Oklahoma LB Jacobi Johnson commits to UNT

[TheReal_jayD]

 

 

Edited June 13, 2019 by TheReal_jayD

[Wag Tag]

Awesome! Congrats! Now move EriiK Williams to the opposite DE! GMG 

Edited June 13, 2019 by Wag Tag

[NorthTexan95]

Finally someone to change the lightbulbs! 🙂 

[UNTLifer]

18 minutes ago, TheReal_jayD said:

 

https://twitter.com/cobitheathlete/status/1138980686491267072?s=19 

 

[Harry]

[UNT Texas Hooligan]

Ask and you shall receive. That is a lot of beef in this class

[dml7007]

Title is misleading.. Best I can see he is a OLB, and 6" 4" - 225.  Maybe the plan to move him to DE, with adding a lot of weight?

 

[p_phelps]

1 minute ago, dml7007 said:

Title is misleading.. Best I can see he is a OLB, and 6" 4" - 225.  Maybe the plan to move him to DE, with adding a lot of weight?

 

He will play the stand up OLB/DE 

[Marty]

http://www.hudl.com/profile/8595821/Jacobi-Johnson

[Brett Vito]

DRC:

https://www.dentonrc.com/sports/unt-adds-oklahoma-linebacker-to-recruiting-class/article_5c126595-7340-50e9-b92e-1cee8d5dd673.html

Edited June 13, 2019 by Brett Vito

[FirefightnRick]

8 hours ago, Marty said:

http://www.hudl.com/profile/8595821/Jacobi-Johnson

Geez, bring that NT here too.

 

Rick

Edited June 13, 2019 by FirefightnRick

[UNTLifer]

1 hour ago, FirefightnRick said:

Geez, bring that NT here too.

 

Rick

#67?  I was wondering he about him.  Not terrible explosive but a great space eater.

[MeanGreenTexan]

Welcome aboard Jacobi!

[Harry]

Welcome to the Mean Green Family Jacobi!

[Christopher Walker]

We're on the bubble towards a Top-30 recruiting class at the moment sitting #31 nationally. This is wild. One might even say... #UNTamed

Like, hot damn: https://247sports.com/Season/2020-Football/CompositeTeamRankings/

Relevant Comparisons in the top 100 as of today:
16 – Texas A&M
30 – Texas
31 – North Texas
32 – California
38 – TCU
51 – Baylor
53 – Rice
58 – SMU
59 – UTSA
61 – LaTech
73 – Southern Miss
76 – Memphis
81 – UCF
86 – FAU
95 – FIU
99 – Houston

Edited June 13, 2019 by Christopher Walker

[97and03]

I love seeing us up in the rankings, but let’s also tap the breaks and be honest: this is a short-term thing based upon volume of recruits. If you look at the average rating of the recruits of the other schools, they are generally significantly higher but they have fewer verbals at this point. 

I am, however, quite pleased with the results to this point and like the balance of this class so far. The fact that we have a highly regarded Defensive Tackle on the board in June is phenomenal. (Let’s get one more please!) I think we are all going to be very happy with this class. 

I hope that in the short term, this high (but temporary) ranking will help us land more higher 3 star players in this class. Then maybe we will finish top50 - which would be amazing. 

Edited June 13, 2019 by 97and03

[Christopher Walker]

Just now, 97and03 said:

I love seeing us up in the rankings, but let’s also tap the breaks and be honest: this is a short-term thing based upon volume of recruits. If you look at the average rating of the recruits of the other schools, they are generally significantly higher but they have fewer verbals at this point. 

I am, however, quite pleased with the results to this point and like the balance of this class so far. The fact that we have a highly regarded Defensive Tackle on the board in June is phenomenal. (Let’s get one more please!) I think we are all going to be very happy with this class. 

Absolutely! But here's the further thing - we can greatly utilize this short-term buzz into long-term strategic messaging on the recruiting trail. It's how so many of the truly successful peer institutions go about it.

[97and03]

Just now, Christopher Walker said:

Absolutely! But here's the further thing - we can greatly utilize this short-term buzz into long-term strategic messaging on the recruiting trail. It's how so many of the truly successful peer institutions go about it.

Funny, that is what I just added to my post!

[golfingomez]

we need to be advertising on recruting ranking ASAP... 31st best class in the country, Top G6 recruiting class... whatever brings us more attention, we need to do it ASAP

 

[All About UNT]

4 hours ago, golfingomez said:

we need to be advertising on recruting ranking ASAP... 31st best class in the country, Top G6 recruiting class... whatever brings us more attention, we need to do it ASAP

 

My only reservation about that tactic is that we get all of our slots filled by the lower tier 3* athletes that are afraid of missing what they might have considered a backup scholarship (from us) if bigger schools don't come calling.  Would that mean that someone that ranks higher wouldn't be in the running anymore merely because we didn't have space?  Also, like others have said, getting all riled up about being ranked this high is premature.  It would be very busch-league to tout our ranking when other people will know it's due to volume and not average player rating.  

[Wag Tag]

17 minutes ago, All About UNT said:

My only reservation about that tactic is that we get all of our slots filled by the lower tier 3* athletes that are afraid of missing what they might have considered a backup scholarship (from us) if bigger schools don't come calling.  Would that mean that someone that ranks higher wouldn't be in the running anymore merely because we didn't have space?  Also, like others have said, getting all riled up about being ranked this high is premature.  It would be very busch-league to tout our ranking when other people will know it's due to volume and not average player rating.  

Bull!

[SigmaGreen]

Some of these teams have as many or more commits than us, should they not be excited too?

[MeanGreenTexan]

2 minutes ago, SigmaGreen said:

Some of these teams have as many or more commits than us, should they not be excited too?

Let's get at least one 4* guy, and we can start comparing ourselves to those schools.

[SigmaGreen]

Ok, so if we did...then it’s ok to celebrate? One could argue that they are ranked higher because they have that (1) 4* 

[ntmeangreen11]

17 minutes ago, SigmaGreen said:

Ok, so if we did...then it’s ok to celebrate? One could argue that they are ranked higher because they have that (1) 4* 

There's only 7 schools in the top 60 with a lower rating average per player than us. While our efforts this year have been impressive we will likely only slide from here and have trouble staying in the top 60 depending on how many we sign. It's good we have this many commits but I would still say it's too early to celebrate. Especially since Litrell potentially leaving could lead to a mass exodus of commits anyways you never know.