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MetEdDawg

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If you don't know, Marlon Humphrey is from Hoover and one of the top CBs and one of the top players in the nation for 2014. Well he is the recipient of a brand new can of SWAG from the MSU athletic department. Was someone able to explain why these guys are getting letters like this from us? https://twitter.com/marlon_humphrey/status/319955543177457664/photo/1

Was it some inside joke or something at one of our camps? I know someone posted a picture that was hand written for another recruit, but I'm just really confused as to what is going on here.
 
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kired

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That certainly more creative than some lame handwritten note that says the same thing to every recruit.
 
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Hump4Hoops

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I honestly hope we keep sending ridiculous **** to recruits

Maybe it'll catch on, and kids will look forward to getting it, and sharing it on twitter.

That, or take the auburn approach and fill the envelops with money, or the ole miss approach and fill the envelopes with love letters.

 
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ClevelandBrownII

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This is much better than the "You're a Baller" card(looked liked my 22 mo old son wrote it). This "Swag Can" card is creative, humorous and very well drawn.
 
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DerHntr

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Looks like we are making fun of the tons of letters croots get. Hope this works somehow. This staff sure does have a tendency to make fun of other programs.
 
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We're turning into the Andy Kaufman of recruiting letters

As someone who absolutely disdains most of the recruiting ********, this stuff I might actually like.
 
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esplanade91

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ClevelandBrownII said:
This is much better than the "You're a Baller" card(looked liked my 22 mo old son wrote it). This "Swag Can" card is creative, humorous and very well drawn.
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Take this with 1/2 a grain of salt, but I was told that the "you're a baller" card was a direct "F U" to NCSU who sent him a ridiculous letter ranting about how he could be a "baller" or some **** if he came to NCSU.

Which makes it acceptable, in my opinion.
 
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This is the kind of stuff we must do to churn the hype machine....outside the box forms of marketing. These recruits are recruiting for us when they re-tweet, share, send....whatever. THEY will expose our brand. We as alums need to make sure the brand continues to grow. LSU didnt quit pushing its brand when Saban left, they actually got stronger by using successful marketing programs and strengthening alumni chapters around the country.
 
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It is some high brow recruiting

MetEdDawg said:
If you don't know, Marlon Humphrey is from Hoover and one of the top CBs and one of the top players in the nation for 2014. Well he is the recipient of a brand new can of SWAG from the MSU athletic department. Was someone able to explain why these guys are getting letters like this from us? https://twitter.com/marlon_humphrey/status/319955543177457664/photo/1

Was it some inside joke or something at one of our camps? I know someone posted a picture that was hand written for another recruit, but I'm just really confused as to what is going on here.
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It is an obvious attempt to make fun of the schools that are sending 100 17ing letters in a day/week/month. There is only so much that they can say in all of those letters. Hopefully these young men are not stupid enough to overlook the tongue-in-cheek approach that our coaching staff is taking. But then again, they are just high school seniors and it isn't hard to fool them into thinking they are the missing puzzle piece.

I just hope that our coaching staff isn't over-estimating these high school seniors' intelligence.
 
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Wooly17er

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Well done.

I'm sure after Olemiss had their success last year, many other programs have started sending 100s of love letters. The ones from Olemiss may have stood out last year because nobody else was doing it...but not this year. Looks like we found a way to make our correspondence stand out. That's why this is now OUR bulk mail job.
 
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patdog

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Agreed. It's pretty ridiculous that recruiting has come to this, but it's not like you guys are doing anything a lot of other schools aren't doing too. We'd be idiots not to do it too, at least unless and until there are rules against it.
 
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punterjoe

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I think it stands out from the typical letter. I believe it helps that when a recruit sees our logo on the return address he is more likely to open it to see what we've sent this time. I'm sure when they're receiving stacks of mail a day that they toss some directly in the trash, and maybe these quirky little things assure ours are opened.
 
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punterjoe

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Heck if it'd help our case I'd write and record personal songs about these guys for the coaches to send.
 
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Lettuce said:
This is the kind of stuff we must do to churn the hype machine....outside the box forms of marketing. These recruits are recruiting for us when they re-tweet, share, send....whatever. THEY will expose our brand. We as alums need to make sure the brand continues to grow. LSU didnt quit pushing its brand when Saban left, they actually got stronger by using successful marketing programs and strengthening alumni chapters around the country.
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I say more billboards and hashtag jerseys work the best.

Seriously, does Mullen have coloring time after practice where players have to write recruits or are all of these done by kids? I don't disagree with the tactics because it adds a personal touch (IMO), just curious how it gets done. For what it's worth, I'd much rather get a hand written note than anything else. Besides cash, of course.
 
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punterjoe

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I've got a GREAT IDEA. Mullen should hire Chill Billy to draw the recruits letters. That'd be some great stuff.
 
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JackShephard

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Seems those of us that think this is ridiculously stupid are in the minority. If there's not some backstory or personal dialogue behind this that makes it mean something to the recruit, then this is just idiotic. If I had gotten something like this, I would've immediately trashed it and scratched the school off my list. I hope there's more to it that I don't know. I'm amazed at the reactions on here. "Well drawn!" "Highbrow humor" "creative" "outstanding!" "Well done" "humorous". Man, I must be missing something because to me it's just childish and lame.
 
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Wooly17er

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Webster's Dictionary: "High School Senior" - (n) 1. a student in their last year of high school, usually around 17-18 years old; 2. childish and lame.
 
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RocketDawg

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Probably somebody just trying to come up with something unique from MSU. And it may be effective ... perhaps he got a smile from it, and if he's been to our camps or has visited in some way, he gets the joke. I don't see any harm in it.
 
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Wooly17er

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Look here, man...you can delete my post as being childish (which it was obviously meant to be). But don't edit it to something completely different to make it appear that I am apologizing. If that's the way the game is played, I guess you can never be wrong on this MB.

I can't help it Olemiss copied Bama's recruiting strategy, and it's dumb to dump that much mail on a student on one day - whether it be a hundred letters or 54.

It seriously takes away from the board when you can go in and edit my posts like that. Especially when an Olemiss fella like yourself can edit my posts on this board. In a way, I guess it's best to have happened now.
 
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Wooly17er

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Is there no room for humor on the board? I read a few weeks ago about a man that had to drop a deuce in his ex wife's home...where was your edit then??

And what if I was being serious? What if I really want you to find that turd bucket and dip your face in it? Does it count if I'm being sensibly serious?
 
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As someone who loathes the "'crootin letter" fad, I fully support this.

Like I said after the "You're a baller" letter, it's funny. What could a school possibly get across in 50 - 100 letters to a recruit? It's not like schools are sending out something like a stock prospectus. Why not make some fun out of it?
 
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SignalToNoise

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Who cares. I seriously doubt a kid chooses a program based the goofy letters he gets in the mail.

Will Humphrey be a bulldog? Probably not, but there are other reasons why he'll pick a different program and this won't be one of them.
 
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JackShephard

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sorry, but i'm not taking up for this simply because we did it. If Ole Miss, or anyone else, had done this, we'd all be on here making fun of them. But, since we did it, that must mean it's highbrow and creative. I know it doesn't matter what I think, but put me in the "not a fan" column. Carry on.
 
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