Went to the AL-MS game and got to hang out along the sideline with a newspaper guy. Russell has been talking up State this week with Bumpis, Patterson, Lampley, and some others. Talked with Lampley directly and he said he will take his offical visit to State in January and the door is open for him to change his mind. Bumpis and Patterson will at least take a hard look at State. Bumpis had a good game and played well. Russell spent most of his time dodging AL d-linemen and struggled all afternoon. Norwood made a couple of big catches. State may not get them all but Mullen has talked to all of them multiple times this week (their words, not mine). Feb is a long way off, but our chances to pick up a couple of these guys are better than 50%. Mullen is not wasting any time and is aggressively recruiting players for his system. It is good to have a head coach that is working this hard on recruits.....