This is one of the worst threads ever.
This is one of the worst threads ever.
Ahhh, the annual recruiting event where Shotgun looking down his mighty nose from his soapbox and tells someone to stand for something, you pathetic Mississippian.
Leading the ole charge and rallying the troops to really take it to the blue bloods for coming in and having the highest offer.
Please Shotgun, show us what must be done to stand up thou enlightened one.
The answer is to WIN at a high level. We've yet to do it. Things are on the uptick though. Grow up and try to enjoy the process instead of constantly bitching like you always do, demanding unrealistic expectations. (Even though you've been somewhat tolerable lately up until today.)
Shotgun wont even get off the sofa to go to the games. LOL at him suggesting people should "do something"
He is the king of over-reaction, but this takes the cake.
That's not the way this works.
He just wants to stomp his feet and flail like a 5-year-old not getting their way screaming how it's not fair. Glutton for punishment. He would rather argue or sit in the corner in time out than accept reality.
It is life, it's not fair. Telling others to sack up.... what a joke.
5 pages fueling Shotgun's bipolar delusions.
Ignoring that from 2009-18 only 2 of the #1 ranked MS players went out of state. What changed for 2019 thru now? Each school has had gone thru 3 coaching staffs and both teams have gotten probation. When ole Miss and MSU are stable programs, it happens less. It ain't hard to figure out.
Gun ... step back and remember the Cam Newton fiasco ..... his dad admitted to asking for cash (and yes - he was acting as Cam's agent "unofficially") ...... Tunsil admitted on national TV to taking money .... look at the slap on the wrist that OM got after all of that mess was uncovered ...... there is concrete evidence and still the plaintiffs got off Scott free ....... so even if we had evidence it wouldn't do us any good and the guy probably didn't want to come here anyway
In this thread the only poster who has agreed with Shotgun's position is Percho, and his support seemed halfhearted at best.
Nope, the NCAA can look into this if they feel it was improper. We need to worry about the next set of players.
I wouldn't concede Smith yet.
I'm 5 pages in and I think it's entertaining. We have become immune to LSU and Bama taking top recruits from our state, but A&M coming in is a little absurd. I can't imagine being a black athlete from MS and wanting to go there. As a white man from MS, I know I wouldn't want to go there. It's kind of obvious what happened here.
The real crime here is Jackson won't have to pay taxes on his business that TAMU bought....absurd
That there's no such thing as 'not allowing something like this to happen'. Kids choose schools for a whole host of reasons. The fact that you think there's only one option as to why he chose A&M says as much about what you think of him as it does what you think of A&M.
So basically A. If we can do something about it, tell me what that is.
According to Shotgun we should have told Jo'Quavious Marks thanks but no thanks, he should be a good Georgia man and go to UGA or Tech
The REAL issue here is kids with handlers. There's at least one Marcus Dupree every year in the state and they aren't for the best interest of the kid. They're using the kid's potential for their own personal gain and quite frankly it's disgusting. Usually it's some random family member or sleazebag in the community that somehow gets in good with the player and their often single Mom family. And they never have the best interest of the player. They sell them out to some "name brand" school and then when things go sideways because the player doesn't really want to be at Texas A&M, Oklahoma, or wherever and is third in the depth chart and wants to come home that's when things hit the fan. When all of a sudden the handlers realize that their boy probably isn't going to be a first round pick and the well is about to run dry so they get their fame by stirring shit up with the name brand school and the NCAA.
And we have Bracky- what do you think will happen in that case? Ask Will Redmond. Exemplary cooperation.
Anyway eliminate handlers and you'll see this happen less often. Unfortunately that's a pipe dream.
Man, we're acting like Jeff Simmons or Chris Jones left the state. Sometimes these guys want to move. Look at Raekwon Davis...... and Nigel Knott. A&M also has the best facilities in the nation. And Jimbo Fisher can sell ketchup to a man in a white suit.
Sometimes these kids want to leave the state and maybe A&M promised early playing time where LSU and Bama told him he'd have to redshirt.
No one is arguing about whether or not something was happening in the background of his recruitment.
Most agree it's odd we never got any interest or much of a look that I'm aware of. But it's recruiting. And it's not like this is something we haven't know since last fall.
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This is not directed at you Hoops.
If you can't see the fact that most of the schools that beat us out for these types of players are bluebloods typically (maybe not this one necessarily) and how kids have the desire to go play for them then I'm not sure how to help you. But the other similarity is they have tons of money. And A&M certainly does have money. Why is it always such a shock to some when cash and chargers are kings in this land for big-time recruits?