Just in the last couples years, we've convinced ourselves we were going to get these players, only to have them slip through our fingers at the last second:

Paul Skenes, Dillon Gabriel, Braden Montgomery, Hailey Van Lith, now Jackson Arnold. Am I missing any? This is just going back to 2022.

I get that the answers are "money" and "Starkville," but does anyone else in the country have this kind of record of almost grabbing the big name transfer and then missing? You'd think we would have won a couple of these battles over the years, just with how close we got to all of them, especially given that all of them but Skenes had a clear connection to us.