UAB game recruit visits

TheReal_jayD · September 21, 2017

There is going to be a TON of top recruits in New Denton this weekend. I have been following recruiting since my days at North Texas and this is the biggest Recruiting cost day I can remember. I would say 90% of the guys they have offers extended to will be in town. And almost every one that is currently committed will be in town! This will be a great chance for the commits to mingle and do a little Recruiting. So it is a must that the team doesn't lay an Egg this weekend and hopefully being family weekend there will be a nice crowd! I will post list later in the week. GMG

Harry · September 21, 2017

Huge weekend for sure. Should be a good crowd. Need to snag the W! GMG!

MeanGreenTexan · September 21, 2017

Looking forward to the list @TheReal_jayD

AustinFromUNT · September 21, 2017

Pretty ballsy move. Great if we win and have a good crowd. Not good if no one shows up and we lose. All your eggs in one basket and what not. Guess we’ll just have to win.

MeanGreenTexan · September 21, 2017

4 minutes ago, AustinFromUNT said:

Pretty ballsy move. Great if we win and have a good crowd. Not good if no one shows up and we lose. All your eggs in one basket and what not. Guess we’ll just have to win.

I have a feeling there will be more visits. No need to worry about losing all of our recruits in one fell swoop.

UNTLifer · September 21, 2017

They will be impressed with the win and everything that goes with it.

BTG_Fan1 · September 21, 2017

5 hours ago, AustinFromUNT said:

Pretty ballsy move. Great if we win and have a good crowd. Not good if no one shows up and we lose. All your eggs in one basket and what not. Guess we’ll just have to win.

Lets just hope that we have a solid performance on the field. If we can even do 75% of what we did vs Lamar to UAB it would help us alot in terms of how we are viewed and leaving a solid impression...

BillySee58 · September 21, 2017

Really good to hear. One of the more unspoken bad recruiting tactics of the Mccarney era was that we very rarely had players on official visits for game days. Typically almost all of the OVs were in January, when there were no games

GMG24 · September 22, 2017

3 hours ago, BillySee58 said:

Really good to hear. One of the more unspoken bad recruiting tactics of the Mccarney era was that we very rarely had players on official visits for game days. Typically almost all of the OVs were in January, when there were no games

Agreed, bring them UOV during season then bring them in on an OV during January. Wondering how many we can sign in December and convince to stay home early.

Cr1028 · September 22, 2017

13 hours ago, AustinFromUNT said:

Pretty ballsy move. Great if we win and have a good crowd. Not good if no one shows up and we lose. All your eggs in one basket and what not. Guess we’ll just have to win.

I disagree. There is no better way to get recruits to want to play for you than them meeting players committed to you that they really want to play with.

UNTLifer · September 22, 2017

On 9/21/2017 at 7:05 AM, TheReal_jayD said:

I will post list later in the week. GMG

Any updates?

TheReal_jayD · September 22, 2017

3 hours ago, UNTLifer said:

Any updates?

Yes the list is pretty much complete still waiting on a handful of response. I got confirmation of about 5 kids committed to other schools that I'm gonna leave off the list just to keep them from getting slack from committed school. And there will be several class of 19 and 20 there but I'm not putting any one UNT hasn't offered

MeanGreenTexan · September 22, 2017

32 minutes ago, TheReal_jayD said:

Yes the list is pretty much complete still waiting on a handful of response. I got confirmation of about 5 kids committed to other schools that I'm gonna leave off the list just to keep them from getting slack from committed school. And there will be several class of 19 and 20 there but I'm not putting any one UNT hasn't offered

Rucker/Dove coming? Maybe bringing a certain teammate that touches the ball every time on offense?

jdennis82 · September 22, 2017

Well played by the staff.

Kids visit during the attendance boost of family weekend and are seated together with fellow targets watching the 2013 squad get recognized for their contribution to the program. I can easily picture them talking up the idea of joining together to get rings of their own while in Denton.

Ideally, some will also take in the HOF festivities and be motivated to work toward a HOF worthy career of there own for the Mean Green.

MeanGreenTexan · September 23, 2017

3 hours ago, jdennis82 said:

Well played by the staff.

Kids visit during the attendance boost of family weekend and are seated together with fellow targets watching the 2013 squad get recognized for their contribution to the program. I can easily picture them talking up the idea of joining together to get rings of their own while in Denton.

