Tcu, Smu Snag Unt Recruiting Targets

LAZER · June 8, 2008

GoMeanGreen1999 · June 8, 2008

Don't need to be losing defensive players for sure.

emmitt01 · June 8, 2008

UNT will face extra challenges this recruiting season after finishing 2-10 in Todd Dodge's first season. UNT doesn't have nearly as much to sell recruits on this year and has a small number of scholarships to give after losing a small senior class.
UNT has yet to get on the board, which isn't all that unusual for Sun Belt Conference teams.

Is there anyone who doubts that Vito is in the dog house with this staff? True enough it is NOT his job to be a cheerleader for NT athletics..but the tilt of his articles continues to be pretty derogatory. Anyone think standing outside the chain link fence in the heat isn't weighing just a bit on these blurbs?

DallasGreen · June 8, 2008

Is there anyone who doubts that Vito is in the dog house with this staff? True enough it is NOT his job to be a cheerleader for NT athletics..but the tilt of his articles continues to be pretty derogatory. Anyone think standing outside the chain link fence in the heat isn't weighing just a bit on these blurbs?

Sometimes a dose of reality is good. The glitter is gone from Dodgeball and recruits will not be wowed by what they saw last year. June Jones was a fantastic hire for SMU and will be a formidable opponent in recruiting. Notice that there is no more talk of an SMU series with UNT once he arrived? They are ushering their program to a higher plane, while we pinch pennies and sit in fear of our students by not doing the logical thing and matching our soon to be Southland conference brethern TX ST @ San Marcos, UTSA, & Lamar in instituting the maximum state athletic fee of $200. more per FTE student.

Travis · June 8, 2008

The edge SMU has is the same one we had last year. I wouldn't worry about it too much. We will get things going.... It is really really early. I wouldn't fret so much as there is a lot of time between now and February. Improvement on the field this fall would be our best recruiting tool. Dodge will do his best to bring in quality.

It isn't all doom and gloom. We were spoiled by one season of really early commits and so now we are worried because we aren't getting them. Well, TCU has always out recruited us (save last year) and SMU has the new coach like we did last year. What is happening should not be a surprise as they both have the upper-hand right now. The climate can change as the season progresses.

KingDL1 · June 8, 2008

Vito makes it sound like they stole them;

Brock is one of the top linebackers in the state and has a brother who plays for TCU. Eight teams had offered Brock, including Oklahoma.

What were are odds on this one if he gets the chance to play with is brother?

Henderson was not ours either, but the blog sounds overly negative and slightly sour. As if we had lost kids that had already given a verbal commitment. It seems as though Brett wants some shock value.

NT80 · June 8, 2008

Vito makes it sound like they stole them;
What were are odds on this one if he gets the chance to play with is brother?
Henderson was not ours either, but the blog sounds overly negative and slightly sour. As if we had lost kids that had already given a verbal commitment. It seems as though Brett wants some shock value.

I agree. We went after kids with multiple 1-A offers, which is good to see us in there offering. Some will eventually bite. In the past we complained that we only went after kids whose other offers were from 1-AAs and D-II schools.

MeanGreen61 · June 8, 2008

The sky is falling ! The sky is falling ......NOT. Big deal. A couple olf players are lost that we offered. It's happened before and it will happen again. SMU also lost one they had offered to UL-Monroe. :surrender: Don't wave the French battle flag yet

GrandGreen · June 8, 2008

There is a lot being inferred based on early commits of two players that NT had a reported interest in. All of a sudden June Jones and SMU are going to have their way with NT in recruiting and TD has lost his touch. Never-mind the majority of TD best recruits were signed after the awful 2-10 season last year, not before. SMU, other than last year, has always clobbered NT in recruiting. I think it is too early to declare SMU recruiting superiority based on one JUCO commit. The fact is that NT has hundreds of recruits being pursued and evaluated and it is hardly big news when the majority go elsewhere. Even the UT, OU, and LSU's occasionally lose recruits. TD could follow DD's example and only pursue recruits with few other options.

Green P1 · June 8, 2008

This would have never happened if we had a new stadium.

DallasGreen · June 8, 2008

This would have never happened if we had a new stadium.
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2020 at best for that and by that time it will cost $150 million for a 35K stadium, but at least the students' will still be paying a $40. fee while everywhere else is paying $500., but NT can still claim to be the mecca for the poor, non-traditional, self serving, non-loyal students who give nothing in return and grab a degree that they will continue to trash!!!

FirefightnRick · June 8, 2008

2020 at best for that and by that time it will cost $150 million for a 35K stadium, but at least the students' will still be paying a $40. fee while everywhere else is paying $500., but NT can still claim to be the mecca for the poor, non-traditional, self serving, non-loyal students who give nothing in return and grab a degree that they will continue to trash!!!

Or more easier said............."A Best Buy".

Rick

The Fake Lonnie Finch · June 9, 2008

Don't forget to watch Briles down at Baylor as well. He runs a spread offense and already has an OL committed for the Bears' 2009 class. If Briles and Jones get Baylor and SMU into bowl games this season, and we stumble around again, Dodge will not see the end of his five year contract. At that point, any local kid wanting to play in the spread will be able to sign with nearby schools perceived to be "better" or "going places."

I've said it before, and a la The White Stripes, it bears repeating now - we must win this year. And, if we don't, someone in the administration needs to have the balls to kick Villareal and Dodge out and get some real college football people in here. Real about fundraising. Real about scheduling. Real about what works on the field at the highest level of college football.

Cry about Vito all you want. But, he's not the one pulling the strings. He merely reports. And, since we don't exist in a vacuum, there are other teams and factors that work into our big picture. SMU and TCU are two of them. Add in Baylor as well, I say, since they're not far from DFW and they have a Spreadhead as a head coach now.

Edited June 9, 2008 by The Fake Lonnie Finch