“Mississippi State recruiting Louisiana is useless.” —Dak Prescott **
That's Keenum's fault. He should have gotten off his *** and hired an AD. If you were going to go the assistant AD route, why wait so long to hire. He could have hired Selmon a week after that *** hole Cohen left.
LSU came in at the end. Dak really like Mullen and stuck to it but if NIL was around at the time Dak would have been at LSU. If not out of high school but in 2015.
Wendy's use to let McDonald do all the research as to where to build. When McDonalds built Wendy followed. Same principle. We take a chance on a guy that leaves a spot open for LSU to go sign someone else. When the guy pans out, they come in and take him away. Something is going to have to happen. It's kind like us being the testing ground for new vehicles.
Yep….if Nick Saban lets them go there is a reason. But we can get a lot of smaller schools best players. Heck Schrader for Mizzou was a walkon.
They’ll only come back after the ones that actually turned out to be really good. They’ll have a spot or find a spot for them if they turned out be to be really good.
I think this an instance where "post hoc ergo propter hoc" is not a fallacy. All roads lead back to Cohen and him having to show everyone how smart he was by hiring someone like Joe Moorhead.
What? That wasn't some niche, under the radar type of hire....Moorhead was the hottest assistant coach in the nation.
We should scrap recruiting high school players, period. All of them. Unless they are total projects with no P4 offers that are totally expendable on a year-to-year basis (meaning they cost nothing beyond a scholly), then 17 them.
The next Dak Prescott or Jeffrey Simmons won’t play 4 years at Mississippi State. Or even 3 years. Not saying we shouldn’t recruit those guys. But they’ll finish their college career at an elite school.
We assumed sunk costs well into the mid-six figures for 500 yards and 2 TD’s in 2 years from him.
Yes because he knew Coach Leach was going to pass away right before signing day. Come on dude get a grip. At the time there was absolutely no rush to hire an AD.
Nah. Y’all are way too cynical. Dak would have stayed with Mullen because he knew what was best for him. I mean the guy turned down the NFL after 2014 and come back get more training. That’s the type kids we need, not the RaRa’s and Zavion’s.
Ya’ll act like all these guys are the same. Dak and Simmons had some character and integrity. They would have gotten paid (and did, surely you don’t think the black market didn’t take care of them?), but they wouldn’t have left.
They wouldn’t be able to afford not to leave. Today’s NIL is an order of magnitude greater than the old black market. Plus they would have had to sit out a year back then.
Dak could have transferred without sitting a year for his 5th year, although I think the bigger competition was the draft.
Nah, yall are just too cynical over the state of things with all the covid clowns with extra years, etc. It’s a jarring change, no doubt, but it won’t stay this way forever.
BAMA is the same way. In fact, they took one back this year that we had committed for a long time. He was starting to blow up in high school and looked very "Brock Bowerish". Saban decided to take him off our hook and bring him home. He was a TE prospect.
Makes me want to reassess my fall weekend priorities and plans…
You don't sit around because basically like you said you don't know what is going to happen. He could have hired Selmon really fast. I would bet a year's pay that he hadn't even begin to look when Leach died. In this world of, December signing day, NIL, and Transfer portal you don't leave an athletic department without a leader for two or three months. You take action as soon as you can. It is on Keenum. You can believe what you want, and I will continue to blame Keenum. College athletics have change and you need to get a grip on that fact. Those who sit around with their fingers up their *** will lose. You take action as soon as you can.
Obviously, my opinion, Dak came from a very poor family and his mother became sick. He would have had to take the most money available. I would not have blamed hm.
This is false. And shows how little you think of our program. We have close to 10MM in NIl just for football and are spending wisely. Meanwhile some schools in the SEC you would consider elite are having some issues with NIL.
I agree. I don't see us ever landing a Chris Jones or Jeffery Simmons again.
That is what the Bears are doing, and it seems to be working out for them.
If we have all this money, how come we're getting boat raced in recruiting and the transfer portal? We either don't have the money or we're not spending it wisely. We've just had a player transfer out just a couple of weeks after we announced a new NIL deal for him. That doesn't look good.
