Manny playing chess......cat's about to come out the bag.....

Sure, I hear you, I also hear the people who have some concern with only 3. Like you I expected a few more than we have but ultimately a class with a Top 15 Avg Player Rating is a success in my book. We wiff on all the names like Gibson, Horton, Wilson, Stewart, Wesley B, etc well then I am not happy.

Yeah, gone are the days of 28 recruits and a high ranking based on sheer volume alone with the bottom 1/4 of the class unlikely to see the field. It wasn't that long ago (maybe 2017 and 18??) I think Clemson had only 14 or 15 followed by like 17 TOTAL commits, and finished right around top 15 overall but there was a lot of quality which put them in the top 10 or so.
 
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Say huh?

"So you can date me secretly and you can see others on other dates but you best not tell anyone we are dating while you are seen on those dates with others"

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Hypothetically, let's say you are an elite 5 star DE (we'll call you Shumar Shubert for purposes of this example). You have decided you want to go to Miami and told the Miami coaches that you are in, however the biggest bag schools in the country are knocking on your door. Both you AND the Miami coaches are fully aware that if you visit a school like TAMU and they think you are still on the market, they are going to hand you McDonald's bags full of cash in an attempt to sway you. Miami coaches also know that if they announce your commitment, two things could happen- 1) the bag schools decide to move on to other targets so you don't get the money or 2) they will do what UF did with J. Marshall and make an absolutely obscene offer to flip you. The staff knows the game (several came from these SEC schools)- every top recruit is getting paid a little something by at least 5 or 6 different bag schools (it's just a taste, they promise a whole lot more once you sign) . If the staff tells you, "Sorry, once we publicly announce your commitment, you have to shut down your recruitment" then you aren't going to commit because not many recruits will turn down the chance to collect tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of dollars during their visits. The win-win is for the staff to keep commitment quiet and let you play those other programs.
 
Hypothetically, let's say you are an elite 5 star DE (we'll call you Shumar Shubert for purposes of this example). You have decided you want to go to Miami and told the Miami coaches that you are in, however the biggest bag schools in the country are knocking on your door. Both you AND the Miami coaches are fully aware that if you visit a school like TAMU and they think you are still on the market, they are going to hand you McDonald's bags full of cash in an attempt to sway you. Miami coaches also know that if they announce your commitment, two things could happen- 1) the bag schools decide to move on to other targets so you don't get the money or 2) they will do what UF did with J. Marshall and make an absolutely obscene offer to flip you. The staff knows the game (several came from these SEC schools)- every top recruit is getting paid a little something by at least 5 or 6 different bag schools (it's just a taste, they promise a whole lot more once you sign) . If the staff tells you, "Sorry, once we publicly announce your commitment, you have to shut down your recruitment" then you aren't going to commit because not many recruits will turn down the chance to collect tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of dollars during their visits. The win-win is for the staff to keep commitment quiet and let you play those other programs.
Less words here, if your girl is telling you she only ***** you but no one else knows and she going to other homies houses on the weekend, she ain't only ****** you. AND if one of them homies **** her better she liable to kick you to the curb.

That's all I'm saying my man, and stop with the BAG$$!!! Either drop bags or find another way to get these SoFla monsters to stay here.
 
Less words here, if your girl is telling you she only ***** you but no one else knows and she going to other homies houses on the weekend, she ain't only ****** you. AND if one of them homies **** her better she liable to kick you to the curb.

That's all I'm saying my man, and stop with the BAG$$!!! Either drop bags or find another way to get these SoFla monsters to stay here.

Well fortunately we aren't talking about girlfriends and women. There is a weird trend on this site for posters to constantly compare 17 year old teenage boys making a decision on what college to attend with their girlfriends getting their faces plastered and gangbanged. If there is one thing I can 100% count on here, its that at least one poster will respond to a report that a top recruit has expressed a lot interest in Miami but still wants to take visits before committing (even though NSD is almost a year away) with "why, that's no different than some guy nutting on my girlfriends face!" Personally, I don't constantly associate football recruiting with dudes jizzing on girlfriends, but that seems to the very first thing many posters think of. Very odd. No offense but I wonder if the reverse is also true. When you are kissing your girlfriend, does it give you the same feeling as hearing a teenage boy has decided to play football for Miami?

