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The College Football Future Power Rankings project was created to answer the following question: Which college football programs will win the most in the next three seasons and have the best chances to contend for and win conference and national championships in the 2016, 2017 and 2018 seasons.

To answer the question, we had our panel of experts -- Heather Dinich, Brad Edwards, Travis Haney, Sharon Katz, Tom Luginbill, Ted Miller, Adam Rittenberg and Mark Schlabach -- rate college football's top teams from 1 to 10 (1 being the worst, 10 being elite and 5 being average). They evaluated programs using five different categories, each weighed differently to account for their impact on overall sustained success: coaching, current talent, recruiting, title path and program foundation. (For a breakdown of FRP's methodology, click here.)

We're taking a team-by-team look at this year's ranking in the blog. Up next: No. 19 Miami.

High category: Recruiting
Luginbill: "Well, they've got no on-campus venue. I thought [the category score] was high because of that. With [Richt], it's all about who he hires. He's never been that hard-charging recruiter guy. He needs go-getters [as assistants] and guys who are going to grind."

Luginbill added that Richt's staff at UGA had very little chance of keeping all the talented Georgia players at home, but it's a different setup in South Florida.

"He's going to be scrutinized if he loses kids from that area," he said. "He shouldn't lose a kid from Broward or Dade counties."


Schlabach is among those who think this was a good move for both Richt and Miami.

"I think he needed a change, and I think Georgia needed a change," he said. "Going back to his alma mater, it might energize him some. He'll definitely be more hands-on in his coaching, taking on the play calling again and coaching the quarterbacks.


Low category: Coaching
"I think the guy's a really good football coach, but whether he is someone to get Miami back as an ACC contender remains to be seen. But they'll be more consistent."


Score Rank
Coaching 7.4 T-14th
Current Talent 7.3 T-20th
Recruiting 8.3 15th
Title Path 7.8 T-9th
Foundation 7.2 25th
Overall: 75.97
 
Thanks for posting!! All these so called experts have an opinion, and none of them really have any close ties to the program. When Miami wins they will be in contention for the best South Florida recruits, and the ACC every year!!!. It's really that simple.
 
See this is why I hate these so called "experts". Richt is going to be scrutinized by the misinformed locals who are still stuck in the 80's and thinks we'll automatically put the fence back up even though we haven't done anything. The reason there's this belief that we can't get OOS guys is because these same fans never cared if we did because it's all about SFL. Even though Butch's recruiting classes weren't majority SFL...at all
 
Zbrod95 said:
See this is why I hate these so called "experts". Richt is going to be scrutinized by the misinformed locals who are still stuck in the 80's and thinks we'll automatically put the fence back up even though we haven't done anything. The reason there's this belief that we can't get OOS guys is because these same fans never cared if we did because it's all about SFL. Even though Butch's recruiting classes weren't majority SFL...at all
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agree. so called "experts" are so annoying.
 
All the "experts" say that sunlife stadium is such a negative. They do realize once the renovations are finished, Miami's home field will be one of the best stadiums in the NFL. Not college mind you, the NFL. That argument is such crap.
 
ESECPN employs Mark May as an "expert" just to put the OP article into some perspective.

Zbrod brings up a good point about being stuck in any era...

In today's national recruiting field, if Miami can keep a majority of the local talent THE STAFF want (not an overall majority of local.talent necessarily) and augment with the right pieces from OOS, the program is going to be CFP competitive yty.

They need to (and seem to be working towards) make one of (if not the) most talent rich geo-locale (ie SoFla) into an easy sell to become Hurricanes.

What hurts them, by no fault of anyone, is the very nationalization of life in general. When I was a kid, life stopped at the north Broward County Line. WPB was "so far" and DWorld might as well have been on Mars.

Contrasted with today, the internet, YouTube, TV, social media et al have made a trip to Hawai'i ho hum.

For some of rhe SoFla athletes, they arent going to WANT to stay home no matter how good Miami is and will become.again.

Hopefully Richt and staff are able to recognize and keep the best of what is truly available.

