Thad Franklin

[DroCane]

I read on ITU that Miami, Florida, and FSU are 3 or the top 4 schools in number of decommits since 2010, I think (not sure of the year). I think that says a lot about the in-state kids......and the leadership at the schools.

And the bags other schools drop to get kids from down here...

 

[BS85]

The overall South Florida adolescent and high school football "culture" is dog ****.

 

[Fluffhead]

The overall South Florida "culture" is dog ****.

FIFY.

 

[The Franchise]

He saw Manure standing too close to Lashlee over Zoom. Decommitting for violation of his own stringent social distancing standards.

 

[The Franchise]

The overall South Florida adolescent and high school football "culture" is dog ****.

They turned it into a cesspool a long time ago when they turned 10 year olds into bread winners based on their Pee Wee football ability down here.

Then, recruiting became a sport in and of itself, and that turned this area that is so rich in talent into the Broadway/Hollywood of recruiting and made all these kids and their leech "handlers" stars.

Big money coaches helicoptering into their HS and eating their asses like prison bytches.

It has all culminated in this toilet called S. FL recruiting.

 

[miamimoor]

Gotta expand the recruiting map.

Have to take a more cut throat approach with local recruiting. Can't give them too much leeway, either shìt or get off the pot & we move on.

But I've been preaching it for awhile now, recruit TX, AZ, LV, East STL (ILL/MO) & the Northeast NY/NJ/Philly/Conn & only take the South Fla kids who will stay committed & won't take any visits.

Have to stop always accepting early commits from locals using us as a placeholder.

Recent History of NFL RB's
2019 RB Class

1	24	Josh Jacobs	RB	Tulsa, OK	Oakland Raiders
2	53	Miles Sanders	RB	Pittsburgh, PA	Philadelphia Eagles
3	70	Darrell Henderson	RB	Batesville, MS	Los Angeles Rams
3	73	David Montgomery	RB	Cincinnati, OH	Chicago Bears
3	74	Devin Singletary	RB	Plantation, FL	Buffalo Bills
3	87	Damien Harris	RB	Berea, KY	New England Patriots
3	102	Alexander Mattison	RB	San Bernardino, CA	Minnesota Vikings

2018 RB Class

1	2	Saquon Barkley	RB	Whitehall, PA	New York Giants
1	27	Rashaad Penny	RB	Norwalk , CA	Seattle Seahawks
1	31	Sony Michel	RB	Plantation, FL	New England Patriots
2	35	Nick Chubb	RB	Cedartown, GA	Cleveland Browns
2	38	Ronald Jones	RB	McKinney, TX	Tampa Bay Buccaneers
2	43	Kerryon Johnson	RB	Tallahassee , FL	Detroit Lions
2	59	Derrius Guice	RB	Baton Rouge, LA	Washington Redskins
3	71	Royce Freeman	RB	Imperial, CA	Denver Broncos

Like you said; Please expand the recruiting board. Looks like the Local Recruiting is killing Miami...

 

[ChoadCane]

I like what we got last cycle and that may have an impact honestly. Who wants to go behind Rooster and Don? A real ************ who ain't scared to compete. So hopefully we land that mindset with adequate talent.

 

[Zbrod95]

Gotta expand the recruiting map.

Have to take a more cut throat approach with local recruiting. Can't give them too much leeway, either shìt or get off the pot & we move on.

But I've been preaching it for awhile now, recruit TX, AZ, LV, East STL (ILL/MO) & the Northeast NY/NJ/Philly/Conn & only take the South Fla kids who will stay committed & won't take any visits.

Have to stop always accepting early commits from locals using us as a placeholder.

Umm excuse me sir but there’s been somebody ELSE that’s been preaching it even longer...and I think he’s glad you’re finally seeing it.

 

[miamimoor]

Checking out the WR's....
NFL WR Recent History

2019 - WR
RD	SEL #	PLAYER	POSITION	HOMETOWN	TEAM
1	25	Marquise Brown	WR	Hollywood, FL	Baltimore Ravens
1	32	N'Keal Harry	WR	Tempe, AZ	New England Patriots
2	36	Deebo Samuel	WR	Inman, SC	San Francisco 49ers
2	51	A.J. Brown	WR	Starkville, MS	Tennessee Titans
2	56	Mecole Hardman	WR	Elberton, GA	Kansas City Chiefs
2	57	J.J. Arcega-Whiteside	WR	Roebuck, SC	Philadelphia Eagles
2	59	Parris Campbell	WR	Akron, OH	Indianapolis Colts
2	62	Andy Isabella	WR	Mayfield, OH	Arizona Cardinals
2	64	D.K. Metcalf	WR	Oxford, MS	Seattle Seahawks
3	66	Diontae Johnson	WR	Ruskin, FL	Pittsburgh Steelers
3	67	Jalen Hurd	WR	Hendersonville, TN	San Francisco 49ers
3	76	Terry McLaurin	WR	Indianapolis, IN	Washington Redskins
3	93	Miles Boykin	WR	New Lenox, IL	Baltimore Ravens

2018 - WR
RD	SEL #	PLAYER	POSITION	HOMETOWN	TEAM
1	24	D.J. Moore	WR	Philadelphia, PA	Carolina Panthers
1	26	Calvin Ridley	WR	Coconut Creek, FL	Atlanta Falcons
2	40	Courtland Sutton	WR	Brenham, TX	Denver Broncos
2	44	Dante Pettis	WR	San Juan Capistrano, CA	San Francisco 49ers
2	47	Christian Kirk	WR	Scottsdale, AZ	Arizona Cardinals
2	51	Anthony Miller	WR	Memphis, TN	Chicago Bears
2	60	James Washington	WR	Stamford, FL	Pittsburgh Steelers
2	61	D.J. Chark	WR	Alexandria, LA	Jacksonville Jaguars
3	81	Michael Gallup	WR	Monroe, GA	Dallas Cowboys
3	91	Tre'Quan Smith	WR	Delray Beach, FL	New Orleans Saints

 

[No_Fly_Zone]

Gotta expand the recruiting map.

