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mccox2 Newbie

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As much as I want him to be a Mean Green I respect his decision. A competitive conference, an excellent head coach, an atmosphere of a big city, and a great academic school. Good luck to the kid and I hope he finds success at Northwestern both at the academic and athletic level.

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tough... good luck to him! we will now have 2 spots left for this year so either the coaches get back out there so to speak and get after some guys or we pocket them for next year or other deserving kids already on campus...

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Good luck at Northwestern. It's a very good school.

Good luck to him and it's good school, yes. But UNT is just as good of a school. I'm sure he'll still have a great career. Now it's time to focus on our guys, those who are passionate about playing for the Mean Green.

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ntmeangreen11 Proficient

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Good luck to him.

On to more pressing issues like the fact that we're only going to sign 1 high school DE and 1 high school DT who's only other offers were TSU & Utah State. In the 2013 class we signed 1 high school DT and 1 JUCO DE. I know that we have made progress in recruiting this season with the East Texas pledges, but man that's a big disappointment. In 2012 we signed 6 high school defensive lineman, two have left school (Horton, McDorman) and the other 4 haven't seen the field. It is imperative that a couple of those guys come on strong in spring ball.

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DeepGreen Grand Master

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Vito, "UNT hasn’t been in many battles with schools like Northwestern for recruits over the years". Northwestern came on the scene just last week and swept one our top recruits right from under our noses. There was no recruiting battle.

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TIgreen01 Veteran

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Vito, "UNT hasn’t been in many battles with schools like Northwestern for recruits over the years". Northwestern came on the scene just last week and swept one our top recruits right from under our noses. There was no recruiting battle.

Ding, Ding! The minute they opened up a scholly for him, he was gone. At least he slept on it for a night before making it official. Gotta give him credit for being wise enough (or getting good advice from home) to do that.

That said, Northwestern can suck it!

emmitt01 Grand Master

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Good luck to him.

On to more pressing issues like the fact that we're only going to sign 1 high school DE and 1 high school DT who's only other offers were TSU & Utah State. In the 2013 class we signed 1 high school DT and 1 JUCO DE. I know that we have made progress in recruiting this season with the East Texas pledges, but man that's a big disappointment. In 2012 we signed 6 high school defensive lineman, two have left school (Horton, McDorman) and the other 4 haven't seen the field. It is imperative that a couple of those guys come on strong in spring ball.

I count 4 DL players in this class.

UNTLifer Grand Master

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I do too Emmitt. I also count five signed in 2011, Brooks is gone, Thompson moved to OT, but Orr, Lincoln and Mason are here and have contributed. We will be fine.

ntmeangreen11 Proficient

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I count 4 DL players in this class.

Both of the d lineman from Desoto are grayshirting and will count towards 2015. Any way you look at it we didn't have a class of 2014 defensive lineman verbal until Mid January when we flipped Tillman Johnson from TSU.

MeanGreenD Newbie

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I got the most important retweet I've had in my short history with Twitter. Came from Xavier's Mom. Upon viewing her profile, I notice right before my retweet she tweeted, "Plz remember my son is a 17 yr old kid when tweeting. This was very hard and emotional choice for him plz think of his feelings." @Apex_mom

I hope this is mostly directed at the UH fan base. Was I bummed? Of course! But this young man made a decision that he felt was best for HIM. That's what all these college athletes do. Fan is short for fanatic, but you can make the decision to carry yourself in a respectful manner. X will talk to juniors who will become seniors and new prospects. He will tell them "I didn't go to UNT, but man, I wish I did. He'll list the many reasons why, and then either say "...and their fans showed me major respect even after I didn't go there". Or, "...but, I didn't go there and I got slammed by every Mean Green fan".

Please be mindful that social media is a powerful tool that can work in our favor, or not. It's all a matter of how we decide to use it.

As Coach Mac said on the radio show after my Facebook questions was reworded and taken entitrely out of context, "Let's take the negativity out of it." That has become my new motto.

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Green92 Newbie

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As Coach Mac said on the radio show after my Facebook questions was reworded and taken entitrely out of context, "Let's take the negativity out of it." That has become my new motto.

I like that!

Harry Grand Master

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I got the most important retweet I've had in my short history with Twitter. Came from Xavier's Mom. Upon viewing her profile, I notice right before my retweet she tweeted, "Plz remember my son is a 17 yr old kid when tweeting. This was very hard and emotional choice for him plz think of his feelings." @Apex_mom

I hope this is mostly directed at the UH fan base. Was I bummed? Of course! But this young man made a decision that he felt was best for HIM. That's what all these college athletes do. Fan is short for fanatic, but you can make the decision to carry yourself in a respectful manner. X will talk to juniors who will become seniors and new prospects. He will tell them "I didn't go to UNT, but man, I wish I did. He'll list the many reasons why, and then either say "...and their fans showed me major respect even after I didn't go there". Or, "...but, I didn't go there and I got slammed by every Mean Green fan".

Please be mindful that social media is a powerful tool that can work in our favor, or not. It's all a matter of how we decide to use it.

As Coach Mac said on the radio show after my Facebook questions was reworded and taken entitrely out of context, "Let's take the negativity out of it." That has become my new motto.

Good thoughts and I agree. It's disappointing for us all and I am sure he hates to disappoint us as well. Just wish him well -- he and his family have been nothing but nice to UNT through the whole process. We all wish he would have come here, but it didn't work out that way in the end. Life goes on.

PlummMeanGreen Grand Master

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Vito, "UNT hasn’t been in many battles with schools like Northwestern for recruits over the years". Northwestern came on the scene just last week and swept one our top recruits right from under our noses. There was no recruiting battle.

So we go back to being the North Texas of old and crawl back in our hole?

Well..............I don't think so as long as Coach McCarney is around in Mean Green Country and we keep hiring future head football coaches that have very similar bios as he had before he arrived in Denton. It has made a difference and I just don't know what took us so long to get back to that kind of hiring modus operendi once again.

GMG!

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