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OM didn't flip anyone. They had Patterson in the fold, got De'Markus Lodge, Greg Little, AJ Brown, etc. They were trending towards the no. 1 class in the country. Meanwhile, we had just lost Lashley to Bama, AJ Brown(WHO WAS NEVER COMING TO STATE) had signed with OM and some people thought we had him, and our class was hovering in the 40s.Quote:
Originally Posted by BeardoMSU
Then we got Jeff. The complaining stopped.
Chris had transferred to Houston from Nettleton. Houston didn’t even have a HC and they were awful.
A buddy of mine who was a huge state fan saw him in the spring and called state coaches.
They would not even make the short drive to see him. Instead, they said bring him to a camp. I give Mullen no credit for finding him. A fool could see how good he was.
What blows my mind is his that Nettleton HC didn’t put Ole Miss on him sooner. That guy must have been butt hurt for him leaving or blind as he was an OM GUY.
High school coaches are weird when it comes to recruiting their players. They hold grudges for the stupidest things. It was probably that OM didn't give him sidelines passes for a game or only gave him 4 tickets and he asked for 6. I mean worked out for us, so no complaints.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hot Rock
Chris Jones will be the first MSU grad to make the NFL Hall of Fame. Cox and Slay may have a chance, but I ultimately don't think they get in. Jones will be first ballot. Will be a cool day for StateQuote:
Originally Posted by Political Hack
I heard he was butt hurt over Chris leaving to go to Houston but from what I heard that had nothing to do with football. It certainly wasn?t anything about Houston coaches as they didn?t even have a HC when he moved as my memory serves. I am from Houston and work with several family members of his but never asked them much.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
I will say one day one supervisor overheard one of his relatives talking to a State coach and she told him quick Chris didn?t owe them anything. She was going to advise him to do whatever was best for Chris. The supervisor was excited as he is Rebel through and through. That was close to signing day and I got nervous with all the visits to Oxford.
It will have to be repeated from the rooftops for years to some people that AJ was never going to be a bulldog. It was always down to Alabama and Ole Miss.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
AJ's dad, Girlfriend, and AJ himself got new vehicles from Ole Miss when he decided to commit. Bama never matched that offer and he then became a rebel and the rest is history.
Why is that though? How is it that one of the top players in the country in our own backyard was never going to come here? Imo it's a colossal recruiting failure to not just lose the dude but for Ole Miss to get him. Have we ever signed a similar caliber player from Oxford or really any player from there they wanted?Quote:
Originally Posted by Choctaw Dawg
If we ever did they would probably tar and feather them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Matt3467
Everything that I've heard is that AJ thought it was disrespectful that Mullen didn't show him the attention that other schools were showing him especially considering he was in the same town as him. I imagine Mullen came off as "abrasive" to him (who could have guessed).Quote:
Originally Posted by Matt3467
AJ had lived in Starkville his entire life and told us early on, like sophomore year, he had no intentions of stepping foot on State's campus, so we stopped recruiting him hard(like every other program would do). Then we got good and State fans started just assuming he was coming to State and people would ask him and he would tell them "we weren't showing him any love". Hell he told Billy Gonzalez to his face that he was never coming to State and told Mullen the same thing IN HIS OFFICE.Quote:
Originally Posted by Matt3467
That staff also refused to recruit good WRs like you have to recruit good WRs.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
Dan and his staff's biggest asset and flaw were the same thing. They could take a 2 star and make him play like a 4 star.Quote:
Originally Posted by BeardoMSU
So in other words Dan quit while AJ was a sophomore.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
I guarantee you that if Lebby was our coach then he wouldn't have quit.
You shouldn't take a recruit at face value when he is a sophomore. That if anything should have told Dan to recruit him harder.
No he didn't quit and I can guarantee Lebby would have done the same thing. Because AJ told us the same thing the summer after his sophomore year, during his junior year, the winter of his junior year, and the summer after his junior year. HE WAS NOT COMING TO MSU. PERIOD. END OF DISCUSSION. He had lived in Starkville his entire life and wanted to get away. Just like tens of thousands of kids do every year. They want to go away for college.Quote:
Originally Posted by Todd4State
The narrative that we didn't recruit him was crafted by his dad and Rickey Woods.
Freeze had a good friends son on staff there at Starkville high and he aided in various ways to pretty much seal AJ up during that sophmore year.
Yep. Lunch pail mentality and WR's dont want to hear any of that. They just want to hear about getting them the ball.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
Usually when that's the case you wouldn't just go an hour and forty five minutes north to your homeschools rival. There's a lot more to this story than that.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
There is. It involves Dodge Chargers and 50K handshakes. But you would also be shocked the amount of Starkville Academy and Starkville High grads that go to OM or BamaQuote:
Originally Posted by Matt3467
OK got to mention it but I see that Chris has a protege' doing the pole vault in the Olympics.
I mean that?s what I did but I also wasn?t a top WR recruitQuote:
Originally Posted by Matt3467