Unt Football Roster Notes, Gilmore Fallout

[Harry]

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[THOR]

kenny barrett better be a bad hombre!!!!!

[BIG DAWG]

Other than losing Gilmore on our D-Line, him with all the others we have lost, do you all realize what this could do to tear down our program??? We cannot afford to take many more hits with the APR score business. If I am not mistaking, if they get you twice, the second time is more severe.

What is happening here? It seems like yesterday we were wining titles, going to bowls, getting national pub on the cover of USA Today's sports page, and now...where are we?

Losing scholarships, games, studs, and soon to be all the added support we got with the Dodge hire.

If this stuff doesn't change drastically, and do so fast, it is going to lead to a situation where we struggle for a long time because we won't be able to replace talented players.

I mean if we are all honest with each other, if you recruit 18 kids, how many of those really end up to big time contributors? Yes, sometimes it looks like on paper that they all will, and they will all be studs, but that isn't the case even for the big super conference teams. You cross your fingers, and hope you can catch lightning in a bottle and have half the class become stud contributors, and many times half is hoping for too much.

I am a HUGE NT fan, back the team to anyone, but I am really concerned. I fear we are inching ourselves closer and closer into REALLY big trouble, at a time when we should be capitalizing on the rebirth of our program, yet it seems our program is having it's foundation erode away.

Edited July 9, 2008 by BIG DAWG

[DirtySavage]

we will get some points back that went against us with seniors that graduate later than expected such as venegas and brandon Monroe

[nautique]

Holy Crap is about all you can say. Unproven everywhere on the team except for a few skill position players.

WR's, QB, and Center (if healthy) are the strengths on offense.

Horton is a complete unknown. Just because he was recruited heavily doesn't mean anything. JUCO OL better step up and compete.

DB competition will be thick. Toby and Craig at LB are the strength of the Defense. After those two at LB, it falls off the chart.

Maybe Vito can investigate the health of one Kelvin Drake. Kelvin is the heart of the OL.

Watch out for Forrest Rucker at WR.