Missouri Recruiting Rankings
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East was was way down this year
Helped MO that they had to play OM from the west too
Helped MO that they had to play OM from the west too
The best team they beat was either A&M (at home) or Vandy. Could it have been set up any better for them?
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Mo shows what state needs to do to get to the sec title game. Have consistently solid if not great recruiting, have at least two traditional powers down, have a couple of tough games made easier by injury, and have a weak team for your rotating crossover opponent.
Mullens last two classes have been plenty good enough that we could take advantage of a down year in the west, if he does it consistently. I don't think we'd even need the west to be as decimated as the east was this year.
After looking thru their recent classes, to me it says that MO, IL, KS where they get a lot of their recruits aren't evaluated thoroughly like FL, TX, CA, GA, etc kids are and their coaches do a great job of evaluating talent, getting guys that fit their system, and develop their guys as good as anyone.
The formula sounds awfully similar to Dan's approach. Recruit hard in a 5hr radius of campus, do a good job evaluating, develop, and take advantage of your HS coaching relationships from around the country and get kids to campus that have ties to MSU or family in MS. I think we will start venturing out nationally just a little bit more bc of our success, but I don't see Dan's formula changing much. As I said in another post, every site has the same top 300 to an extent. Other than the top 50-100 players, there is plenty of guys just as good if not better than 100-300 out there. The only real game changers I would say fall into the top 10-15 overall recruits and a few scattered that were unranked or not ranked highly but a coach did a great job evaluating and beat the "genius recruiting services."
If we stay in or around the top 25 in the rankings and add a legit stud or two (C. Jones and Shumpert) each class, we'll be able to compete. He'll, Dak had LSU in his living room night before the dead period trying to get him right before NSD. He's a prime example of a guy wayyy outside the top 300 who got overlooked and developed into a game changer. We have about the 17th most talented roster in my opinion and we're grouped there with about 10 other teams.
I'd say our 2014 class has a few sure fire studs in it currently in Aeries Williams, Jamoral Graham, Gerri Green, and Jesse Jackson. I think Deshon Cooper is going to be a great player for us as well. We're sitting right around #30 right now and we'll finish around 25. I think we're right on schedule.
The formula sounds awfully similar to Dan's approach. Recruit hard in a 5hr radius of campus, do a good job evaluating, develop, and take advantage of your HS coaching relationships from around the country and get kids to campus that have ties to MSU or family in MS. I think we will start venturing out nationally just a little bit more bc of our success, but I don't see Dan's formula changing much. As I said in another post, every site has the same top 300 to an extent. Other than the top 50-100 players, there is plenty of guys just as good if not better than 100-300 out there. The only real game changers I would say fall into the top 10-15 overall recruits and a few scattered that were unranked or not ranked highly but a coach did a great job evaluating and beat the "genius recruiting services."
If we stay in or around the top 25 in the rankings and add a legit stud or two (C. Jones and Shumpert) each class, we'll be able to compete. He'll, Dak had LSU in his living room night before the dead period trying to get him right before NSD. He's a prime example of a guy wayyy outside the top 300 who got overlooked and developed into a game changer. We have about the 17th most talented roster in my opinion and we're grouped there with about 10 other teams.
I'd say our 2014 class has a few sure fire studs in it currently in Aeries Williams, Jamoral Graham, Gerri Green, and Jesse Jackson. I think Deshon Cooper is going to be a great player for us as well. We're sitting right around #30 right now and we'll finish around 25. I think we're right on schedule.
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This 100% is a major factor too
On the MSU rivals site Fri night there was 17 total registered users online. On scout there was over 3100. Scouts guy Rosebowl also has his own combines with 100s of players from MS, AL, and LA. He films games, and has some good insights as far as prospect evaluations go. 247sports seems to be the most accurate tho with star power for our players in my opinion. I've actually been impressed with ESPN the past few years too. One more thing, on Rivals, only 5 of our 19 commitments have an actual ranking besides their star power. Scout has an individual position ranking for 17 of our 19 commits as well as a star ranking and they do constant updates on players. Haven't seen Rivals change a Miss St commitment's rank all year.
On the MSU rivals site Fri night there was 17 total registered users online. On scout there was over 3100. Scouts guy Rosebowl also has his own combines with 100s of players from MS, AL, and LA. He films games, and has some good insights as far as prospect evaluations go. 247sports seems to be the most accurate tho with star power for our players in my opinion. I've actually been impressed with ESPN the past few years too. One more thing, on Rivals, only 5 of our 19 commitments have an actual ranking besides their star power. Scout has an individual position ranking for 17 of our 19 commits as well as a star ranking and they do constant updates on players. Haven't seen Rivals change a Miss St commitment's rank all year.
Yes, I mentioned him above. He's the Kimdehchey 2011 (12?) edition. He didn't do jack his frosh year, but seemed to come on late this season. Their 3rd string QB who played most of the season was also the #1 QB in the state of Ohio too, and Ohio has some quality football. Difference in being the #1 QB in Mississippi and #1 QB in Ohio is a mile. They don't just put their best DB out there in the shotgun.