I suggest you focus on the basketball team. The J.D. hire is the same as the Corchabal hire.
i would but local HS in my area have more size. And I cannot stomach Cleveland running around in a UM jersey
While I agree, I am willing to give him a chance. But, how many times have we said that the last two decades wrt Canes athletics. So, I hear ya.
He hasn’t done anything that’s actively annoyed me since he got the job, so there’s that. I guess we’ll find out soon enough.
Ha - we've resorted to backhanded compliments. But as a former boss I respected once said, .. "Just ***** up less than your competition, and you'll do well". So, you may be on to something.
Baby steps
His comment of "We try to win the regional, not game 2." gives me a lot of concern, but I guess we'll see what happens once the bullets start flying
Your optimism is noted and respected, and I've been wanting us to play like that for years...you combine that with talent you're tough to beat. While we've shown flashes of that mentality some seasons...we just aren't that kind of team/program anymore. We're going to be a team who thinks we're talented because we are wearing The U and Miami on our shirts, but we won't outwork anyone and do the small things right like less talented teams that have success do.
Sadly this was going through my head as I typed this. I also think the majority of our Fla recruits specifically are almost maxed out talent wise. So it’s even more important we make them better baseball players…weight room, IQ, etc. so we squeeze every last bit out of them.
curious as to why you single out Florida recruits as maxed out compared to the rest of the country? genuinely asking?
Well i was focusing more on our recruits. But to some degree it’s everywhere. But it seems like Miami goes after Florida kids who are Training 12 months a year from a Young age that show well at Pg events and physically look much more advanced from a young age. Then you put them on a field once they get to college and they don’t seem to have any concept of how to play the game. Then 2 years later they aren’t much better and/or they regress.
Absolutely but our issue is the south Florida PG showcases was our only former of recruiting until recently where we have started to poach the north east. The South Florida PG showcases are littered with talent but it seems for every 1 Yoyo morales you get about 20 Raymond Gil’s and it has shown its ugly head for last 15 years mixed with our horrific development
I think they started scrimmaging today, although I don’t know if these are official ones with the staff present. Those might start next week.
I spoke to JD yesterday, He said practice will open to the public Friday the 26th or Sunday the 28th. They have already been working since the start of the month