MeanGreenMailbox aka TFLF

We've already posted that. The point was that Bean was a recruit sought after by legitimate coaching staffs, such as Louisiana Tech's and Colorado State's, not just FCS and Division II schools - which has become a problem for us.

I'd tap the brakes on SMU until they can string together at least one or two winning seasons like they did under June Jones. Over there, you are talking about a coach who inherited players already familiar with a spread offense, but who have yet to have a winning season or bowl appearance. SMU Jesus is still more talk than anything else.

ACU popping up a ton these days. Wonder if they will angle for a spot in the Sun Belt sooner rather than later? They now have well-heeled alumni willing to spend money on athletics. By the way, their play-by-play guy is Grant Boone, nephew of Pat Boone. So, also related to "You Light Up my Life" Debby Boone.

My guess is, he's already told the coaches he's not going to play here. He has offers on the table from P5s Kansas State and Texas Tech; Tulsa and La Tech among a few G5s. Yes, Arkansas State and UTSA have also offered, and they may simply be better thought of by recruits like Trussell at this point. Arkansas State's recent bowl run - now at six seasons in a row - makes them attractive to any recruit they offer. Six in a row is no fluke. UTSA is simply aggressive. Many of us - me included - misjudged their hire of Frank Wilson. Whether or not he is a good coach in the long run as far as game day, we can now all agree that he's a good recruiter who hires good recruiters. There really is no other way to put it. Trussell's a legitimate recruit, that's for sure. Many solid coaching staffs are on him. If you've gotten and offer from Bill Snyder, that says a ton. He's been picking the right guys, heralded and unheralded, since 1989. Hard to argue with a kid who says, "Look, don't bother, I've got an offer from Snyder." In some ways, that does us the favor of not chasing something we can never land. On the other hand...if we haven't offered him... ...damn, that would dumb. Really, really dumb.

It was the running game in the second half of games that won three of the five games for us in 2016. If the run blocking had been even just a little worse, we'd have been 4-8 or worse at season's end. I just disagree. The OL run blocking allowed Jeffrey Wilson and Willy Ivery to make us more competitive than we should have been in 2016. We scored 39 TDs in 2016, and Wilson and Ivery accounted for 20 of those on the ground. So, for all the talk of poor OL play, I'd say that Davis' fellas delivered the bowl squeak in to us. And, during the bowl, our QB - Morris - completed 68.4% of his passes for 304 yards and 3 TDs. The OL allowed only one sack all game long in an OT game. That's one sack the 40 times Morris dropped back during the game. Again, then, I don't buy the premise that our passing woes were on the OL. When they had a QB who got the ball out faster, there were fewer sacks. And, they did mash into pretty well in the run game. Finally, and always, I simply think Littrell/Harrell panicked way too soon on Morris. Way too soon. He hit 62% of his throws in that game with two scores. The OL did struglle in that game, but it was the first game of the year for them with a new offense, etc. (NOTE: Here is where I argue for the FCS home game opener...it does give you a chance to work out the kinks of whatever it is you've been installing/tweaking in the spring/fall. As already shown with many posts about scheduling, the vast majority of schools go this route. It would have helped us tremendously in 2016...in my opinion.)

Overall, I don't like Leach as a coach because I think he simply ignores the defense and special teams too much. But, I do give him this: he's not making his offense memorize a playbook as thick as on old phone book. Maybe someday he'll give up his "go for it on fourth" mentality, hire a real defensive coordinator, trust his punt team to pin teams back deep in their own end, and finally win a championship. Can't argue with his approach to offense on 1st through 3rd down, though. Here's an interesting discussion about how long pro OLs should be able to hold their blocks for the QB to "get the ball out"...or as these guys put it, "Time To Throw." https://www.profootballfocus.com/pass-blocking-by-time-to-throw/ They look at 2 seconds versus 2.5 versus 3.0. So, I'm guess it's roughly the same in FBS college. But, for the sake of arguments, and since we are G5, perhaps add one second to the mix: so 3 seconds versus 3.5 versus 4.0. In these schemes with quick slants and screens, the O-lineman should be able to hold his block for just 3 to 4 seconds. If they can't do that, I'm not sure why they are on scholarship. You are not having to drive a guy back in pass blocking; it's less physically taxing than run blocking. You have to keep the guy out of the pocket, either shoving him out of the way, or keeping him from penetrating the line/holding your ground.

