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Mario can win MNCs in Miami. He's probably capped at 10-win seasons in Oregon.

Oh, also...

Oregon has literally won OVER 10 games seven times since we won our last NC.

The last time CFB completed a full season (2019) Oregon won 12 games and won the Rose Bowl.

They are almost certainly going to win over 10 games THIS YEAR.

Stop it, guys. The intellectual dishonesty serves no one.

 

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You're lying to yourself.

First of all Miami hasn't done crap in 20 years, and have gotten dominated since the arms race began, this era of CFB, while Oregon, AGAIN, has won 7 Pac-12 championships, made the CFP, and played for the NC twice. Stop. Wake up. This is a new era. The world has changed.

In Miami Mario will need to recruit against UF, FSU, and the entire SEC and OSU who seemingly dedicate half their recruiting budgets towards eating our lunch daily. There may be a lot of players here, but there are 10 major, major well funded programs that are just a couple of hours in a Gulfstream away, drivable for families too. Not to mention Miami is a big media market where, unlike every actual college town, almost none of the press have any loyalty towards UM and are watching your every move, waiting to make their name on catching you skirting the rules, especially on the trail where your comp are buying players.

Oregon is the coolest brand in CFB with kids, are in bed with Nike, the biggest and best sports brand on the planet, who are next door.

The only school within 1500 miles of them (read that again and process that number) that can offer any real recruiting competition is USC, and they are in disarray. The next closest is, who? Oklahoma? They are a 1900+ mile drive away.

Process that. Meanwhile we are getting shived from all sides.

Oregon had the #3 class in the country last year, beating out programs like Georgia, LSU, Clemson, TAMU, USC and ND in the rankings. UM's location is great, but its not an advantage over Oregon's because they have a much bigger protected field to recruit from geographically. They are the only real option for kids on the west coast that don't want to go to school across the country in a different time zone. Plus, the Nike thing, which no school can compete with, helps them recruit nationally.

I could be wrong but I would not say I am lying to myself. It's really all relative. These local competing programs were also considered better funded and better established than UM back in the day but we still managed to pull it off by keeping the talent from leaving. In principle you are making a similar argument now that you could have made 20-30 years ago. Of course things have changed, and more money involved, but the argument is the same. UM football was on the verge of extinction in the late 70's. Process that.

Get someone to convince the talent to stay (like Schnellenberger once did) and everything you mention while being impressive is really a moot point. There will always be kids that are swayed to leave no matter what, but there is also such a thing as community pride, playing for the community that you are from, and pull of family to stay closer to home.

Oregon recently started to pull in these top classes probably because Mario is an ace recruiter, not because they are spending zillions of dollars on facilities. Get that ace recruiter back and that can change the whole equation due to the quality of local talent pool to draw from that very few programs can really say they have.

If Mario also feels a pull to be back in the community where he is from and be closer to family then coming back to Miami would not necessarily be career suicide for him. Of course it would be a challenge and there is always a risk/reward calculus. So while the risk may be higher coming back home the reward will be greater because, like you have mentioned, Oregon despite the great advantages of resources over UM still has had fewer opportunities to play for all the marbles than UM. The same can be said of Florida and FSU.