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Yes he was, he was intended to be a receiver because his arm had an ulnar nerve injury that never fully healed from high school. When Vizza left he filled in but his last year with us (2010), he was not even on the qb depth chart yet he was thrust into the starting role after Nathan Tune and Derek Thompson were injured and the only other semi-qb on roster was walk-on receiver Chase Baine. Say what you want about Todd Dodge but don’t give me that coach’s son bullsh, that kid poured his heart and soul into this team and his body just couldn’t take the punishment. He is our highest rated recruit ever, period, and he’d never have set foot on our campus if he weren’t the “coach’s son”. You may not know this but Mason is second on North Texas’ all time completion percentage list. Our all-time leader? Riley Dodge. So go spit your crybaby bull somewhere else Mrs Vizza. Rag on the coach all you want but Riley did nothing wrong other than play his heart out for this team.

If we get a whole class of "rebounds" with the talent of this kid that's cool with me.

Recruiting across the board has changed a little since the days of Hayden Fry...

We should always have a top recruiting class! Special thanks to all that contributed to the School and the IPF. Facilities matter and the IPF is very impressive! Gmg

When the newest signing is announced UNT will move to # 1 in CUSA according to 247sports.

Thank you Seth for being on your game! This team is loaded with talent, the future is bright!

Every night when I roll over and look at my wife I think “I know she’s beautiful, but I wasn’t her first boyfriend damnit!!”

I'm not gonna argue about his value purely as a QB, but IMO there is always room on our roster for a kid that fought like he did.

Look at it this way, we signed a talented WR who now, thanks to Ole Miss, has a massive chip on his shoulder. I see this as a win-win for both parties. Welcome to the Mean Green, Detraveon. We're thrilled to have you.

Would be # 7 right now. Huge shout out to Luke and recruiting staff.

Love his film. Really fluid route runner. The future of our passing game looks bright. Likely will have an underclassmen QB to throw to the following underclassmen receivers: sophomores - Jyaire Shorter (9 receiving TDs), Deonte Simpson, and Austin Ogunmakin redshirt freshmen - Khatib Lyles (multiple P5 offers), Kealon Jackson (multiple P5 offers), and Damon Ward true freshmen - Loronzo Thompson (multiple P5 offers) and Detraveon Brown (multiple P5 offers)

papers are in. just waiting on kid to make his own announcement

Agreed, somewhere there is a photograph of Riley being carried off Fouts Field on a stretcher with his face mask removed while holding up his talon hand sign. That kids gave everything he had. The difference between him and Mason? Mason was out in WAY better situations than Riley ever was. You put a prime Riley Dodge in the same 4-year stretch Mason had? You have a quarterback with Mason’s vision and accuracy with the ability to run like Bean.

Wait so we still have a scholarship for Ravon available?

Kiffin was being Kiffin at FAU and, tell me, how are they haunted? Unfortunately, Kiffin did this because he will get away with it. And Ol' Miss will be fine. Probably even better because he will continue to be Kiffin.

We had Loronzo Thompson as the lone WR in this class prior to him signing. Running an Air Raid, that's not gonna work out very well in 3-4 years. I'm glad Brown fell into our laps... however it happened!

We aren't done yet. Big fish coming today....

Vito only shows up to bring bad news.

The signee never made sense to me to begin with. I believe both are high school tight ends were better to begin with with five years of eligibility left including redshirt year. This I believe will become a gray casualty and we're getting out ahead of the curve so we can sign someone else.

Fry would probably need to hire help to understand social media these days.

In terms of offer points (1 for G5 offers, 1.5 for P5 offers) this class was still slightly behind last year, I think like 93 offer points to 101. Still had a decent amount of guys in this class with one other FBS offer or no other FBS offers. Still a great class, and those guys weren’t all necessarily bad takes, like Jacobi Johnson who would probably have finished with much more offers if we didn’t get him when we did and hold on. I’ll try and post the charts later.

Years from now if he is successful no one will care how we got him, just that we got him. Personally, I don't care how we get them, rebound, transfer, etc. If the can contribute and don't show public regret for being here i'm good

Now #67 in the nation, 4th best in G5. I don't think we've ever cracked top 60 in the nation on 247 rankings. Another step forward, now to produce on the field.

Should be ranked top 10 best G5 class in the nation. When is the last time that's happened.

We have another signee. His paper are in. The player has asked the staff to hold off announcing until he announces.

If you look at average ratings per signee we are 2nd

4.4 speed TAPPS D-1 All-State WR https://www.hudl.com/profile/13199136/Evan-Greene

Is it over yet though? Seth is making me think it’s not

Hi fellow Mean Green Nation. I wanted to share this about former player Jordan Murray. My children go to St. Monica Catholic school in Dallas. Jordan Murray was hired at the school to help with at athletics and other school responsibilities. The school has embraced him and the kids LOVE him! I see him just about every day at pickup. Tragically, Jordan lost his mother and has devastated his family. Our school posted his go fund me page to help with the funeral. They have reached their goal, but Jordan and his family are going to need any extra support they can get. St. Monica is lucky to have him. I coach strength and conditioning for the football team as a Dad volunteer and can’t help to work with him and the players in the fall. I’m so proud to see Jordan helping our kids. He’s so polite, helpful and is our gentle giant. Go Mean Green. GoFundMePage

Weird, thought he was already enrolled. Would open another spot I guess

This commit was confusing to me from the beginning, I don't know where people are seeing great blocking skills on his highlight tape and he had like 4 catches, was also injured or just not involved in the game plan leading to stats being recorded for only 4 games. ULM only other offer.. of all players to lose in this class (not counting Ligon flip to UTSA or the JUCO DT to FAU) this is who I would have picked. Le'ts hope we can use this scholarship this summer.

The old 5-year JUCO plan.

From experience, your more succesful programs (Allen, DeSoto, Ceder Hill, etc.) have a position coach with the added title "recruiting coordinator". They work on making sure all entry tests and GPA are inline with the school/level the kid is wanting to play at. They also help kids navigate those murky waters and help kids that aren't your 5 or 4 star player get to play somewhere. Other schools that may not be as dominant or have many players that get heavily recruited will have a coach that will help, but does not have the depth of knowledge and structure set up for the recruiting/signing process.

Should still be number one

We would still be the highest ranked

We are definitely still fighting off a generation of coaches and media mouths that still think we are NTSU.

North Texas wins by 8 or more.

OR ... when he comes here and loves it and kicks ass he will have a great story to tell others how if he could go back he wouldn't change a thing because UNT is incredible

QB/OLine/DT for the last one is my hope

That's true, I miss all the pageantry. 😉

For sure. It’s becoming an outlier when a receiver we sign doesn’t have multiple P5 offers. And the ones that don’t are no slouches either. Like you said, guys like Ogunmakin and Ward would be solid signees at most CUSA schools and probably solid contributors as well.

It's gotta be https://okstate.com/sports/football/roster/tyrell-alexander/7298

I'd feel a lot worse about it if he played on this side of the State Line with Traylor's pull out East. But since he's from Louisiana, I like our chances.

Kid is very embarrassed right now from the ole miss BS. Just give it time.

I would like the MGBPC to discuss what our recruiting expectations should be considering: Highest paid HC in the conference High Asst Coach salary pool in the conference Best facilities in the conference Location The obvious answer is at or near the top every year but how much distance should there be between the rest of the pack? How well should we expect to compete with those at the top of the G5?

He was good but his body just couldn’t hold up.

Finally. For a while there it looked like we had contracted our recruiting out to those guys in Iowa.