I buy into that angle. However, correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't we told that Tech's/Leach's/Harrell's spread was very simple, perhaps as few as two pages? All receivers had to do was know a few routes? Again, anyone chime in here, I know at least with Danny Amendola, there has for years been talk that Leach's offense was on one sheet of paper for WRs, and the onus (or, anus, if you are Corby Davidson) in his offenses are on the QB getting the ball out? In one area I agree: we have for several seasons not had many WRs who consistently run good routes. I'm not saying we've had a bunch of All-Conference-level QBs; we've had some really bad one, as we all know. I am saying that often times, the QBs here haven't consistently gotten much help from the WRs. I'm trying to teach these concepts of "getting open" to my son and daughter right now, because it's kind of universal in many sports: what you do without the ball is as important as what you do when you have it. My son is in a summer basketball league, and my daughter is in a summer soccer league. My son is a good rebounder, and gets his butt in there and is physcial. But, when he has the ball, he turns it over alot because he tends to try to pass to his man instead out a bit to one side or the other where the defender has less of a chance of getting to it. Same with my daughter in soccer. She is very fast, and has come to rely on that too much. She's now playing against better teams who often steal her passes. I've told her that she has to get the ball to where her teammate can get the ball, not the defender. That means not passing it directly to her teammate, but to one side or the other to an open space where her teammate has the best chance of getting it. In short, I've told them both a thousand times, "you have to help your teammates." For WRs, that means getting in there and aggressively fighting for the ball...every time. Aggressively trying to get the angle...every time. No plays off. All who played at any competitive level at all have heard all their lives from coaches: "No plays off!" I know that these guys on the team know these things. So, the question is, why can't they do it? And, here, possibly, the ugly specter of poor recruiting shows up: is it simply that our WRs, across the board, are not as good as athletes as our opponents' defensive backs? I think that, for sure, feeds into part of the "OL problem" we supposedly have. All the OL can do is block on a pass play; they can't also get open for the receivers...or, get the ball out faster for the QB.

Can't see how its the same. Welker caught twice as many passes on a team with a far more experienced receiving corp that Wilson faced at UNT. Plus, Welker was the starting kickoff and punt returner. He was a playmaker from day one at Tech. Other than they were both true freshman, I don't think there is much of a comparison on what Welker did versus what Wilson did. Welker outperformed him all the way around; and, in a tougher conference on a deeper team.

My goal would be to get into the 70s. There, you are talking about recruiting at least as well as Southern Miss, UTSA (sigh), Florida Atlantic (again...sigh), and Middle Tennessee. Speaking of Middle Tennessee, does any other program do as well by constantly flying under the radar? Entering his 12th season - has it really been that long? - as the Blue Raiders head, he has a career 72-66 record, only four losing seasons, and six bowl appearances. IDEA FOR BRETT VITO: Rick Stockstill is the only coach in America to have coached against every UNT head coach in the 21st Century, having begun his career at MTSU during Darrell Dickey's 2006 swansong. With C-USA media days coming up, a good story angle might be to approach him and ask about his view of what happens at North Texas and its never-ending "potential," as well as what it takes to keep a program at the G5 level competitive for several years. Would love to hear Stockstill's angle on recruiting and how its has changed for Non-BCS/G5's since he took over the Blue Raider program. Whatever his approach is, it works for them, even thought they are seemingly at a disadvantage for top recruits sitting there in deep SEC/ACC territory.

This will change if we have a QB who gets the ball out quicker. And, yes, I know that part of that is the WRs also getting free in their routes as well. Hate to pin so much on the offensive line because they did deliver up Jeffrey Wilson's near 1,000 yard season (936...with injuries) where he got 5.5 yards per carry. You can't block forever on a pass play. So, again, to me, more than the OL, it is incumbent upon Littrell/Harrell to find someone to pull the trigger quicker. People throw Morris under the bus to quickly, but he had a higher QB rating than Fine, and threw for more TDs. Had he remained the starter, he'd have thrown for more than 20. Littrell/Harrelll have to figure out QB still. I think they make another error in judgement if they go into fall saying Fine has the position locked up. ADDENDUM: Let me also throw in Willy Ivery's share of the numbers, although he is gone. He ran for 489 yards and a 5.4 yard average in 2016. So, combined, our top two back, Wilson and Ivery in 2016: 259 rushes 1,425 yards 5.5 yards per carry 20 rushing TDs So, I think it's time to quit defaulting into this "bad offensive line" theory. Looks like on designed run plays to the backs, the OL did a pretty damn good job in 2016. The "revolving door" notwithstanding, Brad Davis had his guys ready. Davis wasn't also coaching the QBs and WRs, okay? This isn't directed personally to you, Harry. I just get tired of an OL that did a great job in the run game getting constantly thrown under the bus in the pass game. It's not right. If your top two RBs put up those number behind a "revolving door," then I'd say the "revolving door" overachieved.

