Swing and miss

[Tempest]

Some rumblings about Kaidon Salter on 247...

If Kaidon Salter was to enter the portal he would be QB1 but then we would be in a dogfight with Auburn for him seeing as Hugh Freeze was the coach for liberty last year. It may be another long process to find out QB1....

Kid is a stud. If we got him, look out..

 

[JayCane20]

Going to let the process play out before making declarations like that. It's January 1st and we have no` idea what else is going to be out there. Agree with everything else you said though. Once FSU got involved, we couldn't risk him going there

Portal closes in 2 days aside from grad transfers.

Guess it’s grad transfer or bust really

 

[ben]

 

[Squid Bumciorek]

Miami is trending... to be looking for a new head coach in 2026.

 

[JZCane0825]

Portal closes in 2 days aside from grad transfers.

Guess it’s grad transfer or bust really

I think our cards are on the table. Will be interesting to see if anyone jumps in before now and Wednesday

 

[AUcane]

Please stop mentioning Zo. He isn’t it either. Nothing has suggested that he making a positive difference

Zo and Mario are cut from the same cloth

 

[YankeesCane]

This is also why you cant rely on the portal for your QB

 

[TriStarCane]

Miami is trending... to be looking for a new head coach in 2029

Fixed

 

[TheOriginalCane]

Come on man he announced after the news broke. I doubt this is leverage. There is denial and then there is this take. Sorry bro.

First, it's clearly a joke. Thought you would understand the Jeremiah Smith reference.

Second...

I'm not holding out any hope, I'm just making my millionth reference to the fact that PORTAL recruits are not official UNTIL THEY ENROLL.

 

[canes732]

Howard was a target he decided he didn’t want to play for Miami as well as of now.

Miami will have to tamper. Cant go into spring with Jaccuri, injured Emory and Judd.

Just can’t happen or more guys may leave the current team.

Actually there’s one more guy. The back up a@ Arizona. He would start here

 

[jnf2257]

This feels like a tipping point in Mario's tenure. He's stacked back-to-back great recruiting classes but has a glaring hole at the most important position. Another 7-5 season in 2024 should be unacceptable given the talent he's brought in.

 

[dorsey1]

Another reason why we have been irrelevant for years-

Can’t get a really good QB down to Coral Gables-

 

[chris2183l]

Edited the OP because some wording was unclear. There are different plans in place. We aren’t starting from scratch. But the first choice was closing on Ward and there is a lot of work to do.

I understand miami would have taken Howard's commitment at any time but was howard offered the same or close to the same nil package as ward? If not, do you see any chance Howard would reconsider with a better NIL offer.

 

[TheOriginalCane]

Please stop mentioning Zo. He isn’t it either. Nothing has suggested that he making a positive difference

That's simply not true. Not even close to being true.

 

[PSU Cane]

Portal closes in 2 days aside from grad transfers.

Guess it’s grad transfer or bust really

Yep - otherwise they'll be begging some kid in Apr to come in and learn the entire offense in a few weeks in the Fall.

 

[jjacks93]

This was brewing from miles miles away when this got drawn out for weeks by Ward

Ward was playing Miami all along ( or looking for something better or willing to risk NFL status ) and Mario fell for it like the nice guy thinking he was getting the hot girl who inevitably chose the jerk. You always need a Plan B lind up even if it means you have to placate that relationship

Once Ward dragged this on, Mario needed to pivot, like he did on other positions during this class, and go find and invest that NIL and get someone else even if the staff was not as high on that QB.

The most important position on the team and a team that next year needs to have experience at QB and he botched it

The fact Ward chose an unknown draft status over playing one year at Miami because this staff couldnt sell QB development is telling and an abject failure

Can we stop acting like Ward didn’t have plenty of options and it wasn’t just Miami who couldn’t sell development . Also could be plenty of other reasons for him choosing not to play another year in college like injury concerns, etc.

I’m not a moral victory kinda dude but I think it was remarkable we somehow ended up as the finalist between the NFL in the first place with all the other schools and coaches and schemes available to him .

Either way he chose the NFL over many other opportunities, not just “over playing one year at Miami”

 

[YankeesCane]

I also wonder now if Jacolby George portals out

 

[ben]

First, it's clearly a joke. Thought you would understand the Jeremiah Smith reference.

Second...

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I'm not holding out any hope, I'm just making my millionth reference to the fact that PORTAL recruits are not official UNTIL THEY ENROLL.

Kind of like when the mariners got a rod to sign before he stepped into class at memorial

 

[jjacks93]

Please stop mentioning Zo. He isn’t it either. Nothing has suggested that he making a positive difference

The mother of a recruit was on Twitter just last week saying how she felt better knowing men like Highsmith would be involved with her son’s development. Just because you don’t know what he does on a day to day basis doesn’t mean he isn’t having an impact

 

[ssvir]

All this crying for a cancerous kid ..