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Postby Stallion » Fri Sep 22, 2006 8:47 pm

and they both have impressive size and quickness
1) Paul Eck 6-4, 200 4.65 Butler County CC. Rated 3 stars and a high 5.7. No. 29 JC player(and No. 2 QB) in the country. Looking at SMU and Kansas right now. No real story yet though but video was posted today
2) John David Weed 6-5, 223, 4.57 Tyler JC looking at Col., UH, KSU, OU, TCU, SMU and SMU. No reported offers yet. Rated 3 stars and 5.6. Rated as the No. 39 JC player(and No. 5 QB) in the country.
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Postby davidsmu94 » Fri Sep 22, 2006 8:56 pm

Guess this says volumes about what they think of Willis/Slater
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Postby OC Mustang » Fri Sep 22, 2006 9:25 pm

Says more about Slater than Willis. And more about Rhodes, etc. than Slater.

This also may be opportunity knocking. One never knows. I don't know squat about Butler County CC, but TJC as a group tends to be favorable to the Mustangs. Tyler fashions itself an outlying suburb of Dallas anyway. The cache of HP and th Hilltop gets more traction.

Hey, if it gets a quality player with experience, I would be tickled to death with it.

We started out with who knows how many running backs, and darned if we are down to three right now.
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Postby OC Mustang » Fri Sep 22, 2006 9:26 pm

Hey Stallion,
Where did Eck do high school? I have heard of this guy somewhere, I think. Just can't place him.
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Postby Stallion » Fri Sep 22, 2006 11:25 pm

I thought the same thing-but he's from Andale Kansas. Maybe there has been another QB by that name.
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Postby PonyPride » Fri Sep 22, 2006 11:33 pm

Eckert and Adrian Haywood both went to Tyler.

I don't know that the pursuit of these guys says anything -- good or bad -- about the coaches' opinions of Willis, Slater, Rhodes or anyone else. Ever since Coach Bennett had to rotate between Wallis and Bartel, he has said he wants to sign at least one -- maybe more -- quarterback every year. Steve Spurrier used to collect QBs at Florida like they were becoming extinct. His comment: you always sign at least one, and preferably two, quarterbacks EVERY year. If that means you have 8 talented QBs on your roster (which never happened through natural attrition), then you take them, and you try to sign another next year. All it takes is an injury that leaves you with an inferior QB to underscore the idea that you just can't have too many.
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Postby Stallion » Fri Sep 22, 2006 11:38 pm

we already have two that claim they have been offered as a QB which played a crucial role in at least one of the commitments. I've always sensed that Terrence Wilkerson is a soft commitment.
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Postby mustangbill67 » Fri Sep 22, 2006 11:46 pm

I do not think this has anything to do with any of our current QB's. You can never have enough good QB's. Competition is good and injuries (or rock bands) are always just around the corner.
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Postby Stallion » Sat Sep 23, 2006 12:01 am

We already have at least 6 penciled in at QB for next year-it means someone is moving to TE. Eck is a former Ole Miss throwback. Was All State in both Football and Basketball at 4A level in Kansas. He may have left Ole Miss because they had him as a WR-just speculation though.
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Postby mrydel » Sat Sep 23, 2006 8:18 am

This goes back to the email I got from Burns stating we already had a QB committment and they were not pursuing others. Hopefully he was just trying to be nice and it was his way of saying they are not interested in the guy I recommended. I would hate to think we would give up recruiting good QBs due to previous committments. You always have to go after the best athletes regardless of previous commits. What if we had stopped at James and not recruited Dickerson.
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Postby jtstang » Sat Sep 23, 2006 8:38 am

mrydel wrote: What if we had stopped at James and not recruited Dickerson.

Then the Aggies would've gotten what they paid for, I suppose.
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Postby mrydel » Sat Sep 23, 2006 8:43 am

jtstang wrote:
mrydel wrote: What if we had stopped at James and not recruited Dickerson.

Then the Aggies would've gotten what they paid for, I suppose.


Naw, he was still smart enough to go elsewhere. After all Aggies is Aggies.
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Re: SMU Going After Two Top JC QB

Postby RE Tycoon » Sat Sep 23, 2006 1:25 pm

Stallion wrote: 2) John David Weed 6-5, 223, 4.57 Tyler JC


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Postby originaloverthehilltop1 » Sat Oct 07, 2006 8:04 pm

um. we have a qb commitment and are not pursuring others? who? the only high school qbs we have committed seem like cbs or wrs in waiting, don't they? we are not in the market for colt mccoy type?
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Postby DallasDiehard » Sat Oct 07, 2006 9:44 pm

Wilkerson might move to another position, but I've got to believe Logan Turner stays at QB.
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