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re: was Hugh Freeze's recruiting class last year just a flash in the pan?
Posted on 1/31/14 at 1:34 pm to skirpnasty
Posted on 1/31/14 at 1:34 pm to skirpnasty
IMO, Freeze needs to win more games and make it to Atlanta in the next 2-3 years.
If he doesn't, he will have trouble continuing the recruiting momentum of the past 2 years
If he doesn't, he will have trouble continuing the recruiting momentum of the past 2 years
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Posted on 1/31/14 at 1:35 pm to RollTide1987
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I don't mean this harshly (actually I do) but you have to face facts. Ole Miss is one of the toilet bowls of the SEC. They have been for over 50 years now. Other than 2003, Ole Miss hasn't come close to winning the West. How the hell does a coach, who has never been the head coach at a top tier school mind you, come in to a school like that and immediately recruit all of those five stars to Oxford in the same class?
Color me skeptical, but I'm fairly certain some improprieties went down in some of those kids' recruitments. I have no sources. That's just my opinion.
So let me get this straight.. You are proposing that Ole Miss bought players away from UGA and Alabama? Are you stupid or something? If it all came down to money, then Ole Miss wouldn't stand a chance against UT, Bama, UGA, LSU, Florida, etc... We had a few connections and a great recruiting staff. Did we also pay? I'm sure we did, but don't act like Bama and UGA didn't try and buy...
Posted on 1/31/14 at 1:36 pm to TeamCornbread
I was on the help board, maroonnation.
Posted on 1/31/14 at 1:40 pm to skirpnasty
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Connor was the only recruit in the top 5 from MS that you picked up last year.
Going by the 247 Composite Connor, Kailo Moore and Buchannan were 3 of the top 5 in Mississippi last year sooo...
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State has gotten the top recruit out of MS the past two years.
Couldn't find the official 247/Composite ranking but according to Paul Jones Channing Ward was the top recruit in MS in 2012 and he's obviously busting at OM as we speak (as is #2 Quay Evans at State
). LINK
Also, 4-5 of the top players from the state in 2014 are committed to us. So yeah Hugh has done a really good job in MS.
This post was edited on 1/31/14 at 1:43 pm
Posted on 1/31/14 at 1:44 pm to skirpnasty
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How do you figure?
According to 247, 4 of the top 5 guys from MS in this year's class are currently committed to Ole Miss.
The other is committed to Auburn.
Posted on 1/31/14 at 1:45 pm to SwayzeBalla
TOO LATE
Posted on 1/31/14 at 1:47 pm to UMRealist
frick OUR facts
Posted on 1/31/14 at 1:47 pm to UMRealist
We also have Isaac Gross and Anthony Alford from that top 5 from 2012. 
Just wanted to point that out if they didn't click on the link.
Just wanted to point that out if they didn't click on the link.Posted on 1/31/14 at 1:48 pm to UMTigerRebel
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Anthony Alford
Not originally, but still he's ours now and should be a badass.
Posted on 1/31/14 at 1:49 pm to UMTigerRebel
Yeah, I saw that. Wasn't gonna consider Alford considering we didn't get him out of HS
Posted on 1/31/14 at 1:50 pm to UMRealist
It doesn't matter. He's ours now.
Posted on 1/31/14 at 1:55 pm to UMRealist
He's a fricking rebel and he's going to crack skulls
Posted on 1/31/14 at 2:00 pm to SwayzeBalla
I remember when I thought he killed Dodson last year in the grove bowl
Posted on 1/31/14 at 2:20 pm to DMagic
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We screwed the pooch on Gennessy by offering far too late
True
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and Morgan we just got straight up beat by Bryan Kelly
No, we got beat by Morgan's mother, who wanted her son to attend an "academically prestigious" school, ideally one close to home--Notre Dame fit the bill on both those counts and Ole Miss just didn't.
If it had been entirely up to Nyles, he would be playing in Oxford next season.
On the other hand, the only reason we got Markell Pack away from FSU was HIS mother's insistence that he attend Ole Miss, so the Mama thing cuts both ways.
This post was edited on 1/31/14 at 2:22 pm
Posted on 1/31/14 at 2:45 pm to SwayzeBalla
Chris Jones was hands down the best player in MS last year, Aeris Williams is this year. Buchanan and Moore will both be lucky to ever see the field, I wouldn't consider either of them top 5 in the state, and I don't think scout did either.
Posted on 1/31/14 at 2:46 pm to skirpnasty
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, I wouldn't consider either of them top 5 in the state
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Mississippi State fan
Shocker
Posted on 1/31/14 at 2:49 pm to cardboardboxer
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Ole Miss still has a pretty decent class. Arky fans would take it.
Excellent
Posted on 1/31/14 at 2:49 pm to skirpnasty
Posted on 1/31/14 at 2:51 pm to UMTigerRebel
I honestly don't follow 247, scout tends to be pretty accurate so I just use them. I'll agree that Moore was a good pick up, but when it comes down to him vs. Shumpert I'll take Shump and I think most will agree. If you haven't seen Aeris play you should, kid is a beast.
Posted on 1/31/14 at 2:56 pm to Badge
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Ole Miss has sooo much potential to become an SEC power.
such as what? they will never have as much to sell as Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Auburn, Florida, Tennessee, or Texas A&M.
compared to those 7:
winning tradition? no
facilities? no
fanbase? no
money? no
Ole Miss has the potential to make a bowl game most years and compete for a division title once or twice a decade. They just do not have the resources to be a perennial power, and never will. That's not a knock on Hugh Freeze or anything he's been doing because he seems to be doing all the right things to keep Ole Miss respectable and competitive. It's just a harsh reality that a small school in a small state like MS with no winning tradition has to live with.
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