[What's Happening After Recruiting?]

Littrell recruited terribly his first few years here and we are seeing the results of that on the field currently. 

Our classes were ranked at the bottom of the conference 3 straight years and now everyone is surprised that the product on the field is bottom of the conference too.  It's not like we are getting 5 star players, most players take 2-3 years to develop and find a role so starting next year we should expect to start seeing those highly ranked recruiting classes have a bigger impact.

[A Shoutout to Tyreke Davis !]

22 minutes ago, greeneagle1 said:

Can he play offense too? I dont care what position. 

Rushed for over 1,000 yards as a senior for Ryan, so he definitely could.

[DRC (story updated): Source -- Jace Ruder to start tonight]

It's the "Aune will also play" part that gets to me. 

I don't want to see anything like what we did last year again.  I feel confident saying that any QB on our roster would look pretty good against NW St.  On the flip side we have a challenging 6 game run right after this that I believe will cause some bad moments for whoever we have out there, if this turns into Littrell pulling the QB every time they make a mistake again it's going to be another long year.  Stick with a guy and let him learn from his mistakes without the fear of sitting the rest of the game.

 

[Heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend...]

3 hours ago, bstnsportsfan3 said:

Again i truly hope Aune is the answer, but I would be underwhelmed if we transfer in a P5 QB and be satisfied he is our back up. I was disappointed in Alec Morris too when he came in from Alabama but got replaced by a freshman…. Turned out that freshman was pretty dang great and maybe Aune will be too, but doesn’t mean I wouldn’t be disappointed as I truly feel Ruder was not brought in to be the back up. 

Maybe we should put less meaning behind the term P5 QB, or P5 anything.  Countless players get evaluated incorrectly every year, unless a player has actually played meaningful minutes at a P5 school then all they are up to this point is a player that for whatever reason has not been able to find the field at the FBS level.  Sure maybe they had a few P5 offers coming out of HS however many years ago, but most of the time if they are coming "down" to UNT it's because they couldn't earn playing time.

[Anterrious Gray is playing for South Bama]

19 hours ago, GrandGreen said:

The article states Gray is on the second team.  Not good when a starting NT lineman transfers down and doesn't make the first team. 

In what way is South Alabama transferring down?  They are in a better conference and beat Southern Miss last year, a team we lost to.  I would say we are just about equal at this point in time if anything. 

Outside of that he announced his transfer in May and it's their 4th preseason practice.  He wasn't exactly a star for us, so expecting him to beat out a player in his 3rd year with the program by the first week of practice is pretty ambitious. 

[RoadChickens New Digs]

We honestly have the worst locker rooms for a D1 program in the state of Texas, even SFA has a better locker room than us.  I know these types of things shouldn't matter to recruits, but to some they do and when we are noticeably worse than everybody else it can't do anything but hurt us.  Hopefully we have something planned in the near future..

['21 JUCO OT Offer: Kaci Moreka; Trinity Valley]

His 24/7 page needs updating but according to his Twitter his other FBS offers received in the last 3ish months were: Texas State, Utah State, UTSA, UNLV, Charlotte, LA Tech, UAB, Indiana, Marshall, and Buffalo.  

Any time we beat out 10 other programs for an OL recruit (including 5 from our own conference) I'll consider that a big win.  

[Jason Bean the favorite to start at KU]

Clickbait thread title. 

It says he would be the favorite if you solely looked at stats produced in college football to this point.  KU has two QBs who have started games at KU, I know they have a new coaching staff and it's not like those two produced great results but to me he is looking like the favorite for 3rd string with potential to fight his way up the depth chart.

[DRC: Summer magazines set low expectations for UNT]

Don't think we are quite there this year, but if some guys step up (defense and consistent QB play) and we stay healthy we could surprise some teams.  Once these underclassmen get another year or two under their belt we are going to be a problem for almost anyone we play.

 

[La tech signs transfer QB immediately eligible]

19 hours ago, Texas Stranger said:

Are P5 non-starters transferring to G5 still "breaking" news?

Started 9 games for WVU

[Whatever Happened To: Austin "Kade" Renfro]

He is a walk-on so I would have been pretty surprised if the coaches put him ahead of a scholarship player.  Everybody wants to be mad at this kid but as far as I'm concerned we avoided having a dude who isn't an FBS quarterback on our team and wasting a scholarship.

[What happened to our walk-on program?]

15 minutes ago, greenminer said:

How many reps can a walk-on look forward to getting, throwing the ball to the #1 WRs?

Basically zero.  He may throw some stuff to them during warmups or drills, but as far as actual reps during a team activity, scrimmage, or 7 on 7 a walk-on would never really be the one throwing to the starting wideouts.

[College Athletes Eligible To Benefit Off Of Name/Image/Likeness]

Do we have any alumni or boosters or even a plan in place to help facilitate our guys to make the most of this?  

[DRC: UNT defensive back Jaxon Gibbs has entered the transfer portal]

1 hour ago, keith said:

Does a player need to "enter the portal" in order to drop down or transfer to a junior college?

