Got another commit today

[Bulldogg31]

One more thing on Cumbest. He's 6-5 and 215 or so but he's only 16 years old. Plenty of time to fill out that frame.

 

[BiscuitEater]

Question ..

Got another commit today

Cumbest was at the MSU Camp all day Sat, had an 'impressive showing,' met with Dan and committed to MSU.

But, according to Paul Jones, he got an OM offer earlier in the day. How does that happen?

 

[57stratdawg]

No. But we dropped two 2017 instate kids in December (whenever it was) because of fall out from the 2016 class. That could have easily have been more too if we hit on some guys we felt good about.

I hope we learned our lesson from that. But reading the tea leaves, I'm not holding my breath.

 

[Hump4Hoops]

He could make an immediate impact on the all-name team.

 

[KurtRambis4]

I'm not going

to let a couple of events erase 9 years, but that's me.

 

[HaleStater]

Seems by now you would realize a few things:

1 - you should trust Mullens evals
2 - players change positions all the time
3 - you take all the talent you can get, regardless of position

We need athletes. Find a position for them later.

I don't trust mullen's Evals across the board. Just the QBs. Let's not get stuff misconstrued. We haven't had a great tight end in 8 years. The receivers have been ok but he can do better. I'm sure he's not but He seems like such a lazy *** recruiter sometimes.

 

[HaleStater]

^^ these types walk among us

Delusional Guys like you walk among us too. Now isn't a good time to make the talent eval argument coming off a 6-7 season. Don't give me first year without Dak crap. We were devoid of talent across the board last year at nearly every position. Don't forget we had Dam Williams taking snaps and Shump and Holloway starting. Anytime any of that happens you are devoid of talent... period.

 

[engie]

So when Aeris goes for 1200 this year -- he just magically found talent somewhere along the way that he didn't have last year?

There is a big difference between "talent" and "trusting experience".

 

[57stratdawg]

I think he had camped at OM the day before. David Johnson said it was actually an invited walk-on which is stupid.

 

[ShrubDog]

We haven't had a great tight end in 8 years. .

Yeah the Cleveland Browns messed up taking TE Malcolm Johnson in the 2015 draft.

 

[thatsbaseball]

I hear you...but even a half assed kicking game makes us 8-5. Of course that falls on Mullen too so I guess it's kind of a moot point.

 

[engie]

Invited walk-on offer handed out in June at the VERY BEGINNING of the camp circuit?

It's like DJ knows that everyone still believing anything he is saying is too dumb to put two and two together and call bs on something obvious like that...

Kid gets offered at OM, offered at State the next day, immediately takes the State offer, and they can't withstand the reality that it seems pretty obvious that the kid was a State fan from the beginning.

 

[57stratdawg]

Right. We'll see how much effort they put into him this fall. Are they at his games, does he get invoked, etc.

Obviously, their uncertainty on the staff after August / September might make it hard to judge.

 

[HaleStater]

Yeah the Cleveland Browns messed up taking TE Malcolm Johnson in the 2015 draft.

He was good. Not great. I guess I missed where they drafted him as a Tight end. Oh Yeah he's a FB now. I repeat we haven't had a great TE in 8 years.

 

[HaleStater]

Starting talent. How many starters did we have last year that would start for another SEC team. I'll wait... Aeris is excellent and very talented. Just showing more Mullen coaching inadequacies by not starting him over those more experienced bums Shump and Holloway. Shump was a Fullback and Holloway was a conference USA special teams player who got starts most of the season. I like Mullen but let's not act like the man doesn't make some boneheaded decisions. He's far from infallible. And no I will never trust all his decisions in recruiting and playing personnel. The man loves his upperclassmen to a fault.

 

[ShrubDog]

You are talking about Great TE's, come on man. We rarely have Great WR's.

 

[engie]

Well, now you moved the goalposts to something that hadn't been a topic in the thread at all -- simply for the opportunity to continue bashing Mullen. Personnel usage and recruiting are two entirely different discussions about entirely different aspects of Mullen as a coach. Just like talent and SEC readiness are two completely different discussions about an individual player.

 

[KurtRambis4]

What do you

consider a "great" TE, if being drafted in the NFL is not enough?