Getting To Know the Class of 2018

[BillySee58]

A comment during the NSD show really caught my attention when Cade Pearson was getting interviewed. He stated that he watched some game film of Graham Harrell at Texas Tech on YouTube. When Harrell was hired I saw a lot of posts along the lines of "Recruits grew up watching Harrell at Tech." 

To which I said, I thought people were not grasping how long ago that was and how old these kids were. A kid the class before told Harrell that the Tech vs Texas game in 08 was the first college game he ever watched and Harrell was shocked at that. He too wasn't grasping how long ago that was in relation to their short lives.

I've been wanting to do this for a while, but I'm making this post to put in perspective what football moments these kids have been exposed to by juxtaposing their life timelines with college football, mainly UNT football, events.

High school class of 2018:

• Born
- Typically between June 1999 and August 2000

• UNT wins first Sunbelt title (fall 2001)
- Age: 1 or 2 years old

• UNT wins final Sunbelt title (fall 2004)
- Age: 4 or 5 years old, in pre-K

• Texas vs. USC National Championship game 1/4/2006
- Age: 5 or 6 years old

• Todd Dodge's last game at Southlake Carroll (December 2006)
- Age: 6 or 7 years old

• Graham Harrell's senior season at Texas Tech (2008)
- Age: 8 or 9 years old

• Todd Dodge's last game at North Texas (2010)
- Age: 10 or 11 years old

• Johnny Manziel wins heisman (2012)
- Age: 12 or 13 years old
- *This is the age where you start seeing kids who are into sports actually start paying attention and following college football. Even then, it's typically the Ohio State and Alabama type games, or where their parents went/are fans of.

• North Texas wins HOD Bowl (January 2014)
- Age: 13 or 14 and in 8th grade

• Dan Mccarney coaches final game at North Texas (fall 2015)
- Age: 15 or 16 and sophomores in high school.
- I believe this was true for last class, but I would be shocked if a kid we recruit this class could name Mccarney as our coach before Littrell without doing research.

[ChristopherRyanWilkes]

I feel old now, and I'm not that old. Tech vs UT was my senior year of high school and I joked with my brother who went to UT I was going to Tech now. Thank God that didn't happen.