Interesting stat regarding the NFL Combine

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But...you spent years on this forum telling us our talent level was high with all of these jabrone pros we've been producing. Some of us on here have been trying to tell you this has been happening, but you've been fighting it. This is not an interesting stat at all, its obvious. Just look at this team. Just because the Miami Hurricanes pros produced raw total had only been in a mild decline over time, the quality of that talent fell off a cliff...was it staggered a bit? Sure. But it was a very obvious decline in talent for years.

Those late Day 3 picks that gave us some raw total worthy of merit was a lot of nothing, but we were told on this forum for years something different.

Who would have thought that all of these 5-star and high 4-star busts we've had couldn't be replaced by the plethora of 3-stars we've gotten.
 
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I bet you that list stacks up with someone else you consider a bad evaluator.
Are you insinuating Manny? See I think the difference is Manny took or was able to get more highly rated kids and they did not pan out. Yes that could be indictive of a bad eval, but I think was more so bad development/leadership (kids seemed to regress).

A vast majority of the kids you listed were 3 stars or no stars and should not have amounted to anything. legit the bottom third of the recruiting class. Any coach's bottom third is likely not impressive. Some were even taken post signing day after we whiffed on everyone and we needed a warm body to fill out a practice squad. Some of the higher ranked kids were kids we KNEW would not qualify/major red flags but he would go the Dan Mullen route to boost a recruiting class score. No way people thought Derrick Griffen had the grades to get in.

I mentioned recruiting was one of his issues so he may have identified kids who he really liked, but did not get, then had to go to plan c or d guys. I doubt for example he thought Evan Shirreifs or Gray Crow were going to lead us to the promise land.

Basically does not make him a bad evaluator or developer but a bad recruiter.

Look at the 3 stars and lower he hit on (bold are NFL guys):

Rashawn Scott (.82 no national ranking at all)
Perryman

Eddie Johnson (.82 no national ranking at all)
Thurston Armbrister (not ranked at all or even a decimal)
Jake O'Donnell
LaDarius Gunter (.82)
Rayshawn Jenkins (.85 #842)
Herb Waters,
Danny Isidora
Gus Edwards (.85 #681)
Njoku (.84 #851)
Herndon (.85 #713)
Berrios
Redwine (.85 #735)
Mike Jackson (.86 # 572)


I mean, that is a lot of NFL talent for the bottom third of the recruiting classes.
 
Are you insinuating Manny? See I think the difference is Manny took or was able to get more highly rated kids and they did not pan out. Yes that could be indictive of a bad eval, but I think was more so bad development/leadership (kids seemed to regress).

A vast majority of the kids you listed were 3 stars or no stars and should not have amounted to anything. legit the bottom third of the recruiting class. Any coach's bottom third is likely not impressive. Some were even taken post signing day after we whiffed on everyone and we needed a warm body to fill out a practice squad. Some of the higher ranked kids were kids we KNEW would not qualify/major red flags but he would go the Dan Mullen route to boost a recruiting class score. No way people thought Derrick Griffen had the grades to get in.

I mentioned recruiting was one of his issues so he may have identified kids who he really liked, but did not get, then had to go to plan c or d guys. I doubt for example he thought Evan Shirreifs or Gray Crow were going to lead us to the promise land.

Basically does not make him a bad evaluator or developer but a bad recruiter.

Look at the 3 stars and lower he hit on (bold are NFL guys):

Rashawn Scott (.82 no national ranking at all)
Perryman

Eddie Johnson (.82 no national ranking at all)
Thurston Armbrister (not ranked at all or even a decimal)
Jake O'Donnell
LaDarius Gunter (.82)
Rayshawn Jenkins (.85 #842)
Herb Waters,
Danny Isidora
Gus Edwards (.85 #681)
Njoku (.84 #851)
Herndon (.85 #713)
Berrios
Redwine (.85 #735)
Mike Jackson (.86 # 572)


I mean, that is a lot of NFL talent for the bottom third of the recruiting classes.
Dude I just listed 60+ players. That’s more than bottom third. I didn’t even include guys that weren’t Miami caliber but played or started. His teams had vast depth issues
 
Golden had so many misevaluations, its crazy to see all the short memories praising his evaluations just because Manny was horrendous.

His trench evals on both sides of the ball were devastatingly bad.

Jelani Hamilton
Jacoby Briscoe

Jelani Hamilton
+Top 5 SDE in the 2012 class.
+Was mired on the bench Miami. Was more interested in eating ice cream sandwiches than making plays on the field.
+Transferred to Akron in 2016. Had 11 total tackles in 5 games.
+Not sure what he's up to these days, but looking at his Twitter, he still attends Miami games.

