Breaking: Cash McCollum Enters Portal

[El Paso Eagle]

5 minutes ago, Udomann said:

Honestly,  he wasn't bad. He wasn't great. It was absolutely a big step down from Morris. He earned it as a backup, but I have zero idea what his competition even looked like

I always wonder in a case where your backup quarterback has so very little experience how much you practice time he's getting with the team. I guess we'll find out soon how close he is to being ready now that he's been getting more practice.

[Cougar King]

Mestemaker backed up Duece Adams (Louisville qb) in HS.

 

We'll see how their college careers pan out.

 

This same thing happened with Jason Bean backing up Chandler Rogers in HS.

 

Inb4 Deuce Adams ends up at UNT in a few years.

[Ken14]

Is Tisdale still on the roster?

[BillySee58]

3 hours ago, MeanGreen2024 said:

I assume we will see more young guys jumping in the portal soon with all of these transfers. Especially on the receiving side.

Why? Those guys actually have a path to getting on the field or already are. Cash didn’t have a path to getting on the field here. No QB is going to stay to backup a guy with the same amount of remaining eligibility.

[NorthTexasWeLove]

3 hours ago, Censored by Laurie said:

he didn't even get the chance to go broke from buying gold chains. shame. 

Not many get that chance at UNT. Hence why so many leave. His opportunity to make horrid financial decisions is well on his horizon unless he is actually an FCS/D2 talent. 

[NT80]

1 hour ago, El Paso Eagle said:

By all means let's not give any credit to Mestemaker.

I think it's great he won the backup job in camp and got on the field a few times.  He is 4/5 for 69 yards!

But I really hate throwing him to the Wolves, er Bobcats, and his first start in a Bowl game.  No pressure.  This is the bad side of all the NIL/Portal garbage this time of year.

[Cooley]

52 minutes ago, Cougar King said:

Mestemaker backed up Duece Adams (Louisville qb) in HS.

 

We'll see how their college careers pan out.

 

This same thing happened with Jason Bean backing up Chandler Rogers in HS.

 

Inb4 Deuce Adams ends up at UNT in a few years.

50th time, Jason Bean did not backup Rogers. The coach alternated series with Rogers. I attended 3 games and followed Lake Ridge on TV during the playoffs. In fact, I don't remember Rogers playing deep in the playoffs.  

High School: 
• Rated a three-star prospect by 247Sports composite rankings and 247Sports.
• Received offers from Colorado State, Liberty, Louisiana Tech and SMU.
• Passed for 1,682 yards and 20 touchdowns, and rushed for 694 yards and three touchdowns for a Class 5A Division I state quarterfinalist as a senior.
• Passed for 2,956 yards and 29 touchdowns, and rushed for 530 yards and seven touchdowns as a junior.
• Second-team all-district 10-5A selection as a junior.

https://www.maxpreps.com/tx/mansfield/lake-ridge-eagles/athletes/jason-bean/football/stats/?careerid=khdn945e2bv33

[p_phelps]

4 hours ago, MeanGreen2024 said:

We say quarterback whisperer, but the last two quarterbacks that have started for us were not developed by Morris. They were at other programs or developed there and we just use them for a season. And that’s what’s gonna happen again this year with the guy from Miami been developed by others and then we will get the benefits of six years of college. Nothing wrong with this philosophy. That’s what we’re going to do from here on out with this coaching staff.

Name the last starter for Morris that wasn't good....we'll wait

[peanuts104]

On 12/26/2024 at 7:55 PM, Ken14 said:

Is Tisdale still on the roster?

He's listed. Eric also praised freshman van von(my bad) Grote who is still here supposedly.

Edit2:

von Grote has some pretty damn good tape

https://www.hudl.com/profile/14842104/Tom-Von-Grote

Edited December 28, 2024 by peanuts104

[UNTLifer]

So we play the bowl game with Mestemaker and Tisdale?  And they want $100 per ticket?  

[Glory to the Green]

On 12/26/2024 at 10:39 PM, peanuts104 said:

He's listed. Eric also praised freshman van Grote who is still here supposedly.

Where did you hear EM speak?

[Glory to the Green]

2 minutes ago, UNTLifer said:

So we play the bowl game with Mestemaker and Tisdale?  And they want $100 per ticket?  

$100?  I bought mine for way less from the ticket office. $44, I think. 

[peanuts104]

58 minutes ago, Glory to the Green said:

Where did you hear EM speak?

He talked about von Grote in a presser or some media, I think before the season started. I don't have the source but I'm sure it is out there somewhere.

