Billboards in Big D

[Bulldogg31]

http://hailstate.com/news/2016/9/9/...t-billboards-on-display-in-dallas-sunday.aspx

 

[TBone.sixpack]

Well done State.
Well done.

 

[coach66]

Well played

nm

 

[Bulldogg31]

My favorite part:


Prescott is one of 19 Bulldogs on NFL rosters, 11 of which will be active Sunday during the opening weekend. Eight former MSU players are listed as starters on depth charts in Week 1, including Pro Bowler Fletcher Cox. All 19 of them played for Dan Mullen during their MSU careers.

 

[Dawgtini]

That's freakin awesome!
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[patdog]

Regarding the recruiting thread earlier, we damn sure better be putting more effort into recruiting the Dallas area the next few years.

 

[aTotal360]

Nope. Need to focus on Noxapater and Panther Burn.

 

[olblue.sixpack]

My favorite part:


Prescott is one of 19 Bulldogs on NFL rosters, 11 of which will be active Sunday during the opening weekend. Eight former MSU players are listed as starters on depth charts in Week 1, including Pro Bowler Fletcher Cox. All 19 of them played for Dan Mullen during their MSU careers.

How'd they do that?

Based on what I've read, I figured this cavalier attitude the staff has toward recruiting and preparation wouldn't result in the program churning out NFL quality talent.

 

[rugbdawg]

We could have just focused on our backyard and been ok last year...

 

[patdog]

Good thing we didn't just focus on our backyard 6 years ago and took some kid out of Houghton, LA.

 

[Hoover Dawg]

Good thing we didn't just focus on our backyard 6 years ago and took some kid out of Houghton, LA.

Don't be dumb. From the other thread:

Incorrect again. High per capita amount of talent in LA, MS and AL. Very high.

Other schools recruit far away because they have to. Not because they want to.

Our recruiting foot print is what it is. We need to get our share of MS talent, be a solid #3 option in Alabama, and a solid #2 in Louisiana. Then we need to hit our JUCOs as hard as possible, maybe even first and foremost. We should get 90% of our class from those 4 areas.

This is not rocket science. You morons saying we need to camp out in Dallas or Atlanta are just that, morons. How do you expect to beat every other program in the country, with no built in advantage? We can drive to LA, MS and AL while all the others cannot. Use it.

I would say TN and AR but they don't have much talent. Rural GA is another area we probably have an advantage, at least the Columbus/LaGrange area.

Even Mullen continuously talks about the 5 hour radius. Try harder.

 

[Bulldogg31]

Don't bother. They're convinced we're Bama and Saban's gonna jump on board as soon as we run Dan out of town.

 

[Hoover Dawg]

Don't bother. They're convinced we're Bama and Saban's gonna jump on board as soon as we run Dan out of town.

They really do, it's comical. Some slapdick atotal360 actually wants us to use Alabama's current blueprint (after 4 national titles) and recruit California kids.

 

[BriantheDawg]

Very cool.

 

[aTotal360]

Nailed it! ***

You've basically admitted we suck at recruiting in own backyard and we need to keep doing it because we're po' ol' MSU. I'm saying we need to do something a little different. Spend more time in GA and TX. Spend less time in the recruiting hell hole we're in. I think getting to kids WITHOUT ANY knowledge of MSU is a good thing because most kids in our footprint don't have too high of an opinion of us when compared to the rest of the SEC.

I hoped getting beat by USA would knock some sense into you, but I guess not. Maybe getting beat by Kentucky and South Carolina will do you some good. Praying for ya!

 

[patdog]

I'd say stick a little closer to the 171 miles we're currently at than go all-in for California. But we definitely need to expand our horizons a bit. One look at the other 4 schools in the closest to home 5 tells a lot. South Florida, LA Tech, Troy and UNC-Charlotte. If recruiting close to home is such a winner, why is everyone else doing it such losers?

 

[Hoover Dawg]

You've basically admitted we suck at recruiting in own backyard and we need to keep doing it

Recruiting our own area better gives us a better percentage play to bring in better players, than going to GA and TX.

I'll just agree to disagree on the rest. South Alabama is an outlier as compared to Dan Mullen's tenure. You're being a short-sighted, tunnel vision moron. Sorry, just what it is.

 

[Hoover Dawg]

I'd say stick a little closer to the 171 miles we're currently at than go all-in for California. But we definitely need to expand our horizons a bit. One look at the other 4 schools in the closest to home 5 tells a lot. South Florida, LA Tech, Troy and UNC-Charlotte. If recruiting close to home is such a winner, why is everyone else doing it such losers?

Because they aren't getting the best players. Stop over-thinking.

You want to get a player from somewhere else? Fine go do it. But the percentage play is in the areas where we have some type, ANY type, of built-in advantage whether that's geography or parents or anything.

Nothing else to say here. Either you get it or you don't.

 

[patdog]

Because we will NEVER get all the best players in our immediate area because they're all either in Bama's immediate area or Mississippi's. But go ahead and keep living in your dream world where we can pull in all those players.

 

[aTotal360]

Our best players have come from OOS as of late. No?

 

[Hoover Dawg]

Because we will NEVER get all the best players in our immediate area because they're all either in Bama's immediate area or Mississippi's. But go ahead and keep living in your dream world where we can pull in all those players.

I'll spell this out one last time because it's obvious you do not actually read posts where your points are rebutted:

1) Take our share of MS talent
2) Be a solid #3 destination in AL (and maybe West GA)
3) Be a solid #2 destination in LA (and maybe East AR/West TN)
4) Overachieve in the MS JUCO ranks (our biggest advantage)

Our key advantage here is driving distance to these areas. This does not mean we disqualify candidates in other areas. It simply means we need to be selective and not waste time competing with every other program in the country that recruits Los Angeles, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Tampa and Miami, unless there is a really good reason (like a coaching tie, alumni base, parents, etc.).

Get it yet?

 

[patdog]

Now you're just backtracking and saying two different things. First you ***** about how we should have never lost Lashley and Brown, and now you're saying we only need to "take our share" of MS talent. By definition, "taking our share" means we will miss on several of them. More than half actually, since UM's share would be pretty close to ours and Bama and LSU would also have a share. Again, there's a reason most of the schools in the closest 5 are doormats.

 

[Hoover Dawg]

Now you're just backtracking and saying two different things. First you ***** about how we should have never lost Lashley and Brown, and now you're saying we only need to "take our share" of MS talent. By definition, "taking our share" means we will miss on several of them. More than half actually, since UM's share would be pretty close to ours and Bama and LSU would also have a share. Again, there's a reason most of the schools in the closest 5 are doormats.

I have not backtracked on anything. Search the history.

 

[MedDawg]

I didn't realize that all of our current players in the NFL

http://hailstate.com/news/2016/9/9/...t-billboards-on-display-in-dallas-sunday.aspx

played for Mullen. I figured there would be some Croom or maybe even Sherrill holdovers, although I now remember a few that got hurt and never played again.

 

[notoriousD_O_G]

We are already losing 4 and 5 stars in MS and within 20 mins of campus because our coaches are giving them enough time. But yeah lets spend time on kids from far off that have no connection to MSU. No one is saying that we shouldn't recruit other places. But we currently suck at recruiting our own town.

 

[KurtRambis4]

How so?

I've always heard Mullen can't recruit or develop players?