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While coaching has been the hot topic on the board over the past weeks (and rightfully so in many regards), I wanted to add some context and perspective to the discussion as we grow increasingly tired of Mario's "back to work" mantra/coach speak. Another poster had done something similarly recently, but I wanted to take it further, to show some justification for what Mario is really inheriting with our beloved program (pure, unadulterated, sludge).
I took the recruiting classes from 2018-2021 to look specifically at what other schools were involved in these recruitments. We love to talk about clue chip ratio's and overall talent comparisons to other teams, but there are some alarming finds;
Significant Points:
- 3 Senior starters that were recruited by Miami. 8 total starters between the Junior and Senior classes. (2 total draftees who were recruited by UM)
- 18 players have left the program or been disasters from the Junior and Senior classes. Including 7 of the top 10 recruits from 2018.
- 53% of the 2018-2021 classes are either in the portal/disaster rating, or significantly underwhelming rating.
- The class with the largest number of starters is 2021, with 6.
- An incredibly low number of official visits taken from all years. (Covid impacted 2021*) LIKE AMAZINGLY LOW.
- Alabama offered 10/81 players, with only 5 official visits to Alabama (according to 247*). There is no way to know if all those offers were committable. (i.e; Patrick Joyner, Daz Worsham)
The most significant finding was that a large majority of our mid-tier 4 star recruits (> top 247 class ranking) had little to almost no recruitment activity outside of contact with UM.. while this may be due to 247 not taking as close of a look with these kids, many of the 3 star kids had longer/larger recruitment timelines than the 4 star kids that have come to UM.
For reference:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R_lVx_wA1mwXER7dL2tl20eiG-1jCvsmfX4_M7y3u3o/edit#gid=0
TLDR;
Please be patient, doing it right is more important than doing it quickly.
And yes, we should still be able to play more competitively against our opponents with the talent levels in-house.
I took the recruiting classes from 2018-2021 to look specifically at what other schools were involved in these recruitments. We love to talk about clue chip ratio's and overall talent comparisons to other teams, but there are some alarming finds;
Significant Points:
- 3 Senior starters that were recruited by Miami. 8 total starters between the Junior and Senior classes. (2 total draftees who were recruited by UM)
- 18 players have left the program or been disasters from the Junior and Senior classes. Including 7 of the top 10 recruits from 2018.
- 53% of the 2018-2021 classes are either in the portal/disaster rating, or significantly underwhelming rating.
- The class with the largest number of starters is 2021, with 6.
- An incredibly low number of official visits taken from all years. (Covid impacted 2021*) LIKE AMAZINGLY LOW.
- Alabama offered 10/81 players, with only 5 official visits to Alabama (according to 247*). There is no way to know if all those offers were committable. (i.e; Patrick Joyner, Daz Worsham)
The most significant finding was that a large majority of our mid-tier 4 star recruits (> top 247 class ranking) had little to almost no recruitment activity outside of contact with UM.. while this may be due to 247 not taking as close of a look with these kids, many of the 3 star kids had longer/larger recruitment timelines than the 4 star kids that have come to UM.
For reference:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R_lVx_wA1mwXER7dL2tl20eiG-1jCvsmfX4_M7y3u3o/edit#gid=0
TLDR;
Please be patient, doing it right is more important than doing it quickly.
And yes, we should still be able to play more competitively against our opponents with the talent levels in-house.
