GMG24

No such thing as falling through the cracks. Not in this day and age with twitter and instagram access to every coach in the country. What has changed is the recruiting landscape. The P5 will primarily LIVE in the world of the portal, and 4 and 5 star athletes. 5 star is basically predicting the kid is a 1st round NFL talent, 4 star is a chance to get drafted more or less. 3 star they just slap those ratings on guys like hot cakes because its easy and they're lazy. P5's used to drop from the 4 stars when they lost out on them or someone flipped them, would then come and raid a team like say North Texas who had some really good 3 stars committed and they'd offer and the kid would typically chase the bigger offer. Now that the portal is here instead of them trying to find a HS kid they just use a college kid who already has experience with college life, practice, academics etc. Now there is an abundance of kids like a majority of the ones we signed that lets face it prior to the portal UNT doesn't land 2/3 of the class.

None of us have ever experienced this (I don't think) He went from being one of the top recruited, top ranked, the GUY at his HS to not sniffing the field. That can definitely do stuff to one's mindset. I have no clue about any of it other than from players I've had who weren't nearly as talented as him who went through the same thing being the guy in HS then get to college and for whatever reason don't crack the field. You go from football being everything and most of the reason people know who you are, to not playing. Harder on young men than one would think.

Don't know if he's the top target..there are some really good QB's in the portal available. NIL will probably knock the top 1/2 of QBs out of our range due to the amount of $$ thrown their way.

Any more info on him? I can do some digging but I've looked at so many names the last 48 hours I have no idea who is who

Yeah everyone will be mad with this offer, but when you have a LS who is an issue then everyone wants to blame someone. Good for the staff for identifying this area of need and addressing it the best way they know how, with a scholarship for the young man.

I believe we have 3 or 4 spots left based off Morris' comments in press conference that is after the new additions today. I bet it will be 1 QB and 3 DL or 2 QB and 2 DL

If he got a post he is on scholarship

Yessir. Not to take away from the HS Signees because they're going to be those dudes. This cat is SPECIAL, hard to play RB at LSU...I have no problems with this pick up at all.

Patience. Trust them, they got some left I wouldn't be surprised if you see 2 and maybe a couple DL (I'm not sure how many we have left haven't done the math yet and don't know who is on scholly currently on roster)

EWWWWWEEEEE LETS GO!!!! This dude TORCHED US IN HS one of the best HS Backs I coached or played against.

Now he is here. I can sleep easier

ANOTHER ONE!! LETS GOO

They typically are pretty lazy and just give a kid a high 2 star or low 3 star and move on. They did re up a few of our signees to mid/upper mid 3 stars but haven't got around to the newer commits yet.

They haven't ranked any of them as portal players yet, just like they haven't ranked 5/6 of our HS Signees... They're lazy as hell they rank the top 30/35 programs for everything then get around to all the other stuff when they can.... Brutal

Pre-Portal I would completely and totally agree with you. However, now that the portal is here there are ALOT more players available that wouldn't be if the portal wasn't here. In turn that allows for better players to fall to lower level teams, what I would look to for each of the individual cases where you may be concerned about a "Flip" is how many other schools offered the kid. The more schools that think the kid is worth a scholarship, the more likely they are to be a player at that level. Like you said there are outliers but those are more miss than hit. Example: I have a 6'4" 275 17 year old Guard/Center who played LT for us. He has multiple Juco offers and a few D2, one FCS has come through but hasn't offered yet. HC from Angelo State told him in my office, pre-portal you are a Power 5 kid you have great length and frame, it is a shame what the portal has done to recruiting, BUT I am now able to talk to young men like you and have a chance to recruit you.

They have like 6 HS guys to rate that is screwing our standing. Haven't rated any of our transfers...

Correct it can all change in the spring, by my calculations (I could be wrong) we have 3 scholarships left again I could be off. You can sign however many scholarships you have available. The catch, you have to balance your roster so you aren't stuck with 80 Freshman and RS Freshman and 5 Seniors. You must constantly manage and manipulate your roster to stay as balanced as you can.

Very much so! I took my oldest to the game he goes to their elementary and we watched their playoff game at home. He would disappear then BAM 6

They just got the 4 star Lake Dallas WR to sign to Memphis going to have some talent! Think Purdue cooled off on him not sure why..

Luke is Memphis recruiting director it makes sense

I probably should have just screen shot his twitter timeline to better explain my mush brain. Commits to us with the puzzle pieces, days later takes down his picture he tweeted about being committed, puzzle pieces stay, then he starts retweeting old stats about himself and accolades, then doesn't post anything about UTEP except his pictures and I guess he's going there now, typically when its that close together the kid will decommit as you saw our guys do today, and then sign or post they're going somewhere else.

Lol you got me. I revised my post to make more sense. I have too much going on in my brain with breaking down signing day I should just stay off here for now 🫠

To my knowledge we didn't lose him, rather they gained him it may have been a mutual split once his coach got that job? What I mean is he never posted a decommit post, I think we told him we were looking elsewhere around that time UTEP offered bc of his old HC and that was that. I could be wrong though.

The only assumption I will make is that Morris will bring someone in True Freshman transfer RS Freshman Senior, Sophomore whoever and will keep the offense moving along

No longer coming here. The kid from Washington State is in place of him. No clue if he backed out or we did.