Rebellious

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On behalf of the rant and all its posters I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for this shitty thread

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Shitty because it states the truth?

Go ahead, carry on with your little peeing contests over in-state recruits. Threads 300, 400, 500, 600 posts long. (Notice how you never see such nonsense involving fans of other SEC teams?)

Yapping at each other over 3-star in-state recruits while the rest of the SEC ignores you, which is what tends to happen when neither program has come within sniffing distance of a championship in a half-century.

By all means, don't let me get in the way...... :rolleyes:

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Probably not accurate but in-state schools battling over 4-stars drives up subscriptions.

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Maybe, but all the other services (Rivals, Scout, ESPN) only have 7 2015 Mississippi players rated 4-stars and none 5-stars....which is reflected in the composite ratings on 24/7.

The issue that Arkansas faces is similar to the one issue the Mississippi schools face--you MUST recruit successfully out-of-state blue-chip prospects in order to keep up in the SEC.

Actually, all SEC schools need to, but, theoretically, at least, Florida, Georgia, LSU, and Texas A&M could field competitive teams while relying overwhelmingly on in-state talent.

Nobody else can, though.

Does anybody seriously think that there are actually 12 legitimate 4-star recruits in Mississippi in 2015?

Well, there aren't. Any more than there are in any year.

Mississippi produces some excellent talent, but the state still has a small population and once you get beyond the top half-dozen recruits or so in any given year, including this one, you are out of legitimate blue-chip territory.....and once you get past the top 15, you are usually well out of SEC-caliber player territory. And neither Ole Miss nor MSU has ever or ever will have a monopoly on in-state talent, which is why all the bickering over individual prospects between the fans of the two is so absurd.

Neither Mississippi school will ever be a serious contender in the SEC unless it can consistently recruit blue-chip talent from other states.....That is the key.....Freeze did it last year, but not this year......Mullen has never done it. But without such out-of-state success opn a year-in-year-out basis, neither will ever advance beyond mediocrity.

I really don't see why Missouri is being projected into the tournament. RPI's aside, they have a losing SEC record at this point in a fairly weak conference. Maybe they won't end up that way, but I don't think any team with a losing record in their conference should be in the NCAA tournament, any more than a team with a losing record should be eligible for a bowl game, regardless of who they played.

I have to think the SEC will get at least 4 teams into the tourney when all is said and done; having fewer than that would be unprecedented, especially now that the conference has 14 teams. Who the two other than UK and UF are is entirely up for grabs, because none of the rest have showed enough consistency for anybody to feel confident they will make it.

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But the thing is... not really: his 2.1 assists to 1.7 turnovers really isn't very good... certainly not good enough to justify him throwing up 12 bad threes per game.

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The guy is a little wild. I am not denying that. But that is his style and his personality and Andy Kennedy gave up trying to coach him out of it. It comes with the package. No player is perfect.

On the whole, I think it has been worth it to Ole Miss. We got a tourney bid last year and won the SEC tournament......and we will probably finish 3rd in the conference this year and might possibly get a second tourney bid, none of which would have happened without Marshall.

It is what it is and he is what he is......

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Yeah it is, because his 36% from behind the arc isn't a very good percentage. It isn't terrible, but it is definitely bad enough that he shouldn't be throwing up 12 per game. That's madness.

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It's not just that 90% of his shots are from beyind the arc--it is that he often has two defenders in his face when he is shooting--or is off-balance--or is 35 feet from the basket.

If he were not a dangerous player, opposing coaches would not be so obsessed with covering him whenever they play us.....

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His shooting percentage isn't quite 38%, but it almost is

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That is because 90% of the shots he takes are from beyond the arc. Considering that angle, his shooting percentages are not bad.

In all seriousness, I wonder what is going to happen in a state like Texas, whose white, Republican population is as conservative as it gets--when they become so outnumbered by non-white Democrats intent on the kind of income re-distribution that is anathema to conservative whites--that they lose control of their own destiny.

I use Texas as an example, because it will be the first "red" state in which whites become a minority of the population.

But the same question could apply to the South as a whole and the nation as a whole.

Could we see another serious Secessionist movement?

Louisiana :rotflmao:

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5 of the 8 are 24/7 4*s

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Yeah, but 4 of those 5 only have a 3* composite rating--which is the one that really matters....and the one legitimate 4-star you have is from Yazoo City, which, as you know, is an MSU stronghold.

So none of this is a departure from the norm. You will end up with the same kind of mediocre recruiting class you always end up with.....and mediocre results on the field will follow (as they always do)