Looks like the Rebs might be losing more recruits...

[dawgclub99]

A 4 star LB out of GA is looking hard at Indiana and UK (LMAO) and it is still looking worse for Speaks. God help em.

[ShotgunDawg]

Rod Taylor got a 5th star today on 247. I know the guy may have good measurables, but has anyone really seen him play?

Is Taylor even the best player on his team?

[dawgclub99]

I watched the UA game. He looked weak to me. Pushed around a lot. Speaks looks much better IMHO.

[HancockCountyDog]

Rod Taylor got a 5th star today on 247. I know the guy may have good measurables, but has anyone really seen him play?

Is Taylor even the best player on his team?

I would take Speaks over Taylor, but its close. Taylor is a good player. There is a lot of fluff on the bear commit list - Taylor ain't one of them. Saban wanted Taylor, and the guys that cover the UA game say that Taylor played well in practice. We all know the bears are going to win signing day, its gameday they have a problem with.

[dawgclub99]

I would take Speaks over Taylor, but its close. Taylor is a good player. There is a lot of fluff on the bear commit list - Taylor ain't one of them. Saban wanted Taylor, and the guys that cover the UA game say that Taylor played well in practice. We all know the bears are going to win signing day, its gameday they have a problem with.

Signing day wont be very good for them either.

[HancockCountyDog]

Signing day wont be very good for them either.

I hope you are right - last year after about 20 minutes I turned ESPN off. It was a ****ing circle jerk for the bears for about 10 hours. It was brutal.

[Saltydog]

Taylor or Epps...........I hope they lose them all but when they get desperate they put on the full court press and spare no expense, if you know what I mean.........

[HancockCountyDog]

Taylor or Epps...........I hope they lose them all but when they get desperate they put on the full court press and spare no expense, if you know what I mean.........

They aren't losing Epps - you know how I know? Rosey has been calling him slow - translate that to = HE IS GOING TO THE BEARS;

I keep hearing that Speaks to LSU is a major, major concern for the bears.

[ShotgunDawg]

Is Taylor still an academic concern, or did we give up on that and decide the Rebs would get him in somehow?

[Eric Nies Grind Time]

Even if they lose Speaks their recruiting class is still a good bit better than ours.

[spiritual_machine2005]

My only concern with the bears is if they decide to offer Rawlings and he flips. Its been said many times he is from an Ole Miss leaning family, and a offer from them would be hard to turn down, even if it is in the last hour. I hope he sticks with the school that believed in him from the start. We need quality Olinemen from high school.

[BeastMan]

Even if they lose Speaks their recruiting class is still a good bit better than ours.

Always is

[UMCDawg16]

Even if they lose Speaks their recruiting class is still a good bit better than ours.

And your point is?????? They win the state's "recruiting championship" every year and still do less with "more". We own them and they know it. We are getting better and better talent every year though. Noone cares about their payed for recruiting championships full of a bunch of players who don't fit their system and don't want to be there.

[Dawg61]

I hope you are right - last year after about 20 minutes I turned ESPN off. It was a ****ing circle jerk for the bears for about 10 hours. It was brutal.

ESPNU was ****ing Ole Miss TV on NSD last year. It was disgusting to watch. Those ****ers had live cameras set up in the coaches room at Ole Miss to show the Freezus Klan celebrate after every signee sent in papers or announced on tv. The only good thing that they showed was the new term "University of Ole Miss" got created that day.

[EMDawg]

Rod Taylor got a 5th star today on 247. I know the guy may have good measurables, but has anyone really seen him play?

Is Taylor even the best player on his team?

I've watched him play from the sideline twice this past year. Once with a guy that played TE for a SEC school. He laughed when I told him that he was ranked the #1 player in the state. He looked soft without a mean streak and got beat regularly by faster, smaller players.

[Todd4State]

Well, let's look at this objectively. First of all- Ole Miss's class should be better than ours simply because we had a small amount of scholarship seniors, which is limiting our numbers before this class even started.

That said, guys that Ole Miss has right now that I would want- Rod Taylor, Speaks, Epps, and Pack.

Guys that we have that Ole Miss would like to have- Rawlings, Graham, Jesse Jackson, Aeries Williams, Gerri Green, Staley, and Brandon Bryant. If we flip Cory Thomas- you can add him too. I like the potential of Rayford, Lashard Durr, Grant Harris if he chooses us which I think he will, and Stallings if he chooses us which I also think he will.

So, if you compare the two just going strictly on guys that both would like to have and assuming everything stays the same I am very happy with what we have done and you could make a strong argument that our class as it is right now is better than theirs even though it really shouldn't be because of the scholarship numbers. If they lose Speaks and Taylor, it would be catastrophic to their class.

[Todd4State]

My only concern with the bears is if they decide to offer Rawlings and he flips. Its been said many times he is from an Ole Miss leaning family, and a offer from them would be hard to turn down, even if it is in the last hour. I hope he sticks with the school that believed in him from the start. We need quality Olinemen from high school.

Why do people keep bringing this up? We've had so far by my count- Paul, Rosebowl, Sean Rawlings father, and random posters on this board ALL say that there is nothing to worry about.

[Todd4State]

I've watched him play from the sideline twice this past year. Once with a guy that played TE for a SEC school. He laughed when I told him that he was ranked the #1 player in the state. He looked soft without a mean streak and got beat regularly by faster, smaller players.

O-linemen are really hard to judge though. It seems to me like it all comes down to whether they have the feet, have a mean streak, and how they develop. If Anthony Munoz played football in Mississippi, I'd have a hard time rating him the number one guy in the state.

[mic]

Even if they lose Speaks their recruiting class is still a good bit better than ours.

With that being said.. would you trade or recruiting class right now for theirs.? Even with Speeks..
I would not..

[HancockCountyDog]

I would take Hampton, Alvin Moore and the McDowell kid from LA off their hands in a heartbeat.

Other than that - I agree with you about the classes being fairly equal.