You are wrong.
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This thread shows why you cannot get too high or low in recruiting. Getting John Lewis and securing MJ Daniels shows that the sky isn't falling. Pounders may become a great player, but he's a mid 3 star. His loss more than ours. It looks like we will finish strong.
I do think Cohen & Keenum definitely want to win. But you may be giving them way too much credit to believe that they somehow have the true ability to diagnose an issue that is keeping us from winning. Neither Keenum or Cohen have ever run a P5 football program or tried to recruit a high profile football player to a school that does not have the greatest of winning traditions. Cohen has recruited to MSU baseball but that is a piece of cake compared to recruiting to MSU football.
Losing a mid-tier OL recruit should not phase anyone or make anyone despair. OL recruits are the absolute toughest to project from HS to college, especially all the way to the Power 5. It seems most of our best OL stars over the years have been some of the least recruited. All in all it just seems to be a total crapshoot for that position. Just need to get someone with a good frame that has a mean streak and a desire to improve through taking to coaching.
You usually have great information but were completely wrong on this. Why were you so sure he would flip? The rumblings I?ve heard is he has been nothing but straight up with our coaches and his family have a great relationship with our staff. He has been all Dog and his confirmation today proves that. Just curious why you were so sure on this?
It was a gut feeling along w some info. Wont go into any of it. But hey, at this juncture I'm wrong. And I'm glad. We want him and need him I'll eat the crow no biggie. But I don't get caught up at what any of them say on social media. For good or bad. That goes for all of them. Things change as they say.
I'm not saying Dawgology is right. I hope he's not, but if we're all honest with ourselves we've seen many 4 star players that we thought at some point were coming to State flip and go elsewhere, a lot to Ole Miss. Just off the top of my head I can name Kailo Moore, Nick Brassell, C.J. Johnson but I looked up a few others over the year and there's Charles Moore (btw we lose a lot of recruiting battles to Auburn and not just speaking about Cam), Deon Mix, A.J. Brown, Scott Lashley, Raekwon Davis, ???Can't remember if we were ever in it for Channing Ward or not??? These are just in state players I didn't look elsewhere. We've had huge wins too but one of those cases I know in particular for a fact we got him in spite of all the "extra curriculars" that were being thrown at him because (mainly) he just wanted to be at State.
Edit: btw I realize the last few were never committed to state but Brown and Lashley should have been locks and Raekwon Davis was thought by many to be coming to State.