Jeff Traylor leading candidate at UTSA

Harry · December 9, 2019

bstnsportsfan3 · December 9, 2019

Successful in the Texas high school ranks. May not be a horrible hire for them.

jtm0097 · December 9, 2019

He has been recruiting kids since his time at Gilmer. The guy is a piece of work. A very fitting hire for UTSA. They just got Todd Dodge 2.0

UNTFan23 · December 9, 2019

Considering Chad Morris flamed out at Arkansas, I'm struggling to see whether this is a good hire or not.

Green Lantern · December 9, 2019

Seems like a pretty underwhelming hire on the surface. Thought they'd take a stab at a higher profile candidate.

TheReal_jayD · December 9, 2019

If Todd Dodge and Frank Wilson had a baby.

Has never been a coordinator at the fbs level.

NorthTexasWeLove · December 9, 2019

He's a bag man conductor which gets him the reputation as a good recruiter.

As I'm sure he knows, places like UTSA do not have bag men. Expect that recruiting magic of his to decline.

Good hire, overall, for us.

greenminer · December 9, 2019

Wish I had data from last twenty years, profiling HC hires with no prior college HC/cOordinator experience. The success rate can’t be good. I also speculate a high percentage of them were hyper-successful at the high school level.

that kind of resume strikes me as a gamble, and I believe ADs know it.

jtm0097 · December 9, 2019

He had a program at Gilmer where he would get kids with rough backgrounds to be sponsored by members of the community. A kid I played little league through 9th grade was one of these kids. His sophomore year he moved to "Dallas", but his junior and senior year he was living with an older couple in Gilmer. They gave him a car, and bought him pretty much whatever he wanted. Our little league coach passed away a few years ago, and he was telling us all of the details at the funeral visitation. I had heard similar stories when I was in high school, but to hear this account first hand from a former player was ridiculous.

UNTLifer · December 9, 2019

59 minutes ago, jtm0097 said:

He had a program at Gilmer where he would get kids with rough backgrounds to be sponsored by members of the community. A kid I played little league through 9th grade was one of these kids. His sophomore year he moved to "Dallas", but his junior and senior year he was living with an older couple in Gilmer. They gave him a car, and bought him pretty much whatever he wanted. Our little league coach passed away a few years ago, and he was telling us all of the details at the funeral visitation. I had heard similar stories when I was in high school, but to hear this account first hand from a former player was ridiculous.

That is crazy.

FirefightnRick · December 10, 2019

8 hours ago, jtm0097 said:

He had a program at Gilmer where he would get kids with rough backgrounds to be sponsored by members of the community. A kid I played little league through 9th grade was one of these kids. His sophomore year he moved to "Dallas", but his junior and senior year he was living with an older couple in Gilmer. They gave him a car, and bought him pretty much whatever he wanted. Our little league coach passed away a few years ago, and he was telling us all of the details at the funeral visitation. I had heard similar stories when I was in high school, but to hear this account first hand from a former player was ridiculous.

Shoot that’s way too much work compared to now.

Nowadays the certain “members of the community” simply rent the entire family an extremely cheap house until the player is done. Once residency is confirmed along with a clear PAPF form from his/her previous school the deal is done.

Some of these “communities”,,...usually the same ones you see in the playoffs every year,... have this down to a science.

The sickening thing is the UIL knows this is going on but refuses to do a thing about it.

Rick

Edited December 10, 2019 by FirefightnRick

NorthTexasWeLove · December 10, 2019

1 hour ago, FirefightnRick said:

Shoot that’s way too much work compared to now.

Nowadays the certain “members of the community” simply rent the entire family an extremely cheap house until the player is done. Once residency is confirmed along with a clear PAPF form from his/her previous school the deal is done.

Some of these “communities”,,...usually the same ones you see in the playoffs every year,... have this down to a science.

The sickening thing is the UIL knows this is going on but refuses to do a thing about it.

Rick

Yuuuup.

untjim1995 · December 10, 2019

1 hour ago, FirefightnRick said:

Shoot that’s way too much work compared to now.

Nowadays the certain “members of the community” simply rent the entire family an extremely cheap house until the player is done. Once residency is confirmed along with a clear PAPF form from his/her previous school the deal is done.

Some of these “communities”,,...usually the same ones you see in the playoffs every year,... have this down to a science.

The sickening thing is the UIL knows this is going on but refuses to do a thing about it.

Rick

UIL = NCAA

Paid for by power schools..