Credit score Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin and his employees for placing within the work each on the recruiting path and within the switch portal.
It is a new period in school soccer, the place gamers may be much more cellular than NBA stars. You may play as a freshman at Florida and never just like the vibes, so that you play at Ole Miss as a sophomore. Heck, you could possibly play at Alabama as a junior and at Auburn as a senior when you wished to.
That is the liberty of the switch portal in 2024 and past, and sensible coaches and recruiters have discovered the right way to poach the portal for higher gamers.
Kiffin has been a kind of coaches at Ole Miss. In truth, in response to Jim Nagy, the director of the Senior Bowl, Ole Miss was extra lively than every other faculty within the SEC.
“Ole Miss this yr? We talked about it, you understand, once we obtained right here to Dallas. You and I linked and we talked about it. They hit the portal laborious,” Nagy told Andy Staples of On3 at SEC Media Days. “I imply, of the SEC groups, it was Ole Miss. Across the nation, Louisville hit it laborious, Ohio State hit it laborious, Miami hit it laborious. However, within the SEC, it was Ole Miss.”
The Rebels weren’t simply bringing in gamers to convey them in, both. Kiffin introduced in expertise. A lot in order that Nagy believes Ole Miss has over 20 gamers with NFL expertise on the roster.
“We’re on the point of push our watchlist out on Aug. 21. It’s going to be approach larger than I’d prefer it to be. I like that factor to be round 400. However, as a result of that is the final yr of the additional COVID yr, it’s going be over 700 names,” defined Nagy. “Ole Miss might be going to have probably the most.”
Kiffin introduced in 24 gamers through the switch portal, together with former Houston cornerback Isaiah Hamilton, former Jacksonville State EDGE Chris Hardie, former Miami operating again Henry Parrish and former Alabama cornerback Trey Amos.
The Rebels additionally landed switch commitments from gamers from Michigan, LSU, Washington, Florida, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Tennessee, Arkansas and Texas A&M, amongst different colleges.
Amongst the gamers anticipated to be within the NFL in 2025 is vast receiver Antwane Wells Jr., EDGE Princely Umanmielen and quarterback Jaxson Dart, amongst others.