Supposed to be this upcoming weekend. It seems like he is trending towards Florida State though as he is on a visit there now. So we'll see if he shows up or not.Quote:
Originally Posted by HoopsDawg
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Supposed to be this upcoming weekend. It seems like he is trending towards Florida State though as he is on a visit there now. So we'll see if he shows up or not.Quote:
Originally Posted by HoopsDawg
Need to go The Firm on him. Find out their offer and add 20%.Quote:
Originally Posted by Todd4State
I like what Lebby is doing in the portal. With our resources, he's pretty well maximizing our investments. We'll have to see how that translates on the field, but on paper, it's pretty good. I get the feeling Lebby is starting to turn this thing in the right direction, might be gas.
Almost like he knew how talent deficient we were last year and has went out and turned over every stone to find players to bring talent back into the program.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cooterpoot
Carson Lee to the portal. Kind of sucks but sounds like Keenum must've won the Center job and we're bringing in better transfers at the other spot. Be interesting to see if we go after another center.
I like this because you bring these guys in and if they don't work out, you replace them. I think we can admit Kennedy was a terrible recruiter by the way.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
Max Reese-EMU TE-has committed.
Another solid depth piece at that position. Like I said yesterday, no more Ryland Goede's!!!!
Gives us a good H-Back. Nice pick up.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
That is a little surprising to me. I saw where Cash Cleveland was projected to Texas Tech too.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
I like what he is doing on the player side of things much moreso than the coaching side of things. I still don't know what Hutzler ever did to earn an SEC DC job or to keep one after last years pathetic performance but hearing Lebby talk with Hadad after the Spring game it sounds like he just didn't want to make staff changes simply because we have had so many changes. My initial thought though is that you can't keep an underperforming coach in the SEC just for the sake of continuity. Maybe this year we can actually get defensive players to line up right and get out of 5 men in the box when teams continually run it down our throat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cooterpoot
My take is maybe he felt like he couldn't really evaluate how good or bad Hutzler is because our talent was nonexistent.Quote:
Originally Posted by maroonmania
If he looks bad this year we can fire or demote Hutzler and make McIntyre the DC.
I'm not a Hutzler fan but Lebby got him a couple guys to help him and this is the real year one for the staff. We have Hutzler too much contract but had to to get people to come here.Quote:
Originally Posted by maroonmania
It also helps when you have defensive players that should be playing at this level.....or even the D1 level for that matter.Quote:
Originally Posted by maroonmania
I still don't think people can grasp how truly bad our defensive talent was last year.
I TOTALLY understand how bad our talent was last year. The worst I have ever seen at MSU!
I always see people try to compare it to the 16 defense. Apparently they forget that 16 defense had:Quote:
Originally Posted by Thick
Jeffrey Simmons
Marquiss Spencer
JT Gray
Gerri Green
Mark McClaurin
Jamal Peters
Braxton Hoyett
Richie Brown
Corey Thomas
Leo Lewis
Fletcher Adams
Nelson Adams
Nick James
AJ Jefferson
Were all those guys NFL guys? No. But they were all SEC guys. Look at last years D and tell me how many guys could be even rotation players at another SEC program. You might be able to find 6.
Go listen to today's thunder and lightning show at the end where they go through the past 3 classes and point out how many kids actually contributed to the team. It's flat out embarrassing.
UTEP C Brennan Smith has committed. So looks like we have replaced Lee.
Upgrade for sure. I was hoping that would happen after we offered him a couple of days ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
With the portal that may become more of the norm. We're literally bringing in 30 new guys just from the portal alone if you count Burroughs.Quote:
Originally Posted by civildawg
Depending on how things shake out we're only going to be starting a few guy that we recruited. Reese, maybe SanFrisco, Isaac Smith, Zakari Tillman, and Kelly Jones.
I think Frisco may be the real dealQuote:
Originally Posted by Todd4State
I like him a lot. He's going to be the best out of the Stonka/Harrell class of WR's. Although Stonka will play a lot at safety.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brobi-wan
The best WR in that class, outside of Craver, is going to be Rickey Johnson. No one talks about him because he was a last minute commitment to Lebby so everyone kind of forgot about him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Todd4State
OL competition is heating up with the addition of Jayvin James and zechariah Owens
Got to love what we're doing
For real! There wasn't much Jeff Lebby could do in year one to improve upon the talent he inherited, but it's very obvious that the talent level he inherited was unacceptable and kept us from being competitive. Hell, the fact that we actually were semi competitive for short periods of time against Georgia and Texas is a testament to his coaching ability.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cooterpoot
We are going to jump up and get someone this year in football. Lebby has significantly increased the talent level on this team. We aren’t going to compete for anything relevant, but we will be in contention to make a bowl game, which is a going to be a big step forward. Lebby has done as well as you can ask this offseason upgrading the roster.