Football Withdrawal

by Juco All-American on Feb 10, 2009 4:00 PM EST

If you, like me, are in football withdrawal, I'm attempting to ease some of your pain with a little bit of news. These are all from "sources", but the sources are generally pretty good.

Bolden to Fullback
Word "on da streetz" is that Bolden is going to get a strong look at fullback this offseason. It's doubtful that he would make a full-time move to that position, but the coaches are going to look at using him as a fullback in certain packages. I love this move. Putting another player on the field that defenses need to worry about is a great idea, and this will give us even more options for imaginative plays. I have visions of a triple option with Jevan, Cordera and Bolden out of the shotgun.

12th Game - We're not in Kansas anymore. Heck, we're not even in the FBS.
I'm hearing more and more that the 12th game will be against some directional school from 1AA. This is not good news, since I was looking forward to another legitimate opponent on the schedule, but it speaks a lot about where our program stands right now. The apparent hold up on slotting this game with a worthwhile team is that no one wants to play us. The demands were apparently outrageous monetarily from some of the other BCS conference teams who viewed the game as a "sure loss". Still, it's repulsive that we'll play two 1AA opponents next season.

2010 Class looking good in-state
It's really early to start talking about next signing class, but I'd be remiss not to mention the fact that this staff has started very strong in the state of Mississippi. Many of the top players in the state have named us their leader. Those players include WR Vincent Sanders, RB Matthew Wells, DE/DT Devin Clark, Carlos Thompsonand (Memphis is basically part of our state) O.C. Brown. If you have a rivals account, watch Brown's video. It's out of this world as far as pulling guards go.

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If we put Bolden at FB we better find a way to get him a lot of touches. In many games he was easily the most dynamic back we had out there.

by Rebels7 on Feb 10, 2009 5:25 PM EST reply actions

for a second I was going to correct you and say three 1AA teams, but then I remembered somehow Memphis is a 1A team.

by Anonymous on Feb 10, 2009 5:27 PM EST reply actions

As I said, Bolden is not being looked at to move to fullback fulltime. The idea is to give him several snaps at Fb a game while keeping him primarily as a halfback.

by Juco All-American on Feb 10, 2009 5:32 PM EST reply actions

Damn reading comprehension.

by Rebels7 on Feb 10, 2009 7:25 PM EST reply actions

Coaching change sure didn't hamper Miss. St. and their new head coach with the in-state recruiting did it?
Maybe the Rebs and their brilliant coach will do better next year and not get their ass handed to them again.

by GonzoHog on Feb 10, 2009 7:30 PM EST reply actions

Hey Gonzo, you are such a badass. In reality, you are probably an inrbed piece of shit. Either way, I know where you were during bowl season. Come back when you beat us on the field or the court. Maybe you can actually get us in that wal mart on campus soon, but don't count on any diamond wins.
Now, for those with some actual intelligence around here, help me out: I thought we could only count 1 victory over a 1AA school for bowl purposes.

by Anonymous on Feb 10, 2009 7:39 PM EST reply actions

Our ass handed to us? By Razorback standards we already beat them in Rivals' team rankings. We beat them in Scout's also, but of course everyone knows that Scout is horrible and Rivals is better. (sarcasm)(for those who didn't get it)

I believe that we won't see who the better recruiting class was for another 2-3 years.

by dr. curly on Feb 10, 2009 8:39 PM EST reply actions

I'm kind of tired of seeing people talk as if Mullen put that entire class together himself. He certainly should get credit for keeping the class together and adding to it with quality players. But, the bulk of that class was committed before the season even started.

by ssmund on Feb 10, 2009 10:00 PM EST reply actions

Does having non-Mississippians on our roster subtract points from our team next year? What's that you say? No?

The way I see it, we went out of state and we recruited better than MSU regardless of criteria (stars, rankings, signees with BCS offers, signees with BCS visits, etc). And just for clarity, we recruited just as well as Arkansas under the same criteria.

