19' WR Offer: Deonte Simpson, West Brook (Beaumont, TX) - 3-star .8432

UNTLifer · March 5, 2018

6'0" 192 lbs.

We are currently his only offer.

https://247sports.com/player/deonte-simpson-46053447

Edited December 18, 2018 by UNTLifer

p_phelps · June 17, 2018

GMG24 · June 17, 2018

Currently holds in this order of offers, UNT, Cornell, Tulsa, Southern Miss, Northwestern, Yale, TX State, Air Force, Lamar, Sam Houston State, ULM, and picked up Tulane yesterday afternoon. Everyone relax. We will be ok. 🙂

p_phelps · June 17, 2018

20 minutes ago, GMG24 said:

Currently holds in this order of offers, UNT, Cornell, Tulsa, Southern Miss, Northwestern, Yale, TX State, Air Force, Lamar, Sam Houston State, ULM, and picked up Tulane yesterday afternoon. Everyone relax. We will be ok. 🙂

I don't get the panicking...compared to last year's at this time we're ok. The guys we have currently committed would be the best of last year already.

TheReal_jayD · June 17, 2018

10 minutes ago, p_phelps said:

I don't get the panicking...compared to last year's at this time we're ok. The guys we have currently committed would be the best of last year already.

And it's only getting better!

AustinFromUNT · June 17, 2018

6 Other G5 offers, a P5 offer, & a couple of FCS offers. Staff’s Recruiting is definitely improving.

greenminer · June 17, 2018

This is a good get.

Still hoping for something similar along the trenches.

TheReal_jayD · June 17, 2018

6 minutes ago, greenminer said:

This is a good get.

Still hoping for something similar along the trenches.

Trenches is hard for even the best recruiting g5.. North Texas has done a good job at finding underrated guys and developing. I believe Brammer and Parish on offense and Novil and Shaw will be fan favorites before long

djohnnie · June 17, 2018

Welcome to the family Deonte! Go Mean Green!

greenminer · June 17, 2018

28 minutes ago, TheReal_jayD said:

Trenches is hard for even the best recruiting g5.. North Texas has done a good job at finding underrated guys and developing.

We've done a good job finding underrated guys and developing, I just think if we want to start winning CUSA title games and avoiding bowl blowout losses, this is the position we need to start building on.

I agree it's not easy, but I think it's reasonable to expect us to be on par or slightly ahead of our CUSA mates. If you think it is unreasonable, I'm open to hearing someone explain why.

How have the OL and DL positions compared the last 5 years? - save this last question for another thread.

Edited June 17, 2018 by greenminer

TheReal_jayD · June 17, 2018

10 minutes ago, greenminer said:

We've done a good job finding underrated guys and developing, I just think if we want to start winning CUSA title games and avoiding bowl blowout losses, this is the position we need to start building on.

I agree it's not easy, but I think it's reasonable to expect us to be on par or slightly ahead of our CUSA mates. If you think it is unreasonable, I'm open to hearing someone explain why.

How have the OL and DL positions compared the last 5 years? - save this last question for another thread.

Honestly last year we out performed ourselves. We had no business in the CUSA championship game. But our offense out performed and carried us. Seth has never wanted to take the easy path and get the better kids with less character. He wants to build it right. We can argue it's not the right path or solution. But since taking over it can be said Seth hasn't had a player transfer or suspended that he recruited. He wants the Right character guys and guys that want to be at UNT not last resort or no other options

Green Lantern · June 17, 2018

Another quality pickup. This recruiting class is off to a great start.

greenminer · June 18, 2018

5 hours ago, TheReal_jayD said:

Honestly last year we out performed ourselves. We had no business in the CUSA championship game. But our offense out performed and carried us. Seth has never wanted to take the easy path and get the better kids with less character. He wants to build it right. We can argue it's not the right path or solution. But since taking over it can be said Seth hasn't had a player transfer or suspended that he recruited. He wants the Right character guys and guys that want to be at UNT not last resort or no other options

Kind of a weird response, like you're suggesting either 1) GreenMiner wants low character guys or, 2) All those 3 star guys we want are low character. I don't think either of us mean either of those things.

My final thought on this is, if we are content with being top 3 in the west and probably getting blown out by conference and bowl opponents 4 out of 5 years, and maybe winning 10+ games once every decade, then we can be okay with what we're getting. If we want to be the team that can win the CUSA title AND bowl game 4 out of 5 years, and thus getting T25 votes, I think this is a position we need to improve upon.

Thanks for all of your recruiting insight, @TheReal_jayD

GMG

Edited June 18, 2018 by greenminer