Out Of State Commits

[smoke_4]

7 out of our 20 commits are out of State. Hitting areas like Georgia, Jersey, Louisiana, Texas among others. Shows you that Manny is not playing around and not waiting to be left at the altar while all the good options are gone. Very smart... You take your time and play games we will recruit others and sign the Fl talent that wants to be here. Obviously you always make room for the elite elite, but you fill out your class and have someone there just in case they don't come... If they do you stack chips.

I’ve been on this same mindset of how we SHOULD BE and we’re doing the recruiting of our instate players recruit OOS talent that can PLAY here and make room for the Elite instate prospects

 

[Torocane]

7 out of our 20 commits are out of State. Hitting areas like Georgia, Jersey, Louisiana, Texas among others. Shows you that Manny is not playing around and not waiting to be left at the altar while all the good options are gone. Very smart... You take your time and play games we will recruit others and sign the Fl talent that wants to be here. Obviously you always make room for the elite elite, but you fill out your class and have someone there just in case they don't come... If they do you stack chips.

7 out of our 20 commits are out of State. Hitting areas like Georgia, Jersey, Louisiana, Texas among others. Shows you that Manny is not playing around and not waiting to be left at the altar while all the good options are gone. Very smart... You take your time and play games we will recruit others and sign the Fl talent that wants to be here. Obviously you always make room for the elite elite, but you fill out your class and have someone there just in case they don't come... If they do you stack chips.

100%
We need full classes. Not the self imposed scholarship reduction we have been on since we dont fill all the spots waiting on a kids decision only to be left with nothing.

 

[sdaly12]

***** these South Florida divas! Stack the team with OOS players. Guys like Chaney are rare - from South Florida that actually WANT to come to the U. I think the staff realizes that - no matter how much love you show them, they always - almost all of them - find their way to Tuscaloosa, Athens, Columbus, etc.

Well said, tired of recruits committing saying this is my dream school, dream offer. then later comes a tired excuse
"they weren't showing the love" gotta get out town etc. A schools from Miami means a lot more to players out of the state of Miami
than in the state of Miami...... S.Fla divas waiting for bags to be dropped

 

[Trav]

Actually this is basically what Urban did at OSU. And, while it is impossible to like the guy, he did it brilliantly:

You start with good, or better, "local" talent. Lock down what you can, but don't limit your scope.
You have a national brand and some positions you can't regularly fill with local talent.
You do your best to lock down the locals, while also using your national brand to actually recruit nationally.
You start really winning.
Rinse and repeat, but now you become one of the true places to be, so the locals can't mess around and you are a real national player, so the out of staters have to start making real decisions as well.

Not many schools have serious "local" talent pools and a real national brand. We are one of those. Manny gets that.

Well, yes, but no one's winning big only recruiting Ohio.

 

[k9cane]

Miami is a national brand, even with it's 15 year malaise, I think Manny gets that. Believe it or not, there's still great value to Miami across the nation.

If he can ever get this ball really rolling, it's scary what can be accomplished....

 

[Combo]

It's a mix, not one or the other.

 

[cane4life254]

You missed a story about our staff recruiting

I must have, direct me to the thread

 

[SayWhat]

That's the percentage, or close to it, that every coach we've ever had has been around. Nothing new to see here.