Recruiting! Shoot me now!

Wag Tag · February 10, 2014

I am not an expert on recruiting ,but I really enjoy following and hearing all the opinions! I always thought the barometer of how we did would be based on who else had offered and what decision the kid made. I believe we should not lose kids to Tulsa, LA la, ASU, La Tech, CSU, and Wyoming. We did this year, we will every year and I need to accept it.

A Tulsa signee that has really stood out to me is a MLB from Memphis named Petera Wilson. He had offers from almost every college football power program and choose Tulsa. Yes Alabama, USC, Ohio St and on and on lost him.

I am so glad I do not make a living based off a decision of 17&18 kids! GMG

BillySee58 · February 10, 2014

Yeah, one major thing you need to realize when you look at a kid's offer list is which offers are committable, meaning which offers are still good and which schools that offered a kid at one point or another are still actively recruiting that kid. We did a really good job of getting the kids that we wanted. We obviously didn't get everyone we wanted, and definitely not every kid we offered, but with a smaller class we really made strong pushes and got a high percentage of the kids who we targeted and made a priority. Especially once spots in the class were getting tight and we were not actively recruiting all the kids we had offers extended to, including the ones who were still uncommitted.

As for Wilson, none of those offers were still good. He was once a consensus 4-star on all the major recruiting sites, but his stock plummeted during the spring of his junior year, and the summer before and during his senior season. When teams saw him in person they were not impressed. But once a team offers, recruiting services leave that offer up. Even if a team pulls that offer or it's no longer committable.

GOMG2013 · February 10, 2014

Grades also play a big part. Some schools will wait, some wont. When kids are offered thier junior year, some wont have an act or sat score in yet. After a few attempts, if there is no progress, teams will move on to someone that is already qualified.

PlummMeanGreen · February 10, 2014

This is probably one of the 4 best recruited classes I can remember at North Texas since 1973 and I say that after looking at all of BillySee58's cumulative recruiting services which featured almost 9 or 10 3 star recruits last I counted.

I say "one of the 4 best recruited classes" because of a 4 star Armour All American transfer from Oregon who is being counted on this year's list numerically but has never "stars-wise" counted in any of our rankings because of his being a transfer); also based on apparently 2 (or 3) of our Mean Green recruits a few P5's tried to persuade into de-committing from North Texas during this recruiting season's 12'th hour.

Back in the early days when Darrell Royal first scheduled his pal Hayden Fry's North Texas Mean Green, we played UT very close games (like in the very first UT/UNT matchup in 1976 which included Earl Campbell); anyhow, we played the Horns with our most unheralded recruiting classes versus UT's highly ranked recruited classes and played them off their hooves that first game (and 2 or 3 UT games the next few years).

:thumbsu: Like Gray Eagle has said a few times, "recruiting is an uncertain science at best" or similar words.

Give UNT HFC Dan McCarney some kids with speed (which he got last week); along with some kids with size, quick feet and room to grow during off season (which he also got last week) and he will deliver the kind of Mean Green football teams very similar (or even better) than the College Football Hall of Fame HFC he worked as an assistant and whose very portrait adorns his Athletic Center office wall over-looking fabulous Apogee Stadium.

GMG!

Edited February 10, 2014 by PlummMeanGreen