Jacoby Briscoe
+Diamond in the rough 3* from Folden.
+Spent one year in Miami and went back home to ULM.
+Played two seasons there, but no Sr year or anything beyond.
+Appears to be a Winch driver in the Lafayette, LA area.

Both of these guys where big bodies, so I get why Golden bet on them. They just didn't work out.
 
It’s clear that Manny and his staff sucked at talent evaluation and development (bedsides Banda)

Richt was past his prime and on his way to retirement

Golden was actually a real good talent evaluator
Lol

That dude was competing with fordham and Umass for half of his classes.
 
A lb coach by trade that can’t coach or evaluate lb’s is bad. He was a bad talent evaluator period…
Not talking about his coaching.

Outside of linebacker who did he take that fans groaned about?

Troutman is the only guy in the 21 class that maybe wasn’t a take at the time on this board. Then in 2020, the only guy I can think of is Chris Washington. 2019 there is Holley, Eigammel who people were excited about at the time, and Peyton. This was minimal pushback on this board with the guys he was taking. We missed on big time guys but the dudes he signed no one moaned about except for the guys listed above.

My point is that he was a worse judge of character and developer than talent evaluator. Not saying much but it’s the reason there was/is such a cancerous culture in that locker room.
 
Was Perryman a Shannon recruit or did Golden snag him when he was hired for the final couple of months before signing day 2011?
 
Some insane revisionist history going on here.

Goldens classes were littered with at least 50% of his classes with guys nobody wanted who quickly flamed out here. Yeah he found more diamond in the roughs than Diaz did because his classes were legit mostly made up of those dudes.

The guys Diaz landed the vast majority of people wanted unlike with golden. Diaz just landed dudes with **** character who he couldn’t develop but Diaz 1000% landed guys with higher ceilings, better talent than golden did but he did absolutely nothing with them.
 
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Golden had so many misevaluations, its crazy to see all the short memories praising his evaluations just because Manny was horrendous.

His trench evals on both sides of the ball were devastatingly bad.

Darius Smith
Kevin Grooms
Ricardo Wiilliams
Jalen Grimble
Antonio Kinard
Thomas Finnie
Juniior Alexis
Hunter Wells
Thurston Armbrister
Jelani Hamilton
Raphael Kirby
Dwayne Hoilett
Robert Lockhart
Earl Moore
Jacoby Briscoe
Preston Dewey
Gray Crow
D'Mauri Jones
Jawand Blue
Jontavious Carter
Taylor Gadbois
Vernon Davis
Danny Dillard
Larry Hope
Nate Dortch
Gaby Terry
Jake O'Donnell
Dequan Ivery
Kevin Olsen
Beau Sandland
Standish Dobard
Ufomba Kumalu
Alex Gall
Hunter Knighton
Ray Lewis III
Rykeem Lockley
Kiy Hester
Darrion Owens
Mike Smith
Calvin Heurtelou
Michael Wyche
Ryan Mayes
Trayone Gray
Juwon Young
Marques Gayot
Terry McCray
Joe Brown
Darrel Langham
Bar Milo
Jerome Washington
Jahir Jones
Charles Perry
Jamie Gordinier
Brendan Loftus
Hayden Mahoney
Ryan Fines
Tyler Gauthier
Robert Knowlees
Evan Shirreffs
James King
Terrance Henley
It’s absolutely insane that canes fans are defending Golden. Dude was the king of taking players worse than Jags.
 
Not talking about his coaching.

Outside of linebacker who did he take that fans groaned about?

Troutman is the only guy in the 21 class that maybe wasn’t a take at the time on this board. Then in 2020, the only guy I can think of is Chris Washington. 2019 there is Holley, Eigammel who people were excited about at the time, and Peyton. This was minimal pushback on this board with the guys he was taking. We missed on big time guys but the dudes he signed no one moaned about except for the guys listed above.

My point is that he was a worse judge of character and developer than talent evaluator. Not saying much but it’s the reason there was/is such a cancerous culture in that locker room.
Avery Huff
Sam Brooks
Deandre Wilder
Waymon Steed
Keontra Smith
Tirek Austin Cave
Corey Flagg
Tyler Johnson
Deshawn Troutman

What are you talking about? You only see one questionable take from that group? Horrible evaluator talent man,
 
Golden had so many misevaluations, its crazy to see all the short memories praising his evaluations just because Manny was horrendous.

His trench evals on both sides of the ball were devastatingly bad.

