RE: 2016 Football Commitments
True, we are all in highly talented areas, however as you well know, we have to compete first with the P5 programs. As a Southern Miss fan, I have seen first hand how our program is belittled by the media in the shadow of the SEC. Kids read this and want to play in the SEC first. Southern Miss has to get kids that somehow aren't recruited by LSU, Ole Miss, Miss State, Alabama, Auburn, Florida and Arkansas. Not to mention other National teams like Texas, Texas A&M, Notre Dame, Florida St and Nebraska. ALL of these teams have taken top recruits from Mississippi in recent years. Then throw in other P5 teams that come calling from time to time and its tough to get a lot of 3 star recruits, much less 4 star and above players. I'd guess teams like LSU, Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Va. Tech and the like land more 4 star players than the entirety of CUSA and the AAC combined!!
I'm not whining, it is what it is, we all have to deal with it, but lets face it, for the most part we get the left overs. Every now and then you get a Brett Favre or a Jamie Collins like we did, or like Marshall did with Randy Moss when a kid gets in trouble at another program and comes home, but in the end, the P5 schools now more than ever, have first choice of the recruits.
(This post was last modified: 08-01-2015 01:00 PM by Storm.)
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