‘23 JUCO OL Judea Milon (Tyler JC)

[BillySee58]

We offered. Also offered by Arkansas State, Kansas, Memphis, Missouri, Texas State, and UAB.

https://247sports.com/Player/Judea-Milon-46136436/

[southsideguy]

Kinda wonder why we are recruiting, if SL is let go at the end of the season or will he be let go?????????

[cousin oliver]

@Wren why are we allowing this staff to recruit players?  It makes no sense to me.

[BillySee58]

On 9/22/2022 at 2:43 PM, southsideguy said:

Kinda wonder why we are recruiting, if SL is let go at the end of the season or will he be let go?????????

On 9/22/2022 at 3:20 PM, cousin oliver said:

@Wren why are we allowing this staff to recruit players?  It makes no sense to me.

The staff is going to operate as if they will be here next season until they are told they are not. As for benefit, even if there is a coaching staff change, there are almost always players who a previous staff recruits who the next staff benefits from those recruiting efforts.

Examples there are Rico Bussey in football and Umoja Gibson in basketball. Bussey was offered by McCarney and Gibson was offered by Benford, and when the new coaches took over, they picked up where the old staff left off on those players and landed their commitments/signings.

And that is EXCLUDING players who are committed under the previous staff and end up staying committed through the coaching change. Obviously that happens too. The program can’t just stop recruiting.

Edited September 27, 2022 by BillySee58

[GMG_Dallas]

11 hours ago, BillySee58 said:

The program can’t just stop recruiting.

How far back are we in recruiting this cycle? Things have changed with early signing and I'm not the most knowledgeable, well in anything, but especially not college football recruiting timelines. Is this about the same as previous years? Feels like the most quiet recruiting cycle we've had since... well... the last coaching change.

[BillySee58]

10 hours ago, GMG_Dallas said:

How far back are we in recruiting this cycle? Things have changed with early signing and I'm not the most knowledgeable, well in anything, but especially not college football recruiting timelines. Is this about the same as previous years? Feels like the most quiet recruiting cycle we've had since... well... the last coaching change.

The current roster only has 8 scholarship seniors. So there are not many spots currently available for the recruiting class. And when guys transfer out, their spot usually gets filled by a player coming in from the portal, rather than a traditional recruit

[GMG_Dallas]

33 minutes ago, BillySee58 said:

The current roster only has 8 scholarship seniors. So there are not many spots currently available for the recruiting class. And when guys transfer out, their spot usually gets filled by a player coming in from the portal, rather than a traditional recruit

So we shouldn't panic yet about this high-school recruiting cycle and the portal will be more indicative of what's to come?

[BillySee58]

1 hour ago, GMG_Dallas said:

So we shouldn't panic yet about this high-school recruiting cycle and the portal will be more indicative of what's to come?

I guess. I’m just saying don’t panic about the volume of commits (or lack thereof). 

[southsideguy]

I guess the new coach could resend the offers of the previous coach.  SL recruits undersize players.

[97and03]

The next coach will likely be looking at transfers 

[GMG_Dallas]

On 9/24/2022 at 2:27 PM, southsideguy said:

I guess the new coach could resend the offers of the previous coach.  SL recruits undersize players.

6 foot 6, 295, also has offers from Kansas, UAB, Memphis, Missouri, Texas State, and Arkansas State. This may not be the thread to comment about rescinding offers for undersized players.

Maybe I completely misunderstood your post and you want the new staff to "resend" offers as in send again to make sure the players know they're still being recruited.

Edited September 26, 2022 by GMG_Dallas

[GMG_Dallas]

https://247sports.com/Recruitment/Judea-Milon-159609/RecruitInterests/

The 247, for those interested. He recently tweeted a Toledo offer and was invited by UH to this past game against Rice.

For all the talk of the staff recruiting undersized players, we'll, y'all are wrong. This staff has had some very good recruiting classes. 2019 we were 4th in C-USA, 2nd in 2020, and 1st in 2021. Last year fell off. Our team is where it is today due to guys transferring out, especially the twins, and not having a capable QB coach to train up our QBs. If the twins were still on defense, we'd be getting tons of pressure with a good DL rotation and our secondary wouldn't have to be covering for 5+ seconds.

Edited September 26, 2022 by GMG_Dallas

[MeanGreenTexan]

8 minutes ago, GMG_Dallas said:

https://247sports.com/Recruitment/Judea-Milon-159609/RecruitInterests/

The 247, for those interested. He recently tweeted a Toledo offer and was invited by UH to this past game against Rice.

For all the talk of the staff recruiting undersized players, we'll, y'all are wrong. This staff has had some very good recruiting classes. 2019 we were 4th in C-USA, 2nd in 2020, and 1st in 2021. Last year fell off. Our team is where it is today due to guys transferring out, especially the twins, and not having a capable QB coach to train up our QBs. If the twins were still on defense, we'd be getting tons of pressure with a good DL rotation and our secondary wouldn't have to be covering for 5+ seconds.

Uh, sir, you're definitely wrong.    
It's common knowledge here on GMG.com (not anywhere else) that the Murphy twins were actually HINDERANCES to our defense because they had 5-10 UC penalties last year.    Trieb is obviously an upgrade to Grayson, and Richards is obviously an upgrade to Gabriel because they're keeping those UC penalties down.   You're just not looking hard enough.  /s

[GMG_Dallas]

27 minutes ago, MeanGreenTexan said:

Uh, sir, you're definitely wrong.    
It's common knowledge here on GMG.com (not anywhere else) that the Murphy twins were actually HINDERANCES to our defense because they had 5-10 UC penalties last year.    Trieb is obviously an upgrade to Grayson, and Richards is obviously an upgrade to Gabriel because they're keeping those UC penalties down.   You're just not looking hard enough.  /s

Oh my I'm so sorry. You're right. Losing them made us better.

And for what it's worth, I don't think our starting DL is bad right now. It's just obvious we have no depth to rotate in fresh legs and that's where our defense has fallen off the most, IMO.

Edited September 26, 2022 by GMG_Dallas

[MeanGreenTexan]

4 minutes ago, GMG_Dallas said:

Oh my I'm so sorry. You're right. Losing them made us better.

And for what it's worth, I don't think our starting DL is bad right now. It's just obvious we have no depth to rotate in fresh legs and that's where our defense has fallen off the most, IMO.

Let's just hope the new coach can assemble a good staff without having to waste a spot on nepotism.