Apparently that is how it is working this year. All of everyone's commits seem to be fair game.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
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Apparently that is how it is working this year. All of everyone's commits seem to be fair game.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
Yep, and it will happen to us. We may as well do what we need to do now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cal&Ken
I was thinking the same thing about Holtz. Of course he doesn't have to be in a big hurry to do anything since he will have a healthy income stream coming in for the next few years due to the terms of his LA Tech contract. I wonder if McNeese has any interest in him.Quote:
Originally Posted by FriscoDawg
well dont just GIVE em away ...Quote:
Originally Posted by Dwayne From Minden
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#LATech offers grad transfer QB.
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Nolan Henderson
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Thankful to receive an offer from Louisiana Tech University.
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He has at least five other offers (mostly FCS including Sam Houston State and Jacksonville State) so we'll see where he decides to go. https://twitter.com/NolanHendersonnQuote:
Originally Posted by sportdawg
So. . . UNT?Quote:
Originally Posted by THEarmada
Ok. Maybe he sees more playing time there than he foresees at Tech.
Good luck to him (except next year when we play UNT naturally).
Yeah I saw that. Good for him.Quote:
Originally Posted by inudesu
The comment from Aaron Allen on Twitter about JD Head was about getting paid. Looks like COA is negatively affecting us.
I wouldn’t take that phrase literally.Quote:
Originally Posted by THEarmada
Already? , that would have taken Skip six more months, if at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by sportdawg
SE La has/had a transfer QB, would have taken him, quickly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg Fan
Interesting thing about Henderson is he said in his tweet announcing he was entering the transfer portal was he was exploring all his options including remaining at Delaware. Unless he gets an offer he feels like he can't refuse, he'll probably stay at Delaware IMO. I guess you can see he is exploring the free agent market. https://twitter.com/NolanHendersonn/...32682795061258
Yeah the SELA QB is really good. Worth a shot.
incarnate words QB is in the portal and diced up SELA for over 600 yards. If the SELA QB was one of the best the UIW transfers tape is worth a watch.
James Madison smoked SLU 59-20 last week in the FCS playoffs. Game was never close or in doubt. JMU smoked Montana last night 28-6 too.
Just an observation, with schools moving up to the FBS, there won't be much of an FCS left soon. Maybe the HBCU conferences, like the SWAC, will look around and see there isn't much left in the FCS and think it is safe to stop hiding in the basement and come out to join the FCS playoffs again.
SWAC had a team in the playoffs this year.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
Florida A&M was SELA's first game.
I thought it was generally Southern and Grambling that didn't play in the playoffs because they always played the classic. Honestly, I haven't paid much attention to FCS in a long while, except the championship game here in Frisco.
Yep, you're right. They were not the SWAC champion though, Jackson State is and they "skipped" the FCS playoffs in favor of playing in the meaningless/silly Celebration Bowl. They should rename that to the "We Don't Want to get Killed playing Real Teams" Bowl.Quote:
Originally Posted by inudesu
Fla A&M got spanked by SLU 38-14. Typical result for SWACers in the FCS playoffs.
I’m sure ESPN pays more for Celebration Bowl than teams would earn in FCS playoffsQuote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
Bad football and average to below average marching bands. Don’t see what ESPN sees I guess.Quote:
Originally Posted by sportdawg
Best weekly option for wokeness.Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
That is the ABSOLUTE TRUTH!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg Fan
Ive been a fan of Griffin Hebert from the get go. And it’s been a mystery to me why his number has not been called more this season. Further, we’ve had three WRs 6’+ and over 200lbs and Holtz constantly called the shortest guy on the fields number. No disrespect to Smoke, he’s a great player/person.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChuckK3
As for what Griffin’s all about watch his TD from the NC State game. He caught it at the 10, and four NC State guys could not bring him down.
Start at 2:46mark https://youtu.be/Lqp2XraDtU0
I do hope Coach Sonny will use Griffin more.
I'm still mad at the LA Tech receiver (#33, or #83 Trey Harris?) for not fighting for that ball in the end zone on the last play of the game. He stood there like a stump and just let the NC St DB cut right in front of him for the iNT and never bothered to touch the ball or the player. If he just gets a hand on the ball, he was in the position to bat it back to Smoke Harris (#6) who was in perfect position to make the grab for the TD (a/la SMU game win vs Tech). Stop that video at 3:05 and 3:06, and you'll see exactly what I'm talking about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqp2XraDtU0Quote:
Originally Posted by Rama Jama
Our WR was also in the perfect position to aggressively move toward the ball and create a Defensive Pass Interference play. But noooooo. He preferred to WATCH the game instead of play in it.
