2019 Recruiting Thread

[Todd4State]

I don't think anyone knows. Although opinions on Moorehead will swing wildly on Wednesday depending

It wouldn't matter to some posters if Moorhead flipped Alabama's entire class to MSU- their mind is made up that he sucks already.

[Todd4State]

Does anyone understand Ealy's recruitment?

I think he just says whatever he thinks will keep whoever he is talking to happy at the moment. Just a guess. Not really too much for him to lose at this point since he is going to play baseball anyway.

[Todd4State]

I think we can all agree that the strategy needs to change with regards to the early signing period.

Right now it's like we're using the early period just to get top talent, and trying to get a well rounded solid class in the Feb one. We sign 14 and then look for 11 more SEC players later. What we should do is shoot for a well rounded class in Dec and use Feb to get try and flip top guys. We should've signed 18-19 in Dec and we could focus our efforts on fewer guys, thus being more likely to get 6 solid players in Feb than we are to get 11.

There's a lot of SEC talent that want to sign in Dec to lock up their place, but schools like Auburn pass on them in the hopes they get a star talent at that spot instead. That's who we should get. Instead Bama gets the star talent in Dec, Auburn settles late on the kid we should have signed early, and we get Lawrence and likely not sign 25 even then.

I think we need to adjust our strategy. Dec is a great chance to get the #2 option on most teams' depth chart that nobody wants to sign early. But by waiting suddenly half the SEC misses on #1 and now we're in a 4 way recruiting battle... offer early and we get 4 #2's, offer late and we get 1 #2 and 3 #3-4 on the board due to loosing a lot of recruiting battles.I'm not saying not to still target the top guys like Moore or DJ James, I'm saying that if we feel they're sketchy to go ahead and sign the backup plan early. If More or James stick around we'll still have room, if they don't we avoid a roster hole by being more aggressive than the rest of the SEC.in the early period

I think the biggest thing that Joe should have done differently is been more aggressive with in state player after the out of state commits didn't sign in December. He needs to almost start assuming that an out of state commit that doesn't sign with us in December is looking around for "better" options. If I were him, I would go ahead and fill those spots ahead of time and if the old commit stays committed work out the numbers at the end.

I would have liked to have seen more focus on in state guys than out of state guys as well. We should have recruited Raydarious Jones harder- that may have led to us getting Nakobe Dean. But instead we hung our hat on the guy from Mobile that went to Oregon and now we're going to have to probably settle.

[maroonmania]

We?re basically down to Mingo, Moore, and Emerson. Then wait on the transfers both ways.

I think at this point, if we could get those 3 along with our other commitments, and that's a pretty big if, I believe we would certainly all take that and call it a day.

[CadaverDawg]

Ok recruitniks, how are we feeling about Mingo, Moore, and Ealy? Can we at least get 1 of them?

[Homedawg]

Ok recruitniks, how are we feeling about Mingo, Moore, and Ealy? Can we at least get 1 of them?

Maybe, who knows, will know more tomorrow, and not looking likely.

[Leeshouldveflanked]

This is almost as relevant as anything else in this thread.

I wanted to bring some levity.....

[Leeshouldveflanked]

nah, not really at all. Mckinney had to play QB for his team. Everyone raved about his athleticism and he had a frame that could easily add weight. Then he went to the Blackwell all star game and had something like 20 tackles at LB and was the best player on the field.

Benardrick was the 27th ranked recruit in Mississippi that year.... CJ Johnson, Snoop Brassell, Senquez Golston and Tobias Singleton were the Top ranked Croots that year in Mississippi.

[bulldawg28]

Benardrick was the 27th ranked recruit in Mississippi that year.... CJ Johnson, Snoop Brassell, Senquez Golston and Tobias Singleton were the Top ranked Croots that year in Mississippi.

And the kid that went to Auburn. He and Golston are the only ones that made it to the NFL.

[Todd4State]

And the kid that went to Auburn. He and Golston are the only ones that made it to the NFL.

I think part of that is because Ole Miss doesn't develop players very well.

[bulldawg28]

I think part of that is because Ole Miss doesn't develop players very well.

Agreed.

[Cooterpoot]

Benardrick was the 27th ranked recruit in Mississippi that year.... CJ Johnson, Snoop Brassell, S enquez Golston and Tobias Singleton were the Top ranked Croots that year in Mississippi.

As a QB....we didn?t recruit him as a QB. He blew up camp.

[Cooterpoot]

I think at this point, if we could get those 3 along with our other commitments, and that's a pretty big if, I believe we would certainly all take that and call it a day.

I don’t believe we get all three. But maybe.

[SilentSteel16]

And the kid that went to Auburn. He and Golston are the only ones that made it to the NFL.

Whitehead ?

[BeardoMSU]

Whitehead ?

Yep. Played CB for them.

[bulldawg28]

Whitehead ?

That's the guy.

[BuckyIsAB****]

So how justified is it to be really disappointed we didn't bring anybody in this weekend that could have been a longshot? There have to be some late bloomers like Lockhart in LA, TX, FL that are committed to smaller schools that we could have at least kicked the tires on to use as backup plans. I have no idea how many official we have left in the bank though.

We had a Jr day today its all good

[BuckyIsAB****]

Ok recruitniks, how are we feeling about Mingo, Moore, and Ealy? Can we at least get 1 of them?

Yes, wouldnt be surprised to get 2 of 3

[CadaverDawg]

Yes, wouldnt be surprised to get 2 of 3

Bucky, you're close to the Mingo situation....what are you thinking/hearing? To me, he is the most important of those 3 for us.

[Leeshouldveflanked]

Zach Edwards LB Starkville visited Ole Miss this weekend.... is there a reason we didn’t go after him?