I wouldn't be surprised if Arch spurns Ole Miss for another SEC school like Peyton did. That family is smart and I think they will look at Ole Miss' current recruiting class, and also how Lane has shopped himself and it will give them pause. Also I expect them to lose more games next year because they are losing a lot and if you take a retroactive deep dive into this season, they really had all the breaks you could want. Their schedule was soft and their best win was against a 4 (should have been 5) loss team. That said, their 2022 OOC schedule is a horrific embarrassment worthy of a middling chicken**** SEC program (Troy, Central Ark, Tulsa and GT) so they will pad their record on the front end before the wheels fall off IMO.
But he sure as **** isn't coming to Miami. I'd tell my top QB target we aren't even offering Arch cause we are all-in on him.
Texas & Bama were the two programs he was looking at the most, but with UT getting Ewers & Bama being Bama he’s not going to start right away at either of those programs.
Ole Miss is their family school, even their Grandpa went there, I don’t think they’ll care as much about recruiting classes as one might think, Eli went to Ole Miss with Cutcliffe because he was Peyton’s OC at Tenn & they sucked, they didn’t win more than 7 games until his Senior year.
Bama is really the only SEC team that makes any sense, unless he wants to follow in Peyton’s footsteps & go to Tennessee, but Josh Heupel will have an uphill battle on that front. The Manning family hates LSU as an institution & I find it hard to believe they would ever really send Arch to UGA.
But otherwise, Ole Miss is plausible with Lane signing an extension, as long as he doesn’t leave I don’t think they’d clutch their pearls the way some might assume. Plus, Lane is mainly targeting Portal QB’s, so he’s not necessarily clogging up the QB room, leaving the spot open for a future starter like Arch. At the other schools, they all basically have 3 years starters in place.
There was some talk he was interested in Clemson early on as well because he’s developed a good relationship with Dabo, but with them brining in Cade Klubnik I don’t see that one happening either.