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Expand the ******* recruiting footprint

SayWhat said:
We recruit a kid we want wherever they may be.

The one truth to recruiting is recruits usually stay close to home. The odds of getting someone from California is lower than say Texas.

The amount of resources to go up against in state or regional powers just isn't there for most schools. Only the elites can typically cherry pick studs from wherever, so just win games.

The idea that we don't look at or contact recruits wherever is absurd. You don't want to waste the money or time when the chances of getting that recruit are slim to none.
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Seems like waste time on recruiting the top kids in SoFla
 

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337CaneNation said:
Trust and believe me, IF Miami puts a coach in the state of Louisiana for recruiting, Miami can pull their share of Louisiana recruits!! My state is loaded with talent, I know for sure Miami is a school of choice around The Boot, we just need to get coaches here to recruit the state..
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I have a few friends that teach high school in New Orleans and he say these kids always talk about The U!
 
bAMACANE said:
Seems like waste time on recruiting the top kids in SoFla
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Miami has had its first 10 win season since 2003. It takes time for these kids to establish a stronger connection with Miami. Losing 3 in a row didn’t do us no favors but overall Miami still did well recruiting SFLA. Some of you are so irrational and unrealistic it’s mind boggling.
 
No reason why we cant do better in the Virginia area.

Urban and FSU did a good job of pulling one or two studs from the area.
 
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Richt will get the Miami pipeline flowing again. He's spent a lot of time with youth football camps, kids who were 8th-9th grade when he started. Now they will be juniors and seniors, so I expect he'll do much better in the next few years. Kids like PS2 and TC likely tuned out Al Golden, so Richt had to make up a lot of ground since he took the job. It was pretty much all up to Rumph to keep TC in the fold, but obviously that didn't pan out. Glad Nesta lives and dies with the 305. His loyalty to the city might have been more responsible for his coming to Miami than any connection with Rumph.
 
bAMACANE said:
Tired of this man! Happy for the kids to sign with top programs, but man Miami never lands the "top" players from South Florida. From a recruiting strategy, why are you going all in on players without any viable backup options? Just like kids want to leave South Florida to play ball, kids want to come to Miami and play ball! I've lived in Bama, Louisiana, and Texas and there's no shortage of love for the U in some of these places.
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Well this is what got Coker and later Fat Albert in trouble.

I don't give a flying **** what you think, The highschool players down here see superior competition to any other place in the country. We don't need to go sifting through New Jersey or PA 4 stars because when they get down here, they cant hack it on some ***** ****.

80% comes from florida,

20% from surrounding states. I am not going north of the state of georgia's boarder to find players if I can help it. No point unless its a truly special case.

Look back in history, there have been VERY few cases of top top players for us coming from farther than the SE US.
 
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CaneStuck@USF said:
Last coach didn’t recruit south Florida enough. This coach recruits it too much? We Canes fans sure are an easy bunch to please.
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The OP is not saying this at all. He is saying that we should go after other big name targets in different recruiting areas for backups. An example would be the DT from Texas we missed on. We should have been on him from day 1 not day 300.
 
Finally....glad to see some die hards come to reality....I do believe Miami is doing excellent in sfla tho...but like I said in another thread.. the staff needs to spend more resources on OOS bigs...in the process....research recruiting services to find studs at other positions in same the area....when sfla divas decide to bolt....a back up plan is already in place...its that simple...
 
I think its simpler. We just need to win bigger games. We can't let the last memory a recruit has of us playing is of us getting stomped out. These kids want to play for winners. Some are canes through and through but this is a new era in recruiting.

We've got to get back to the ACCCG and compete with Clemson. This has got to be the year that Clemson stops annihilating us. Then we've got to win our bowl game. That will improve recruiting the most.
 
Timeout: So we get the #1, #3, #4 from Dade...#1 recruit from Palm Beach and the #3 and #5 recruit from Broward, and we're having a tough time keeping kids home lol.

So we should start getting RBs from NY with only 800 yards, ****, let's grab the Top DE from Sacramento, but we have to be careful, he might get "Homesick", lol. Man, you can make this **** up, lol. Well, who knows we may be able to get a TE from Nevada or somewhere like that.. 85% of the class was from Florida..We don't need to go anywhere, especially at the skilled position. This Coaching staff has done a great job recruiting South Florida. Florida and FSU only grab 4 players from the Tri-county combined. Folks are getting caught up on 1 or 2 recruits. I guess establishing the State of Miami is in the past now.
 
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gogeta4 said:
Thats a myth. Only last recruiting class they did and thats because of the transition. LSU pretty much gets who they want in state. But......i wish we would set up shop in New Orleans...those guys love the miami area and would come..
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LSU only has to compete against Tulane for in state talent

We have to go against ucf UF usf and FSU

Only natural to think we would miss out on more than most because more teams here and kids are often recruited by more schools down here
 
I don't get this thread.

Aren't most of the ppl on here always complaining when we go out of State?

Brevin Jordan dj Johnson both top tier talents from across the country

Michael Johnson jr is our top qb target. Staff goes the distance when they see opportunity but due to talent competition in other regions of the country it's safer to go after solid south Florida kids
 
I've stated my opinion in another thread but this discussion Is better suited for it.

Offer the Miami kids a chance to play and stay at home. We want to build the pipeline here at much as possible. But give them a deadline (season starting) if they don't sign by then you say we would love to have you but we are going to start exploring out of state opportunities. The chance to play for Miami is something OTHER kids from out of state would jump at. So we need to focus on those recruits now.

1. It doesn't give them the excuse "miami didn't recruit me"
2. It creates an urgency for them to make a decision
3. It will help our coaches see who is actually in and who is dragging us along.
4. It gives us time to shuffle our board
 
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Richt and staff needs to spend way more time in Ga. As many 4-5 stars in greater Atlanta area than all of SoFla. Also as many in state as Fla and Ga only instate school whereas in Fla we competing with Gators and Noles.
 
I'm all for smart recruiting nationally (as opposed to the lazy nonsense Coker tried to do) but you still need to be very careful about even being perceived to cede claiming the rights to local kids. That said, I'd like us to do a better job of going in way earlier on some kids from Texas, Louisiana, etc. instead of the senior year Hail Marys we seemingly throw annually.

Nonetheless, every Canes fan always wants us to come get the perceived studs from wherever they're currently living or are from. Neverending comments about going after kids in Virginia or Pennsylvania or Pac Islanders or how the high school football in the Carolinas is underrated or why we stopped pulling Canadians, etc etc.

Some are valid questions but it's also indicative of having a national fanbase/alumni base too as I bet you don't hear too much of this on the SEC boards unless it's some clown from Birmingham that made the big move to Atlanta and thinks Sabag should've offered more Georgia kids.
 
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