In this current era, I wonder how a coach like mario would handle a conversation like this:
"Hey coach, I love Miami and want to be here. But UNC is just offering me too much and I can play right away. I think I'm going to start my career there for the first year of 2 and try to set my family up and then hopefully I can transfer here once I'm ready to start. I understand if it doesn't work out but I'm willing to take the risk. Would you still be open to considering me to me transferring here in a year or 2 if you believe I'd be able to help the team?"
Seems like that could be a win win for everybody. Almost like treating some of the other programs like a minor league/farm system.
We're not paying him to sit on the bench while he makes way more money at another school.he actually gets to start and put college film out at UNC so we can decide after a year or 2 what he's worth to us.
He can make 2x as much as he would have made at Miami and he would get to start/play a lot. That's it's own kind of development. Mario gets an extra year or 2 to evaluate/get feedback on him from a big college program.
It's not the worst thing in the world either way.
Of course the best route is he commits and comes to miami as an affordable backup on the bench that invests a year or 2 to develop and then becomes a 2 or 3 year starter. But the worst thing is comes for a yeer or 2 as a very expensive and headache benchwarmer and never develops into a starter. going to UNC with the option to transfer in is a nice in between that could work out in this day and age of portal and NIL....