2017 DL Zack Semrak. Southlake Carroll

UNT90 · November 8, 2016

Baker stopped by our tailgate the Saturday after I emailed him. He personally told me the email had been forwarded on to the head of recruiting, so at this point I guess they just don't see him as a good fit.

I also asked for tickets for an unofficial visit in that email. No response. Not a great way to build relationships.

It will be interesting to see how his offer list shapes up by February. That will tell the tale.

97and03 · November 8, 2016

Too small for DT in this system and too slow for DE?

UNT90 · November 14, 2016

Stats from Friday night: Zackery Semrak 9 tackles, TFL, Pass deflected, 4 pressures.

K State assistant coach in attendance to scout Zack (and others, I'm sure). K State has been in contact and invited Zack for a visit, but no offer yet.

Still absolutely zero contact from UNT.

Edited November 14, 2016 by UNT90

UNT90 · November 22, 2016

Zack was selected first team All-District at DT for district 5-6A. I'm quite sure offers are to follow.

UNT still not in the game.

http://www.wfaa.com/sports/2016-5-6a-all-district-selections/355003348

Marty · November 23, 2016

2 hours ago, UNT90 said:

Zack was selected first team All-District at DT for district 5-6A. I'm quite sure offers are to follow.

UNT still not in the game.

http://www.wfaa.com/sports/2016-5-6a-all-district-selections/355003348

Offensive MVP Clayton Tune QB Hebron, that's Nathan's little brother!

hope they've found Ray by now!

Withers940 · November 23, 2016

13 hours ago, Marty said:

Offensive MVP Clayton Tune QB Hebron, that's Nathan's little brother!

hope they've found Ray by now!

I run into Tune all the time and his brother is going to have a whole bunch of offers this time next year (Class of '18). Clayton can straight up sling it.... He got hurt in the playoffs but i dont know to what extent and how serious

Would be great to try and get a family discount and drag Clayton this way but I give it a slim chance of him coming here

GMG24 · November 23, 2016

3 hours ago, Withers940 said:

I run into Tune all the time and his brother is going to have a whole bunch of offers this time next year (Class of '18). Clayton can straight up sling it.... He got hurt in the playoffs but i dont know to what extent and how serious

Would be great to try and get a family discount and drag Clayton this way but I give it a slim chance of him coming here

I believe he tore his knee up pretty good. It did not look pretty at the game.

Withers940 · November 23, 2016

41 minutes ago, GMG24 said:

I believe he tore his knee up pretty good. It did not look pretty at the game.

Damn, poor kid

GMG24 · November 23, 2016

3 minutes ago, Withers940 said:

Damn, poor kid

Yeah, he was the guy who made it all go. I thought they'd have a chance in this past weeks game until he went down.

UNT90 · November 26, 2016

Zack's stars for the season ending loss to Desoto:

9 tackles

2 Solo tackles.

1 pass deflected.

Contact period with visits allowed begin tomorrow. He is also putting up new highlights to his HUDL account tomorrow.

Should be interesting.

UNT90 · November 27, 2016

New highlights. As you can tell by his frame, plenty of room to add 30 to 40 pounds:

UNT90 · November 28, 2016

Zack is still 17. He won't be 18 until February...

UNTLifer · November 28, 2016

Is anybody recruiting this young man? Outside of Hudl, none of the recruiting sites have anything on him. I applaud you for your diligence in wanting to help a family friend, but maybe there is a reason only low level FCS's are sniffing around.

MEEN2018 · November 28, 2016

15 minutes ago, UNTLifer said:

Is anybody recruiting this young man? Outside of Hudl, none of the recruiting sites have anything on him. I applaud you for your diligence in wanting to help a family friend, but maybe there is a reason only low level FCS's are sniffing around.

Especially considering the people that keep promoting these players are the ones that constantly complain whenever UNT recruits a player that doesn't have multiple P5 offers...

UNT90 · November 29, 2016

1 hour ago, UNTLifer said:

Is anybody recruiting this young man? Outside of Hudl, none of the recruiting sites have anything on him. I applaud you for your diligence in wanting to help a family friend, but maybe there is a reason only low level FCS's are sniffing around.

K St. has been in contact. It's in a previous post in this thread, along with a description of why he is late to the recruiting table. He is a 6'3" 250 lb 1st team all-district 5-6A DL. I'm not worried about offers forthcoming.

Read the thread. That would be a start.

1 hour ago, MEEN2018 said:

Especially considering the people that keep promoting these players are the ones that constantly complain whenever UNT recruits a player that doesn't have multiple P5 offers...

Is this a Cerebus shadow account? Wouldn't surprise me.

Ben Gooding · November 29, 2016

I can see why he's not getting much love in this highlight. He's currently undersized at his position and his lateral speed is already a step to a step and a half too slow. If he packs on 25-30 pounds to get to D1 playing weight, gravity will be less kind. Good technique, appears to be strong kid, high motor, etc. My bet someone takes a chance on him before it's all said and done.

UNTLifer · November 29, 2016

15 hours ago, UNT90 said:

K St. has been in contact. It's in a previous post in this thread, along with a description of why he is late to the recruiting table. He is a 6'3" 250 lb 1st team all-district 5-6A DL. I'm not worried about offers forthcoming.

