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Having watched him all through his high school days, and his first couple of years at UNT, I honestly did not know if this day would ever come for Sir Calvin.

Grab that Bulldog and Mean Green pride and run with it, Z-Ro! There are a lot of people who are so wanting to see you to succeed.

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He's only a sophomore! Not sure what you expected

RS Sophmore. That makes him three years on campus. I believe Cyril Lemon has been a starter since his true freshman year. I'm no great fan of DT, but the first time he was inserted into a game as a true freshman, he drove the team down for a TD. Breland Chancellor was running back kick-offs for TD's his true freshman year.... and he wasn't on any all-state teams coming out of HS.

What I expected was that he would be at least be contributing something by his RS freshman year.

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RS Sophmore. That makes him three years on campus. I believe Cyril Lemon has been a starter since his true freshman year. I'm no great fan of DT, but the first time he was inserted into a game as a true freshman, he drove the team down for a TD. Breland Chancellor was running back kick-offs for TD's his true freshman year.... and he wasn't on any all-state teams coming out of HS.

What I expected was that he would be at least be contributing something by his RS freshman year.

You expectations are out of whack. DT is one of the physically toughest spots to get into. High school muscle and weight is way different than college muscle and weight. Kids need time to develop their bodies for the physicality.

Should we also just start a running list of all RS freshman who aren't playing and call them busts? That's great that you can point to a handful of our best players and say "look at what they did! All kids should be able to do this!"

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Skill position players are typically more capable of making an immediate contribution than linemen. Cyril Lemon was an exception that only proves the rule. And Wallace was signed with the understanding that he was going to be a project, especially coming out of a 3A school. Cyril was playing, and from what I understand, dominating, at the the highest level of Texas high school football.

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Skill position players are typically more capable of making an immediate contribution than linemen. Cyril Lemon was an exception that only proves the rule. And Wallace was signed with the understanding that he was going to be a project, especially coming out of a 3A school. Cyril was playing, and from what I understand, dominating, at the the highest level of Texas high school football.

Yup. Plus, Brelan was returning kickoffs. Catching the ball and running. Not to make light of it, but it's a very basic assignment, you just need to ability and he obviously had that. But he only caught like 1 pass that year. He wasn't ready at receiver and he obviously turned out fine there.

Wallace didn't have any other offers. He was a project, but he had the size we desperately covet at DT. If you can get a guy like that contributing by his RS Sophomore year then that's a success.

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