and can appreciate what a 4 & 5 star OL and DL can do for a team. Nasty. Guess we need to start passing the collection box at the games to buy some linemen.
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We've already got the $. The problem is that the good ones go to about 5-7 schools out of HS & don't transfer
I'll say it again. For a team in our position the second most important jobs the coaching staff (behind HC) used to be high school recruiters now it's the NIL scouts / evaluators .
Ole Miss has been able to get good transfers on the regular and our offensive system is nearly identical. Our coaches need to figure it out. I’m tired of their excuses. They supposedly have 30 million dollars to buy players this year. Get it done
Instead, we'll probably spend $500k on a third string QB who takes 5 snaps and transfers.
Where do you guys get your information that State has the money necessary?
who is saying State has 30million? For football for 2026?
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who is saying State has 30million? For football for 2026?
thanks
If we have the money, the people running our football program are even more incompetent than I think they are.
There is a person or 2 on the pay board that are very in tune with Charlie and the collective who put that out a few days ago.
No one claims we have money like those 3 teams. That doesn’t mean we should not recruit better than what we have been with the resources available. There are plenty of good players that they don’t sign that we have the money to get if we have competent coaches. When the money is equal in both sides for a solid SEC player we can’t be losing them to Missouri and Kentucky and teams like that. We were not getting outbid for those kids. Our coaches just sucked at recruiting them. Now if Texas Tech or A&M or Ohio State get a kid over us, we probably got outbid. But they can’t sign everyone.
Ok, so payroll went from 15 million to 30 million ? According to ”sources” , I’m calling BS.
Our payroll was about 18 million last year and we had millions more that we did not spend because our coaches could not sign players that were good enough to receive that type money so they banked it for this year and then fundraised on top of that. Selmon is doing his job in that area. It’s why so many are pissed at Lebby. He asked for resources, got them, and has pissed them away with buddy hires that can’t recruit. He needs to get a staff that knows what they are doing on the recruiting trail. This isn’t instacart. The money is equal on both sides a lot and you still have to recruit when that happens. Outside the handful of schools that have unlimited NIL, everyone else makes an offer just to get them in the door to talk to the kid. It’s like a cover charge to get in the door. After that you just recruit the same as always.
I don’t think Ole Miss had that much more money than we had this season, just better coaching , better evaluation and a lot easier schedule.
Gotta link to any of that ? Smells like A Col Kang pep talk
i am positive we won’t see a Texas Tech transfer portal haul, we will see more G5 bargain bin specials.
The people that cover us on the pay board have put it out. You can believe it or not, but I know them personally enough to know they are not lying. It also does not help them to put out that our coaches suck. They need those guys for info so publicly calling them out is not something they would do unless they knew it was true. And we may not sign a good portal class. Idk. Our coaching staff isn’t very good as it stands, so it would not surprise me. That doesn’t mean they lack money.
Recruiting = money. There is obviously a shortfall compared to sec peers. Coaching incompetence is a separate issue.
Are They still claiming MIKE leach is keeping Lebby from winning or has the polish worn off that turd of an excuse ?
Money gets you in the door. You still have to recruit. It does no one any good to have a bidding war on every prospect. That resets the market and there are only a handful of schools that can afford to do that. There is a set range that most people stay in because they know if they drive up the price and reset the market, they may get this guy but it will hurt them and everyone else in the future. We are not getting beat on players due to money often at all.
I don’t know anyone still complaining about Leach. I’m sure some are, but he’s been dead for 3 years in an era where you can flip rosters in a year. None of what we are in is his fault in 2025.
That is complete BS my man, it’s all about money, every school in the sec with the exception of probably Arkansas can outspend us, thus outrecruit us. Just a fact.
You don’t know what you’re talking about and that’s ok. Have a good day.
I do know in 2025 nil/transfer portal era, recruiting is a bottom Line money affair. The old days of recruiting are not relevant in today’s market. It’s free agency.
So, if we’re just sitting on this huge pile of money & literally can’t spend it because Lebby keeps 17ing it up, why haven’t we fired Lebby?
Our money is not equal to anyone in the SEC not named Arkansas, and they have the potential money to be a player if they ever decide to, see Calipari.
So your source is message board chatter? With all due respect, don’t believe that ****.
Now we are getting somewhere. Now you understand why some people are so mad and wanted him fired. In an era where you can flip rosters immediately, building is bullsh*t. He got the money he asked for and didn’t do enough with it. Also self sabotaged multiple games this year. We have made our bed so all we can do now is hope he figures it out.
My source is someone who talks to the guy who runs our financials in NIL on a very regular basis. The disconnect on this board from the reality of the situation is insane. What good does it do for the people who rely on information from coaches to trash them and say they can’t recruit? They would not do that if it were not true. It’s not good for their business.
I don’t know man. I find it completely believable that Charlie is opening up all the inside info (that they guard like Ft Knox) to a couple of people who are going to run & post it on the pay board so it can be repeated in the free boards. I mean that’s completely believable. Right? **
It also wouldn’t be good for business to concede it’s all about money now and we have less money than every body else, subscribers might lose hope and stop subscribing. So it might be better for business to peddle BS like we are sitting on a huge pile of money and we don’t sign good players because we aren’t good salesman nd it’s really not about a lack of money.
The USM coach knew how much money we spent on our OL/DL this year. It’s not secret information. The OM NIL director went on Sportstalk MS last August and told everyone how much they spent on their roster.
That is certainly a possibility. I guess the number that they threw out about what we had available last year and the USM coach putting out nearly identical to what they said later on was just a good guess then? Or maybe you don’t know what you’re talking about and they do because that’s their job.
No competent fund manager is going to share competitive market and financial data with someone who is going to post it on a ******* message board. Whoever that guy is, he probably wouldn’t appreciate some clown on a message board insinuating that he is not compliant in his profession.
Oh yea, they are a fount of super secret info. just like the old genes page bro club. I remember how Arnett, Will Friend and Barbay were going to set the sec on fire and be a huge improvemenT over Mike Leach, how’d that work out ?