None of us should lose sleep over any of these kids' decisions. He won't OV to Miami and is a FSU legacy. He was seen as a FSU lock two years ago. The move-in with mom and transfer to Columbus gave Miami a puncher's chance. Miami had the mom on their side due to potential proximity to home.
Folks are reading the tea leaves pretty hard.
I think he is very open minded due his top 7 list and want to visit all of them before making a decision. His openmindness does not have me believing that a OT that OVs to LSU, FSU, + 3 out of Clemson/OSU/UF/Bama will chose Miami. He rejected the June 1st UOV invite too. I believe you would not reject both of those for a college you will want to attend. Choosing to travel rather than take the short drive for the day (wherever he is on June 1st will not be a OV with the info laid out in OP). To my knowledge, no highly recruited local kids that exhausted all their OVs, without Miami, chose Miami.
Perhaps, but what have we done with OLinemen? In fact we have had two or three St. Thomas kids on OL and DL the past 5 years and none ever became a factor.
I don’t think this is true. Don’t recall though. Maybe others do.
I don't want kids that don't value an offer from UM. The whole, "I want to commit at the All-American game did it for me." It's his right to get his shine on wherever he wants, but I'm looking elsewhere. He's reaching for what he thinks are greener pastures
this post fails the test of understanding the basic concept of leverage. you can't play hardball when you need the talent. we have to let the kid do what he feels like and hope to convince him in the end that miami is the best place for him. taking a "tougher stance" accomplishes nothing except pumping blood into the ****s of message board posters. in the real world, miami has to build relationships in a positive fashion and, i dunno, actually win something
"Son, I'd love it if you went to FSU, but you make your own choice — as long as isn't the ******* Gators or Hurricanes"
typically my rule of thumb
Good point. We should have a decent size data set on this by the end of the cycle, to help predict the 2023 class.
James people were all Canes & James himself was a Canes fan though. He was just turned off by our ****** 2019 season
i was on here consistently saying that and i was connected to him. Uga was a real threat but James was a legit cane fan
You're 100% right. I should've said I long for the day that we're able to toughen our stance.
