This outcry over Emerson is ridiculous
That is a narrow view of the "outcry" in this thread and you know that. This is not an isolated incident and it's not outcry over Emerson, the player.
It's outcry over losing a prospect like Emerson to a school like M$U. It's outcry over the last two cycles, where we have lost several recruiting battles for Florida DBs to Baga, UbaGA, o$u, f$u, UiF, Syracuse, and (it looks like) M$U.
That is unacceptable.
The excuses are legion (losing, staffing, facilities, dorms, transition class, bag schools), but meanwhile, Jess Simpson can show up to the same circus 10 months ago with almost zero college coaching resume and sign guys like Harvey, Blissett, and Holley. And we are looking good for JHH. Coach Simpson has been in the FBS college game for a cup of coffee and currently looks like our best recruiter on the defensive side of the ball. That just shouldn't be the case.
The saving grace for Banda and Rumph is that the secondary keeps performing
despite their recruiting deficiencies. Personally, results on Game Days are more important than results on Signing Day. But to pretend these continued recruiting losses in the back end of our defense aren't an issue is Ostrich-like behavior.