Jerry Jeudy and Isaiah Horton didn't get this kind of Negative Reaction when they went off to play for Bama. ESPECIALLY Jeudy, who came to Mark Richt's Paradise Camp and basically showed out the rest of the Recruits who were there but ended up getting a Ring for Uncle Nick.
LOTS of our Hometown Kids ended up going to work for Saban and Bama. Some of them went to OSU and Michigan. We got used to our kids leaving town because, frankly, we sucked.
I want our Secondary to to abuse this kid in the worst way and neutralize him (and his partner on the other side of the field). But look, he's not some sort of Judas. He did what any kid who had committed to playing WR in the NFL would have done (especially after watching what they had done with Marvin Harrison, Jr.) , he went to play for Brian Hartline. This is business. This isn't the Eighties. Howard could build a team out of loyalty to the City and the University when he first got here back in 1978. That won't put food on the table now.
The ONLY reason why Miami is competitive at all is because Echeverria, Cristobal and the Columbus High Mafia and the rest of the business community in South Florida finally figured out that you have to invest money into football to make money for some of the rest of the sports in this town. UM Football is one of the few franchises besides the Panthers that is doing well. It's a business. Sometimes you drop the ball. Jeremiah Smith was a fumble, but it was one in which Canes Administration and Football might have done better had they addressed a kid who had been targeted by the Buckeyes a lot earlier. On the other hand, it might have changed nothing at all. The kid might have always been OSU from the getgo.
It's probably just enough for us to move on, hope that the team beats Taint in the playoff game, and resolves to make sure that the Dalvin Cooks and Jeremiah Smiths of this world don't leave town anymore.
