looking for DTs?

[the green rokemi]

Japan! Seriously, let's take a lesson from Baylor's Tennis team and the NBA and send some scouts to Japan. Once in Japan find the best SUMO we can get and recruit him! The Sumo technique should transfer to football and make it easy to throw lineman around and tackle/sack the opponent...

Problems...we will have to break them of the habit of holding their opponents jock strap...and teaching them english, both minor problems!

go Mean Green!

[untgirl04]

Japan!  Seriously, let's take a lesson from Baylor's Tennis team and the NBA and send some scouts to Japan.  Once in Japan find the best SUMO we can get and recruit him!  The Sumo technique should transfer to football and make it easy to throw lineman around and tackle/sack the opponent...

Problems...we will have to break them of the habit of holding their opponents jock strap...and teaching them english, both minor problems!

go Mean Green!

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We have a great ESL program here...

[mad dog]

A sumo wrestler on the line? It worked in that one movie...

[PlummMeanGreen]

Seriously, if we don't address our defensive line situation in recruiting, it won't matter how many 2'nd team All American JUCO offensive linemen we sign (if we see next year what we saw this year from of defensive line).

I am not sure I remember a Mean Green defensive line as porous as the one we saw this last season unless it was during our NCAA 1-AA era.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!

Edited December 22, 2005 by PlummMeanGreen

[SilverEagle]

A sumo wrestler on the line?  It worked in that one movie...

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Aren't we describing Booger?

We don't have to go to Japan, we just need to tap into the Tongan/Samoa pipeline that Utah and the West coast teams seem to have. There is a huge Tongan (sp?) community in Euless. All we have to do is have our recruiter for that area learn the "HAKA" and we should have it made.

On a more serious note, if we can't seem to find good DT's on our own, then maybe we should hire our former head coach Corkey Nelson to find us some. Corkey used to bring in the most mean, tenacious, (albiet undersized) DT's I've ever seen at North Texas.

Examples are Rayford Cooks (6'2" X 220lbs), Ronnie Hickman (6'2" X 215) and Rex Johnson (6'1"X 235). When North Texas played Texas in 1983, I saw Rayford Cooks take on O-Linemen from Texas who were at least 40lbs heavier and play them to a stand-still all night long. When Rex Johnson was playing for us, I never saw him being blocked by any one lineman. It always took a minimum of two O-Lineman to handle him.....and sometimes not even then.

My point in this rant is not so much about the size of our current or future DL's, but how much strength and tenacity our DL's (and LB's for that matter) have. Recent examples are Michael Pruitt and Evan Cardwell. Go back a few years and another example would be Corbin Montgomery.

Booger was a great talent, but lets face it, when he was injured his level of play fell off noticably. Plus he was known to take-off plays from time to time, and (IMHO) I don't think that Booger was particularly mean.

We need to get a group of players on defense that cause our opponents to say "damn, I hate to run into that line, those guys are downright nasty". Our opponents need to know that every time they run at our defense, they are going to get MUGGED not HANDLED.

Oh, for the days when our defensive players (like Cedric Hardman) got custom tags on their cars that said "NASTY".

Edited December 22, 2005 by SilverEagle