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Yeah, but Manvel is signing 12 D1 kids this year. That will hurt them more than even the 1000+ students they're about to lose before next season. They only have one skill player coming back on offense and I believe only two linemen. I actually think Crosby has more talent coming back than Manvel with the school splits. The only two big time players they have coming back are Jalen Preston at receiver and Derrick Tucker at safety.

I was flipping back and forth between the UA All-American practices last night and the bowl games. I've always thought the highest concentration of public school talent in the country is in either Dade County or Fort Bend County, much less their respective states. I'm no so sure northeast Harris county wouldn't give those areas a run for their money this year and this year only.

Tom Lemming just got the top 2017 players in the Houston area together. I was excited to see the three from Crosby. . . Then I saw that Manvel, who Crosby opens with next year, had 8.

I've never seen it given to a linemen but Keenan Murphy, (OT) Crosby, was named Baytown Sun Player of the year. The UH commit has been nasty since the first time I saw him lining up as a sophomore against Nederland.

He's already gotten beaten out twice at two different positions. The latest is by another true freshman 5-star, Minkah Fitzpatrick, who's a longer and more rangy cover guy that Saban probably sees in the mold of first round pick Dre Kirkpatrick. Not to mention the other 5-star track kid, Kendall Sheffield from FB Marshall, will be ready to go next year in the 'Bama secondary. Every kid that's at Alabama has worked hard to get there, just like the vast majority of all other college athletes. The difference is at 'Bama you don't get the same amount of rope because everybody is just as talented as you are. I highlighted Fields because you really can't get much worse than what he was doing, yet you haven't heard a peep from him until he was laying on A&M's qb last night. Cam Newton got in trouble multiple times at Florida, Urban Meyer didn't kick him off the team but he saw the writing on the wall and transferred. Should he have tried to stick it out at Florida because it was best for him, or did he make the right decision by going to Blinn and winning a title before going to Auburn and winning another title with a Heisman to go with it? Saban suspended Alvin Kamara for the Sugar Bowl a couple of years back, should he have stuck it out at 'Bama to get back in his good graces or go kill it like he's doing at Tennessee right now? I'm not saying a change of scenery is the best option, I'm just saying playing special teams and backing up younger players at 'Bama might not be. Getting sent home you sophomore year the day before your team's biggest game of the season is a lot darker mark than a misdemeanor arrest as a freshman. If he was in Saban's doghouse before he's probably moved to the outhouse now.

Wow, that's a lot to infer. Sometimes the root of the problem is that you need a change of scenery. I'm watching the A&M game right now and saw DeVante Fields sack their qb. Fields was the defensive player of the year in the Big 12 as a freshman but had issues, now he's at Louisville playing in a bowl game and about to get drafted. You can even take Hubanek playing A&M tonight after transferring from two schools, albeit for a different reason. Sometimes it just doesn't work for some players in some places. I'm not saying it's the best option but it's probably time to start thinking about it after how the last two years went. I think the "trapped in the 409" thing is still a bit of a stretch at this point though.

Well, it might be time to transfer to UH. He would have three to play two if he got a full release since he didn't redshirt. Transfer corners have had some success at UH recently, DJ Hayden got drafted in the first round by the Raiders a couple of years ago and William Jackson should go in the middle rounds this year. Tony actually reminds me a lot of another UH corner a while back, Stanford Routt, that ran 4.27 at the combine and also got drafted by the Raiders in the second round. May just need a fresh start, Minkah Fitzpatrick is just a freshman and he isn't going to beat him out anyway.

A Barbers Hill guy came and talked to me about Kevin Flannigan for about a half hour today, wanting to know if I thought he could win there. I thought it was kind of weird Flannigan would apply for a job making pretty much equal money, with less talent, in the same district? Maybe he's trying to get closer back this way? Hard not to take a serious look when a guy's resume has, " . . . been to the playoffs 9 of last 11 years at 5A and 6A programs in the area."

Same question I would have? Even if GCM paid the maximum the position offers it would still be about a $15k pay-cut to take the job compared to the nearly $100k he makes now. Not sure why you would trade a bigger paycheck and NFL level talent for GCM. Look at the caliber of kid he gets to coach at Taylor: [Hidden Content] *Click on the "stars" tab to put them in order

I'm pretty sure Dayton can pay more than the GCM job he applied for and much like working in Baytown he wouldn't have to move the family. It would also be a lot easier to win at Dayton than it would at GCM transitioning into 6A. I highly doubt where he graduated from would play into it at all, and would probably be a benefit if anything . I would assume Lytle's head coach, Damian Judge, also applied for it and he's also a Crosby graduate.

If I was Dayton right now I would be taking a long hard look at Coach Freeman if he also applied. I think he would be a perfect fit for Dayton. I think he could have Claude Mathis type results given the fact Dayton will be locked into the D2 playoffs for the foreseeable future. I think they would also be in excellent position to retain him once he produced those type results.

Here's the link to EJ Holland's twitter that shows the pic, pretty good one. [Hidden Content]

I don't think Sumlin would put the wood to him like that. Allen basically got an unconditional release to anyone other than who's on A&M's schedule. The basketball coaches screw kids like that sometime but it's a bad look for future recruits in relation to football, especially big time ones.

