The false narrative is suggesting that talent acquisition/evaluation has been as much of a problem the past 20 yrs @ MIA as coaching has. Coaching always takes precedent over everything else. Do you honestly think that a program which has had woefully inept coaching, and has routinely done less with more, deserves or should have more talent? The part of the equation that you just can't seem to grasp, is that inept coaching, actually ends up creating a negative feedback loop when it comes to talent acquisition. How else can you explain the current perception towards MIA amongst our primary recruiting base? Elite players will never willingly go play for a coach or program that fails to properly develop them or put them in the best position to succeed. That's not how recruiting works. Do you know which coach or program can legitimately make an argument about talent acquisition or personnel? How about..Kirk Ferentz & Iowa. In the past 20 yrs they have routinely done more with less. MIA has not earned the right to make a similar claim. To assert or suggest otherwise is simply spreading misinformation & propaganda. Its actually kind of perplexing to see that despite the fact D$ continues to present you with empirical evidence that proves lack of talent @ MIA is a misconception, you unrelentingly still choose to cling to the alternative.
Honestly, I find your post and the thought process behind it to be exactly the type of fan illogic that has stunk around this program like vomit on a drunk for the past two decades. Now you’re arguing that talking about talent somehow means you think it’s more A than B, and you’re not disagreeing that it’s A also, just you really really really want everyone to know that you really really really feel that it’s more B than A. LMAO. Which part of “IT’S BOTH A AND B” do you not understand?
Parsing whether bad coaching is more the problem than talent is like asking whether the death of a guy who falls off the empire state building is more a result of the sidewalk, or cardiac arrest. No one in their right mind has contended the coching has been anything other than atrocious for ages. I sure haven’t. To the contrary, I have been an earlier critic of all of our failed coaches than most on these boards, and probably than you yourself have been. But you seem to think white knighting the talent somehow makes you a super authentic critic of the coaching. You’re making no point worth making, and spinning bullshizzle. And in fact, you and your predecessors on this board have deluded themselves about our recruiting and talent since the Coker era, because you and they felt like super critics of coaching if you just argued the talent is ‘not an issue.’ Well, you’re wromg. It is, and has been.
Our roster talent - ESPECIALLY ON THE LOS - has been insufficient to compete at the TOP LEVEL of cfb. Don’t tell me about the coastal, because that just tells me you’re too dense to discuss this topic. No one is saying our coaching hasn’t sucked, so no one is saying we couldn’t have won the coastal. If that’s your only goal, go root for Georgia Tech. But when people start claiming our OLs have been comparable to Alabama’s, then they’re lost, imo. Not in the real world of cfb they haven’t been. Maybe in fantasy land, Jeff Stoutland and Dan Enos could turn Hayden Mahoney and Jahair Jones into all SEC players. But the other possibility is that folks who believe that are smoking crack. OLs aren’t just an expression of the one guy with future development talent on the unit. They require starters, depth, maturity, experience. And yes, S&C, coaching, scheme and play calling. We’ve had weak links galore, to the point of face plant, and we’ve had to play our best recruits too early, even burning shirts for them, for ages. Why? Because we’ve been desperate because we have lacked experienced and talented bodies on the OL for ages.
If your only point is that our results have been worse than they should have been with our talent, then congrats, you win the captain obvious award attempting to seriously present something everyone in the world knows to be obviously true.
If you believe that our talent has been sufficient to win big in cfb, then you are delusional.
All you have to do is look at our own team’s NFL results to see the talent drop off. 19 first round pics on our last title team. ZERO first round picks from ‘09 thru ‘14. But hey, guySm, the talent hasn’t gone anywhere, it’s just coaching. Blah blah.
Everyone in their right mind knows that Miami’s talent level has declined materially from our title era to the past era of crap coaches.
