Re-establishing the presence in SoFla

[jandman514]

Dunbar didn't flip to UF the staff dropped him and never offered Lyden Trail due to off the field troubles and of course he got into some trouble at UF..

 

[drifters1234]

I disagree that Golden's "main focus is down here [i.e. S. Florida]." He's focused on getting the best talent that he feels can develop within his system, wherever that talent is. It just so happens that we (and Golden) are very lucky to have such an abundance of talent in S. Florida.

It's not like being a head coach in Utah, Indiana, or the like, where you have to get the majority of your talent elsewhere, because it is absent locally.

 

[bobbo31]

We have always taken talent from other places and that should continue. 50% to 60% SoFl kids would fit historic norms and be just fine. Remember that includes Howard's Stat of Miami which went to Tampa and Orlando. You take the NE, Midwest, and west kids that have come to THE U out of our history and we have one NC and only one probably. I want the best from here and everywhere else too. Al seems to be opening the doors wide to all of the State of Miami, not just the select few that some seem to imply should own THE U. I happened to have been born in Coral Gables, but not all are so lucky--get all the best I say.

100%, I went back and looked at all our national title team some time ago. Even with Schnellenberger's state of Miami days we still recruited all over the country. Jim Kelly, Bernie Kosar, Vinny, those are just a few of the guys he recruited out of South Florida and that's just the QB position. Our teams were 50/50 even a little more skewed towards OOS kids during our national title teams.

 

[DaCanes386]

great article!! I'm happy about our presence in south florida. no need to go to albany, georgia for kids when our backyard has everything we need!

Another stupid post. Go where the best players are nationwide.

i disagree. i will take a 4* or even a very high 3* over a 5* outta of kansas. Competition means alot coming outta highschool. not saying i wouldnt take the 5* outta kansas but the competion in miami has been well documented

Believe we've had a 5* from Kansas(at least for a couple years). I think it all comes down to coaching and the development of the talent. No matter where they're from!

 

[NorthFlaCane]

we re-establish our presence in south Florida on the same day that Ermon Lane sets up announcement to UF or Bama

 

[bobbo31]

great article!! I'm happy about our presence in south florida. no need to go to albany, georgia for kids when our backyard has everything we need!

Another stupid post. Go where the best players are nationwide.

i disagree. i will take a 4* or even a very high 3* over a 5* outta of kansas. Competition means alot coming outta highschool. not saying i wouldnt take the 5* outta kansas but the competion in miami has been well documented

Believe we've had a 5* from Kansas(at least for a couple years). I think it all comes down to coaching and the development of the talent. No matter where they're from!

That 5 star from Kansas did great at Kansas State and was a second round pick this year. Brown was always in Shannon's doghouse to for whatever reason even though he always seemed like a pretty good kid. He dominated the spring game his very first spring. Most of his so called failure was that he was never really given much of a chance. Every LB not named Sean Spence didn't succeed here under Shannon whether it was Romeo Davis, Arthur Brown, etc.

 

[Jassid82]

Great post, Pete. Those are some amazing stats. Goes to show how much talent we have just let walk away over the last 6-7 years during our dog days. Especially CC and Ely. Imagine if we had Robert Sands and Patrick Peterson in our secondary to go along with Brandon Harris? Or Lemonier on the Dline. Smh. We have to get things back in order.

We are not going to get everyone. (Prob gonna lose Lane and Lammons. I think DCook will come back home though) But this year is a great start to showing the nation that you can cherry pick every now and again but the days of coming down here and "killing the men and raping the women and enslaving the children" are over!

 

[jandman514]

Great post, Pete. Those are some amazing stats. Goes to show how much talent we have just let walk away over the last 6-7 years during our dog days. Especially CC and Ely. Imagine if we had Robert Sands and Patrick Peterson in our secondary to go along with Brandon Harris? Or Lemonier on the Dline. Smh. We have to get things back in order.

We are not going to get everyone. (Prob gonna lose Lane and Lammons. I think DCook will come back home though) But this year is a great start to showing the nation that you can cherry pick every now and again but the days of coming down here and "killing the men and raping the women and enslaving the children" are over!

We did pretty well in 2012 in SFL with Duke, Tracy, Erick Flowers, Malcolm, Herb, Deon, Hamilton, AJL smh wish the kid did his schoolwork.

 

[jnw4563]

great article!! I'm happy about our presence in south florida. no need to go to albany, georgia for kids when our backyard has everything we need!

Another stupid post. Go where the best players are nationwide.

i disagree. i will take a 4* or even a very high 3* over a 5* outta of kansas. Competition means alot coming outta highschool. not saying i wouldnt take the 5* outta kansas but the competion in miami has been well documented

Believe we've had a 5* from Kansas(at least for a couple years). I think it all comes down to coaching and the development of the talent. No matter where they're from!

That 5 star from Kansas did great at Kansas State and was a second round pick this year. Brown was always in Shannon's doghouse to for whatever reason even though he always seemed like a pretty good kid. He dominated the spring game his very first spring. Most of his so called failure was that he was never really given much of a chance. Every LB not named Sean Spence didn't succeed here under Shannon whether it was Romeo Davis, Arthur Brown, etc.

I completely agree, our coaches didn't coach Brown up right.

