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Keep slurping. We need a coach not a recruiter and Butch will never NEVER be offered the job so stfu already about Butch
Butch wasnt known for being a good recruiter. He was the best talent evaluator. There is a difference. Golden is a good recruiter. Butch would put together classes that did not rank well in the recruiting rankings but it was full of guys who no one else wanted yet were home run hitters all day long. Thats how you build depth. Tracy Howard would never have been on a Butch team and all these Miami dudes that no one wanted that go on and have big careers at other schools would be at Miami. I would take a 25th ranked Butch class over a top 5 Golden class any day of the week.
Until you talk to some of our former Pro Bowlers. They've said when he came and talked to them, he convinced you that he really needed you. That the team really needed you, and that with you, they would do bigger and greater things.
Thing is, Butch Davis wasn't bull********.
But the perception to the public was that he was a better talent evaluator than recruiter. That's because he was down 31 scholarships, and couldn't compete with teams able to recruit full rosters - so he had to be very, very careful in each and every selection.
This mindset is why he'd dominate here at the U. He's already learned the lessons, seen them proven, and wants in the game.
Any BOT member that questions Butch - he's got the paperwork. He was clean.
Just a scapegoat for UNC.
Tell me what his recruiting classes ranked while at UM and UNC?
A good recruiter goes into the home of a kid who has offers from and the coaches on their everyday jocks from Alabama, FSU, Ohio State and Florida and convinces them to come to the U. That leaves them a with a top ranked class year in and year out. Which Butch did not have.
Butch was going into the homes of guys like Portis who only had a Miss State offer and was ignored by Florida and Santana Moss and Reggie Wayne who had squat for offers and gets a guy from JC in Shockey that no one wanted and then some dude named Ed Reed who only had a Tulane and a Grambling State offer and gets them to come to the U. It don't take much to get those guys to come to the U in those circumstances. Not saying Butch doesnt talk em up and make em feel invincible but its the difference between a talent evaluator and a recruiter.
I know its hard to distinguish the difference but those guys all turn out to be Pro bowler or even Hall of Famers but that doesn't mean that their was big recruiting battles for them.
Any coach is going to have a top 25 class at Miami but how much talent is in those classes can only be seen on the field. So many people want to blame coaches for situations like Howard but the truth is many kids peek in high school and a good talent evaluator finds kids whose ceiling still have a ways to go.
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