Mingo to the plantation

[Pit Bull]

They just got a 4-star OT from Arkansas to block too

Gotem' a damn good 4 star DE too out of NE Miss. Juco too. Looks like cruitin' is really picking up on the plantation.

[msstate7]

If Mullen is still the HC at MSU we dont have Cunningham, Russell, Ani, Pickering, or Jones committed. Think what you want but that is a fact

We are a preseason top 20 team that is considered a dark horse sec contender. We've won 9 games 3 of the last 4 years. This acting like Mullen was terrible is getting old. I think it was time for him to move on, but Mullen was awesome with us and left us in great shape. I hardly think we'd be in terrible shape had he stayed

[BuckyIsAB****]

We are a preseason top 20 team that is considered a dark horse sec contender. We've won 9 games 3 of the last 4 years. This acting like Mullen was terrible is getting old. I think it was time for him to move on, but Mullen was awesome with us and left us in great shape. I hardly think we'd be in terrible shape had he stayed

We'd know he would be using us to go somwhere else and once we lost to bama he would mail it in if we were having a good year.

If hes so great why is UF recruiting like shit since rankings matter so much to some of yall? Maybe he tries down there but he thought he was better than us since 2010

[msstate7]

We'd know he would be using us to go somwhere else and once we lost to bama he would mail it in if we were having a good year.

If hes so great why is UF recruiting like shit since rankings matter so much to some of yall? Maybe he tries down there but he thought he was better than us since 2010

If he's so terrible, how did we get this talented team?

[Bothrops]

If Mullen is still the HC at MSU we dont have Cunningham, Russell, Ani, Pickering, or Jones committed. Think what you want but that is a fact

This is true, and you can add Shrader to the list. He would be committed to SC.

[msstate7]

We'll finish 9-10th in sec final recruiting rankings like always. I would love to be wrong, but I'll take any bet that says we finish higher

[BuckyIsAB****]

If he's so terrible, how did we get this talented team?

Because recruiting rankings are flawed and too many live and die by ''talent profiles''

[BuckyIsAB****]

If he's so terrible, how did we get this talented team?

I didnt say he was terrible but he wasnt all in. And that is terrible

[dawgday166]

If he's so terrible, how did we get this talented team?

I'm disappointed a good bit too.

I agree with you that Mullen can be pretty darn good when he wants to be. I expect FL to be much improved. He can recruit some when he applies himself too.

But he was like a deer in the headlights in big games or 2 min drills, and when we had 8 wins going into OM game he sucked big time. I'm just thankful that when he doesn't know what to do late in game now, I won't be watching our QB designed run that everyone on earth knows is coming. If he loses Grantham he'll be in trouble. No good DCs really want to work with him.

I made a mistake and starting following recruiting some again. I'm through until signing day now. It can turn around I guess, but our targets list on 247 doesn't look that promising to me ... maybe I'm wrong tho and maybe that ain't all of them.

Only way to get in the big time recruiting game ... to have a discreet network passing out the $$. There are a few of our recruits on team now I'm thinking that may have happened with too. Not sure but suspicious I am.

It may take JoMo a couple of years to figure it out some recruiting wise. That's ok. JoMo is straight arrow I'm thinking ... SEC recruiting you can't be like that 100%. I do think he'll put his heart and soul into it more than Mullen did and I think long term he'll be pretty good.

Hope we have really good season. I'm too wooly going in ... which ain't usually a good thing. I'm wooly usually == we flop.

[preachermatt83]

We'll finish 9-10th in sec final recruiting rankings like always. I would love to be wrong, but I'll take any bet that says we finish higher

Your freakouts paired with your Mullen slobbery is getting out of hand.

[msstate7]

Your freakouts paired with your Mullen slobbery is getting out of hand.

So, you taking the under? Whats the stakes?

[preachermatt83]

So, you taking the under? Whats the stakes?

I have no idea where we end up, it's August... the season hasn't even started.

[Pit Bull]

If we're 9-3/10-2 and om is 1-11, look for some flipping.

OM wont go 1-11. They look more like 5-7 or 6-6. If they win their NCAA appeal, then the Egg Bowl could be the game that awards them a regular season-ending bowl. I hope they don't have that to play for, but the way their luck is rolling, it wouldn't surprise me.

[msbulldog]

Please tell me the 4-star WRs or OL we will get.

And for the record, I've said we will be fine as long as we continue to coach well. I never bought into this fantasy that we are becoming a borderline top 10 type recruiting team. We aren't. We won't. We can still be a good program, but great is a pipe dream. Mullen was great for our program. He wasn't this alleged weight holding us down

He is a weight holding Florida down '39th'.

[ShotgunDawg]

Only way to get in the big time recruiting game ... to have a discreet network passing out the $$. There are a few of our recruits on team now I'm thinking that may have happened with too. Not sure but suspicious I am.

It may take JoMo a couple of years to figure it out some recruiting wise. That's ok. JoMo is straight arrow I'm thinking ... SEC recruiting you can't be like that 100%. I do think he'll put his heart and soul into it more than Mullen did and I think long term he'll be pretty good.
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Great quote and something that was misunderstood when people asked Moorhead about his ability to recruit in the South.

Sure, part of recruiting in the South is building relationships but it's so much more.

It's that "so much more part" that people who have never coached in the SEC simply don't and can't understand.

I believe JoMo will recruit well in the future at MSU but July 2018 was a baptism by fire for him and a month that I hope helps him grow into the coach he can be for us. June was good but it was almost too easy.

He needs to learn quick.

[thf24]

If he's so terrible, how did we get this talented team?

By identifying unrealized talent in many cases and getting lucky in a few. There are very few players on this team that he fought and won tough recruiting battles with equally or more prestigious programs for, and failing to get more of those kind of guys is half the reason he got close a few times here but never broke through. This year's team may have been the one for him, but that's one team in ten cycles that doesn't have massive question marks in some areas going into the season due to recruiting failures (still some small question marks).

[HoopsDawg]

Ole Miss' 2 highest rated commits will never show up on campus. Take out Ealy and Black when you are looking at their class.

[tcdog70]

Damn, so many of ya'll have serious Ole Miss Recruting-phobias. Who on here actually thought that the NCAA deal was going to stop Ole Miss from doing Ole Miss things? They are who we thought they are--get over it. Our Team is fixing to open a can of whoop-ass up and Here is some whiney ass State fans crying about Ole Miss recruiting.. Just Damn.

[msstate7]

By identifying unrealized talent in many cases and getting lucky in a few. There are very few players on this team that he fought and won tough recruiting battles with equally or more prestigious programs for, and failing to get more of those kind of guys is half the reason he got close a few times here but never broke through. This year's team may have been the one for him, but that's one team in ten cycles that doesn't have massive question marks in some areas going into the season due to recruiting failures (still some small question marks).

We are in the most brutal recruiting conference in the country. We're among the bottom in recruiting budget. We share a small state with another sec team. We will always have misses and some question marks headed into a season.

[Ari Gold]

If he's so terrible, how did we get this talented team?

HE didn’t.
Now you can believe what you want or whatever.
Yes he was the head guy here , but he had little to do with most of this talent being here.
You can call me out, say that’s BS, or I don’t like Mullen whatever.