Recruiting

NT80 · January 15, 2022

8 hours ago, southsideguy said:

win or lose he keeps his job and gets paid.........

This.

GrayEagle · January 15, 2022

I'm a little antsy too but remember there's still three weeks to go and in the words of the late, great Yogi Berra..."it ain't over 'til it's over!".

southsideguy · January 15, 2022

I hope UNT can pull some rabbits out of the hat. We are headed to a conference upgrade and things will get a lot harder for us.

Edited January 16, 2022 by southsideguy

UNTLifer · January 15, 2022

If memory serves, we have signed the following late in the process during the SL years.

Brown

Caleb Johnson flip from OU

Darden

Fine

Ejiya

Novil

There are more, but I think we should wait until signing day before we start criticizing.

greenminer · January 16, 2022

2 hours ago, southsideguy said:

I hope UNT can pull some rabbits out of the hat. We are headed to a conference upgrade and things we get a lot harder for us.

Conference upgrade might mean higher caliber recruit/interest in UNT?

TheReal_jayD · January 16, 2022

This is the most concerned I have been about UNT recruiting since before seth arrived. We are playing the waiting game and passing on on alot of talent i believe. UTSA is kicking our ass right now. Multiple P5 transfers, just flipped a 4 star kid from an sec school. Look to be landing another 4 star possibly. SMU is doing what SMU does they have landed multiple p5 kids from DFW transfering home. Houston has landed an USC and OU transfer in the last two days. We have only landed 2 kids so far with active FBS offers.. we have zero momentum, zero buzz and passing on a lot of solid transfer kids trying to be cute. I think it is very concerning. We have lost recruiting battles to Marshall, Charlotte, Kansas State and East Carolina all in the last month. Those are battles we should be winning. If you cant sell UNT to be better than any of the four previous schools get the hell out of town. The is so frustrating I will probably taking a break from covering recruiting for a while to be completely honest. We will get our ASS handed to us in the AAC if shit doesn't change and in a hurry.

Edited January 16, 2022 by TheReal_jayD

Tom McKrackin · January 16, 2022

1 minute ago, TheReal_jayD said:

This is the most concerned I have been about UNT recruiting since before seth arrived. We are playing the waiting game and passing on on alot of talent i believe. UTSA is kicking our ass right now. Multiple P5 transfers, just flipped a 4 star kid from an sec school. Look to be landing another 4 star possibly. SMU is doing what SMU does they have landed multiple p5 kids from DFW transfering home. Houston has landed an USC and OU transfer in the last two days. We have only landed 2 kids so far with active FBS offers.. we have zero momentum, zero buzz and passing on a lot of solid transfer kids trying to be cute. I think it is very concerning. We have lost recruiting battles to Marshall, Charlotte, Kansas State and East Carolina all in the last month. Those are battles we should be winning. If you cant sell UNT to be better than any of the four previous schools get the hell out of town. The is so frustrating I will probably taking a break from covering recruiting for a while to be completely honest. We will get our ASS handed to us in the AAC if shit doesn't change and in a hurry.

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NorthTexasWeLove · January 16, 2022

25 minutes ago, TheReal_jayD said:

This is the most concerned I have been about UNT recruiting since before seth arrived. We are playing the waiting game and passing on on alot of talent i believe. UTSA is kicking our ass right now. Multiple P5 transfers, just flipped a 4 star kid from an sec school. Look to be landing another 4 star possibly. SMU is doing what SMU does they have landed multiple p5 kids from DFW transfering home. Houston has landed an USC and OU transfer in the last two days. We have only landed 2 kids so far with active FBS offers.. we have zero momentum, zero buzz and passing on a lot of solid transfer kids trying to be cute. I think it is very concerning. We have lost recruiting battles to Marshall, Charlotte, Kansas State and East Carolina all in the last month. Those are battles we should be winning. If you cant sell UNT to be better than any of the four previous schools get the hell out of town. The is so frustrating I will probably taking a break from covering recruiting for a while to be completely honest. We will get our ASS handed to us in the AAC if shit doesn't change and in a hurry.

But, but, but, Seth Littrell?

We're going go get muffin punched.

97and03 · January 16, 2022

Lame duck coach probably been used against us pretty effectively.

GrandGreen · January 16, 2022

On 1/14/2022 at 9:23 PM, GreenGang45 said:

We didn’t notice rod brown until late January because poor recruiting and he was literally sitting in our back yard . And Tommy bush haven’t did anything yet

So the problem is that NT got literally the lower rated recruit in the conference, but didn't get him early enough? Bush being injured early might have hampered his year.

NT80 · January 16, 2022

14 hours ago, TheReal_jayD said:

We will get our ASS handed to us in the AAC if shit doesn't change and in a hurry.

Only Wren can change it.....and he knows what needs to happen....for recruiting, for fans, for the program!

southsideguy · January 16, 2022

Lame duck coach probably been used against us pretty effectively.