He had two offers coming out of high school: us and Missouri State, an FCS school. And, as I recall, we swooped in the last day or two to steal him from Missouri State. So, he is certainly not a P5 talent. He was the eighth best receiver on a squad that was led by a JUCO guy who had seven career catches entering his senior season, okay? There was ample opportunity for Wilson to show he was a G5 talent. I stand by what I say: 13 catches over the span of one whole season is easily replaceable. It reminds me of a story about Bob Stoops in 1999. My wife was in grad school at OU at the time, and we were living in OKC, just up the street from the little private school where a kid named Wes Welker was about to begin his senior season. Anyway, OU had a kid on its roster when Stoops arrived named Ahmed Kabba. He was a highly regard recruit when OU signed him in 1997, before Stoops was there. He caught three passes in 1997, then a whopping eight in 1998. After Stoops' first spring practice, junior-to-be Kabba was listed third on the depth chart. He went into Stoops' office and demanded to be put with the first team. Stoops refused and gave him his walking papers. Over that summer, he claimed to be transferring to New Mexico, Didn't happen. Then, Tulsa. Never happened. Finally, in August of 1999, he resurfaced at TCU. He was gone before the season's end, and never played a down of football for the Horned Frogs. (Kabba ended up at Division II Northwestern Oklahoma State - where have we heard that school mentioned before? - playing second fiddle to future Dallas Cowboy Patrick Crayton) But, the reporters in Norman were worried when he left. After all, OU had been running an option offense and new OC was installing his spread that had just made Kentucky competitive. On the surface, it appeared that OU had a dearth of receivers for this type of offense. So, during one of the earliest press briefings with Stoops, a reporter asked him, "How will you replace Ahmed Kabba?" His response was, "I think we can find a guy who can make eight catches in a year." He did find someone - 14 to be exact. In 1999, 14 Sooners has eight or more receptions. This from a squad that was filled with players who from a prior coaching staff that had never been in a passing offense, much less a spread. The point is, and will always remain, if this type of offense is being executed correctly, any WR who can run the routes properly is going to get a huge number of catches. It isn't an offense predicated on "one guy" being the receiving threat. Run properly, all receiving positions on the field - WR, HB, TE, whatever - are threats on each play. So, although we hope Tyler Wilson can get his head right and come back, his leaving is not the end of the world for us.

From 2017, rivals rankings 53. Central Florida 60. Cincinnati 62. Memphis 64. BYU 66. Boise State 69. South Florida 70. East Carolina 71. (three way tie): Sand Diego State, Southern Miss, UTSA 76. (three way tie): Florida Atlantic, Houston, Navy 79. (three way tie): Middle Tennessee, Toledo, Tulsa 82. Fresno State 83. Colorado State 84. (three way tie): Miami (OH), SMU, Western Kentucky 87. Ball State 88. Bowling Green 89. (two way tie): Marshall and Tulane That's roughly the top 1/3 of G5s https://n.rivals.com/team_rankings/2017