Go Canes.
 
tinman_96 said:
All the "experts" say that sunlife stadium is such a negative. They do realize once the renovations are finished, Miami's home field will be one of the best stadiums in the NFL. Not college mind you, the NFL. That argument is such crap.
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No offense, to your post; you are dead on about SunLife being one of the best stadiums, but we're talking about college football, not NFL. College football along w/ college basketball stadium designs need to be much different than pro-stadiums. Part of the reason why college football is arguably better than pro-football is the fan experience, the student body sections, and the shear home field advantage, feel, b/c it's deafening.

The renovations to SunLife Stadium will make the game day experience on "Sundays" one of the best, but not so much for Saturdays. Old Stadiums like the Coliseum and the Rose Bowl in the Los Angeles areas, Lambeau Field in Green Bay, and the old OB were constructed completely differently than newer pro venues. If ever attended a game for USCw, it feels like a college atmosphere b/c it allows for bleacher seating to be installed and the fans are closer to the field. When I attended Berkeley vs. Stanford at Levi Stadium, here in the Bay area of Cali....the feel sucked. It felt like a corporate event, vs. a college football game.

SunLife Stadium is one that can negatively be used and has been used against us for recruits. I will be catching a game at SunLife when it's all said and done, but just looking at how the game day experience was on TV and talking to a couple of folks that attended several games last year after phase one was done to remove seats and implement the nice plus "VIP" area seats, they said it still didn't feel like a true Miami Hurricane experience like the OB.
 
No offense to your post. What a load of BS. The OB was an NFL stadium primarily as well. Miami is not a traditional college football power either. It will never have the same "college feel" you get in mostly hick towns with nothing else to do on Saturdays.

If there is a recruiting impact it's the empty seats not the actual stadium. Apparently people here never went to the OB, either. They remember it differently than I do. Plenty of empty seats and no "college feel" there either for most games. Only difference was the "no blocky", the stench of ***** coming from the overflowing toilets, and in the last few years, the stadium looking and feeling like it was going to fall on our heads.

Fake nostalgia is a **** of a thing.
 
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Seriously, for as long as I've watched college football, mid 70's, I like many here could be considered experts. I know with without equivocation that the path Coach Richt has taken will bring us back to prominence. We now have what no other school has, location in the most talent rich area and state, a staff who knows how to recruit, evaluate and coach. Our success is a guarantee with so many factors in our favor.
 
LuiiisMDO said:
Low category: Coaching
"I think the guy's a really good football coach, but whether he is someone to get Miami back as an ACC contender remains to be seen. But they'll be more consistent."
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Miami was a contender in the ACC with Gorlden coaching. Take one player out of the equation(winston) and Richt is the winningest coach in the ACC. You've got to be kidding me that coaching is the low category. smh
 
Stop saying "expert" like disagreeing with somebody makes them less an expert. Know what makes somebody an expert? They get paid to do what they do. Doesn't mean they know everything or are always right, but somebody pays them for their opinions, so they are experts. Mark May is a flaming bag of ****, but he's still a football expert.
 
You've got a really low bar for the definition of an expert.

In any other profession, that dumb Heather Dimwit would be bottom of the barrel, comparatively speaking. She was the most clueless bag of jīźz I've ever witnessed when she was covering the canes.

By the way, using your criteria, a "health expert reporter" on TV is just as qualified as a brain surgeon, because he's being paid to provide repertorial expertise.

Expert on ESPN is someone that can fill up airtime pretending to know what they're talking about, but not having any real in-depth knowledge.
 
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I usually dont think Luginbill is a complete idiot, but everything he said here was ******* stupid
 
Krypto...

Would disagree in your characterization of "experts". Being on TV..or media in general makes you a paid pundit..no doubt..but that doesnt equal expertise in subject they are opining upon.

Love Dennis Miller (the comedian)...when he was MNF...was he a football expert? He was paid to be on TV to talk football. Rich Eisen? Dinich is on TV..so is Adelson. Suzy Kolber?

With May, it would seem for years hes been offering opinion on personalities or overall play rather than any techincal analysis.

His barely hidden disdain towards Miami borders on unprofesssional.

Not questioning May as a player...just questioning his credentials and history of on air performance as to if he is an expert.
 
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and let me.clarify above..

I think Suzy Kolber (Miami grad btw) is strong...well spoken...well informed...

can handle a blitz from aging former superstar QBs...Namath...

hahahaha
 
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