The joke is on them he is not going anywhere.......................😐

TheReal_jayD · January 16, 2022

16 hours ago, TheReal_jayD said:

This is the most concerned I have been about UNT recruiting since before seth arrived. We are playing the waiting game and passing on on alot of talent i believe. UTSA is kicking our ass right now. Multiple P5 transfers, just flipped a 4 star kid from an sec school. Look to be landing another 4 star possibly. SMU is doing what SMU does they have landed multiple p5 kids from DFW transfering home. Houston has landed an USC and OU transfer in the last two days. We have only landed 2 kids so far with active FBS offers.. we have zero momentum, zero buzz and passing on a lot of solid transfer kids trying to be cute. I think it is very concerning. We have lost recruiting battles to Marshall, Charlotte, Kansas State and East Carolina all in the last month. Those are battles we should be winning. If you cant sell UNT to be better than any of the four previous schools get the hell out of town. The is so frustrating I will probably taking a break from covering recruiting for a while to be completely honest. We will get our ASS handed to us in the AAC if shit doesn't change and in a hurry.

Add western kentucky to the list of losses.

UNT Texas Hooligan · January 16, 2022

17 hours ago, TheReal_jayD said:

This is the most concerned I have been about UNT recruiting since before seth arrived. We are playing the waiting game and passing on on alot of talent i believe. UTSA is kicking our ass right now. Multiple P5 transfers, just flipped a 4 star kid from an sec school. Look to be landing another 4 star possibly. SMU is doing what SMU does they have landed multiple p5 kids from DFW transfering home. Houston has landed an USC and OU transfer in the last two days. We have only landed 2 kids so far with active FBS offers.. we have zero momentum, zero buzz and passing on a lot of solid transfer kids trying to be cute. I think it is very concerning. We have lost recruiting battles to Marshall, Charlotte, Kansas State and East Carolina all in the last month. Those are battles we should be winning. If you cant sell UNT to be better than any of the four previous schools get the hell out of town. The is so frustrating I will probably taking a break from covering recruiting for a while to be completely honest. We will get our ASS handed to us in the AAC if shit doesn't change and in a hurry.

Yet, people still think Littrell is the guy and would happily give him another extension for a .500 season next year. This is seriously the most uninspired off-season we've had in years.

NorthTexasSportsNetwork · January 16, 2022

Honestly, I'd rather put more of my focus on winning programs like men's basketball with a GOOD coach in Grant McCasland.

This is just pathetic from the staff and the fact we have no updates or anything is insane.

#basketballschool

TheReal_jayD · January 16, 2022

1 hour ago, NorthTexasSportsNetwork said:

Honestly, I'd rather put more of my focus on winning programs like men's basketball with a GOOD coach in Grant McCasland.

This is just pathetic from the staff and the fact we have no updates or anything is insane.

#basketballschool

I believe that’s the ideology of big donors as well. Seth has really fudged this thing up moving forward in so many ways.

BillySee58 · January 16, 2022

1 hour ago, UNT Texas Hooligan said:

Yet, people still think Littrell is the guy and would happily give him another extension for a .500 season next year.

Is this a take you’ve legitimately seen on here or a straw man?

NorthTexasWeLove · January 16, 2022

3 minutes ago, BillySee58 said:

Is this a take you’ve legitimately seen on here or a straw man?

It's history of the athletic department. Until it changes why would he not be correct?

BillySee58 · January 16, 2022

9 minutes ago, NorthTexasWeLove said:

It's history of the athletic department. Until it changes why would he not be correct?

Which football coach did we extend after a .500 season?

BillySee58 · January 16, 2022

10 minutes ago, TheReal_jayD said:

I’m going to say straw man. The only person in America with a lower approval ratings right now is Joe B

Agreed. But I’ll say in Hooligan’s defense, at the end of the day, straw man or not, it’s semantics. We made our bed keeping Littrell, now we have to lie in it.

Standards have to be very high now. Margin for error on the field just got a lot lower with how stale things have become off the field.

TheReal_jayD · January 16, 2022

3 minutes ago, BillySee58 said:

Agreed. But I’ll say in Hooligan’s defense, at the end of the day, straw man or not, it’s semantics. We made our bed keeping Littrell, now we have to lie in it.

Standards have to be very high now. Margin for error on the field just got a lot lower with how stale things have become off the field.

No doubt. Wren dropped ball by not firing when it was 1-6. Then for the staff to absolutely shit the bed in recruiting this off season hasn’t helped. While our peers are all on a completely different level right now and not even close.

NorthTexasWeLove · January 16, 2022

41 minutes ago, BillySee58 said:

Which football coach did we extend after a .500 season?

We've extended a guy twice that is right at .500. That's the point.

NM Green · January 16, 2022

What a depressing thread.

GMG

Wag Tag · January 16, 2022

30 minutes ago, NorthTexasWeLove said:

We've extended a guy twice that is right at .500. That's the point.

Having two 9 win seasons back to back may have matter?

meangreenbob · January 16, 2022

Keep in mind we have supposedly had the best or one of the best recruiting classes in CUSA the last several years and where has it gotten us under this so called head coach? 4-6, 5-7. 6-7