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Originally Posted by
Goldendawg
Bumping my own thread as interest in football seems to have fallen off a cliff, probably with very good reason. Well, we now have 23 commits which gets us "up" to #30 on 24/7 rating. We now have that one elusive 4 star. Three of the last seven commits have very good offer sheets and the other four have yet to be rated, both instate and out of state players. The last four's offer sheets are pitiful at this time. Better hope their ratings come in as a surprise as one player is listed at #51 in the state of MS. Not easy recruiting to a program with an unknown OTJ training staff that just went 2-10, 0-8, with the NIL $ issues to boot. Hope my concern is premature and they are identifying some "diamonds in the rough" if that concept can still build a winning team in today's NIL/Portal mess.
On one hand (gloom and doom trend), yeah we can't compete, etc.
However, on the other consider these points.
1. We have never gotten top recruits overall in big bunches to be to half of SEC. Just never happened. Yet we still competed with these little Miss kids that just had a lot in them to compete at a high level.
2. We are still a little school in big pond (SEC). We are in the best football conf period. That will attract some talent even in NIL era from other places - we got a 5 star QB from FSU - did that make anyone feel better?
3. Player evaluations have always been bad and NIL didn't change that. Transfer portal corrects for that and that makes it harder for us but we can still get some good talent by the misses. Yall know our storied history of getting no talent players and then they are All Americans, All SEC, etc. That will still happen, we must manage the transfer portal. Also we must get the talented kids that want to be here - Kamario Taylor, etc. (Josh Hubbard in basketball) to win at MSU.
Personally I'm good with winning 6-8 games a year with an occasional 9 win year and I'm ready to get back to that. 2-3 win years I am not OK with. OM has broke the bank and they still got nothing to show for it.
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