One phone call nearly paired up Cam Ward and Jeremiah Smith

[RightSaidFred]

no, we're not. how about waiting until we show we can hang with the big dogs for even one single season before doing this?

We're 6-0 favored to win the ACC and almost guaranteed a playoff spot unless we have a total meltdown. How about having some faith in your team? They'll be in the playoffs for sure.

 

[TitansHope]

We're 6-0 favored to win the ACC and almost guaranteed a playoff spot unless we have a total meltdown. How about having some faith in your team? They'll be in the playoffs for sure.

my point is that this program has been irrelevant for 20 years and they’re not going to be recruiting at a top 3 level until they prove they’re not irrelevant, which they absolutely have not done yet. it’s a minor miracle that mario has recruited as well as he has with our on-field results.

 

[Gocanes1990]

 

[Gocanes1990]

I did receive multiple calls from people I trust who have separate sources saying he was coming. Calls were morning of signing day.

 

[RightSaidFred]

my point is that this program has been irrelevant for 20 years and they’re not going to be recruiting at a top 3 level until they prove they’re not irrelevant, which they absolutely have not done yet. it’s a minor miracle that mario has recruited as well as he has with our on-field results.

We're relevant RIGHT NOW. Stop living in the past. We're on Sportscenter more than any other college football team it seems. We have the best playmaking QB in college football. He might win the Heisman. We're anything but irrelevant. The past 20 years doesn't matter, we're relevenat to kids RIGHT NOW.

We got kids committing to FSU doing the Cam Ward celebration. Definitely relevant.

 

[hiphopanimal]

Patrick Peterson
Dalvin Cook
Teddy Bridgewater
Jeremiah Smith

Smith will be a NFL All-Pro.

Absolutely brutal miss.

 

[DTP]

South Florida receivers are overrated divas

 

[TitansHope]

We're relevant RIGHT NOW. Stop living in the past. We're on Sportscenter more than any other college football team it seems. We have the best playmaking QB in college football. He might win the Heisman. We're anything but irrelevant. The past 20 years doesn't matter, we're relevenat to kids RIGHT NOW.

We got kids committing to FSU doing the Cam Ward celebration. Definitely relevant.

that's flavor-of-the-moment attention that will disappear quickly if we stop winning, the way the turnover chain did. we got all this attention and more during the 2017 season and it didn't matter in the slightest, because sustained success is what gets you actual national relevance.

 

[RightSaidFred]

that's flavor-of-the-moment attention that will disappear quickly if we stop winning, the way the turnover chain did. we got all this attention and more during the 2017 season and it didn't matter in the slightest, because sustained success is what gets you actual national relevance.

We didn't get nearly this kind of attention in 2017. Attention for the turnover chain is not remotely the same thing as attention for having the Heisman frontrunner and his highlight tape playing on Sportscenter. This year is different from any year in the past 20, you'd have to be blind not to see that.

 

[TheEye]

Did you read the article?

Ward called Smith during the madness of that nine-hour period. They talked for 10 minutes. Smith says Ward told him, "If you choose to go to Miami, I'm going to go there." We asked Smith if he would have gone to Miami had Ward already been committed there -- and not undecided.


"It depends, it depends," he said. "It would have been a tough decision. … That would have definitely been something special, for sure."

I think our insiders knew this one.

 

[JHallCanes]

We're relevant RIGHT NOW. Stop living in the past. We're on Sportscenter more than any other college football team it seems. We have the best playmaking QB in college football. He might win the Heisman. We're anything but irrelevant. The past 20 years doesn't matter, we're relevenat to kids RIGHT NOW.

We got kids committing to FSU doing the Cam Ward celebration. Definitely relevant.

I mean you’re both right

He’s referring to what happened last year as his example and you’re referring to right now. Not really fair to criticize him for it when he’s accurate we had just come off what… 13-13 so far under Mario?

But to your point with NIL and momentum we can maybe flip the script this year

 

[Donny Donowitz]

Don’t care. He is a cuck like the rest of the kids who didn’t come here.

If he was on Miami this year he would be the talk of the country along with Ward right now.

He took the safe route instead of betting on himself.

 

[OldhamA]

my point is that this program has been irrelevant for 20 years and they’re not going to be recruiting at a top 3 level until they prove they’re not irrelevant, which they absolutely have not done yet. it’s a minor miracle that mario has recruited as well as he has with our on-field results.

It's not a minor miracle, it's literally what he does.

He doesn't call plays. He doesn't coach a position. He recruits.

He was Nick Saban's closer at Alabama - that should tell you everything.

 

[kmoj9kmo]

We need to move on

But the portal is coming soon

 

[OldhamA]

Cam Ward is leaving after this year. He's the best QB in college football so no matter who comes after him it will be a step back at that position. So we need to make up for it by overcompensating elsewhere.

Also, given what Ward has accomplished this season, it's going to be a lot harder to pull that off again. It will be a lot more expensive to pull off a move like that in future years because a lot more teams are going to be competing with us for that stud portal QB and driving up the NIL price.

We don't need to make up for anything.

It's a brand new team every year. Each year is its own challenge: 20+ players leave, 20+ players arrive, the remaining 60+ get better (usually). We have to consistently make sure that the 20+ that arrive are better than the 20+ that leave - Cristobal has done that so far.

OSU, ND, Oregon all picked up expensive portal QBs this offseason. People are already competing with us there.

 

[Odysseus]

One phone call nearly paired up Cam Ward and Jeremiah Smith at Miami: Inside the great what-if​

Click the CBS Sports article to read about it

One phone call nearly paired up Cam Ward and Jeremiah Smith at Miami: Inside the great what-if

 

[jrock2332]

And I'm just one phone call away from pairing up with Katherine Langford.

I'm one phone call away from pairing with Margot Bingham Rihanna Beyonce and every other hot chick in the entertainment industry.

 

[Groz73Cane]

If my aunt had a **** she would be my uncle.

“Balls” said the Queen” if I had two I’d be King”

 

[hesskilla]

He could fly down to meet us in Louisville for all I care. Would be WR1 at noon next Saturday.

 

[RightSaidFred]

We don't need to make up for anything.

It's a brand new team every year. Each year is its own challenge: 20+ players leave, 20+ players arrive, the remaining 60+ get better (usually). We have to consistently make sure that the 20+ that arrive are better than the 20+ that leave - Cristobal has done that so far.

OSU, ND, Oregon all picked up expensive portal QBs this offseason. People are already competing with us there.

That's a nice and clean way of looking at it. But what makes you think the 20 coming in this year will be better than the 20 leaving?

Yes that has been the case since Mario has been here, obviously, we're 6-0. But that doesn't mean that will be the case next year. It gets harder and harder every year to make sure the 20 coming in are better than the 20 that leave, because we're a better team now than we were when Mario got here. If we want to keep that momentum up, we've got to take recruiting to another level.

People only want to look at the holes in the current team's roster and not plan ahead for the holes that are going to be created when players leave. The problems with our secondary and interior DL could have been seen a mile away, in fact many of us were calling it out in the offseason. We were saying we needed Harmon, a top-level CB, and a top-level safety. We were losing two NFL safeties. But somehow people thought it would be addition by subtraction.

QB, WR, LT, DB and DT will be issues next year. Those are the most expensive positions in football. We can NOT role with Emory, no matter how much people like him, if we want to keep up the momentum.

But if anyone can get us right, it's Mario. He's about as good as they come with talent acquisition. But good doesn't mean perfect and right now there's a lot of room for improvement.