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Kevin Durant is responsible for the University of Miami's football recruiting woes?

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I don't necessarily blame Kevin Durant but a lot of kids, especially in south Florida are blatant front runners and they're looking to jump on the band wagon. I'm not even talking about college recruiting either, Look at high school transfers here. Kids change schools like they change underwear and often times it to their own detriment. Every kid wants to play for the best team even if it means forging transfer paperwork and providing false addresses. The problem is, when all the good players play for a small handful of teams, you're inevitably going to end up with good players stuck on the bench because you can only play 11 at a time. The powerhouse programs are full of bench warmers who would have started at their neighborhood school and probably played enough to get some kind of scholarship recognition. Instead, they wanted to play for the team that was already better than everyone else and they get stuck playing garbage time or not at all. This is a legit issue in Dade and Broward county.
 
MainLineCane said:
https://www.sfgate.com/warriors/art...i-football-recruiting-blame-Diaz-13522280.php

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"Look, the world has changed, and I'm going to blame the NBA," Diaz said. "Once Kevin Durant went to the Warriors after they were 3-1 up when he was at Oklahoma City — kids want to go where the winning is."

Sorry but it's ALWAYS been this way.

Kids have always preferred going with a winner....it didn't start with Durant.

I think he was just joking
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He was making a point using Durant as an analogy. He could have used Lebron because he was really the 1st superstar to jump ship. However, he didn't go to a championship team. They became one. Which really should be the mantra to these kids. If all you superstars come here you can build your own championship dynasty rather than going to an existing one.
 
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Reading the article in the Miami Herald about Manny's understanding of the current recruiting landscape. He called it, "The Kevin Durant effect." Kids want to go play for a winner. A team th as t can compete for a championship. He further stated that he understood the cure: WINNING!!!
That's what I've been preaching on CIS. Win and they will come. Dominate the Coastal and be competitive with Clemson in the ACC Championship game and top recruits will start to come.

Get to the table enough and we'll break thru with an ACC championship and CFP appearance, then the recruiting floodgates will open.

Manny gets it. He said it has to start with the 8th-10th grades to turn recruiting around. I trust Manny will get it done. He will make the necessary changes and if something's not right he'll fix it now not 3 years down the road.
 
PokemonFisherman said:
Look I wish lebron would shut up outside out of basketball but you can’t compare lebrons move to Durant’s

Durant joined a team that he was
- 73 and 9
- a team he was up 3-1 on
- a team with already 3 all stars and one mvp
- Durant openly uses burner accounts

Lebron
-joins a .500 team that finished in the middle of the pack in a relatively weak east team.

My point is don’t blame lebron, Kevin Durant is a mental midget compared to lebron
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And you ignore the fact when Lebron DID go to Miami, he brought that team a lot of help with Chris Bosh, ala 'Big 3'.

Lebron did it first as a prime superstar, did it again when he went back to Cleveland. All Durant did was take it one step further.

Personally, I don't like it, just as I don't like the modern NBA. But what I think doesn't matter a whole lot.
 
TerragonSix said:
And you ignore the fact when Lebron DID go to Miami, he brought that team a lot of help with Chris Bosh, ala 'Big 3'.

Lebron did it first as a prime superstar, did it again when he went back to Cleveland. All Durant did was take it one step further.

Personally, I don't like it, just as I don't like the modern NBA. But what I think doesn't matter a whole lot.
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Yes but lebron went to a unproven team while Durant went to a proven team.

There have been a lot of failed “big 3s” since lebrons choice because they went the unproven route.

Is it a ***** move either way ? Yes lol. I can’t stand the nba now it’s a joke all of them are soft and butt buddies off the court
 
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Charles Barkley chased titles in Phoenix and Houston way before Kevin Garnett, Lebron or KD did it.

Yes, i know Philly traded him to Phoenix but that was only after he demanded a trade because he couldn't win in Philly.
 
CaneSince4Ever said:
Deion Sanders was the first one I remember hopscotching from winner to winner.
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The guy played a majority of his career for the bum Falcons. Can't blame him for wanting to play for a winner towards the end of his career.
 
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DTP said:
Charles Barkley chased titles in Phoenix and Houston way before Kevin Garnett, Lebron or KD did it.

Yes, i know Philly traded him to Phoenix but that was only after he demanded a trade because he couldn't win in Philly.
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There were no other superstars in Phoenix (KJ really good not a superstar) and they were all in their mid thirties once they got to Houston LeBron did it in the prime of his career and then Durant one-upped him
 
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