DogStuckAtUM said:
Hudspeth is going to have to work Coach Hall big time to try land Tobias. Doubt it happens, though. Luckily Mississippi has three, four legit receivers this year. Maybe we'll land two of them.
But Singleton would fit better in Dan's offense than Nutt's. I could see Tobias being a Percy Harvin type- slot WR position guy where he lines up as a WR and then at times goes in motion and gets a hand off as a RB. I'm sure he will run the wildcat at Ole Miss, and they'll sell that. I know McCluster was used as a WR/RB, but I don't think that's something that Nutt would typically like to do- hence not putting McCluster at RB until about midseason. On the other hand, the slot WR's/slot backs, whatever we want to call them, are a vital part of MSU's spread offense. See Chad Bumphis.
The other thing that is in State's favor is Martin and Bennett will be gone off to college while Singleton is in HS. Since I don't stalk these guys, I don't know how much they hang out or anything like that, but them being in Oxford might help us because Singleton won't be around those guys as much during the season. Kind of like when Spencer and co. went to Ole Miss and then Parys Haralson went to UT the next year.
Finally, the last thing that State has in their favor is time. We have a whole year until signing day, and I'm sure that we will try to recruit him hard.
It would be helpful if Tyler Russell has a good year and for whoever Ole Miss's QB is to have a bad year as well, but there's no guarantee on either of those happening.
Now, all of that said, before the entire NAFOOM community comes over here and talks about the Cotton Bowl, I still think that Ole Miss gets Tobias Singleton. But I don't think State is going to go down without putting up somewhat of a fight, even though I'd say that there's about a 90% chance that he goes to Ole Miss.
