THE 2020 MSU Football Recruiting Talk Thread

[BrunswickDawg]

Bottom line for us is that we are a developmental program. Until we start signing a 5 star every other year and ten 4 stars every year, which most likely won't ever happen unless things change, we need to be redshirting just about every freshman and utilizing them as 5th year seniors instead of true freshmen.

We need to be smarter with our true freshmen in not wasting a year as I explain below, but also letting them get their feet wet with the new 4 game rule. We aren't utilizing that aspect of it as well. We have true freshmen not getting in ANY games at all. I know it's hard to get them all in, but if they didn't get in ANY games this year with what all we had going on, you know JoMo isn't going to get them in when we have a full roster eligible.

Case in point on wasting a year, Lee Witherspoon. He lost his redshirt by playing in 5 games. His fifth game?....Abilene Christian where he had 1 carry. So instead of possibly having him a full season as a 5th year senior, we lost that by having him carry the ball 1 time against Abilene Christian. To me, that is unforgivable and just plain stupid.

Let's see how he progresses and take a look after what will now be his senior year and think to ourselves that this could have been his junior year and we'd have another year of his services. We've done this with other players in the past as well.

That's criminal. Gross negligence.

Except that it isn't true. Witherspoon played in 10 games - some of it on Special Teams. He had 5 games where he had carries (USM, KS, AU, Ak, ABC), 2 games with a reception (LSU, Bama), and 1 game with kick return (A&M).
While I agree that it would have been best to RS him, this was one of the impacts of the Tutor 10. We had to sacrifice a couple of RS this season in areas where it hurts.