Derek Pegues

he's always been a solid player for them the past few years. IMO he should be picked fairly high in the draft this year.

He did have an offer from LSU.

Well Titus Brown is gone...that guy was awesome. Anthony Dixon is OK.

Are you saying that they have more guys that can play on our team or that Pegues couldn't?

I think he'd be our starting CB right now over Jai or Chris Hawkins. We wouldn't play him at safety, he's 195 lbs. But he'd be a beast of a CB for us.

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Maybe he wanted to be the big fish in a small pond.

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Nope. Croom "romanced" his mother and told her he was going to create a "Black Dynasty" (verbatim quote from those in the know) in Starkville

South Panola, the high school he comes from, is Ole Miss's #1 feeder school, and he is just about the only prospect from there that we have not signed in the last decade....

Dude is from Batesville, MS...him playing for State is a like a kid from Chalmette playing for LSU....almost a no-brainer.

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Seriously? Wow, that is quite the story, really.

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Yes, seriously. And it was quite the story....you know people in rural Mississippi don't have much in the way of entertainment, but the Croom-Pegues soap opera provided quite a bit for a while there

A prime example, too, of how State hurts us by picking off a few prime prospects every year--not enough to make themselves competitive, but enough to keep us from getting all the way to where we need to be talent-wise to compete consistently with the best in the SEC

I watched him play QB in the Mississippi state high school championship game. He was awesome and unstoppable. Richard Dickson played Defensive end for Ocean Springs and never touched Pegues all night.

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Dude is from Batesville, MS...him playing for State is a like a kid from Chalmette playing for LSU....almost a no-brainer



Actually, it's a much higher probability that he'd play at Ole Miss being from Batesville, especially considering the high school he attended has put a bunch of guys at Ole Miss (Strong brothers, etc)

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agreed, but it was in comparison to LSU not Hotty Toddy

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South Panola, the high school he comes from, is Ole Miss's #1 feeder school, and he is just about the only prospect from there that we have not signed in the last decade....

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DeWayne Ruud?

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A prime example, too, of how State hurts us by picking off a few prime prospects every year--not enough to make themselves competitive, but enough to keep us from getting all the way to where we need to be talent-wise to compete consistently with the best in the SEC

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And vice versa.