I advocated shifting Fine to WR last year. He's a far better runner than passer. Said last year that he could develop into a great Wes Welker/Danny Amendola/Julian Edelman-type in this offense. A real playmaker in open spaces. With his attitude, I'd also love to see Fine given at shot a returning punts as well if he moves to WR. I know these ideas are not popular with the pro-Fine QB crowd. Going way back, I also said the same thing about Riley Dodge. I just think both were great high school athletes, but their size caused too many injuries for them at this college level. To me, this is simply recognizing what you have on your roster and what you can best do with it. Vizza, to me and many others, was a better QB than Riley. Vizza took a sh*t ton of hits because Dad Dodge insisted on running his high school version of the spread where the QB was left hung out to dry on almost every pass play. If Dad Dodge had thrown more H-Back/Fullback/TE packages to pass block...? What was the ceiling for Vizza? As much as he connected with Fitzgerald, imagine Riley in that role Fitzgerald played for two/three years with Vizza! F*cking f*ck. Yes, if you've got an athletic QB who isn't the best passer, get him somewhere else he can help so that he doesn't get down on himself or the program and quit or transfer. Vizza transferring to A&M...look, it's just a different level, He was never going to play there. What a waste of two talents, Vizza and Little Dodge. This guy was temporarily a pretty good QB turned LB: https://twitter.com/mike_stojkovic?lang=en (SIDENOTE: Further down this guys twitter, you've got Marcus Trice attributing the quote "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" to...Lauryn Hill? Come on, Marcus...seriously. Do they not have kids read any literature written before 1960 anymore in college?)

Do we own it? I know that sounds weird, but I've seen some strange property deeds, the way land is parceled out or restricted. If it's none of those things, and we own it, why not put up a little monument park showing some of our football history? Statues or busts or markers for guys like Joe Greene, Abner Haynes, Carl Lockhart, J.T. Smith, Cedric Hardeman, Brian Waters, Ray Renfro, Bill Bishop... ...dare I even say it... ...ODUS MITCHELL?

You know another defensive recruit form Mac's 2011 class I wish had worked out was Jamone Greer. Greer had been offered a scholie by current Oregon State coach Gary Anderson when he was at Utah State. He was a legitimate guy, but couldn't get his grades right, even after JUCO, as I recall. That was a shame. This goes into those never-ending discussions about what happens academically to many of these kids at certain schools. You never know, man. You just never know. Most of us can't relate because we don't come from a background where athletic, not academics, were seen as your "ticket out" of a bad neighborhood/situation. After thousands of these type of stories, I can never wrap my mind around how prep coaches and teachers don't see that it's not good for a kid to just be passed through without knowing anything. It doesn't just hurt them during the recruiting process, you've cheated them in life, because football is a very temporary thing - even for exclusive few who get to the NFL. You've got to have something in your bag besides football. We talk about college coaches using these kids. Now that I've had two kids in sports for several years, I think it starts way before then. My kids are only nine and 11, but I've already seen examples of adults burning up kids because of their supposed athletic talent. It's a problem that no one will fix. We've simply fixed our situation by telling any "coach" or adult watching soccer, football, or baseball games who approaches us afterward that we have no interest in putting our kids in their "competitive" or "club" or "travel team" program. It was especially hard for my daughter because she and three of her soccer teammates were invited to an FC Dallas team. Three of the girls went. We didn't let our daughter because she was only seven at the time and we thought it was silly. Of the three who went, two have already dropped out of it; one has stopped playing soccer altogether. One remains and goes to school with our daughter. She's nine and literally burned out on it. She doesn't like practicing several times a week, but her parents run her out there anyway. We've seen this same set of parents burn out her older sister in softball. We stress academics, then athletics. I know that thousands of other parents don't. I'd bet our ratio - one (us) out of four (all the parents approached by the FC Dallas coach) - is about right. We're in the minority for sure. Greer was probably a kid who lit up youth baseball, soccer, and football fields, probably basketball courts as well. Was probably "protected" by teachers and coaches in junior high and high school. It's a damn shame.

Heh. Terrell Brooks. That guy never started at Baylor and finished with three career tackles in two season with them. He was not a P5 player, but thought he was. He had the safety for us in our first game under Mac at FIU. He'd have been All-Conference at this level. He'd have been a junior in 2013, the year we won the Heart of Dallas Bowl. He'd have been a senior in 2014, when we really could have used him. It's a shame that some kids let people talk them into transferring from places they would start. No doubt Brooks got to ride along to Baylor bowl games in 2013 and 2014, got rings and all that. But, he'd have gotten the same in at least one season here, and would have gotten to play. And, when you play...who knows? Maybe you develop into a guy the NFL gives a shot. Even without having guys drafted, we've have several been successful as free agents. No one is giving you a shot with two years of pine-riding and three tackles to show for it. That FIU team he scored the safety against was solid. They went 8-5 on the year, including a win at Louisville, a P5 bowl bound school that year. I stand by my assessment that Brooks would have started here at least three years, maybe the remainder of his freshman year, and been an All-Conference guy. Wasted talent. Just for the record, I don't think Tyler Wilson will resurface at a P5.