As for your last suggestion- Miami can't outbag the big bag schools. That's not going to change. You can either come up with a winning plan to get around that or keep losing those recruits and whining about Miami not having more money. The way you get around not having the same heavy bags it is to get an elite kid in the fold, keep it quiet, and let him play those other schools. Its having a strategy to do what we always joke about - take the money and run. The cheaters can't call the bag police to recover their bags. It's the cost of doing business. Eventually they may catch on and won't give out free samples anymore, but for now Miami is working smarter, not harder. This is "the other way" to keep the S Fl monsters at home.
 
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Well fortunately we aren't talking about girlfriends and women. There is a weird trend on this site for posters to constantly compare 17 year old teenage boys making a decision on what college to attend with their girlfriends getting their faces plastered and gangbanged. If there is one thing I can 100% count on here, its that at least one poster will respond to a report that a top recruit has expressed a lot interest in Miami but still wants to take visits before committing (even though NSD is almost a year away) with "why, that's no different than some guy nutting on my girlfriends face!" Personally, I don't constantly associate football recruiting with dudes jizzing on girlfriends, but that seems to the very first thing many posters think of. Very odd. No offense but I wonder if the reverse is also true. When you are kissing your girlfriend, does it give you the same feeling as hearing a teenage boy has decided to play football for Miami?

As for your last suggestion- Miami can't outbag the big bag schools. That's not going to change. You can either come up with a winning plan to get around that or keep losing those recruits and whining about Miami not having more money. The way you get around not having the same heavy bags it is to get an elite kid in the fold, keep it quiet, and let him play those other schools. Its having a strategy to do what we always joke about - take the money and run. The cheaters can't call the bag police to recover their bags. It's the cost of doing business. Eventually they may catch on and won't give out free samples anymore, but for now Miami is working smarter, not harder. This is "the other way" to keep the S Fl monsters at home.
Man you type a lot to make excuses TB, you my dude and I really like most of your posts but once you start trying to "cover" for the teams past failures (and you always do) you lose my interest. Sorry buddy, just being honest with you. Other than that you are one **** of a poster.

You are obviously a real committed fan and in the know but you are just a bit too kool-aidish at times and then type paragraphs to try to make us all think other than what we have actually been seeing with our own eyes for 15+ years. Be a little harder on them sometimes, they have been underachieving BADLY for 15 years, it does not all have to be roses all the time.

I am coming around on this program making a turn, but very slowly, I have seen this trick before, lol
 
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Recruiting can take a toll on the human psyche. Remember Susan Miller Degnan and Seantrel Henderson? "Su-trel?" I do. The sexual tension between those two lovebirds was electric. More exciting than watching Mark D'Onofrio's defensive genius, at any rate. I don't know how you guys follow it.

I caught the Likens interview, though. Great stuff. Brad Tejeda's voice has that "leaving recruits wet in the pants" quality which matches Chris's "encyclopedic power-knowledge" sound. Nice balance.
 
We can't keep falling for the silent treatment. Broken record.
Most commits are silent until they finally pop. They normally don’t just walk up and go “ I’m commiting now , have a good day”. The coaches normally know before the video , hat game or announcement. So technically most are silents, we just hear about the TL2 types that troll.

It’s just never official until it’s public , and I don’t count it until the paper is signed. So public or silent means nothing until ink is dry.
 
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Less words here, if your girl is telling you she only ***** you but no one else knows and she going to other homies houses on the weekend, she ain't only ****** you. AND if one of them homies **** her better she liable to kick you to the curb.

That's all I'm saying my man, and stop with the BAG$$!!! Either drop bags or find another way to get these SoFla monsters to stay here.
To be honest, if she goes to another guy’s house on the weekend, she’s at risk of taking pipe, whether she’s got your starter jacket on or not.
 
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