About the new commitment...

patdog

Heisman
May 28, 2007
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WTF is the problem so many people have with this commitment? I have several comments:

1. We don't know if this is a scholarship commitment or a walk-on commitment. If it's a walk-on commitment, who cares if he sucks (and I'm not saying that he will suck, just that it wouldn't matter if he did).

2. Mullen has a pretty damn good track record of judging offensive talent. If this is a scholarship commitment, I'd trust Mullen's judgement over anybody's on this message boards or any of the idiots running Scout, Rivals, etc. sites.

3. With his size (6'5", 225) and genes (dad was a pretty good player for MSU back in the day), I think he's got a chance to possibly contribute for us down the line. As someone pointed out, he did make 1st team All-State for all classifications, public and private. That doesn't necessarily make him a legitimate SEC recruit, but it's at least not as far out of the realm of possibility as some of you act like.

4. The Larry Templeton "good old boy" days are gone. Byrne hasn't done anything by the old "take care of our own at the expense of doing what's best for the program" rules that Templeton operated under. Why do you suddenly assume that this commitment falls under those old rules?</p>
 

dawgmaster

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With his father being who he is. I watched the kid play this year and believe me, he could have played at any big high school program and done pretty good.He has really good potential as a TE and will turn out to be pretty good. Reminds me of Richard Dickson in his build and hands + speed. All Academy players are not marginal. I mean, remember Swayze Waters and how the Big 3 in MS said he was not good enough to placekick and punt at a major college and he has only averaged 45 yards a punt and 9 out of 10 of his kickoffs have gone out of the endzone. When was the last time we have seen an MSU kicker put it out of the endzone on a kickoff? My point exactly!