Miami Hurricanes Land 2025 Five-Star Recruit Armondo Blount

Peter Ariz

Sep 14, 2023 2 min read

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Miami Central High School's Armondo Blount officially announced his commitment to the Miami Hurricanes on Thursday afternoon. The five-star prospect is ranked as the #5 overall recruit in the 2025 class, according to 247Sports Composite rankings. Additionally, he holds the title of the #1 player in Florida and the #2 defensive lineman in the nation.

Listed at 6-3, 250 pounds, Blount is a nightmare for offensive lines and quarterbacks alike. He has a similar play style to Hurricanes freshman Rueben Bain, but might be a bit lengthier than Bain. His commitment adds a blue-chip prospect to a 2025 class that recently added WR Waden Charles.

Miami successfully outmaneuvered perennial powers like Oklahoma, USC, Florida State, and Ohio State to land the coveted defender. This commitment suggests Miami’s momentum on the field could play a significant factor in recruiting moving forward.

Blount spent his previous two seasons at Dillard High School before transferring to Central for this year. He will be reuniting with former teammate Nyjalik Kelly, a current defensive end for the Hurricanes.

In terms of on-field production, Blount's numbers speak for themselves. He burst onto the high school football scene as a freshman in 2021, where he registered an eye-popping 13 sacks. He upped the ante in his sophomore season, racking up 16 sacks in 2022.

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Bender

Nov 1, 2023

brother you can facepalm me all you want @cway313, they made rueben bain a 4-star and have systematically dropped rankings for miami commits

PIPO

Nov 1, 2023

cway313 said:
@PIPO

cway313

Nov 1, 2023

Bender said:
brother you can facepalm me all you want @cway313, they made rueben bain a 4-star and have systematically dropped rankings for miami commits

Are rankings biased? Yes. Are rankings a figment of our imagination. No. Of course 4 and 5 * players bust but guess what 3* bust at a much higher rate. Anybody looking for a perfect system is delusional. If scouting were a perfect science NFL teams wouldn't **** the bed drafting every year. However, the kids rated higher typically have stronger intangibles and the success rate is much, much, much higher. Or we can pretend that because the staph is settling for plan C options, they are masterful evaluators. I'll pass.

Hegemon

Nov 1, 2023

Bender said:
brother you can facepalm me all you want @cway313, they made rueben bain a 4-star and have systematically dropped rankings for miami commits

Nothing more needs to be said.

Hegemon

Nov 1, 2023

cway313 said:
Are rankings biased? Yes. Are rankings a figment of our imagination. No. Of course 4 and 5 * players bust but guess what 3* bust at a much higher rate. Anybody looking for a perfect system is delusional. If scouting were a perfect science NFL teams wouldn't **** the bed drafting every year. However, the kids rated higher typically have stronger intangibles and the success rate is much, much, much higher. Or we can pretend that because the staph is settling for plan C options, they are masterful evaluators. I'll pass.

When you say plan C it is confusing because most of our class committed early and they were kids we identified early.

So what it really is, is your subjective opinion against the staffs subjective opinion and we will not know until 2 to 3 years from now.

Mario and company have hit higher than all previous staffs on the fanbases perceived "busts".

Cooper
Young
Pulliam
Gore
Deen
Francisco

The list goes on but don't let that get in your way.

cway313

Nov 1, 2023

Hegemon said:
When you say plan C it is confusing because most of our class committed early and they were kids we identified early.

So what it really is, is your subjective opinion against the staffs subjective opinion and we will not know until 2 to 3 years from now.

Mario and company have hit higher than all previous staffs on the fanbases perceived "busts".

Cooper
Young
Pulliam
Gore
Deen
Francisco

The list goes on but don't let that get in your way.

Your version of hit and my version are not the same. I won't get into a back in forth with an apologist but we all have seen this movie before.

Hegemon

Nov 1, 2023

cway313 said:
Your version of hit and my version are not the same. I won't get into a back in forth with an apologist but we all have seen this movie before.

I apologize for nothing. I have voiced my concerns with Mario like most other rational posters.

You cannot articulate your beefs without being exposed for having an agenda.

cway313

Nov 1, 2023

Hegemon said:
I apologize for nothing. I have voiced my concerns with Mario like most other rational posters.

