UNT Football: Buyers in race to start at cornerback

[Harry]

Kenny Buyers didn’t need long in 2011 to realize he had made a mistake when he accepted his only offer to play major college football.

The former Hurst L.D. Bell standout thought about being out in the cold in Colorado, hundreds of miles from home and in uniform pretty much all the time — either his football uniform or a military uniform at the Air Force Academy — and decided that wasn’t how he wanted to spend the next four years of his life.

“I didn’t like the military part of the Air Force Academy,” Buyers said. “I thought the football part of it would outweigh the military aspect of it, but it didn’t. I wanted to try my options closer to home.”

Buyers landed at North Texas and suddenly has gone from an unknown backup to being a major part of the Mean Green’s plans heading into its season opener against Idaho later this month.

UNT head coach Dan McCarney raised eyebrows at the end of spring practice when he mentioned that Buyers was in a dead heat with Zac Whitfield for the starting job at one cornerback spot.

McCarney stuck by that evaluation Thursday after UNT’s fourth practice of the fall. That’s good news for the Mean Green coming off a season in which McCarney and his staff didn’t believe they had enough competent defensive backs to put in a nickel package.

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[MeanGreenTexan]

Gotta think this is serving as motivation for Whitfield?

Kinda like: "Don't think that just because you started last year that you can just walk around during practice."

Or, is Buyers really competing with the 2nd-team all-conference guy?