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Staff was honest with him. They like the kids. He wants a better chance to be the guy.
 
I hope no one is implying that it was not in Shirreffs and/or our best interest that he left.

He had no chance here
 
The most upsetting thing about this last off-season were people talking up Evans and claiming his arm strength improved. His HS highlights showed he had a weak arm and in his limited play time you really don't see improved zip on the ball. There's a reason the guy had the offers he had.
 
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Nobody cares where this kid goes.

This is a precedent decision.

And if he was so concerned about playing time, he should have gone to any of the FCS or Ivy league programs that wanted him.
 
fvck jefferson HS & fcvk my boy shirreffs if he wants to start whining about this. plenty of schools out there that arent in ACC. go find one.
 
Transferring Miami redshirt junior QB Evan Shirreffs is appealing the program's restrictions on his movements.

Shirreffs (6'5/216) announced his intention to transfer in mid-January. He's currently being barred from hooking up with other ACC schools, as well as Florida, LSU, FIU, Toledo and Central Michigan (noncoference programs on Miami's 2018 and 2019 schedules). Just where the Hurricanes backup gunslinger might be eyeing as a potential landing spot is currently unknown. We should be receiving clarity on Shirreffs' appeal in the relatively near future, as it will be heard by a non-athletic committee next week.
 
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Kid stunk and has no grounds to complain. We gave him his only D-1 scholarship offer, and an opportunity to win a starting job here. If Shirreffs doesn't want to honor the scholarship he signed that's fine, but we are by no means obligated to let him walk wherever he wants to. It's not personal, it's business.
 
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canespimp433 said:
Kid stunk and as no grounds to complain. We gave him his only D-1 scholarship offer, and an opportunity to win a starting job here. If Shirreffs doesn't want to honor the scholarship he signed that's fine, but we are by no means obligated to let him walk wherever he wants to. It's not personal, it's business.
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Agreed. Personally, I wouldn't WANT to go to a school that would potentially want to pick my brain about my previous team. If he wants to go where he is valued as a player, we are doing him a service, because if an ACC team takes him it will be ONLY to get his knowledge of Miami.
 
When we first signed Evan a guy I know who's volunteered in the recruiting office over the years and was very close to the recruiting staff sent around his HS film. This guy said he looks like a five-star. I agreed.

I wonder what could have been had he gotten more real game experience. I think he got kind of screwed at Miami, not anybody deliberately holding him back, but just bad luck.

I hope he is successful and gets a real chance wherever he goes.
 
ThomasM said:
canespimp433 said:
Kid stunk and as no grounds to complain. We gave him his only D-1 scholarship offer, and an opportunity to win a starting job here. If Shirreffs doesn't want to honor the scholarship he signed that's fine, but we are by no means obligated to let him walk wherever he wants to. It's not personal, it's business.
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Agreed. Personally, I wouldn't WANT to go to a school that would potentially want to pick my brain about my previous team. If he wants to go where he is valued as a player, we are doing him a service, because if an ACC team takes him it will be ONLY to get his knowledge of Miami.
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He should go somewhere that is mid-major where he can start and still attract NFL attention.
 
canespimp433 said:
Kid stunk and has no grounds to complain. We gave him his only D-1 scholarship offer, and an opportunity to win a starting job here. If Shirreffs doesn't want to honor the scholarship he signed that's fine, but we are by no means obligated to let him walk wherever he wants to. It's not personal, it's business.
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That scrimmage video doesn't drink. Neither did his HS film that I saw when he signed. Why he didn't attract recruiting attention, who knows? We"he had a number of guys who got no scholarship offers from major schools and then balled out: Russ Maryland, Jimmie Jones, Larry Jones, etc.

Did Evan go to a small school? Did he go to camps? Maybe he own"t good,but the HS game film and this scrimmage film suggests otherwise

Back during the Schnellenberger years, he had a regular policy of putting the backup QB in for one series in the second quarter in every game.Schnelly did not want his backup coming in cold in the event of an injury. When Jim Kelly was starter, Richt would come in for a series. After Kelly got hurt at VA Tech in '82, Richt became starter until he was suspended for the MD game. Schnelly named Vandewende the starter and Testaverde came in for his single series in the second quarter of the Maryland game. He was unimpressive. Anybody who judged him based on such limited game time was foolish. The same might be true of Evan. I would have liked to see him with substantial game time over several games before making an evaluation.

So people who say he stunk after a few minutes here, a few there, are just being silly.
 
TC7D said:
Transferring Miami redshirt junior QB Evan Shirreffs is appealing the program's restrictions on his movements.

Shirreffs (6'5/216) announced his intention to transfer in mid-January. He's currently being barred from hooking up with other ACC schools, as well as Florida, LSU, FIU, Toledo and Central Michigan (noncoference programs on Miami's 2018 and 2019 schedules). Just where the Hurricanes backup gunslinger might be eyeing as a potential landing spot is currently unknown. We should be receiving clarity on Shirreffs' appeal in the relatively near future, as it will be heard by a non-athletic committee next week.
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What's to clarify? He knew the rules when he made decision.
 
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