Darius Smith
Kevin Grooms
Ricardo Wiilliams
Jalen Grimble
Antonio Kinard
Thomas Finnie
Juniior Alexis
Hunter Wells
Thurston Armbrister
Jelani Hamilton
Raphael Kirby
Dwayne Hoilett
Robert Lockhart
Earl Moore
Jacoby Briscoe
Preston Dewey
Gray Crow
D'Mauri Jones
Jawand Blue
Jontavious Carter
Taylor Gadbois
Vernon Davis
Danny Dillard
Larry Hope
Nate Dortch
Gaby Terry
Jake O'Donnell
Dequan Ivery
Kevin Olsen
Beau Sandland
Standish Dobard
Ufomba Kumalu
Alex Gall
Hunter Knighton
Ray Lewis III
Rykeem Lockley
Kiy Hester
Darrion Owens
Mike Smith
Calvin Heurtelou
Michael Wyche
Ryan Mayes
Trayone Gray
Juwon Young
Marques Gayot
Terry McCray
Joe Brown
Darrel Langham
Bar Milo
Jerome Washington
Jahir Jones
Charles Perry
Jamie Gordinier
Brendan Loftus
Hayden Mahoney
Ryan Fines
Tyler Gauthier
Robert Knowlees
Evan Shirreffs
James King
Terrance Henley
Ummm I beg your pardon Sir, please remove Darrel Langham from your list please. F’in Legend 😂😂😂
 
Dude I just listed 60+ players. That’s more than bottom third. I didn’t even include guys that weren’t Miami caliber but played or started. His teams had vast depth issues
lol bruh you are just wrong on this one. Out of the "60" players bolded are players 4* or higher.


Kevin Grooms - (grades, was never making it)
Jalen Grimble (miss)
Jelani Hamilton (miss)
Raphael Kirby (dude was a captain in 2015 and season ending injury not all pro but not a total scrub)
Kevin Olsen (legacy, all would have taken him, but headcase)
Beau Sandland (Drafted by NFL)
Standish Dobard (I will say miss, but he played decent for us and kept having to switch positions)
Kiy Hester (good career at rutgers)
Bar Milo (miss but came with Kaaya)


So out of the 60+ only 9 were actually projected to do something.

Also a hugeeee part of your list was the 2012 class when it was 2011 the scandal news broke. We werent getting anyone worth a **** that year. Evals or not.

Again, his recruiting sucked, his coaching sucked, he took wayyyyyy too many lower rated kids (likely not by choice), but his hit rate on those lower rated kids is impressive. I mean it is not hard to "evaluate" someone who is 6'3, 240lbs and running a 4.4. We just did not get those guys. Do you think he did a good job "evaluating" Duke Johnson? Because frankly I could do that. You are also correct we had depth issues (because we had scholarship reductions) but that was also from missing on kids and no one wanting to come to us because of sanctions.
 
Avery Huff
Sam Brooks
Deandre Wilder
Waymon Steed
Keontra Smith
Tirek Austin Cave
Corey Flagg
Tyler Johnson
Deshawn Troutman

What are you talking about? You only see one questionable take from that group? Horrible evaluator talent man,
The board was legit drooling over huff, brooks, wilder, smith, and to a certain extent johnson.

People knew what Flagg was coming out of high school. I really don’t remember how people felt about steed.

Folks were excited above Cave because he was legit murdering dudes on his film.

Again it’s just troutman. Go look through the old threads and look at the class player rankings that the writers of this site released at the time of these players signings.

I’m talking about their evaluation at the time. What people at the time of their recruitment and singing thought of them, not what is known of those players now. Obviously hindsight is 20/20 but no one was up in arms when the majority of those players were signed
 
Was Perryman a Shannon recruit or did Golden snag him when he was hired for the final couple of months before signing day 2011?
I might be wrong, but I feel like I remember it being Barrow pounding the table for Golden to offer Perryman at the last minute. Randy Shannon was like a fever dream to me at this point, so I have little recollection if he was after him at all or not
 
The board was legit drooling over huff, brooks, wilder, smith, and to a certain extent johnson.

People knew what Flagg was coming out of high school. I really don’t remember how people felt about steed.

Folks were excited above Cave because he was legit murdering dudes on his film.

Again it’s just troutman. Go look through the old threads and look at the class player rankings that the writers of this site released at the time of these players signings.
First, what you’re saying about drooling on most of those guys isn’t true. Second, Manny is paid to evaluate, not us…Results speak for themselves…
 
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Golden had so many misevaluations, its crazy to see all the short memories praising his evaluations just because Manny was horrendous.

