Leonard Taylor committing 8/6

[TomAce]

One guess: They could end up having that convo with Ishmael about being a team player and freeing up another spot.

The kid earned a scholarship, he deserves it. That conversation would be bush league, amateur hour.

 

[Canez1]

Thanks!

We can all blame Bama and Bryant for this one.

 

[plantcity3]

Even members of the football team?

I don’t know how it is now or at Miami but 10 years ago when I was in school, scholarship players could go to the athlete dining hall anytime it was open and eat for free. Walk ons were treated like regular students. You had to pay or use your meal plan unless the entire team was in their before or after practice.

 

[TheOriginalCane]

If you are trying to come at me about a brilliant loophole and not knowing how things work, please find someone else. As long as he is being paid FMV (i.e. not paying an assistant strength coach $500k), good luck proving anything, especially if you give a promotion to go along with it. He is an existing employee, he is not being hired new by the school, and as long as you set up the right documentation (i.e. compensation studies and comparisons to similar level employees at other schools, compared to other employees of a similar band at the school, etc.), there will be zero issue.

I have spent my career doing tax consulting for tax exempts, which includes a number of universities and athletic associations. The hoops that 501c3s need to go through to establish fair market value for compensation on an annual basis to avoid questions of private inurement/benefit and an IRS investigation is absurd. I will defer to you on IC and scholarship counter rules, but you can find someone else to talk down to about this being some big deal or suspect red flag for the NCAA.

Sure. It'll work. Try it.

For the record, I have spent my career doing corporate tax.

By the way, UM is laying people off right now. A friend of mine (all the way back to the undergrad days) just lost her job. But you are proposing an idea whereby an assistant strength coach (official title: "Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach - Football and Golf"), which probably pays 80K to 100K, will get a "promotion" (no idea who is being fired to make way for this new promotion) and a "100K raise" AT THE EXACT SAME TIME that UM is laying people off AND admitting his 4-star football player kid into UM.

Yeah, you prepare that "compensation study" while I laugh. And I'm assuming that UM is going to commission an expensive "compensation study" for, literally, ONE JOB instead of, say, for the entire UM employment force. "One person comp studies" may fly at non-profits, but not in the corporate world.

 

[CT Cane 44]

I am starting to wonder if Miami drops Curtis. We will not drop Burns. He is too talented and will get stronger. I like Curtis. Maybe we only allow a certain group to commit. Idk

 

[TheOriginalCane]

LOL. Just got off the phone with the MGM, they have the response to this post at o/u 8.5 paragraphs. I have $5k on the over. Get ready for an avalanche of **** measuring coming your way.

Stay in your lane, ToiletBowlMagic.

 

[Da Jumbo Mutombo]

C'mon, dude. He's probably the safest person in the class, but with the way this class is trending, I wouldn't be surprised if he and several other people were told to make contingency plans.

Ive heard there are 3 drop candidates as of now. Andres is not one of them.

 

[AllAboutTheU]

C'mon, dude. He's probably the safest person in the class, but with the way this class is trending, I wouldn't be surprised if he and several other people were told to make contingency plans.

There's no chance he's being told to make contingency plans lol. We literally lost 3 games minimum due to kicking last year, he's the top kicker in the country, and his brother is on the team. We're not trotting a walk-on out there in 2021.

 

[BeastMode]

Ive heard there are 3 drop candidates as of now. Andres is not one of them.

Can’t risk dropping any MNW boys cause that would cause an issue with others in the class so that leaves Curtis and the. I honestly don’t know, Johnson maybe

 

[hiphopanimal]

One obvious answer I mentioned , other than that it’s all about who wants in. If the staff thinks they can get 25 , losing Collins gets us 6-7 more spots. I believe we’re at 19 now but that’s only a technicality.

sorry holmes, must have missed this. should I scroll back through?

 

[TheOriginalCane]

Ive heard there are 3 drop candidates as of now. Andres is not one of them.

If there are 3 candidates, I'd imagine it would come from a group of 4 possibilities - Palmetto kid, Fort Myers kid, Orlando kid, and RB kid (replaceable, even if not this year).

 

[cowboycane]

On the dropping kids front, for the first time in a long time I don’t see any glaring weaknesses in our class other than Collins who I don’t count anyway.

The lowly rated kids:

Borregales - if we drop him I’ll be truly ****ed, we need a ******* kicker we don’t have to worry about

Curtis - people complain we lack explosion and athleticism in the return game and at corner, then we sign this kid up and people want to drop him. **** that, give me the speed.

Brantley - stud, leader of the class.

Troutman - underrated, reminds me of Pink but maybe faster, absolute floor is special teams killer and rotation linebacker if he stays healthy.

Johnson / Hammett - these are the types we need to build this defense, local guys that bring the thunder

 

[Cajuncane]

what if we score too **** fast every drive!!! lol #fastempo

much better than going 3 and out too fast ...

 

[NorthEastCane]

You don’t take a guy who’s projects as a return specialist if there are top guys wanting in.

They're not. The fact that he can be a return specialist is an added benefit that may push him over the top if he is compared with an equal talent that can't be one.

Some have said that Curtis has unique skills that translates to WR as well as CB. With him it's going to be about development.

 

[Da Jumbo Mutombo]

If there are 4 candidates, I'd imagine it would come from a group of 4 possibilities - Palmetto kid, Fort Myers kid, Orlando kid, and RB kid (replaceable, even if not this year).

3 candidates, not 4...atleast from what I've heard.

And who actually is dropped will depend on who we get. If Markevious Brown and Jason Marshall come on board...well then it's obvious. And so on....

 

[BostonCanes47]

These are refreshing problems to have. Feel like it was not to long ago we were accepting guys just to fill out a class.

 

[NorthEastCane]

Put him on a track scholarship to have the rest of the benefits supplied?

Once he's recruited by the football staff, he can't be placed on a track scholarship. They took that loop hole away years ago.

 

[Genghis Cane]

The kid earned a scholarship, he deserves it. That conversation would be bush league, amateur hour.

Hey, I get it -- tough sell. But if the kid wants to help the team, this is one way to do it. Butch Davis did similar things here.

 

[colperm]

They're not. The fact that he can be a return specialist is an added benefit that may push him over the top if he is compared with an equal talent that can't be one.

Some have said that Curtis has unique skills that translates to WR as well as CB. With him it's going to be about development.

Curtis is electric in the return game, the fact that he has upside at WR and CB is great but he can make an instant impact on special teams. The Travis Benjamin comparison is an easy one to make, and I don't think it's a stretch at all.

 

[Canesmia01]

Once he's recruited by the football staff, he can't be placed on a track scholarship. They took that loop hole away years ago.

I know I said scholarship but wasn’t sure if that applied to the benefits besides tuition and have him pay his own tuition. But yeah thanks I don’t think that is a possibility either.