The most common retort is "south Florida kids are balling all over the country." Yes, they are, but only in environments in which there are only a handful of Florida kids. Their teams are overwhelmingly filled with kids from other areas. Look at this week:
Duke 20 Miami 12
Missouri 38 Florida 17
NC State 47 Florida State 28
Tulane 41 South Florida 15
The neanderthal message board analysis is "coaches suck". But Mark Richt, Dan Mullen, Willie Taggart, and Charlie Strong were rolled by the Hall of Fame quartet of David Cutcliffe, Barry Odom, Dave Doeren, and Willie Fritz. Those four coaches aren't better than the aforementioned four coaches.
Look at the last 15 years of P5 football in Florida:
Florida State - 12 seasons of 3+ losses. The only sustained success happened when they had a freak quarterback. Their national championship coach left for a team that plays in the same division as Alabama. What does that tell you.
Florida - 11 seasons of 3+ losses. Again, the only sustained success happened when they had a freak quarterback. Their national championship coach couldn't wait to get out of there.
Miami - 15 seasons of 3+ losses. No freak quarterback to carry the load.
So the P5 teams with the "best talent in the country" and two championship winning coaches have lost 3+ games 38 times in the last 15 years. The only times that didn't happen were when a once-in-a-generation QB carried everything.
Oh, UCF is winning? Yes, they are, with a freak QB from......Hawaii.
Who is the player we miss the most because of his heart and his determination to make plays in order to win? a 5'9 wide receiver from North Carolina. Florida players are soft and undisciplined and aren't very smart, so when you put 60 of them together, they are going to win 7-8-9 games. But that's their ceiling. What is Kendall Briles going to do when he finds out that our players don't understand elite-level football and really only care about a potential NFL paycheck?