2021 MSU Football Recruiting Discussion Thread

[msbulldog]

I hope you forgot the sarcasterisks here. There is no way MJ turned Pounders and Buckhaulter in just so he could "steal the spotlight" when he flipped.

You obviously aren't paying attention.

[msbulldog]

Yeah - his family was wearing bear gear and the bears released his commitment video within minutes of him signing. They already had his paperwork, the same way we had Simmons' paperwork hours before his announcement.

Ya'll are just ignoring the obvious this was clearly a set-up by (merry flipmas T-shirt) Kiffen.

[bobcat91]

Thomas has signed

[ZedFedder]

Something to keep in mind. While this day hasn't been a good one, if Perkins and Deonte Anderson signed, thats two big pieces.

[bulldawg28]

Something to keep in mind. While this day hasn't been a good one, if Perkins and Deonte Anderson signed, thats two big pieces.

Perkins and Anderson are big if we can sign them.

[William Tecumsah Sherman]

Anderson has signed. Waiting to publicly announce at all star game

[Irondawg]

Perkins is big - if we miss him it means we batted about .100 on our secondary targets as I’m starting to think CJ is going to have a hard time turning down a prestigious academic degeee

[StateDawg44]

You obviously aren't paying attention.

I've been fairly on top of recruiting season. I'm not expert and don't pretend or care to be. I've kept up with it for sure though.

But, do you realize how much orchestration that would take to pull all of what you are implying would take?

Are you saying MJ alone orchestrated getting Buckhaulter & Pounders to leave MSU for OM, just so MJ could be the only MSU commit to flip on signing day? That way he got all of the hype and attention.

-or-

Are you saying OM got MJ to get them to flip or be dropped by MSU, just so OM could flip buckhaulter & pounders in order to take 2 commits from MSU while knowing they had MJ in their back pocket the whole time? So they'd plant MJ to screw us out of two players and then drop one of those to just to screw us.

Either option is very very elaborate and sounds crazy.

Sour grapes doesn't even begin to touch what you are saying.



Either of the two scenarios I've listed above is beyond delusional and giving OM entirely too much credit right????

[Westdawg]

New target for class of '21:

Donte Balfour 6'2" 175
3 ⭐️ WR/S
Stark, FL

He's got really, really good film. I'm surprised this was a "wait-until-signing-day offer" - guess we thought MJ was signing. The one issue is that this kid was a Plan B for a lot of high profile schools. He's had a lot of Power 5 offers in the last 48 hrs

https://www.hudl.com/video/3/1049410...92e8013cb09f8c

[StateDawg44]

New target for possibly class of '21:

Donte Balfour 6'2" 175
3 ⭐️ WR/S
Stark, FL

He's got really, really good film. I'm surprised this was a "wait-until-signing-day offer" - guess we thought MJ was signing. The one issue is that this kid was a Plan B for a lot of high profile schools. He's had a lot of Power 5 offers in the last 48 hrs

https://www.hudl.com/video/3/1049410...92e8013cb09f8c

Get this man on the team.

[Santiago]

New target for class of '21:

Donte Balfour 6'2" 175
3 ⭐️ WR/S
Stark, FL

He's got really, really good film. I'm surprised this was a "wait-until-signing-day offer" - guess we thought MJ was signing. The one issue is that this kid was a Plan B for a lot of high profile schools. He's had a lot of Power 5 offers in the last 48 hrs

https://www.hudl.com/video/3/1049410...92e8013cb09f8c

I would assume he now waits until Feb, but if he was offerred by his preferred school he could still sign by Friday, right?

[yjnkdawg]

I've been fairly on top of recruiting season. I'm not expert and don't pretend or care to be. I've kept up with it for sure though.

But, do you realize how much orchestration that would take to pull all of what you are implying would take?

Are you saying MJ alone orchestrated getting Buckhaulter & Pounders to leave MSU for OM, just so MJ could be the only MSU commit to flip on signing day? That way he got all of the hype and attention.

-or-

Are you saying OM got MJ to get them to flip or be dropped by MSU, just so OM could flip buckhaulter & pounders in order to take 2 commits from MSU while knowing they had MJ in their back pocket the whole time? So they'd plant MJ to screw us out of two players and then drop one of those to just to screw us.

Either option is very very elaborate and sounds crazy.

Sour grapes doesn't even begin to touch what you are saying.



Either of the two scenarios I've listed above is beyond delusional and giving OM entirely too much credit right????

Yep! They had wanted to originally flip at least 2 today (Buckhaulter and Daniels). Not sure now how they would have handled Pounders' de-commitment from us, but they definitely did not want him signing with us.

[yjnkdawg]

I would assume he now waits until Feb, but if he was offerred by his preferred school he could still sign by Friday, right?

Yep - Wednesday - Friday.

[hailstate88]

Most likely Friday

[hailstate88]

Is he for sure committing during the game? I?ll be there!

[Westdawg]

New WR target:

Jay Hampton 6'1 170
Amory HS

https://www.hudl.com/profile/9069939

[William Tecumsah Sherman]

They want Hampton as a DB I believe

[Cooterpoot]

This staff has been a disappointment on the field and the recruiting trail. This has been one of the worst seasons I can remember. We got our teeth kicked in yesterday. And we aren't getting Balfour. You can forget that. Just a shit show.

[ShotgunDawg]

This staff has been a disappointment on the field and the recruiting trail. This has been one of the worst seasons I can remember. We got our teeth kicked in yesterday. And we aren't getting Balfour. You can forget that. Just a shit show.

Still signed the best offensive class in school history yesterday

[msstate7]

Still signed the best offensive class in school history yesterday

Offensive only last 4 classes:

2018:
4 4-stars
Next highest rating - 87

2019:
1 5-star
1 4-star
Next highest - 87

2020:
3 4-star
Next highest - 88

2021:
3 4-star
Next highest - 87

Not sure I see a real difference