Three From Tyler Chapel Hill Offered

tylermeangreen · June 9, 2011

I was just told by Thomas Sitton, the Head Coach/AD at Chapel Hill High School (just outside of Tyler), that UNT has offered three of its soon-to-be seniors:

Rex Rollins - running back

Andrew Tucker - running back and brother of Matthew Tucker, back at TCU

Sir Calvin Wallace - a defensive lineman (tackle, if I remember correctly)

So where is the connection from Chapel Hill to UNT?

I quote from his email to me: "Coach Jeremy Loyd our WR coach played for Coach McCarney at Iowa State and just loves him".

What got me started on this was the item in Vito's Blog today that said Chapel Hill was a stop on UNT's summer camps schedule (little ole Chapel Hill, a country, 3-A school among all of the big communities mentioned in the blog) - so I emailed Thomas and asked for details of when the camp would be at Chapel Hill.

Wednesday, June 15

4 - 8 PM

Sitton will have some athletes in the next few years that are going to be something else. Hopefully, our Mean Green get their share.

KRAM1 · June 9, 2011

Our new east Texas source for all that is recruiting for the Mean green in the woods of east Texas. Many thanks for this insightful info...let's get these kids now before all the other schools realize how the east Texas area is really coming on strong in the player development area. Really glad to see that "connection" Coach mac has in east Texas. It can only pay dividends for UNT. Great to see Coach mac setting up these high school pipelines and relationships with HS coaches. You just have to like what you see about Coach mac...

GO MEAN GREEN!

Thanks tylermeangreen...great stuff. +1 from me!

Mean Green 93-98 · June 9, 2011

Andrew Tucker's Rivals profile

DeepGreen · June 9, 2011

Our new east Texas source for all that is recruiting for the Mean green in the woods of east Texas. Many thanks for this insightful info...let's get these kids now before all the other schools realize how the east Texas area is really coming on strong in the player development area. Really glad to see that "connection" Coach mac has in east Texas. It can only pay dividends for UNT. Great to see Coach mac setting up these high school pipelines and relationships with HS coaches. You just have to like what you see about Coach mac...

GO MEAN GREEN!

Thanks tylermeangreen...great stuff. +1 from me!

Kram, I hate to tell you this but East Texas has been a hotbed for FBS recruiting for many years. The Big 12 programs have made a field day with young men from this area of the state. I'm talking about big, fast, meat and potatoes, rice and gravy eating country boys. Coach McCarney would do well to make contacts with HS Coaches in Jasper, Newton, West Orange, Longview, and other East Texas communities.

Edited June 9, 2011 by DeepGreen

tylermeangreen · June 9, 2011

Kram, I hate to tell you this but East Texas has been a hotbed for FBS recruiting for many years. The Big 12 programs have made a field day with young men from this area of the state. I'm talking about big, fast, meat and potatoes, rice and gravy eating country boys. Coach McCarney would do well to make contacts with HS Coaches in Jasper, Newton, West Orange, Longview, and other East Texas communities.

You are correct, of course, but I think the point that Kram is trying to make - and what I know to be true since I have lived in the area for the past 35 years - is that there are many smaller high schools in East Texas that have greatly improved their programs to the point that there are many athletes - quality athletes - that the "big boy" college programs have chosen to ignore (with an 85 total; 25 per year scholarship limit, that is easy to understand).

The Big 12 (10) universities are great at "cherry-pickin" the large high school athletes in East Texas, and on occasion the well-known smaller high school athletes (Cody Glenn for example - Rusk to Nebraska), but many quality athletes are ignored except by some of the FCS schools.

As for UNT, our coaching staffs have been virtually non-existent out here in the East Texas hinterland for ages (as are coaching caravans and UNT Alumni visits) - they have been willing to recruit the large-school athletes, but only occasionally have they been willing to actively recruit athletes from the smaller high schools in East Texas - and no, it is not because the quality is not there.

I do agree with you - Coach McCarney would certainly do our university proud to develop his contacts in small-town East Texas........and he seems to be doing just that!

DeepGreen · June 9, 2011

You are correct, of course, but I think the point that Kram is trying to make - and what I know to be true since I have lived in the area for the past 35 years - is that there are many smaller high schools in East Texas that have greatly improved their programs to the point that there are many athletes - quality athletes - that the "big boy" college programs have chosen to ignore (with an 85 total; 25 per year scholarship limit, that is easy to understand).

The Big 12 (10) universities are great at "cherry-pickin" the large high school athletes in East Texas, and on occasion the well-known smaller high school athletes (Cody Glenn for example - Rusk to Nebraska), but many quality athletes are ignored except by some of the FCS schools.

As for UNT, our coaching staffs have been virtually non-existent out here in the East Texas hinterland for ages (as are coaching caravans and UNT Alumni visits) - they have been willing to recruit the large-school athletes, but only occasionally have they been willing to actively recruit athletes from the smaller high schools in East Texas - and no, it is not because the quality is not there.

I do agree with you - Coach McCarney would certainly do our university proud to develop his contacts in small-town East Texas........and he seems to be doing just that!

Correct by all accounts. The towns I mentioned, Jasper, Newton, West Orange, are all 3A schools and have contributed some serious talent to FBS programs.

All About UNT · June 9, 2011

photos of Sir Calvin Wallace

We should also consider these other Defensive standouts from East Texas cause apparently everyone else is and they would be excellent gets!

Tomme Mark

Deonte McKinney

here is a solid list of what East Texas has to offer:

East Texas Football Prospects

jtm0097 · June 11, 2011

There are several other small towns in East Texas he should check out. Tatum, Gilmer, Daingerfield, Carthage, all of these schools have talent year in and out, and have won state championships. I will post something on smoaky.com regarding the camp.

Side Show Joe · June 16, 2011

According to Vito, Rex Rollins verbaled to UNT.

I wonder if either will join Rollins at UNT.

greenminer · June 16, 2011

Andrew Tucker's Rivals profile

Rivals doesn't even list the other two. ugh.

All About UNT · July 5, 2011

BUMP.....It would seem that the camp we held at Chapel Hill produced two of the three (so far) recruits that we offered (from Chapel Hill at least). Now that is what I call a successful camp!