Where do we get these unaggressive football players who have such low football IQ's?
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Originally Posted by HogDawg
I don’t fully agree with you on this one. It looks like the receiver was turning to his right shoulder was focused on the defender who was all over him directly in front of him therefore had his back to the defender that intercepted and didn’t see him make a play on the football. Also, based on when the receiver turned his momentum was carrying him toward the back of the end zone and hard to stop. Don’t think he saw it coming… maybe he should have?
I agree with those of you touting Griffin Hebert, I have been screaming from the wilderness to make him our go-to guy. It's amazing how many teams have such a receiver...er, just about every team from college to the NFL does. Watched some of the game last night, the Rams have Cooper Kupp as their go-to guy. All the teams know it and they still can't stop him making catches, sometimes for 5-8 yards, but it moves the chains.
Henderson has decided to stay at Delaware. https://twitter.com/NolanHendersonn/...784643/photo/1
UNT signs only 8 players on early signing date, including former Tech QB JD "Barney Fife" Head (6'2, 138), and Abilene Christian transfer QB Stone Earle (6'2, 203).
https://dentonrc.com/rsssports/unts-...5b53b22f7.html
It appears that UNT head coach Seth Littrell is choosing the same strategy this year that Skip Holtz chose last year, by betting on the transfer portal and other late signees and transfers in February. Of course, it didn't work out well at all for Holtz in 2021, so I suspect it won't work out very well for Littrell and UNT in 2022 either.
Best of luck to him. If he plays, and their Oline isn’t improved then I suspect our defense will beat him up pretty good.
Aaron Allen seems to be pretty pumped he has received an offer from Houston Baptist. They were winless this past season and have never had a winning record in the 9 years they have had a football program. Allen might be a huge upgrade for them. I guess we'll see if Allen lands there. https://twitter.com/IceyAaron/status...392968/photo/1
They don't need a QB anyway. They have the Dallas market and a baseball team.Quote:
Originally Posted by HogDawg
Well, their QB from a couple of years ago just broke the record for passing yards in a season.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg Fan
So they've had talent there before.
Sorry, this doesn't make sense to me. How can a quarterback from a couple of years ago break a passing record? For the same team? Different Team? Broke a record while he was the quarterback a couple of years ago?Quote:
Originally Posted by inudesu
A little additional info please.
WKU's Bailey Zappe used to QB at Houston Baptist...Quote:
Originally Posted by LABulldog
I was hoping they would leave Zappe in the game so he could be the 1st QB ever to pass for more than 6,000 yds in a single season. He only needs 33 more passing yards to get it. But since they are 4 TD's ahead of Appy St with 5 min to go, they've benched Zappe for probably the rest of the game/season. So, his record(s) will have to stay at 5,967 yds and 62 passing TD's for a single season.Quote:
Originally Posted by inudesu
Couple of years ago we struggled to beat Houston Baptist, was Zappe their QB then?
Yes. He lit us up too.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
Westin Elliott "dropped back" to FCS Merrimack College and finished the year with a QB rating of 141.85. Now, "The Big Cowboy" is off to pursue his dream of playing in the NFL. https://twitter.com/WestinElliott10/...175108/photo/1 https://twitter.com/WestinElliott10/...175108/photo/2 https://merrimackathletics.com/sports/football/stats
Good for him. Westin Elliott apparently had a hell of a year in 2021. He completed 281 of 420 passes (67%) for 2,942 yds, 29 TD's and 16 INT's. All in only 11 games.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg Fan
29 TD's? :rolleyes4:
That's a pretty darn good year in any QB's book. Who knows, with his size (6 '5, 235) and some good coaching, Elliott might actually have a chance at an NFL career just like Boston Scott did. Maybe he just needed to get out from under Skip Holtz. LOL! Unfortunately, Elliott couldn't take a snap at LA Tech without turning the ball over.
https://www.espn.com/college-footbal...westin-elliott
FYI.....LA Tech's QB stats were no where close to Westin Elliott's stats in 2021.
Comparatively speaking, Austin Kendall was Tech's leader in passing stats this year, completing 148 of 245 pass attempts (60.4%) for 1,874 yds, 13 TD's and 9 INT's in 7 games.
https://www.cbssports.com/college-fo...stats/regular/
…AK had no idea that his OLine’s coach was a long gone has been who, at best, cost him a concussion. The used car salesman aka Skip Holtz really put the screws to that young man.
