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Monday Recruiting Chatter - 12/17

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I’m not mad at Stevenson or Bogle or Haselwood.

I knew we didn’t have any chance with the ****** season we had.

But how, Jesus Christ, how in the world you didn’t close on Dixon, on Gordon, on some Olinemen.

You let Dunmore to commit to ******* Pedo State, Maurice Smith to extra****ing Boston College and so on.

We get a verbal commits and that’s it, they stop recruiting the position only because a pussified 16 year old told them two years away from signing day: “I’m committed, make the crib great, Ufamily”.

**** them.
 
****, ngl I was expecting a positive Monday recruiting chatter after this weekend. Aside from the transfers, no one sounds like they are 100% trending to Miami, I refuse to believe recruiting is this bad, even with Richt. It’s one thing to have a down year (recruiting) in your 2nd year as a HC, but this is Richts 4th year, if this class doesn’t finish strong, what will truly separate this team from last year team? Payton? Harvey? our only hope for this class is banking on Stevenson, Haselwood & Bogle and maybe getting a surprise or 2 from Emerson, Dunmore or MAR
 
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mbuendia said:
Total fail.
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No no no...we were told by all the worshipers that by denying ourselves the chance at a big name DC and by promoting Banda and Patke we would save recruiting!!
So I’m expecting a big haul come Wednesday.
Never forget!
 
We are in the driver's seat, alright.... 😂😂😂
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"Contingency plans" What is this? lmao the backup plan to our backup plan since this staff always gets in the game way too late. This staff reeks of desperation.
 
- ElGammal actually has some size to work with based on photos that came from the weekend. I'd take him in a cold minute. Nelson's a kid that's not going to contribute here until at least year 3, if ever. This line is in need of tackles in a bad way.
- With TS, of course mom is trying to lead him to UGA. Watch that be the deciding factor, whereas in other recruitments, parents desire to have their kids nearby doesn't do anything for us.
- I really wanted Dixon in this class. Our recruiting is such **** considering Brownlee was begging for offers right after he committed.
- Lakeland duo - UF. Not breaking news.

This staff's recruiting philosophy is beyond broken. We have more decommits in this class than we have commits. And we seem to be committing the same mistakes on an annual basis.

Appreciate the updates, Stefan.
 
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Cane from Italy said:
I’m not mad at Stevenson or Bogle or Haselwood.

I knew we didn’t have any chance with the ****** season we had.

But how, Jesus Christ, how in the world you didn’t close on Dixon, on Gordon, on some Olinemen.

You let Dunmore to commit to ******* Pedo State, Maurice Smith to extra****ing Boston College and so on.

We get a verbal commits and that’s it, they stop recruiting the position only because a pussified 16 year old told them two years away from signing day: “I’m committed, make the crib great, Ufamily”.

**** them.
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Same ****, different day. Other programs continue to kick the tires on the position regardless of who they have committed. Other programs realize that you're dealing with 16-18 year olds and that decisions and circumstances change, so they have contingencies in place and their backup plans already have a solid relationship. Meanwhile, Miami's staff thinks they're Bama and that kids won't decommit.

This is hilarious (in a very sad way).
 
Stefan Adams said:
Miami had over 20 official visitors this weekend, which may have been the largest recruiting weekend in terms of official visitors in Miami history. About half of those were current commits that are all locked in with the Canes, so for this update, I’m going to focus just on the targets that were on campus: S Tyrique Stevenson, DE Khris Bogle, TE Keon Zipperer, DE Lloyd Summerall, WR John Dunmore, OT Adam ElGammal, S Martin Emerson, and DT Jared Harrison-Hunte, in addition to transfer targets RB Asa Martin and OT Tommy Kennedy.


**On Stevenson: The visit went very well for Stevenson and I’m told Miami still feels they have a great shot to land him, but I did not hear the one thing I was looking to hear. The one key for getting Stevenson to Miami has always been getting his mom on board with UM, as she’s been steering him to UGA for a while now. So that’s really what I wanted to hear about after the visit: How does mom feel about UM now? While I’m told she did love the visit, she still wants her son at UGA. Things could change in the next few days as we hit the home stretch, and I’ll keep my ear to the ground, but that’s why I can’t feel comfortable picking Miami as of right now.


