Giovanni Bernard and Devonta Freeman

[BWCD]

Full story on Gio (that I've posted on here before):

He wanted out of South Florida. EVERYBODY in the country wanted him. Miami did have an offer out to him, but when it was apparent he had zero interest in coming to Miami, we went after Clements/Storm/Darion Hall hard. Gio wanted to go to Notre Dame, committed there to Charlie Weis. Once Weis was fired, he decommitted and went with his 2nd choice in Butch Davis at UNC. Then, while Gio was injured (popped an ACL as a Freshman at UNC), he saw Butch get fired. He could have transferred, but decided to stay in Chapel Hill...and the rest is history.

On Freeman, he wanted to be a Cane, but Shannon thought he was undersized and relied too much on speed...wasn't physical enough. We didn't offer until late in the game, and Golden really didn't have enough time to pull him away from FSU (since Freeman had already committed there and had been an FSU commit for a while at that point, since mid-2010).

Bottom Line: We can't get everybody, and not all South Florida kids want to be Miami Hurricanes. We have to do our best to sell the kids that fit our system best, and keep as much talent at home as possible. However, if a kid goes elsewhere and balls out for another school other than Miami...it doesn't mean we whiffed on them or that we didn't recruit them 1000% of the time as a lot of folks like to think.

 

[lauderdaleballer]

BWCD great post, but this will fall deaf on many ears... I'm waiting to hear the why didnt we get Rakeem Cato, Jaimie Willis, Tommy Shuler, Amari Copper threads... Gio was a top 10 prospect at his position... If he wanted to stay in state he could have easily inked with UF, FSU, or any other state school... He didnt want to be here...

 

[gogeta4]

everything is correct regarding gio and freeman.

add to it on Freeman...the kid's family..though he lives in Liberty City is origninally from S.Georgia...he moved here when he was younger...and their from the same city as the guy that recruited him to FSU..so it was pretty much a no brainer.

Freeman used to live from time to time with Uncle Luke...believe me if we could have gotten him we would have.....

Freeman, Godfrey, Duke, and a bunch of other div 1 recruits were on the same Liberty City Warriors team....im guessing they were LOADED

 

[cane33]

Jimbo Fisher offered Freeman before he was even the starter at Miami Central. He didn't break out until late and by the time he did and we offered he had been committed to FSU for awhile.

Gio wanted out of South Florida and was never coming anyway

 

[moshated305]

You have to keep recruiting kids regardless. Tracy Howard wanted to get away too.

 

[canemutiny9]

You have to keep recruiting kids regardless. Tracy Howard wanted to get away too.

thats the difference between randy and AG

 

[lauderdaleballer]

If I recall correctly Tracy initially had interest in UM... He just didnt know a lot about the staff... AG stayed on him and reeled him in... No one was going to change Gio's mind... Even Al Golden doesn't get evryone he wants... If that was the case Amari Cooper would be here... whether we stayed on Gio or not hr would have opted out the state...

 

[higabe]

Alright all you people can say what you want all I know is that I checked rivals and devonta freeman and Gio didnt get offers so all those people who said that we tried to get them....I'm not buying it

 

[JerseyCanes]

You have to keep recruiting kids regardless.

thats the difference between randy and AG

Amen... No truer words have been spoken

JC

 

[lauderdaleballer]

Alright all you people can say what you want all I know is that I checked rivals and devonta freeman and Gio didnt get offers so all those people who said that we tried to get them....I'm not buying it

Gio definitely had an offer... Freeman not so much... I don't even think Al had a chance to get on Freeman... I believe Freeman was an EE, I could be wrong... Gio was the best back in the state... He could have went to any school if he wanted to but he opted for UNC... He just wanted to leave the state...

 

[gogeta4]

stop with the bernard stuff..it was no chance.

Kid played ta sta...under coach smith once guys made their commits they didnt switch......add to it he committed to a sta pipeline school in Notre dame...only reason he went to unc was because of fat man getting fired.

as for Freeman...Duke imo is better than him...and we had Duke committed already at the time...we also played from behind on the kid...fsu was on him very EARLY..he was an Early Entree kid..and currently were likely to get in trouble for trying to get him in the midnight hour (thanks to pee wee) once golden got the job.

cant get EVERYBODY

 

[FreePawn]

In Shannon's defense Freeman kind of flew under the radar,

Under the radar? Kid was a star in peewee already....

 

[BWCD]

Randy thought Freeman was too small to play at UM, and had a beef with Miami Central apparently. We never offered Freeman early enough to ever have a shot. Devonta committed to FSU in June of 2010. By the time Golden was hired, Freeman was all FSU's, signed/sealed/delivered.

Done deal because he was an early enrollee at FSU (see link): http://articles.orlandosentinel.com...10_1_jimbo-fisher-seminoles-offensive-linemen

 

[HardCane]

Yearby will be the next back a thread will surface about in couple years.

 

[Duval904]

Yearby will be the next back a thread will surface about in couple years.

yearby has only been clocked at 4.4....do not want.....that's not FSU speed

 

[higabe]

Yearby will be the next back a thread will surface about in couple years.

No doubt in my mind

 

[Canesfan1899]

Yearby will be the next back a thread will surface about in couple years.

yearby has only been clocked at 4.4....do not want.....that's not FSU speed

Agree, has to get that down to at least a 4.2.

 

[Larry]

Yearby will be the next back a thread will surface about in couple years.

Not if we land Collins, Cook, and Michel.

 

[KATKER]

i bet if we picked up Gio or freeman, then Eduardo will be at FSU tearing us up.

our poor D line and tackling made them look amazing.

Yup