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Lance was a bum. It's ok
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Offer snaufer! You don't get credit for offering!!! You get credit for NSD signatures!! You think my unit feels satisfied because I asked a whole bunch of chicks at the club to come home with me? Their is no such thing as "A" for effort! Dorito been here 4 years and still renting because he can't close on a house!
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Several other lesser known players also...
SFbayCane
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Good stuff, FG305.
The thing that makes Texas a good place to recruit is that the bulk of the kids do not have the same level of state-loyalty as other elite football states in the south. Its easier to pull a 4-5 star kid out of Texas than it is to pull one out of Louisiana, Georgia, Tennessee, etc... At least that has been the case historically.
The thing that makes Texas a good place to recruit is that the bulk of the kids do not have the same level of state-loyalty as other elite football states in the south. Its easier to pull a 4-5 star kid out of Texas than it is to pull one out of Louisiana, Georgia, Tennessee, etc... At least that has been the case historically.
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Lots of really good players and lots of really important contributors on our very best teams.
People in South Dallas absolutely love the University of Miami because of what it meant in the late 80s/early 90s, Armstead (who was an all-time HS great and legend here), and even Irvin. It's one of the most fertile recruiting regions in the country and kids love the U. Criminal neglect the last 10-15 years. We will never have a list like this from Jersey, Georgia, or Louisiana.
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I'll tell you what makes Texas a good place to recruit, and this was told to me indirectly from people who heard it from Jimmy Johnson's staff:
they liked the Texas kids because they were well-schooled. They had very good high school coaching and they came in often ahead of the other kids. I think Charlie Pharms started as a true freshman, for example. I can't speak about the others, but that list above shows some very good players, along with some ordinary players and, of course, disappointments.
It's a huge state and loaded with HS football players and a lot of them can run. Often enough, they also were not as bad off academically as a lot of our south Florida kids. Back in '80's, UM had to back off kid after kid because they were Prop 48's. I don't know what happened to the Prop 48 rule, but can you take in a kid just put him on scholarship if he couldn't play the first year, or do you just not sign him? I know also that JJ hated Prop 48s. It was a bad investment very often, and sometimes even disruptive because the kids were hanging around, not playing, and they were unhappy. Again, this was all from the coaches.
Jersey has given us some very good players, perhaps not as many stars, but it is one of the best football states in the country. Just doesn't necessarily have the speed of the Florida and Texas kids. (The fastest kid ever to enter the UM program was probably Tory Mitchell from Texas, who had, perhaps, Olympic potential in track. His career and life ended tragically).
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Are you saying Mike Irvin was from Texas? No, he went to STA in Lauderdale, I think. Let me tell you: Louisiana, for its population, is second to none. Great talent in that state. We used to get some because of that WR coach, Johnson, who went to the Saints and then Tulane. Our recruiting there went downhill when he left. We also had to compete with a resurgent LSU. Georgia and Jersey are excellent states for football talent. We just could never get that many from Georgia--it was owned by UGA and the southern schools. I've spoken here of the Fla-Ga All Star games every summer. That was before the big national A-A games. The Fla-Ga game probably had the most talent of any HS all star game. Often enough, Georgia would win. I saw some great talent on some Georgia teams (as I did on the Florida teams.) Charlie Ward comes to mind. Not as much skill talent in NJ but it's still a top ten, if not top five, state for talent.
In fact, i remember when D'Onofrio was a blue chip LB coming out of NJ and one of the best in the country.
I wish I could remember all the New Jersey talent: the LB from Mullica Hills who started on the 89 NC team, James Lewis (01 NC team), Bryant McKinnie, Danny Stubbs, Greg Rakoczy, Greg Mark...some pretty good players since the early '80's. Greg Mark and Danny Stubbs were two of the greatest DEs I ever saw at the U. Incredible sack machines, on a par with Rusty M. Better than almost any other DE in the last 30 years, including that tall one from Denver who is now a star in the NFL.
I wish somebody would make an *** out of himself and say we should never recruit Arkansas...so we would never find a Rusty Medearis. What a shame his career was wrecked by a dirty block.
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Irvin obviously spent his career in Dallas, and his swag endeared him to those Dallas Cowboys fans who also associated with UM. Some people on this board would be amazed at how heavily Miami is loved in south Dallas. Mentioned many times before how much UM gear you see at HS football games. There is a connection that has been wasted.
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What's even more ridiculous is the notion that this type of information needs to be passed along to our coaches. Golden should already know this ****. Kehoe was here during all of that, he knows our history with Texas kids. Christ.
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