First week of camp thoughts, record picks update

Harry · August 12, 2013

NT wrapped up its first week of camp with its first scrimmage on Saturday.

Practice is closed except for the first few minutes when media members can come in and grab a little video or shoot photos. Scrimmages are closed as well, which makes it tough to draw any hard-and-fast conclusions about how UNT is faring. We are essentially relying on the word of the coaches and players.

With that being said, there were some interesting developments over the first six days of workouts:

The quarterback race is still wide open for competition.

Derek Thompson, Brock Berglund and Andrew McNulty (in no particular order) are all still in the hunt. Ironically, the player who seems to have helped himself the most is Dajon Williams, a freshman who seems destined for a redshirt year. Williams could be the future.

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BillySee58 · August 12, 2013

"UNT fans are focused on what Thompson has done to win the job. What might be just as important is that he hasn't lost it and that the two other guys in the hunt haven't done much to bump Thompson out of the lineup."

Translation: DT is not winning the qb battle, but rather is not losing it. While the other qbs haven't taken the job from DT, he hasn't done anything to separate himself from the pack either.

Just like how we play to not lose the game with DT at qb (LaLa, WKU, South Alabama games), he's playing not to lose the qb spot rather then going out and grabbing it. Hopefully some qb takes the spot, rather than simply doesn't lose their spot.