Monterio Hunt's final 5

[Bulldogg31]

Marshall
MTSU
S Alabama
UT Martin
Southern Miss

Helps explain why we were ok with him opening up his recruitment.

Seems like a good kid. Hope he finds a good spot.

 

[Msubulldogfan1]

Just very odd. Everybody was talking about how we could sign 30 or more, now we're telling recruits to look elsewhere and we might not sign even 25?

**** doesn't add up. I'm far from a recruiting expert but still.

 

[Croom's knee socks]

Yep. My only gripe is we need to a better job of evaluating early on. As Rosie says it's not the kids ya don't sign that get you beat. It's the kids you sign that can't play that get you beat.

 

[RocketDawg]

Just being really selective?

 

[Croom's knee socks]

Just very odd. Everybody was talking about how we could sign 30 or more, now we're telling recruits to look elsewhere and we might not sign even 25?

**** doesn't add up. I'm far from a recruiting expert but still.

Yea it's really sketchy. Are we on double secret probabtion or something?

 

[Bulldogg31]

Just being really selective?

Just means the eval after his senior season wasn't impressive enough to make him an SEC WR. Think Rico Sanders. Good player, just not an SEC guy.

We're not hungry enough at WR to take a bunch of developmental guys. If you're taking on a project, go get another OL who might work out.

 

[engie]

We were never signing back to full. This is why last year's undersigning was brutal.

 

[civildawg88]

We basically put ourself on self probation because we missed out on so many guys and just banked their scholarships. Happening again this year it seems

 

[Hoover Dawg]

Yep. My only gripe is we need to a better job of evaluating early on. As Rosie says it's not the kids ya don't sign that get you beat. It's the kids you sign that can't play that get you beat.

That is one of the dumbest quotes I have ever seen. You job is to sign the best, so I'd say yeah, it's the other teams better players that beat your butt on Saturdays.

Talk about some sheep herding recruitnik bull. Not to mention that it is wrong. Mullen is a great at evaluation, but leaves plenty to be desired in January when closing the deal.

 

[Croom's knee socks]

We were never signing back to full. This is why last year's undersigning was brutal.

I agree. I don't know what happened. The only thing I can think of is losing Hughes hurt even more than what we thought it would on the recruiting trail.

 

[StillTbonewannabe]

That is one of the dumbest quotes I have ever seen. You job is to sign the best, so I'd say yeah, it's the other teams better players that beat your butt on Saturdays.

Talk about some sheep herding recruitnik bull. Not to mention that it is wrong. Mullen is a great at evaluation, but leaves plenty to be desired in January when closing the deal.

Not sure how it affects the APR but Saban doesn't under sign. He just processes the guys that aren't cutting it. I guess it gives him an advantage over Mullen in recruiting also.

 

[57stratdawg]

Our former CB, Dabney, committed to USM too.

 

[PineGroveBully]

Im from his area and was told he would likely never see the field in 4-5 years at State.

 

[HD6]

If you sign 25 a year, it means you have to process 4-5 players a year. Between injuries, academics, and off the field incidents, that seems easy enough. In four years, there may be 3 kids you have to tell you aren't renewing their scholarship. That's acceptable to me, in this day and age of paying coaches 4-5 million dollars a year.

 

[Bulldogg31]

Im from his area and was told he would likely never see the field in 4-5 years at State.

This is when a kid should decommit and go find somewhere he can play. The NCAA only gives you five years to play four. I would rather spend mine where I actually get to play the game.

 

[johnson86-1]

If you sign 25 a year, it means you have to process 4-5 players a year. Between injuries, academics, and off the field incidents, that seems easy enough. In four years, there may be 3 kids you have to tell you aren't renewing their scholarship. That's acceptable to me, in this day and age of paying coaches 4-5 million dollars a year.

Not that I disagree, but I think your math is off because of red shirts.

 

[Southern Law Dawg]

If you sign 25 a year, it means you have to process 4-5 players a year. Between injuries, academics, and off the field incidents, that seems easy enough. In four years, there may be 3 kids you have to tell you aren't renewing their scholarship. That's acceptable to me, in this day and age of paying coaches 4-5 million dollars a year.

I just wish our state newspaper didn't go out of the way to rake Mullen over the coals every time it happens.

Not that I disagree, but I think your math is off because of red shirts.

That would push it up to 28, minus one for every non redshirt from 4 years prior and early NFL departures. That would put us around 20 to process, which is a ton.

 

[engie]

That would push it up to 28, minus one for every non redshirt from 4 years prior and early NFL departures. That would put us around 20 to process, which is a ton.

Over a number of years, which isn't many. Wouldn't change the number we currently lose now by more than 2-3 per class over the course of 5 years max. And we'd actually enter seasons with the full 85 or very close to it. At current rate, we are highly likely to be below 80 on day 1 for the second year in a row. That is unacceptable. And we almost have to do it this year -- because we only have 10 seniors next year. So, we've essentially been on 2 full years of self-imposed probation against the 85.