Cut the crap, mope.
F$U is a dumpster fire. More than a 1 year dumpster fire. If you think that the analysis is "well, F$U has won a championship more recently than UM", you are just delusional. Bimbo Fisher is not walking through that door.
LSU is in trouble on a number of fronts. You want to talk about "one year", well that championship is a one-year aberration.
Look, your logic is just a hodge-podge of bullcrap. You act as if these kids need to see Miami win (and we can't go back and erase the Golden years), but then you give the Gaytors credit for the 2008 national championship (when Earl Jr. was in kindergarten). And the SemenHoles won a championship when Earl Jr. was in elementary school. At least you had the good sense to recognize that the last USC title was probably not something that Earl Jr. remembers.
So, yeah, if Earl Jr. is visiting UF and F$U and USC because he has inside information on the impending rehires of Urban and Bimbo and Pete, then I can accept that.
But, again, the ISSUE is whether MIAMI is expected to do certain things that other programs are not expected to do. What, in God's name, did F$U do to prove that the Titanic is not sinking? If you choose to crap all over Miami's 8-3 season, then why do you defend the choice to visit a 3-6 program that is multiple coaches removed from their last championship season?
Stop BS'ing and acknowledge that YOUR argument about what Miami needs to do to "deserve" a visit from a UM legacy is just more "Miami needs to do things that people don't require from any other P5 program".
You threw a lot of stuff out there and overlooked probably the most important thing there is.
Yes, if we could keep all the best talent home we would be much better. We still would have to get players from other places as we always have, even in the best of times.
All these kids know that. They also know those or about those who've come here, good to even great prospects who didn't amount to much, let alone the NFL under various staffs that have come and gone. We have squandered so much talent and missed or didn't even recruit locally, it isn't even funny. These kids talk and I doubt it's very positive. We've gotta change that and I think are making ground in that facet of recruiting. We have to take the next steps, winning and producing beyond college.
As I said before, all those teams have done something in this kids lifetime. We've won what in that time? No conference title, an abysmal bowl record, float somewhere around 6 to 8 wins a year, and have our annual blowout loss. They've seen the games or heard about them, the loss to FIU, get steamrolled by UNC, Clemson, etc. What's our big shine? Notre Dame one year? The coaching carousel reflects our on the field performance and beyond college.
Then you get into what they're looking for in college. It takes a unique person to come here. It used to be about playing against the best in practice to be the best. You knew every time you messed up, the next guy in line was ready, better than the guy on the other team. We got guys out there who don't look like they belong, not just on this team but even in the ACC.
Does he want a big school? Every school he's listed is a big time state school with every bell and whistle one could want. We're making progress, but we won't every be as blinged out as the big schools.
Fanbase, man, some may say we keep it real, but I would say it's toxic. We want more one day ring of honor players out there, but we eat our own when we aren't even close to that yet. We question everything and don't believe in the coaches, but these kids are supposed to?
Why anyone would consider FSU right now, you've got me. The rest I can understand. Maybe he just tossed that school out there or truly has formed a bond with some of the staff. You would have to ask him.
Short end of the story, we've made a lot of promises to some good to great local high school players in the past decade and a half. We haven't been delivering for whatever reason. Are we connecting with this kid or others? Seems we did more this past class, but we gotta build on it.
It's tough though when they see players they know and played against staring elsewhere while some of those same kids came here and aren't doing a thing. Bama wants him, he's likely there unless we really show something this year. LSU, same thing of Bama passes. I don't expect FSU to be better than us, just can't see them being a real team to beat.
Show out, we'll get more. Not all, but more for sure.