I don't think so, but since entering the portal is the only way they can be officially be contacted and recruited by other D1 FBS programs pretty much every player who leaves will enter the portal just so they can see what their options are.

['22 Dual Threat QB Offer: Conner Harrell, Alabaster, AL; 3 star - .8647]

Worth noting we didn't make his top 10.  Barring something unexpected I don't think we have a shot with this one.

[Austin Aune is not chopped liver]

11 hours ago, Monkeypox said:

Yes, but as a graduate student, going full-time to maintain eligibility requirements for football, Ruder should be done with his MBA in two years. Now, MAYBE he wants to be Dr Ruder, PhD in Business or something (I don't know his life) but I think the window he'll most likely have here is that two year timeframe. If he blows the doors off and is NFL quality, that's all he'll need. If he's not, that's all he'll need to get his MBA. And then he's had his schooling paid for, has a great degree, and got a chance to play.

So while Ruder might have that much eligibility remaining, I don't know that it's realistic to expect him to use all of it.

I can see where you're coming from, but let's say he does earn and hold onto the job at some point.  Then let's say he just performs above average, which is probably a lot more likely than completely blowing the doors off and locking himself in as a draft pick who can leave with 1-2 years of eligibility left.  You're saying that after a couple years he's just going to quit as the starting QB with 2 years left?  I get that he is set with his degrees and also just got engaged so he probably won't "need" to play, but most athletes don't quit with more time to play at their disposal, especially not someone who's a starter.

[Austin Aune is not chopped liver]

Are we going to have the oldest starting/backup QB combo in NCAA history??  Aune is about to be 28 and is a sophomore, Ruder is a 22 year old freshman.  

[Austin Aune is not chopped liver]

31 minutes ago, greenminer said:

I thought Ruder graduated in May? What is the math that makes him a RS freshman?

I was under the impression that he was a RS Sophomore, but looking at his timeline it appears he is actually considered a freshman.

2018 season- True Freshman, suffered season-ending injury and redshirted

2019 season- RS Freshman, suffered another season-ending injury

2020 season- RS Sophomore, however he was granted a medical redshirt so this technically puts him back at RS Freshman

2021 season- RS Freshman due to the free extra covid year along with his medical redshirt.

 

More interesting to me than Drummond is if Ruder sticks around if he loses the job to Aune and never gets the shot to earn it back throughout the year..my guess is that he doesn't.  He is using a grad transfer to play here so I would imagine he could transfer anywhere and be immediately eligible with 3 years remaining if he left after this season.

*sorry to double answer, didn't notice Billy had beat me to it

[Vincent Paige; Class of '22, WDE, Denton Guyer]

Really really hope we can hold onto this dude.  I know he seems very solid right now, but it doesn't look like he has received any new offers since committing to us.  Plenty of eyes will be on him playing at Guyer, and he attended the SMU camp today so I would say you never know what's going to happen.

[Jeff Wilson out most of next season]

Injury update as well as some feedback from a Dr who is typically pretty spot on with his analysis of NFL injuries.  

Sucks to see because the role he likely would have had will probably be taken over by their 3rd round pick, RB Trey Sermon from Oklahoma.

[NT lands UNLV transfer Safety, Greg Francis]

Slightly off topic but our editing game on recruiting graphics has definitely fallen off..I've seen this same graphic used with all of our commits and the giant head on a different body is a pretty weird choice.

[Defensive Line Depth]

The crazy thing about looking at this list is that we also signed 5 more defensive lineman in our '21 class, along with Jimmy Walker and Kenneth Dotson who are both redshirt freshman that have been on the team for 2 years.  We have 19 guys to play 4 spots and only 3 are seniors, the rest are freshmen or sophomores.  If we don't have excellent rotation and depth for the next 2-3 years then we've badly missed on our DL recruiting.

[DRC: Jaelon Darden selected by Buccaneers, snaps UNT's draft drought]

16 minutes ago, DeepGreen said:

What kind of moola will Darden earn?  Just wondering.

Last years #129 pick signed a 4 year, $3.98 million contract.  So I would expect it to be somewhere around that.

[DRC: Darden poised to end UNT's long wait for next NFL draft pick]

4 hours ago, oahu eagle said:

Let's be real the drought will continue. Not much use for 5'8" WR in the NFL. 

Look at Mason Fine. Too short and too weak to play in the NFL.

Through 3 rounds there have been 4 receivers drafted that are 5'9" or shorter, clearly somebody has a use for those guys.

Comparing this to Mason is like apples and oranges.  Jaelon was always projected to go in the 4th/5th round in most best case scenarios.  His time will come.

[KU football lands a QB transfer from C-USA school. He could start Game 1 for Jayhawks]

15 hours ago, GrandGreen said:

How do you know he is a walk on?

Tuition at Kansas for an out of state student is over $28k.  I somehow doubt he is going to walk on.  

They can waive that type of stuff for football players.  Also a strange implication that his parents could not afford to help their son go to school to pursue his dreams for that cost.