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| Hugh Freeze has an exciting January ahead. |
Signing Day isn't until February 6, but this is shaping up to be one of the most exciting months of recruiting in Ole Miss football history.
The Rebels commit class as it currently stands is ranked 19th in Rivals, 20th by Scout and 20th by 247 Sports. If Signing Day were today, Ole Miss fans would be pleased with those numbers and the work Hugh Freeze and his staff have done getting commits from players like Mark Dodson, Lavon Hooks, Jarran Reed, Ryan Buchanan and Peyton Barber to name only a few.
But Signing Day is still weeks away and the Rebels are in on a number of recruits that, if they swing Ole Miss' way, would likely give Ole Miss its highest ranked class ever. Some are saying the potential is there for the Rebels to finish with a Top 10 class.
That's because Freeze and his staff are in on a number of players that aren't just the best players in Mississippi, but the most highly sought after prospects in the nation. Robert Nkemdiche, Laquon Treadwell, Laremy Tunsil, Antonio Conner, Carl Lawson, Stacy Coley are just a few of the names to keep an eye on this month. These are championship caliber recruits, and Freeze is going up against the nation's best to try to land them. Will he be successful getting all of them? Of course not, but he may get a few of them and those few could form the nucleus for what will one day be one of the best teams Ole Miss has had in a long, long time.
Freeze knows if you want to win the day in the SEC, you've got to win the day on the recruiting trail, and he is trying to do just that. It's the precise approach that must be taken to ever be successful in the nation's best college football conference.
Ole Miss received more positive news for its 2013 signing class with yesterday's announcement from Kailo Moore that he was decommiting from Mississippi State. Moore, a 4-star running back and one of the state's best high school players, is believed to have Ole Miss at the top his list.
With a recruiting class like this, expect the excitement surrounding Ole Miss football to continue well after the clock hits 0:00 January 5.