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3 minutes ago, GrandGreen said:
Most never played here, really? Better look again, there are definitely more than you would like that never made a NT field, but you are exaggerating.
Never arrived, never played, or never made an impact.
William Johnson, Boone Felt (and his 4 star transfer brother additionally), Kevin Dillman, Darren McNair, Alonzo Horton, Justin Edwards, Jeremy Bean, and the list goes on and on. I am obviously excluding recent recruits bc we don’t yet know about them, but I guess we can add Demeco Roland to that list as well.
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The thing that struck me about that list was how few of those recruits ever played here. Most never ended up here.
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1 hour ago, El Paso Eagle said:
Many of the Mean Green family said the same thing .....
And we were right to be concerned. It took time for the classes to improve. Let’s nit act like all was golden!
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Maybe he was talking about the O-line? Hopefully that all changes this year.
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Just now, Christopher Walker said:
Absolutely! But here's the further thing - we can greatly utilize this short-term buzz into long-term strategic messaging on the recruiting trail. It's how so many of the truly successful peer institutions go about it.
Funny, that is what I just added to my post!
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I love seeing us up in the rankings, but let’s also tap the breaks and be honest: this is a short-term thing based upon volume of recruits. If you look at the average rating of the recruits of the other schools, they are generally significantly higher but they have fewer verbals at this point.
I am, however, quite pleased with the results to this point and like the balance of this class so far. The fact that we have a highly regarded Defensive Tackle on the board in June is phenomenal. (Let’s get one more please!) I think we are all going to be very happy with this class.
I hope that in the short term, this high (but temporary) ranking will help us land more higher 3 star players in this class. Then maybe we will finish top50 - which would be amazing.
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10 minutes ago, THOR said:
Shouldn't you be in the backwoods of Kyrgyzstan by now???
Early August arrival. And it isn’t like that will stop me from exposing your cross dressing habits.
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3 hours ago, THOR said:
not a mean green thing, but i have never worn pants to a football game featuring north texas (other than during my band years when i had too)...haven't missed a home game since 06...it's just my thing.
Thor on game day:
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25 minutes ago, FirefightnRick said:
Thank you. According to some research I did a few years back about bobble head collections,...next to a certain year Roberto Clemente bobble head the 60’s era NTSU Scrappy is among the most sought after? No idea if that is true or not now days? But the Scrappy was made in China and only 600 were circulated. So they are rare. It’s crazy to think that I bought mine for $7.50 at a second hand furniture store just a block south of the Denton square the week I moved into my first apartment.
I have a funny story(married couples funny at least) about that.
My wife of 21 years collected Hummel figurines while we were dating and once we moved into our house she put her collection in our China hutch to display. I think the most she ever paid for one was around $250? Well,...I put my Scrappy in there too and she didn’t like it at all. And every time we had a family gathering she’d remove the bobble head and I’d have to go look for it hidden somewhere in the house, and this battle continued for a few years.
Not long after, I met GMG’s Adler who has a nice Mean Green collection of his own. Adler told me those Scrappy bobble heads are rare and collectible. So I told my wife about it and she scoffed at that. I told her I had reason to believe that my Scrappy might even be worth more than any of her Hummels and of course she laughed and said there’s no freaking way,....and that “College stuff needs to go somewhere else other than the hutch...etc”,...and the battle raged on from there.
......until the night that all changed.
My wife is a school counselor and comes home pretty wiped out every afternoon during the school year and usually goes to bed early. Since I work shift work I stay up late and one night I get a message with a link in it from Adler for a Scrappy bobble head up for bid on eBay,. It had several bids at the time, and the highest bid was like $1600. I couldn’t believe it, and thought to myself...”what a perfect time to end the Scrappy vs Hummel battle once and for all.
So I turned on the printer, printed it out, walked into the bed room, flipped on the overhead light and yelled..”Hey,..WAKE UP!!!!”(thinking back on it now I realize it’s a wonder I didn’t get shot?). Anyhow she raised up and looked at me and yelled “What the...??”. I walked over and held that print out in front of her and asked..”Any of your Hummels Worth $1600!!!!!?????”. She stared at it a second in amazement,... then not wanting to give up says..”Well there’s a fool born every day!”. And again I asked ...”You got a Hummel some fool would pay $1600 for?”. Lost for words she just kept looking at the print out. I snapped back..”Didn’t think so...SCRAPPY STAYS PUT!”....and I walked out.
And he’s been in there ever since,...true story.
Rick
This is so informative on so many levels.
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I wonder if it is a coincidence that NT is in the bottom corner...
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Sorry I didn’t recall that name so I posted. I try not to duplicate. Is there a mod for this place?
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8 hours ago, Aquila_Viridis said:
Charlotte is one of the best things NT has going in this conference we call home. Eventually they will build out the tiny stadium. They are about the only member that has any upside comparable to NT. By the way they are a founding member of the conference and consistently ranked as a better institution. Don't hate.
Facts?
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And another one to SMUt
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Btw SMUt also had a camp today and picked up its first three commits.
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5 hours ago, James said:
Definitely would love to know if there is one, I am right down the road from the Dell Diamond.
Don’t know about that, but we attended the Frisco NT alumni game last summer and it was a great experience. There was a reserved outfield area with food and booze. Quite a bargain.
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Post info here on the UTEP game, which maybe got a little easier with this news:
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North Texas All Time Football Recruits
in Mean Green Football
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The bold is exactly my point. And the top of the list is particularly full of busts. But again I am excluding recents recruits, who make up a lot of our list of top recruits and looking at the past.
So we might be pretty much on the same page.