Don't get me wrong - I'm no homer. I definitely think we need to improve our in-state recruiting (and continue our success in out-of-state recruiting) if we want to reach the top. MSU/Bama did, after all, land a few in-state guys we wanted (Boyd, Cox Norwood, etc). We will never own the state b/c kids just don't grow up Ole Miss fans, but we need to improve. We'll see what happens this year. So far it looks like the top in-state prospects are giving us heavy consideration.

by Anonymous on Feb 10, 2009 10:46 PM EST reply actions

Recruiting the state of Mississippi is overrated. 99% of the time there just isn't enough qualified SEC calibre talent to justify signing a bunch of MS kids. Sucks but it's the truth.

by warchief on Feb 11, 2009 2:11 AM EST reply actions

I don't know about the rest of you but I didn't give a damn where they were from when Jevan Snead(Stephenville,TX)was throwing all those TDs to Mike Wallace(New Orleans,LA) or watching Dexter McCluster(Largo,FL) take direct snaps,etc.Do Greg Hardy's (Memphis,TN)sacks not count as sacks since he's not from Mississippi?

by rightwingconspirator on Feb 11, 2009 7:53 AM EST reply actions

Gonzo, you're just grasping at straws now. Face it, Nutt is proving y'all wrong.

Let me guess, now you're going to tell us that he's doing all of this to "spite" Arkansas or something, right? Well fucking good for him.

Before you even try that crap, let me go ahead and speak on behalf of the Rebel nation by saying that we don't give a damn why Houston Nutt wins games for us, so long as he does.

You lose, good day sir.

by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Feb 11, 2009 9:19 AM EST reply actions

Warchief,

I agree that recruiting in Mississippi is overrated. But it's not because the talent isn't there. It's because a lot of the talented players don't qualify. If our HS coaches would actually hold players to the standard of "you gotta make your grades to play", we'd see a lot more in-state recruiting. I played 5A ball in Mississippi and I can assure you the talent is there. 10 or 12 guys a year couldn't qualify and went JUCO and I'd probably say another 3 or 4 could play college ball but couldn't even qualify for JUCO. It's pretty sad really.

by Anonymous on Feb 11, 2009 10:15 AM EST reply actions

I do not want to play a 1-AA team. If we are going to make it to the top and get consideration from the BCS system, we need to play a recognized team. Its not like we are USC where the media hypes up a win over a PAC-10 school that couldnt beat South Panola. I'm just saying that we need to play someone that will at least get us on national television.

by Bham Reb on Feb 11, 2009 11:16 AM EST reply actions

I know anon, that's why i said there usually isn't enough qualified SEC calibre talent.

by warchief on Feb 11, 2009 11:58 AM EST reply actions

So Jerry isn't offering ole miss 6million to come play in his new stadium? No way!! Shocker of the year!

by Anonymous on Feb 11, 2009 3:04 PM EST reply actions

Ghost,

Grasping at straws? As far as I can tell, everything I said in my post was true, so the question that I would have to ask here is:
What is Nutt proving us (ya'll) wrong about? That he can win with someone elses recruits?

by GonzoHog on Feb 11, 2009 10:16 PM EST reply actions

To suggest that one is "grasping at straws" doesn't mean that they're lying. It suggests that the "grasper" is doing whatever he/she can to better a bad situation.

I know that what you're saying is true. My point is that Y'all don't want to feel like dumbasses after hearing the media fawn over Nutt and bash Petrino so you are doing whatever it takes to make yourselves feel better.

Yes, State did out-recruit us in Mississippi this year. However, we out-recruited them overall. You dangling that in our faces as if it upsets us = you grasping for straws. You can only hope, pray, wish that it burns us deep down inside that Nutt didn't recruit Mississippi well but, guess what it doesn't.

It doesn't fucking matter where the players call home so long as they're good enough to win us football games. They can have Mississippi recruits all they want. I want good ones, regardless of geography.

-Ghost in the Admin account, y'all

by Red Solo Cup Admin on Feb 11, 2009 11:28 PM EST reply actions