This continues to be hilariously baffling to me. As has been said here before, for Miami, we have to look like an NFL ready team, have former head coaches at every position, beat teams by 45+ including the National Title game, while simultaneously having the biggest NIL packages in the country.
But the coaching situation is irrelevant anywhere else. The most important factor in a kid's development is "irrelevant" at other places that aren't Miami.
Indeed. In order for a top tier South Florida recruit to even consider us, at minimum we need:
- Three consecutive national championships
- Two consecutive undefeated seasons
- At least 6 first round draft choices a year, for three years
- Complete stability at all coaching positions
- NIL offers that start with a floor of $5M, and peak at $25M for top players
- Supplementary bags of $500K to $1M
- A filled Hard Rock Stadium, with overflow into the parking lot
- A monorail from the University of Miami to Hard Rock Stadium
- The top line new facilities that are under construction are torn down and even newer facilities built, at a cost of no less than $30B
- Personal limos for each player
- A personal staff of no less than 12 people for each player
With these minimalist conditions, we might get an audience. But still they will go to Auburn, LSU, or Alabama.