Whether we like it or not, signing day is Wednesday and I believe that does factor in. Like I said, like it or not, it's reality in this day and age.
Honestly, it really doesn't matter for us. Nobody's going to poach any of our recruits. And we're not going to suddenly add a few 4*s.
Recruiting rankings mean squat. Seen too many guys sign with Alabama/Georgia/LSU and automatically get a five star.
They have already poached the ones they wanted I guess. Hopefully, Wednesday will end up being okay for us, although there's not too much pressure on that day anymore. I think it's been proven Lebby can get good skill players (4 of the top 14 wide receivers in the conference this year) and probably will again.
The emerging theory/narrative/whatever is the blue bloods can still rely on High School recruiting and a few select transfers, while the rest of us are in position to live off their discards.
Him getting fired might actually help with defensive players wanting to come here.
being national champs in recruiting matters less now than ever before
One thing I've never been worried about with Lebby is wide receivers and the passing game. Everything else, I worry about.
Yeah, it's ranked #46.... 12 behind Rutgers and last in the SEC by 10.
I would assume we are saving our money for the portal. Too many immediate needs and not much incentive for us to bid for high school players just to have to turn around and bid again in a year or two if they show promise.
Oh yeah, I can already see the campaign coming to give to the SEF because we won't need 15M this year, we'll need 20M. All to go all-in on Lenny's last year to save his job.
That's not the Mississippi State way though. If we fire someone a year too late, it's early for us.
They ranked 7th out of the 18 in the Big 10 Total Defense, so not too bad. But when you hold people accountable to a higher standard instead of letting them learn on the job over a long period of time as you continue to lose, this is the type move you expect to make.
As I've said before, if you have to learn on the job in the SEC, you were a bad hire. You have to be ready to hit the ground running in this league.
I'm really not trying to be a jerk, but the only way that our defensive signing day class could be worse at this point is if we signed the air from bag of Lays.
100%. Let me also add that one of the most irritating things about MSU athletics is how we love to talk about how "smart" we are with our money. We can't fire this coach or that coach because of the buyouts, only to then go blow millions on guys like Hutz, a 3rd string QB, and this Jans portal class that UAB would be embarrassed by.
Let's face it Lebby is a "duck" coach, what quality DC would come to work for him right now ?
