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Great news for Southern Miss! Looks like we stole a great QB recruit from UAB after Miss State stole one from us. Go Monken go!

Sorry, UAB (snicker, snicker).

(01-28-2013 09:42 PM)So Miss Eagle Wrote:  http://m.hattiesburgamerican.com/sports/...011&f=1018

Great news for Southern Miss! Looks like we stole a great QB recruit from UAB after Miss State stole one from us. Go Monken go!

Sorry, UAB (snicker, snicker).

As a ECU supporter I know all championships run through USM. I know last season was a down year and I know you guys will be back.
Hopefully USM will soon be in NBE with ECU and if not I hope we continue to schedule USM. Congratulations on the QB.

(01-28-2013 09:49 PM)r2pirate Wrote:  

(01-28-2013 09:42 PM)So Miss Eagle Wrote:  http://m.hattiesburgamerican.com/sports/...011&f=1018

Great news for Southern Miss! Looks like we stole a great QB recruit from UAB after Miss State stole one from us. Go Monken go!

Sorry, UAB (snicker, snicker).

As a ECU supporter I know all championships run through USM. I know last season was a down year and I know you guys will be back.
Hopefully USM will soon be in NBE with ECU and if not I hope we continue to schedule USM. Congratulations on the QB.

Thanks! Seriously, he's only a two star, but his stats are impressive and he was the AL Gatorade Player of the Year. In reality, I would prefer not to steal from a Conference-Mate, but since UAB has owned us lately, it does feel pretty good.

I now see this was discussed in a previous thread. Sorry I missed it but to be honest I quit reading threads when they turn personal.

I really don't tend to get too worked up over recruitment because it is an inexact science. Yeah the better rated the better it sounds but the real proof of recruiting is about 2 years down the road with a few exceptions. The coaches are guessing to some degree because so many factors can change a top flight prospect into a bust or a little recuited player into star, so I don't really get all up or down over it. I do agree though that the other thread had gotten stupid and needs to be locked.

I am more excited about the qb coach at USM now than whatever qb we sign. Monken will coach the qb's and he did a fantastic job at Ok State with qb's. As far as recruiting goes, get back to me in three years and we will have a better idea of who got the best recruits.

I wouldn't count on him yet....ya'll are his third commitment (so far) there is still plenty of time for a fourth. He committed to UAB on 1/13; was quoted as saying on 1/16

Quote: "A few bigger schools came along as well as UAB, but I'm really sold on UAB," Mullens said. "A few guys I played in the (Alabama-Mississippi) all-star game I played with are thinking about visiting UAB this weekend, so I'm trying to get down there and show them what UAB's all about."

Less than two weeks later he's yours (for now anyway). I wonder what "un-sold" him?

BTW...UAB has a 3*/4* (he mysteriously lost a star at Scout when he revealed he had signed a LOI for the Blazers, over Arizona, Purdue and Vanderbilt) QB grey-shirt from Houston already on campus so don't feel too sorry for us.

(01-29-2013 12:22 AM)SgtGoldenEagle Wrote:  I really don't tend to get too worked up over recruitment because it is an inexact science. Yeah the better rated the better it sounds but the real proof of recruiting is about 2 years down the road with a few exceptions. The coaches are guessing to some degree because so many factors can change a top flight prospect into a bust or a little recuited player into star, so I don't really get all up or down over it. I do agree though that the other thread had gotten stupid and needs to be locked.

..top of my head our best two qbs were recruited by nobody...favre never threw in hs and davis was pulled from the baseball team

...on the flipside deandre brown had great frosh season then was never the same and we all know what happened with alford

....two no looks vs two five stars...

....sums it up for me

(01-29-2013 01:33 AM)blazerjay Wrote:  I wouldn't count on him yet....ya'll are his third commitment (so far) there is still plenty of time for a fourth. He committed to UAB on 1/13; was quoted as saying on 1/16

Quote: "A few bigger schools came along as well as UAB, but I'm really sold on UAB," Mullens said. "A few guys I played in the (Alabama-Mississippi) all-star game I played with are thinking about visiting UAB this weekend, so I'm trying to get down there and show them what UAB's all about."

Less than two weeks later he's yours (for now anyway). I wonder what "un-sold" him?

