Christian Beard Midway (Waco) OL

[ntmeangreen11]

6'4 253, Offered by UNT & Central Arkansas.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/northtexas/football/recruiting/player-Christian-Beard-146311;_ylt=AlXG1wwoK7dHz70X9y6scx7NSMJ_

http://www.hudl.com/athlete/659161/christian-beard

[BillySee58]

That's a good program down there in Waco Midway. Go get em

[Harry]

picked up a SMU offer.

[ntmeangreen11]

picked up a SMU offer.

Commits to SMU

[Cooley]

Back on the market!

[NT03]

Well that lasted about as long as Tony Benford's stint at Utah State

Edited June 7, 2013 by NT03

[ntmeangreen11]

Up to five offers per his twitter, latest from NMSU

David Smoak ‏@DavidSmoak 1h

Beard was at SMU over the weekend, thought he had until end of week to commit, he did on Wednesday, but was told the offer no longer stood

David Smoak ‏@DavidSmoak 1h

After Midway HC Terry Gambill spoke with HC June Jones and an assistant, the offer was back on the table, but, Beard, whose father Joe >>>

David Smoak ‏@DavidSmoak 1h

Played at SMU from 1979-1983, decided the relationship was damaged and de-committed. Not sure how this ends sometime down the road.

[cwb]

If you want revenge, I know a school who has them on it's upcoming schedule.

[UNTLifer]

June Jones and SMU: "Making friends and influencing HS Kids." Have a feeling that will be a successful as his inner-city ministry.

[BillySee58]

Commitment ultimatum in June?

[NT03]

Also visited us today

[BillySee58]

Also visited us today

Wow. Sounds like we have a little recruiting momentum going this summer. A few weeks ago it felt like we had none at all.

[UNT90]

Wow. Sounds like we have a little recruiting momentum going this summer. A few weeks ago it felt like we had none at all.

Lets call it momentum when we actually get the commits.

[NT03]

cbeard75

19 minutes ago

So blessed to have an offer from such an amazing school like North Texas! Really impressed with the visit I took! Great coaches, facility's and school. Definitely one of the top schools I'm considering! #MeanGreenFollow

[Harry]

So blessed to have an offer from such an amazing school like North Texas! Really impressed with the… http://t.co/QWdecJGSKM

— Christian Beard (@Cbeard65)

July 26, 2013

[H-towngreen]

Tonight was one of the camps for top recruits

[BillySee58]

Lets call it momentum when we actually get the commits.

Momentum may be a little overzealous, but I like what we've done lately with the visitors, camp, and possible commit(s). Still haven't heard anything from Vito about Means, but I think we have a really good shot of holding onto Jackson.

[NT03]

This would be a good pickup!

[Harry]

He's an outstanding football player. SMU really made a huge mistake letting a kid of this quality get away!

[GrayEagle]

There certainly are some quality recruits attending this camp but there's a lot of guys named Joe that none of us have ever heard of.

[UNTLifer]

Any update on this young man? Midway is a strong program and I thought he was close to commiting weeks ago.

[BillySee58]

Received his sixth offer today from Toledo, per his twitter.

[GrayEagle]

I don't think that there's any doubt that Beard is a quality athlete and that we'd like to have him at UNT. But, we are in much better shape depth-wise at offensive line than at some of the other positions (wide receiver, defensive line, linebacker) and we need to try our best to cover those positions before acknowledging a commitment from another position. In addition, there are two other offensive linemen that are rated the same as Christian Beard. I'd love to have them all because I sincerely believe that all are capale of starting for us.

[SHOSS]

I don't think that there's any doubt that Beard is a quality athlete and that we'd like to have him at UNT. But, we are in much better shape depth-wise at offensive line than at some of the other positions (wide receiver, defensive line, linebacker) and we need to try our best to cover those positions before acknowledging a commitment from another position. In addition, there are two other offensive linemen that are rated the same as Christian Beard. I'd love to have them all because I sincerely believe that all are capale of starting for us.

I get more excited about linemen than skill position players... maybe that is flawed, but if we have good beef on both sides of the ball, it seems like the other positions are automatically going to have a better chance to succeed.

So, in short, the more quality linemen we have, the better off we'll be. Ok, I am the master of stating the obvious. Now for the defensive line...... Hopefully Mr Beard saw Simmonds feeding his big boys on the Beyond the green show this week...and then skipped the recap of the tulane poop game...

[BillySee58]

It's one thing to have quantity, but we need quality as well. We've seen 6 lineman get significant snaps this year. 1 of those lineman is a senior and 4 of them are juniors. We have 8 other scholarship lineman, but who knows if they will be adequate replacements once guys like Johnson, Lemon, and Y'Barbo leave after next year.

I think Beard would have a really good chance to come in, redshirt, and take one of the potentially 4 starting positions that will open after Mckinney and the three 4-year starters leave after the 2014 season.