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Nigel Bethel, Jr. to visit Miami January 26th weekend
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Reach part 2. No one we have committed in this class is someone you would classify as a reach . Keep it going , we don’t “need” him at all and he will never play if we recruit how we are supposed to these next two classes
Seems like every year it’s a 3 star that canesinsight south Florida posters fall in love with and think they have that dog in them because they are from south Florida. We saw it with Desmond Phillips who many campaigned on here who went to Toledo and is what 4th string, Jawom Hamilton in 2016 has done nothing noteworthy, James Wiggins the dB from south Dade , Robert knowles and many others can fall in this category...
Seems like every year it’s a 3 star that canesinsight south Florida posters fall in love with and think they have that dog in them because they are from south Florida. We saw it with Desmond Phillips who many campaigned on here who went to Toledo and is what 4th string, Jawom Hamilton in 2016 has done nothing noteworthy, James Wiggins the dB from south Dade , Robert knowles and many others can fall in this category...
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Nobody is in love with bethel but it's silly to say he doesn't deserve a scholly. Has the physical tools needed just didn't get the type of burn necessary in high school
If it works out then great, if not he'll transfer in two years no harm done
It's not like we're choosing him over a higher caliber player who's available and asking to be a part of the class
Giving scholarships for players like this is how you end up with too much deadweight on the roster
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someone explain to me how Bethel differs from Artie Burns coming out of HS? both seem to be great size/speed, but not polished CB's...
And lack of depth is how you end up with AJ Highsmith at Safety and Scott Patchan at TE. There is still plenty of room on the roster and there is always attrition. At least Bethel has speed. Worst case scenario he ends up on special teams.
Burns was special on the field and a top 100 player in the country. He actually played db extensively rather than playing limited time in his senior year at db
Time to perfect his craft is all. They have almost identical physical tools.
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No worries, brock's on it.
Xavier Peters.... Nick Bonitto....
Except NOBODY was calling Redwine a "low ceiling player" at the time he was recruited.
At that time, it was all about "Oh Charlie Strong likes him, he must be a world beater" and "He's the kind of South Florida kid that goes to Louisville and balls out and beats our *** in the Russel Athletic Bowl" and whatnot.
Hindsight is 20/20, isn't it?
This Bethel kid is a 3-star for a reason. And it's not because he went unnoticed. He plays at the most heavily recruited/visited high school in America. Every college coach in the country has had many chances to evaluate Nigel Bethel, and everyone else has passed. Why is that?
No, we have room for another LB if we wanted...I like Bonitto too, staff has him as a backup plan just like they have Bethel. Peters = grades
We aren't choosing Bethel over them.
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Why doesn’t he have any good offers if he’s as good as you claim and that the only two possible results with him are he can’t learn CB or he’ll be an nfl star? Learning CB is easy. Playing great CB is a whole different thing.
This whole “taking a flyer” narrative is nonsense. We will attempt to sign Bethel out of necessity if we whiff on our main targets. We need another CB and want Campbell and Surtain. “Taking a flyer” would be signing a guy like Bethel even if we get Campbell and Surtain, and that’s never going to happen.
One is great at playing football, the other runs a fast 100m. One was also much stronger and filled out than the other and still ran as fast if not faster. One belonged on the Miami Hurricanes, the other belongs at FIU
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What I think is ironic is you calling him a " reach" , "not worthy of a ship", but then rip others for questioning the staff about things that are more obvious than taking this kid. So we should trust the staff or not question them unless you don't sign off?
The staff actually likes him a lot , he'd already be in this class if he'd jumped when he had his first chance.
So let's rehash, really good athlete, that the staff really likes as a project...from the words of Brock " trust the staff bro, they know better than you".
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Spot on.
Please tell me Bethel wasn't the one getting burnt repeatedly by that receiver from Chandler. I know Wilson wasn't active, but I'm not sure if Bethel was playing on defense in this game.
