The Bank (12/19)

DMoney

Yesterday at 2:05 PM 3 min read

Even as they prepare for Iowa State, the Canes are working on numerous fronts in the Portal. Here is the latest:

- My read from the building is that the Canes like their options at QB. It's true that the coaches and players like Emory Williams. Anybody with connections to the team will confirm that. But they were also extremely aggressive in pursuing Washington State transfer QB John Mateer, as reported by various national and Oklahoma sources. So watch the actions. The Canes are actively looking to improve the talent in that room and will continue to do so throughout the Portal period (which extends by five days for playoff teams eliminated from the tournament). Fernando Mendoza is a name that we like (and that I personally feel would be an improvement to the current room) but he is by no means the only target. I get the impression they feel better about their options now than they did last year, when so much rode on Cam Ward.

- Secondary recruiting could pick up quickly. Wisconsin CB Xavier Lucas just entered the Portal and the Canes are the heavy favorite. He is a Broward native and former teammate of OJ Frederique under CIS legend @Coach Macho. That reunion would give Miami perhaps the most talented pair of young corners in the conference. Lucas has three years of eligibility.

- Miami is also pursuing Michigan State CB corner (and Venice, FL native) Charles Brantley, who is one of the most experienced and proven corners in the Portal. There is strong mutual interest there. Arizona CB Emmanuel Karnley is another young, long, fast corner with three years of eligibility who Miami likes a lot. Ole Miss and Michigan are battling there.

- At safety, Miami is thrilled with the addition of Zechariah Poyser from Jacksonville State. He may have been the best safety in the Portal and has three years of eligibility. If we add another name as a boundary safety, watch for Adrian Wilson (Washington State).

- WR Kevin Concepcion is on campus now and having a good visit. He is a high-priority target.

- I expect Miami to add a starting C and will monitor names jumping in the Portal (that is an active market).

- WR CJ Daniels is considered a high-character, proven target with rave reviews from LSU staffers and others who have coached him. His contested-catch ability projects to be an improvement over anybody in our room last year.

- The DT name to know right now is David Blay, a 6'4, 300+pound late bloomer from Pennsylvania. He is visiting through the weekend. Miami would like to add a premium, productive target instead of a volume of low-ceiling players, as the room has improved through recruiting.

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ZeroBeachCane3

Yesterday at 5:52 PM

TheShredder said:
Who is Karnley?

NO ONE

Hoyacane1620

Yesterday at 5:52 PM

JayCane20 said:
Gonna keep him here so no one enters the portal and then fire him. That’s the only logic I’ve got for it.

I’m pretty confident he’s gone though.

Too much smoke on other names

kind of surprised keeping him actually keeps guys out of the portal

252cane

Yesterday at 5:57 PM

Calinative said:
6’3” sophomore Arizona CB that Michigan and Ole Miss are also trying to get.

The boy âss

A
Alex_Dynamix

Yesterday at 6:08 PM

canadacanes said:
You can’t win sometimes with people on here.

They’ll be in every thread every day ****ting on every piece of news they see positive or not lol it’s kinda sad

Canemang

Yesterday at 6:08 PM

P-Tizzle said:
Emory is tough as nails. That dude sacrificed everything he had vs FSU and if his arm didn’t shatter, we would have won that ******* game. I’ll die on Emory Hill

You love mediocrity

Calinative

Yesterday at 6:11 PM

252cane said:
The boy âss

… maybe. Or maybe not. That’s who he is though lol

JayCane20

Yesterday at 6:11 PM

TheShredder said:
Who is Karnley?

You should see him. 6’3, runs like a deer, fluid athlete, 6’8 wingspan, can’t cover for ****, 3 years of eligibility left.

If you just skimmed through that like our staff did you’d probably be pretty happy.

P-Tizzle

Yesterday at 6:17 PM

Canemang said:
You love mediocrity

Sure

Dude

Yesterday at 6:37 PM

CaneTheGaytors said:
Mendoza only threw 16 TD passes, with 6 INT’s. To put this in perspective, Cam Ward threw for more than twice the TD’s, the same number of INT’s, and over 1,100 more yards. Cam’s QB rating was also more than 31 points higher.

Instead of paying a mediocre QB big money to give you mediocre play, use the money to get top CB’s, DT’s and WR’s in the portal, and let Emory battle Luke. Nickel is a future star in the making (in my opinion), and will beat Emory out for the job. With this next year’s schedule, we’re not gonna win more than 8 games, even with Mendoza. Let Luke start and gain the experience that he’ll need to lead us into the future.

Cam's career high prior to Miami was only 25 TDs.

MumbleRap

Yesterday at 6:39 PM

TheShredder said:
Who is Karnley?

The Zona CB mentioned in the OP….

C
canesdude

Yesterday at 6:41 PM

TheOriginalCane said:
Just waiting on the sucessor to be named.

