Christ people...
We cheat at approximately the same rate. It's a fact. That's why our recruiting always ends up looking pretty similar in football. The reason the class fell apart in 11? NCAA snooping on Cam + Hud leaves(who was lead recruiter on CJ and Snoop) + Diaz leaves = perfect storm. There is a new video out(OM the season) where CJ talks about his decommittment and how/why it happened, and he made it sound much more related to Hud than I realized, at least in his explanation. Hud stays and that whole thing never happens how it did. Either way, the 2011 scenario won't EVER happen again...not like that.
In basketball, we've kicked their *** for two decades in recruiting. Good luck explaining that to me with a straight face. We have PLENTY of people playing the game, especially in basketball, where we've had it down to a science for years now.
We have to STAND on our own merits without feeling the need to get in petty fights with them about every little thing. All this does is expose our old insecurities and make us look bad. Simple fact. We are going head to head with them for only a few recruits this year, of which we are going to split about equally.
Tip your hat. They have a great class, overachieved this year, and play an exciting brand of football. We also have a great class to go with an excellent class last year and hopefully enough JUCOs to plug the holes from the 11 debacle. Hopefully we make (ahem) adjustments on both the offensive and defensive sides to get us closer to where we need to be next year, and we can welcome them to a night game in Starkville with two very good teams with alot more on the line ala the late 90s.
