytail hanging out from under his helmet.

On FoxSports Southwest right now. NT signee Jordon Scoggins in #40 for the Texas (Red) team.

Saw Purvey play several times on their run to the state championship, simply an amazing talent! It's a shame he isn't playing somewhere. Isn't his father a cop in Gainesville?

Great kid, a little more about him and his older brother: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dw...at.243a7b5.html

Good news on Meager. Maybe DD had the right guy at the helm all along but just didn't give him much of a chance. However, this is only April.

Must see track: Wariner at UNT this Saturday www.dallasblog.com Must see track event: Olympic gold medalist and world champ Jeremy Wariner will run at North Texas this Saturday in the Boatinghouse/North Texas Spring Classic. Wariner, Baylor and Arlington Lamar alum, gets millions for running at European track events, and makes a rare North Texas appearance. 400 meters starts at 1:40. It'll be well worth the time to watch him glide around the track in about 44 seconds

Brian Nelson, I'd forgot about him. Isn't he the son of Darrin Nelson, former WR of the Vikings?

SportsDay boys basketball player of the week: Kevin Busby-Hayden 10:48 PM CST on Sunday, February 18, 2007 By DAMON L. SAYLES / The Dallas Morning News dsayles@dallasnews.com What he did: Busby-Hayden helped Spruce capture the top seed in District 13-4A with a 19-point performance in Tuesday's 64-57 win against Lincoln. He followed that by scoring 35 points and making seven 3-pointers in a 77-68 win Saturday against Carter at the DISD Boys Postseason Classic. Kevin Busby-Hayden The stats: Busby-Hayden is averaging 15.2 points, 4.6 assists and 3.7 rebounds. He has made 83 3-pointers. Busby-Hayden made 115 3-pointers last year. Who is he? Busby-Hayden, 18, is a 6-0 guard for Spruce (24-7). He was an all-state selection last year. He said it: "I'm just glad we won the games. We're so underrated; no one expects us to win. We beat a top 5A team [Carter], so this is motivation for the playoffs." Coach said it: "He can do what he did all the time, but he's so unselfish. He dropped his scoring this year to concentrate on rebounding and assists. He's become a complete player." Lyndon Love Did you know? Busby-Hayden's father is Donnell Hayden, who was a standout guard at North Texas in the early 1990s. ... Busby-Hayden is the older brother of Lincoln girls standout Kimetria Hayden. He said the two play each other at least twice a week.

Austin College hired former Lewisville HC Ronnie Gage last spring.

Dodge’s first class has nice rings to it By Bill Spinks Herald Democrat DENTON — Todd Dodge said he and his new staff didn’t have a lot of time to put together his first recruiting class at North Texas. “It was Dec. 26 when we put our first ink on the board,” the new Mean Green head coach said Wednesday. “But we’re just a bunch of old high school coaches. We had 16 scouting reports for 16 games we just played. We just went through them and put the best names on our list. I’m not sure how scientific it was, but that’s how we did it.” However limited the time frame was, something worked. Dodge’s first Mean Green recruiting class consists of seven prep stars from the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, and several others who altogether won a combined 10 state championships and 47 playoff games. “That’s the flavor of this class,” Dodge said. Dodge, who led Southlake Carroll to three Class 5A state championships in four years with a 77-1 record in that span, is bringing his offense, which requires a lot of wide receivers. To that end, six of the 20 on UNT’s recruiting class are wide receivers — and all six are expected to compete for playing time. “You want to have 10 to 12 receivers going into practice, and you want to be in the top eight if you want playing time,” Dodge said. “We have six in this class, a few on campus at this time, and a few walk-ons who are on campus. A lot of people this spring are going to get a lot of reps.” Two of Dodge’s new receivers hail from one of Carroll’s rivals, Colleyville Heritage: Breece Johnson and Evan Walker. Dodge said Johnson is “a tremendous leaper” who combines speed with his jumping ability; and Walker will be what Dodge called an “A-back,” or slot player, in his offense. Two former Dragons, linebacker Justin Padron and defensive end Kyle Russo, will follow Dodge to Denton. Padron’s strength is his leadership, while Russo’s toughness is his greatest asset, Dodge said. The new UNT coach projects his two newly-signed linemen, J.J. Johnson of Plano West and Matt Tomlinson of Klein, as his future starting center and left tackle respectively, which addresses two needs immediately. With four quarterbacks already on campus, including redshirt freshman Nathan Tune of Celina, finding a new signalcaller was relatively low on UNT’s wish list. But Dodge is high on the one he signed Wednesday: Giovanni Vizza of San Antonio Alamo Heights, who accounted for 488 combined passing and rushing yards in his team’s state championship game victory. Vizza, who ran a no-huddle spread offense very similar to the one Dodge is installing at UNT, will be given an equal chance to compete for a starting job. “The four that are here ... are starting from the same level,” Dodge said. “One thing I don’t believe in is quarterback-by-committee. I think through competition, the cream will rise to the top. Through competition, we’ll have an outstanding quarterback, and he’ll know he won the job and won’t be looking over his shoulder.”

I thought Deion said he was through with this kid a couple of years ago.

He's #60 on the DaMN Area Top 100. 6'4", 280 lbs, also lists Houston, Washington, and D-II schools as his choices.

DaMN area Top 100 Nick Pozderic OL from Newman Smith list NT as one of his choices. Is he the son of former Cowboy Phil Pozderic?

Pegram, Shanklin, Cedric Hardman, and John Baker. Others?

We have 5 players from DCTF's Texas Top 300 list committed so far.