I don't think so, crossways with staff.
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Hunter - is he still an option to sign , but as a DB? Or is he still looking to go somewhere as a RB?
Good grief, not weird at all. First off, Mullen had plenty of years on high level D1 staffs with Meyer to know the ins and outs of recruiting plus he was already in the SEC. Just because you hold the HC title doesn't make you THE recruiting expert over being an assistant. Second, Leach could have been a HC for 50 years in Lubbock, TX and Pullman, WA and he still likely wouldn't have a clue about the dynamics of recruiting in MS.
That's a good question for Leach and staff as they are the ones that just lived it but my guess would be that, at minimum, they learned a little more about the coaches and contacts within the State that can be trusted and who can't. They will probably also take more heed to the wisdom Tony Hughes can provide. They will never be able to sniff out all the fake commits and those just looking for the best paydays, just like Mullen and staff didn't, but I bet they get much better at it after going through this a couple of times.
The only way I view it is how do we rank in SEC. Sitting 10th will bring little more than 4-0 OOC, go 3-5 in SEC and beat UM as one of the 3 and here we stay in one of about 100 meaningless bowls. Many of our people satisfied, me no longer. Class of 77. Hail State!
Some of yall need to check our probation record beginning with the Tyler years. We play the cheating game very poorly.
Well this is the worst in state crop of prospects in the state in a very long time. It was never going to be a great class with as much as we depend on in state guys to make up our roster. We are who we are. Until we get our shit together on the booster side and start making a serious effort to get in the game and sign everyone in this state that we have a legit shot at signing we will continue to see ole miss and others take our juice box on signing day. It has been this way with every single coach we have had. When the coaches change and the results stay the same it’s not the coach. Recruiting in this state is a war every year and we have to have more buy in and organized efforts all the way around to make it happen.
The ncaa has basically legalized buying players going forward. They are about to allow players to capitalize on their name and likeness. If someone wants to pay them to do a commercial or sign autographs or anything else it is about to be within the rules. The days of us pointing fingers at everyone for buying players needs to be over. Get all in or get left behind.
It does make me wonder if the staff needs better intel. I'm sure that they probably knew that Daniels was being paid (probably). My issue is MSU needs to be able to identify that and counter it better in general. And if our staff didn't know- same point about needing better intel.
I think we need a head recruiting coordinator that specializes in Mississippi only. And I know I'll catch flack for this....but I would go after Hud for that position. The guy is damaged goods at this point and will probably never be a head coach again unless it's a Mississippi JUCO- and even that may be a stretch. But I bet he would take a six figure salary job at MSU to do what he does best in the football arena.
I would say Hughes should be the recruiting coordinator but it sounds like his strength is being able to recruit face to face and I don't want to take him off the road. See this cycle as exhibit A.
The thing is if they allow players to get a thousand dollars a month as a stipend Auburn, Ole Miss, Tennessee will just offer illegal benefits on top of that. So nothing has really changed except the players have more money.
It may actually help us out depending on how it goes down and is tracked. Bracky is going to have a hard time proving whether that Mustang was paid for from the MSU stipend money or from some booster.