MSU Red Cedar Message Board

See what happens when you stop donating? The program is crumbling and all you guys are worried about are your MSU email accounts.

I am not familiar with football recruiting, so I'm not just asking this to be difficult.

What, precisely, do you want Dantonio to do differently? Is there some "strategy" that he could have used that would have landed these guys? What specifically needs to be changed>

Or do we just need more sustained success as a program?

The loss of Robbins isn't that shocking. He wanted to play with his high school teammate.

MD rarely signs any 2 stars any more. Overwhelmingly 3 stars or better. Some of the 2 stars have been exceptional. Leveon Bell sound familiar?

MSU is probably going to have another 5 years straight like the last 2 seasons to consistently compete with UM and SEC schools for heralded blue chip recruits.

Even then a lot of these southern kids want to play closer to home so their relatives can come to their games. MSU still won't get those kids.

What matters most is the performance on the field. Doesn't matter if we win with heralded recruits or dark horses if we still win.

We will never recruit like SCum or the SEC. That is why Dantonio is successful here. We needed a coach that could turn those 3/2 stars into game changers. He knew that coming in at MSU. Build depth with numbers early. Get to the point where you can recruit for quality not quantity. If you play catch up and rush yourself in recruiting you will make mistakes. Dantonio has the option to redshirt the majority of freshman classes. It was his plan all along.

Close on recruits better.

Just like every other school, we have one..Mark Staten. The misconception that any school has just a guy who handles recruiting is wrong.

Maybe I am 10%er here but that stupid excuse is getting old. We will be just fine..

jeebus it never ends around here. Yes, the Dline is a concern but Gill and Dantonio are in the house: no need to panic.(worse case scenario they'll plug the leak with a JUCO or two)

As Rocky has pointed out 100 times: we will need 3-5 more solid seasons before we are recruiting with the big boys. That's the bad news, the good news is we have the perfect staff to make it happen. At the risk of sounding like Bacon in animal house: all is well.

and don't forget the relative ease of the 2013 and 2014 schedules. That will help us continue having big win seasons and good bowl games to show off for recruits.

Try and refute my statement

Try and follow directions

Is it that easy?

Doing those things alone would have gotten these guys to come to MSU?