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Title of article is "How talented are the Miami Hurricanes? NFL, college evaluators say it’s ‘not an impressive group’"

- A Senior Bowl executive this week told The Athletic only three of the preseason players on the watch list — Harris, Ford and Bolden — still have a chance to earn an invite (punter Lou Hedley could also be in the mix) and another veteran NFL personnel person identified only four draft-eligible Hurricanes as worthy of being drafted.

- “The top prospect is Nelson,” the personnel person said. “He’s probably a fourth- or fifth-rounder right now. In my opinion, he needs to go back to school because he’s not good enough. Bolden is an average player, a bad tackler and has questionable speed. Everyone else is a free agent. Not an impressive group. Mallory better go back to school.”

- A near-consensus opinion: Most of Miami’s upperclassmen just aren’t good enough to be more than NFL camp invitees, and from a competitive standpoint, the Hurricanes are at best “a middle-of-the-road ACC team.”

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OldhamA said:
They're mostly Richt recruits, no?

The underclassmen are Diaz recruits.
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No, no, no. Diaz has been here for 6 yrs & OK’d or denied every defensive recruit. He was the lead recruiter for LBs as a DC. All the portal players r his, as well. Diaz finger prints may not be on the O regarding older guys, but his DNA is all over this team.
 
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ssvir said:
Behind a paywall: https://theathletic.com/2873440/202...sive-group/?source=dailyemail&campaign=601983

Title of article is "How talented are the Miami Hurricanes? NFL, college evaluators say it’s ‘not an impressive group’"

- A Senior Bowl executive this week told The Athletic only three of the preseason players on the watch list — Harris, Ford and Bolden — still have a chance to earn an invite (punter Lou Hedley could also be in the mix) and another veteran NFL personnel person identified only four draft-eligible Hurricanes as worthy of being drafted.

- “The top prospect is Nelson,” the personnel person said. “He’s probably a fourth- or fifth-rounder right now. In my opinion, he needs to go back to school because he’s not good enough. Bolden is an average player, a bad tackler and has questionable speed. Everyone else is a free agent. Not an impressive group. Mallory better go back to school.”

- A near-consensus opinion: Most of Miami’s upperclassmen just aren’t good enough to be more than NFL camp invitees, and from a competitive standpoint, the Hurricanes are at best “a middle-of-the-road ACC team.”

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Cool. How do they compare to MSU and UVA?

Either Manny has failed to recruit, failed to develop, or both, but whatever it is, it flows back to him.
 
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I’m not the person that likes to run around talking about how everyone on the bench, or the next man up is always better

But there’s not one upper classman on this team that looks like they could make an impact in the NFL other than Hedley

Everyone that jumps off the screen is a frosh or soph

We’ve really proven that being an experienced team is overrated as **** and having years of being “young” as an excuse was just another load of BS
 
If we played quality fundamental football and put kids in a position to succeed, I’m sure our draft prospects would look a whole lot better (over the last decade). Being out of position and cleaning up others mistakes constantly can make players look bad. A coherent unit elevates the play of each and every position. In turn, our guys have better film and are drafted higher, and have a higher chance to succeeed in the nfl — where you are drafted matters physiologically to organizations. Easy to cut a guy making $500K than $5M all else equal.

JMO, maybe I’m wrong and our evaluations are just consistently wrong.
 
wspcane said:
Cool. How do they compare to MSU and UVA?

Either Manny has failed to recruit, failed to develop, or both, but whatever it is, it flows back to him.
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Its an indictment on poor recruiting, development, and coaching but the reality is we aren't more talented than either team. We are the same.

Middle of the road ACC/B10.
 
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