Why did we finish So Bad?

[Double]

#5 class, yeah thats horrible

Awful.

Fake news. We don't have the #5 class.

6th

https://247sports.com/Season/2018-Football/CompositeTeamRankings

We might as be 7th. We all know Alabama is going to get some 4/5 star guys and rocket up the rankings.

 

[Pickle Richt]

#5 class, yeah thats horrible

Awful.

Fake news. We don't have the #5 class.

You keep denying this yet never saying what you perceive the class to be ranked. Definitely not a douchebag move.

 

[Tinman64]

Miller is going to be a good player. He developed late and didn't attend camps/send game film. Teams started catching on late.

Pruitt from Tennessee wanted him

 

[simplycanes]

Miller is going to be a good player. He developed late and didn't attend camps/send game film. Teams started catching on late.

Pruitt from Tennessee wanted him

And he was in a position to be picky? Look, I am glad we landed they guy and he appears to be a better prospect than the late offer indicates, but come on... Pruitt's situation at Tennessee and ours at UM, we aren't supposed to be competing with them.

 

[TheMatador]

Overall, this class is probably among UM's top ten classes, ever.

Despite the disappointments.

You guys really don't remember how many misses we had in our 1980's classes, including classes that were part of NC teams.

 

[TheMatador]

Miller is going to be a good player. He developed late and didn't attend camps/send game film. Teams started catching on late.

Pruitt from Tennessee wanted him

And he was in a position to be picky? Look, I am glad we landed they guy and he appears to be a better prospect than the late offer indicates, but come on... Pruitt's situation at Tennessee and ours at UM, we aren't supposed to be competing with them.

We always were in the same position with DLs. Remember the classes that brought in Russ Maryland, Eric Miller, Damon Bethel. Kenny Lopez, and otherwise be a I can't remember. We rarely landed a blue chip DT. Not until maybe Vince Wilfork. Cortez was not even on any lists when he was a senior in HS. We found an overweight kid at a Mississippi JUCO. His first year we told him, if you lose weight you can be an A-A. His senior year, he lost weight. The rest is history. Miller might be a real gem.

 

[Astcloud11]

No we missed out on chatman as well. This D-Line class outside of nesta is terrible. We we're forced to offer Jordan miller a scholarship strictly because we could not get anyone else.

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This. Jordan Miller is not a Miami caliber DT, just like Nigel Bethel is not a Miami caliber CB.

They were only offered because we whiffed on everyone else, and the staff must have known that it was coming.

Nigel Bethel was recruited for his speed. Kick/Punt Returner that we can develop as a CB.

 

[Meat]

#5 class, yeah thats horrible

Awful.

Fake news. We don't have the #5 class.

You keep denying this yet never saying what you perceive the class to be ranked. Definitely not a douchebag move.

LOL no, I was just aware of my surroundings and I saw that we would be passed up by a few more teams who had people signing later in the day.

 

[Meat]

No we missed out on chatman as well. This D-Line class outside of nesta is terrible. We we're forced to offer Jordan miller a scholarship strictly because we could not get anyone else.

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This. Jordan Miller is not a Miami caliber DT, just like Nigel Bethel is not a Miami caliber CB.

They were only offered because we whiffed on everyone else, and the staff must have known that it was coming.

Nigel Bethel was recruited for his speed. Kick/Punt Returner that we can develop as a CB.

Well, kid's a Cane now, so I hope it works out.

 

[Cajuncane]

4th 5th 6th whatever this is still a great class.If all the kids that signed early had signed today we’d be going nuts about how great we did.

I think the biggest failure was Richt ( and a bunch of guys on here) really believing that Rumph could actually do what he was hired to do and bring the AH kids here.As it turns out the two CB had no interest in us and Chatman and Chatfield chose to go elsewhere for whatever reason.

Rumph didn’t do what he is paid to do.THAT and THAT alone made today a bad day.We didn’t miss on anyone else( please don’t come with the Coburn stuff.We got on that kid about 15 minutes ago.)We close with 2 of the 4 or 3 of the 4 AH kids and no one is ing

Richt needs to evaluate the coaches he has on the defensive side of the ball.Recruiting is a major part of your job in CFB.If you can’t recruit you better be one **** of a coach.Kul is.Rumph ain’t.Changes need to be made if we plan on becoming anymore than a 9-10 win,win the Coastal Get blasted in the ACCCG type team.

Will they be made is the big question.

