MGB: UNT offer gives Aledo safety something to think about

Brett Vito · January 19, 2016

MGB: Patrick Peek still considering options, despite being committed to Fresno State

http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2016/01/unt-offer-gives-aledo-safety-something-to-think-about.html/

GMG24 · January 19, 2016

very nice. Get him in on an OV and seal the deal!

Eagle-96 · January 19, 2016

Good: He saw Bryce English transferred and knew he was good. This intrigued him and may be a factor that sways recruits.

Bad: He seems like he is still committed to FSU

Ugly: He didn't know who the F we were and he's from Aledo.

GMG24 · January 19, 2016

2 minutes ago, Eagle-96 said:

Good: He saw Bryce English transferred and knew he was good. This intrigued him and may be a factor that sways recruits.

Bad: He seems like he is still committed to FSU

Ugly: He didn't know who the F we were and he's from Aledo.

Agreed but the fact he's coming in on a visit possibly is a very good thing.

Eagle-96 · January 19, 2016

3 minutes ago, GMG24 said:

Agreed but the fact he's coming in on a visit possibly is a very good thing.

Agreed. Super happy he is coming in as he is a 3-star composite. Just disappointed that people in our backyard know so little about us. Sounds like we will have a lot of recruits in over the next two weekends could provide an exciting atmosphere for the recruits.

Cerebus · January 19, 2016

Offers from Fresno and Mizzou, would be a good pickup if the coaches can sway him.

Wag Tag · January 19, 2016

12 minutes ago, Cerebus said:

Offers from Fresno and Mizzou, would be a good pickup if the coaches can sway him.

!http://247sports.com/Player/Jaron-Bryant-79613. Maybe check out?

emmitt01 · January 19, 2016

I have always said that, if you can get an 18 year old man to step foot on our campus and walk him around during a school day, we can recruit anyone.

untjim1995 · January 19, 2016

2 minutes ago, emmitt01 said:

I have always said that, if you can get an 18 year old man to step foot on our campus and walk him around during a school day, we can recruit anyone.

That seems to be the problem...when kids that play for state championships at Aledo, just west of Ft. Worth, don't know anything about our program--where we play, what level we play at, who is in our conference, etc...it all basically quantifies every single thing our university has done wrong in the past 35 years regarding football.

Marty · January 19, 2016

Where did it say that Peek had never heard of us?

GrandGreen · January 19, 2016

48 minutes ago, emmitt01 said:

I have always said that, if you can get an 18 year old man to step foot on our campus and walk him around during a school day, we can recruit anyone.

Apologize for "old times post", but this reminds of a Fry quote, when he said essentially the same thing. If he can get them on campus, he can sign them.

This is despite both NT and Denton in the seventies not having near what they currently have to offer.

MeanGreenTexan · January 19, 2016

10 minutes ago, Marty said:

Where did it say that Peek had never heard of us?

I think maybe he was alluding to the quote: " As soon I got off the phone with the North Texas coach I looked UNT up and saw that he had transferred there. "z

I didn't take that to mean he had never heard of The University of North Texas, rather, he wanted to look us up to see what's going on. He likely found MeanGreenSports.com, Vito's blog, and *gasp* gomeangreen.com.

GOMG2013 · January 19, 2016

40 minutes ago, MeanGreenTexan said:

I think maybe he was alluding to the quote: " As soon I got off the phone with the North Texas coach I looked UNT up and saw that he had transferred there. "z

I didn't take that to mean he had never heard of The University of North Texas, rather, he wanted to look us up to see what's going on. He likely found MeanGreenSports.com, Vito's blog, and *gasp* gomeangreen.com.

Thats how I took it too.

VideoEagle · January 19, 2016

The article never says anything about him not knowing who NT is or that we play football or even the conference in which we play. He didn't know the names of other recruits coming here but once he looked he did recognize at least one of the names! Just because a kid didn't know the name of any of our recruits BEFORE he talked to our coach doesn't mean we've been a failure for the past decades. He WAS interested enough to do some research after one phone call!

FirefightnRick · January 20, 2016

6 hours ago, Eagle-96 said:

Good: He saw Bryce English transferred and knew he was good. This intrigued him and may be a factor that sways recruits.

Bad: He seems like he is still committed to FSU

Ugly: He didn't know who the F we were and he's from Aledo.

Well, he played for Aledo ,..but I knew what you meant.

Rick

Edited January 20, 2016 by FirefightnRick

Green P1 · January 20, 2016

18 minutes ago, FirefightnRick said:

Well, he played for Aledo ,..but I knew what you meant.

Rick

I laughed

greenit · January 20, 2016

6 hours ago, Eagle-96 said:

Agreed. Super happy he is coming in as he is a 3-star composite. Just disappointed that people in our backyard know so little about us. Sounds like we will have a lot of recruits in over the next two weekends could provide an exciting atmosphere for the recruits.

Keep in mind that he probably never heard of Aledo before they recruited him either.

UNT90 · January 20, 2016

15 hours ago, VideoEagle said:

The article never says anything about him not knowing who NT is or that we play football or even the conference in which we play. He didn't know the names of other recruits coming here but once he looked he did recognize at least one of the names! Just because a kid didn't know the name of any of our recruits BEFORE he talked to our coach doesn't mean we've been a failure for the past decades. He WAS interested enough to do some research after one phone call!

This is correct. The story reads that he wanted to learn MORE about UNT once he was contacted, not that he didn't know that UNT existed.