BTW...UAB has a 3*/4* (he mysteriously lost a star at Scout when he revealed he had signed a LOI for the Blazers, over Arizona, Purdue and Vanderbilt) QB grey-shirt from Houston already on campus so don't feel too sorry for us.

UAB has always been a touch game for ECU.......we were top 20 one season and they still beat us....best luck future in uab

I know your pain as recruit go to unc are 4/5 stars and if same player changes his mind to ecu he will become a 2/3. We had one player to go unc and he went from 5' 10" and 185 lbs. to 6'4" and 205 lbs.
Now that is funny:)

(01-29-2013 12:22 AM)SgtGoldenEagle Wrote:  I really don't tend to get too worked up over recruitment because it is an inexact science. Yeah the better rated the better it sounds but the real proof of recruiting is about 2 years down the road with a few exceptions. The coaches are guessing to some degree because so many factors can change a top flight prospect into a bust or a little recuited player into star, so I don't really get all up or down over it. I do agree though that the other thread had gotten stupid and needs to be locked.

Agree 110%......history tells us that....it is why some teams will have to deal with what history should have taught them.......all cusa championships go throught usm........ecu knows from history....not only one bad season......how many schools fire their head coach after one season.........I know ecu is aware and all others need to be too.

i am not sure what the deal is with Mullins. He was the player of the year and had good stats but up until a couple of weeks ago he was committed to Jax St. and had no D1 offers. We ended up with QB number issues so we ended up offering him. However, we do have a grey shirt on campus (3-4* referenced earlier) and last years starter was only a redshirt fr. so i am not overly upset about losing him. I wish he would have gone somewhere other than USM though. He may end up being a stud in that system.

I'm not that worked up about it. USM's current QB situation is in a much greater state of flux currently than UAB's, so it's clearly a good get for them, but I'm not sure it's a grave loss for UAB.

I think the kid can play, but I also think he's more likely to play any time soon in Hattiesburg than in Birmingham.

(01-29-2013 11:14 AM)Smaug Wrote:  I'm not that worked up about it. USM's current QB situation is in a much greater state of flux currently than UAB's, so it's clearly a good get for them, but I'm not sure it's a grave loss for UAB.

I think the kid can play, but I also think he's more likely to play any time soon in Hattiesburg than in Birmingham.

He stated that the offense Monken will run is just like the offense he ran in high school. I think he also thinks he has a chance to play sooner at USM than UAB.

He does. There are already three quarterbacks ahead of him at UAB and one is a Freshman, the other is a Sophomore. Maybe it worked out for all parties involved?

He reminds me of a kid we signed out of high school a few years ago that went 60-0 as a QB in high school at the 5-A level. For some reason he didn't get a lot of offers but had all the tools. Some kids just slip through I guess.

He didn't want to wait his turn though playing behind Dwight Dasher. He ended up leaving to play at a Arizona JC and then signed a scholarship to play at Colorado where he graduated early and decided to quit football even though he was to compete for the starting job. He would have been a three year starter for us and put up PlayStation type numbers, but these kids always think the lights are brighter and the grass is greener. This situation between Miss St, USM and UAB reminded me of that kid almost immediately when I read it.

(01-29-2013 11:58 AM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  He reminds me of a kid we signed out of high school a few years ago that went 60-0 as a QB in high school at the 5-A level. For some reason he didn't get a lot of offers but had all the tools. Some kids just slip through I guess.

He didn't want to wait his turn though playing behind Dwight Dasher. He ended up leaving to play at a Arizona JC and then signed a scholarship to play at Colorado where he graduated early and decided to quit football even though he was to compete for the starting job. He would have been a three year starter for us and put up PlayStation type numbers, but these kids always think the lights are brighter and the grass is greener. This situation between Miss St, USM and UAB reminded me of that kid almost immediately when I read it.

We have a qb on our roster, Ricky Floyd, who broke all kind of records throwing the ball in California. He was one of five finalists for California player of the year. I was amazed he didn't have more offers from bigger schools. Boise got on him at the end, but he stayed with USM. Of course he came to USM to play under Fedora, but he leaves and we hire the idiot Ellis Johnson and Floyd gets injured running the ball. He has had surgery and if he is healthy, under Monken he should shine. We shall see. Glad to have Mullens to add depth.

(01-29-2013 11:58 AM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  He reminds me of a kid we signed out of high school a few years ago that went 60-0 as a QB in high school at the 5-A level. For some reason he didn't get a lot of offers but had all the tools. Some kids just slip through I guess.