Read the thread. That would be a start.

Is this a Cerebus shadow account? Wouldn't surprise me.

@UNT90, I have read this entire thread which is why I posed the question. Outside of K State contacting him, who has offered? I received a letter from UT baseball, which I would consider contact, prior to my senior year of high school baseball. It never led to an offer, visit or anything. I was asking an honest question. Sorry, I didn't mean to hit a nerve.

UNT90 · November 29, 2016

25 minutes ago, UNTLifer said:

@UNT90, I have read this entire thread which is why I posed the question. Outside of K State contacting him, who has offered? I received a letter from UT baseball, which I would consider contact, prior to my senior year of high school baseball. It never led to an offer, visit or anything. I was asking an honest question. Sorry, I didn't mean to hit a nerve.

He has had handwritten contact with K State, who also came down to scout a game. He is extremely late to the recruiting party, as he didn't camp last year. This is his first year as a starter because he backed up King Newton, a true freshman starter at UTSA that gave UNT fits. He didn't post HUDL highlights until mid season this year.

It wouldn't matter if he was a 5 star, if I post it, you'll criticize it. I think we all know that by now

UNTLifer · November 29, 2016

1 hour ago, UNT90 said:

He has had handwritten contact with K State, who also came down to scout a game. He is extremely late to the recruiting party, as he didn't camp last year. This is his first year as a starter because he backed up King Newton, a true freshman starter at UTSA that gave UNT fits. He didn't post HUDL highlights until mid season this year.

It wouldn't matter if he was a 5 star, if I post it, you'll criticize it. I think we all know that by now

Get over it. I haven't responded to a number of your posts lately, and this one was far from highly critical. In fact, I commended you for "going to bat" for a family friend, but I also asked an honest question. Let go of the grudge.

GMG_Dallas · November 29, 2016

@UNT90 Would he consider walking on if needed? I don't have any insight, just asking out of curiosity. If he want to plays FBS football and that is the only option he has, is he willing to go that route?

Edited November 29, 2016 by GMG_Dallas

UNT90 · November 29, 2016

1 hour ago, GMG_Dallas said:

@UNT90 Would he consider walking on if needed? I don't have any insight, just asking out of curiosity. If he want to plays FBS football and that is the only option he has, is he willing to go that route?

I'm not sure how he would feel about it. This isn't your typical Southlake kid. A scholarship is important to him. IF that ends up being an only option, I'm quite sure he would be open to it, but knowing the whole story surrounding this kid, I think he will have other options. A scholarship at another G5 or even if only an FCS would most likely be accepted over a preferred walk-on offer at a "better" school, depending on proper acedemic programs.

Rock solid character with this kid, also. He will work his ass off and stay on the straight and narrow. His coaches seem to think he is a FBS football player, also. I trust their evaluation over any of the yahoos on this opinion site.

EDIT: And UNT has not even been in contact reference a preferred walk-on spot. An active recruiting period just opened up and Zack's coaches will be making some calls. Zack is interested in UNT, which is why I have been pushing him. You would think this staff would at least contact him to build a relationship for a preferred walk on spot even if they didn't think he was worth the offer, just in case Zack didn't get any other offers (which I think is very doubtful at this point). I mean, the kid IS a first team 5-6A all district performer.

Edited November 29, 2016 by UNT90

UNT90 · November 30, 2016

One other thing. The letters UNAM next to Zack's name in the all-district link means that he is a UNANAMOUS all district 1st team selection. In a very good district.

EDIT: Also, all three SLC LBs made all-district, setting a school record for tackles by linebackers. I think we all know one of the most important functions of a NT is to occupy blockers and free up linebackers to run to the ball. Another mission accomplished, as you will notice all the double and triple teams in those highlights.

Edited November 30, 2016 by UNT90

UNT90 · December 23, 2016

Zack was named 3rd team on the Star-Telegram's All Area team.

Still not one peep from UNT:

http://www.star-telegram.com/sports/dfwvarsity/prep-football/article122411764.html

Edited December 23, 2016 by UNT90

jtm0097 · December 23, 2016

2 hours ago, UNT90 said:

Zack was named 3rd team on the Star-Telegram's All Area team.

Still not one peep from UNT:

http://www.star-telegram.com/sports/dfwvarsity/prep-football/article122411764.html

@dltough is the twitter handle for Coach Leblanc. I tweeted him the link of this topic. Hope it helps.

Edited December 23, 2016 by jtm0097

UNT90 · December 23, 2016

4 minutes ago, jtm0097 said:

@dltough is the twitter handle for Coach Leblanc. I tweeted him the link of this forum. Hope it helps.

Thanks. But I'm not sure that the coaches monitor their Twitter accounts. Unless they are just EXTREMELY disconnected electronically, they know about Zack. I can only assume they aren't interested as they have made zero contact. It's a shame. He could help this program and will help the program where he lands. He has the work ethic that will make him successful. Just ask his coaches. But someone would actually have to talk to his coaches to ask that question, wouldn't they?