Our recruiting class is good enough

[mitchellorin]

It is still the most talented class in the coastal. We should win the coastal every year if we have a class like this.

I hope everyone on this board can be appreciative of the people we got in this class, despite the class as a whole being such a disappointment. On an individual level, there are some ballers in this class that I'm ready to get behind.

2020 and 2021 can and should be top 10 classes though, no excuses.

 

[mirvin88]

What an awful thread. Please delete this and self- ban yourself.

 

[imyrhuckleberry]

The most important positions are coaching positions. Coaches develop individuals, not classes. Each kid stands or falls on his own merit, not whether he's part of a certain recruiting class. If you think each individual doesn't matter, think about Carlos Huerta . . .

 

[SinisterCane]

Our class has more talent than VT.

247sports:
Miami: 87.65 - 6 4stars - 8 3stars
VT: 87.06 - 5 4stars - 15 3stars

and we're still going to lose to duke

 

[Johnson2jr]

This may have been talked about in one of the other threads. But why didn't we offer David Baldwin, QB from IMG?

 

[Awsi Dooger]

The team with more talent doesn't win 100% of the time. Depending on the talent disparity, the win rate might be 90%, or 80%, or less.

String 10 games together, and you can see that it's not strange that we're dropping a couple games per year.

Excellent perspective. You know applied math. The top administrators on this site have no clue. It shows up time and again, particularly in the offseason. It doesn't matter if we have superior talent, if the gap is linear instead of exponential. Only when you reach that Alabama/Clemson/Ohio State level of trump card talent gap across the board does the math explode in your favor.

The other booster rocket is an ultra elite quarterback, like Oklahoma has managed in recent seasons. You can be barely above in that scenario, and still pull out one win after another against comparably talented teams.

I vigorously opposed moving to the ACC for exactly this reason, that our week to week margin for error would plummet. Obviously I didn't know the Big East would fall apart. But we were volunteering into dangerous territory.

BTW, your numbers are wild high. It isn't close to 80%. That 80% likelihood would be the equivalent of an 11 point favorite. The Canes aren't close to 11 point favorite, on average, in the conference games against troublesome ACC opponents.

Here is a college football money line table (at bottom of link), with graphs on top demonstrating that the outcomes closely track the theoretical money line probability. It is the reason I always laugh at posters why try to pretend that a pointspread is not a prediction of the outcome. If the Canes are 6 point favorites then we will lose 1 out of 3, just like the rest of the mortal college football world:

https://www.boydsbets.com/college-football-spread-to-moneyline-conversion/

 

[linesniper]

Miami's first step to returning to prominence is dominating the ACC Coastal, and while this shouldn't be our main goal it should be an expectation every year.

Looking back at the last four recruiting cycles (including this one) we have had far superior recruiting class compared to every other team in the coastal. Simply put, we just have not performed to the level we have recruited.

Expecting guys like Rique to come to Miami when their only memories are of Coker getting fired, Shannon getting fired, Golden getting fired, No D as a coordinator lol, and Richt blowing **** is just not rational. Furthermore, we don't need Rique or five-star talent to dominate the coastal.

If Diaz skull ***** everyone in the coastal next year and we are competitive with Clemson in the ACC Championship game then we are going to start landing these guys and once that happens it is only a matter of time before we are back.

Go Canes!

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