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EXCLUSIVE: Kaaya's mother talks with CanesInSight

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Peter Ariz said:
Perhaps the biggest question surrounding Miami recruiting over the past three years has been the cloud of the NCAA investigation. The Kaaya family was put to ease about the situation early on in his recruitment with Miami due to one Alfred James Golden.

“He didn’t create this mess, but he’s getting Miami out of the mess and he didn’t have to. He didn’t have to stay. I’m sure a lot of people don’t even realize that all of this stuff didn’t happen under Coach Golden’s watch. My hat is off to this guy because he’s taking it for the team. He’s getting us through it. Before they went into the meeting with the NCAA, I wrote him a letter saying that the Kaaya’s stood with him. We’re all going to get through this together. No matter if we get five scholarships or 20 scholarships, let’s go, let’s do this. He’s a man of honor and a lot of people wouldn’t put themselves in this position. He could go somewhere else and coach and work himself up to a great job. He looked in our eyes and told us that we would get through it and we signed up. We honor it because we signed up for this. He asked us to ride with him when he offered Brad. When Brad committed, in essence we said, ‘we’re riding’.”
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He's getting US through it. I effing love that. Now excuse me, I got a little dirt in my eye.
 
Peter Ariz said:
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“Bradley is a student of a game and his football IQ is ridiculous. When he was like 7, they gave him a playbook and it had like a hundred plays in it and they came back on Monday and the coach said ‘alright now let’s talk about the plays’ and he said, ‘which one, I learned them all.’ This kid knew every one of them. Bradley is an ‘A’ student; I taught him how to read when he was three. I did the Mozart and all this stuff to connect the highways in his brain to build his capacity. I nursed him for 9 months, all his food was just fresh and I pureed everything. He’s been bred for this. As soon as he touched a football, it was a wrap. I put him in everything. He was in swimming and I even had him in ballet. I tried everything and he was good at everything. I took him to piano when he was three and kept calling the teacher to please see him and she said she wouldn’t because they didn’t take three-year-olds. Then 15 minutes after meeting him, she was like ‘alright, he’s undeniable’.”
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Pete, great ******* write up! Definitely one of the best I've ever read.

But the quoted part, all I could see was the guy from Little Giants talking about his kid.
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Every night before he goes to bed, I massage his hamstrings with evaporated milk
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Brad Kaaya has said and done the right things in the recruiting process, like #8 before him. Now we see an amazing mom and get insight into Coley and Golden from a parent's perspective. There's a pretty cool family 3,000 miles away bleeding orange and green. Major props to Pete for capturing a great story and sharing it with us - and keeping us excited about the future of Canes football. Take a bow, Pete, you've outdone yourself.
 
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How can you not appreciate the love and confidence this lady has for her son. With her and Brad recruiting I ain't worried about Dixon and Berrios, they will be Canes. Brad should have Moten meet his mom. Heck she had me all giddy. She made me feel the need to show more love to my son. Thank You Angela.
 
When he said Miami, I thought I was going to pass out, but then I had to calm myself down and say ‘not Ohio right?’,” Means-Kaaya laughed.

/\Favorite part.
 
bomb said:
Best. Parent. Ever.

Best. Recruiting. Article. Ever.

/Friday was the ****.

Canes.

#istandwiththeu
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My mom was awesome too....

now you see why al is on every Tv and radio outlet in the country...getting these type of kids.
 
First of all, thanks Peter. We have two great QB prospects in Olsen and Kaaya. The challenge is to space them so we get two years out of each.
 
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Great job Pete. You guys are being really creative with your stories. Doing stuff other sites don't even think about. Much appreciated.
 
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Probably your best work ever, Pete. That's professional stuff. It should be linked everywhere on the internet.
 
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On point Pete! I think you should try to do something similar to this every month if possible...especially with the recruits parents in south Florida. Would love an insight on the upbringings of guys like Chad Thomas, D. Jackson, M. Smith, etc...Seems like those guys would have an interesting story to tell.
 
Pete please tell me when you got off the phone with her, you said "Bye Felicia".

In all seriousness, as good of an recruiting article as I've read.. Nothing shines brighter than a proud parent!
 
Great mom but I hope she don't move to Miami when kaaya get down hear... I know that's her baby she made that clear but once he get down to the 305 its go time...
 
****, that was an expert piece of writing right there! Mad propz to you Petey! Great job and they definitely need to red shirt Kayaa so we have him for at least two years running the ship! **** I am amp'd about our future.
 
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