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Again, this is the difference between a desperate recruiter like Gaypier and an experienced "had my heart broken one too many times" super-prepared recruiter like Mario.
Gaypier lurches around, and thinks that he is going to impress a kid by demonstrating how much he is desired. "See, I'm not recruiting anyone else, you're our #1 guy, I won't even take a second kid at the position". If you go back and look at the timeline of Gaypier's recruiting at this position when he was hired, and you look at the Gaytor postings, it kinda goes in a linear direction. In February, they though they were getting A. In March, it shifted to B. In April it became C, and now in May and June, Jaden Rashada is suddenly the most important recruit on the board. Same reason the Gaytors were left pulling their puds when they whiffed on Citizen and Perkins.
Meanwhile, we probably need to do some re-education on some of the Canes fans, because they are more accustomed to "horse-race" recruiting, like what Gaypier does, instead of what Mario does. For six months now, I've watched people like @Cribby and @LeedsCane and a few other significant insiders tell us that "Mario has multiple candidates for every job opening", or that "Mario has sooooo many recruits who he is interested in, many that you're not even aware of", while the same-old crew of Canes fans runs around ONLY believing in interwebz-published news articles. If Ferman or Shodell or Gaby or someone similar doesn't "write an article" about a recruit every few weeks, that MUST mean that Miami has "cooled on him" or stopped recruiting altogether.
These same fans just look at our ranked offer lists and think that our coaches are recruiting in a numerically sequential order. If we don't get #1 on the list, we got out-recruited, or some such nonsense. The reality is that Mario recruits everyone he offers, some more quietly than others. Mario never gives up, he has flipped or pulled guys that many fans have given up on (Skinner, Citizen) and he believes it is important to "even finish 2nd" in the Portal Era. So the "old way" of cutting off contact with a recruit once he picks another school is NOT how Mario is going to operate.
I said it earlier, I think our priority order is Rashada-Moore-Williams. I think MARIO HIMSELF has the longest/strongest relationship with Rashada, having nothing to do with what his "official star ranking" is. I think our OC has a lot of affinity for Moore, and our QB Coach was the one to discover Williams. That's why I think we are prioritizing the way that we are. Fvck Rivals. Fvck 247. Fvck on3. And if we somehow missed on all three of those guys, Mario is coolly and calmly going to focus on Portal 2023 for another QB.
That's why this is different. Mario doesn't want to be locked into the old approach of working down your recruiting board in a linear fashion. Look at the Gaytor boards, they thought that because Miami was "hosting Williams" that we were "out on Rashada". BECAUSE THAT'S HOW THEY OPERATE. But that's not how Mario operates.
Get used to it. We are going to have a LOT more options as long as Mario is coaching. We are not going to be throwing money and personal blowjobs at players that we have made ourselves desperate for because we have no fallback options.
And knowing Mario's personality, I'm sure he is stating this in a very honest no-pressure fashion to these recruits. The recruits know **** well that Mario has several recruits for every position, and that he likes them all and could live with any of them. And that while a quick decision is HELPFUL, Mario doesn't want a rash decision that results in a premature commit and an eventual decommit, because LATE in the recruiting cycle is when everyone gets desperate to fill spots that they previously thought were filled by a guy who just decommitted.
Go back to the BEGINNING of the Gaytor Tears thread. This is EXACTLY what McSharkfvcker used to do at Florida. He'd get flustered at the end of every cyle and take the highest-rated available candidate, which often left him with red-flag kids who didn't stick.
We ain't the Gaytors. They have Billy's Army, we have a Cristobal Hulk.
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