[North Texas gets strong finish with 2023 signing class]

As far as Plug-&-play, immediate impact, it’s gotta be Rogers, Vaipulu, Miner, Cleveland, & Rauschenberg right?

As for the HS class, I dunno, I think Anderson & Starling obviously have potential early, but I think I’ll say I’m most intrigued by Magiya since he’s only been playing football for 2 years.  Upside with him could be enormous.

[Official GOMEANGREEN National Signing Day Thread]

6 minutes ago, Jonnyeagle said:

Singled out a flop?  The #1 recruit in the class and they crowed about it and let everyone get their hopes up knowing he would never qualify the entire time and then waited until almost the 1st game to sheepishly let everyone know he didn;t have his grades.  Sorry Charley, but you really need to stop polishing a turd.

My man, I’m not arguing that William Johnson was a success.  Sheesh.

But what would you call Mason, Rico, Hambone, Ejiya, & Khairi?   Successes, right?  I’m just looking forward to who those types of guys are in this class.  

People were commenting about how amazing this class is with the limited amount of time Morris had.  I was just recalling people were saying the same thing about 2016’s class… and rightly so.  It was a good one! (& Littrell didn’t have the luxury of taking over a team that had just played in a CCG!)

[Official GOMEANGREEN National Signing Day Thread]

24 minutes ago, Jonnyeagle said:

You are joking right?  Littrell had way more time to recruit that class, and half those recruits never played a down.  The top recruit of the class William Johnson was ineligible for grades at his time of signing and they kept that from the fanbase until two weeks after the season started.  There were some good players out of the class for sure and Mason Fine was his biggest recruit, but he had absolutely no competition for Fine and Graham Harrell was the one who found Fine.

Huh?  Littrell was hired after the season just like Morris.  Remember “Lock the Gate”?  
I love that you singled out a flop in this class & ignored the future HOF’ers.  And again, as has been hashed out over & over here… Littrell’s relationship (not Harrell’s) with Fine’s HS coach is what got us Fine.

The boogeyman is gone now.  It’s OK to reminisce about the good times.

[Official GOMEANGREEN National Signing Day Thread]

52 minutes ago, Marty said:

what Morris and company have done in so little time is incredible. 

We were saying the same things on SL's first signing day:

https://247sports.com/college/north-texas/Season/2016-Football/Commits/

Looking forward to finding out who of this year's class is going to be the next Mason Fine, LaDarius Hamilton, EJ Ejiya, Rico Bussey, Khairi Muhammad, etc...   That was a pretty special class!

[We're baaaack (THE TOMATO)]

[Glaring omission from Ole Miss twitter post]

13 minutes ago, UNTLifer said:

So, if it falls through, could he be back with us?

How awesome would it be for us to land Nelson and Starling... and also win back Gaddie to finish up here and teach-up these young studs?

[Official GOMEANGREEN National Signing Day Thread]

1 hour ago, Green with Envy said:

I would bet this is the case.   Signing Day is a big thing for these kids and for those that were keeping their 'announcements' secret, NSD becomes even bigger.   They want the pomp and circumstance.  I don't blame them.  

No doubt!   He's worked hard for this his whole life.  He should be able to do this on his own terms.
Some guys like to announce ahead of time to enjoy all of the congratulations along the way.    Some guys would rather make it a last-minute surprise and enjoy the anticipation along the way.   Neither way is wrong.

[Official GOMEANGREEN National Signing Day Thread]

8 minutes ago, Jdawg48 said:

And another. QB Jake Wilson. 

Has some crazy good stats and apparently flying under the radar. One of those sleeper picks!

Oh Snap!

This is a quality Walk On!!   Holy Cow!

[Glaring omission from Ole Miss twitter post]

23 minutes ago, Glory to the Green said:

That sucks for him. Hoping it was just an error on Ole Miss’ part. 

If so, that's pretty telling, and that's what sucks for him.

[Glaring omission from Ole Miss twitter post]

2 minutes ago, UNT Texas Hooligan said:

They probably poached him so late in the game, they didn't have time to add him into the video

11 days between his commitment and this video posting.   Spencer Sanders committed the day before Deshawn, and he's in there...    Interesting.
 

[Music - Team Introduction and More]

3 minutes ago, MGAnCap said:

'QAnon' (the real ones) are the good guys here and are looking out for people against the new world order, and 4chan is one of the last vestiges of free speech where real reporting can take place and they've exposed several false-flag psy-ops over the years!

[Music - Team Introduction and More]

10 hours ago, Censored by Laurie said:

if this isn't AI generated, it's a douchebaging rembrandt. 

either way, can we still nominate posts for the Hall of Fame here? 

After glancing at 2-3 of "this user's" posts, that was my first thought.  Crazy how far it's come... still has a bit more to go.

[Breaking Jayven Anderson Commits to North Texas]

2 hours ago, UNT18Grad said:

I wasn't aware that Seth had pubic issues to complain about, maybe that explains his demeanor at times.

[23' Commit Athlete Kollin Lewis Gladewater]

He's a coach's kid, and good bloodlines with his dad being a D1 baller!

