Quote Originally Posted by WPS View Post
This is just factually incorrect. Arkansas has finished with a higher recruiting ranking than Missouri 90% of the time. And Arkansas signed the exact same number of players from Texas that they did before A&M joined the SEC.

If you go back across the last decade you'll probably find that Arkansas, Mississippi State and Ole Miss all recruit within about 3-5 spots of each other on average (outside of the Freeze years where Ole Miss was obviously cheating). We don't recruit Missouri or Oklahoma a whole lot to begin with (though Pittman is putting more emphasis on Oklahoma and having more success) but our main problem has been coaching. Sure our talent isn't Alabama level, but we've had the same number of players drafted as Florida State in the last 5 years. Just 3 fewer than USC and Wisconsin and 25th nationally. We easily have the worst record among the top 25 during that time span as well.

I do think that moving to the SEC from the SWC hurt our Texas recruiting but statistically A&M coming into the conference has had very little impact on it at all.



1. I don't think you get the same player from Texas now that you were getting then. I realize this graph says here that you kind of do, but I think you're missing out on far more of those high 3 star types that may not be included in the "Blue Chip" category.

2. Secondly, you don't have a JUCO system. The Mississippi schools have the best JUCO system in America from which to fill holes or find immediate impact players & those players get destroyed in the recruiting rankings. For Example: Montez Sweat was a 3 star & Jonathan Abram was a low 4 star yet both were 1st round picks less than two years later.

Arkansas is easily the hardest job in the SEC West & Ole Miss makes their job harder than it should be due to a terrible program culture that attracts turd type players &/or gets them put on serious probation. The JUCO players also don't seem as attracted to Ole Miss as they are MSU. I think JUCO ball builds a certain type of grinder mentality that makes Ole Miss' culture less appealing.