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01-09-2026, 09:11 AM
StarkVegasSteve

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Originally Posted by HancockCountyDog

I mean, might as well shut down the site.

I think it is fair to be worried that so far we have two OL commits, and neither have played a snap since high school. That is fair.

The bears are landing top 5 OL in the portal, and we are signing guys with zero experience. At some point we have to sign some actual dudes who have proved they are dogs on the P4 level.

That is coming. Everyone is going to have to practice a tad bit of patience with this stuff. It's infuriating right now that we're not on more OL, I don't think anyone would deny that. But we're starting to bring in more and more and I think this weekend will be a big weekend for us on that front.
01-09-2026, 09:26 AM
msugolf

We have the worst OLine coach in the SEC. And Lebby has not earned the right for folks to be patient. He better get his ass in gear and show some urgency. He has too much buddy, buddy in him with his coaches. The time to win is now. And if not GTFO
01-09-2026, 09:31 AM
Todd4State

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Originally Posted by msugolf

We have the worst OLine coach in the SEC. And Lebby has not earned the right for folks to be patient. He better get his ass in gear and show some urgency. He has too much buddy, buddy in him with his coaches. The time to win is now. And if not GTFO

You think he doesn't know we need better offensive linemen?
01-09-2026, 09:37 AM
StarkVegasSteve

Amaree Williams has committed. EDGE from Florida St. Also can play some TE.
01-09-2026, 10:00 AM
Thick

Nice!
01-09-2026, 10:01 AM
confucius say

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Originally Posted by msugolf

We have the worst OLine coach in the SEC. And Lebby has not earned the right for folks to be patient. He better get his ass in gear and show some urgency. He has too much buddy, buddy in him with his coaches. The time to win is now. And if not GTFO

Yep. I like lebby. My worry is that loadholt is going to cost him his job. Not getting an experienced, proven OL coach was a mistake.
01-09-2026, 10:03 AM
confucius say

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Originally Posted by Thick

By the way. Work might be transferring to Delta State.

Work committed to Mizzou.
Jimothy Lewis is coming off an official to Bama.
01-09-2026, 10:06 AM
Chuck3124

Any news on Herring or Dyson? How do we feel about the Amaree Williams pickup?
01-09-2026, 10:54 AM
Bothrops

So far this portal haul is reminiscent of last year. Hope we are luckier with this bunch of half experienced guys.
01-09-2026, 11:02 AM
Todd4State

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Originally Posted by confucius say

Yep. I like lebby. My worry is that loadholt is going to cost him his job. Not getting an experienced, proven OL coach was a mistake.

Loadholt was an OL coach at Colorado and Oklahoma before MSU. If it came down to it Lebby will fire him. Just like Hutzler who was his friend.

We're not dealing with Dan Mullen here. Although bridges have been burned between him and Hevesy and Sallach that I know of.
01-09-2026, 11:28 AM
HancockCountyDog

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Originally Posted by Chuck3124

Any news on Herring or Dyson? How do we feel about the Amaree Williams pickup?

Super athletic kid. Definitely high upside. I think he stays on defense, but he has played some TE.
01-09-2026, 11:47 AM
confucius say

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Originally Posted by Todd4State

Loadholt was an OL coach at Colorado and Oklahoma before MSU. If it came down to it Lebby will fire him. Just like Hutzler who was his friend.

We're not dealing with Dan Mullen here. Although bridges have been burned between him and Hevesy and Sallach that I know of.

He was never the OL coach at OK.
He was at Colorado for one year and they sucked too just like we did this year.
01-09-2026, 12:09 PM
Goldendawg

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Originally Posted by Todd4State

Loadholt was an OL coach at Colorado and Oklahoma before MSU. If it came down to it Lebby will fire him. Just like Hutzler who was his friend.

We're not dealing with Dan Mullen here. Although bridges have been burned between him and Hevesy and Sallach that I know of.

How successful was his tenure at either place?
01-09-2026, 12:31 PM
DownwardDawg

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Originally Posted by Todd4State

Loadholt was an OL coach at Colorado and Oklahoma before MSU. If it came down to it Lebby will fire him. Just like Hutzler who was his friend.

We're not dealing with Dan Mullen here. Although bridges have been burned between him and Hevesy and Sallach that I know of.

It's gonna be too late. This was the year to fire him. A blind man can see that Loadholt sucks. Lebby will be fired next year if the o line causes us to suck again, which at this point is extremely likely.
01-09-2026, 12:39 PM
Brobi-wan

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Originally Posted by DownwardDawg

It's gonna be too late. This was the year to fire him. A blind man can see that Loadholt sucks. Lebby will be fired next year if the o line causes us to suck again, which at this point is extremely likely.

To be completely honest with you, I’m not sure if you’re right. If we go 6-6 Lebby gets to keep his job. I’m not sure that I want him to keep it at 6-6, but we will. I would like to be 7-5. The O line was bad, but I think the D line was worse. We scored enough to win 2 more games this year.
01-09-2026, 01:17 PM
ZedFedder

OL LJ Prudhomme from Arkansas committed. Not sure how good he is or not.
01-09-2026, 01:26 PM
DEDawg

My biggest concern with OL is obviously our position coach and players but another angle that worries me is Lebby played OL in college and I hope he doesn?t think that he?d be able to coach that group up while also being the HC. I think he can for sure provide support but he needs to be focused on being the HC
01-09-2026, 01:28 PM
DEDawg

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Originally Posted by ZedFedder

OL LJ Prudhomme from Arkansas committed. Not sure how good he is or not.

High 3 star out of HS. Should compete for starting guard spot and be depth at worse
01-09-2026, 01:41 PM
HancockCountyDog

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Originally Posted by DEDawg

High 3 star out of HS. Should compete for starting guard spot and be depth at worse

We have 3 OL committed so far:

LJ Prudhomme
Ja'Elyne Matthews
Marion Nash JR.

Matthews and Nash didn't see the field and Prudhomme apparently played 4 games on FG unit.

These are facts.

If we are looking to sign these guys so we can start developing guys for the future, I'm here for it. But we need to sign at least 4 dudes for next season, and so far we have not signed a single kid on the OL that we know can start in the SEC. None.

I'm tired of people posting "Just signed another 4 star DL from...." and then check the kids profile and realize he redshirted his freshman year and then barely played is RS freshman year, and so two years into his career and zero production, and yet we are like "4 star - BOOM!!!!"

I'm not sure what we can do as fans, but I'm not going to sit here and eat a shit sandwich and have other posters tell me its a gosh dang ribeye.
01-09-2026, 01:54 PM
DEDawg

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Originally Posted by HancockCountyDog

We have 3 OL committed so far:

LJ Prudhomme
Ja'Elyne Matthews
Marion Nash JR.

Matthews and Nash didn't see the field and Prudhomme apparently played 4 games on FG unit.

These are facts.

If we are looking to sign these guys so we can start developing guys for the future, I'm here for it. But we need to sign at least 4 dudes for next season, and so far we have not signed a single kid on the OL that we know can start in the SEC. None.

I'm tired of people posting "Just signed another 4 star DL from...." and then check the kids profile and realize he redshirted his freshman year and then barely played is RS freshman year, and so two years into his career and zero production, and yet we are like "4 star - BOOM!!!!"

I'm not sure what we can do as fans, but I'm not going to sit here and eat a shit sandwich and have other posters tell me it?s a gosh dang ribeye.

I mean both can be true. Yeah we need starters. But yeah we also would have been thrilled to get Mario out of HS and now we get him with one year in a college program and conditioning

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