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56 minutes ago, GJ Winne said:

I'd argue it has a lot more to do with the players who have been poached - none of whom came from UIW in the 1st place.  Our defense would look a whole lot different if we could have kept those guys.

RB Ismail Mahdi is the leading rusher for Arizona
OT Alex Harkey is starting at Oregon
DT Terry Webb is starting for SMU
LB Max Harris starting for Arizona
LB Ben Bell is starting for VA Tech
DT Dominique Ratcliff in playing at Indiana
DT Tavian Coleman is playing at Colorado
DE Tunmise Adeleye is playing at UNLV
CB Josh Eaton is playing at Michigan State
K Mason Shipley is 12/15 for Texas
K Brendan Franke is 2/3 for Indiana, including one from 58yds
 

WR Kole Wilson at Baylor (#4 WR) and OL Jimeto Obigbo at Arizona State (reserve, but playing) are the only players we'd love to still be in SMTX that originally came from UIW. 
However, Wilson was a GJK recruit, not a Morris recruit.

 

Or, he does like Malzahn and Herman and starts shopping an OC job at a big program.  Wommack left USA to Applewhite to be the DC at Bama.

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For the 2nd year in a row, one of our best players has quit on the team midseason to preserve a redshirt, ostensibly to bank NIL at a P4 next season.  CFB is broken.

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10 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

All of the momentum GJ Kinne had with the program has been erased this year. They’re now 0-5 in the Sun Belt. 

Ugly season no doubt...

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13 hours ago, perfectchaos007 said:

They’re now 0-5 in the Sun Belt. 

And we started a fight after the game @ ULL, who now has a 13-0 record vs us.  Because we're classy and all that. 

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Nice to get back on the right side of the ledger.  Not sure I saw the W coming, given all the suspensions on D, and we lost our RT to injury in the 1st drive of the game, but I damn sure didn't see us delivering a beatdown.  In fairness, this is how our season was supposed to go.  Ifs and buts and candies and nuts... 4 of our 6 losses are by 1 score - we're [theoretically] 18pts from being 8-2.  Southern Miss was scoring 32ppg coming in and we held them to 14...if we could have pulled our heads out of our asses and held 4 teams to twice that, we'd be on our way to the Sun Belt Championship and heading to the PAC w/ head high and chest puffed instead of with our tail between our legs.  So frustrating.

Brad Jackson reminds me of the stereotypical KState QB over the years.
2025:  189/270(70%), 2,568y, 14 TD/6 INT; 132/491 (3.7ypc), 11 TD
vs USM: 14/17, 192y, 1 TD/0 INT; 16/49, 2 TD

 

Helps when the D scores as well.  Turnovers have been few and far between the last couple of years.  After 18 takeaways in 2023, and 14 last year, we only had 6 coming into yesterday.  2 INT and a FR was huge.

GJK was fired up!

 

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Nice writeup on our RB - somewhat of a Temu Skatebo, w/o the CTE.

This is the uncommon club Texas State's star running back finds himself in

Sitting in his apartment in San Marcos, Texas, on Monday afternoon, Texas State star running back Lincoln Pare realized that he was in an uncommon club.

“I think I know two guys that are still in college that were there when I came into school,” Pare admitted.

Pare, a 24-year-old, sixth-year senior, is both an oddity and a new normal in the current age of college football. The Bobcats' tailback is the oldest starting player in the state of Texas. He trails reserve running back John Emery at UTEP and reserve quarterback Jacob Zeno at Texas A&M in age—both are 25. Unless you went on a mission trip and played at religious institutions like BYU, being a student-athlete in your mid-20s has typically been uncommon. 

However, the long tail of the COVID-19 pandemic and the loosening of eligibility rules by the NCAA mean Pare’s age and classification are no longer unusual.

That doesn’t mean his teammates and opposing fans don’t remind him of his elder status.

“I get called Unc a lot. I get called O.G. a lot,” Pare said with a laugh. “A lot of it when you go play at away games, a lot of the people say you're old and stuff like that. It's funny to hear people and what people have to say.”

