MVB will be hitting the portal
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MVB will be hitting the portal
The problem is that Saban earned the Bama bump. I don't think we have earned any type of bump, at least not recently, and yet you have mods running these sites trying to get our commits bumped so people don't bitch about us not being in the top 25.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
Then when players like Taylor or Hinton transfer to G5 schools everyone is like "what happened?". Nothing happened, they weren't SEC players to begin with and shouldn't have been ranked where they were and our "recruiting experts" should tell our fans the truth on some of these signees.
I like how Faulk shoots straight in recruiting, i'm worried he will lose any access as a result, but at least I don't think he is trying to pump up a guy just for the membership numbers.
I like Arnold more than MVB, but it is close.Quote:
Originally Posted by Really Clark?
This is 100% a trust Lebby situation.
Let's just hope ND gets their main target...Quote:
Originally Posted by HancockCountyDog
Arnold isn't interested in playing in ND's offense.Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
Correct. Fortunately, he also wants to play in the SECQuote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
Dillon Gabriel didn't want to play in Oregons either...Quote:
Originally Posted by KB21
For an athletic looking dude, MVB seemed oddly immobile this year. I know much of that was by design given depth issues (i.e., not calling a lot of runs for him), but he also had horrendous pocket awareness, and it didn't seem to get better over the course of the season.Quote:
Originally Posted by HancockCountyDog
Bray never committed to us. You?re thinking of Jay Lindsey in last years class. Tight End.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
I don?t like Faulk at all. Tries to be too cool.Quote:
Originally Posted by HancockCountyDog
However I have said many times-go look over last ten years the 247 or ON3 state of MS rankings and see what guys really produced once signed. We had people pissed that Ty Cooper almost didn?t sign with us-look how he turned out. Jake Thomas 4*, Damien Robinson 5*, etc. more of those who don?t work out than the Charles Cross or Suntarine Perkins/Jeff Simmons/Cox/Jones who do.
Hell the RB from ULM we are on wasn?t even a top 30 player last year in state.
Dillon Gabriel is a completely different situation. He grew up idolizing Marcus Mariotta. Oregon has a large Polynesian population. The fact that we were even in the mix for him is a testament to Jeff Lebby.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cowbell
Leb recruited both. He knows his guys. He also knows how the fanbase is tearing him up and pressuring him even when talent was as bare last year.Quote:
Originally Posted by HancockCountyDog
Gabriel was different. His childhood idol was Marcus Mariota and his dream was to follow in Mariota’s footsteps and be the Oregon QB. We were the highest offer in that deal. If it was not for how much he revered and idolized Marcus, he would have been a Bulldog. You have to remember, Mariota was really the first QB to make it off the islands and have sustained success. Hell that is how UCF got Gabriel. They had Frost and he had recruited Marcus at Oregon and then Mackenzie Milton at UCF so that peaked Gabriel’s interest and then Lebby and Heupel brought it home.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cowbell
Jackson Arnold has none of that. He and Lebby have had a relationship since he was a Sophomore, Jackson would have been at OM had Lebby still been there.
I'm curious to see if Nic Anderson follows him.
I hope you're right, but as long as a playoff team is talking to him, I won't be confident. I've saw this show before esp when the kid isn't from Mississippi.Quote:
Originally Posted by KB21
And that's ok. But as I have tried to tell everyone since September, this is different. The relationship that not only Jeff and Jackson have, but also the relationship Jeff has with Todd and Sharon(his parents). They want him around Jeff and Staley. They look at Jeff as a second father to Jackson. The hours that Jeff spent recruiting Jackson paid off. And it will pay off here as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
He tried to follow Jeff to State last year, but they decided to give Oklahoma a chance with all they were offering.
DT Sheffield has been offered. I would expect us to pursue heavily.
This and there is little to no "foundation building" in the NIL/Portal world of today. Try to rebuild a team every year with new players from other programs.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
Wow! It looks like Bill Belichick has agreed to the North Carolina job pending approval by their AD and Board of Trustees.
DT Sheffield and Kevin Coleman together would be like the college version of Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle together.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
I think that will be a disaster. Belichick has never recruited a day in his life.
The plan he has is really good. If UNC will follow it. He's not really recruiting. He's taking the Kiffin and Deion plan and recruiting the portal.Quote:
Originally Posted by BigDawg81
UNC hates young peopleQuote:
Originally Posted by KB21
The Bama bump makes sense. The Steve bump don't.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
The point I was trying to make was, and maybe I did a bad job, was that these recruiting evals are not unbiased. Whether it be a Bama bump or a certain network site having a lot of subscribers, there is always going to be bias in these rankings. There is no such thing as unbiased recruiting Rankings because every one of these guys were a fan before they were anything.Quote:
Originally Posted by HoopsDawg
Agreed - people forget that Bilichek is a master at finding value in players under the radar - I mean, college is basically turning into the NFL with no salary cap anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
BB sorta ran the pats off the rails there af the endQuote:
Originally Posted by Cowbell
Jeff Lebby following several portal WRs on X:
Chase Sowell, WR, East Carolina
Kobe Prentice, WR, Alabama
DT Sheffield, WR, North Texas
Javonnie Gibson, WR, Arkansas-Pine Bluff
As I've stated, I would expect us to heavily pursue Sheffield. I would also expect us to pursue Gibson.Quote:
Originally Posted by KB21
Chris Murray, an Edge from Sam Houston State, has been offered. He and the linebacker we offered from Marshall seem to be close.
Nic Anderson is officially in the portal
Jalil Farooq,WR from OU, in the portal. We will be a player for him.
Travis Shaw from UNC in the portal. He could turn your defense around in a hurry. 5 star out of HS. 6'5 330
Arnold is supposed to visit Auburn on Thursday. We'll see if that visit ends up taking place.
Are we expecting him to visit us before or after?Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
Considering setting one up for the weekend, but could be sooner than that. Possibly tomorrow. If not tomorrow it will be Friday and Saturday.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chuck3124
Also, no one freak out. We knew there was a pretty good chance he would end up visiting there.
Rankings started to mean less when they did away with 2 stars.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
You don't visit unless you're interested. Auburn and their weapons along with money is a legitimate situation.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
You still feel good about us landing Arnold?Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
It is a legitimate situation. But we've got it handled. They're throwing an astronomical amount of money at him. Hell they're paying him to visit.Quote:
Originally Posted by bulldawg28