Mario Cristobal Announces Three Major Miami Roster Updates

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Has a 5 star DL that left their original program ever gone elsewhere and panned out?

Willis was very good here for one season

So what now for Lowe? I don't wish him ill will but doesnt he have to basically sit out all season? His next window is the spring? Gotta imagine if he has any agents left that their phones are ringing this morning
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I'm upset about Lowe

As fans, like all of us who daily follow a site, we too get invested in players. We were all excited when Mario flipped Lowe and we were all looking forward to seeing him play here as a 5 star and after the reports from last year that he seemed to be the real deal as a player. This definitely hurts that he is no longer a Cane and let's be honest; in this day and age of college football, NIL you have to really ***** up as a player to get kicked off a team, as a five star, and a team that needs you as a player so I commend Mario, the players for taking this stance.

It's a shame, Miami never gets respect for trying to help players become better people, and we now know that one player, no matter how talented, is not bigger than the team and that is the most important part but the part that I hate is if or when Lowe goes somewhere else, say an LSU, and all we'll hear is how that coach gave him a chance rather than how Miami was really the one who tried to help him and not the one, LSU, simply using him for football

I know it's silly, but that stuff irritates me
In a lot of ways it’s important that Miami (or any highly functional organization) continues to remind everyone that there is no one bigger than the program. It sucks in the micro to lose *potential*, but a healthy team needs a prominent departure that’s OUR choice every few years. In other words, putting your foot down on a non-performing 3 star is pointless, to have a culture it has to apply to high performing 5 stars. business history is littered with examples of successful organizations getting too far over there skis with making exceptions for their superstars.

It’s what we lost in ‘03-‘05, which contributed in our 20 year run of misery.
 


Go to the 0:40 mark. He absolutely said it. Said 3rd Scroggins will not return.

Sounded like he said “he DOES NOW” return from injury. But the response from the host was as if that was bad news. So I’m assuming Mario meant does not return due to injury.
 
Unfortunately we’ll now have to figure out how to make it with 3 5 stars and 5 4 stars at defensive end, with a HOF coach and top 3 coordinator, a top secondary that will blanket receivers and with an offense that scores 40 points and puts the opposing team in passing situations. Tough situation to be in.
 
Teams don’t dismiss elite talent. People’s tolerance level is directly impacted by your level of talent.
This leads me to believe there must have been a history of not handling his responsibilities. No way Mario dismisses a 5 star talent because of one incident. He must have been on thin ice.

Sucks. Was looking forward to seeing him play. He’s got the measurables that’s for sure. But that’s why you recruit replacements for the position.
 
The “I told you so” isn’t going to work here. It’s so easy to say this after just finding out an injury happened literally 8 months after the portal closed. At the time, the staff made the right decision by not spending the money on an expensive portal TE. I’ll tell you this right now, Bauman wasn’t cheap. It sucks Gilbert got injured because he would have balled this year
We were saying it BEFORE the injury, we NEEDED TE BAD.. Thats a development position and not ideal position to depend on true freshman. They tried to bulk Lofton up and make him a TE and we see he is not that, he slimmed down and gonna be used as more of a h back move piece weapon, even when bulked up he wasnt best blocker last year, he not digging out DEs at 235, we needed a true inline TE. You think I care about I told you so, I want to win, that position was a GLARING (we use it ALOT) need BEFORE the injury, thats why we were in portal thread.
He was down right bad at blocking last year.
Several plays got blown up because he completely wiffed on his block or got pushed back.
Really hope he has improved his blocking this offseason, or we might be in trouble at the TE position AGAIN.
 
This leads me to believe there must have been a history of not handling his responsibilities. No way Mario dismisses a 5 star talent because of one incident. He must have been on thin ice.

Sucks. Was looking forward to seeing him play. He’s got the measurables that’s for sure. But that’s why you recruit replacements for the position.
also depends on what you define as talent. if you think of it as “proven likelihood to deliver the desired results” (my preferred definition) then you can see them coming to conclusion that the likelihood is low, because he’ll never do what he has to in order to see the field in the first place.
 
Scroggins is back, not out.

As for Lowe, my goodness, it was one thing when kids were blowing their opporuntities and losing their scholarships and endangering their football careers, Now you're lighting 7 figures on fire because you can't be a team player. Lowe could have played 3 years here and had close to retirement money. I worked in youth psych a long time, and some people just don't have impulse control. They know better, they just can't help themsleves.
 
How bad does an injury have to be for someone to "not recover" from it?
 
heard he was hunting birds in rural ohio, tripped and fell on the shotgun (it had no shells) but it penetrated him in a place he would have preferred not to be penetrated. after reconstructive surgery and removal of the bag, he's healing, but it will take time.
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They need to sign a TE from that list of guys who just got extra eligibility
except now it onlly applies to your own ex players or seniors who applied for portal which is no one
 
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