He didn't want to wait his turn though playing behind Dwight Dasher. He ended up leaving to play at a Arizona JC and then signed a scholarship to play at Colorado where he graduated early and decided to quit football even though he was to compete for the starting job. He would have been a three year starter for us and put up PlayStation type numbers, but these kids always think the lights are brighter and the grass is greener. This situation between Miss St, USM and UAB reminded me of that kid almost immediately when I read it.

(01-29-2013 12:24 PM)EagleRockCafe Wrote:  

(01-29-2013 11:58 AM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  He reminds me of a kid we signed out of high school a few years ago that went 60-0 as a QB in high school at the 5-A level. For some reason he didn't get a lot of offers but had all the tools. Some kids just slip through I guess.

He didn't want to wait his turn though playing behind Dwight Dasher. He ended up leaving to play at a Arizona JC and then signed a scholarship to play at Colorado where he graduated early and decided to quit football even though he was to compete for the starting job. He would have been a three year starter for us and put up PlayStation type numbers, but these kids always think the lights are brighter and the grass is greener. This situation between Miss St, USM and UAB reminded me of that kid almost immediately when I read it.

We have a qb on our roster, Ricky Floyd, who broke all kind of records throwing the ball in California. He was one of five finalists for California player of the year. I was amazed he didn't have more offers from bigger schools. Boise got on him at the end, but he stayed with USM. Of course he came to USM to play under Fedora, but he leaves and we hire the idiot Ellis Johnson and Floyd gets injured running the ball. He has had surgery and if he is healthy, under Monken he should shine. We shall see. Glad to have Mullens to add depth.

...which we desperately need...spot on with the analysis....so glad EJ is gone...

Sunshine may actually get to see the sun shine for him with Monken.

Burnette was a 6-3 210 lb kid coming out of high school but he didn't have the elite arm as a 17 year old so the SEC overlooked him. These are the kinds of QB's we can find that SEC type schools will pass on and then develop them into Elite 11 caliber type passers even if they didn't have it coming out of high school. The SEC is all about right now, but a lot of these kids arms don't truly develop until they're 19 or 20. This kid for us redshirted, backed up Dasher as a RS Frosh and then would have been ready to go. He said he left because we were running so much read option (with Dasher). He didn't think that one through. Guess who has been running our offense the last few years? A pocket passer.

Our current QB didn't have any creds coming out of high school and played his freshman year at a JC QB in Cali. Tony Franklin is the one who found him for us. That guy is just amazing at idenfity QB talent that are diamonds in the rough. Kilgore, our senior QB, actually tweeted a week or so ago (now that UTEP is coming to MT) that UTEP's coaches told him three years ago he didn't have the arm strength to play at this level). Well, he does now. His arm has finally caught up to the rest of his body and he has an absolute rocket. He seems to have already marked the UTEP game on his calenar. Just an FYI for you Miner fans.

It's payback time! Go Blazers!

(01-29-2013 12:24 PM)EagleRockCafe Wrote:  

(01-29-2013 11:58 AM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  He reminds me of a kid we signed out of high school a few years ago that went 60-0 as a QB in high school at the 5-A level. For some reason he didn't get a lot of offers but had all the tools. Some kids just slip through I guess.

He didn't want to wait his turn though playing behind Dwight Dasher. He ended up leaving to play at a Arizona JC and then signed a scholarship to play at Colorado where he graduated early and decided to quit football even though he was to compete for the starting job. He would have been a three year starter for us and put up PlayStation type numbers, but these kids always think the lights are brighter and the grass is greener. This situation between Miss St, USM and UAB reminded me of that kid almost immediately when I read it.

We have a qb on our roster, Ricky Floyd, who broke all kind of records throwing the ball in California. He was one of five finalists for California player of the year. I was amazed he didn't have more offers from bigger schools. Boise got on him at the end, but he stayed with USM. Of course he came to USM to play under Fedora, but he leaves and we hire the idiot Ellis Johnson and Floyd gets injured running the ball. He has had surgery and if he is healthy, under Monken he should shine. We shall see. Glad to have Mullens to add depth.

I think QB depth was actually one of our problems last year. our coaching staff of simpletons couldn't handle it. too many choices. too many variables.

and they were still stumped after the first three guys got hurt.