I'm not sure what you took from my comment and spun it into that reply. **** no on Caputo. I dont really follow basketball until February anyway but at that point I wouldn't even follow it at all if he was our HC. Caputo is a decent recruiter but he's proven absolutely nothing. I'd rather take a flier on a more high profile assistant than a guy that I've already seen what he is on his own.
Miami is still not one of those programs with recruiting leverage on the top tier guys to this day. We have fought our way into a few of the battles over the years but its mostly a one-off every 3-4 years.... but Kimani Young is already one of those guys with those connections and that level of pull to get Miami into those battles immediately and pair it with a solid NIL and he would probably clean up in recruiting.
His game day coaching and program management? Who knows. Chance you have to take. I'd rather hire a proven winner from a proven program and make it risk free. But that might not be possible. Miami is a disaster right now. If there was no portal, this job would be borderline untouchable by a proven commodity. Significantly worse than even when L took over. Even Haith had 4 straight or 3 out of 4 20 win seasons before he left.
I think they need to take Steve Forbes from Wake Forest at whatever the cost.