UNT following the only reasonable path to signing day

[Harry]

A host of UNT recruiting targets have committed over the last few days. It has seemed like one dose of bad news after another.

Nick Orr, the younger brother of Zach Orr, picked TCU. Garland wide receiver James Mayden committed to Rice, which dipped into the Dallas area to land another player UNT had offered.

Orr hurt a little, but the bottom line is that we are a long, long way from panic time.

UNT is following a pretty reasonable plan that should pay dividends down the line.

UNT has bailed on Louisiana, put pretty much all its resources in Texas, handed out offers to a around 50 players it would like to land and has kept the lines of communication open with others.

UNT has already picked up a couple of decent defensive line prospects from DeSoto in Shaquel Jackson and Johnavhon Grahm.

Now it’s a waiting game.

Rice is sitting there with a dozen players committed, so is SMU. Houston has 11. UTSA and UTEP have two each.

There are not enough scholarships to go around for all C-USA/AAC-level players in the state, not if they want to stay home. Some of the teams UNT competes against are going fill up. Some already are a certain positions.

Read more: http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2013/06/unt-following-the-only-reasonable-path-to-signing-day.html/

[GrayEagle]

This is the way I like to see Vito lay the cards on the table. He is spot on with this article. If you follow recruiting each year you can see that this year is different than any other. We still have legitimate chances at many of the 30 or so (still open) 3* athletes that we've offered. It may take some time for some of these threes to know if the position is filled at the school of first choice. We can also monitor the twos that we've offered to see which ones have really good years. IMO this is how we raise the talent level on the squad.

[Harry]

Agreed Gray. Excellent article. My only point is its very hard for this system to identify a player who has a great senior year or blossoms in his senior year.

[Travis]

yeah, it is hard for me not to get in panic mode. I recall Mac coming in here and talking about how we really didn't have a lot of Div. 1 talent players. Thats all well and good. I just wonder if we really have improved much from that. Maybe my hopes for Mac to really change the landscape of the guys we brought in were unrealistically high.