We're not JUST QBU guys

[WSOPdawg]

We also lost our DC that year and (I think) our best recruiter in Melvin Smith. He was halfway out of the door before the season was over with. If you're going to tell the story tell the whole story.

Hopefully paying Grantham north of $1M will keep him in place even if we win big. I our coaching staff will always be looking for bigger opportunities but now that we are paying with the big boys we might be able to retain the top dogs long enough to gain traction in recruiting.

The SEC-network revenue is what should allow us to pay for staff experience and continuity -- the days of NOT being able to pay for top coaches should be a thing of the past now that we're several years into the network and realize we've got extra $ to spend. Hopefully we get out of that rut where our assistant coaches view us as Stepping-Stone U.

[Dawgfan77]

We also lost our DC that year and (I think) our best recruiter in Melvin Smith. He was halfway out of the door before the season was over with. If you're going to tell the story tell the whole story.

Hopefully paying Grantham north of $1M will keep him in place even if we win big. I our coaching staff will always be looking for bigger opportunities but now that we are paying with the big boys we might be able to retain the top dogs long enough to gain traction in recruiting.

Melvin was gone by 14. Deshea was the DB coach

[ShotgunDawg]

We also lost our DC that year and (I think) our best recruiter in Melvin Smith. He was halfway out of the door before the season was over with. If you're going to tell the story tell the whole story.

Hopefully paying Grantham north of $1M will keep him in place even if we win big. I our coaching staff will always be looking for bigger opportunities but now that we are paying with the big boys we might be able to retain the top dogs long enough to gain traction in recruiting.

Whatever makes you feel better.

The truth is there are too many blue bloods who need nothing but a decent coach on the sidelines to recruit better than us, too many Ole Miss type programs that realize they can't recruit with the big boys & thus cheat, &, lastly, too many stupid recruits who pick schools based on the name on the front, stadium size, or money & don't choose a school based on the opportunity, development, & depth chart.

[Reason2succeed]

Melvin was gone by 14. Deshea was the DB coach

I get the dates mixed up. I'd be a terrible candidate for NCAA immunity.***

[Reason2succeed]

Whatever makes you feel better.

The truth is there are too many blue bloods who need nothing but a decent coach on the sidelines to recruit better than us, too many Ole Miss type programs that realize they can't recruit with the big boys & thus cheat, &, lastly, too many stupid recruits who pick schools based on the name on the front, stadium size, or money & don't choose a school based on the opportunity, development, & depth chart.

You don't need all the recruits. You just need some. Recruiting will always be a dog fight. You have to sell your program and recruits might not buy. That's life in sports.

The point is that we have new selling points that we can drop on recruits and their parents that we didn't have before. It can't hurt.

[Reason2succeed]

https://maroonandwhitenation.com/201...ogram-country/

This article says the same thing I said in the OP but with more facts included.

[Dawg-gone-dawgs]

Top 20 if we are lucky. I'm fine with that. TCU has been pretty solid if not salty 80+ per cent of the time over the last several years with top 25'ish recruiting classes.

If only we played in the Big 12....

[TUSK]

[QUOTE=Reason2succeed;769788][QUOTE=ShotgunDawg;769739]

It might be a small chance but it's not no chance. Not only could we benefit from a down OM but we might also benefit from a down LSU along with the Dak effect. I would say KT is already proof of this. With Ogre there pissing of black coaches in NOLA there's no guessing what could happen. Pick up a player or two OM would have snatched, plus a player or two that LSU would have gotten, get a player or two from Texas and now you are looking at a top class.

There's some good points made here... additionally, I believe that the current SEC is primed for MSU to make a move up the pecking order....

OM is about to get bombed back into the stone age.... LSU has a shit coach and is very vulnerable.... A&M/AU have coaches on the HOT SEAT this year... ARKIE, well... it's Arkansas....

UT, KY, Vandy, SC, and Mizzo all suck ass.... UGA and FLA (crappy recruiting) are in flux with new coaches....

Bottom line.... UT, UGA, LSU, AU, & UF won't all be simultaneously this weak, for very long....

[MaroonFlounder]

[QUOTE=TUSK;770379][QUOTE=Reason2succeed;769788]

There's some good points made here... additionally, I believe that the current SEC is primed for MSU to make a move up the pecking order....

OM is about to get bombed back into the stone age.... LSU has a shit coach and is very vulnerable.... A&M/AU have coaches on the HOT SEAT this year... ARKIE, well... it's Arkansas....

UT, KY, Vandy, SC, and Mizzo all suck ass.... UGA and FLA (crappy recruiting) are in flux with new coaches....

Bottom line.... UT, UGA, LSU, AU, & UF won't all be simultaneously this weak, for very long....

I'm sorry, but it's difficult to trust the perspective of a fan of a team that MSU might not beat again until after I'm dead.