Edited December 28, 2024 by peanuts104

[UNTLifer]

1 hour ago, Glory to the Green said:

$100?  I bought mine for way less from the ticket office. $44, I think. 

I wasn’t sure I could go. Found out I can and they are now starting at $104 through the athletic’s website. 

[Glory to the Green]

10 hours ago, UNTLifer said:

I wasn’t sure I could go. Found out I can and they are now starting at $104 through the athletic’s website. 

I gotcha. Yeah, $100 is a little high. I’m certain they’re better seats than my end zone. 😝

[Glory to the Green]

11 hours ago, peanuts104 said:

He talked about von Grote in a presser or some media, I think before the season started. I don't have the source but I'm sure it is out there somewhere.

Gotcha.  Thank you.  I was thinking he spoke last week. 

[UNTLifer]

On 12/26/2024 at 4:25 PM, Glory to the Green said:

You think so?  We only brought in two receivers?  We’re losing DT, Ward, and Rempert.  EM likes to run 8 receivers.  

Headed to Nevada.

[UNTLifer]

Back to Cash,  the more I hear, the more I think someone significant in his life is giving him bad advice. He didn’t forget how to be a QB over night, but he had also been the man in HS for a couple of years. Moving up to D1 ball and realizing you aren’t head and shoulders above others, that you are going to have to work hard and may have to wait your turn isn’t what he and “his advisors” expected. He got passed by and instead of working hard and trying to improve, he decides to move along. Decisions like this will not serve him well later in life. 

[MeanGreen2024]

I think Morris basically told the QB's that they would be using the portal going forward looking for guys they have playing experience. Another 6 win season and they lose their jobs. So no time to develop freshman and take their lumps. Their jobs rest on Puff being the man. Already hearing rumblings that Jimerson looking to get out after the spring. And possibly Mestemaker. No hope for young guys playing with this staff. 

[Harry]

24 minutes ago, MeanGreen2024 said:

I think Morris basically told the QB's that they would be using the portal going forward looking for guys they have playing experience. Another 6 win season and they lose their jobs. So no time to develop freshman and take their lumps. Their jobs rest on Puff being the man. Already hearing rumblings that Jimerson looking to get out after the spring. And possibly Mestemaker. No hope for young guys playing with this staff. 

This whole portal and NIL thing has not been too kind to the high school player and has hindered their options.  We all wish Cash the best out there.

[El Paso Eagle]

 

 

[MCMLXXX]

2 hours ago, MeanGreen2024 said:

I think Morris basically told the QB's that they would be using the portal going forward looking for guys they have playing experience. Another 6 win season and they lose their jobs. So no time to develop freshman and take their lumps. Their jobs rest on Puff being the man. Already hearing rumblings that Jimerson looking to get out after the spring. And possibly Mestemaker. No hope for young guys playing with this staff. 

Then why recruit them in the first place?

[rcade]

On 12/26/2024 at 4:30 PM, untbowler said:

Probably FCS or D2, if you could not beat out a walk-on in an air raid system, guessing we were not going to see him in Bowl Game was clincher, add in Jimmerson the writing was on the wall

I wouldn't judge Cash McCollum too harshly over not getting playing time. Drew Mestemaker didn't get any playing time either and when he finally did the whole world could see he'd been wrongly overlooked on the bench.

[rcade]

On 1/20/2025 at 10:28 PM, UNTLifer said:

He got passed by and instead of working hard and trying to improve, he decides to move along. Decisions like this will not serve him well later in life. 

Decisions like that are being made all over college football by quarterbacks and sometimes it works out really well for them, like both our Chandlers having strong seasons at UNT because they quit someplace else.

It sucks as a fan, of course, but until schools have financial help paying their own players more to stay I don't see how this gets fixed.

[UNTLifer]

4 hours ago, MeanGreen2024 said:

I think Morris basically told the QB's that they would be using the portal going forward looking for guys they have playing experience. Another 6 win season and they lose their jobs. So no time to develop freshman and take their lumps. Their jobs rest on Puff being the man. Already hearing rumblings that Jimerson looking to get out after the spring. And possibly Mestemaker. No hope for young guys playing with this staff. 

And what is your connection to the program?

What if Puff isn't the man and someone like Jimmerson or Mestemaker are just obviously better or outperform him in the the spring?  This, if true, seems rather short-sighted when Puff hasn't even taken a snap here and hasn't proven to be the best option.

Edited 2 hours ago by UNTLifer