Several updates in the MGR Recruiting Database

Harry · July 25, 2005

I continue to be impressed with the caliber of athletes we are in on at this stage. This really bodes well for the 2006 class. We have some new names and updates on earlier additions.

GrandGreen · July 25, 2005

I still do not understand how NT can generate so little interest by DMN area top 100.

PlummMeanGreen · July 25, 2005

I still do not understand how NT can generate so little interest by DMN area top 100.

Just a theory:

But it seems many of the non BCS schools who have Rivals.com sponsored boards for each of their schools seem to get on more of these kid's schools wishlist more frequently than NT (who doesn't have a Rivals.com sponsored board). The Dallas Morning News Local, State and National Top 100 are all three Rivals.com lists ranked by Bobby Burton's Rivals staff with some (so-called) assistance from the local paper. Still probably mostly done by Rivals, though.. As I said....just a theory. Anyone else concur?

Also, NT seems to recruit many out-of-state players as the Mean Green Recruiting Update premium board list shows and none of those names would (obviously) not show up on the the Dallas Morning News Local or State Top 100 lists, either.

Edited July 25, 2005 by PlummMeanGreen

H-towngreen · July 25, 2005

Thats true as we are going after one from Florida, Mizzu, and a handful from OK. thats not something that I had thought about. Its nice to see us going up against more BCS schools for recruits than the SFA's and Sam Houstons of the world. I've asked this before and never really gotten much of a response but does anyone expect DD and company to get any commits before the season starts, during the season, or are we going to have to wait till the last few weeks as always.

OldTimer · July 25, 2005

I still do not understand how NT can generate so little interest by DMN area top 100.

Last year was an exception to the Dallas Area top 100, we did recruit several from the greater FW area. We recruited several outstanding DB prospects from OK and other areas that we had no interest in the one DB in the Dallas area listing who had indicated an interest in NT> We also recruited more from central TX and the Houston area.

We now have one prospect on the statewide top 100,

We have lost only two prospects so far, one to TCU and the other to N Carolina, the player who chose NC was among the top 5 in the state at his position.

Interesting that the prospect list includes 3 players who TX FB lists in their top level of positions...ie top 10, top 15 or top 20 in the state

PlummMeanGreen · July 25, 2005

Last year was an exception to the Dallas Area top 100, we did recruit several from the greater FW area. We recruited several outstanding DB prospects from OK and other areas that we had no interest in the one DB in the Dallas area listing who had indicated an interest in NT> We also recruited more from central TX and the Houston area.
We now have one prospect on the statewide top 100,
We have lost only two prospects so far, one to TCU and the other to N Carolina, the player who chose NC was among the top 5 in the state at his position.
Interesting that the prospect list includes 3 players who TX FB lists in their top level of positions...ie top 10, top 15 or top 20 in the state

But as one of our fellow posters from east Texas pointed out to me just last evening via the miracle of the telephone, NT really started making hay with the 8 Texas state top 100 kids Coach Dickey and staff signed about 5 or 6 years ago. This was the group that got NT into a bowling frame of mind while even winning one of those bowl games in 2002 against the CUSA football champion at the NEW ORLEANS BOWL.

The amazing thing to me to this day about that recruiting class of Dickey's 5 or 6 years ago, was that at the time there were absolutely no drawings on the board for an Athletic Center, least of all plans for a 200 acre olympic-style village with a new 35-40,000 seat football stadium as the icing on the cake for those 200 acres, ie, very highly visible property off the 2 interstates we now see a few facilities already completed and others now under construction.

Coach Dickey has lost some of the assistant coaches who helped him recruit those 8 state top 100 recruits to other programs who could pay more salaries than NT. He will lose others in the near future if we as alums and fans don't start investing en mass with this athletic program. Look for a new NT president to not be as "pro athletics" as Pohl was because NT's history is to hire just the opposite of who just left so some group is going to have to take up the slack in the area of more funds for athletics, so folks, get the check books out.

Still amazing to me that Noval Pohl who resided over our schools largest growth in enrollment, adding record numbers of new facilities while also adding some prestigious majors to our academic offering was not popular to many of the professors on campus. Anyone else notice what kind of president at NT gets bad reviews from our NT employees and wonder why that is? Sorry, I am getting off subject here.

This is gravitating to the point of ad nausem from me and I know it is, but if we as NT Exes and Mean Green fans had given NT Athletics a better donor ba$e by way of the "you know what" athletic department fundraising arm, some of these coaches get higher salaries and stick around MG Country while at the same time probably helping Coach Dickey continue to sign more Texas state top 100 blue chippers (just as they did 5-6 years ago). We will lose other of DD's present assistant coaches unless we stay competitive (or exceed) what other schools are paying out salary-wise. Most of the schools who would hire our best away fro us use their athletic department's fund-raising arm to help suppliment salaries.

It's still all about like meanjoe ends every one of his posts and you all know what that is by now.

Edited July 25, 2005 by PlummMeanGreen