Starkville WR critical of Dan Mullen after signing with Ole Miss
On Wednesday, Mississippi State missed on a four-star receiver straight from its backyard.
Receiver A.J. Brown, who played at Starkville High School and is rated as the No. 5 WR according to 247Sports, chose rival Ole Miss instead of the Bulldogs and the Crimson Tide.
Needless to say, MSU fans weren’t happy about it, but Brown defended his decision not to join his hometown university.
https://twitter.com/Brown1arthur/status/694975014118928384
The 6-foot-1, 220-pound Brown shed more light on the situation with this tweet, which he later deleted.
“I’m the bad guy of Starkville now … Ask coach Mullen how many times he came and saw me I can count on one hand. I could careless honestly.”
Obviously, he doesn’t feel coach Dan Mullen recruited him hard enough.
He has no obligation to play any particular place. Personally, I probably wouldn’t have played in my hometown. I would have been looking at going to the best program at the farthest distance.
Agreed, can’t really knock him for leaving town honestly since he’s known this place all his life. He knows his talents can help him be anywhere in the nation. With that being said, I do hate we didn’t get him on our roster but I still wish him best of luck in Oxford. And for those salty fans, shut it…No wonder people say we have no class.
True. Would be a task to keep a five star in his hometown to play for you in same town. Did think he was bama bound. May have been some fans who ruffled his feathers during the recruiting phase and was just venting. Either way its over and he’s no longer a five star. Gotta earn that time now
I think sometimes coaches can take those “hometown locks” for granted and it comes back to bite them. Lashley said the same thing about not being recruited as hard by State as he was by other coaching staffs. Live and learn.
Obviously this guy doesn’t do his home work. Mullen came to see him the exact same number of times Freeze did. Twice. Once at home, and once at school. Because you know recruiting rules and stuff. If you want to get out of your hometown, just say I wanted to play away from home. To feign butthurt because they “didn’t recruit me hard enough” just shows lack of class. I wonder how many winey 18 year olds would like it if schools were able to comment on a kids recruitment on twitter or facebook the same way they can. “Hey kid, don’t let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya, our interviews indicated you would have been a locker-room cancer, you’ll fit in better up there anyway”.
^^^ What is butt hurt?
That’s when your butt…..hurts.
I’m getting more and more glad we didn’t get this kid. Seems like he has a real attitude problem both on and off the field.
Ha, riiight.
Haha ok. Now, when he’s Mossing your DBs in late November, remember what you just said.
We definitely wanted him, regardless of what anyone says. As far as him “mossing our DB’s” whatever that means, I’m hoping he doesn’t get held up by the other 27 4* receivers on the roster. He is a stud, but is he more of a stud than the others already there and the ones joining him? I don’t know. A lot of talent in Oxford for Shea to spread the love to in a few years, but I have a feeling some of these guys aren’t gonna appreciate the love they gettin’. AJ would have been Mr. go-to in starkville; maybe, maybe not so much in Oxford! That receiving core will be entertaining nonetheless!
We get the same thing from recruits we missed out on too. Recruits say they “didn’t feel enough love” or wasn’t recruited hard enough. At times it is their parents, handlers and recruiting insiders who say these things. A number of coaches are accused of not recruiting hard enough.
May just be the easiest “excuse” to give for an unexpected signing. But it isn’t terribly classy. Why not just say “I appreciate everything X did for me, but felt Y was the best fit for me, my skills, my needs…”
Especially given that recruiting rules dictate much of how “hard” a school may recruit a player. Perhaps he felt that as a hometown player, MSU should have gone above and beyond, even ignore rules since, you know, he’s right next door anyway, rules shouldn’t count for him.
I dunno, maybe he actually feels this way. Or a mom, or whatever. Or maybe other schools were more willing to bend rules, and he is comparing in relative terms. Or maybe we don’t know the real reason he chose where he did, and this is the easiest way to deflect attention from that. Or maybe he’s a spoiled brat.
Pretty much any reason I can think of, doesn’t sit well with me and makes me think he has a chip and an attitude. Maybe a better fit for the Rebs after all. He might make a hell of a target for Patterson, so probably not a bad choice.
Hey when you’re 18 and a highly touted recruit you might let some things slip in the heat of the moment. That’s the beauty of youth. You learn from it and become a better person down the road.
I never learned.
Well if it is true that Dan only saw him twice I may understand his point. I know, I know, the rules say you can only see so and so only this many times, but come on Dan, your in his hometown. Noone would know if you took him to lunch, told him to come by, ect…
Good Luck to him. We don’t need those players.
I actually find it comical that he would say that. For a kid to say that about his hometown university and never take an official visit there is hilarious. If he wanted to be recruited “harder” he should’ve scheduled an OV at least. OM is the best fit for any receiver currently, look at the two QB’s they will have slinging it in the next four years. Also this whole tweet and delete thing that everyone does now is quite funny.
“I could careless honestly.”
It looks like he got a little careless with his spelling, though I could care less.