re: 2018 Football Recruiting Latest Commit **3* RB Tyler Badie TN**

Ballard might not be a sure get.

Harry Ballard III @THE_HB3
Nahhh y’all are blessing me with all this love!! #MIZ ??????

Losing in State talent is nothing new to the Mizzou program. Many people were upset when we lost Alex Ofodile to Oregon. He has been a huge bust, but Mizzou recruited Hall, Johnson, Smith, and Floyd the same year.

Floyd had 3 catches against Florida the same amount Ofodile has for the season.

Mizzou will lose in state talent like Ezekiel Elliott, but not being a blue blood college I have come to expect this in recruiting. Finding players like Charles Harris and coaching them up and making them better is what will make Mizzou competitive and it has in the past.

We will get players like Drew Lock and DGB occasionally and maybe A.J. Ofodile can make things better with in state coaches (except for Hickman).

Beat Tennessee and there may be a couple commits next week.

if we beat tennessee, BO will stay and recruiting will pick up.

Is Parker shaky? Haven't seen that. We are still in good shape for Thompson as far as I know.

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wins out the class will be a top 40 class

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This is just a statement of faith.

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is just a statement of faith.

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I get it you think regardless of success in the field, recruiting will stay the same. That’s also a form of faith in your way of thinking.

I think the opposite happens. Recruiting will be better with better on field results.

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you think regardless of success in the field, recruiting will stay the same.

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No. I didn’t say that. Right now our recruiting blows. We do not have an infinite window of time to change that. We have one of the worst classes in all of P5 football. When we had some impressive commits, everyone who wanted to toot Barry’s horn used those as examples of his success. Now that they’re gone, we’re supposed to pretend we’re going to make it up on volume or something.

There isn’t an infinite supply of recruits or an infinite window of time. Every kid we recruit who says No is one less kid who we wanted here. I get we need a narrative to make that ok. Tell us again how it all comes out in the wash.

It makes the rankings a random number generator at this point in the cycle. Alabama currently has the #24 ranked class. Their class jumps to #4 in terms of quality.

Purdue has the lowest rated P5 class at 2.5 and there are 27 P5 teams with a class rated lower than MU. They keep winning and that # will continue to increase.