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re: Spinoff: Which SEC program is best built for long-term success in football?
Posted on 6/11/13 at 2:30 pm to GeauxPack81
Posted on 6/11/13 at 2:30 pm to GeauxPack81
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and the top level in-state guys often choose other schools
This has been false for nearly a decade now. Top MS guys go to Ole Miss or State way more often than they leave Mississippi.
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presence of the rebel flag
Where?
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I can't remember the title of the book but there was a book written about Ole Miss recruiting when Orgeron was there and the book talks about how much of a struggle it was to get rid of that bad stigma
Meat Market by Bruce Feldman, and he's right to an extent. Once players actually visit campus, that stigma largely disappears. It's getting them to visit that's the hard part (especially when they have recruiters for opposing SEC schools bullshitting them about how WAYCESS Ole Miss is).
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Posted on 6/11/13 at 2:38 pm to DCRebel
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Meat Market by Bruce Feldman, and he's right to an extent. Once players actually visit campus, that stigma largely disappears. It's getting them to visit that's the hard part (especially when they have recruiters for opposing SEC schools bullshitting them about how WAYCESS Ole Miss is).
This. Our biggest problem in the past is the perception vs. reality barrier.
Initial recruit interest being piqued has always been a problem for Ole Miss. Hell, most exit interviews with recruits have the quote "it was nothing like I expected" or "it was much better than I had heard...".
Posted on 6/11/13 at 3:39 pm to DCRebel
quote:thank you, thats the book. Your comment is just more detailed than mine. I just wanted to make that remark that when reading the book they talked about how it definitely was a factor in getting people to visit, and it was a question by African American parents... it also said that once they got them to visit, they would show them the "beauty" of the ole miss campus
Meat Market by Bruce Feldman, and he's right to an extent. Once players actually visit campus, that stigma largely disappears. It's getting them to visit that's the hard part (especially when they have recruiters for opposing SEC schools bullshitting them about how WAYCESS Ole Miss is).
Posted on 6/13/13 at 3:52 am to DCRebel
"I HEARD WHEN A BLACK PLAYER DROPS A PASS Y'ALL BEAT HIM BUT IF A WHITE PLAYER DROPS A PASS Y'ALL OFFER UP YOUR FIRST BORN DAUGHTER TO MAKE HIM FEEL BETTER"
/negative recruited'd
/negative recruited'd
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