Ahead of Schedule? - A Look At Recruiting Classes Ten Months Before NSD

[NC_Canes_11]

IMO I’m not worried about finishing top 10 this class. Of course you want highly rated players but I want Manny to address our needs with kids that can play. OL and LB are gonna be a huge need. If they are 3 stars that can play I’m fine with that

 

[OrangeBowlMagic]

IMO I’m not worried about finishing top 10 this class. Of course you want highly rated players but I want Manny to address our needs with kids that can play. OL and LB are gonna be a huge need. If they are 3 stars that can play I’m fine with that

The LB recruiting has been at best bad, and at worst a disaster. And I don’t see a single kid that Miami has offered as having genuine interest right now outside of Stewart. It’s only April, so I’m not saying jump off your roof yet, but this is what we’re looking at next season. And remember, Miami has 0 LB commits right now and I don’t see one imminent.

But you guys realize right now the 2020 LBs are Steed (torn ACL), Wilder (neck), Jennings (underwhelming recruit who looked lost at times last year, but still young and can develop), Huff (undersized true freshman), Brooks (VERY undersized true freshman who is more rush edge than LB).

That’s it.


I realize Manny has started to shift to more of a 4-2-5 lately with the Striker position, but holy Christ that’s terrifying.

 

[NC_Canes_11]

The LB recruiting has been at best bad, and at worst a disaster. And I don’t see a single kid that Miami has offered as having genuine interest right now outside of Stewart. It’s only April, so I’m not saying jump off your roof yet, but this is what we’re looking at next season. And remember, Miami has 0 LB commits right now and I don’t see one imminent.

But you guys realize right now the 2020 LBs are Steed (torn ACL), Wilder (neck), Jennings (underwhelming recruit who looked lost at times last year, but still young and can develop), Huff (undersized true freshman), Brooks (VERY undersized true freshman who is more rush edge than LB).

That’s it.


I realize Manny has started to shift to more of a 4-2-5 lately with the Striker position, but holy Christ that’s terrifying.

Exactly. Gotta fill those needs before we care about stacking other positions

 

[maurice3p]

And then have fans complain about how bad we're recruiting then? You realize how many of the top players have committed by then? We'd literally turn away top targets who want to commit early. You'd rather be fighting to keep them than fighting to flip them. That's just a losers mentality.

Once a player commits, the de commit process begins. You never wanna be the 1 school a recruit commits to, you wanna be the last.

 

[birdicane9177]

if we take care of business on the field this year, we finish with a top ten class! just like the gayturds did last year.

 

[pacusmc]

We got some transfers that helped our abysmal class of 2019. But those dudes might not be enough to recover from that.
We’re thin at a lot of positions and our lb”ers are basically gone after this year.
This recruiting class has to be at least top ten. And the lb’ers have to be fckng savages. Just no other way to bounce back from last years class, possible injuries, draft and graduation.
Think we stand a chance against bama in 21 if this year’s class isn’t top10?
Think we’re gonna keep it close against Clemson without a dominant Offensive line?

 

[Ethnicsands]

Chicken or the egg?

Is it evals or is it development? I know it’s a bit of both, but don’t discount the ability to motivate/develop talent. Scott Frost won at UCF with the previous coaches players, for the most part.

It’s pbviously all ofit. But discounting evals is crazy and has been a big part of the problem the past 20 years.

 

[GojiraCane]

If everybody else got bag$ goin on, why don't we?

We’re still in the repeat violator threat window. All it takes is one bag and the NCAA gets to impose everything that they wished in 2012 (four year bowl ban, annual 10 scholarship reduction for four years)

 

[GojiraCane]

With Tennison decommitting today, we have a prime example why the best case scenario for Miami over the last 17 years was that 40% of the recruits who committed on NSD were committed at the beginning of the prior April.