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2026 Lamar Brown 5* OT/DT from University Lab in Baton Rouge, LA Commits to LSU

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1murhurricane said:
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Gru said:
Even if we land him which I hope we can, gonna be sweating bullets all cycle to hold onto a kid like this.
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In the age of NIL you can never count anyone out but see my message a few weeks ago. We know where to invest now for the biggest residual impact. Remember when I said we were assured a top 3 class not including Keys..
 
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1murhurricane said:
In the age of NIL you can never count anyone out but see my message a few weeks ago. We know where to invest now for the biggest residual impact. Remember when I said we were assured a top 3 class not including Keys..
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Tank jones and Lamar brown. Cantwell already locked in wow this staff is monsters when recruiting the trenches. We came along way from manny diaz era
 
1murhurricane said:
In the age of NIL you can never count anyone out but see my message a few weeks ago. We know where to invest now for the biggest residual impact. Remember when I said we were assured a top 3 class not including Keys..
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What has been the biggest change to Miami's process? Just more money to spend? Different personnel making the decisions? New strategy? etc.

This whole cycle certainly "feels" different the the past.
 
1murhurricane said:
In the age of NIL you can never count anyone out but see my message a few weeks ago. We know where to invest now for the biggest residual impact. Remember when I said we were assured a top 3 class not including Keys..
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Mind elaborating a bit on that strategy?
 
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tsimonitis said:
What has been the biggest change to Miami's process? Just more money to spend? Different personnel making the decisions? New strategy? etc.

This whole cycle certainly "feels" different the the past.
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Based on @1murhurricane’s post and comments from @DMoney , I would submit that UM has very good data analytics that is focused on where NIL should be allocated, and hopefully good eyes for talent to be able to distinguish between low rated 5 star that will cost $X against high rated 4 star that will cost $X-Y, which in turn means more $$ to be used somewhere else.

But back the first point, which is an educated guess on my part from the post I referenced, UM has enough data to look at the Rate of Return on NIL spending at positions (and can also use that data from other schools). As an example from how we recruit, it certainly seems like the ROR on high school OT’s is much greater than the ROR on high school QB’s. Hence we see UM pursue and land Cantwell, but not pursue 5 star high school QB’s. Instead we go for 4 star high school QB’s who cost a LOT less than 5 star QB’s, and use our money towards OT’s and DLine and Dbacks.

We don’t seem to prioritize LB’s. This cycle will likely tell us a lot about what UM believes the ROR is for WR’s.

The NFL has been doing this type of analysis for decades. The book and movie Blindisde was intriguing to the author as a subject because he noticed that LT’s were the 2nd highest paid position in the NFL. He was initially writing about the 49ers LT Steve Wallace. To no great surprise, after seeing the Joe Theismann injury at the hands of Lawrence Taylor, the visionary Bill Walsh made the Niners LT, Steve Wallace, the 2nd highest paid player on the team to Joe Montana, as it was Steve Wallace protecting Montana’s blindside (hence the name). Wallace recommended that author Michael Lewis focus on Michael Oher, who was not only an LT, but had a crazy backstory.

College football is just catching up now that the $$$ is a quantifiable factor,
 
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