We have to outrecruit Ole Miss to beat them
And I'm not talking about rankings, I'm talking about actual talent of players on the field. We beat Ole Miss for several years because we had out recruited them in the past and we had better players. We had evaluated better and got better players in the program. That is how we had such an unbelievable amount of high NFL draft picks in recent years especially given our rankings. Re-ranked, the 2009 class would be insider the top 10 nationally, the best in MSU history.
Those were not Mullen's recruits. That is the problem. Most often the team with the better players wins.