OMlawdog said:
I think its fair to say that Mitchell, Cox, Banks and Boyd are NFL bound. All four committed or signed with Croom.
So add those to: Sherrod, Love, White, Wright, McPhee, Dixon, and Chaney.
That is 11 NFL players that Mullen inherited. Not a ton, but still not bad. By the way the 2010 MSU defense is looking loaded.
I count 8 NFL players on that defense. That is tremendous. That doesn't count Whitley who I think is a NFL player if he recovers from a torn Achilles. He was a Croom commit too.
Look I think that Mullen is a good coach and he recruits to an offensivesystem that works. I also think that his redshirting plan is on the money, offensively I think y'all will be fine if your OL recruiting improves just a little bit. The only issue I see is whether you will be able to replace the defensive talent that Croom either signed or committed. To me defense comes down to athletes, and Croom's 2008 class that he had lined up when Mullen was hired was outstanding defensively. Just outstanding. Im not sure that Mullen has duplicated that type of recruiting on defense yet.
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Whoa, Mitchell is worthy to be a starter but the guy doesn't have a shot at an NFL future. He was our weakest link in the secondary from game 1 to game 11, not 12 because Whitley was out. Cox was Bama bound pre-Mullen, and Banks was the first guy Mullen recruited at Mississippi State. Out of that group I'll give you Boyd, who is largely complimented by lining up next to Cox who is usually double teamed. Not taking away from him, that's just stating the facts.
White and McPhee are MULLEN'S RECRUITS.. what's wrong with you people? And you consider Whitley a Croom guy too????????? Who the 17 are you?
Dixon is good and was a good career back for State, but Mullen made him lose something like 30 pounds to play for him. He did, and once the season started Mullen put Dixon in a place, unlike Croom, to win.
Riddle me this: had Croom stayed and we gone 2-10 to 3-9 which we likely would have done in 2009 under Croom and Dixon stayed 250 lbs and played in whatever-you-call-that-offense-Woody-ran, KJ, Chaney, Sherrod, and Love not gotten into the best shape of their playing careers, do you HONESTLY believe any would be drafted or even made a final roster in the NFL? Hell no. We're talking about how great they are because of the situation that MULLEN put them in. Imagine what Pegues would be up to with one year of Mullen. Had Croom coached their last years, they'd be an afterthought no one ever brought up. We talk about them and bring them up in association with "bulldogs in the NFL" because of Mullen.
You can tell me that's my opinon, but I know that Chaney would have been cut by the Eagles after training camp, Dixon would have gotten a mere "workout", and KJ would have been drafted, if at all, in the 6th or 7th and wouldn't have been in the position to take Curry's spot. My evidence? Watch all the video interviews of Balis saying that KJ and Chaney were the heros in the workouts. You're just crazy if you think Sherrod would have been a top OT NFL prospect without Mullen.
