re: 2016 Mississippi State Recruiting Thead - Exclusive croomdawggie Recruiting Info

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If we had gotten Lashley and Cushenberry too I would have been perfectly content with this class. But we didn't.

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True. Lashley is Johhny Cooks nephew. That's more than just a kid getting away. That's a sign of a major problem.

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Losing AJ sucks but I like where we stand w/ WR right now anyways

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True, but he is from Starkville and quite possibly one of the most talented WR's I've seen in high school.



It's not about losing a recruit. It's about losing a recruit should have been gift wrapped if you put in the proper time.

Something else I was considering this morning - not only did we lose AJ/Lashley/Knott/Davis, but we lost them to teams we have to play against every year. That's a double-whammy right there

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Something else I was considering this morning - not only did we lose AJ/Lashley/Knott/Davis, but we lost them to teams we have to play against every year. That's a double-whammy right there

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Losing a regular kid to Alabama - understandable. Losing AJ Brown and Scott Lashley to anyone - not understandable.

I agree, it sounds like he is a frickface, but it should have never gotten that far.

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There probably will be some guys in this class that turn into studs, but there will also be a good portion that transfer or are never heard of again. Just like the 2012 class.

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And that is ok, all of them don't pan out, that happens anywhere. It was a small class, you address specific needs. We did that and did it with top 25 ranked players in the country at their positions.

It really sucks we didn't get Lashley, that was a huge need. But letting it overshadow the fact that we have absolutely loaded up at other spots is silly. Think about what we have coming up on defense. In two years your starting defense will include Peters, Lewis, Adams, Green, Erroll, Simmons, Smitherain, McLaurin, Nero, and Kobe. That's what this staff does well, they fill needs instead of taking loads of best availables. It seems to be working pretty well, and on far inferior talent than what is currently coming through.

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No doubt. The numbers have already been crunched and the hit-rate on 2/3*s is much lower than on blue chips. Just because we're MSU doesn't mean we're magically immune to the statistics. For every Banks/Slay/McKinney/Prescott there's several players that I don't even recall the names of because they were never good enough to contribute. Or if they did contribute, they typically got embarrassed by SEC athletes.

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Well, in the past I disagree. The reason we were able to spur the statistics is because Mississippi wasn't well evaluated. That is and has changed. People have noticed the value of some of these kids who don't necessarily get picked up on nationally, we need to learn how to fend off Saban, because I can promise you he's going to continue targeting more of our kids.

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AJ seems like a dip shite and has been saying he wanted to leave town all along. I see being upset about Lashley for sure but the writing has been on the wall with AJ.
The dude signed and then proceeded to talk only about why he didn't pick us and how he didn't get enough attention. That really should tell you all that you need to know. His decision was literally more about not picking us than it was about picking someone else.

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I have to think the coaches likely picked up on that and some point you do have to back away from him during the process. I mean you don't want somebody with that attitude around your other recruits poisoning the well.

I also agree about Lashley possibly never seeing much playing time and Bama and Saban only taking him to keep him away from us. We had a team that should've beat them in '14 and could've done it this year with a better O-line.

He just posted on Twitter again about Mullen not visiting him. Weird that he keeps feeling like he has to justify his decision to others.

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Shin is itching..

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Oh fuk

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@Brown1arthur: I'm the bad guy of Starkville now ...Ask coach Mullen how many times he came and saw me ?? I can count on one hand. I could careless honestly

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Still going. Is this dude oblivious to the fact that Mullen can only go see him so many times? You would think he would be over it by now, Mullen rustled those jimmies good. Dude is really going to lose it when he realizes he spitefully went to OM over a slight that didn't exist.