The poster DID say that Ole Miss recruits a higher ranked/profiled type player, and the stats bear that out. In 2 full recruiting classes Freeze has signed six Top 100 players, four 5-star players, and seventeen 4-star players. That totals to twenty-one 4-star or better.
In the same two classes, Mullen has signed one 5-star, one Top 100, and nine 4-stars. That totals out to ten 4-star or better. So, if you're basing it ONLY on what he said, then he is 100% correct.
To your other point, yes, we have had a dry run of no 1st round picks. Much thanks to the Right Reverend. But, looking at the current roster, there should easily be four 1st round picks in the next 3 years (Nkemdiche, Treadwell, Tunsil, Conner) and could possibly have more (Taylor, Hampton, Engram, D Jones) though their likelihood is much less.
Well my point is that you recruit whoever you want. We recruit those SAME players. And the response to "Well why didn't Ole Miss offer McKinney or Banks?" is always "We were too worried about the consensus #1 player in the world." It's a lazy way of making your fan base feel good about missing out on ELITE (yes, elite) talents in their backyard.
It's mind boggling too that there are people out there in your fan base who have convinced themselves that we dwell on bottom of the barrel guys and just get lucky, because scouting has nothing to do with it, on players like Calhoun, Love, Market, Dak, Day, Tubby, etc etc etc etc etc.
Tunsil and Robert will likely be 1st round picks, deservedly so, and if somewhere out of the blue Ole Miss finds a QB that can double Treadwell's YPC and heavily increase his YAC, sure, he has a shot. And you have a reason to believe they will, honestly, with him now being a concrete #1 receiver. I'm of the notion that the lack of Moncrief is going to hurt, but I'm not a football coach. Who knows, that's why we watch.
But our starting defense this year minus Calhoun, Love, and McKinney had Ole Miss offers. And of those probably only Preston Smith wasn't "heavily" recruited by you guys. Are you telling me you wouldn't like to have all 4 of those players? And that making fun of us for offering Calhoun, Love, and McKinney (and let's add Jones too because I specifically remember catching hell when he originally committed) is in hindsight 17ing stupid? We "take chances" on those guys?
Yes, Ole Miss spends A LOT more time reaching on reaching on recruits. Only looking at THIS coaching regime's classes, it's worked in only one single class... So generalizing your entire school's strategy is also 17ing stupid.
It took us until probably last summer to ALL realize that Mullen puts more than half of his recruiting efforts into Big Dawg camp. Is JJ Smith from Gulfport a different class of recruit than who we sign? A friend close to the program told me he hasn't taken and has no intentions of taking the ACT and in his opinion thinks he won't be heard of after going to MGCCC. Big gamble! Sounds like something we'd do, and based on your friends' opinions not something Ole Miss would ever do. Our most recent 1st rounder WAS a different profile recruit.
Both of us are going to be talking about how we're pissed our schools didn't fire on Wammack earlier when we had a chance.
Just like I'm sure some of the non-dipship Ole Miss fans would probably admit they wish y'all could go back in time and grab some of the players y'all make fun of us for signing instead of beating the house on guys in a different class of recruit like Brassell, namely McKinney who will probably be the fastest Mississippi product taken in the NFL draft since Eli.
ETA: Honest question, remove high school accolades, stars, hype, whatever, and base this PURELY on what has been earned by individual performance... Do you think Ole Miss has recruited better than MSU since 2008? Across the board.