Ideally, some will also take in the HOF festivities and be motivated to work toward a HOF worthy career of there own for the Mean Green.

Yep, & if we have any LBs in the house, I hope they get to mingle with All-Pro LB Zach Orr as well!

BTG_Fan1 · September 23, 2017

21 minutes ago, MeanGreenTexan said:

Yep, & if we have any LBs in the house, I hope they get to mingle with All-Pro LB Zach Orr as well!

He is in London with the Ravens..

Also, for the older fans.. Haynes will be at the game as well getting an award near the start of halftime

GMG24 · September 23, 2017

Kids from The Colony HS starting with class of '20

#88 Keith Miller WR, 6'4 about 200 pounds has some of the biggest hands I've ever seen and strong as can be (Hands). His speed and route running need a lot of work but the frame is there.

https://www.hudl.com/profile/7838859/keith-miller

#2 Myles Price RB/Corner/ATH kid is the most electric guy I've been around and personally coached. He's got IT.

http://www.hudl.com/video/3/8316091/59c4043eb535b704e069e126

#11 Kenneth (Mikey) Harrington QB, Kid reminds me of Tune, but moves better in the pocket. He is going to be Elite hopefully we jump in early. He is 6'1 6'2 ( I don't care too much about height, but he weighs maybe 130)

http://www.hudl.com/video/3/7650601/59c441e0f56a8a31dccce84c

Class of '19

#1 Jadan Abdallah RB/OLB IMO he is a D1 Defensive player, not on the offensive side of the ball. He is working on getting adjusted to playing both ways, only played defense last year, is one of our two feature backs this year. If you'd like to see what I am talking about scroll down and check out his Sophomore Highlights.

http://www.hudl.com/video/3/5666091/59c3cd0b90f0350e346e6f6a

#23 Cameron (Cam) Pair FS stands at 5'9 if he was 5'11" he would already have 10 offers. Kid got us lined up and himself as a Sophomore, plays run and pass as our FS. He is a football player.

http://www.hudl.com/video/3/5576143/59c512e7bd759217f0e4fc2e

Class of '18

#4 Jaxon Gibbs WR/Safety/PR/KR (He's committed) He is still learning our offense expect his offensive highlights to pick up in the coming weeks. He is starting to grasp our concepts and schemes.

http://www.hudl.com/video/3/5329782/59c4107390f0352e18b747a8

#25 Jay Hurd WR/Corner 6'2 probably 190 Great athlete, Dad played at Baylor and was a stud. Kid is coming into his own if he keeps producing he's got a shot to be special.

http://www.hudl.com/video/3/4434598/59c505aaff0cd821d8501662

BTG_Fan1 · September 23, 2017

54 minutes ago, GMG24 said:

Kids from The Colony HS starting with class of '20

Are you bringing all these guys? or they coming with their families as well?

Are all of them Unofficial visits? I'm asuming the Jr and below have to be?

GMG24 · September 23, 2017

All unofficial. I'm gunna be at the front door making sure they get where they need to be.

BTG_Fan1 · September 23, 2017

2 hours ago, GMG24 said:

All unofficial. I'm gunna be at the front door making sure they get where they need to be.

Thanks for bringing them! And let's hope this is a great time for them

DeepGreen · September 23, 2017

12 hours ago, GMG24 said:

All unofficial. I'm gunna be at the front door making sure they get where they need to be.

Love for you to post some feedback from the recruits. What did they think of their overall "game experience".

TheReal_jayD · September 23, 2017

This is a list that i have confirmed will be in #NewDenton. Now i figure there will be several other Visitors and some unofficial visitors but these are only the ones i have confirmed. Also there is 5 kids committed to other schools that i have confirmed will be here. But I am Keeping them off the list as well.

Committed visitors

Keelan Crosby Safety

Jordan Redfearn OL

Kason Martin QB

Larry NIxon LB

Jaxon Gibbs Safety

Uncommited Targets

Jaquan Tillis APB

Stefan Cobbs WR (Having a Huge bounce back year from ACL injury. Received Boise State and Tulane offer in last week)

Jyaire Shorter WR

those are ones with offers I have confirmed There will be many others there that are close to offers

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BTG_Fan1 · September 24, 2017

13 hours ago, TheReal_jayD said:

This is a list that i have confirmed will be in #NewDenton. Now i figure there will be several other Visitors and some unofficial visitors but these are only the ones i have confirmed. Also there is 5 kids committed to other schools that i have confirmed will be here. But I am Keeping them off the list as well.

