Quote Originally Posted by WhiskeyPirate View Post
I?m not sure Al or Tenn top 25 is superior to Miss top 25 every year.

Walter Payton getting overlooked has to be the worst blunder in the history of sports lol. It?s like cutting Babe Ruth in little league.
Go look at how the Top 25 in those states are getting recruited then get back to me. A lot of people think the same thing as you until they actually go look at the data. The data shows the Top 25 in both of those states is significantly deeper than it is in MS.

And like I said in my earlier post. If you can find someone in the modern recruiting era from MS that is similar to the 3 that always get mentioned as being overlooked, I would like to know who they are. Because I don't think they exist.

Too many fans continue to think that MS is on par with other states from a depth of talent perspective. It's simply not the case folks and there isn't any data out there to support it. Sure we've got the high per capita NFL player stat. But per capita doesn't build consistent winning football teams when you don't have a lot of high end players to begin with. 25 of the Top 50 in MS signed a P5 scholarship in 2022. 36 in Alabama did.

Number of P5 schools represented in the 36 from Alabama? 23. Number of P5 schools represented in the 25 committed from Mississippi in 2022? 13. So of the 25 that signed P5, that means 11 other P5 teams took some of our talent. That's almost half. And 5 of those 11 took someone from the Top 10 in the state.

We need to modernize our thinking. Recruiting isn't local anymore. It's regional and national. If we think we can win just taking MS talent, we are already behind the 8 ball because we aren't going to get every recruit in MS period. And even if we did, it's not enough to sustain a program at an SEC level.