I was listening to Donno's Locked on Canes podcast yesterday. His guest was John Garcia, Director of Football Recruiting at Sports Illustrated. Seemed like a good guy for SI. But I was LOLing when he talked about Miami coming out of nowhere for recruits several times -- e.g., Alinen, Popo, "we weren't talking about Okunlola (to Miami) a month ago, we weren't talking about Bonsu (to Miami) a month ago".
On Bryant ... "Miami was always 2 or 3 on his list. ... . All of a sudden Miami the school getting all the IMG kids ... now Miami is trending a whole lot more ... uh oh, here comes the U for another one"
These are all names I've heard on here months ago from
@Cribby or
@LeedsCane (sometimes cryptically, had to read the tea leaves) or
@1murhurricane etc. I'm not saying they were all locked in. But the national analysts thought Miami wasn't a contender until now.
Garcia says he feels like Miami having a top 5 class is almost certain at this point.