re: 2014 Mississippi State Recruiting thread.

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Well one thing the last few years has taught me is to NEVER consider us an imminent favorite on a top shelf MS recruit until the final month of recruiting AFTER OM has had a chance to make their "real final offers". No bigger MSU strongholds than Philadelphia and Houston and we lost Johnson and nearly lost Jones both when OM got serious about heppin' at the end of the recruiting process. Now this is only an issure for a Top 5 type guy from MS but never again will I consider anyone like that a true commit to us until we get to January before signing and see what interesting things happen. The Reb recruiting "network" was bad enough under Nutt but it appears it has raised even another level with Freeze. I'm sure one of the reasons for which he was brought in.

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You are just determined to be a negative MSU fan then. How quickly you forget about all the top-notch talent in MS that Mullen has gotten and held onto. We've only lost the "in-state" recruiting battle against them in ONE of Mullen's 5 recruiting classes.

The talent is largely in our strongholds this year -- outside of Buford at Lafayette. Last year, we were virtually guaranteed to not get 4 of the top 10 at this same point in the process(Conner, Mix, Buchanan, Kailo). This year, we're only "out of the game" with 1 of the 10.