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One phone call nearly paired up Cam Ward and Jeremiah Smith

RightSaidFred said:
This was our biggest recruiting miss in my lifetime. Bigger than Dalvin Cook or Patrick Peterson. The annoying part is many of us were saying so at the time. It's like the NIL people see a 5 star next to his name, a 5 star next to JoJo Trader and Ny Carr's names, and think "oh it's the same thing" or "oh we'll just get a WR1 next cycle."

We were saying Smith was a generational Andre Johnson talent the entire cycle. But they dropped the ball. They can't make up for it this cycle. There's no Jeremiah Smith this cycle. Or probably for the next decade. It's a recruiting miss you don't recover from.

As good as Mario has been at recruting, this one was a massive fail. We should never have let this kid leave South Florida.
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It suck’s we didn’t land him but is it really a miss when you pretty much offer him anything he wanted? This isn’t like we didn’t recruit him hard or a missed eval. We put everything we had into getting this kid.
 
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The more we get away from it all, Smith was going to Ohio State no matter what.

I appreciate him being respectful to The U and receptive to the overtures, but its pretty clear he always wanted to be in Columbus.

He's playing for the NFL draft, not College championships and for now, Ohio State is the surest thing for a WR not named Brandin Inniss.
 
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Canesfan1899 said:
It suck’s we didn’t land him but is it really a miss when you pretty much offer him anything he wanted? This isn’t like we didn’t recruit him hard or a missed eval. We put everything we had into getting this kid.
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IMO a recruiting miss is something like prioritizing Joe Yearby over Dalvin Cook. Or when a player from S Florida who is a standout at another program wasn’t seriously recruited (maybe the Louisville RB is a good example). I don’t think Smith is a “miss” the same way as those others, seems he was offered basically anything he wanted and nothing was going to change his mind.
 
Squid Bumciorek said:
IMO a recruiting miss is something like prioritizing Joe Yearby over Dalvin Cook. Or when a player from S Florida who is a standout at another program wasn’t seriously recruited (maybe the Louisville RB is a good example). I don’t think Smith is a “miss” the same way as those others, seems he was offered basically anything he wanted and nothing was going to change his mind.
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Well said, and yearby and cook were never in the same league, that may have been soon to try and keep losing cook from hurting.
 
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RightSaidFred said:
And how does that help Miami? Landing Jeremiah Smith helps Miami. Making excuses doesn't IMO. They need to find a way to recruit difference makers. Like I look at our 2025 class right now and I see a lot of good players, but where are the Jeremiah Smith level difference makers? We don't have a single 5 star committed from what I can see.

We're a playoff team now which means our comp is the Alabama, Georgia, Ohio States of the world. We need to start recruiting like those teams recruit and not load up with a bunch of 4 stars hanging out around the 5-10 range every year.

When are we going to start seeing top 3 classes?
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I was thinking this the other day, when will see truly elite recruiting classes? ****, Bama has 5 5 stars committed and Ohio State has 4.
 
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