[Commit Jarmarcus Jarvis- RB East Ascension]

Fullback or safety I would think.

[Recruiting remains hit or miss proposition]

The best analysis of any class is always three, four or even five years down the road.

[Analysis2012 of UNT FB OL/DL recruiting]

Cam Feldt will be eligible to play this year and will have 3 years of eligibility left. He will be classified a sophomore.

[Chase Walling verbals to SMU]

Honestly, with Y'Barbo, Lemon. Johnson and C. Feldt being young and Fortenberry returning as a starter and upperclassmean as well as Feeley and a band of redshirts from last year, we will have plenty of time to bring these young men along and let them develop. Or, we could have another Lemon in this class. A young man that committed late and turns into a diamond for us. I like this class and oir depth.

Makes me wonder, with Micah Thompson being moved to OL from DT last year, will any of these young men move to DL? Love our class and hope Rice and Walling find what they are looking for at SMU, but I don't wish SMU success and I don't like the fact that they strung us along only to bail at the 11th hour.

I find it funny that $MU had to fill their class by stealing from a school they've look down their noses at forever. I can't wait for our series to resume.

[Chase Walling verbals to SMU]

SMU got a couple that will fit their coach's style in Rice and Walling, while I'll take Rentfro and Trussell any day. Can't wait to start our series with the Metroplex Hilltoppers.

[Cheer for New England]

SHOSS, aren't you thinking of Peyton and not Eli? I thought Eli was drafted ny the Giants.

[Je'rod Evans visiting Memphis]

I think more important is that Fuentes is their new HC and real OC arriving from TCU recentlu. He is a great recruiter and that concerns me, although Mac has tended to have a backup visit us, Rentfro and Trussell, if he thinks we may lose a recruit. I haven't heard if we had another signal caller in this weekend. I would really like to see us get Evans. I think he could really develop into something special.

[Dutton Watson DE Prospect from Midland]

I would love to see us steal one from Tech's backyard.

[Less Than a week to go]

Watson was an extremely good player in a very tough district out here, although they don't face the same competition as the kids from the large Metro areas. What I do like about the kids out here is that they aren't afraid of hard work and they are tough. Watson would be what I consider a sleeper, but well worth the risk.

[Connor Trussell- OL Arlington Martin Commit]

I agree H-town. We could have presented Walling with a "take it or leave it" offer the other night, telling him to commit or lose the offer if he goes to SMUt.

Trussell looks about the same size but from a better program this year. Welcome to North Texas Connor. You've made a great decision. Love how Mac has players identified in the event we lose one.

[Arkansas State (1/28/12)]

Not a chance we win this game. If we lose, JJ should be relegated to outhouse cleaning duties in Jonesboro.

[Less Than a week to go]

Seems Vito knows where many recruits are visiting, but doesn't know who we have on campus. Seems odd, or typical.

[Recruting Budgets]

There are a lot of factors involved in these budgets. Travel costs for us should be low considering our coaches can travel the Metroplex, East Texas, Central Texas, etc... by car and also have easy access to two airports, DFW and Love Field, to fly to other areas. For instance, you can jump on a Southwest flight and go to Houston, Austin, Little Rock and New Orleans for about $39 one way.

That's in stark contrast to trying to travel out of Jonesboro, Monroe, etc...

Also, as many noted above, there is a wealth of talent in our own backyard that is easily accessible.

[SMU Board focusing attention on UNT recruits]

Recently while taking a deep dive, digging in to the past four years worth of data on prospect decommitments and transfers for a piece titled "The Commitment Project." The report includes plenty of anecdotal data -- including a conversation with now-Iona guard Lamont "MoMo" Jones, who has to have some sort of modern-day transfer/decommitment record, about the various reasons for his decisions -- but it is mostly interested in the hard numbers. Those hard numbers make a convincing case that players who attend multiple high schools carry that behavior with them during both their recruitment process and after they've signed at a school.

From Luke:

-- 39.2 percent of top-100 recruits attended multiple high schools

-- The multiple-high school trend rose to 47 percent in the Class of 2011, suggesting it could break 50 percent later this decade

-- Top-100 players who attended multiple high schools went on to decommit from colleges at nearly twice the rate of their peers

-- 24.8 percent of top-100 recruits transfer, a rate that's nearly 2.5 times the D-I average

-- Top-100 players who decommit are nearly 50 percent more likely than their peers to transfer once they're in college.

But if they never fully commit to a school -- if they're treating college programs like AAU teams to be discarded whenever things don't go their way -- then the entire collegiate experience becomes somewhat trivialized.

In other words stuff happens – all the time.

I believe the article you are quoting is referring to basketball and not football. The AAU/Summer team system is probably where these kids are recruited from and not their high school teams.

[SMU Board focusing attention on UNT recruits]

I found humor in your post considering you come on our board and make a comment about how it is not perceived as a good thing to steal our recruits, which your school is, or is trying to do. I responded by stating that maybe you all, SMU, might not be as good as you all think when you lose recruits to schools that finished behind us in our conference and are targeting a couple of our recruits to steal. Sorry that went over your head, but don't come over hear making insulting comments about the perception of targeting our recruits.

[Catching up with Odoh]

Adding Odoh to the center and surrounding him with Mitchell, Franklin, A. Williams and Jones/Norris could lead us to our best team/record ever. I hope Mitchell sticks around for one more year and Jones and J. Williams get their grades in order.

[SMU Board focusing attention on UNT recruits]

Trust me when I say this was a "joke" post. Targeting UNT recruits is not perceived as a good thing by most.

Sounds like Chase was visited by UNT coaches yesterday, and is really conflicted. It sounds like you may hold on to that one -- congrats!!

Hmm, losing recruits to FAU, who finished behind us in conference and we beat pretty handily, and then trying to steal recruits from us. Sounds like you fella's are not transfere as wanted as you think. Hilarious.

[Fielder to Detroit]

Prince is good, but he's not $214 million good. Are the Tigers going to unload Cabrera or just pay him in scotch?

[One Week]

And we can start talking about spring practice.

[East/West Shine Game]

I am not looking at this year, I am looking at his career.

[UNT recruit decommits]

But Skaldany is a recruiting guru. Hate to lose LaFrance, but am pleased with who is coming to NT.

[Sunday afternoon recruiting update]

Are you sure you want him here ? I mean he did give his original word to Monroe

It's okay when it is reversed. I call this coming to your senses, not backing out of a committment.

[Updated commit list(1/22)]

ntmeangreen11, why do you expect Walling to go to SMU?

[Rentfro update]

Welcome aboard Ryan. I think we got the best of the two in the long run.

[UNT recruit decommits]

So, is LaFrance still coming to Denton next weekend, or did he cancel?