Mississippi State QB commit reveals how he turned down Dan Mullen's Florida offer
Mississippi State recently lost coach Dan Mullen to the Florida Gators, and Mullen is in the process of pulling key assistants and top recruits away from the Bulldogs.
However, one player — 3-star QB commit Jalen Mayden — has turned down the former MSU coach’s efforts to get him to flip his commitment.
The Texas native said he has heard from Mullen, but won’t be considering making a change from his pledge to the Bulldogs, according to a 247Sports article:
Yeah, I already love Jalen Maydenhttps://t.co/tNumG4jgVW pic.twitter.com/LP1W7RYQqh
— #MoorheadSZN (@TruMaroonNation) December 3, 2017
Mayden added that he really likes the message new coach Joe Moorhead is sharing with the Bulldog recruits moving forward:
“I talked to Coach Moorhead and I am staying committed,” said Mayden. “He is really cool. He wants to keep everyone on board and said he wasn’t really going after any new guys that were not already being recruited by Mississippi State. He wants me to keep everyone on track and wants me to help him do that.”
Will other MSU commits have the same loyalty Mayden has shown? That remains to be seen, but Moorhead already seems to be a popular guy in Starkville.
I’d call that a definite win for Coach Moorhead!
Hail State!!
I think if we can hang on to Heath, guidry, and Franklin, too, and get a promising DC, class should not lose too much. That is a lot of commits for this class, though, and we could easily lose a few at deeper positions. This is helpful for sure. Now if we can just get a couple high profile guys to enroll next semester…
Got to respect the kid for staying committed. But I still see morhead going for a few guys not heavily recruited to msst to complete the class.
That’s usually the idea behind recruiting.
Hope miss st does good next year y’all got a good head coach. Coach Mullen left some good talent hope he can get y’all a good staff. As a conference lets all take down alabama which auburn did this year state almost did. Good Luck State.
Good for him, don’t know that much about him but seems he picked the school and not the coach.
He’s a 3 star QB. He’ll be right where he belongs. Good luck young man!
Was 4 star until recently, seems because 247 dropped the old scout rating from its composite. Check out his resume this year at the 6A level in TX. Kid can play.
So you use 247, do ya? Okay look up Charles Huff and then explain to us why you said he’s the #4 recruiter in the country when he’s clearly #150. Can you do that? Or are you going to bury your head and dodge this question like you always do?
He was reported as the #4 recruiter somewhere. There, mystery solved. That was quick.
According to 247 he is 5th right now…. yesterday he was their 4th ranked.
So was Nick and Dak.
How’s that top ranked QB recruit working out, so far?
About like Ole Miss’s bowl game but at least what happened top him isn’t his fault and as far as I can tell he doesn’t blame someone else for the misfortune. Or are you implying Ole Miss deliberately injured him? You know, I was born and raised in Miss and wished the best for all Miss teams but in recent years as I start to some ass like you comes along with his vitriol and his head stuck about a foot in the ground, blaming everyone else for Ole Miss’s problems and I’m brought back to reality. What is the MATTER with you people at Ole Miss?
Sorry, I Posted in the wrong spot. This site is BAD need of an edit/delete function.
Good man. Moorhead can do great things with 3 star players.
Can you blame him? Look at the Gator QBs
Seems like a good reason to expect early playing time. He’ll likely redshirt at state, but he already expected that, so this is a kid who either picked a school, picked a team, or wants to develop. Might be interesting to see if Franks improves, though, he came in with a lot of promise, Mullen might help bring some out.
He will be better than he was under McElwain.
Franks looked like your average freshman. Shows potential but needs the be refined. He will thrive under Mullen.
Don’t forget…Mullen made Chris Relf a 9 win qb.
Honestly Joshua, rarely do you see dual threat QBs sporting high “star ratings” (albeit there are occasional exceptions)since most ranking systems want to ding those QBs for not being pure passers. Usually because they need more work with throwing mechanics.
It can be kind of a hit or miss thing (look at Dak’s progression as a passer compared to Fitzgerald’s), but when they hit…and are in the right offense….
And to add….
Name a relevant Power 5 school, and the odds are they offered him.