Early reports on K Thompson

[HoopsDawg]

We may have OL probs, but melting because a guy gets reps at another position IN THE SPRING because 2 of the leading candidates there are hurt is a bit muooch

what concerns me is he worked there in bowl practices some too. Calhoun didn't.

[Todd4State]

Geez

I'm just telling people what DAN said in the interview. It's not like I'm pulling this out of my ass. Heck- it's up on youtube and it's not like it's some super secret premium content.

You talk about how "well Calhoun will be the center or Williams or whoever but they're hurt"- but yet in the same interview while answering the SAME question Dan mentioned that Jenkins would get some looks there too but he's injured. So, if you are right why didn't he mention Calhoun at center? He may have forgotten about Calhoun but I seriously doubt he would have forgotten who his projected starter would be at that position if Calhoun was actually projected to start there.

Reading between the lines as of today which will probably change, my guess based on what Dan said is our o-line will probably be:

LT- Jenkins
LG- Story
C- Rankin
RG- Calhoun- and maybe you flip the guards knowing Hevesy
RT- ???????? But if I had to guess it would be Eiland if you want me to be honest.

Edit to say that he didn't talk about the other o-line positions but those are the guys he mentioned the most as the "leaders".

[msstate7]

what concerns me is he worked there in bowl practices some too. Calhoun didn't.

What if rankin is a better center than he is a tackle? I don't know what the deal is but we just gave the man a raise and an extension so I think we trust him... maybe we should just let him work and criticize him come September if it doesn't work

[thf24]

Anyone who doesn't know at this point that Hev/Mullen play musical chairs with the OL reps every Spring and that it usually has no bearing on who will actually play where has to have been trying pretty hard not to pay attention.

[Covercorner2]

Anyone who doesn't know at this point that Hev/Mullen play musical chairs with the OL reps every Spring and that it usually has no bearing on who will actually play where has to have been trying pretty hard not to pay attention.

Exactly

[msstate7]

Maybe since Calhoun is out and we wanna get a bunch of snaps for our young tackles so we put rankin at center. See which young tackle separates himself this spring and put him at RT.

[Todd4State]

What if rankin is a better center than he is a tackle? I don't know what the deal is but we just gave the man a raise and an extension so I think we trust him... maybe we should just let him work and criticize him come September if it doesn't work

The deal is we don't have a center.

[HoopsDawg]

What if rankin is a better center than he is a tackle? I don't know what the deal is but we just gave the man a raise and an extension so I think we trust him... maybe we should just let him work and criticize him come September if it doesn't work

Ah, the trust the coaches line. Hilarious coming from you. But ok, no more football talk till September.

[msstate7]

Ah, the trust the coaches line. Hilarious coming from you. But ok, no more football talk till September.

I don't melt preseason... I melt once the games start haha

[msstate7]

Not surprising that this thread was about our young stud qb looking good and it shifted to oline. We can't talk about key looking good

[Ifyouonlyknew]

1st day melt I'm impressed

[thf24]

Seriously, if you're melting down over day 1 of a Dan Mullen spring practice, either you haven't been around very long or you're looking for something to be mad at.

[ShotgunDawg]

Moon = Jake Thomas 2.0.

Doesn't have the right mentality to be successful in this league. We recruit to many "good kids" and not enough guys with a chip on their shoulder that can flat play.

Hev needs to read about Angela Duckworth and "grit". Find people that have overcome obstacles and refuse to fail.

[Corn Bread]

1st day melt I'm impressed

Good Grief, so I take it Leo was on the field or this site would be nuked.

[Todd4State]

Moon = Jake Thomas 2.0.

Doesn't have the right mentality to be successful in this league. We recruit to many "good kids" and not enough guys with a chip on their shoulder that can flat play.

Hev needs to read about Angela Duckworth and "grit". Find people that have overcome obstacles and refuse to fail.

Our problem is we don't recruit enough guys period. I would imagine we average only 3 HS o-linemen a class the past five years.

[justwin]

I'm hopeful the o-line recruiting will at least start to turn around this year. Even if it does it's going to take whoever we recruit a few years to get acclimated. I'll be pissed if Key suffers the same fate that Dak did his senior year because of our lack of o-line play.

Dak's sr year was incompetent RBs in Shump & Holloway. Not the OL. Shump found multiple ways to lose game to LSU. Aeris & DLee should've gotten 10+ carries each vs USM opening game after RS'ing and been lead guys rest of the year. That's why the midget who signed with LSU a few weeks ago was so big for our program so it wouldn't ruin Key's jr & sr year. Instead, Key is going to be paired exclusively with Kylin. Tyler's jr & sr year was ruined by Perkins like Dak with Shump & Holloway in 2015. You can't tell me that the soph J-Rob shouldn't have played over perk. J-Rob was why we made the run in 2014 as a jr.

Hopefully, we can sign another big powerful RB this class and no midgets for the sake of Key's sr year.

[justwin]

Reading social media it sounds like Thompson was very impressive even though it was the first day. Mullen commented on it and Fitz said he was surprised how good he looked. Did anyone catch practice or see the Facebook feed?

dude won Louisiana as a senior. He's legit. Not like playing pattycake at IMG in FL. Winning Louisiana is big time.

[Todd4State]

LOL at people talking about "melting". We either have a lot of sheep or a lot of people that don't understand how important the o-line is. If people don't want to talk about our team in an objective way or get offended when we are talking about our team in an objective way, well here's a link:

http://www.scout.com/college/mississippi-state/

As for me it's going to be pretty hilarious at the spin when Rankin is named the center. Of course we already have that with "Who knows he may be even better at center?" Hilarious.

[KB21]

It's true, though. Year after year, it's the same thing, and we keep an incompetent offensive line coach because he is the HC's friend. No way we will get to Atlanta.

I see this false agenda is still being pushed.

The reason Martinas is getting reps at center is because the projected starter Calhoun is out, and the guy who is projected to be his back up Williams is also out. Moon is the 3rd center at this point.

[msstate7]

LOL at people talking about "melting". We either have a lot of sheep or a lot of people that don't understand how important the o-line is. If people don't want to talk about our team in an objective way or get offended when we are talking about our team in an objective way, well here's a link:

http://www.scout.com/college/mississippi-state/

As for me it's going to be pretty hilarious at the spin when Rankin is named the center. Of course we already have that with "Who knows he may be even better at center?" Hilarious.

You and random are not objective... you hate Mullen. I'm a Mullen guy, so I'm not objective either. IYOK is objective and he called it a melt