Recruiting – the Soap Opera for Guys
In a soap opera, you’re always in trouble, just getting out of trouble, or heading back into trouble. Seems like football recruiting is about the same.
Take last week – (in trouble): ‘Chris Jones may visit Auburn or Ole Miss’, (out of trouble): ‘Chris Jones will not be taking a visit to Auburn or Ole Miss’, (back into trouble): ‘Chris Jones is in Oxford for an official visit’. (out of trouble): ‘Chris Jones is still committed to MSU’.
Up, down, up, down. Deon Mix decommitted from State on Sunday night. There are several theories of exactly why he did so, but it for sure got the blood pressure going, and then there were the stages of grief: (1) This didn’t just happen did it? (2) Why can’t we hang on to recruits! (3) He wasn’t that good anyway. (4) We’ll never get anyone from South Panola. (5) Hey, we’ve got Deshea Townsend on our coaching staff – we can still recruit the U of SP, and maybe Deon just wanted to go somewhere else.
Now that you’ve reached acceptance, let’s throw a wrench in there: Deon Mix could still be apart of the 2013 class. Ugh, so exhausting.
State goes after another QB, because we’re not sure the one we have (Cord Sandberg) will stick around due to pro baseball. This is kind of like the huge business deal in a soap opera where the main character doesn’t know if it’ll work out or not. So he goes out to set up another deal just in case. He gets shot down on two of them (Dobbs & O’Korn) and then it looks like all hope is lost because the first deal (Sandberg) is looking like it won’t go through. But then out of the blue some new deals (Zach Greenlee, Damian Williams) come to light and he has too many to chose from. He takes one of them (Williams) but he’s unsure about it, and wondering if it was the right decision. Oh, the drama.
You wake up every morning and get your dawg bones or biscuits, and they leave you dangling like any good cliffhanger. Oh, the suspense.
Is another school trying to get an in with our commit? Are we in jeopardy of not landing someone due to the another program’s unethical conduct? Who is talking bad about us out there – what are they saying? Who’s going to stab us in the back next?
A question as we enter the last week is: will anyone come back from the dead? Is there someone who we gave up on, who we haven’t thought about in months, who will sign with MSU on NSD? Nothing like one of those major surprises – and maybe we’ll discover that Ole Miss’ recruiting season was just a dream.
Most guys don’t really care for soap operas. They are filled with drama, suspense and endless back-stabbing. Well, that’s exactly what recruiting is.