duke is more of an abberation than a card played right by the staff. previous staff was tarred and fethered for not keeping local kids home yet people appear to be giving current staff a pass. you need to draw a line in the sand before points a and b can be discussed.
what will ultimately determine golden's success will be keeping these kids home.
It wasn't the previous staff that was tarred and FEATHERED, it was the previous coach, and not so much for not keeping the local kids home but for losing heinously.
Also for looking completely clueless while losing heinously.
Now in hindsight we see that Shannon alienated all the local HS coaches except a few of his buddies, ran sub par practices according to Alonzo, allowed our strength and conditioning to plummet to all time lows according to his successor.
The list of Shannon's failures is well known but there is one other that may or may not be his fault: The Shapiro scandal culminated under his watch.
In 3 recruiting classes Golden has signed 26 kids from Dade Broward and Palm Beach Counties and 15 from the rest of Florida.
To me that doesn't look like he's neglecting South Florida or Florida in general.
He might be neglecting BTW and Northwestern as we've only gotten 1 commit from those two under Golden's watch, but the last time I checked BTW and NW weren't part of the University of Miami and Al is under no obligation to always take their kids.
This whole, "can't keep the local kids home," thing is a illusion created by a few local coaches with personal agendas. The media ran with it and created an issue when there really isn't one.