The goal is to get the kid to join your team not someone else’s.
Agude came here, cancelled a subsequent planned visit elsewhere (Texas????) and committed to us. Mario did his job. I see no difference with what Norvell has apparently done, assuming it comes to fruition, as painful as the loss may be for us in this instance. If Norvell is a pvssy for it then every other coach that does this, our’s included, is a pvssy for it too. They’re not pvssies for it. They’re doing their jobs successfully. Bottom line is getting the players.
Now, I think it’s dumb on its surface, for Mims not to hear our NIL deal out, knowing that he’s the top guy on the market and we have a billionaire at the ready, but it’s also possible that he wants to be close to home and/or doesn’t want to be in a big city and FSU offered him enough where he’s good with it. Nothing we can do there. I’d be upset if a local 305 kid did this to us to go to FSU. We’ll win ours too.
There's a difference between a kid cancelling a visit because he is ready to commit and putting on the full-court press to force a kid to cancel a visit.
Again, let's not fall for the false equivalency game.
Agude visited THREE schools, Oregon, Washington, and Miami. Tennessee was also in consideration, and that is the visit he cancelled. I have seen no evidence, statements, or even rumors that Agude's cancellation of the visit to Tennessee was due to UM putting pressure on him. So the kid had 4 visits set up and he made three. That is not the same as Mims having TWO back-to-back visits set up, and then widespread reporing that University 1 pressured him to cancel the visit to University 2.
What I am saying is very simple. A. Not all cancellations are equal, and not all cancellations should be cited as evidence that "everybody does it, man". B. Until someone with actual knowledge (and they know who they are) says that Mario is pressuring all of these recruits to cancel visits, I'm not buying that false equivalency. Does Mario WANT every recruit to take all five visits every single time? No. But I have seen no allegations that Mario pressures kids to cancel visits based on a fear of comparison. Do we want faster decisions, when possible? Yes.
In our short and limited sample size, though, Mario has slowed kids down from committing and he displays a propensity of only wanting commitments that are solid, not ones that are extracted from high-pressure sales tactics and underhanded maneuvering.
Sure, in a perfect world, every Miami recruit would take exactly 1 visit and commit to us immediately. But I'm not going to equate Agude cancelling his 4th visit...to what is happening with F$U and Mims.
Not gonna do it. Because those things are not equal.
. U one of the funniest dudes in this joint.