**On Bogle: The Canes also feel confident on signing Bogle, but with Kayvon Thibodeau now at Oregon, the Cardinal Gibbons star is going to get the full court press by Alabama. I still have Miami out in front, and the good news is that the dead period will be in effect from now until Bogle makes his decision on Jan. 5th, so Alabama won’t be able to get him on campus or have any kind of face-to-face contact. However, when Nick Saban is involved, it’s never over, so we’ll continue to monitor and see if anything develops further with Bogle and the Tide.


**On Zipperer and Summerall: The buzz here had been trending in Miami’s direction for a few weeks now, but like I’ve alluded to in the past, I believe the Lakeland duo are misleading people as to their intentions to drum up suspense for their announcement and it will be hard to really get an accurate read on this recruitment. For what it’s worth, one source close to Summerall that previously felt that Miami was out in front changed their tune this weekend and is now telling me the pick is likely to be UF.


**On Dunmore: Sources close to Dunmore told me early last week that he was set to Penn State and wouldn’t take any other visits. However, Dunmore ended up making the visit to UM this weekend against the protests of the Penn State coaching staff; James Franklin came for an in-home visit with Dunmore to specifically try and convince him not to visit Miami. I’m told Dunmore loved his UM visit and is now torn as to what his final decision should be. While I’d still pick Penn State until hearing otherwise, the Nittany Lions’ staff has to be feeling a little nervous at this point.


**On Kennedy and Martin: As I said last week, sources felt good that Kennedy and Martin would be Hurricanes and I picked UM for both. I have heard nothing coming out of the weekend to make me change my mind on that.


**On ElGammal: Like I said in Zion Nelson’s commitment post last week, I’m still not sure ElGammal is a take for Miami now that Nelson is a part of the class, although I know ElGammal would love to be. Since he’s not signing early as of now, Miami has a little more time to make that decision.


**On Emerson: This is a two-team race between Miami and Mississippi State and Emerson isn’t signing early, which only aids UM in their flip efforts. Emerson told CIS that he feels making his primary recruiter (coach Ephraim Banda) the new co-DC at Miami actually increased UM’s chances to land him. I’d put it at 50-50 right now that Emerson ends up a Hurricane, with the momentum currently residing with Miami.


**On Harrison-Hunte: While Harrison-Hunte enjoyed his visit, a source close to the recruitment is not confident in Miami’s chances here, but says the Canes are still in the game. The good thing is that Miami still has a chance to make up more ground, as Harrison-Hunte isn’t signing until February as of now.


**A little bonus: on 3-star corner John Dixon, I was told by a source that Miami does not expect him in this class and has begun preparing contingency plans. UM is evaluating Colquitt County (GA) 3-star corner Jay Ward for an offer; Ward is currently not planning on signing early, and has only taken one official visit so far (to LSU). FSU got involved with the 6’1” 175 pound prospect just last week, and Ward also has other offers from Ohio State, Kentucky, and WVU. It’s too early to tell if Ward will be receptive to Miami interest or not.
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For 4 mil a year, this is unacceptable. Fire Richt and AD James. Total garbage. I hope Stefan is wrong, but this is not good.
 
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Only the recruiting newbies thought we closed with everybody, it was actually comical. Not saying we don't get a couple guys but dudes got a little carried away.
 
brock said:
I dont Even know why I expected Anything different, we have ****ted the bed in every aspect of 2018 so why wouldn’t it be anything different in recruiting? Sigh....:ibis-roflmao-sm3:
What Is wrong with our program man? ****....
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I thought by promoting Banda and Patke we were saving recruiting Brock??? What happened???
 
I cant blame the staff for starting to look for out of state pipelines some of this stuff is ridiculous that the local recruits pull.
 
orange&green84 said:
- ElGammal actually has some size to work with based on photos that came from the weekend. I'd take him in a cold minute. Nelson's a kid that's not going to contribute here until at least year 3, if ever. This line is in need of tackles in a bad way.
- With TS, of course mom is trying to lead him to UGA. Watch that be the deciding factor, whereas in other recruitments, parents desire to have their kids nearby doesn't do anything for us.
- I really wanted Dixon in this class. Our recruiting is such **** considering Brownlee was begging for offers right after he committed.
- Lakeland duo - UF. Not breaking news.

This staff's recruiting philosophy is beyond broken. We have more decommits in this class than we have commits. And we seem to be committing the same mistakes on an annual basis.

Appreciate the updates, Stefan.
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This.

How can't they acknowledge this? It's pathetic.
 
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