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Recruiting gurus, is this the most excited you've been..

3FW said:
Remember the speedster from Texas who lasted about a week on campus, probably 99 or 2000. Never ended up anywhere, can't recall his name. Also, Willie Dixon was a huge recruit who didn't last long.
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Tory Mitchell. Wound up at Texas Tech and then in 2007 or 2008 he got shot to death in Texas.
 
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The Franchise said:
3FW said:
Remember the speedster from Texas who lasted about a week on campus, probably 99 or 2000. Never ended up anywhere, can't recall his name. Also, Willie Dixon was a huge recruit who didn't last long.
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Tory Mitchell. Wound up at Texas Tech and then in 2007 or 2008 he got shot to death in Texas.
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Whoa, he got shot to death? Seriously, had not heard that. Geez

I remember him enrolling in 99, going back home. Coming back to UM for a short spell the following year and then going to 'Bolivian' after that

I recall Julian Battle( I think he was class of 99 or 2000) having a really nice looking reel, but he never made it to UM, went to Tenn, and actually got drafted by the KC Chefs....
 
The Franchise said:
bomb said:
k9cane said:
Anyone else get excited seeing clips of Chris Walsh on Scholastic Sports America( which was hosted by Chris Fowler) and seeing the arm and the fact he was Steve's brother?

Also, he was listed on all the magazine lists of All-Americans. Then ERRickson put a hitch in his delivery

Oh, and I can forget about getting the USA Today the day after LOI were signed and thinking how great the coverage and graphic sere. BAck when guys like Dexter Daniels( of UF from Valdosta) was their player of the yeaer
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Alan Hall, mother****ers!
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Didn't Hall wind up at Portland State under Mouse Davis after he left here and put up some big numbers? Or am I having a seizure?
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Sad story about Hall that came up this weekend as he's apparently battling cancer.

http://www.riderangersride.com/article.asp?articleID=566
 
Talkin bout the ones that got away, the whole Patrick Johnson fiasco is tops. BigConch and all that ***gotry. Kid was a dip****, but it'd be nice to say he was a Cane.
 
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Shhhheeittt, you boys are lightweights. I remember the front page of Herald sports when Jessie Armstead signed with UM. That was kind of a big deal because Jessie was by many accounts the top recruit in his class. Heck to this day I remember my bro and I anticipating his debut in Wisky and it broke my heart when he tore his knee vs FSU. One of my all time favorite Canes. Anyway that started a nice pipeline to Dallas and to Texas in general, I believe we got Kevin Williams the year after, Charles Pharms too. Jimmy was really getting his recruiting legs going when he left. Darren Krein and Bryan Fortay were other bigtime national recruits in 88. **** shame JJ had to go.

I think right around then recruiting started going big. I remember Rudy Barber was a huge signing and it was followed closely by the Herald. One that got huge coverage and got away was Marvin Jones, and dammit cuz he was a beast.

Going back to that time, remember Bruce Warner? He was one of the few guys talking UM recruiting in the early 90s.
 
I didn't follow recruiting until I think the year Ryan Moore signed. And it was right before signing day I think.
 
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SFbayCane said:
Some hoardin-*** mofos in this thread.




/wishes I still had all of my old mags that got tossed when I moved from Fresno to the bay area in '99
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that change of scenery was well worth it. only bakersfield makes fresno look good
 
OMG618 said:
Shhhheeittt, you boys are lightweights. I remember the front page of Herald sports when Jessie Armstead signed with UM. That was kind of a big deal because Jessie was by many accounts the top recruit in his class. Heck to this day I remember my bro and I anticipating his debut in Wisky and it broke my heart when he tore his knee vs FSU. One of my all time favorite Canes. Anyway that started a nice pipeline to Dallas and to Texas in general, I believe we got Kevin Williams the year after, Charles Pharms too. Jimmy was really getting his recruiting legs going when he left. Darren Krein and Bryan Fortay were other bigtime national recruits in 88. **** shame JJ had to go.

I think right around then recruiting started going big. I remember Rudy Barber was a huge signing and it was followed closely by the Herald. One that got huge coverage and got away was Marvin Jones, and dammit cuz he was a beast.

