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I think people want him to reclassify because he's **** good. He has 14 months to gain weight.
You told me! If all that BS you took the time to type and research makes you feel good
!!! Only a dweeb would respond the way you did, definitely not a football guy!
You told me! If all that BS you took the time to type and research makes you feel good
Sure. Whatever you need to tell yourself to convince yourself that you weren't just destroyed.
Just keep telling everyone that we should be signing low 3-stars just because they went to Northwestern. Nothing is better at proving that you know nothing about football than a brain-dead argument about how we should be signing less-talented players so that we can eventually hit the Northwestern lottery after five years, for two guys who have never played at Northwestern and one UM legacy player.
Yep, we should have signed the dregs of Northwestern for four years just to get UM legacy Calvin Russell and two guys we didn't even know would transfer to Northwestern until 6 months ago.
What a dopey argument.
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well If he's the best WR in South Florida, there have been some rumors he may, and we are currently striking out on all the top WRs we are after... Seems to make sense to me.
Hopefully Dopson reclassifying doesn't **** us like Flowers reclassifying did. If there is any truth to Lennear reclassifying it'd be nice to get ahead of things at a position we could really use the help right now.
nobody has to worry about anything as long as baby jesus and jojo ball out this year now if they choose to play #35 instead of baby jesus and he doesn't have an impact then we can all worry because we will lose all the south fla kids. that will be a Mario and Dawson problem if it happens
Did Ohio State even recruit this “5 star WR” ?
Lol the English teachers on here always make me laugh...really tryna correct grammar on here
Beard is developing his guys. Our receivers did very well last year. What is the difference by replacing him with another guy that just develops. Im we win the ACC and make the CFP. Im not giving a new WR coach credit for landing 5*s. Our record and on field performance would be the reason. Now maybe you know something I don’t about what going on with him. That would be totally different and understandable that he may need to move on. It’s not because of his coaching though.
Eh, I just think too much is made of that specific recruiting pitch. It’s not uncommon at all to have special names for “career programs” at schools. Richt brought a similar program when he came to Miami. More of an indictment of Dino Babers/Syracuse if they didn’t already have anything in place
Glad you're amused. I have no clue what you do, but I do laugh at you often. Never change.
1. Syracuse has overpaid for this kid, who’s a major project.
2. Right now, he’s neither a great football or basketball player.
3. He will never be a basketball player. All he has is athleticism-can run and jump. That doesn’t make a Div 1 basketball player at a major BB school. He won’t see the court, maybe in mop up. Watch the kids tape for two minutes, that’s all you need. Can’t shoot, can’t dribble, **** his shot looks like an alien.
4. He needs to dedicate himself to football and get to work, serious work. Maybe then he’ll be something.
5. Move on, not a major loss. Don’t care if it’s NW or Hialeah for that matter.
2. Right now, he’s neither a great football or basketball player.
3. He will never be a basketball player. All he has is athleticism-can run and jump. That doesn’t make a Div 1 basketball player at a major BB school. He won’t see the court, maybe in mop up. Watch the kids tape for two minutes, that’s all you need. Can’t shoot, can’t dribble, **** his shot looks like an alien.
4. He needs to dedicate himself to football and get to work, serious work. Maybe then he’ll be something.
5. Move on, not a major loss. Don’t care if it’s NW or Hialeah for that matter.
Shannon and Gooden offered every JAG in Dade county just to try to get a foot in the door for the elite kids. Those kids all left town. The idea that you need to sign kids you wouldn’t normally offer just to try to get in the good graces of a local school is absolutely ridiculous.
Your post indicates that you are not aware of what is happening off the field, and that's fine. If you want to look at the stats at the end of the season and draws conclusions accordingly, I can't change that.
As for development, Beard gets a half-grade. C+. If you think Beard is responsible for the development of Restrepo, I have some fine Everglades swampland to sell you. Beard had more of an impact on Horton and possibly George (though clearly not on the temperment side). Brown was a transfer who really didn't get any better and was misused (that falls more on the OC and playcalling, though). If KB was a better and more trusted coach who could be elevated to passing game coordinator, then perhaps he could have more impact on playcalling and usage. Most importantly for today, it is hard to see a lot of development with RayRay and JoJo and Ny and Chance. Maybe there will be an explosion in 2025, but we won 7 games by fairly wide margins last year, and those 4 guys should have had more than 13 combined receptions in 2024.
I have previously defended Beard's recruiting. He got three 4-stars in each of the past 2 completed recruiting cycles, and it wasn't his fault as to the 5-star WRs we lost out on in 2024 and 2025. However, Beard is one of the primary causes for losing someone big in 2026, even if another person did damage as well.
Not sure what the point of your post is here.
Miami has had an excellent post-graduate support program in place for multiple decades, under multiple coaches. For certain parents to be "impressed" by a first year coach making those kinds of promises at a school that has neglected that for decades is just sad, particularly when citing that as some sort of differentiating factor.
Nothing that Fran Brown is tenuously promising to do in the future is any better or different from what Miami and other schools have been delivering for decades. So if parents actually get hooked by that spiel, then they need to be asking more questions and making more side-by-side comparisons. That is all.
We gotta start putting guys in the league in high draft positions. Mario himself has 2 WRs drafted under his coaching ever, Chandler Williams, a 7th rounder in 2007 and TY Hilton. Beard has one player that he coached get drafted. Phillip Dorsett. Miami as program has had three since Dorsett. Coley, a 7th, Berrios, a 6th, and KJ, a 5th.
At some point this program has to start putting WRs in the league at high clip before we get true blue chippers. A true name with a track record of that helps land these guys before that happens. Just based on Mario & Beard’s history odds are they won’t do it. So a change should happen.
One solution that should be considered is the hiring of a current NFL WR coach. A hire like that would carry weight with recruits and players that the position coach would be able to explain traits and habits and skills that are necessary to make it to the NFL and stick on a roster. And then you wouldn't need to compete with other top universities to "hire only guys with the best college track records". You could let Mario recruit, and let the WR coach teach next-level skills.
It's like Text Pause!
Trumpycane is going to assume you mean Hankerson
I didn't mean anyone in particular. I would certainly defer to a guy like @Memnon to speak on Hank's coaching abilities, or the abilities of any other NFL coach that might want to develop guys at the collegiate level.
While I love it when Miami hires qualified Miami guys (i.e., NOT JD), I don't push for a Miami guy to the exclusion of anyone else. Except for Mario and Mark Richt. I felt both were head-and-shoulders above any other coaching candidates at the time(s).
