MeanGreenZen

Kids can change their minds and that is fine. Men should be true to their word. Now if the kid couldn't make a test score, can't get his grades high enough or has some type of behavioral issue then it is fine for a coach to rescind an offer. But a coach should not pull an offer if, "Oops, I thought you were better at playing football." Maybe Nick Saban does that. But I don't want to win that way.

Wonder if he is having trouble qualifying? We may have given him until x date to get a certain score on the SAT/ACT or whatever kids take these days and maybe he didn't do it? It would be pretty crappy of SL to offer a kid then pull the scholarship because the kid was underperforming on the field. I don't think SL would do that. It must be a off-the-field issue like grades or something else.

I've torn my same ACL four times in my life. No reason a college athlete can't come back from it in 6 months. Rod Woodson returned to the field from an ACL tear to play in the Super Bowl in three months. Littrell isn't going to hand Fine the job next season. I wouldn't be surprised at all if we brought in a big name grad transfer to play QB next year either.

I would not say our Dline is undersized. May have been true every other year, but Hood, Young, Combs, etc are NOT undersized.

Vizza only played as a true fr and soph. Compare Vizza's numbers as a Fr and So to DT's as a Fr and So. It is no contest. Vizza had more passing yards in a game in his first college start than DT ever had in a game over his whole career. And DT played parts of 5 seasons. Vizza threw for 8 TDs vs Navy and was Sun Belt Freshman of the Year and made Freshman All American. DT had an ok career and a great bowl game, but he never even made an all conference team. Plus, a big part of Vizza's game was running the ball. He was a legit weapon who made plays with his legs and trucked dudes. DT just got sacked. Vizza is still a quitter though. And Riley Dodge may have been "efficient" but he couldn't throw the ball more than 5 yards down the field and was not better than Vizza.

Vizza is still the best QB we have had since Scott Hall. He is a quitter though.

McClain's highlights vs. Army were incredible. That guy is going to break our NFL draftless streak.

Did anyone else have a problem with the premium stream freezing over and over again? Can't figure out if that was CUSA's fault or my ISP.

Wow! Pretty bush league of Rice to not stream their home game that isn't on TV. No wonder the Southwest Conference collapsed.

I am unclear, we pulled his offer before he accepted it? Or we pulled his offer AFTER he had accepted it? Those are two very different situations.

Giovanni Vizza was pretty darn good. That is easy to forget with him being a quitter and all.

Hank is the sales guy. Nothing happens in any business until someone sells something.

I believe that Morris will stop throwing interceptions as soon as he tucks in his jersey.

Why?

Texarkana Texas is playing Bishop Lynch this Friday in Dallas. Only time (other than playoffs, maybe) that Pearson will be playing near DFW. I'm planning to go check him out.

He may be a good player, but this smells like we are doing a solid for Grandpa Big Bucks. Getting a FBS offer is prestigious to his grandson among his peers, puts pressure on Liberty coaches to play him if there is a QB controversy (which it sounds like) and puts the kid on the radar of every other school that recruits Texas. Grandpa Big Bucks has been a great supporter of UNT football and offering this kid a scholarship as a form of gratitude is a smart move and I support it.

Good move by AW. He wants to be a coach/trainer. Now for the rest of his life he can tell his athletes that he loved his sport so much that he stood outside a NFL team's headquarters with a handwritten cardboard sign begging for an opportunity to keep playing football, so why aren't they giving more effort on that last set? It makes a fantastic story. This is the smartest PR stunt by a UNT athlete since Johnny Quinn staged breaking through the bathroom wall at the Olympics. As a marketing alum at UNT, I am proud.

Allen has to be the most overrecruited school in the country. I'm not going to hold it against Littrell if we aren't the 11th school watching a Tuesday morning walk through there. Let's look under rocks that no one else is exploring. Based on his success as an assistant coach, I'm going to assume Littrell knows what he is doing unless he proves that he doesn't. Wouldn't be any fun otherwise.

Are we sure Littrell even offered? All these offer lists are self-reported by the kids (who have a huge incentive to drive up their perceived value by reporting offers from schools who may or may not even be recruiting them). The schools can't confirm or deny whether or not they offered a scholarship to a kid. With that said, $15k for a prep school for a kid almost guaranteed to get the rest of his school paid for via football would be manageable for a lot of middle class families (especially those who saved for college). If we did offer and Augie thinks he can do better, good for him. It is a gamble he must be able to afford to take. Worst case scenario, he could still probably get a scholarship to D2. Best case he ends up in the ACC. Either way, Littrell needs to move on and find a scholarship HS QB this class.

Has anyone checked to make sure this dude is still committed to the new staff?

Well that is simple enough, but the article says that he could stay for another year of high school. Most non-qualifiers go to JUCO or prep school or just keep taking more SAT/ACT tests. Never heard of a non-qualifier pulling a Wooderson.

I don't get it. Is the kid just a junior now? Or is he a senior flunking 12th grade?

Good for him. Will b interesting to see what SL's next move is.

I respectfully disagree. It is not easy to recruit against other P5's at North Carolina, Indiana and Texas Tech. Almost all P5's offer the chance to play in front of 60k+ crowds for 4 years. Littrell had to try to recruit kids against Florida State/Michigan/Texas. And that isn't easy to do from where he has been. Recruiting is recruiting. The scale barely matters. I am positive Littrell could have filled up our class right now picking off kids from Abilene Christian, Midwestern State and any other smaller program. There are no shortage of kids wanting to get their education paid for to play college football. But as far as I am understanding it, Littrell got a late start and is actually competing for kids against schools like Texas A&M and UCLA (something our previous coach NEVER did). I believe Littrell is waiting to see how many of the balls he is swinging at land over the fence for a homerun before he starts filling this class up with kids who would take ANY offer from an FBS school (the equivalent of walks and singles, to continue the metaphor). The "I will take any offer kids" are mostly going to be there until signing day and beyond. I like that he is not panicking and am confident that he will deliver a solid class.

Package deal with someone else?