Pare, now in his fourth season with the Bobcats, spent his first two collegiate seasons with Arkansas State. The former Tennessee 6A Mr. Football flashed in 21 games for the Red Wolves, but a Texas native teammate would end up pitching Pare about how cool he believed the Central Texas region to be. 

“So my roommate was a guy named Wyatt Beagle, he was a quarterback,” Pare said. “He has family in New Braunfels and grew up right down the street from where I am right now. He would always be like, ‘Hey man, you need to come home with me. There's rivers in New Braunfels, there's a river at Texas State, I'd love to show you around.’” 

A year later, Pare would make the move to Texas State without his roommate.

“I wish I could have brought him with me. We could have lived out his childhood there. He was one of my best friends, but it was crazy to hear about it a year before and then be like, ‘Wow, I came here to Texas State and now I get to live everything he's saying and everything he told me was true.’ The food's unbelievable. And then just to have a river on campus. Love it.”

Pare’s move to Texas State has meant leading the team in rushing in 2022 and 2024. A knee injury sandwiched in the middle caused him to miss the entire 2023 season. Pare earned a medical redshirt for 2023, and the NCAA granted all players who enrolled in 2020 an additional year of eligibility, which means the Bobcats' running back is leading the team in rushing again. He also leads the Sun Belt Conference in rushing touchdowns with 10. 

“He’s the epitome of what we want as a Texas State Bobcat,” Texas State head coach G.J. Kinne said after Pare’s MVP-winning performance at the 2024 First Responders’ Bowl, a 30-28 win over North Texas. “On and off the field. That’s how you win games, with guys like him.”

For Pare, who was named team captain after the bowl game win, college football has evolved immensely since his first day on campus in Jonesboro, Arkansas, back in 2020. 

“As a guy who was in college football [during the pandemic], there aren't a lot of people you can talk to about how it used to be. It's not like that anymore,” Pare said with a laugh. “This is the world that we live in right now, the transfer portal and people getting paid and people wanting to go here, go there and go everywhere.

“All they know is the NIL-era, the transfer era.”

Pare is mindful of the benefits of his extra years in college football, but encourages his teammates to maximize the time and place where they are now. 

“The [Arkansas State] coaches would say, ‘Don't let football use you, use football.’ And I feel like that always stuck with me since my freshman year and I feel like I've done that,” Pare said. “I'm getting my master's degree and you know what, I've been able to play a lot of college football for the past six years and so I'm very blessed.”

The Tennessee native can’t help but sound a bit like somebody’s “Unc” or “O.G.” 

“I feel like all these kids are all about how much money am I going to get or how do I get from this place to this place,” said Pare. “Nobody's like, ‘Hey, I want to come rep Texas State and I want to be here for four years.’ I feel like kids just want to use these schools as a stepping stone and stuff like that. So even though I used the transfer portal, I believe that you should only be able to transfer one time. You need to get your degree. I don't like how kids transfer two, three and four times and now you're never getting your degree.”

Pare will likely leave San Marcos with a legitimate chance to play football on Sundays. The Bobcats’ star has proven to be dynamic as a runner and receiver, while also flashing return man skills and a 40-time clocked in the 4.5 range, according to NFL Draft Scout. 

But after four years in San Marcos, one can imagine Pare has no regrets about his chess moves. Central Texas is clearly a second home, and he’ll leave Texas State as it prepares a conference move to the reimagined Pac-12.

 “To see how it was when I got to San Marcos, to what it is now,” said Pare. “I got there before Coach Kinne, and the national recognition, how much the community's involved, the fan base. It's been nothing short of a blessing to be able to be a part of it.”

Posted (edited)

Kinne should have jumped ship if he had a chance last year.  Him and Taylor would have been smart to leave, those jobs are very hard to succeed consistently at.  

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GJK didn't have the chance last year because P4s aren't poaching 8 win coaches.  The rule of thumb is you gotta get to 10 wins for the promotion. 

11 minutes ago, Hook1997 said:

those jobs are very hard to succeed consistently at.  

This is very true.  A G5/G6 HC is much more likely to be fired than poached.  Have think that in the era of the transfer portal where we're losing our talent after every season, that ratio increases.

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