The stinch of JoMo's influence will be totally gone next year

[bulldawg28]

I disagree. Go look at both of his recruiting classes and the number of non contributors or guys not on campus anymore.

He got some highly rated guys for sure. But the bottom of his classes were terrible. And the transfers in that 2019 class did virtually nothing for us except Cole Smith.

That's the major problem we have right now and why the perception is we are so young. Because we've had to play a number of guys from the last 2 recruiting classes much earlier than normal, especially for a Mike Leach offense.

Then once you've done that, go look at the 2018 class. They would be juniors or seniors right now. 6 of the top 9 players in that class aren't even on campus anymore.

We are certainly still feeling the effects of Moorhead. But virtually every impact WR, our RBs, and our QB were guys secured by Leach. What Leach did with this roster in his system in 2 years, one of which included a full offseason of basically them not doing anything due to Covid, is remarkable.

Your actually stating that Leach has his players. Also, Kiffin just did the same thing Leach is working on. He took the lemons added a few transfers and made lemonade. However, next year he'll have a problem unless he can find a Qb transfer.

[MetEdDawg]

Your actually stating that Leach has his players. Also, Kiffin just did the same thing Leach is working on. He took the lemons added a few transfers and made lemonade. However, next year he'll have a problem unless he can find a Qb transfer.

The difference in the 2 situations is that Ole Miss has a 1st round QB and didn't make a drastic change to a system like we did. Big difference.

And I am advocating that Leach has his players. He absolutely does and a lot of playing and making immediate impacts. But tell me it wouldn't make a difference if we had more juniors and seniors out on the field as we've made this transition. Part of it is Leach ran some off. Which was needed. But part of it is that Moorhead didn't develop players during his 2 years and a lot of those guys aren't contributors.

I don't blame Moorhead for the loss. What I do blame is that his inability to develop talent and bring in a lot of quality players, both out of high school and in the transfer portal, has hindered us from maximizing our potential this year.

Last year is a prime example. We had to cull the herd significantly just to get back to being a respectably in shape and disciplined program. We didn't have that few of guys due to Covid. It was due to lack of discipline and focus by Moorhead players. Leach and company have done a great job developing our guys and bringing in immediate impact players that want to compete. We had to rebuild an entire culture. Ole Miss didn't have to do that. Comparing Kiffin to Leach isn't a fair comparison.