MGB: UNT picks up TE from Houston

Brett Vito · July 30, 2014

http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2014/07/looks-like-unt-picked-up-a-te-commitment.html/

Cerebus · July 30, 2014

Here is his hudl video.

Listed as a TE and Center. Seems to have played mostly as a C, only had one catch last year.

BillySee58 · July 30, 2014

Here is his hudl video.

Listed as a TE and Center. Seems to have played mostly as a C, only had one catch last year.

Those are his sophomore highlights. Here are his junior highlights.

http://www.hudl.com/athlete/1576935/highlights/109098375

Cerebus · July 30, 2014

Those are his sophomore highlights. Here are his junior highlights.
http://www.hudl.com/athlete/1576935/highlights/109098375

Thanks Billy. I can't find his stats anywhere. One site says he had 1 24yd catch last year but that video shows several.

BillySee58 · July 30, 2014

Thanks Billy. I can't find his stats anywhere. One site says he had 1 24yd catch last year but that video shows several.

Yeah, there isn't much on him. For a kid who plays for a school that won a 5A state championship in 2011, (when Smith was a freshman), he seems very under the radar and under-exposed.

Although they did go 2-8 last year. I don't think I've ever seen a team win a state championship then go 2-8 just two years later.

Travis · July 30, 2014

So we will have a good blocking TE?? Unproven as a receiving TE...

BillySee58 · July 30, 2014

So we will have a good blocking TE?? Unproven as a receiving TE...

I was thinking we'd take a good blocking tight end this class. Like a big kid who looks almost more like an offensive lineman, like Andrew Power or Wylie Reinhardt. This kid isn't as big as those guys, but he could be that blocking-type tight end. If Caleb Chumley (who is grayshirting and will come in as a QB), ends up moving to tight end, then you'd have a blocking specialist and a receiving specialist at tight end.

If you look at our roster, our tight ends are very top heavy. The scholarship guys are all seniors and juniors except Wylie Reinhardt. Tanner Smith is a senior, and Cooper Jones, Marcus Smith, and Chris Loving are juniors. If this kid and Chumley redshirt next year in 2015, then in 2016 all those guys would be gone and they'd have a great chance at playing time.

NorthTexan95 · July 30, 2014

To me he seems like that type that could hit a growth spurt and turn into a really good left tackle.

Jason Howeth · July 30, 2014

With an O Line full of seniors and the current QB situation, we could use him in either spot. Whichever QB we end up with will need as many targets as possible.

H-towngreen · July 30, 2014

Highly, highly doubt this kid will end up on the line. He's 235. This isn't the Dickey days anymore. Kids a TE.

BillySee58 · July 30, 2014

He's a verified 6'3" 224. 6'3" is too short for offensive tackle. 224 is way too light for o-line. Asking this kid to gain 70-80 lbs is not going to happen.

We're likely taking 5-6 high school offensive linemen this class. Those guys will be the linemen we ask to take over in the future. If anything this kid plays defense. If he's on offense, he's playing tight end.

Brett Vito · July 30, 2014

Updated with comment from Smith.

Stan R · July 30, 2014

Wow, electrical engineering. We just added that degree within the last 10 years I believe so this may not have happened without it. He may be the only EE major in D1 football period right now.

emmitt01 · July 30, 2014

If you look further down in the blog entries there is a very comforting tweet from Bingham, the CB commit.

Cerebus · July 30, 2014

Wow, electrical engineering. We just added that degree within the last 10 years I believe so this may not have happened without it. He may be the only EE major in D1 football period right now.

Scott Hall was also an engineering major.