Committed visitors

Keelan Crosby Safety

Jordan Redfearn OL

Kason Martin QB

Larry NIxon LB

Jaxon Gibbs Safety

Uncommited Targets

Jaquan Tillis APB

Stefan Cobbs WR (Having a Huge bounce back year from ACL injury. Received Boise State and Tulane offer in last week)

Jyaire Shorter WR

those are ones with offers I have confirmed There will be many others there that are close to offers

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">going out to UNT today catch <a href="https://twitter.com/CoachBrownUNT">@CoachBrownUNT</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/CoachFilaUNT">@CoachFilaUNT</a> handle business against UAB 🤙🏾 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GoMeanGreen?src=hash">#GoMeanGreen</a></p>— G🚀 (@g_gawd3000) <a href="https://twitter.com/g_gawd3000/status/911615377402187779">September 23, 2017</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">UNT game today 🦅</p>— KC¹⁵ (@__iamKC) <a href="https://twitter.com/__iamKC/status/911619491355820032">September 23, 2017</a></blockquote>
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What is at the bottom?

Also, great showing by K.Smith for Shorter...

GMG24 · September 24, 2017

23 hours ago, DeepGreen said:

Love for you to post some feedback from the recruits. What did they think of their overall "game experience".

They all had their eyes opened when they saw the size and speed of our guys, yes even at UNT D1 dudes are much bigger and faster than your average HS kid. They loved the presentation on facilities and where the University is headed. They loved that UNT had a lot of options academically and that they had invested so much $ into new facilities not just athletically but academically. The pitch from last year to this year changed a bit, in that last year they talked a lot more about each coach and where they recruited this year they hit big time on facilities/upgrades/renovations and the new Nike contract. Didn't go into details about that only that they were maxed in storage. The facility expansion of athletic complex (offices team room etc, will begin once indoor is finished). Also fun fact the day we're done with fall practice the bull dozer will begin moving dirt for the indoor, if I heard correctly. The pictures of the new indoor looked incredible. The kids were very impressed by the different graphics etc. even the team room had upgrades since the last time I was in.

Negatives: they all mentioned how tiny the weight room was, one asked where the football weight room was, as we walked in. That got answered in the facilities expansion. Looks like they'll blow out the training room and make that all the weight room doubling its size with the ability to expand further if $ allows.

A bit disorganized at the end of the game, no one to grab all recruits and say ok we're going into the LR for post game speech. Kind of left to our own to figure out where to go. Also once we were dropped off in stands by the girls helping out that was the last of anyone we saw. Wish we had some type of halftime deal where kids and family went back inside saw a different presentation maybe highlights, or have Former players come in and talk about their time at the university. There is much less "hype" in our recruiting process than the other schools I've been to, and kids relate to that. Energy was a bit flat throughout the evening. When I attended an SMU (gross) game with one of my kids the energy level was off the charts and it resonated with the kids. Just my observations and what I heard from the kids.

Positives- Every kid there was raving about our staff and their relationship with them. Spoke with a Local kid who we are in on, and he said he had bigger offers but he loved the staff and loved what they were building. Think we have a solid shot on him, kid has his head on his shoulders straight. He isn't one who will get the wool pulled over his eyes.

Edited September 24, 2017 by GMG24

DeepGreen · September 24, 2017

2 hours ago, GMG24 said:

A bit disorganized at the end of the game, no one to grab all recruits and say ok we're going into the LR for post game speech. Kind of left to our own to figure out where to go. Also once we were dropped off in stands by the girls helping out that was the last of anyone we saw. Wish we had some type of halftime deal where kids and family went back inside saw a different presentation maybe highlights, or have Former players come in and talk about their time at the university. There is much less "hype" in our recruiting process than the other schools I've been to, and kids relate to that. Energy was a bit flat throughout the evening. When I attended an SMU (gross) game with one of my kids the energy level was off the charts and it resonated with the kids. Just my observations and what I heard from the kids.

The football staff needs to know this kind of feedback and fix this problem.

thanks for the first hand information.