that thought we were going to get the Alexanders. Didn't happen, time to move on. I will say that my biggest disappointment with Mullen's recruiting is that we still even after 3 straight bowls, tremendous ongoing facility improvements and umpteen sellouts still don't have a lot of reach in pulling highly rated players from out of state. There are a few examples of players we have gotten (Ross this year, Redmond last year) but out of state we still seem to be getting mostly the 3 star types and usually when the in state school is not that interested..Coach34: Holmes is going to USM to help make room for "IT"
Pretty obvious we had some folks in the program... that thought we were going to get the Alexanders.
I will say that my biggest disappointment with Mullen's recruiting is that we still even after 3 straight bowls, tremendous ongoing facility improvements and umpteen sellouts still don't have a lot of reach in pulling highly rated players from out of state. There are a few examples of players we have gotten (Ross this year, Redmond last year) but out of state we still seem to be getting mostly the 3 star types and usually when the in state school is not that interested..
got Buchanan and Moore of which I think both are overrated for what they will produce on the college level and then some offensive linemen who are generally lower rated than the ones we got. Conner is their one real jewel from in state this year and he was right in their lap. Of course though they kicked our tails and many other tails on reeling in top out of state talent.The beauty is that the 2014 and 2015 classes in Mississippi are VERY strong and deep -- and a lot of that talent falls in MSU strongholds. Then, in 2016, we have the TeamUSA boys and will end up recruiting great nationally that year(Washington is a killer recruiter for us). For the 2013-2016 classes, THIS is the one that I was most worried about. Was a very shallow talent pool in MS this year and a high percentage of it had preexisting OM ties...
If Buchanan is so bad, why were y'all trying to recruit him late?
we never intended to take 3 QBs in this class. Only really took 2 because of the MLB issue with Sandberg.If Buchanan is so bad, why were y'all trying to recruit him late?
but we were going to take 2 regardless once we realized the risk of losing Sandberg. Golden was a walkon for a reason so I'm not sure how much we were depending on him helping us down the line.I'm guessing we were guaranteed to take 2 when Dak's on-campus backup left.
2. I believe that Cadaver "confirmed" that the big top-secret news they were all giddy about regarding Jones was that he had convinced an OM recruit to flip, or at least convinced another recruit to climb aboard. Who was that again?
1. Coach told us that the thing he was so excited about with Jones was not anything that happened during his first visit to Oxford, but something he did when he got back to Houston. What was that again?