 

['28 QB/ATH - Jaxon Franco, Midland, TX]

22 hours ago, Glory to the Green said:

I’m not sure who I’m thinking about then. Thanks for the clarification. 

Coach Harrell offered an 8th-grade Quinn Ewers while he was here.

[23 DB Taylor Starling - SOC]

8 minutes ago, GMG_Dallas said:

Are we going to get mad if/when he de-commits from Texas State to commit to UNT or do we only get mad when it's the other way around?

We may not get mad, but we should certainly question his loyalty, and make fun of his idea of "commitment".  Maybe even jab him a little bit about his change of heart being only about NIL money.

['23 LB Offer: Dylan Brown-Turner; South Oak Cliff: No Rating]

2 hours ago, BillySee58 said:

Maybe. If he goes to FSU and can’t crack the two-deep then he probably wouldn’t be a good portal target. When we have signed P5 transfers in the past, if they haven’t been guys who could at least sniff the two deep, they haven’t done much better here. The guys who at least pushed to have their name in the mix, that’s the guys we want. Trice, Pegram, Enoch Jackson. If Brown-Turner is like that and hits the portal, yeah could be worth re-recruiting.

[Breaking Jayven Anderson Commits to North Texas]

I like this one.    I think Jayven breaks fall camp in the 2 deep this year.

[Breaking: North Texas lands Baylor Transfer Kicker Noah Rauschenberg]

Welcome aboard Noah!  You're going to love kicking in Apogee (or whatever it's gonna be called)!

[Music - Team Introduction and More]

14 hours ago, Cr1028 said:

I think Cowboys from Hell would be pretty cool but with Pantera’s PR problem right now probably not a good idea.

I’ve always liked Saliva’s “Welcome to the Show”. I think it could be a pretty cool entrance if we shot boomer and maybe some fireworks as the players entered around the 55 second mark.

Another idea if we wanted to get away from rock music would be if we could get Lil John to allow us the right to use “Put yo hood up” with adjusted lyrics. In the beginning of the song it could be rewritten to name the DFW high schools where a majority of or our star players came from. We would need to write out a lot of drinking, smoking, and cussing but if done well this could really pop off with our new staff and DFW recruits. 

I think it would be even better if we could get our former star linebacker Tobe Nwigwe to write something similar to the above (meaning representing for your home and listing several DFW towns or neighborhoods that mean alot to our players/recruits), not necessarily following the LJ song) and lyricize it.

 

NT would be wise to stay partner'd up with Tobe.   He's an original, flying in the face of the current hip-hop scene.

[Breaking: North Texas lands commitment from Shadow Creek Cornerback Brian Nelson]

Welcome aboard Brian!  

[La Tech win just got a little harder]

16 minutes ago, UNTLifer said:

Will we even face him?

Right?   This kinda reminds me of the Gunnell talk.

[1993 In Music]

2 hours ago, Censored by Laurie said:

and not to be leading statement guy...

1994
- Jeff Buckley - Grace
- Notorious BIG - Ready to Die
- Toadies - Rubberneck
- Outkast - Southernplayalitikcadilacmusic
- Nas - Illmatic
- Portishead - Dummy
- Digable Planets - Blowout Comb
- Gang Starr - Hard to Earn
- Weezer - Blue Album
- Massive Attack - Protection
- Oasis - Definitely Maybe
- Blur - Parklife
- Nirvana - MTV Unplugged
- Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
- Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
- Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
- R.E.M. - Monster
- Built to Spill - There's Nothing Wrong With Love
- Tom Petty - Wildflowers
- Green Day - Dookie
- The Cranberries - No Need to Argue

...I could go on...

Yessir!   '94 was an incredible year.   
I spun the heck out of that Weezer Blue Album, Nirvana Unplugged, Rubberneck, & Dookie (I'd include STP's Purple album as well).  Couldn't buy Illmatic (The Greatest Hip Hop album of all time IMHO, just a masterpiece encapsulating everything Hip Hop/Rap is about, & the producers on all the tracks... a who's-who.) or Ready to Die, but man I listened to tracks off of those any time I could (I'll never forget the first time I heard/saw the Hypnotize music video.  How's this ugly fat dude flowing like this?).  Southernplayalisticcadillacfunkymusic (or even ATLiens) wasn't on my radar until I got into high school & they blew up with Aquemini, but it's so great. 

 

EDIT:  Ugh, Hypnotize was on Life After Death, ...way later.

[1993 In Music]

Those are great Rock albums I spun the heck out of Vs.

In the Hip Hop genre, some awesome albums dropped that year too:

Midnight Marauders is one of my favorite All-Time albums, and one of the greatest rap singles of all time(C.R.E.A.M) came out on Enter the WuTang.

[Spring FB]

30 minutes ago, tmjerm said:

I sure hope the Spring Game is the best attended yet.  It’d be a blast to have tailgates and bands and excitement.  We need that kind of shit in the arm and without baseball that time of year it’s the best cap on the academic year we could have.  I’ve always wanted that to be a more significant event than it has been and with the right marketing it sure can be this year.