MGB: SMU lands player from Denton

[Brett Vito]

MGB: UNT has not offered Ryan standout linebacker Delano Robinson

http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2016/05/a-couple-of-key-unt-rivals-dipping-into-denton-ryan-standout-commits-to-smu.html/

Edited May 20, 2016 by Brett Vito

[Ben Gooding]

4 minutes ago, Brett Vito said:

MGB: UNT not offered Ryan standout linebacker Delano Robinson

http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2016/05/a-couple-of-key-unt-rivals-dipping-into-denton-ryan-standout-commits-to-smu.html/

SMU? Who?

[All About UNT]

Stop Brett.  It's embarrassing.  If the DMN beat writer (Haircropolus or whatever... I defer to Tasty on spelling) were to write an article about UNT getting a commit from a player that SMU didn't offer just because they are from HP or close to the campus that would be deemed embarrassing to their fanbase for different reasons than you speculate.

[Hunter Green]

1 hour ago, Brett Vito said:

MGB: UNT has not offered Ryan standout linebacker Delano Robinson

http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2016/05/a-couple-of-key-unt-rivals-dipping-into-denton-ryan-standout-commits-to-smu.html/

Typical...

[foutsrouts]

Oh well, at least maybe he will increase smu's attendance at games in Denton by 10%. Shouldn't take more than his immediate family to accomplish that.

[TreeFiddy]

smoo is beating out Air Force, ut-sa, and SFA for recruits.  Good to see all their hard work starting to pay off.

[Marty]

Meh.

[Rudy]

So?

[letsgiveacheer]

That's OK. We get plenty of recruits from Dallas.

[Aldo]

Ha.

So NOW we're all like

Ok.

The reality is, we have landable recruits in our backyard and we've had a hard time establishing a "pipeline". 

[untjim1995]

3 hours ago, TreeFiddy said:

smoo is beating out Air Force, ut-sa, and SFA for recruits.  Good to see all their hard work starting to pay off.

Combine the salaries of AFA, UTSA, and SFA and you'll still have plenty left before you get to what SMU pays Morris...and that's who our beat writer is blathering about when they get a recruit from Ryan HS. Seems about right for Denton and our appreciation for all things UNT football.

[RushnStudies]

I was at the Ryan senior honors ceremony yesterday. Not too many of our players seem to be going to UNT. A couple of them are, but I don't know if they're playing ball. Shame. Lots of talent right there.

[GMG24]

I hope everyone realizes this kid had OPTIONS, academies or not D1 schools looked at him and decided he could play.  These are the kind of kids you win recruiting battles for later because you have them on campus and they can sell your school to the more highly touted players who may have 10-12 offers.  Until we start winning these are guys IMO you have to bring in. 

[DallasGreen]

Denton does not support its own HSs so why would their players want to stay in a non football town like Denton?

[greenminer]

6 minutes ago, DallasGreen said:

Denton does not support its own HSs so why would their players want to stay in a non football town like Denton?

If we can start winning, better players will start coming.  No matter what HS they hail from.

[UNTexas]

This is status quo in Denton. It sucks but it's not really news.

[UNTLifer]

2 hours ago, DallasGreen said:

Denton does not support its own HSs so why would their players want to stay in a non football town like Denton?

You go to many HS games in Denton?

[DallasGreen]

2 hours ago, UNTLifer said:

 You go to many HS games in Denton?

Why? They even returned tickets to Southlake Carrol a few years ago for a game on national tv. SLC bought those up immediately. Guess they don't have other entertainment options in SLC. Opps forgot that is a Denton standard cop out excuse!

[Ben Gooding]

4 hours ago, greenminer said:

If we can start winning, better players will start coming.  No matter what HS they hail from.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[North Texas Shep]

Waste of article space. This will always happen. These coaches are now trying to get players and that is what matters. Win and they shall come from sea to shining sea.

[UNTLifer]

23 hours ago, DallasGreen said:

Why? They even returned tickets to Southlake Carrol a few years ago for a game on national tv. SLC bought those up immediately. Guess they don't have other entertainment options in SLC. Opps forgot that is a Denton standard cop out excuse!

Denton, although the same size or smaller than many one school towns, has three high schools with a fourth on the way. People follow the teams their kids attend instead of the whole town turning out to see one team. I grew up in and played sports in Denton and never felt we were not supported. 

[DallasGreen]

You must enjoy playing to empty bleachers. Go to Lewisville, Plano, Frisco, etc. if you want to see metro cities whom really support all their ISD teams. Denton just sticks to its artsy, fartsey ways as the rest of the metroplex yawns in observing its backward ways of community non-support. BTW how did that stupid fracking ban work out for you??

[Christopher Walker]

5 minutes ago, DallasGreen said:

You must enjoy playing to empty bleachers. Go to Lewisville, Plano, Frisco, etc. if you want to see metro cities whom really support all their ISD teams. Denton just sticks to its artsy, fartsey ways as the rest of the metroplex yawns in observing its backward ways of community non-support. BTW how did that stupid fracking ban work out for you??

That whole situation is now nationally referenced in the media as the textbook example of how hypocritical conservative state legislatures operate. "Local control" be damned.

So part of that effort was achieved positively.

[MeanGreenTexan]

24 minutes ago, DallasGreen said:

You must enjoy playing to empty bleachers. Go to Lewisville, Plano, Frisco, etc. if you want to see metro cities whom really support all their ISD teams. Denton just sticks to its artsy, fartsey ways as the rest of the metroplex yawns in observing its backward ways of community non-support. BTW how did that stupid fracking ban work out for you??

I guess you've never attended a Guyer game over the past few seasons?   Or, a Ryan game in the mid-late 2000's?  
Again, just like the rest of the Metroplex...  If you're a winner, people will come.  Your bandwagon will overflow.   If you're not winning, you're boiled down to your hardcore fans, and that's about it.

[UNTLifer]

5 hours ago, DallasGreen said:

You must enjoy playing to empty bleachers. Go to Lewisville, Plano, Frisco, etc. if you want to see metro cities whom really support all their ISD teams. Denton just sticks to its artsy, fartsey ways as the rest of the metroplex yawns in observing its backward ways of community non-support. BTW how did that stupid fracking ban work out for you??

He hasn't attended any games in Denton, just blasting those without any experience.  The fracking ban has nothing to do with me as I haven't lived in Denton in years, but I speak from personal experience and from having many friends with kids that attend Denton High, Ryan and Guyer, but don't let that keep you from your distant assumptions and generalizations.

I did go back for a reunion recently and the stands were full at DHS, as they were when I played ball there.