Lol, just rolled across Twitter. It won't let me post the pic but here's the link to it. Get ready Aggy, the memes are just getting started. [Hidden Content]

Guys like Taylor Jungmann and Mark Appel don't pay anything to go to school. You get the equivalent of so many full scholarships to be divided as the coach sees fit. The sliding scale is because the scholarships are one year renewables, a coach can choose to raise or lower your money based on performance or other factors. Like you said, in lots of cases they cover other expenses with supplementary scholarships or some mysterious grant that shows up. As far as the class thing, we had baseball players at South Dakota State that I also took Summer classes with. When you're a part time student it just means you don't receive any athletic aide and can't participate in games. In baseball you would do this during the fall semester, you would still be able to participate in all the activities but basically have walk-on status. You just see this happen so little in baseball because the kids are re-drafted after their third year and never need the last year of eligibility when these things would come into play.

That's why I was saying to go after Hurts first. He's going to be an early enrollee and would be on campus in time to help during Spring ball. DSC wouldn't be on campus until the first Summer session. It would probably still be a good idea to take Knight for insurance anyway though.

That's the regular NCAA guidelines for being eligible. Even that has loopholes in it because you're given credit for up to 12 summer school hours per year. You get 10 semesters to play 4 years as a full time student. One semester you would be a part time student, therefore receiving no financial aid and not having that semester count towards your 10. The only reason kids really redshirt in baseball is when they're given little to no scholarship money because baseball programs are allowed so few scholarships so they split them up amongst players. Usually the only guys that get full rides in baseball are kids that would have been drafted and therefore good enough to play immediately, hence my rarely redshirting comment. The vast majority of the time those guys are usually pitchers. You pointed out what I was saying though, if Murray was to leave now he has a redshirt which would be used for the year he has to sit out and four seasons he would be eligible for since he didn't burn any at A&M.

If I'm Sumlin I say the heck with both Kyle and Kyler and fly my swagcopter down to Channelview, TX and try to flip Jalen Hurts from Alabama. With how hard 'Bama is going after Shea Patterson I think Hurts could be ripe for the picking but they would need to hurry because he's an early enrollee and will probably be signing his financial aid agreement soon. If you make no headway with Hurts then you take the short trip from the east side to the north side and try to flip DSC from Arizona State. Remember Aggy, JF was a three star nobody really wanted and came in with a chip on his shoulder. I've said it many times before, rarely does a qb from the west coast come to the south and be successful. They're notorious for having weak arms and bad feet no matter how high they're ranked.

I think all the NCAA sports have the same rules when making lateral transfers. Kids don't really redshirt in baseball due to the limited number of scholarships but I would think that if he left at semester he would technically have 5 years to play 4 given he's never suited up for A&M. Given he's burned a semester of that 5 years, at some point he would have to be enrolled in no more than 11 credit hours for a semester so that it doesn't count against the 10 full semester you get to play 4 years. The reason guys go JUCO is because no matter what level of the NCAA you come from you're immediately eligible once you get there and you're immediately eligible when you transfer out given you're in good academic standing. It also gives you a chance to be re-recruited if you left for a reason such as playing time.

I don't think Kyler ever really wanted to go to A&M, I don't think his dad wanted him there either but he signed anyway bcause he was a legacy kid. I think Kyler wanted to go to Oregon and his dad wanted him to play for Strong at UT which is why they were there just days before Kyler committed. If he as ever going to leave now would be the time because he would still have 4 to play 3. I don't think UT would be an option anymore bcause he probably couldn't beat out either of the kids Texas already has committed. Oregon has a senior qb so maybe that's the spot now? Call me crazy but the spot that makes the most sense to me is UH playing in Herman's offense.

Don't beat that drum too hard, we would like to keep him around as long as possible. He's one of the better young minds at the high school level even though he's only about 30. Riordan calls the plays but Mann is the eyes and helps gameplan. He also doesn't have to teach class which allows him to handle the college coordinating which has been extremely beneficial to our players in all sports. It would hurt to lose him but I think we would be OK as long as we had Coach Freeman who I think most Crosby fans want to see get a shot of Riordan leaves.

This is what I was scared of with the success of Crosby. Three Crosby assistants applied, probably our three best assistants too. I also see an old Crosby player, Damian Judge, who's the head coach at Lytle applied. I see that GCM doesn't pay much but Beaumont ISD must pay less if Flannigan is still trying to get back this way, maybe the family is still here though. Looks like a very solid list of applicants.

I didn't feel like going back that many months and digging through the threads but I distinctly remember being smirked at when I predicted UH would do something similar to this. I just think it's a good time to revisit now that Herman signed the extension, I know it doesn't mean much because the buyout isn't overly outrageous but he still signed it. I think if UT fires Strong in the next couple of years that he goes back to the place he was a GA, but if not UH could be on the verge. I think one of two things has to happen to keep him for a Gary Patterson type program re-build. The playoff has to be expanded to 8 so that UH would have a legitimate shot at being eligible for a playoff spot, or UH has to get invited to a power 5 conference at which time Herman picks up a $5 million escalator written into his contract. The longer Herman is there the better players he will get due to the basically non-existent admission standards, but it's going to be interesting to see how UH stacks up physically with FSU Herman's first year on the job. If you remember before the season he was complaining about the lack of D1 players he had on his roster.

It would definitely be interesting to see how he would do at a place like BH. Much like when Tullos left Cleveland to take over GR, he walked into a job at Dickinson where he had the highest enrollment in the district to go along with the most talent. I personally think his results at BH would be a little closer to what he did at Pasadena Memorial, at least until BH moves nearer to the top of the district in enrollment.

IDK how true it is but the BH guy I lift weights with at lunch told me that Snelson was seen on campus recently. I heard he was one of the applicants last time before he too the Dickinson job. I just don't see why you leave a built up 6A powerhouse for a complete rebuilding job in a lower classification?