Quote Originally Posted by War Machine Dawg View Post
And to add to your point: That talent or lack thereof tends to show up in postseason. Look at the way the 2007 CWS team got bitchslapped 0-2 in Omaha that year. It was obvious we didn't have anywhere near the talent it took to be competitive against upper-tier teams. We just happened to get hot for two weekends after squeaking into the Tourney.

Now go back to the Orange Bowl two years ago in football. We got bitchslapped by an top tier ACC team and looked like garbage. And that was the team that won 9 in the regular season. The overall talent disparity showed up in the postseason. Same thing happened in reverse last season. We bitchslapped a middle of the pack ACC team and you could see the talent gap between us and them.

Until Mullen decides to play the game and do what it takes to get top end talent, we've reached our artificial ceiling.
You are exactly right. Especially if you look at who our wins were against and how the teams we lost to ended up. The sad part is we could get the talent in here. But I don't think Dan is capable of doing it. Legal or illegal. As I said this isn't about one LB from Starkville. This is about multiple losses in the recruiting wars. This cycle and last we had five prospects from the Golden Triangle that are/were legit talents. If things hold as they are right now- we would have gotten two out of the five. I can understand one kid wanting to leave town. Three out of five doesn't hold water.

And that's not to mention that we aren't even on the top player in the state's top 10 list at a traditional MSU stronghold plus the fact that there is a player that should have been an obvious low risk sign and place that we slow played that Ole Miss now has control of at the one position group that has failed us the past few years.

At this point I just wonder how long we are going to keep burying our head in the sand. After seven, eight years or whatever it has been- if Dan hasn't gotten it figured out by now, he likely won't.