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Here's the thread from earlier in the week. There's a lot there.


The live period (meaning, on-campus visits) goes through Sunday. There's a quiet period starting Monday, though there will likely be activity through the week, including Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Ole Miss departs for Jacksonville on Dec. 29.

Penn State quarterback Beau Pribula is expected in town today. He visited UCF yesterday. Missouri is also very much on his radar, as Pribula was in Columbia earlier this week. The Tigers had targeted Miller Moss, but lost on him to Louisville. They entertained California quarterback Fernando Mendoza late this week. Mendoza is also looking at North Carolina. Iowa has made Pribula a priority but the Hawkeyes are freshly burned from the Cade McNamara disaster. Pribula wants to start -- he left Penn State when Drew Allar announced he was returning in 2025 -- so I'm not sure where Ole Miss stands. However, he promised to make the visit and apparently will.

Alabama running back Justice Haynes is visiting South Carolina today. There are rumors he's got a seven-figure offer on the table, but I'm not buying it. I suspect that's agent-related talk. That said, former Alabama wide receiver Kendrick Law is getting $700,000 per year to transfer to Kentucky, so at this point, nothing is unbelievable. I believe ULM running back Ahmad Hardy got close to $750,000 from Missouri, so the market is quite robust.

If Ole Miss loses on Haynes -- sources indicated Thursday afternoon the Rebels were "close" -- I'm not sure where they'll turn, though I'll repeat: There's another wave of guys getting in the portal after bowls/CFP losses. Tennessee, Clemson and Texas are teams to watch once they lose.

There's a report Ole Miss is entertaining Kent State DE Kameron Olds this weekend. I'll work to confirm.


More as we get it. I'll be in and out of pocket today and mostly out of pocket tonight. The same applies to Chase, but we're got calls/texts out and we'll post what we hear.

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Here's the thread from the weekend, in case you missed it. There's a good bit there.

https://olemiss.forums.rivals.com/t...by-a-1-discount-tree-and-lawn-service.380626/

Mostly just getting the thread started, as it's going to be a busy portal week. However, there is some 2026 recruiting getting rolling, so we'll start the week with this Rivals Recruiting Rumor Mill:

Commits
RB- Kewan Lacy- Missouri
WR- Caleb Odom- Alabama
WR- De'Zhaun Stribling- Oklahoma State
TE- Luke Hasz- Arkansas
OL- PJ Wilkins- Charlotte
OL- Patrick Kutas- Arkansas
OL- Delano Townsend- UAB
DE- Da’Shawn Womack- LSU
DE- PrinceWill Umanmielen- Nebraska
LB- Tahj Chambers- Missouri State
LB- Jaden Yates- Marshall
CB- Jaylon Braxton- Arkansas
CB- Antonio Kite- Auburn
S- Sage Ryan

Portal Targets
QB
Anthony Calandrea- Virginia
Mikey Keene- Fresno State

RB
Fluff Bothwell- South Alabama
Justice Haynes-Alabama

WR
Johntay Cook- Texas
Shelton Sampson- LSU
Eric Singleton- Georgia Tech

TE

OL
Luke Baklenko- Stanford
Isaia Glass- Virginia Tech
Gunner Hansen- Vanderbilt
Brady Wilson- UAB

Edge
Kameron Olds- Kent State

DL

LB
Alex Mitchell- Chattanooga
Shawn Murphy- Florida State

CB
Marcellus Barnes- Syracuse
Charles Brantley- Michigan State

S

Kickers
Caden Costa- Memphis

Surely not...

Indiana should’ve never been in, and this is likely the case for SMU, Boise, and Clemson, I hope I’m wrong. Strength of schedule has to be the most important factor moving forward, or we’re just going to get a repeat of this Indiana game every year.

Notre Dame playing Dropkick Murpheys before kickoff was awesome. That’s how you get a crowd pumped up.

Visiting Sunday
Will visit MSU Saturday

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Here's Thursday's thread, in case you need a refresher:


I'm mostly setting up the thread here. Today is yard work day for me. I've promised Laura I'll get the yard raked before the rain arrives Saturday. One kid is coming home Monday with friends and the other is coming home Thursday with her boyfriend, so I now have to have the yard perfect for my children.

I have some messages out and should have some updates as the day/weekend progresses.

I did think this was an interesting comment from Coastal Carolina coach Tim Beck.

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Arkansas has had more than 20 players enter the portal -- several have visited and/or are visiting Ole Miss -- and Sam Pittman addressed it Thursday. His comments, I though, were interesting.

"We wouldn’t have had financially — and we’ve got money — but we wouldn’t have had financially the money left to go out and get what we might consider big-time difference makers had we just said ‘yes, yes, yes, yes' (to those who decided to transfer for financial reasons)," Pittman said. "And if we’d said that to every one of them, as much money as we have, we would have ran out.

"Listen, let’s go back. Is it very frustrating? Absolutely. And I get that it’s frustrating. But what we decided to do was save a huge pool of money to go into the portal. And that’s what we decided.

"Our donors have been very good financially to us. Revenue sharing coming up here in July, we have money. And so we’re not losing these kids because we don’t have money. We’re losing them because what our value is compared to what maybe they can get elsewhere has been, at times, substantially different. We were a 6-6 football team and we’ve got money, and so we need to use it wisely.

"We have 29 visits already set up coming out of the portal. What’s hard, I think probably on the fan base is that we know more about who’s in the portal than probably anybody does, the availability of us getting them. And so, basically is comes down to those two things. If we weren’t able to match what the number was out there nationally for somebody, then we were saying ‘Hey, we believe that we can go get somebody as good or somebody, two somebody’s for that amount of money.’”

I was told yesterday the quarterback market is wild, with several players having offers in excess of $2 million per year from multiple schools. It's a good day, I suspect, to be Jackson Arnold and/or Maalik Murphy.

Again, more as we get it today...

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At some point we have to decide if we want an elite RB or not. This year showed that not having one was the difference in making the playoffs vs just missing.

Band is back together! @Rebel with a Cause @Whylanewhy

Glad @Rebel with a Cause is back with us.

Indiana has the number 1 ranked rushing defense and they have given up 133 yards rushing to Notre Dame in the first quarter. Had Bama, Ole Miss, or South Carolina been in this game over Indiana then we would all be treated to a pretty good ball game. Right now this is a snoozer.

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Back at it!

Nice get for sure.