Early reports on K Thompson

[msstate7]

Speaking of the oline, anyone know where my fellow Philadelphian (Eiland) was working at yesterday?

[MarketingBully]

So I open this thread to read about how our incoming freshman qb looked on the FIRST DAY OF SPRING PRACTICE and instead its hacked by the same people that bitch about the same shit every mother ****ing day of the year. Can we please just set up a board titled "OFFENSIVE LINE SUCKS" or "Hevesy Haters" or something so the other 99 percent of the board doesn't have to read this shit anymore. Damn this is some ridiculous shit to read on the first freaking day of spring practice.

At least this is MSU related.

[FISHDAWG]

LOL at people talking about "melting". We either have a lot of sheep or a lot of people that don't understand how important the o-line is. If people don't want to talk about our team in an objective way or get offended when we are talking about our team in an objective way, well here's a link:

http://www.scout.com/college/mississippi-state/

As for me it's going to be pretty hilarious at the spin when Rankin is named the center. Of course we already have that with "Who knows he may be even better at center?" Hilarious.

Spring training is also for experimentation ..... everyone needs to have a drink, relax, and see what happens

[smootness]

A thread is created about the early reports on our big-time QB signee, and within 2 POSTS, it becomes a hissy fit over our LT getting some reps at center, and then continues for 5 pages.

Sounds about right.

Can we separate the OL talk so we can have a discussion on Key Thompson?

[WSOPdawg]

Not surprising that this thread was about our young stud qb looking good and it shifted to oline. We can't talk about key looking good

You sneaky bastards... here I was wanting to read about Key and damn if y'all didn't trap me into another OL thread -- Y'all not right!!!

[basedog]

Spring training is also for experimentation ..... everyone needs to have a drink, relax, and see what happens

Ha, that will never happen, some are beyond a drink.

Spring practice = Fundamentals, Fundamentals, Experiment, Experiment, see who can play and what positions better suit them. With less than 20 practices and not all in full gear, mostly the unproven players get the most reps, also if a player is better suited for another player you move him.
Good example of spring practice and moving folks around, one spring I was competing with an upper classmate for the starting QB position, then he was tried at safety which he never played defense before. Dude turned out to be a star with great instincts for reading the play and reacting to the ball. You never know what is best if you don't move folks around, also playing or practicing another position is a good thing, makes you more aware of what is going on around you.

Where is Coach57? He knows football.

Fire The Agenda, as a famous basketball player once said "practice, we talking about practice"! And the first day, what a bunch of crap!

[1bigdawg]

Question: Mullen did not list Williams as being out for being injured. Several posters have said that if he or Calhoun were ok, then they would be playing center. The question is, "Is Williams out?"

[CadaverDawg]

No melt. Just pointing out how shitty your OL is when your LT cant get reps at LT because he has to play Center due to your lack of recruiting

Yep.

And we're not talking about a stud LT that has the LT position mastered so he doesn't need work there....we're talking about a guy that needs work at LT but is having to play C bc we can't field a guy that can snap a football.

Calhoun's backup should be the one at Center. Not our LT. Where is Moon? Where is last year's backup Center, Williams?

Glad to hear Key had a good looking first day. Wish he had an OL.

[CadaverDawg]

Question: Mullen did not list Williams as being out for being injured. Several posters have said that if he or Calhoun were ok, then they would be playing center. The question is, "Is Williams out?"

Williams is the Paul Young of football. He's a ghost, like the Sasquatch or Lochness, say his name and your screen turns to ice. I've been asking about him since his injury....we have people that know when Freeze farts, but nobody knows if Daryl Williams is on our team anymore.

[whosyourdawgy]

Really need one of the mods, preferably one of the ones that hacked this thread to another offensive line bitch fest, to change the name on the topic line to "another offensive line thread" so other posters like me that wouldn't have clicked it can save precious time and breathes. And in the future, for the love of God, stop hacking threads for this reason. Makes the board not fun to read. I'm all about stating opinions and rumors and whatever else anyone wants to talk about. Just don't have a topic line that makes you think you are about to read some good shit about our new stud QB only to find out it's a rehashing of shit we've read a million freaking times.

[msstate7]

Williams is the Paul Young of football. He's a ghost, like the Sasquatch or Lochness, say his name and your screen turns to ice. I've been asking about him since his injury....we have people that know when Freeze farts, but nobody knows if Daryl Williams is on our team anymore.