The class is a great class and if we had been able to close the AH 4 it would have been historical as far as Miami goes.

Rumph failed

 

[TheEye]

How often have we had a top 10 class on NSD? You guys may be the most self entitled fans in all of NCAA football. You guys are let down because we front loaded the class with the early signing period. We won a title 16 years ago. Deal with it. If recruits are bolting because of better facilities, write a **** check.

 

[CobaltBlueCane]

No we missed out on chatman as well. This D-Line class outside of nesta is terrible. We we're forced to offer Jordan miller a scholarship strictly because we could not get anyone else.

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Richt can’t close. End of story.

 

[IndayArtHauz]

Why did we finish So Bad-LY?

 

[ThomasM]

Miller is going to be a good player. He developed late and didn't attend camps/send game film. Teams started catching on late.

Pruitt from Tennessee wanted him

And he was in a position to be picky? Look, I am glad we landed they guy and he appears to be a better prospect than the late offer indicates, but come on... Pruitt's situation at Tennessee and ours at UM, we aren't supposed to be competing with them.

Had he attended camps and everyone knew of him, he'd have an extra star and a boat load of offers. In an age where these kids market themselves to get attention, he did none of that until the very end. As soon as people saw his film, the offers came. You simply don't see guys 330 pounds with that first step. He's going to wreck the **** out of whatever is in front of him.

 

[jjacks93]

We actually did not finish poorly...

For some reason, people on this forum thought Miami had a chance with players that had very little to no interest in Miami throughout the process or players committed elsewhere.

We otherwise landed who we were expected to land today. Nesta, Miller, Bethel, and Ezzard.

There were no flips or surprise commitments.

We missed out on several key players, but we missed out on them LONG before today despite courtesy visits and late interest.

we finished poorly .

You are just not listening sad. Number 5 class and you want to act like we should have gotten kids who were not going here this time. Focus on the ones we did get fella, number 5 class. Ok??

No you’re not listening . Do you know what the word finish means ?

 

[Ver]

Miller is going to be a good player. He developed late and didn't attend camps/send game film. Teams started catching on late.

Pruitt from Tennessee wanted him

And he was in a position to be picky? Look, I am glad we landed they guy and he appears to be a better prospect than the late offer indicates, but come on... Pruitt's situation at Tennessee and ours at UM, we aren't supposed to be competing with them.

Tennessee had 4 DTs committed when they offered Miller

 

[mauri84]

Maybe I missed it but has anyone wondered where Chatfields neck is?

 

[wudee]

Nope. He"s right. A friend of mine, now deceased, used to tell me the marquee players are not UM's players. I've been following UM recruiting since the mid-80's. There is dough revisionist history about UM recruiting, thinking we just cleaned up on 5 stars. That was never true. We did get a 5 star here, a 5 star there. Mainly we built our program on very good players, kids with potential, who just kept on better and better at the U. We outworked everybody else and had more heart than everybody else.

When we recruited Jessie Armstead, we got everybody's best player, the top 5 star. I think Darren Smith was in the same class and I'm not sure he wasn't better as a freshman.

A better comparison might have been D.J. Williams and Jon Villa. Their first August, I started to hear reports about how Villa was better than Williams. Vilma was just some local kid from Coral Gables, Williams was the top HS player in the country.

Look at this kid who just left--the five star from Sacramento. He had what, a hundred offers, or so he claimed. What happened to him?

Today was just like so many other days I've seen over the years. We were always spurned by the rock star recruits, going back to the dud, Sterling Palmer from Broward in the '80's. And we got Russ Maryland, who almost nobody wanted,who became a real star. In comparison, Jordan Miller was recruited like a superstar in comparison to Russ Maryland. Even though there might be fewer hidden gems now in comparison to the '80's, I think Jordan Miller might prove there still are.

I do think our coaches might have been over confident,thinking we would get our targets and keeping Norton and McIntosh. They did not have backup plans. They should have been looking at Jucos. I'd rather have a Juco who can play rather than a fairly average red shirt senior transfer.

As far as getting elite players, what really was the story with D.J. Johnson, or whatever his name is? So much fanfare coming in, but so little talk going out. Did not even last a year.

Kids today also get way more exposure than kids back during our runs, so who's to say that we actually weren't recruiting 4/5's back then and they just were not rated correctly. the Waddle kid who went to bama is a 5* , what do you think Santana Moss would be rated in 2018?