How do kids in South Florida feel about Miami these days?

motorcitycane

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Not talking about based off of this year.......

But you guys who are locals, on the camp circuit, coaches, family members or other folks actively involved in south Florida sports scene.

What have you heard from a kids own mouth when it comes to Miami From 2005-2019?

Just an observation from me. Kids born in 2000 and up haven’t witnessed a dominant Miami team. Combined with the street agents, Miami rejecting certain kids or not recruiting certain kids, souring relationships with 7 on 7 coaches or entire families, it seems that maybe times are changing.

It appears that we have burned many bridges within out home turf. Not just with coaches but entire families and then when the next south Florida stud is a previous kid we rejecteds brother, cousin, nephew, or whatever we are automatically counted out based off whatever the reason was that someone else didn’t come here. (See Wilson Family, See Henderson Family, Mullen family, Cook Family and Countless others)

To watch a guy like Dalvin Cook score in his city and flip the U down and throw up 305.....what causes this type of hatred?

It’s bad enough driving around south Florida and seeing so much UFAG and FSU **** on people’s cribs and cars even in the hoods down there.

It’s been so many years with many kids balling and making it to the league from other schools down there. Many of the still active in their communities. (See Bridgewater and Freeman doing giveaways and school supplies in the hood)

These guys still have friends and family they grew up with in those communities. Y’all don’t think they talk? Then they get to talking about how their college experiences went with other top athletes and help low key aid kids minds into not wanting to be here.

You can talk here about previous kids that are at other schools, the league, coming up, or whatever here anonymously don’t have to state the kids name or year they were coming out.

I just want to know for those connected what’s some things you heard a kid or kids say directly and how can we fix it as a unit, community, family.

(We will always land some good local guys who just want to be near the house. That happens to every school everywhere. Even Pitt has pulled some local top 100 players and a couple 5 stars who just wanted to stay home.)

But for the ones who are leaving. How do we stop 15 years of bleeding?
 
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and I coached at elite high schools down there !
 
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Why can kids barely form a coherent sentence these days? Listen to guys like this talk and then listen to Ed Reed, Jon Beason, and Ken Dorsey talk and it is no wonder we do stupid things and blow assignments all over the field.
 
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They think of us as their first offer. Then dip. Said this about the subject a few weeks ago

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In short, it ain't good...

Many of the recruits look at us as a complete joke & have zero interest in coming here.

Some of them were waiting to see how we would look under Diaz & most of them that I know & have communication with are completely checked out & don't believe anything he's selling.

The 2020 class was already negatively affected by the losses to UF & UNC, but losing to GTech the way we did sealed the deal for some. But the real impact will be felt in the 21,22 & 23 classes, this season is absolutely decimating those future classes from a perception standpoint.

Fans don't wanna hear it, but the cold hard truth is Manny has royally fcked us for those future classes as far as local talent is concerned. Gonna be insanely more difficult than it already is to recruit high caliber players going forward with other programs being able to negative recruit against us & not having to use lies, they can simply show the recruits this is what they are & this how they play, you wanna waste 3-4 years for that?

In other words, if we don't make drastic changes we're fcked.
 
In short, it ain't good...

Many of the recruits look at us as a complete joke & have zero interest in coming here.

Some of them were waiting to see how we would look under Diaz & most of them that I know & have communication with are completely checked out & don't believe anything he's selling.

The 2020 class was already negatively affected by the losses to UF & UNC, but losing to GTech the way we did sealed the deal for some. But the real impact will be felt in the 21,22 & 23 classes, this season is absolutely decimating those future classes from a perception standpoint.

Fans don't wanna hear it, but the cold hard truth is Manny has royally fcked us for those future classes as far as local talent is concerned. Gonna be insanely more difficult than it already is to recruit high caliber players going forward with other programs being able to negative recruit against us & not having to use lies, they can simply show the recruits this is what they are & this how they play, you wanna waste 3-4 years for that?

In other words, if we don't make drastic changes we're fcked.

Dude we are a joke. We keep losing and we will lose more commits.
 
In short, it ain't good...

Many of the recruits look at us as a complete joke & have zero interest in coming here.

Some of them were waiting to see how we would look under Diaz & most of them that I know & have communication with are completely checked out & don't believe anything he's selling.

The 2020 class was already negatively affected by the losses to UF & UNC, but losing to GTech the way we did sealed the deal for some. But the real impact will be felt in the 21,22 & 23 classes, this season is absolutely decimating those future classes from a perception standpoint.

Fans don't wanna hear it, but the cold hard truth is Manny has royally fcked us for those future classes as far as local talent is concerned. Gonna be insanely more difficult than it already is to recruit high caliber players going forward with other programs being able to negative recruit against us & not having to use lies, they can simply show the recruits this is what they are & this how they play, you wanna waste 3-4 years for that?

In other words, if we don't make drastic changes we're fcked.

Man. That’s rough. That’s about how I imagine it down there right now. They really going to start treating Miami like we are USF if this **** don’t get fixed within the next 3-4 years.

Could put us in another decade long hold with even more kids who don’t remember a good team. It’s tough.
 
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