Recruiting staff- the elephant in the room
It sounds to me like we are going to have a major staff shake up with Villagriana leaving and Peterson likely leaving. So this to me is as good a time as any to expand and shake up our recruiting staff.
I don't think anyone needs to be fired. But I definitely think that our recruiting staff needs to be expanded and I think some of their salaries need to be higher.
On paper it appears as if we only have about 5-6 people running the recruiting show for us. That IMO needs to be doubled. And some of them are being paid as low as 35K. How the heck are we supposed to get someone elite paying that?
We have issues every single year and I think basically being short staffed is part of it. I think we should do something like this. Highlighted are those on staff already.
Mark Hudspeth - Dir of Football Recruiting
Rod Gibson - Dir of Communication/MS Delta
Trent Hammond - Dir of HS Relations
Mason Smith - Recruiting Specialist/Louisiana
Kai Brashears - Coord of Recruiting Ops
Andrea Hollis - Dir of On-Campus Recruiting
Chad Bumphis- North Mississippi
Sleepy Robinson- Inner City Jackson
Steve Campbell- MS Gulf Coast/Alabama
Nick Griffin- Metro Jackson
Demetric Warren- DeSoto County/Memphis/Recruiting media liason (promoting our recruits to sites such as 24/7 sports so that are actually evaluated properly and our recruiting classes are accurately rated to promote excitement)
Josh Morgan- Southwest Mississippi
Jay Hughes- Southeast Mississippi