It's mind-blowing how some think that these parents have the type of access to 'evaluate the program better' like they are on campus daily and sit in on team and coach meetings on the reg. They are being recruited. It's no different than restaurant commercials with a nice juicy steak and then when they serve it is as tender as a shoe sole. Or parading the hottest co-eds to give campus tours instead of the feminist hipster chick that doesn't shave.
Who cares how the inner machinations of a clock works if the time is wrong?
/metaphor overload!
I'd argue that the parents have less ability to give a fair evaluation. They're being wooed and courted like prom queens. All they see is the glitz and sell. We see the same **** they see without the bias of having Folden sweet talking us and the assistants making a bunch of empty promises not supported by any facts. We see facts; they hear a sales pitch.
No one ever said Folden couldn't make a good pitch to someone he wants to pitch. His sales pitch has been neutered by his constant failure, but he can still put on a good fat face for the people he's trying to trick into coming here.
I suppose that moms and dads get seduced by coaches and sales pitches all the time. I said it’s a business and I think it’s a pretty seamy one with lots of lies and promises. We see all too often coaches make promises and then bolt to the next job. (I bet some would wish it would happen here)
In this case it seems a little different from this perspective. You have what seems like a blue chip recruit who has exposure to Miami and many other programs to compare against so he has more context than we do. Furthermore, he has been to many more HS football games than I have, presumably talks football with parents and coaches and is, in general, closer to the game than most of us. I have no idea what that defensive scheme is supposed to solve vs GT on the two yard line but I know AG thinks he knows; he doesn’t explain it to us but maybe he does to these parents. I do know that AG has not explained it very well to the fan base, most of who wouldn’t listen at this point anyway.
I figure many of these kids know each other from HS, from playing against each other, from camps etc.. They must be talking and sharing more information than we get from a free online site. We all know the results are crap and maybe that’s all that matters at the end of the day, it is a business after all, but there is another side of the story.
Finally, “Franchise”, maybe my post was “simple” but laying out **** jokes and *** gurgling references isn’t much of a resume to hang your hat on.
Al'sJimmy, let me educate you quickly because I don't have much time to waste on low-level thinkers. First, Quarterman and his dad are big UM fans. He goes into the recruiting process with that bias in his heart and mind. There are certain guys every year who are going to UM regardless of who the coach is--Duke Johnson, Jaquan Johnson, and now, maybe, Quarterman.
Second, just because a guy is being recruited doesn't mean he knows anything more than a fan knows. The point you're attempting to make has no basis in reality. It's merely you ascribing super powers to a recruit or his parent because you have sycophantic tendencies. You have this need to suck up to celebrity types, so you want to give them some sort of super powers to make you're genuflecting to another man or a kid more palatable to yourself.
Here's all you need to know: 6-7 in year 4 with 7 NFL draft picks (and multiple other NFL draft picks who weren't eligible for the draft in 2014). If you're too dumb to evaluate the product with your eyes and need to hang your hopes on a 17 year old kid having some super powers that allow him to see Folden's genius that no one else sees, then just focus on that sentence.
Here it is again: 6-7 in year 4 with 7 NFL draft picks (and multiple other NFL draft picks who weren't eligible for the draft in 2014).
All rational points, save for the analysis of how I got to my vantage point.
I think its reasonable for a high ranked recruit who is presumably being targeted by winning programs far from Miami to have more knowledge and information than the average fan on a free internet website. He is not your average recruit. Maybe someone who posts 13,507 in three years, or on average, 375 times a month thinks they know more but I think it’s a safe bet that a guy like Shaq’s dad has more information than we do at our disposal.
Maybe he simply likes “throwing up a U” but I suspect there is more thought involved in the process.
I do think there is another side of the story. I do think, and have posted many times, that AG appears tone deaf to the fan base. For whatever reason it seems like AG is loathe to communicate what it is he is trying to do and it comes across, to me and you, as stubborn.
To your last point; that’s where the rubber meets the road. I don’t get it why AG is still here with those results. I think it’s a confluence of events including the myth of the cloud engendered sympathy for him, new President coming in stalled the process and the university is loathe to bite the financial bullet. Regardless the results are what they are and they are indefensible.
Now, as it should have been already, its win or go home. Frankly, I prefer to see the team win even if Donald Duck was coaching.
