2Focusd804
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In a perfect world you are right. I work in insurance and competing agents throw kickbacks, commissions shares, and other (sometimes illegal) activities such as rebating (depending on the state) that my company will not do. Some clients make the decision to go with the competing agent, some don't because of the relationship. Same thing here. Some schools go to places and extents Miami will not or cannot afford the risk of going to. We have to win the battles that we can when the other enticements are not relevant and identify early when those recruits are only interested in that and make it clear that is not a place we are willing to go.
I think the "win the battles that we can" is where the disagreement comes in. I'm not saying we should be getting the top guys from California or Texas. But kids from South Florida that grew up in South Florida, that were coached in high school by current Miami coaches or that have years of relationships with Miami coaches are battles that we can win. We're never going to bat 100% but we need to bat at a higher % if we want to do more than win the Coastal.
And if we go by the old adage that "everybody cheats" then, by definition, so does Miami. Idk if its because we are Miami fans or because of Shapiro but I always find it funny when people assume everybody else is giving extra benefits but Miami isn't or "can't afford too". What makes us so different? And Richt coached at Georgia in the "$EC" and got plenty of elite kids so was he paying kids then? Find the loopholes and gray areas that everybody else is exploiting and use them to our advantage as well.