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    Recruiting staff- the elephant in the room

    It sounds to me like we are going to have a major staff shake up with Villagriana leaving and Peterson likely leaving. So this to me is as good a time as any to expand and shake up our recruiting staff.

    I don't think anyone needs to be fired. But I definitely think that our recruiting staff needs to be expanded and I think some of their salaries need to be higher.

    On paper it appears as if we only have about 5-6 people running the recruiting show for us. That IMO needs to be doubled. And some of them are being paid as low as 35K. How the heck are we supposed to get someone elite paying that?

    We have issues every single year and I think basically being short staffed is part of it. I think we should do something like this. Highlighted are those on staff already.

    Mark Hudspeth - Dir of Football Recruiting

    Rod Gibson - Dir of Communication/MS Delta

    Trent Hammond - Dir of HS Relations

    Mason Smith - Recruiting Specialist/Louisiana

    Kai Brashears - Coord of Recruiting Ops

    Andrea Hollis - Dir of On-Campus Recruiting

    Chad Bumphis- North Mississippi

    Sleepy Robinson- Inner City Jackson

    Steve Campbell- MS Gulf Coast/Alabama

    Nick Griffin- Metro Jackson

    Demetric Warren- DeSoto County/Memphis/Recruiting media liason (promoting our recruits to sites such as 24/7 sports so that are actually evaluated properly and our recruiting classes are accurately rated to promote excitement)

    Josh Morgan- Southwest Mississippi

    Jay Hughes- Southeast Mississippi

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    1. We can't afford to expand the staff.
    2. Some of those names aren't an option
    3. Can't tie up that many people on instate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cooterpoot View Post
    1. We can't afford to expand the staff.
    Can we afford not expanding? Football pays for everything. More success there brings in much more money than any other expenditure.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 1bigdawg View Post
    Can we afford not expanding? Football pays for everything. More success there brings in much more money than any other expenditure.
    This. Our current AD is like Larry Templeton Jr. more excited about putting money in the athletic savings account than program success. You have to invest and I don?t think he has the stomach for it. We have PLENTY of money to expand our staff.

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    Jay Hopson is likely going to join the staff to replace one of those two guys.

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    Peterson isn't likely leaving. He is leaving. It's not speculation

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    Quote Originally Posted by Homedawg View Post
    Peterson isn't likely leaving. He is leaving. It's not speculation
    Yep & Hopson has been hired.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 1bigdawg View Post
    Can we afford not expanding? Football pays for everything. More success there brings in much more money than any other expenditure.
    Covid budgets. Heck, we wouldn't before Covid. And Hopson being hired tells me all I need to know about how serious we are about things.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dawgology View Post
    This. Our current AD is like Larry Templeton Jr. more excited about putting money in the athletic savings account than program success. You have to invest and I don?t think he has the stomach for it. We have PLENTY of money to expand our staff.
    Not to mention we are about to step up by another $20M or so with the new SEC network contact with ABC. But hey, at least we had money in our "rainy day fund" for when the pandemic hit instead of having it invested -- if only partly -- in more coaches/recruiters/strength & conditioning or retained coaches (think Huff to Bama a few years ago, etc).

    With the increasing SEC revenues, it's time we start acting/coaching/playing like on of the Big Boys in the nation across ALL sports that we participate. And that's on Keenum and Cohen!!!

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    They need to promote Mason Smith and give him a really good bump. And they need to move Hughes into an off the field recruiting job and promote Chaney. Hughes was good years back, but he needs to focus on fostering the relationships with the HS coaches-much like Peterson. I would be all for bringing Pat Austin back and getting J. Banks in a Chaney type of role.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WSOPdawg View Post
    Not to mention we are about to step up by another $20M or so with the new SEC network contact with ABC. But hey, at least we had money in our "rainy day fund" for when the pandemic hit instead of having it invested -- if only partly -- in more coaches/recruiters/strength & conditioning or retained coaches (think Huff to Bama a few years ago, etc).

    With the increasing SEC revenues, it's time we start acting/coaching/playing like on of the Big Boys in the nation across ALL sports that we participate. And that's on Keenum and Cohen!!!
    Correct me if I?m wrong but...I thought our budget is set to increase by $50MM+ in 2023 or 2024....when new ESPN contract kicks in. Is that incorrect...??

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cooterpoot View Post
    Covid budgets. Heck, we wouldn't before Covid. And Hopson being hired tells me all I need to know about how serious we are about things.
    Hopson will be fine for what he has to do.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KOdawg1 View Post
    Hopson will be fine for what he has to do.
    He's hated (and I'm being kind) throughout the Pine Belt area. He will build no good will. Like I said, we hire people like him, I know we don't care about that spot.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TALL DAWG View Post
    Correct me if I?m wrong but...I thought our budget is set to increase by $50MM+ in 2023 or 2024....when new ESPN contract kicks in. Is that incorrect...??
    Correcto mundo.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cooterpoot View Post
    He's hated (and I'm being kind) throughout the Pine Belt area. He will build no good will. Like I said, we hire people like him, I know we don't care about that spot.
    How many people did you hear mention Villagrana? Most of our fans didn't even know who he was. Hopson will be in that same capacity.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KOdawg1 View Post
    How many people did you hear mention Villagrana? Most of our fans didn't even know who he was. Hopson will be in that same capacity.
    No he will not. He is taking Peterson's place... so yeah not a great hire

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dawgfan77 View Post
    No he will not. He is taking Peterson's place... so yeah not a great hire
    I heard he was taking Villagrana's place. And it's not a bad hire even if he takes Peterson's place. It's not going to move the needle or anything, but some of y'all are overreacting.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cooterpoot View Post
    He's hated (and I'm being kind) throughout the Pine Belt area. He will build no good will. Like I said, we hire people like him, I know we don't care about that spot.
    Forgive my ignorance but why is he hated? I know the USM gig didn't work out but he seemed like a good coach at Alcorn.

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    We need one each for Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Texas and Louisiana

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    Quote Originally Posted by RezDog7 View Post
    Forgive my ignorance but why is he hated? I know the USM gig didn't work out but he seemed like a good coach at Alcorn.
    Local coaches hated him. He wouldn't recruit their kids. They tried to talk to him and he ignored them. There are other things as well, but I won't get into those. The guy had 2 commits when he quit in Nov.

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