The following is from a UGA message board (pay site) and was sent to me by my son-in-law the UGA fan:
Don't you love it? When it gets this close to Signing Day, the miracles just keep coming at Ole Miss! It's as annual as Valentines Day now, but with the wacky surprises of April Fools thrown in! And we're the fools, of course. Guess which five-star is going to Ole Miss now! No, no way! WAY!
Don't be cynical, folks. It's easily accounted to the brilliance and irresistible appeal of Hugh Freeze. Or perhaps the desire of so many young athletes to be close to William Faulkner's home, having admired "The Sound and the Fury" and "Absalom, Absalom" so much in their AP English classes. Maybe a South Florida kid like Tre Nixon longs for the progressive urban life of North Central Mississippi. Or couldn't it just be that he feels himself inexorably drawn to the age-old tradition and pageantry of being a "Rebel Black Bear"? Or he's grown up watching all those SEC Championship Game appearances. Wait, no, not that one.
Whatever it is...we can all agree Ole Miss has some SPECIAL TINKERBELL MAGIC that began precisely three years ago when Ole Miss jumped from a #40 finish the previous year to #7 in ONE season, suddenly recruiting from every corner of the South and beyond when it had previously struggled to hold down its own state for decades. Lots of players seemingly woke up one morning in early February and decided that they DIDN'T want to go to that boring old Bama or LSU or Georgia they'd been committed to for years; no, it was an epiphany moment: Ole Miss was the place! And lots of their family members wanted to move there too! You can only look at the special jobs and homes and extra scholarships some of them have managed and laugh at the fickle finger of Black Bear Rebel fate.
It's like that old uncle of yours who sold used cars for years and could never make ends meet, then, long about that year he bought the fishing boat down near the Keys, started having boatloads of cash for some reason. Just a great guy, that's how you explain it! As Hugh Frieze tells us--God i$ good!
That's awesome. What I have been saying for years. No way they can explain things like Treadwell Instagram pic with all those $100 bills laid on the table during the big recruiting weekend, or CJ and everything that came with him, or Tunsil and his entire family relocating to Oxford with jobs and a nicer house, just to mention a few. C34 said it many times before, they screwed the pooch when they started ****ing with the big boys!
Ha, that's great. Meaningless, but still good to see.
I agree. One post on another SEC school's message board doesn't mean much. However, the fact that they recognize the same thing that ED has been espousing does mean something. Surely, if the fanbase can see it, then the coaches and administrations of other SEC schools see it as well. The more pressure brought to bear on OM outside of MSU, the better. Just thought it was interesting.
I just don't understand. I went through the whole recruiting thing while playing baseball,nowhere to this extent, and had a very good buddy who was big time D1 baseball talent get suckered into signing with a NAIA school because of our high school coach getting a kickback. But how does someone go from pulling 1 5 star in like 3 yr to pulling 4 and 5 stars from UGA, Bama, LSU, USC, etc... I mean damn those bags have to be thick with cash. Does money mean that much to these parents that they are willing to give up their child's college time for say $10,000, when they could go to a school and develop and make 10x that in 3 or 4 yrs?
I just don't understand. I went through the whole recruiting thing while playing baseball,nowhere to this extent, and had a very good buddy who was big time D1 baseball talent get suckered into signing with a NAIA school because of our high school coach getting a kickback. But how does someone go from pulling 1 5 star in like 3 yr to pulling 4 and 5 stars from UGA, Bama, LSU, USC, etc... I mean damn those bags have to be thick with cash. Does money mean that much to these parents that they are willing to give up their child's college time for say $10,000, when they could go to a school and develop and make 10x that in 3 or 4 yrs?
Heck, they are getting $5-10K just for the initial visit where they find out aboiut the other benefits. The $10K you mention above doesn't begin to measure what a 5 star might get. Some kids are approaching 6 figures someone will put up. The rebnecks can compete with anyone for buck$$$ now.
Last edited by Political Hack; 01-25-2016 at 08:15 PM.
Not true, if you are talking about competing with anyone on a financial basis. Ole Miss is not a wealthy fan base. They have a few wealthy guys who measure the size of their little pee pee's with the success of the UM football program.
On a national scale Ole Miss is equivilant to a gnat on a dogs ass.
2013 payments were in the 7 figures in total according to "sources". The Network budget is up to $3M+ a year, that's what I "hear". They want a post-segregation Natty in the worst way.
2013 payments were in the 7 figures in total according to "sources". The Network budget is up to $3M+ a year, that's what I "hear". They want a post-segregation Natty in the worst way.
Not true, if you are talking about competing with anyone on a financial basis. Ole Miss is not a wealthy fan base. They have a few wealthy guys who measure the size of their little pee pee's with the success of the UM football program.
On a national scale Ole Miss is equivilant to a gnat on a dogs ass.
They have some very wealthy alums who have shown that illegal activities are no barrier to getting what they want. Buying players isn't even illegal.
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