Going back to that time, remember Bruce Warner? He was one of the few guys talking UM recruiting in the early 90s.
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that was the class of 1989, armstead and Williams were the same year. As said, Krein and Fortay and Daryl Williams as well. I should know this, but I think rusty and Patrick were in that class as well.
 
3FW said:
OMG618 said:
Shhhheeittt, you boys are lightweights. I remember the front page of Herald sports when Jessie Armstead signed with UM. That was kind of a big deal because Jessie was by many accounts the top recruit in his class. Heck to this day I remember my bro and I anticipating his debut in Wisky and it broke my heart when he tore his knee vs FSU. One of my all time favorite Canes. Anyway that started a nice pipeline to Dallas and to Texas in general, I believe we got Kevin Williams the year after, Charles Pharms too. Jimmy was really getting his recruiting legs going when he left. Darren Krein and Bryan Fortay were other bigtime national recruits in 88. **** shame JJ had to go.

I think right around then recruiting started going big. I remember Rudy Barber was a huge signing and it was followed closely by the Herald. One that got huge coverage and got away was Marvin Jones, and dammit cuz he was a beast.

Going back to that time, remember Bruce Warner? He was one of the few guys talking UM recruiting in the early 90s.
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that was the class of 1989, armstead and Williams were the same year. As said, Krein and Fortay and Daryl Williams as well. I should know this, but I think rusty and Patrick were in that class as well.
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Yes, they were. Rusty was Jimmy Johnson's last recruit.

And that was Jimmy's best class. He left Miami loaded.
 
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TheSwagger1 said:
I remember being so bummed about losing Lamont Green, Derrick Gibson, and Courtland Bullard (I don't even know if we recruited Bullard hard, but he was from Southridge IIRC and I thought he had a bad *** name). Ditto Bryce Bishop.
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Southridge had the best HS team in America in the early to mid 90s and Erickson couldn't sign anyone from there.

Not retaining Don Solinger after a 5 minute insulting meeting was a terrible move by Erickson.
 
A HS buddy of mine ended up at the same JUCO that Tory ended up at. He said that Tory was extremely nice but almost painfully shy/socially awkward. Real shame, he was an athletic freak. I bugged Phillip Buchanon to talk to me at a spring game and he said the same thing about Tory that was said above - he was the only guy that could hang with Tana.
 
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5XNC said:
Kehoe lost the other big time OL who went to Georgia. .
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Max Jean-Gilles from NMB?
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I think Kehoe/Coker were way overconfident over that one. That was one guy that Miami shouldn't have lost.

Losing Max Jean-Gilles cost us at least 3-4 games. Looking back at the 03 season, for instance, Giles could've played G and Chris Myers could've moved over to C instead of Joel Rodriguez. No way we would've lost that 03 Tennessee game where Rodriguez got destroyed by the Vols' DL.
 
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FenianBastard said:
i had very high hopes for Carl Walker and Quincy Hipps. Now, they werent bums, but didnt QH have like 28 sacks his senior yr
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Walker was a big hitter, he just didn't have the hips to cover anyone at S. And he was too small for LB.

Hipps could've been a good player. He just had so many injuries, he was playing with 50 year old knees out there.
 
k9cane said:
Larry said:
If anyone recalls my antics on the grassy premium forums...I was completely enamored with Arthur Brown and marked out like a bum when he committed. I didn't like Randy, but dammit mane, that commit got me excited simply because I thought he was a next level stud.

When Thomas signs here...I'll be equally as excited.

I was equally as excited for Duke Johnson, but he committed so early in the process, its tough to get that hype when you know he's a shoe in.
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Larry, ABrown shows that even at mediocre ebbs, UM can nab blue-chippers. I think if he's on this past squad in Coral Gables, there is a difference in the D( although I think he would've been hampered by the DT play upfront)

But to me, Shannon was really no different that ERRickson in a sense that he could get good looking, highly rated classes on paper, that had national names and flash, but there was no overall plan or hindsight in terms of really building a roster and setting a consistent foundation for the program. Both ERRickson and Shannon left gaping holes in the UM roster by the time they left
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Shannon only had one strong class, and its rating was bolstered by an extremely deep local year where we took ten highly ranked kids from mnw and btw, and an extremely big overall class where we stuffed plenty of kids into it who made no sense taking.

The biggest irony of that class was that we took eight! kids from MNW that year, and the highest drafted kid from that MNW team was the guy we did not take.
 
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