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re: Even as an Ole Miss fan, I'm surprised no one has transferred from Ole Miss yet
Posted on 8/14/17 at 10:57 am to RB10
Posted on 8/14/17 at 10:57 am to RB10
"RE: Ole miss will not fall very far, and may actually improve recruiting..."
Bowl ban hurting recruiting and team player retention? You have to be shiteing me. Last year established the precedent that top players will skip a bowl game and the rest don't give a shite. Bowl ban hurting recruiting? Really? You really believe that?
To those that lack the power of sequential imagination through no fault of their own but rather simply because of a failure in their inherited genes, I'll explain this seemingly antithetical conclusion:
The days of mass transfers, program collapse, etc., are over. A team can rapidly fill up with jr. college players, and in a time of near-free agency, find transfer leadership on the market, players looking for a senior or graduate year to get NFL noticed.
Ole Miss is a brand, a nice address, and a chance to play in the SEC. As has been shown by the scant success of transfers (except maybe QB - and even Alabama transfer QBs have had trouble getting a starting job elsewhere) to other programs, staying in the SEC has its benefits.
Who at Ole Miss would think it in their interest to transfer to... say ... SMU or Utah? I believe people are thinking about how things were 20 years ago when they imagine a program going deep in the tank. The scholly limit will hurt, but not as bad as people think because of the attraction to JC players, etc., wanting to take a stab at the SEC for NFL exposure and who are willing to "walk on" (yeh - right) in return for the "benefits" Ole Miss is so well known for...
Bowl ban hurting recruiting and team player retention? You have to be shiteing me. Last year established the precedent that top players will skip a bowl game and the rest don't give a shite. Bowl ban hurting recruiting? Really? You really believe that?
To those that lack the power of sequential imagination through no fault of their own but rather simply because of a failure in their inherited genes, I'll explain this seemingly antithetical conclusion:
The days of mass transfers, program collapse, etc., are over. A team can rapidly fill up with jr. college players, and in a time of near-free agency, find transfer leadership on the market, players looking for a senior or graduate year to get NFL noticed.
Ole Miss is a brand, a nice address, and a chance to play in the SEC. As has been shown by the scant success of transfers (except maybe QB - and even Alabama transfer QBs have had trouble getting a starting job elsewhere) to other programs, staying in the SEC has its benefits.
Who at Ole Miss would think it in their interest to transfer to... say ... SMU or Utah? I believe people are thinking about how things were 20 years ago when they imagine a program going deep in the tank. The scholly limit will hurt, but not as bad as people think because of the attraction to JC players, etc., wanting to take a stab at the SEC for NFL exposure and who are willing to "walk on" (yeh - right) in return for the "benefits" Ole Miss is so well known for...
This post was edited on 8/14/17 at 10:59 am
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Posted on 8/14/17 at 11:26 am to Jacknola
Every football game is on TV nowadays. They get just as much exposure at Utah or SMU as anywhere else. The quality of play is a different story, but if a kid can play, he's going to stand out at one of those schools, so I can easily see transferring there as a much more viable option than playing for a team lost in the wilderness for the better part of a decade.
Posted on 8/14/17 at 3:08 pm to Jacknola
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Last year established the precedent that top players will skip a bowl game and the rest don't give a shite. Bowl ban hurting recruiting? Really? You really believe that?
Ya.......after they are eligible for the draft which is 3 years.
Posted on 8/14/17 at 3:15 pm to Jacknola
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Bowl ban hurting recruiting and team player retention? You have to be shiteing me. Last year established the precedent that top players will skip a bowl game and the rest don't give a shite. Bowl ban hurting recruiting? Really? You really believe that?
Doesn't matter what we believe. OlMiss believed it enough to lie to 17 yr old recruits and tell them that everything was going to be A-OK.
So it was/is obviously an issue.
Wait, are you one of the "when they get on campus they fall in love with OledMiss" crowd?
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