Mississippi State is still recruiting Michael Ferns... terribly
I love his caption. "Umm...Thanks coach."
I like my LBs to know their calculus.
He's gonna flip now!
in marketing and sales, that's fer sure. Brilliantly persuasive pitch.
Or maybe they do.
the coach's 9 year old got a hold of the recruiting materials again...
Am I the only one who is suspicious that the card may have originally read "your a baller" but was corrected by a proof reader before it went in the mail? I mean, the "e" looks like different hand writing than the rest of it.
Not to mention it doesn't match the E in Baller.
Well, Baller is written in all caps while You're is not. But I think what they're really trying to get across is that Ferns is nine ballers all in one, they just forgot the s at the end.
I was actually surprised they used the right "you're" to be honest. I had to do a double take to make sure.
maybe the original message was written by one of their players
Or, from the way it looks, one of the players' kids?
Looks to me like it said "YOU A BALLER" before someone fixed it.
It looks like the original said "You a Baller" and then got corrected.
It looks like the original said "You a Baller" and then got corrected.
It looks like the original said "You a Baller" and then got corrected.
It looks like the original said "You a Baller" and then got corrected.
Nice quadruple post. YOU A BALLER!
I am certain of it.
That can't be real....
.....can it?
+1 for informative title...This is awesome
MSU is lying in the ferns.
(Miss St. U.) computer is linked to an Etch-a-Sketch with which they do their "personal" messaging. Either that or they have corralled untold numbers of Mississippi's 1st grade classrooms to 1) improve penmenship skills and 2) insert personal messages into their mass mailers to upper echelon recruiting targets. Maybe it's a form of punishment? "No recess for you Billy Ray...you need to write cards. 'At'll teach ya for shootin' spitballs into Candi Sue's cuppa Diet Mountain Dew."
-Herm
In what alternate universe does any coach think kids dig this stuff? I've seen twitpics of literally a hundred letters sent to a particular athlete...in one day. Isn't there a better allocation of time?
This has to be fake. That hand writing is worse than a kindergartners
Ok, is this some new recruiting strategy to have hand written notes from 3rd graders constantly using the word "baller"? Do we think so little of our high school athletes now-a-days that this is supposed to appeal to them?
Wake me up when Ole Miss and their friendly boosters start pursuing Ferns.
As a man with horrible hand writing, I find your statement to be offensive. I mean, none of us can be that bad! Except, for at least one guy at Mississippi State. Which means you're right. Oh, hell. Nevermind.
1) find the nearest girl and beg her to write our message for us; or
2) spend more than 15 seconds on it.
maybe it was written / sent by one of the coeds after a recruiting visit?
Edit: ...or maybe DURING a visit, which could explain the messy handwriting.
Now Ole Miss on the other hand...the inside of the card would look like this:
They'd just fax it.
I see a serious violation going on... they have hired child labor for their recruiting team! 4 year olds should not be forced to write recruiting letters to high school prospects.
I guess it is the case that "You're a baller" is just one of those messages that seems more genuine and sincere when it is handwritten in a card rather than sent in something that begins with "Dear Recruit..." or "To Whom It May Concern".
If I was Mississippi State I would have included "Shotcaller" on the back of it, then paste a picture of 20 inch blades on an Impala
But there's got to be a better way
So that's how the SEC does so well...it's so simple
Why is "BALLER" a football term now?
it is a sport called "football" with either 1/23 or 2/24 starting players having any foot to ball contact, so maybe just some more creative license.