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jsy said:
I have a question for you guys did you guys all go to college in the city you grew up? If that is not the case maybe we should just accept that some kids just want to go somewhere new for a few years.
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I didn't live in Miami growing up (was in Oregon as a teenager) but I went to UM. So you can be **** sure if I'd lived in Miami I'd have gone to UM. The only thing that would change that is if I'd been accepted to Harvard or an Ivy, then I'd go there because I'd have the best chance of success at networking and finding a high paying job. In football terms, the elite / "ivy" equivalent are schools that get you to the NFL. Miami is either #1 or #2 in that category. So yeah, it's messed up that kids would spurn the hometown elite school (nfl wise) and city to go elsewhere. The one excuse is if a player has non-athlete siblings and wants to go to college with them - UM is outrageously expensive (I'll be paying student loans til I die), so unless the non-athlete gets a scholarship, I can understand choosing a state school.
 

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Coach Macho said:
Fvck that.

South Florida MADE THESE KIDS. They wouldn't be the football players they are if it wasn't for "the bottom".

How am I gonna turn my back on the city that played a huge part in making me who I am? Just so I can go play for a bunch of racist rednecks in some po-dunk town that I'll never return to again? A town that would shun me if I wasn't a talented football player? GTFOH

If I'm a Miami kid and I have the opportunity to stay home, go to a great school located in a famous international city, party on South Beach while kids at other schools are hanging in raggedy hole in the wall bars, wear my **** dreds with pride, sport a big *** Cuban link every time I get a turnover, and bang countless hot Latinas on a weekly basis...IT'S A NO BRAINER!

I didn't have that opportunity coming out of high school but you best believe every kid I coach with a Miami offer I'm steering him in that direction. (unless it's a complete dumpster fire i.e. the Golden era) I've only coached one kid with a Miami offer and he committed on the spot. Declined visits from FSU, Tennessee, Wisconsin, etc. And he LOVED his time at UM. (well until Golden got there)
Him and his teammates used to go deep sea fishing during their days off! How many schools can you do that at?!
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The best post of your post is how a kid if not an athlete would be treated at those schools like Alabama and Gainesville.
 
Idk how Rumph gets trashed for his recruiting, but Banda gets a pass.

Dude has whiffed on his top targets every season hes been here. Lost Byrd (w Rumph). Let ***an and Wright head North last cycle. Won't mention what happened this week.


Hes no better or worse than Rumph in the recruiting department. Not bad, but nowhere near the elite bulldog he was made out to be.
 
jsy said:
I have a question for you guys did you guys all go to college in the city you grew up? If that is not the case maybe we should just accept that some kids just want to go somewhere new for a few years.
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IF FGCU offered me a free education, had a history of producing some the best computer scientists in the country, and in the end your classmates are like a fraternity, there is absolutely no way or no how that I’m leaving Southwest Florida. Not even if Alabama offered me 50k!
 
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jsy said:
I have a question for you guys did you guys all go to college in the city you grew up? If that is not the case maybe we should just accept that some kids just want to go somewhere new for a few years.
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Born in Coral Gables. Went to The U. Nope, don’t accept selling your soul for a brown bag and betraying your city. If you want to be a *****, fine but call it straight. — “I’m a *****” not some bs about family and business.
 
jsy said:
I have a question for you guys did you guys all go to college in the city you grew up? If that is not the case maybe we should just accept that some kids just want to go somewhere new for a few years.
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U could understand maybe going to Stanford (Palo Alto, Ca.), Colorado or even North Carolina; but Tuscaloosa, Alabama?
Gimme a break! #BusinessDecision
 
Dan Sileo JR said:
Jamal Carter became one of my favorite canes after Pete interviewed him before his draft day. Super positive, warm man that had nothing but love for the coaches and the program. May not have been born with the most talent but happy to see him doing well in Denver
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I've been critical of JC in the past, but he could be the biggest victim of the Golden/Doh'Nofrio years. Diaz would have been a great fit for JC.

Go Canes!
 
Just to continue off what I said earlier... (cause I'm in the mood to vent)

We offer an experience that you can't get anywhere else in college football minus maybe USC.
I think it was Cowherd that said we're something in between a college football program and the NFL.
We saw it this year, when Miami is hot nobody in college football is a bigger story. Every high school in American is doin a **** turnover chain now.
And what other school in American has world famous celebrities at their football games? When Miami is on fire it's not uncommon to see stars on our sidelines or in our stands.
Which brings me to my next point: our stands and tail-gate parties look like nothing else in college football. The amount of diversity is refreshing. It's not like a game in G-Ville, Tallahassee or Alabama where there's nothing but rich dorky white kids with comb-overs in the stands. It reeks of modern day mandingo fighting.

Explain to me why none of these South Florida kids ever return to these redneck towns after their college careers are over. They spend 3/4 years there and never go back. (and they're likely not welcomed either)
Not only do Miami players return, but even their homeboys that played at other schools move down here to live. Nobody wants to live in those garbage *** cities that most college football powerhouses are located in.
 
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