The Foreclosure (7/12)

DMoney

Jul 12, 2025 1 min read

I won’t sugarcoat it. I’m expecting more bad news, based on recent conversations. There isn’t much confidence on anyone right now, including Derrek Cooper.

I’ve thought we’d get him from the beginning, and still think we can flip him at some point. But we’re behind Texas headed into the announcement. And this is an absolute top priority recruit.

It seems a lot of kids still don’t believe in Miami. And the local players least of all. That’s understandable- they know us the best. Many of our fans don’t believe in us after two decades of disappointment.

The bottom line is we need to get over the hump. We were on the verge when we forgot to kneel against Georgia Tech. We were on the verge when we were up 21-0 on Syracuse. We need to get to the next level as a program to prove we aren’t the place dreams go to die.

Until then, we will be fighting a lot of uphill battles.

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HurricanesR1

Jul 12, 2025

CT Cane 44 said:
Do you think Lane Kiffin would win here ? Or do you trust Mario when there is a 28 million dollar cap or whatever that BS is.

I believe Kiffin would win 9 games/year at Miami on average.

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lurker

Jul 12, 2025

HurricanesR1 said:
Win games and the fans won't complain. It's that simple.

Putting this on fans is asinine.

You’re reading comprehension is asinine. He didn’t blame the fans.

HurricanesR1

Jul 12, 2025

Zbrod95 said:
So I’m at the Morgan wallen concert

Sorry to hear that.

HurricanesR1

Jul 12, 2025

lurker said:
You’re reading comprehension is asinine. He didn’t blame the fans.

"But we can’t act surprised when local kids who grew up in Miami, around Miami fans, and who watched Miami meltdowns have a lack of faith in Miami."

Uh yeah, he kinda did. At least partially.

My reading comprehension > yours.

Zbrod95

Jul 12, 2025

HurricanesR1 said:
Sorry to hear that.

Don’t be

Canesq

Jul 12, 2025

TRick72 said:
I’m specifically referring to labeling being the top recruiter in the state a “major accomplishment”. We ain’t recruiting against the FSU of 15 years ago. In Mario’s 4 recruiting classes, Prison Mike has had one class finish inside the top 15 at #12, with two classes at #20 and the other at #19.

Meanwhile in that time Billy has had one class finish inside the top 13 which was last year at #7 while being an absolute disaster on the field and the trail (Rashada debacle). For a guy whose strongest attribute as a coach is recruiting, outperforming those two is far from a “major accomplishment”.

Matter of fact, I’d argue finishing behind the turds last year is a major disappointment. Especially after our season while losing top recruits to them at the close (whatever the reason why).

Meh Florida got lucky last year that several high ranking recruits were legacies but I do agree with you that Mario isn’t going against the urban gators or prime Jimbo at fsu.

Move on from recruiting and hope we do well this year.

Even if we do I don’t think we’ll ever have it good with recruiting like OSU or Georgia but we need to be the most talented in the ACC and on a down year 2nd or third.

We should be in the ACC championship every year.

Guidry really ****ed us man.

RVACane

Jul 12, 2025

mlw352 said:
Our dbs was *** how do you adjust sorry players

Evals, development, roster management… it’s all on Mario at that point.

aelmiami

Jul 12, 2025

Shooter McGavin said:
Last year was Mario’s chance. Best offense in school history with the number 1 overall pick. But Miami just so happened to have the worst defense in school history as well.

I think the talent is there this year to be a very good team. If we played better defense I personally don’t believe it’s hyperbole to last year’s team could’ve competed in the playoffs. Win the whole thing I don’t know. But they wouldn’t have been one and done.

I truly think this is it. If he can’t cash in now, it won’t happen. It’s easy to be doom and gloom rn, but get past ND and it should be easy to make the CFP. The issue for Miami & Mario based on the last two decades, we treat elementary addition like its Latin. It’s just a matter of when we **** on ourselves not if.

aelmiami

Jul 12, 2025

ben said:
there is a way we can help fix this

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Gables Canes

Jul 12, 2025

HurricanesR1 said:
I believe Kiffin would win 9 games/year at Miami on average.

If you exclude the COVID season, Lane is winning 10 games/year at freaking Ole ****.

DMoney

Jul 12, 2025

HurricanesR1 said:
Win games and the fans won't complain. It's that simple.

Putting this on fans is asinine.

I think you misread that. Nobody is blaming the fans. They are reacting to the product.

What I’m saying is that many of the same people who (rightly) complain about the product act disgusted when local recruits see the same problems they see.

Angry Ibis

Jul 12, 2025

Canesq said:
Meh Florida got lucky last year that several high ranking recruits were legacies but I do agree with you that Mario isn’t going against the urban gators or prime Jimbo at fsu.

Move on from recruiting and hope we do well this year.

Even if we do I don’t think we’ll ever have it good with recruiting like OSU or Georgia but we need to be the most talented in the ACC and on a down year 2nd or third.

We should be in the ACC championship every year.

Mario really ****ed us man.

Guidry didn't hire himself

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RightSaidFred

Jul 12, 2025

Obviously NIL is the problem and we are broke

UBaby93

Jul 12, 2025

If you don't know D Money by now you should know this is all click bait to increase engagement. Cooper will be a Cane, and I'm sure Mario told D Money to get us all in our feelings to build anticipation/momentum. Check the Cantwell recruitment and you'll see the same pattern. I'm talking Miami in 5.

TOcane

Jul 12, 2025

Hurracanes said:
That 23’ class is practically all gone and irrelevant at this point. No bueno.

I get it, but it's not the question you asked.

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Steve44

Jul 12, 2025

Lets be honest….if you could compete in the SEC, compete for championships, and play in front of 107,000 people every week, and still get the same NIL package - what would you pick? I promise you, the fan/stadium optics matter, and so does being a playoff contender.

Essex Cane

Jul 12, 2025

lol fck them SF kids recruit national more!!!

Hoyacane1620

Jul 12, 2025

sigmar said:
I haven't read the preceding 21 pages, but I think it's fairly obvious what's going on. The Southeast Conference basically got together and decided that they were going to stop Mario and each are taking one of our recruits to sway. They are over spending on that Miami target. It's obvious to me. We better win a bunch of games this fall or we will be last seasons USC
He is a threat to the southeast conference superiority of getting all the top recruits, particularly in the area and splitting them amongst themselves

I actually think you may be on to something.

Canesq

Jul 12, 2025

Angry Ibis said:
Guidry didn't hire himself

Buck stops with Mario. No excuses from me.

RVACane

Jul 12, 2025

TheShredder said:
Kirby can coach elite defense and recruit top 5 classes. Sark can coach an offense and recruit top. Mario can coach an oline and recruit top 5 once in awhile.

Wario was always a bum and an overrated recruiter. We should have hired Lasleee

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