Hmm....I vaguely remember that, now that you say it.
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Unless they make some big jump over the summer, they look about another year away from being a good SEC WR. Couch looks the part but he didn't show it in the spring game. Our DBs pretty much dominated those 2. Todd looks like he needs another year in the weight room.
Well I guess it was a problem for Croom, Sherrill, and Felker too then. By my count, 2 WR total were drafted from those 3 coaches + Mullen put together, and one of those two was a transfer (Olanda Truitt).
ETA: Correction, apparently we had some others drafted that I wasn't aware of. 4 others drafted between 1987 and 1993. Then after Moulds we just hit the huge drop-off that we are still in. So, in Sherrill's last 7 years, all of Croom's 5 years, and the entire current Mullen era to date, we have not had a single WR drafted.
Isn't Oklahoma St. the school we snatched Ross from as he was originally committed to them?
If this potential transfer is good enough to consistently demand enough attention to keep Gray from being smothered, he's worth bringing in. Not sure we have that right now and our outside passing game could be nonexistent and Gray wasted without it.
Well, they're apparently recruiting and developing WR better than every other program in the country, too, so it may be more a sign that they are extremely good at it than that we are extremely bad at it.
They also air it out like crazy and are known for good QB play and great WR play. That is a huge help in recruiting the next batch.
Bandaids usually don't work very well. Where are we getting a receiver from this late in the process? I'll believe it when I see it.
Well, our offense totally and completely sucked for most of those years, so it's not a big surprise. We also had no QB drafted during that time frame. Our WR play has improved quite a bit the last several years, and that, along with suddenly attractive QBs and a better offense, should hopefully allow WR recruiting to open up more.
But we're still seen as a run-based offense at a time when a ton of programs are airing it out all over the place. Auburn had Coates and Louis drafted recently but before that they had a big gap as well, and they haven't had nearly the number of WR you might expect for a program that recruits like they do and puts up the offense they do...largely because they're also seen as a run-based offense.
NO TRANSFERS FROM TSUN.... NO NOT ONE....
Our receiver woes are a curse. The length of the curse is one year for each time Jerry Rice drove through Starkville on his way to Itta Bena.
Robert Foster?