And our supporters can’t wait to give Skip another $3M for doing nothing, pretty much the same thing he did the last year and half he was supposedly coaching.Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
Everyone agrees he was putting forth his best efforts, and what would reasonably be expected of a head coach, as required by his contract.
Aaron Allen has received an offer from Alcorn State. If he is looking for a place he can start, Alcorn State might be a good fit for him. It's certainly looking like going to an FCS school is going to be his best option. https://twitter.com/IceyAaron/status...556481/photo/1
Agreed. I feel pretty bad for him, because NOBODY could have won with the Oline play he had this year. With just an average line, I believe he could have been really good.Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
Telegraphing passes the way he does, throwing against that new kid at JSU may prove difficult.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg Fan
I disagree. The last thing I want to do is criticize a player headed out the door...BUT....Aaron Allen has had many chances at LA Tech to show us what he can do. The fact is, he just didn't develop and grow into the QB job. He still holds the ball far too long, and was a turn over machine the last two seasons, with 8 INT's in 2020, and another 4 INT's in 2021. This, despite very limited playing time, and only 1,200 yds passing combined over 2 seasons. Frankly, FCS sounds like a very good option for him. He's not an FBS QB and should have never been signed by Tech. I wish him the BEST.Quote:
Originally Posted by SicemDawgz
I think previous post was referring to Austin, not AaronQuote:
Originally Posted by HogDawg
yeah I was talking about Austin. I should have said that for clarification. Allen is way to inconsistent to be a DI QB in every aspect of his game. I do think he will fare better at a lower level school, and I wish him nothing but the best.Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
Got it. Thanks for the clarification. AK was thrown into an almost impossible situation at a very late date, and IMO performed very well until he got injured. If AK could have participated in spring football practice at Tech with the rest of the players, I believe they all could have performed much better in the fall. That's on Skip Holtz. He went into the summer KNOWING he didn't have an adequate QB, and signed AK at the very last minute. If you guys recall, the very first time AK ever saw the Tech campus was on July 6th. That was an accident waiting to happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by SicemDawgz
Getting to know the system would not have helped AK other than him realizing the OLine coach was horrible and would eventually get him injured.Quote:
Originally Posted by HogDawg
Sure it would. He wouldn’t have wasted a year of his life after participating in spring ball for HCSH.Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
Another QB transfer. Spencer “Rattled” headed to South Carolina. Does he think SEC defenses will give him less trouble than Big12?
Considering he lost his starting job after being so overhyped..maybe the man just needs a fresh start in a new offense.Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
Caleb Williams elects to enter transfer portal as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dixonfor6
Will still consider staying at OK.
Unreal. Change schools like they are changing socksQuote:
Originally Posted by DawgyNWindow
This portal stuff has changed, forever, CFB. Starting with recruiting. Used to be a school would sweat bullets waiting for key verbal commits to sign on the line, and when they did oh joyous day! We GOT those good players. Er...not anymore. You might get 'em, but can you keep 'em?
I also see more temptations for big money alums and others to BUY a good team. Can try to get several great players, a QB, a couple of WRs, etc to transfer to the same school. You know, purchase a national championship. I also think this takes us one step closer to rendering the NCAA just a bad memory. More and more individual schools, conferences and TV networks are calling the shots. Pretty soon the NCAA will be told to just shut up and sit quietly in the corner, we'll speak with you when we're ready.
I think I saw yesterday that there are 50 something QBs in the portal (with like 30 something having already entered and found a new home).
That seems like a buyer's market to me, provided you do your homework. I agree that next year's starting QB is probably not yet on our team. Past that, hopefully Holstein or Lyddy will be the future.
Cant blame the players at all!Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
Can you imagine having the red carpet rolled out for you every year, and all the goodies that would entail? Heck, I'd enter the portal every year even if I planned on staying put, and I'd enjoy everything offered to me over the summer.
Eventually, the G5 will just be a 1 year proving ground for players. Set the world on fire and transfer to a big school. Something to look forward to. Um, yay!