 

[1jamaicancane]

Great article

 

[Jassid82]

jandman514, I was referring to the dog days of UM football. 2006-2011. Those 3 players I mentioned alone could have gotten us an extra 2-3 wins. I realize that the 2012 class is gonna be the cornerstone of our resurgence.

 

[Ziggy]

Mind blowing at our lack of presence in those areas until Golden came in. No wonder we sucked ****.

 

[datdude81]

Its really been a **** of a recruiting cycle

We are picking up Jucos
Getting South Florida kids, but not just the low tier talented kids
but we have pick up the most talented kids in the area
We cherry picked out of different states

I really like the McCray pick up a talented kid that has his best football in front of him
he can redshirt get in the weight room work on footwork and covering in space and we
are re-establishing roots in a place that LSU has had a choke hold on for a while

Love the fences that have been mended...

If we win 10 games its over....We only go up from here

 

[Biscuits]

great article!! I'm happy about our presence in south florida. no need to go to albany, georgia for kids when our backyard has everything we need!

Another stupid post. Go where the best players are nationwide.

i disagree. i will take a 4* or even a very high 3* over a 5* outta of kansas. Competition means alot coming outta highschool. not saying i wouldnt take the 5* outta kansas but the competion in miami has been well documented

So you take Alin Edouard over a QB like Kyle Allen? You should go coach at FSU so Miami can destroy them every year...

I want Romeo Davis over Bryce Brown.

WANT.

 

[TheSwagger1]

I don't want to have an emphasis in South Florida until we prove we can keep an emphasis in South Florida.

What's the origin of this?

 

[TheStorm305]

I disagree that Golden's "main focus is down here [i.e. S. Florida]." He's focused on getting the best talent that he feels can develop within his system, wherever that talent is. It just so happens that we (and Golden) are very lucky to have such an abundance of talent in S. Florida.

It's not like being a head coach in Utah, Indiana, or the like, where you have to get the majority of your talent elsewhere, because it is absent locally.

In numerous interviews over his career Golden talked about south florida and the areas just north being the state of miami and his main focus. Which is why he has every single coach on the staff assigned to an area down here, among other places. From those players of course as we've seen he is finding those that fit his system I agree.

I think the point is also driven home more with the fact after reading that article that interviewed a coach from down here, they are going above and beyond DOWN HERE. The community outreach, the camps, the coaching clinics, everything they are doing to have a presence in the community and with the kids.

We need to, and will continue to recruit the rest of the nation, but to say our main focus is not locally I think would be pretty naive with all the information we've been given from The Don

 

[TheStorm305]

I don't want to have an emphasis in South Florida until we prove we can keep an emphasis in South Florida.

What's the origin of this?

IIRC a few years ago on Grassy when we finally were ranked under shannon, some porster, who I cant think of the name said the infamous words.

"I don't want us to be ranked, until we prove we can stay ranked."

LULZ ensued

 

[Dan E. Dangerously]

I don't want to have an emphasis in South Florida until we prove we can keep an emphasis in South Florida.

What's the origin of this?

IIRC a few years ago on Grassy when we finally were ranked under shannon, some porster, who I cant think of the name said the infamous words.

"I don't want us to be ranked, until we prove we can stay ranked."

LULZ ensued

I don't remember who either. He was saying over and over again all week leading up to the Georgia Tech game. It looked almost prophetic after we got run out of the stadium by them on national TV.

 

[bobbo31]

I disagree that Golden's "main focus is down here [i.e. S. Florida]." He's focused on getting the best talent that he feels can develop within his system, wherever that talent is. It just so happens that we (and Golden) are very lucky to have such an abundance of talent in S. Florida.

It's not like being a head coach in Utah, Indiana, or the like, where you have to get the majority of your talent elsewhere, because it is absent locally.

In numerous interviews over his career Golden talked about south florida and the areas just north being the state of miami and his main focus. Which is why he has every single coach on the staff assigned to an area down here, among other places. From those players of course as we've seen he is finding those that fit his system I agree.

I think the point is also driven home more with the fact after reading that article that interviewed a coach from down here, they are going above and beyond DOWN HERE. The community outreach, the camps, the coaching clinics, everything they are doing to have a presence in the community and with the kids.

We need to, and will continue to recruit the rest of the nation, but to say our main focus is not locally I think would be pretty naive with all the information we've been given from The Don

I think those areas are key a lot of our all time greats came from areas today that we can't get a phone call returned anymore. Lamar Thomas, Portis, Sapp, Jerome Brown, Ray Lewis, Horace Copeland, and the list goes on and on. I think have a spring scrimmage in Naples every year like Golden has done is huge in getting Miami back in the minds of those kids on the west coast of Florida. Another place within a decent drive from Miami to start having a scrimmage might be the Melbourne area, it's a decent drive on a bus from the school but has tons of talent coming from that area every year and is only an hour drive from Orlando.

 

[UMcanesfan420]

Nice article. One of my favorite things honestly is how Golden gets the kids in camp and has no problem pulling the trigger and offering a kid who shows out in camp and they deem worthy. Even if he's not yet ranked by the "experts" or whatever.


Now we get to watch them blow up in their senior season and watch other schools try and keep up. It used to always be that other schools discovered these kids and they were "waiting on the Miami offer."


If a kid passes all the tests you put them through in your camp and balls out then you have to trust your process and offer.