We already knew that from yesterday. Posted it in another thread. He and Allen were offered within days of each other. I wondered about that and Colorado State because yesterday morning, no one was listing La Tech or Colorado State as offers. But, to me, it doesn't matter. The point is, pulled offer or not, at one time or another, two coaches with very good track records of competing at the G5 level thought he was good enough. To me, this is a different situation than Raveon Hoston having offers pulled by bigger programs. Hoston was simply not getting the work done in the classroom; had already been to a JUCO, and that trend wasn't changing with him. Here, you've got a prep kid with his grades in order and excellent coaches on his trail. Allen chose La Tech and that offer went away. No big deal. The point is, Skip Holtz would have taken him or Allen. You can't argue with what Holtz has done at the G5 level. Ditto, Colorado State. If they've got some inkling that another QB is going to commit to them and pulled his offer as a result, it doesn't take away from the fact that they still offered him. Colorado State's Mike Bobo is a great coach, and a former QB at a top program, Georgia. The guy played and coached QBs in the SEC. If he offers a kid a scholarship before he's played a down his senior year, that says something.

Hopefully this year. You have to keep on recruiting QBs because so many of those guy will leave the program instead of sitting behind a starter for a year or two. I'm a proponent of always signing two or more QBs and DTs in every class.

Finally! All confirmed by rivals: https://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/2018/jason-bean-182696

What I was more getting at is looking at the production Tulsa/Montgomery seem to be getting out of the true freshmen. In 2015, Hobbs with 32 catches, then 50 as a sophomore. in 2016, Keenen Johnson with 30. Then, you look down our production and the best a true freshman - or, any type of freshman does - is 13 catches, eighth best on the team. Anyway, it looks like the gap will be filled with JUCOs. Tyler Wilson or no Tyler Wilson...in a spread offense, it shouldn't matter if you are getting decent receivers in your recruiting pipline. Tulsa wasn't getting four and five star guys. Keevan Lucas was a 2-star guy with only one other offer, Louisiana Tech: https://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/2013/keevan-lucas-39981; Joshua Atkinson was a 3-star guy with two offers, Tulsa and Rice. The other point is, the WR size shouldn't matter in a spread offense. We all know that Turner Smiley is, really, the only known entity returning at WR. He's listed at 6'0". Probably really anywhere in between 5'10" and 6", but it doesn't matter. Tulsa's Keevan Lucas listed at 5'10"/195. NFL measured him at 5'9"/192 for the draft: http://www.nfl.com/draft/2017/profiles/keevan-lucas?id=2558126 The other TU receiver that graduated, Josh Atkinson had consecutive 1,000+ seasons. TU listed him a 6'2", 208. At the Pro Day, he was measured 6', 200. It doesn't matter. If the offense is run correctly any size receiver should be able to put up big numbers. At TU last year, only four players had double digit receptions. But, they combined for 239 catches, 3228 yards, and 28 TDs. Our entire team got only slightly more receptions that at 260, but less yardage at 2,698, and about half the TDs with 15. Our top four guys: 144 receptions, 1586 yards, and 7 TDs. Our QBs threw the ball 447 times in 2016, Tulsa...448. It's simply a matter of the offense being run properly. Before Philip Montgomery arrived, Bill Blankenship was not killing it in recruiting for TU. That's why they quickly declined when he became head coach. But, as far as size, it didn't matter. Tall, short...the TU receivers were productive, and so was the QB. Dane Evans was listed at 6'1" by Tulsa, but measured 6'0" by NFL scouts. His weight, 210, was the same for both. He wasn't a giant quarterback, but productive nonetheless.

I'm not forgetting that. But, I'm also not forgetting that McCarney/Canales didn't have the bar set very high as far as production in the passing game. Littrell/Harrell have simply got to find a QB who can stand in the pocket and get the ball to receivers at least with a 60% completion percentage, and I'd say even higher than that. Derek Thompson hit 64.4% in McCarney/Canales offense in 2013. College spread QB regularly get high completion percentages than that. You simply aren't throwing the ball very far down field in these offenses. Littrell/Harrell have to find someone who can do it.

