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ErickMarreroU

ErickMarreroU

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JD spoke to the Miami Baseball Forum today from 12pm-2pm. It was a great meeting. JD was very honest about last season and this upcoming season, very honest about the culture change with the program and why we decided to cut some guys.

The biggest news out of the meeting is that we will have 21 full scholarships next season which is great news. The roster limit is 34, Im personally very happy to start with 21 scholarships, hopefully over time we can increase that number. But we should be able to offer majority of our roster 50% scholarships, To the elite players 100% scholarships.

JD also mentioned that the 34 man roster won't be a problem for them because the are used to carrying between 33-35 guys and they haven't really moved off the original 35 man limit that was always in place before covid.

I think we are in a good spot and I am 100% riding with JD after todays meeting.
 
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He also announced that Miami is now 1 of 6 teams in the NCAA to now have and use KinaTrax. Massive move by our program to have this technology.

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Canes_Blooded said:
What are JD's expectations of this upcoming season
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He said he feels really good about the team, but he mentioned that he also felt the same way last year about the team when he spoke to the baseball forum. He said this year with the culture they are building, guys know their roles and what is expected of them.
 
ErickMarreroU said:
He said he feels really good about the team, but he mentioned that he also felt the same way last year about the team when he spoke to the baseball forum. He said this year with the culture they are building, guys know their roles and what is expected of them.
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What are your thoughts?
 
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JD also said were a few weeks away from adding a system like this. I don't know the exact name of the system but its a force absorbing plate for the pitching mound that sees how much force the players are putting into their pitching. I love what the staff is adding. These are long term additions that will make us better for years to come.

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HurricanePhilly said:
I hope they hire someone who can help utilize this equipment.

Bring on a young guy from Driveline or Tread.
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he said they hired someone to run the equipment, he is working 30-50% of his time on the equipment, JD said the guys passion is Miami baseball and this type of technology so the person is working very hard to help us. This is his side job but he's taking it like his main job
 
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I will be posting more info from the event later today @HurricanePhilly one big news that should concern all of us is that JD confirmed that Clemson will have full 34 scholarships for 2026. They are going all in
 
Working on getting Georgia Tech's scholarship numbers from someone I follow who played for them. I would like to know everyone we are playings scholarship number for the future
 
ErickMarreroU said:
I will be posting more info from the event later today @HurricanePhilly one big news that should concern all of us is that JD confirmed that Clemson will have full 34 scholarships for 2026. They are going all in
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Not surprising...cost of the school and they are on a heater right now with baseball. I dont think they will be the only one in the conference. I think a few schools that know they arent truly football schools will go this route. Or even just get 25-28, mix in a few real high academic kids, and maybe a small NIL and still end up with the full 34 funded.

Hopefully we could get to that point.
 
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ruggercane22 said:
This thread definitely upped my excitement level for this season. Last season was a rough one.
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lol.. it's cuz we're at rock bottom with basketball and coming off a bad ending with football.. I'm praying baseball can give us some excitement. I just wish we had one big booster that their main passion was UM baseball, so we could get to 100% full roster scholarships, NIL and whatever facility/tech/support staff we are missing...
 
HurricanePhilly said:
Not surprising...cost of the school and they are on a heater right now with baseball. I dont think they will be the only one in the conference. I think a few schools that know they arent truly football schools will go this route. Or even just get 25-28, mix in a few real high academic kids, and maybe a small NIL and still end up with the full 34 funded.

Hopefully we could get to that point.
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Im very happy with 21 to start. From 11.7 to 21 thats a great number. + Theres no minimum scholarship number now. Before the lowest you can offer was 25%. Now you can offer 1% if i'm not mistaken.
 
Cane44 said:
lol.. it's cuz we're at rock bottom with basketball and coming off a bad ending with football.. I'm praying baseball can give us some excitement. I just wish we had one big booster that their main passion was UM baseball, so we could get to 100% full roster scholarships, NIL and whatever facility/tech/support staff we are missing...
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This thread does very little to move the needle. Erick is a massive homer that bought what JD was selling until the season totally bottomed out. JD being excited is the equivalent to Miami Feels Good Here on the other boards.

Culture. JD was with the team for 117 years and needed to fix the culture. Lord above.
 
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Angry Ibis said:
This thread does very little to move the needle. Erick is a massive homer that bought what JD was selling until the season totally bottomed out. JD being excited is the equivalent to Miami Feels Good Here on the other boards.

Culture. JD was with the team for 117 years and needed to fix the culture. Lord above.
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He has definitely sold me on his vision. Hopefully it works
 
Angry Ibis said:
This thread does very little to move the needle. Erick is a massive homer that bought what JD was selling until the season totally bottomed out. JD being excited is the equivalent to Miami Feels Good Here on the other boards.

Culture. JD was with the team for 117 years and needed to fix the culture. Lord above.
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So I guess you want JD to fail so you can say I was right?
 
CTCANE said:
So I guess you want JD to fail so you can say I was right?
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How does that make sense?

So I’m on a college baseball message board rooting against the coach? Yall are too caught up in message board mope vs slurper land.

I’m not interested in JD’s pep talk, I’m interested in winning baseball games and being a serious winning program again.
 
ErickMarreroU said:
He has definitely sold me on his vision. Hopefully it works
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I hope it works. Will be here if it doesn’t or does, but I’m not buying the MiamiBro, not using all the scholarships when others are, not having the nil backing others do, used car off JDs lot.

Especially if he’s using the “culture” bull**** playbook.
 
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