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Rooting for Cam Aiken. Good guy. Hopefully Billy stays out of his way.

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Replacement RB Coach Frank Wilson is a great recruiter (Not needed any longer with NIL) but a really bad in-game RB Coach. Most LSU fans were glad to see him go.

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Your current RB coach led a room where we moved a slot WR to RB rather than play a RB currently in the NFL with the playoffs on the line. That slot WR ran for 2 yards per carry and lost a fumble as Ole Miss lost to Florida and was eliminated from playoff contention in 2024. The perfectly healthy NFL RB got 0 carries in that game but ran for 100+ the next week in the Egg Bowl. He also had no ability to reign in Quinshon Judkins.

QB coach is still at Ole Miss btw.

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Dont follow other schools like I do LSU but have listened to a few national media heads that love Miss State backfield and argue that its probably first in the league. When I heard this I admit I was shocked. I assumed Ole Miss with Lacy alone making them top tier but media loves them some state.

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I think Taylor is a talented player but he has a long ways to go as a passer and they don't have a ton of talent around him. He's also coming off of a (minor) ankle surgery though he's expected to be fine.

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Could be that he's a better HC than DC.

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I actually think he's a really good DC but I do hope this is the case. He's very organized and players respond well to him.

As a DC, he was really good for Ole Miss. We moved up 40 spots in year 1 under him, had a top 10 defense in year 2, and despite replacing just about everyone and the offense getting the bulk of the NIL last year, he still produced a top 40 defense. We were just a horse or two shy on that side last year from being good.

Mintzy is a little cringey I guess.

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So, did he flip any Ole Miss commitments?

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Not in this class. He had a TE signing day flip last year

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(at least at Arkansas).

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Not sure a coach has ever mailed it in as much as Houston did for the 2nd half of his Ole Miss tenure. That man got paid and straight up quit trying. The 2011 season was Chad Morris at Arkansas bad.

A little less "He wasn't so bad" and a little more "He probably did about as well as he could with the limitations placed upon him." for Matt Luke. He made a huge mistake in retaining Wesley McGriff for year 2 but I know as the interim, he told the entire staff he'd retain them if they helped him get the HC job. Thought he made a great DC hire after that but the sanctions had caught up to the team at that point.

Ole Miss has the most "blue chip" prospects committed that they've had since On3 began tracking that, for whatever that means.

Ohio State being willing to pay $2m or provide a package worth $2m is semantics. Either way, we'll see where this goes.