You cannot articulate your beefs without being exposed for having an agenda.

Hegemon

Nov 1, 2023

cway313 said:
K.

Say hi to Moanin for me.

MumbleRap

Nov 1, 2023

Anyone got an update from meeting? Did they serve appetizers?

cway313

Nov 1, 2023

Hegemon said:
Say hi to Moanin for me.

Say hi to Jessica for me.

Bender

Nov 1, 2023

cway313 said:
Are rankings biased? Yes. Are rankings a figment of our imagination. No. Of course 4 and 5 * players bust but guess what 3* bust at a much higher rate. Anybody looking for a perfect system is delusional. If scouting were a perfect science NFL teams wouldn't **** the bed drafting every year. However, the kids rated higher typically have stronger intangibles and the success rate is much, much, much higher. Or we can pretend that because the staph is settling for plan C options, they are masterful evaluators. I'll pass.

I don't disagree, its just that evaluating five-stars in high school isn't difficult and yet 247 still is doing a poor job at it. That's what my entire post was all about.

Teams don't evaluate well because 247 has them as five-stars, teams evaluate well because they evaluate well.

Bender

Nov 1, 2023

And @PIPO no, no showdown here.

Me and him are just me and him as always.

A showdown would be if I told my brother @djnellz that his taste for woman is overrated. That'd cause a war.

cway313

Nov 1, 2023

Bender said:
I don't disagree, its just that evaluating five-stars in high school isn't difficult and yet 247 still is doing a poor job at it. That's what my entire post was all about.

Teams don't evaluate well because 247 has them as five-stars, teams evaluate well because they evaluate well.

A lot of these 5* kids will fail due to reasons beyond the football field.

R
razrcane

Nov 1, 2023

Cylo said:
Its hard to a bash a class that might be a top 10 class. People are acting like we have the Colorado current 2024 class.

Problem is we didn’t hire Mario on the premise of just top 10. People were saying he NEEDED Top 5 classes on a routine basis bc of his lack of coaching acumen in order for us to compete with the “big boys” and people said he was more than capable of doing it and getting paid more than any coach before him to do it. I don’t think people would be nearly as frustrated if he wasn’t touted as someone who was going to “stack elite talent” and getting paid less without all the additional resources. With that type of hype and money comes bigger expectations.

Bender

Nov 1, 2023

cway313 said:
A lot of these 5* kids will fail due to reasons beyond the football field.

Money, weird handlers, ****** coaching

Oh hey Shemar Stewart, how's it going?

cway313

Nov 1, 2023

Cylo said:
Its hard to a bash a class that might be a top 10 class. People are acting like we have the Colorado current 2024 class.

We have 24 commits 11 of the schools in the top 25 behind Miami have less.

Hegemon

Nov 1, 2023

razrcane said:
Problem is we didn’t hire Mario on the premise of just top 10. People were saying he NEEDED Top 5 classes on a routine basis bc of his lack of coaching acumen in order for us to compete with the “big boys” and people said he was more than capable of doing it and getting paid more than any coach before him to do it. I don’t think people would be nearly as frustrated if he wasn’t touted as someone who was going to “stack elite talent” and getting paid less without all the additional resources. With that type of hype and money comes bigger expectations.

Lol you do realize those expectations were never uttered by Mario dont you? That's all fan fiction.

cway313

Nov 1, 2023

Bender said:
Money, weird handlers, ****** coaching

Oh hey Shemar Stewart, how's it going?

Drugs, women, parents, the list goes on. Just looking at 2023 Harbor was a 5* based on measurables and potential not production. If Bain were 6'4 or 6'5 I think he would have been top 10. Needless to say I'm glad it worked out the way it did.

R
razrcane

Nov 1, 2023

Hegemon said:
Lol you do realize those expectations were never uttered by Mario dont you? That's all fan fiction.

Lol well he definitely wasn’t hired bc of his game day coaching decisions. Regardless if he said anything perception is reality for some and some of those perceptions have been proven true (poor game day management) which is why he is getting some backlash from some fans. For the most part he really hasn’t faced a toxic fan base. A vast majority are still with Mario.

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