3 we MUST sign

Our staff dropped the ball big time on not offering Dylan Bradley..
Has played really well for USM and would have basically made Simmons a no brainier coming here..

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Originally Posted by preachermatt83

I hope you are right but something bothered him this weekend.

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He's probably been reading this board or print outs of it.

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Originally Posted by mic

Our staff dropped the ball big time on not offering Dylan Bradley..
Has played really well for USM and would have basically made Simmons a no brainier coming here..

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Yep, I knew we should have offered him that entire recruiting season. He's a good player. Simmons must not have been known then, otherwise Freeze woulda been all over that family connection. Not us though.

If we can't sign good players this close to home I have little hope on recruiting otherwise. How could you?

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And from what I am hearing we are not spending the time on AJ we should be and he don't like it at all.

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AJ said in an interview this past week that Mississippi State & Alabama are recruiting him the hardest. Then mentioned Cal. No mention of UMiss until the interviewer explicitly asked him what was most appealing about them.

"Which schools would you say are recruiting you the hardest?"

"Uh my home state, I mean, Mississippi State.. Um Alabama.. Cal, Cal's on me real hard"

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I hope you are right but something bothered him this weekend.

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AJ is good friends with a lot of guys on State's team. He's also close with a few guys on the basketball team. Don't look into a high school guy's twitter and think something is bothering him. He has made a point to say he isn't going to open up his recruitment until high school football was over. Also, Mullen was the first coach to notice AJ. Mullen is also at every Starkville game he can possibly get too. As Ifyouonlyknew said, no one is even close to recruiting him as hard as we are. AJ wants to keep his options open, but as a lot of these Mississippi blue chip guys say, they want to play for their home state and win. Nigel Knott is more of a concern right now. When signing day gets closer, Knott will be a toss up between us and Bama.

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Yep, I knew we should have offered him that entire recruiting season. He's a good player. Simmons must not have been known then, otherwise Freeze woulda been all over that family connection. Not us though.

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Yep, signing one player to get another is much more out of the OM recruiting playbook than it is ours. Not an issue for them because they have no problems dumping the player used once his usefulness is complete. In Bradley's case though he would have definitely contributed for us.

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I know for a fact nobody is recruiting AJ harder than MSU.

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Thanks Dan for a little reality and truth. Wish we had a lot more like you on this board.

I'd take 2 out of 4 if those 2 were Simmons and Lashley. Any combo that doesn't include Simmons is a huge let down. We desperately need quality D-linemen or we are going to sink back to the bottom of the conference.

Simmons is the best player in the state- followed by Brown. Lashley is a family connection- no way we should lose him.

Those 3 are absolute musts

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I know for a fact nobody is recruiting AJ harder than MSU.

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Well I would certainly hope so. Mullen and our staff can go see him literally any time we want, even during game week prep.

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Originally Posted by Boston

I think the preacher needs some new contacts.

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I think the preacher needs to stick to preaching. His sources suck and he brings nothing substantive.

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Originally Posted by War Machine Dawg

I think the preacher needs to stick to preaching. His sources suck and he brings nothing substantive.

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Well I guess om can have it's rev guy odom, so preacher matt is ours???

Scary.

Guy Odom is a pig... I don't think there is is a person on this board that is 10% as bad as that clown.

Dylan Bradley stats this year for usm...

41 tackles 11.5 tfl 6.5 sacks

Yeah, he could've helped us

We can't afford Benito Jones. Been on a Bear boosters payroll for about 2 1/2 years. I want him but he thinks state d lineman are soft. I tend to agree sometimes.

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We can't afford Benito Jones. Been on a Bear boosters payroll for about 2 1/2 years. I want him but he thinks state d lineman are soft. I tend to agree sometimes.

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I give a shit about that guy..
Just get Simmons...

When comes by to go deer hunting after all this football is over, we will sit down and I'll give him another long talk. Hopefully he will listen.

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That's why we are getting passed by.

If you can't sign top 100 prospects that happen to be in the golden triangle, we have a problem. If simmons or brown both don't sign with MSU, we are failing to reach the next level. We need impact players. These guys are both impact players and happen to be within an hour of our campus.

Failing to sign both is a problem. If either go to the bears, it's a disaster.

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They all should have had rides to our games as 10 year old's.

We don't need to flip the crown jewel of their class, let's just F with them and grab a guy like Tee from them late. You can't tell me it can't be done, we know it can be.

Get to work, Dan.