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Our "Plan D" OL signed with Kansas

TheStateUofMS

TheStateUofMS

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Who else would you blame? Heavyset and Don Mullens neglected OL recruiting for years. What makes you think Moorhead and company can come in and fix that in less than a month????
 
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msstate7

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TheStateUofMS said:
Who else would you blame? Heavyset and Don Mullens neglected OL recruiting for years. What makes you think Moorhead and company can come in and fix that in less than a month????
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Depth certainly looks to be an issue in the next few years, but Mullen left us with a stud oline
 
HumpDawgy

HumpDawgy

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Obviously our new OL coach isn't the "OL Recruit Whisperer" either.

Let's see. One OL signee in 2017 (3*), One this year (4*). If we keep this up, Rudy Rudiger will be our starting RT in 2020.


What position group has the most starters in your normal base offensive or defensive formations? Yeah.....its the OL with 5. Wouldn't you make sure to recruit multiple options for this position group? I know they are not the glam recruits like QBs, RBs, WRs, DL, etc.......but they are essential to winning games against SEC teams who usually have pretty good DL on the other side of the ball. When we start focusing on this position group as a priority each and every year, we might start competing for some real championships and not just St. Pete Bowl Championships!
 
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blacklistedbully

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Damn...you know it's bad when we start losing recruits to Kansas...the undisputed armpit of college football.
 
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maroonmania

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HumpDawgy said:
Obviously our new OL coach isn't the "OL Recruit Whisperer" either.

Let's see. One OL signee in 2017 (3*), One this year (4*). If we keep this up, Rudy Rudiger will be our starting RT in 2020.


What position group has the most starters in your normal base offensive or defensive formations? Yeah.....its the OL with 5. Wouldn't you make sure to recruit multiple options for this position group? I know they are not the glam recruits like QBs, RBs, WRs, DL, etc.......but they are essential to winning games against SEC teams who usually have pretty good DL on the other side of the ball. When we start focusing on this position group as a priority each and every year, we might start competing for some real championships and not just St. Pete Bowl Championships!
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Yes, MJ hasn't shown me much of anything on the recruiting front. This guy was a sitting OL coach at a P5 school and he can't pull in ONE OL prospect once coming on board? Heck, even if it was a plan B guy for Duke you would have thought he could have helped us get somebody in this cycle.
 
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Oldman.sixpack

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I'm not judging this staff till next year. Why did y'all expect them to come in and work miracles. Get a life
 
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Msubulldogfan1

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Oldman said:
I'm not judging this staff till next year. Why did y'all expect them to come in and work miracles. Get a life
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This is what any reasonable fan should do.

I gotta day tho, pulling Lovett was a big win for Moorhead and co. Imo.
 
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maroonmania

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Oldman said:
I'm not judging this staff till next year. Why did y'all expect them to come in and work miracles. Get a life
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Nice to know now that reeling in even one other OL prospect besides Dolla Bill with another P5 offer in this class is qualified as a "miracle". Yes, yes, we MSU fans do ask for way too much.
 
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engie

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Center could be a concern.
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Essentially replacing one position on the OL in the next two seasons. With two RS Jucos looking at their first action this fall. That's the biggest concern on the offense. Pardon me if I just sit back and yawn about that. A single real offensive need in the next two classes, and one we've got plenty of time to fill given the makeup of our roster. And that's also assuming we don't hit the graduate transfer market for an inside guy in the 2019 class, which I think we probably will do given the number of graduating roster losses we'll have and the inability to hold the 85 number with only 25 in recruiting...

I'll start really worrying about this when Williams and Story graduate after the 2019 season and the rest of the actual signees struggle and we don't restock. And even then we've still got both bookend tackles through 2020. And that's assuming Dolla doesn't push one of them inside before then, essentially meaning we'd only have two spots to fill on the OL in JoeMo season 3.

Our specific scenario affords us time to fix this without freaking out yet. If we don't fix it next class -- then I'll be agreeing.
 
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blacklistedbully

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So, are you saying because he is from a bordering state, that makes it understandable he would choose to go to one of the worst D1 football programs in the country over us, even when we are short on talent at his position?

I know it's cheaper to fly from Lincoln, NE to Columbus, MS than it is to fly to Wichita, KS. I know a flight to GTR is just an hour more.

I don't know what part of NE his family is from, but I'm guessing it could be a 3-4 hour drive each way.
 
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