Have to take a more cut throat approach with local recruiting. Can't give them too much leeway, either shìt or get off the pot & we move on.

But I've been preaching it for awhile now, recruit TX, AZ, LV, East STL (ILL/MO) & the Northeast NY/NJ/Philly/Conn & only take the South Fla kids who will stay committed & won't take any visits.

Have to stop always accepting early commits from locals using us as a placeholder.

I can co-sign all of that, and I would add staying involved in Georgia. May be tougher with last year's staff changes, but there are some very good players there in a relatively small area that is fairly close. There's $ec money flying around, but some of those kids have seemed interested in UM in recent years.

 

[KANE]

They turned it into a cesspool a long time ago when they turned 10 year olds into bread winners based on their Pee Wee football ability down here.

Then, recruiting became a sport in and of itself, and that turned this area that is so rich in talent into the Broadway/Hollywood of recruiting and made all these kids and their leech "handlers" stars.

Big money coaches helicoptering into their HS and eating their asses like prison bytches.

It has all culminated in this toilet called S. FL recruiting.

Truer words have never been typed, homie.

 

[bolivar]

And a side note.....new threads about current commits are usually bad news..

 

[DMoney]

You can expand the recruiting map and fight on someone else's turf. I'd rather keep the best local backs like we did last year.

These are the local backs we've brought on campus since 2009. If they ever had a season with at least 900 rushing yards, they're in bold:

Lamar Miller
Duke Johnson
Joe Yearby
Choc Gray
Mark Walton
Travis Homer
Robert Burns
Camron Harris

Signees: Don Chaney, Jaylan Knighton

These are the other backs:

Mike James
Storm Johnson
Darion Hall
Dallas Crawford
Danny DIllard
Gus Edwards
Deejay Dallas
Lorenzo Lingard

I like the first list better. Hickson needs to sign Thad. No excuses.

 

[aleahy]

They turned it into a cesspool a long time ago when they turned 10 year olds into bread winners based on their Pee Wee football ability down here.

Then, recruiting became a sport in and of itself, and that turned this area that is so rich in talent into the Broadway/Hollywood of recruiting and made all these kids and their leech "handlers" stars.

Big money coaches helicoptering into their HS and eating their asses like prison bytches.

It has all culminated in this toilet called S. FL recruiting.

And, we are the only school left trying to build a roster from this area. Time has well passed to move on. Recruit kids who are interested and expand the board.

Other schools like Bama, OSU, Clemson are recruiting 2 or 3 guys down here. If they get 1 or 2, great, but otherwise they have a whole other recruiting board. You aren’t building a roster with 50+% coming from an football environment like this. Most of these guys are playing at 2-3 different schools in high school. It’s absurd. It’s not like this anywhere else. I’ve asked, where is the ncaa and fhsaa?

 

[Memnon]

Umm excuse me sir but there’s been somebody ELSE that’s been preaching it even longer...and I think he’s glad you’re finally seeing it.

Not finally seeing anything, I've always said it, I just also used to say we could still get premium local talent if we win while going OOS.

The difference now is I don't think premium local talent will still home no matter what, even if we win.

 

[BeachCanes]

Who is Danny Dillard?

LOL!

 

[RangerGranger]

Gotta expand the recruiting map.

Have to take a more cut throat approach with local recruiting. Can't give them too much leeway, either shìt or get off the pot & we move on.

But I've been preaching it for awhile now, recruit TX, AZ, LV, East STL (ILL/MO) & the Northeast NY/NJ/Philly/Conn & only take the South Fla kids who will stay committed & won't take any visits.

Have to stop always accepting early commits from locals using us as a placeholder.

Have to stop always accepting early commits from locals using us as a placeholder.

Now that's a line you don't see everyday, but sure as **** is true.

 

[The Franchise]

You can expand the recruiting map and fight on someone else's turf. I'd rather keep the best local backs like we did last year.

These are the local backs we've brought on campus since 2009. If they ever had a season with at least 900 rushing yards, they're in bold:

Lamar Miller
Duke Johnson
Joe Yearby
Choc Gray
Mark Walton
Travis Homer
Robert Burns
Camron Harris

Signees: Don Chaney, Jaylan Knighton

These are the other backs:

Mike James
Storm Johnson
Darion Hall
Dallas Crawford
Danny DIllard
Gus Edwards
Deejay Dallas
Lorenzo Lingard

I like the first list better. Hickson needs to sign Thad. No excuses.

Our poor past choices with guys from outside South Florida doesn't necessarily support the idea that we should stick to South Florida only. There are great backs everywhere. Because we didn't recruit/sign them in the past doesn't mean they aren't out there.

On top of that, South Florida has become increasingly toxic fairly recently.

 

[BS85]

Might have to go full Clemson and drop kids who take visits after committing. Couple that with not accepting commits too early and maybe there's a chance.

Of course, even this won't help unless Miami starts winning.

 

[rustywalkedaway]

We need to recognize that we have a stronger national brand than local brand anymore.

Doesn't mean we ignore the backyard, but no reason to think we have the home field advantage many posters seem to assume. Locking down the state of Miami is long over. And, yes, if we win big, we get bigger in the Tri-county, but that is true for any locale with a winning team. Don't confuse that with long term loyalty.