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Ole miss has a ton of rich donors and more importantly they are much better organized to raise funds within the program and direct then to the right places. We need to step the frick up.

Don't agree. Ole Miss is not a school that can recruit elite talent out of HS, unless the kid is a MS kid. That is just the reality. 5***** or high 4**** kids out of HS are not typically going to go to rural MS out of HS if they are from large cities from other parts of the US, just not. So Ole Miss does not have tons of NIL resources tied up to their recruits out of HS (except maybe in-state MS kids).

So what Ole Miss can do is use the portal and target NIL funds to guys to win in the short term. Ole Miss has Dart back next year, in my view in the new 16 team SEC, he is among the top 4 SEC QB's next year with Ewers at Texas, Milroe at Bama and Beck at UGA. Judkins is the top RB next year, the WR group with Harris who portaled in to Ole Miss from LA-Tech last year and Wells from SCAR coming int this year gives Dart 2 legit SEC WR's

On Defense, they are taking in 2 edge guys with SEC experience from UF and TENN, 2 Safeties, 1 from TENN and 1 from OU and the LB from Arkansas (Paul). That is 5 pencil in starters next year.

Lane is going all in next year to win big it looks like, they have a manageable schedule (no Bama, UGA at home and OU at Home).

Right now they look like a top 12 CFP team next year. Having a 5th year QB in Dart with all the starts he has, and weapons an Lane is playcaller with improved Defense, they are going to hard to handle.

42 of LSU's 80 scholarship players per 247 2023 talent composite are 4**** or better. While LSU has no 5***** in this 2024 class, 18 are 4****. So LSU's roster next year will have in the area of 50-55 4**** or better and actually be at 85 for the first time in BK's tenure (72 in 2022 and again 80 this year).