Though it obviously wasn't for a national championship, that's EXACTLY what WKU did last year when they signed QB Bailey Zappe, the 2 Sterns brothers (WR's) and Offensive coach Zach Kittley, all from Houston Baptist University. Essentially, WKU just went out on the open market and "bought" an entire offense. And it worked. WKU went from being ranked #120 in total offense in 2020 (Tech finished ranked #115), to finishing the 2021 season ranked #2 in the country in total offense. (Tech finished the 2021 season ranked #77 in total offense) Zappe finished his 2021 season at WKU as the greatest single season passer in NCAA history, with 5,967 yds and 62 passing TD's in one season.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
2021 Season Offensive Stats:
https://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fbs/current/team/21
2020 Season Offensive stats:
https://www.footballoutsiders.com/st...veralloff/2020
https://wkusports.com/news/2020/12/2...-football.aspx
Yes, you probably would.......if you are a narcissists, who needs to be coddled, and constantly told how beautiful you are.Quote:
Originally Posted by DawgyNWindow
Don't need all that, but I do appreciate a good vacation - or lots of vacations - with excellent (free) stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by HogDawg
There's probably sufficient coddling for the narcissist types going on already on the campus of the school they are attending.
It's kind of a free market/capitalist thing where you use your skills and knowledge to try to make your life better for yourself and your family. Unless you are working for free, you do the same thing.
Or maybe it balances out some (especially after the extra year of eligibility goes away) and enough examples turn up showing that the grass isn't always greener. Obviously, you'll always have some of this (I mean, it's a matter of scale already, right?) but it might not be that bad. And the trade-off is the ticked off 4-star already on my P5 roster who then goes in the portal and ends up being good for a G5 school.Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
Caleb Williams is being smart and using the rules to his advantage. One of two things will happen; either Oklahoma will come up with a boatload of cash for him to stay, or some other school in need of a QB will. NCAA football has essentially become NFL lite.
Yes, P5 football has.Quote:
Originally Posted by SicemDawgz
Texas Tech QB Henry Colombi has entered the transfer portal. I have no idea if he has any interest in LA Tech and/or whether LA Tech has any interest in him. https://247sports.com/Player/Henry-Colombi-80412/
This will be his 3rd school. Started at Utah State and transferred to Texas Tech- now going to transfer again. I don't know much about him, though. Just looked at a quick rundown of his schools. I wonder if he started for Utah State? He may be following our coach. If he is good, I am just fine with that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg Fan
I'm bored with the transfer portal thing.
How did this evolve?
That's how I've always felt about recruiting in general.Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
Show up on Labor Day weekend and buy a game program. Then you'll know who's actually on the team.
Everything before that is hype, speculation, and grown-ass men fetishizing teenage boys.
Projecting again? :oQuote:
Originally Posted by Champ967
He’s right. Adults care way too much about the business of these 18-25 year olds.
I have "decommitted" to my passion for college football.
Might be 6' 1'' by September based on the interview with his QB coach Billy Joe Tolliver on Bleed Tech Blue Radio.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dwayne From Minden
I am pretty sure the portal (plus COVID) created some market inefficiencies with high school players, and that could work to our advantage I think in the medium term. But I also think that it's also created an opportunity for market inefficiencies with jucos, right? If everyone is going after FBS transfers in the portal that means that maybe some good players are being overlooked from the juco ranks (especially since you might assume the juco talent level is a little higher than normal because the covid year high school recruiting classes weren't handled as normal and maybe pushed an average higher caliber class into the juco system).
I think this is partly how UTEP had the successful (by their standards) season they did.
I hope Navarro had some OL guys with potential.
Does that make sense?
2022 would be his 7th year of eligibility. He missed last year due to an accident.Quote:
Matt Zenitz @mzenitz 48m
Mississippi State QB Jack Abraham has entered the transfer portal, @on3sports has learned. Was a starter at Southern Miss prior to transferring to Mississippi State.https://on3.com/news/the-2021-22-college-football-transfer-portal-tracker/
Odds we end up playing against him again?Quote:
Originally Posted by sportdawg
Reckon he ends up at Missouri or USA?
We no longer teach kids to deal with adversity. Weak men create hard times. We have created a culture of weak men.Quote:
Originally Posted by sportdawg
Amen!Quote:
Originally Posted by eagle2180
Watching the relaunch of Dirty Jobs. Each show Mike Rowe allows the business owners to emphasize the work to be done if you want to work. Young people don’t want to do the actual work involved in building boats, bridges, or other tough work. That much is obvious. You have guys doing manual labor at 50 and 60 who should be teaching younger men to do the work while preparing for retirement.