Agree, 153% Let's look at Tulsa in 2015 and 2016, Philip Montgomery's first two years there in his spread (only double digit catch receivers listed): Leading receivers in 2015: Keyarris Garrett (Sr.): 96 catches, 1588 yards, 8 TDs Joshua Atkinson (Jr.): 76/1071/5 Connor Floyd (Sr.): 45/458/3 Justin Hobbs (True Fr.): 32/551/2 Keevan Lucas (Jr.): 26/409/5 D'Angelo Brewer (Jr.): 15/107/1 Leading receivers in 2016: Kevan Lucas (Sr.): 81 catches, 1180 yards, 15 TDs Joshua Atkinson (Sr.): 78/1058/8 Justin Hobbs: (True Soph.)50/685/4 Keenen Johnson (True Fr.) : 30/305/1 Like Tulsa in 2016, we will enter 2017 without our leading WR, Thaddeus Thompson. Second leading receiver Tee Goree has transferred to SFA. Turner Smiley, third leading receiver in 2016 returns. Kenny Buyers, fourth leading is gone. Fifth, Jeffrey Wilson, is back. Sixth, Willie Ivery...gone. Seventh...Willie Robinson...gone. Eighth, Tyler Wilson...gone. Not sure how Wilson gone hurts inasmuch as he wasn't a leading receiver. Depth wise, maybe. There are still a shit ton of WRs on the roster - 18 of them. Among the 18 remaining, Rico Bussey, at minimum, should be able to haul in 13 catches in a season. Injury free - and, with the offense running properly - there's no reason he shouldn't have 40 to 50 receptions in 2017. Among the 18 remaining are also JUCOs Garrett Barton (45 catches at Kilgore last year), Jalen Guyton (45 catches at Trinity last year), and Quinetin Jackson (27 catches at College of DuPage last year). Surely, one of those three can step up and deliver 30+ catches in 2017... ...again, if the offense is running properly, all three should have no problem getting 30+ in 2017.

If the spread is run correctly, 13 catches in one season should be easily replaced. But, that's, perhaps, easier said than done, because, because, because...(can anyone guess?)... ...recruiting!

Littrell's offense produce the same number of TD passes at McCarney's 2015 non-spread squad did. So, there is a vast difference in what Littrell did his first year compared to Montgomery. Now, I say this as one who believes Littrell/Harrell pulled the trigger too soon on Morris, who did throw multiple TDs in the games he played. To me, that was a judgement error on Littrell/Harrell's part. Also, as already pointed out, three of the five wins in 2016 were the result of Jeffrey Wilson's second half outbursts, not anything the UNT QB Fine, wrongly elevated early over Morris, was doing. Montgomery's offense produced 58 TDs, 25 through the air, during his first year at Tulsa. Littrell's produced 39 TDs, only 15 through the air - 9 coming from Morris. As already stated, the Littrell/Harrell spread's 12 regular season TD passes were equal to the McCarney/Canales offense's 12 in 2015. It's also worth noting that McCarney/Canales' 2014 offense provided 13 TD passes in 2014. So, Littrell/Harrell's 2016 were behind that even. In fact, UNT hadn't thrown as few as 12 TD passes in a season since 2006, when Daniel Meager, Woody Wilson, and Matt Phillips combined for nine TD passes. All of Dodge's and McCarney's offense surpasses what Littrell/Harrell produced in 2016 So, we'll put the Littrell/Montgomery comparisons aside until Littrell/Harrell can figure out the QB position...as well as finding some WRs who can run good routes with some consistency.

Ah, yes! I knew it was something. Turned down the Longhorns. Wiki says both he and his wife are Texas Tech grads, so it probably does make sense that he's more in line, logically - if you can apply logic to Texas Tech - to succeed Hairgel Hands. I'll say this about Montgomery, too, he did inherit a starting QB who was already pretty good, Dane Evans, and a really good receiver, Kevan Lucas. What he also had in 2016 that was amazing was two RBs that ran for 1,400+ yards - two! http://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/tulsa/2016.html You can talk about inheriting talent all day. But, look, an offense with two 1,000+ yard receivers and two 1,400+ yard rushers? All with guys what were already there, but not doing that under Bill Blankenship. Coaching does mean something. The only one of the 1,000+/1,4000+ crew returning is RB D'Angelo Brewer. We'll see what Montgomery is made of now. If Tulsa goes bowling again and can even get one 1,000 rusher and receiver out of the young guys now called on to step up, I think it's a plus for Montgomery as far as P5s looking at him.