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caneworld said:
Football is dying a slow death..... there is barely any movement on that board...
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Not saying this just because of the last two seasons but ... UM's future competitiveness for national college sports relevancy lies with basketball. The size of the school, its private status, resources, the league we're in, etc. all point to basketball's ascendancy at the University of Miami. Whether some like that or not.
 
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hotshot said:
Not saying this just because of the last two seasons but ... UM's future competitiveness for national college sports relevancy lies with basketball. The size of the school, its private status, resources, the league we're in, etc. all point to basketball's ascendancy at the University of Miami. Whether some like that or not.
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Miami can and should be nationally relevant in all three major revenue sports, albeit for different reasons. In football, Miami has access to arguably the best local talent pool in the country and while it is competitive, a competent coach and evaluator can and will get more than enough talent to win. Basketball doesn’t have the local talent pool that cares about Miami, but the ability to attract kids from the eastern seaboard helps. Baseball has a lot of the advantages football has, lots of local talent. The key is getting the right kids. Period.
 
Canedude08 said:
The media goes where the eyeballs are. Let's be honest, Miami basketball isn't nearly as important to the fanbase as football. Keep the following in mind, we have DIE HARD Miami football fans that actively dislike the basketball program and cheer for other collegiate programs in the sport. It's so commonplace at Miami, it's a running joke. You rarely see that among P5 schools.

The basketball fanbase is small, and unfortunately, that leads to media sources not spending as much effort covering the team. They see how many times people click on basketball articles, they see how often people click on pointless football recruiting articles that provide little to no useful information. They know that there are more people interested in some HS junior tailback narrowing his search to 12 schools than Miami going to the Final Four. I don't get it, but I'm also a basketball nerd.
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Small but growing basketball fan base.
 
Gables Canes said:
I read he’s from Arizona and currently plays high school ball in NYC, so that might be why.
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Understand and wasn't really ragging on the kid. Washington State, ASU, Miss St, Miami, and Seton Hall do pretty much cover the whole country though. A bit unusual.
 
Canedude08 said:
Miami can and should be nationally relevant in all three major revenue sports, albeit for different reasons. In football, Miami has access to arguably the best local talent pool in the country and while it is competitive, a competent coach and evaluator can and will get more than enough talent to win. Basketball doesn’t have the local talent pool that cares about Miami, but the ability to attract kids from the eastern seaboard helps. Baseball has a lot of the advantages football has, lots of local talent. The key is getting the right kids. Period.
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Some thoughts from your reply:

1. It certainly was true 20-40 years ago that South Florida high schools put the area right up there nationally at the top of any list of fertile recruiting grounds. Especially for "skill position" players. This century, that case can really no longer be made. The reputation of the area is living off past excellence.

2. Basketball only takes 5-6 top recruits who stay awhile to be very competitive. Football requires MANY times that number. Much more difficult to compete against the mega-sized State universities. Basketball fortunes can be turned around on a dime (look at FAU); football, as Mario is finding out, not so much.

3. Baseball, I agree. Losing top kids to the MLB draft is a tough factor. Still, we should be better.
 
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hotshot said:
Some thoughts from your reply:

1. It certainly was true 20-40 years ago that South Florida high schools put the area right up there nationally at the top of any list of fertile recruiting grounds. Especially for "skill position" players. This century, that case can really no longer be made. The reputation of the area is living off past excellence.

2. Basketball only takes 5-6 top recruits who stay awhile to be very competitive. Football requires MANY times that number. Much more difficult to compete against the mega-sized State universities. Basketball fortunes can be turned around on a dime (look at FAU); football, as Mario is finding out, not so much.

3. Baseball, I agree. Losing top kids to the MLB draft is a tough factor. Still, we should be better.
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1. South Florida still produces top football talent and it's not just the skilled positions. All you've got to do is look at the last few NFL drafts, including the one this past weekend.

2. Agree with you here, but still think hanging our hats solely on out of state kids in past years came back to bite us in the butt. Love the fact that we're starting to pick up on our in-state recruiting. The talent pool is there and has been such for about 10 years now.

3. All top programs are losing recruits to the MLB draft. No reason why schools from the SEC (like Vandy, Ole Miss, Miss St., etc.) can come down here and pick top talent to help take them to Omaha. We gotta do a better job of getting top college talent and developing them.
 
hotshot said:
Some thoughts from your reply:

1. It certainly was true 20-40 years ago that South Florida high schools put the area right up there nationally at the top of any list of fertile recruiting grounds. Especially for "skill position" players. This century, that case can really no longer be made. The reputation of the area is living off past excellence.

2. Basketball only takes 5-6 top recruits who stay awhile to be very competitive. Football requires MANY times that number. Much more difficult to compete against the mega-sized State universities. Basketball fortunes can be turned around on a dime (look at FAU); football, as Mario is finding out, not so much.

3. Baseball, I agree. Losing top kids to the MLB draft is a tough factor. Still, we should be better.
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In baseball we really need to be following Coach L's approach and should be cherry picking players from the Northeast as a few on that board have mentioned repeatedly. Those players are fundamentally sound and just look at the best players from the ACC the last handful of years a lot of them have been coming from the Jersey, NY, Penn, Mass, Connecticut areas. BC and UCONN are both in or near the top 10 and UVA, VA Tech, Wake and Maryland all have top players from the NE region.
 
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