Update on David Stone

DMoney

Apr 19, 2025 1 min read

I’m told Miami has interest in Oklahoma DT transfer David Stone but, as with Trebor Pena, this is not as far along as is being reported.

In terms of allocation, the focus remains on adding an impact WR with speed, a starting safety, and retaining our own impact players amidst aggressive bids from other schools.

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DMoney

Apr 19, 2025

I personally love David Stone and Trebor Pena. They are impact guys in my book. But this is like NFL free agency and there are a lot of factors at play, not all of which can be reported.

Retention is a huge part of this process that we don’t talk about, but it is creating some tough decisions.

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Phydeaux

Apr 19, 2025

Presume OL, pancake in particular
Are concerns

JHallCanes

Apr 19, 2025

Having him and Scott from that class would be incredible

For this season we probably need someone more instant impact but you take kids with this potential 10/10 times

The U is back to work

Apr 19, 2025

Gables Cane

Apr 19, 2025

People who complain about the lack of big names in the Portal just need to wait a couple more days. Teams (including Miami) are primarily working on retention, not acquisition. Players who are not in the Portal are communicating back-channeled offers to their current teams and waiting on a response. If they don’t like what they hear, they will enter the Portal.

That applies to us as well. There are several players on our two-deep that are being pursued by teams with big bag offers and need to make a decision soon.

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Gru

Apr 19, 2025

Gotta land them, can't be bargain bin shoppers

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canecountry3

Apr 19, 2025

Wonder who they would worry about leaving if they picked up Stone...

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Sugarcane521

Apr 19, 2025

I expect us to be extremely aggressive in portal additions. No way we can take a step back from last season. CMC knows that

Derrick Griffin

Apr 19, 2025

Waiting on xyz can backfire with such a tiny window.

WeBallinBoyz

Apr 19, 2025

I’m a bit confused by the retention aspect that’s apparently a big block.

We just lost Cam Ward, Martinez, Barrow, Restrepo, George, Brown, Arroyo, Baron and Powell. Patterson was on a nice NIL deal, so was Carr. Same with both Horton’s. Even Riley Williams and Rudolph were getting some $$$.

We signed like 2-3 guys in the winter portal worth considerable $. We upped Jordan Lyle’s bag so that he wouldn’t transfer. The HS class sure as heck doesn’t reflect a top tier NIL allocation, because remember - we were told that we were going to spend on portal guys instead, since they were more proven commodities. Absolutely fine take to have at the time, in fact I’m for it.

So the question is - are we penny pinching, are we waiting for someone or a few guys to enter, or who the heck did we overpay for very very badly?

Bender

Apr 19, 2025

WeBallinBoyz said:
I’m a bit confused by the retention aspect that’s apparently a big block.

We just lost Cam Ward, Martinez, Barrow, Restrepo, George, Brown, Arroyo, Baron and Powell. Patterson was on a nice NIL deal, so was Carr. Same with both Horton’s. Even Riley Williams and Rudolph were getting some $$$.

We signed like 2-3 guys in the winter portal worth considerable $. We upped Jordan Lyle’s bag so that he wouldn’t transfer. The HS class sure as heck doesn’t reflect a top tier NIL allocation, because remember - we were told that we were going to spend on portal guys instead, since they were more proven commodities.

So the question is - are we penny pinching, are we waiting for someone or a few guys to enter, or who the heck did we overpay for very very badly?

Obviously you need to convince the people to spend the money.

If they don't feel convinced about someone, they won't spend it.

ghost2

Apr 19, 2025

WeBallinBoyz said:
I’m a bit confused by the retention aspect that’s apparently a big block.

We just lost Cam Ward, Martinez, Barrow, Restrepo, George, Brown, Arroyo, Baron and Powell. Patterson was on a nice NIL deal, so was Carr. Same with both Horton’s.

We signed like 2-3 guys in the winter portal worth considerable $. We upped Jordan Lyle’s bag so that he wouldn’t transfer. The HS class sure as heck doesn’t reflect a top tier NIL allocation, because remember - we were told that we were going to spend on portal guys instead, since they were more proven commodities.

So the question is - are we penny pinching, or who the heck did we overpay for very very badly?

Not that kind of retention. I think D$ means we are fighting to retain current impact guys who are getting aggressive bids from other schools.

If we continue to recruit 4- and 5-star players, they're gonna need raises every year to keep them around. So do you pay them and have less $$ for other teams' players or do you let them walk and become potential studs on another team?

canefan96

Apr 19, 2025

Focus remains on adding an impact WR but Trebor Pena is not as far along as is being reported …………… oxymoron?

WeBallinBoyz

Apr 19, 2025

ghost2 said:
Not that kind of retention. I think D$ means we are fighting to retain current impact guys who are getting aggressive bids from other schools.

Absolutely am aware of that. Mentioned Lyle as one obvious candidate that a certain big-time school was after. But that certainly does not equate to the list I mentioned above. Carson Beck got paid, sure. We had to have it at the time. But everyone else? I mean idk…seems like Mario was talking out of both sides of his mouth when he said we don’t re-negotiate.

Because I know we do, and we have been.

O’Connor probably got some money, but not some massive deal. Lucas sure. That’s three. Blay I can’t imagine got a ton.

Who else are we upping that proved their worth last season? Or was it out of desperation?

If you’re blindly upping 4 and 5-star players that haven’t played yet, well then I personally think that’s very foolish and completely against the train of thought that we need more instant-impact guys. That’s reactive behavior, not proactive.

1mg of Epi

Apr 19, 2025

Bender said:
Obviously you need to convince the people to spend the money.

If they don't feel convinced about someone, they won't spend it.

They’re looking for players w an injury discount… like they got in the last portal window.

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iamB_rock

Apr 19, 2025

canefan96 said:
Focus remains on adding an impact WR but Trebor Pena is not as far along as is being reported …………… oxymoron?

Make it make sense

RealRussellPumps

Apr 19, 2025

With everything at stake in terms of conference realignment and the literal future of the program riding on getting into the P2, now is not the time to go cheap. Do what we have to do to bring in impact players. Stone is a multi year guy at a position we have been terrible at fielding impact talent at. This should be exactly the kind of guy we open the check book for. No excuses.