"I chose La Tech because of the following reasons; Ruston is a town that I want to represent on the football field. I love the small town atmosphere. Coach Cumbie, Coach Parr and the rest of the staff are the biggest reason I chose La Tech. They are all great leaders, and I would run through a brick wall for them if they told me to. I couldn’t imagine playing for anyone else.” Tech TE commit John Locke
This is the kind of attitude we need to be recruiting in my opinion.
i like it, but hopefully he will learn how to use a colon while he's at Tech...Quote:
Originally Posted by SicemDawgz
Love it. And I love to see a TE saying it! LA Tech needs a little more of a "blue collar" attitude in its' sports.Quote:
Originally Posted by SicemDawgz
Well, he was recruited by Harvard so he's probably pretty sharp.Quote:
Originally Posted by arkansasbob
Hey, look at that! A Juco OL commitment.Quote:
Originally Posted by inudesu
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Originally Posted by inudesu
https://n.rivals.com/content/prospec...-ta-ase-281544Quote:
Originally Posted by DawgBark
Zyion Claville WR Shreveport, LA 6'3" 175 5.4 12/15/21SIGNED
Landon Nelson OL (JUCO) Council Bluffs, IA 6'3" 300 5.4 12/15/21SIGNED
Jhamal Shelby DB New Orleans, LA 6'2" 180 5.6 12/12/21SIGNED
Buck Buchanan K Marshall, TX 5'10" 180 5.5 8/26/21SIGNED
Zy Ford LB Maben, MS 6'0" 208 5.5 8/18/21SIGNED
Keshlon Jackson WR Lake Charles, LA 6'0" 170 5.5 8/1/21SIGNED
Kendrick Rucker WR Shreveport, LA 6'6" 210 5.4 6/26/21SIGNED
O'Ryan James WR Houma, LA 6'1" 175 5.5 6/19/21SIGNED
Landry Lyddy QB Shreveport, LA 6'0" 190 5.5 5/6/21SIGNED
Cyrus Allen WR New Orleans, LA 6'1" 175 5.5 6/18/20SIGNED
Joe Ta'ase OL (JUCO) Roswell, NM 6'3" 300 5.4 1/24/22VERBAL
Elijah Bowser OL (JUCO) Dallas, TX 6'6" 334 5.5 1/24/22VERBAL
John Locke TE Helotes, TX 6'4" 215 5.2 1/22/22VERBAL
De’Anthony Gatson RB Newton, TX 5'11" 205 5.5 1/17/22VERBAL
Michael Coats DB (JUCO) Biloxi, MS 5'11" 175 5.3 11/12/21VERBAL
Incoming Transfer portal
Myles Brooks (SFA) CB
Isaac Ellis (Memphis) OL
Hugh Davis (Boston College) LB
Matthew Downing (TCU) QB
NCAA Transfer Portal
@RivalsPortal
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G5 schools with the lowest # of portal entries (scholarship players) since 8/1:
Ball State: 2
Charlotte: 3
Troy: 3 (2 withdrew)
Georgia Southern: 3 (1 withdrew)
Kent State: 4
Northern Illinois: 4
Boise State: 4
BYU: 4
Cincinnati: 4
Louisiana Tech: 4
Kind of stuck on 5.5 40’ss:DQuote:
Originally Posted by sportdawg
If we can run routes and catch the ball, we don’t have to be really fast, but I hope our coaches can get most of those guys closer to 5 with some under. Surely college workouts will get them there.
Those are their rivals ratings, not their 40 timesQuote:
Originally Posted by techman05
Thanks for clearing that up. I was thinking that looked awful slow for skill position players. I didn’t know what I was looking at.
I think my 50+ year old lard arse can still run a 5.5 forty, but it would only be once with a month needed to recover. I might pull off a 5.3 forty if being chased or scared enough. I think my rivals rating would only top out at 0.5 though.
:laugh: I wondered if that's what OldBlue and Techman05 were talking about? LOL!Quote:
Originally Posted by johnnylightnin
If we're recruiting this many players running 40's that slow, we need MUCH BETTER recruits....:laugh:
I think there are plenty of recruits that ACTUALLY run 5.5's, but they're magically 4.8's by the time they hit the recruiting sites.Quote:
Originally Posted by HogDawg
yeah, 40 time is the most lied about stat in sports. amazing how those jr high and hs 4.4’s turn into 5 something in real lifeQuote:
Originally Posted by johnnylightnin
Added another OL from Texas Tech today with 4 years of eligibility left.
5.5 40?:dQuote:
Originally Posted by sicemdawgz
Does this player have a name?Quote:
Originally Posted by SicemDawgz