Maybe our new DC and his current team has a bowl game on the same day as ours, 12/28.

MidnightCane

Yesterday at 6:46 PM

Allabouttheu95 said:
Jesus Christ this might be the most bleak bank to date….

RVACane

Yesterday at 6:50 PM

StevoBevo said:
So far we’ve missed on ALOT of our targets thus far

Mateer, Silver, Calhoun, Singleton, Rivers just to name a few and we wasted our time with mateer when we could’ve pursued Mensah or Arnold. I mean to focus on mateer and put all of our eggs in that basket was asinine (I mean we didn’t even convince him to visit ?!) at least last year we had Howard visit as well

This whole “well now we have money to throw at ___” don’t mean **** because all the big fish are swimming away. Either we don’t actually have money to throw around or our portal approach is just as poor as Mario’s game day abilities.

Next thing you know we will be waiting for the “spring portal talent” and be left at the altar once again and then it’ll be “the real talent is in the SFL 2026 class and Mario is trying to get a head start and we feel strongly about the guys we have”

Yes I sound like a mope and yes I’m ****ed that we went all in on mateer and couldn’t even get a visit in and it’s like now what?

Don’t even get me started on the whole “staff changes are coming after the bowl game” because that is absolutely hurting more then helping.

I’m starting to think the whole portal and how it’s currently built hinders Mario more than it helps and as it stands he is not adjusting to the times. The portal is becoming fast paced and Mario is everything but.

“How you do anything is how you do everything” am I right ?

Yeah man, this is the way I’m looking for this storyline to go!

@cway313 , @Angry Ibis & @Rellyrell way to reel this one in.

Y
Yoyo423

Yesterday at 6:54 PM

JayCane20 said:
You should see him. 6’3, runs like a deer, fluid athlete, 6’8 wingspan, can’t cover for ****, 3 years of eligibility left.

If you just skimmed through that like our staff did you’d probably be pretty happy.

Bonus: also can't tackle

GrozDozer

Yesterday at 6:55 PM

Hoyacane1620 said:
kind of surprised keeping him actually keeps guys out of the portal

Maybe the players like him?

cway313

Yesterday at 6:56 PM

TheShredder said:
Who is Karnley?

Does the name "Revis Island" mean anything to you?

Well this is the complete ****** opposite.

ssvir

Yesterday at 6:58 PM

StevoBevo said:
So far we’ve missed on ALOT of our targets thus far

Mateer, Silver, Calhoun, Singleton, Rivers just to name a few and we wasted our time with mateer when we could’ve pursued Mensah or Arnold. I mean to focus on mateer and put all of our eggs in that basket was asinine (I mean we didn’t even convince him to visit ?!) at least last year we had Howard visit as well

This whole “well now we have money to throw at ___” don’t mean **** because all the big fish are swimming away. Either we don’t actually have money to throw around or our portal approach is just as poor as Mario’s game day abilities.

Next thing you know we will be waiting for the “spring portal talent” and be left at the altar once again and then it’ll be “the real talent is in the SFL 2026 class and Mario is trying to get a head start and we feel strongly about the guys we have”

Yes I sound like a mope and yes I’m ****ed that we went all in on mateer and couldn’t even get a visit in and it’s like now what?

Don’t even get me started on the whole “staff changes are coming after the bowl game” because that is absolutely hurting more then helping.

I’m starting to think the whole portal and how it’s currently built hinders Mario more than it helps and as it stands he is not adjusting to the times. The portal is becoming fast paced and Mario is everything but.

“How you do anything is how you do everything” am I right ?

Step away from the ledge.

The playoff teams will have plenty of guys that will be looking to portal after their teams are eliminated and then there is the Spring window that we got several quality players from last time around.

None of the guys you mentioned would start on any of the top 8 playoff teams other than MAYBE Mateer who has been play AAA ball and will be stepping up to the major leagues.

G
gacaneaddict

Yesterday at 6:59 PM

I feel Like im living in Bizzaro world.

We have the best QB in the country, maybe best in school history, has 1 more game left, but instead we got people wanting to see Emory in the bowl game?

If Mario willingly sat Cam Ward for Emory in this game, it would be the biggest coaching malpractice of his career.

RVACane

Yesterday at 7:01 PM

cway313 said:
Does the name "Revis Island" mean anything to you?

Well this is the complete ****** opposite.

Meanwhile, up in ****sville…

T
tdjones34

Yesterday at 7:01 PM

gacaneaddict said:
I feel Like im living in Bizzaro world.

We have the best QB in the country, maybe best in school history, has 1 more game left, but instead we got people wanting to see Emory in the bowl game?

If Mario willingly sat Cam Ward for Emory in this game, it would be the biggest coaching malpractice of his career.

It's a glorified practice
Play the kids
We want recruits but then say we need portal because our blue chips haven't shown anything
And then don't want them playing in a crap bowl game?

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