His trench evals on both sides of the ball were devastatingly bad.

Darius Smith
Kevin Grooms
Ricardo Wiilliams
Jalen Grimble
Antonio Kinard
Thomas Finnie
Juniior Alexis
Hunter Wells
Thurston Armbrister
Jelani Hamilton
Raphael Kirby
Dwayne Hoilett
Robert Lockhart
Earl Moore
Jacoby Briscoe
Preston Dewey
Gray Crow
D'Mauri Jones
Jawand Blue
Jontavious Carter
Taylor Gadbois
Vernon Davis
Danny Dillard
Larry Hope
Nate Dortch
Gaby Terry
Jake O'Donnell
Dequan Ivery
Kevin Olsen
Beau Sandland
Standish Dobard
Ufomba Kumalu
Alex Gall
Hunter Knighton
Ray Lewis III
Rykeem Lockley
Kiy Hester
Darrion Owens
Mike Smith
Calvin Heurtelou
Michael Wyche
Ryan Mayes
Trayone Gray
Juwon Young
Marques Gayot
Terry McCray
Joe Brown
Darrel Langham
Bar Milo
Jerome Washington
Jahir Jones
Charles Perry
Jamie Gordinier
Brendan Loftus
Hayden Mahoney
Ryan Fines
Tyler Gauthier
Robert Knowlees
Evan Shirreffs
James King
Terrance Henley

The bolded were NFL players... but whoooshhh lol.

Other than Langham i dont think i take ANY of the kids posted.
 
Golden had so many misevaluations, its crazy to see all the short memories praising his evaluations just because Manny was horrendous.

His trench evals on both sides of the ball were devastatingly bad.

Darius Smith
Kevin Grooms
Ricardo Wiilliams
Jalen Grimble
Antonio Kinard
Thomas Finnie
Juniior Alexis
Hunter Wells
Thurston Armbrister
Jelani Hamilton
Raphael Kirby
Dwayne Hoilett
Robert Lockhart
Earl Moore
Jacoby Briscoe
Preston Dewey
Gray Crow
D'Mauri Jones
Jawand Blue
Jontavious Carter
Taylor Gadbois
Vernon Davis
Danny Dillard
Larry Hope
Nate Dortch
Gaby Terry
Jake O'Donnell
Dequan Ivery
Kevin Olsen
Beau Sandland
Standish Dobard
Ufomba Kumalu
Alex Gall
Hunter Knighton
Ray Lewis III
Rykeem Lockley
Kiy Hester
Darrion Owens
Mike Smith
Calvin Heurtelou
Michael Wyche
Ryan Mayes
Trayone Gray
Juwon Young
Marques Gayot
Terry McCray
Joe Brown
Darrel Langham
Bar Milo
Jerome Washington
Jahir Jones
Charles Perry
Jamie Gordinier
Brendan Loftus
Hayden Mahoney
Ryan Fines
Tyler Gauthier
Robert Knowlees
Evan Shirreffs
James King
Terrance Henley
He walked into the AD office with 6 binders, 14 yellow pads and said "It's a process - fear the tie".
 
Golden had so many misevaluations, its crazy to see all the short memories praising his evaluations just because Manny was horrendous.

His trench evals on both sides of the ball were devastatingly bad.

Darius Smith
Kevin Grooms
Ricardo Wiilliams
Jalen Grimble
Antonio Kinard
Thomas Finnie
Juniior Alexis
Hunter Wells
Thurston Armbrister
Jelani Hamilton
Raphael Kirby
Dwayne Hoilett
Robert Lockhart
Earl Moore
Jacoby Briscoe
Preston Dewey
Gray Crow
D'Mauri Jones
Jawand Blue
Jontavious Carter
Taylor Gadbois
Vernon Davis
Danny Dillard
Larry Hope
Nate Dortch
Gaby Terry
Jake O'Donnell
Dequan Ivery
Kevin Olsen
Beau Sandland
Standish Dobard
Ufomba Kumalu
Alex Gall
Hunter Knighton
Ray Lewis III
Rykeem Lockley
Kiy Hester
Darrion Owens
Mike Smith
Calvin Heurtelou
Michael Wyche
Ryan Mayes
Trayone Gray
Juwon Young
Marques Gayot
Terry McCray
Joe Brown
Darrel Langham
Bar Milo
Jerome Washington
Jahir Jones
Charles Perry
Jamie Gordinier
Brendan Loftus
Hayden Mahoney
Ryan Fines
Tyler Gauthier
Robert Knowlees
Evan Shirreffs
James King
Terrance Henley
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