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If we grab Henderson and Fegans, that will be huge. I think there are enough LBs and RBs in the portal that we should come up with someone at those two positions as well.
I really hope we land Malone or that top G5 DT, because quality pickings are slim there. And at this point, I don't think we're going to find a better CB, and Guidry is going to have to find a way to make due with his DL and DB rooms.
After that, we need to pray TVD stays healthy, that Zion and McCoy come back strong to push Rivers inside, and that Wes, Chase and the freshmen LBs are ready to go to keep Flagg and Ragone off the field.
Assuming all the above plays out, we can go anywhere from 7 to 10 wins, with the most likely outcome of 8 wins, IMHO.
Well... yeah. They have a 3-year head start.
Lot to ask for lol
I don’t think we broke, we just don’t have the money some of the bigger schools do.
We are gonna have to face the fact that Mario isn’t going to do anything quickly whether it’s going after kids in the portal or recruiting a 4-5* HS kid or God forbid ever hire another coach.
He’s the type of person that would go on Jeopardy and when the Answer /Question came up in single Jeopardy he’d finally ring in with the Question/Answer in the middle of Double Jeopardy cause he has to seemingly overanalyze everything he does to the enth degree before can can make a move.
Recruiting is his speciality and relies a lot on relationships groomed over a long period of time like a slow cooker.
The portal to me is more like a deep fryer where kids,especially the better kids,want to see how much they can get and how/or how quick they can play and the coaches that move the fastest and get them their money and whatever else they want wins…
Mario is going to be long build but should stabilize the program for the future cause it will be built from inside out and not by putting up prefab panels…
He’s the type of person that would go on Jeopardy and when the Answer /Question came up in single Jeopardy he’d finally ring in with the Question/Answer in the middle of Double Jeopardy cause he has to seemingly overanalyze everything he does to the enth degree before can can make a move.
Recruiting is his speciality and relies a lot on relationships groomed over a long period of time like a slow cooker.
The portal to me is more like a deep fryer where kids,especially the better kids,want to see how much they can get and how/or how quick they can play and the coaches that move the fastest and get them their money and whatever else they want wins…
Mario is going to be long build but should stabilize the program for the future cause it will be built from inside out and not by putting up prefab panels…
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I think they complain because both schools were in basically mirroring situations.
TrumpyCane wants to know if you defended Al Golden the same way after his one decent season
Or how about when Richt had us up to #2 behind Malik fkn Rosier?
I hate our fans sometimes
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Norvell’s now been there a while. He didn’t start out great. We’ll see how Mario fares at the same point in time.
A 3 year non bowl eligible head start yeah
A thread about Miami's potential portal players has turned into a Norvell suckfest.
When he has more winning seasons than losing seasons, then we'll talk.
When he has more winning seasons than losing seasons, then we'll talk.
Yep. There’s a consistent slew of violators here on CIS who have become blatant Norvell portal fanboys and it’s sad to see.
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this is the best explanation I have heard. Will probably mean we take a little longer to get there but I mean.. Justin Scott just got a
to us. Might be the most sustainable option long term.
Man have to know its pointless crying. Cristobal is not gonna have us be like what Mich St did, Deieon is doing, FSU is doing or Lincoln Riley is now. He built that Oregon roster from a 4-8 team to 12 wins, bad competition or no. He wants us to be like Ohio St, Bama, UGA even Clemson. Where every season them man basically have 10 wins in the bag. Those teams are not bringing in a ton of Portal players. I prefer to build through high school and if we have to pay big money, pay it to those kids after they been on the roster. Then u can pick and choose in the portal. FSU went from a laughing stock to a model to man in 12 months. U people are jokes. Props to them but they aint no model to emulate. Sorry. Also as money becomes more a factor, character recruiting matters more.
We were also 7 points away from having 3 more wins that year.
The record was what it was. It wasn't we were almost 5-7 or worse anymore than it was 10-2.
Also and not at you, high character kids is just some feel good **** people say to ease their mental fragility when we get tossed on landing who we really want. You poll any team in the land, 90 percent or even more will say their team is full of high character guys. Good people of not good players.
Now I know everyone wants to let him work through recruiting, but that is going to fly out the window if he doesn't do something on the field this year. Say he does, we better have a nice war chest set aside to keep our players since in this new age, if someone else is offering and we don't meet or beat them, they're gone. If we don't win, the guys we expect to be players will go somewhere else they can win.
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I would agree with that. But I think it is also a little skewed to look at and compare the portal acquisitions in a vacuum for 2022. Norvell was in what year 3? I seem to recall he went 3-6, 5-7 and 10-3. So after 5-7 after year 2 one could argue he should not need to rely on 13 transfers to make an immediate impact. But he was forced to due to poor recruiting and to his credit they hit. But for the portal FSU likely finishes below .500 for the third straight year.
Norvell also had a system in place and was trying to build after back to back losing seasons before this "grand slam" portal class.
Mario was here in Dec and had 6 months to evaluate the team, ID portal targets and get after it along with installing his system and implementing everything that comes with a new coach. I hope in year 3 of Mario we are not 5-7 and requiring a high portal rate hit to be successful. I would much prefer using the portal to plug a key guy here and there.
All great points. Can’t argue any of them. I just used 2022 because it’s Mario’s only sample size. I hope 3 years from now I’m praising our portal evals like I am norvells On top of the elite hs recruiting we expect Mario to continue.
I think the 1st wave 2023 portal acquisitions will be big time for us. Hope we get 3-5 more quality players before fall camp to compliment an excellent first wave in portal.
Lol!
Head start nonetheless. Either way - fine. Still doesn't make sense to grade a coach in year 1 on the same curve as a coach in year 3.
They went 3-6, got blown out by us and lost to a lower division team in Norvell's first season (eerily similar to us last year). Might their portal players' (the good ones, anyway) impact in 2022 have been more noticeable because the roster had already been mostly flipped and the coach's system was already in place?
