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Posted on 12/23/25 at 3:34 pm to
Posted by DownSouthJukin
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Posted on 12/23/25 at 3:34 pm to
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Please amend your list. We're being referred to as 'America's Team' currently. A bunch of straight A, hard-nosed, chip on their shoulder kids that were rejected by other schools and came to Oxford to do something special together.


Perhaps the Bad News Bears?
Posted by geauxbrown
Louisiana
Member since Oct 2006
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Posted on 12/23/25 at 3:35 pm to
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Hugh Freeze pulled in a top5 class at Ole Miss exactly 10 years ago






The OM recruiting average over the last 10 years.... 22.8
This post was edited on 12/23/25 at 3:37 pm
Posted by geauxbrown
Louisiana
Member since Oct 2006
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Posted on 12/23/25 at 3:37 pm to
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Perhaps the Bad News Bears?


I like it

Chicos Bail Bonds on the field next season.
Posted by ThePoo
Work
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Posted on 12/23/25 at 3:46 pm to
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That doesn't make any sense unless you lack the ability to develop players, which would have nothing to do with the school, only the coaching.
Are you under the impression that because you develop a player and they show out one season that they can't leave your school for a bigger offer from another school willing and capable of paying them more?

Posted by 3down10
Member since Sep 2014
39571 posts
Posted on 12/23/25 at 3:48 pm to
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The OM recruiting average over the last 10 years.... 22.8


6 of those have been under Kiffin.

2012 : #48
2013: #8
2014: #15
2015: #17
2016: #5
----Freeze Fired----
2017: #31
2018: #32
2019: #22
2020: #35
---Kiffin Hired---
2021: #17
2022: #15
2023: #17
2024: #17
2025: #16
2026: #22

I'm counting overall which includes transfers during the Kiffin years, seems most accurate.


Posted by stopitnow1
Florida
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Posted on 12/23/25 at 3:51 pm to
You kinda have to at programs like ole miss
Posted by skrayper
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Posted on 12/23/25 at 3:57 pm to
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Indiana 65.4%

OM 66.3%

I understand you folks aren't really good with math and all but damned man, don't have such a hard on for Kiffin.


Yes.

Ole Miss has MORE transfers than Indiana.

Is reading comprehension even taught in Louisiana anymore?

Besides, it was literally just a comparison between the coach with the MOST transfers in relation to the coach with the LEAST transfers. I didn't even imply one was better than the other, just that one was the opposite of the other - you guys took it as a negative.

LSU fans just embrace victimhood it seems.
Posted by 3down10
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Posted on 12/23/25 at 4:08 pm to
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Are you under the impression that because you develop a player and they show out one season that they can't leave your school for a bigger offer from another school willing and capable of paying them more?


No, that's what I told fans of G5 schools when they claimed the portal was going to help them. Any players they develop are going to transfer out if they are good.

That doesn't make it the optimal way to do things however. Being able to develop your own talent(and keep it) while using transfers to plug in holes will be the best way to get things done.

Posted by theballguy
Huntsville Alabama
Member since Oct 2011
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Posted on 12/23/25 at 5:58 pm to
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For the college football purists out there



Indiana by 35
Posted by New Money
Athens, GA
Member since Jun 2023
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Posted on 12/23/25 at 6:05 pm to
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This basically makes him the anti-Kiffin.


One has two national championships.

The other is 13-24 against ranked teams.
Posted by geauxbrown
Louisiana
Member since Oct 2006
27035 posts
Posted on 12/23/25 at 6:16 pm to
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…seems most accurate


Agreed
Posted by geauxbrown
Louisiana
Member since Oct 2006
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Posted on 12/23/25 at 6:18 pm to
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OM has more transfers than Indiana


What is the difference?

One player? Two at the most?

You singled out Kiffin and OM yet kept your pie hole shut about Indiana.
Posted by Boodis Man
Member since Sep 2020
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Posted on 12/23/25 at 6:24 pm to
because aint no money in athens. broke baws
Posted by ForeverGator
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Posted on 12/23/25 at 7:35 pm to
Or Georgia has an unusually low number of transfers due to their contracts. See the lawsuit. That may be about to change.
Posted by GoldenDawg
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Member since Oct 2013
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Posted on 12/23/25 at 7:41 pm to
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Alabama

quote:

if


Alabama's new Motto:

IF!


Posted by Tideroller
Lower Alabama
Member since Jan 2022
3198 posts
Posted on 12/23/25 at 7:52 pm to
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This is definitely the present-day Alabama mantra


It's not a "mantra" you moron. Saban retired unexpectedly in Jan. 2024 and half the team transferred out to other places (like Downs, McLaughlin, and Sayin to Ohio State) before DeBoer was hired. There was no way to fill the roster except through the portal.This percentage won't last, we just signed the number 2 recruiting class (Georgia was 6th) and recruiting will be the way we roll, as always.
Posted by ibldprplgld
Member since Feb 2008
27721 posts
Posted on 12/23/25 at 9:50 pm to
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Hugh Freeze pulled in a top5 class at Ole Miss exactly 10 years ago.


You can’t be serious

Because he cheated.
Posted by 3down10
Member since Sep 2014
39571 posts
Posted on 12/23/25 at 9:55 pm to
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You can’t be serious

Because he cheated.


I thought the claim was everyone cheated?

At any rate, they are obviously paying players now.
Posted by Raoul Stimulato
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Member since Sep 2022
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Posted on 12/23/25 at 10:03 pm to
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Alabama would be much closer to the top if they didn’t lose Saban, obviously.


And if my grandma had balls…

Smh. Pathetic discourse on your end.
Posted by Chip82
Athens, Georgia
Member since Jan 2023
2025 posts
Posted on 12/23/25 at 11:09 pm to
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It you're looking for a team to back in the playoffs this year...



Since Kirby Smart came to Georgia, every single one of his high school recruits has earned either an SEC championship ring, or a national championship ring, or both.

Kirby is up front about telling recruits that they have signed on to develop both mental and physical toughness.



This post was edited on 12/23/25 at 11:12 pm
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