IYOK told me Williams will be back

[maroonmania]

Moon = Jake Thomas 2.0.

Doesn't have the right mentality to be successful in this league. We recruit to many "good kids" and not enough guys with a chip on their shoulder that can flat play.

Hev needs to read about Angela Duckworth and "grit". Find people that have overcome obstacles and refuse to fail.

I think you are right. Dillon Day had that grit and mentality, even if he wasn't overly talented, and we only signed him out of desperation on signing day. Oh yea, he turned out to be a 4 year starter at Center.

[maroonmania]

Our problem is we don't recruit enough guys period. I would imagine we average only 3 HS o-linemen a class the past five years.

Yep, we are pretty much locked in to taking a couple of JUCO OL every year just to balance the classes out. When you only sign 3 to 4 HS OL per year, and then you lose 1 or 2 of those along the way, you pretty much HAVE to backfill with JUCOs.

[Ifyouonlyknew]

nm

[Gutter Cobreh]

Nice melt over day 1 of spring PRACTICE

The ability to shift a thread about Thompson to the OL within the first 2-3 responses is a skill. The "melt" or "#agenda" after day 1 is a bit surprising, but not out of the norm for some here.

1st day melt I'm impressed

You being impressed scares me...Would have thought you would have expected this and makes me worried for some once the actual games start getting played.

So I open this thread to read about how our incoming freshman qb looked on the FIRST DAY OF SPRING PRACTICE and instead its hacked by the same people that bitch about the same shit every mother ****ing day of the year. Can we please just set up a board titled "OFFENSIVE LINE SUCKS" or "Hevesy Haters" or something so the other 99 percent of the board doesn't have to read this shit anymore. Damn this is some ridiculous shit to read on the first freaking day of spring practice.

#hijacked

At least this is MSU related.

This can't be stated enough!!! While my dislike for Ole Miss runs deep, this is an MSU board and it's nice to read about MSU related items (even if it is sensationalism and dramatics at its finest).

You sneaky bastards... here I was wanting to read about Key and damn if y'all didn't trap me into another OL thread -- Y'all not right!!!

Best comment on the entire thread!!!!

[Ifyouonlyknew]

I think you are right. Dillon Day had that grit and mentality, even if he wasn't overly talented, and we only signed him out of desperation on signing day. Oh yea, he turned out to be a 4 year starter at Center.

That's not really true. We had been on Day for months. He came to camp & wanted an offer. We told him he needed to gain some weight & get his grades together & he would get an offer by signing day. He added the weight & got his grades in order & he got his scholarship.

[maroonmania]

nm

Oh yes, we certainly knew about him and were showing him interest. But calling a spade a spade, he only got an offer ON SIGNING DAY because we missed on several other OL prospects we were after at the end (as per usual). He was committed to LT all the way down to the end waiting on us.

[msstate7]

Oh yes, we certainly knew about him and were showing him interest. But calling a spade a spade, he only got an offer ON SIGNING DAY because we missed on several other OL prospects we were after at the end (as per usual). He was committed to LT all the way down to the end waiting on us.

Now we complain about when we get the commitment from a successful olineman

[maroonmania]

Now we complain about when we get the commitment from a successful olineman

Good grief, the complaint is that we weren't that interested in Day, who did have an attitude and an edge to him, and were lucky to get him at the end and he ended up being one of the most successful OL that Hevesy has signed. If you think I was complaining that we got a commitment from him then you didn't read what I wrote. I love people who love to complain about people complaining which we get a lot of on this board.

[FISHDAWG]

Ha, that will never happen, some are beyond a drink.

Spring practice = Fundamentals, Fundamentals, Experiment, Experiment, see who can play and what positions better suit them. With less than 20 practices and not all in full gear, mostly the unproven players get the most reps, also if a player is better suited for another player you move him.
Good example of spring practice and moving folks around, one spring I was competing with an upper classmate for the starting QB position, then he was tried at safety which he never played defense before. Dude turned out to be a star with great instincts for reading the play and reacting to the ball. You never know what is best if you don't move folks around, also playing or practicing another position is a good thing, makes you more aware of what is going on around you.

Where is Coach57? He knows football.

Fire The Agenda, as a famous basketball player once said "practice, we talking about practice"! And the first day, what a bunch of crap!

Hornback ???