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Musings on why so few Miami players have entered the portal

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TheOriginalCane said:
At Miami? Or generally?

Slingblade Billy pulled a few at Florida right after he was hired.
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Really? I guess I wasn't really paying attention. I know some guys get the old "you should think about transferring" speech but I didn't think they actually took a player's scholarship.
 
DTP said:
Really? I guess I wasn't really paying attention. I know some guys get the old "you should think about transferring" speech but I didn't think they actually took a player's scholarship.
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Yeah, there's apparently a rule that newly hired HCs have the ability to non-renew for any/no reason.

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TheOriginalCane said:
Look, I'm not criticizing you personally. But a few things.

First, there is a difference between what we, as people outside the program, see in a "public" sense...and what is actually happening inside the program. Do you really think that Mario doesn't know who else will be leaving? Guys are about to take final exams, and if they are going to GRADUATE, they don't really need to enter the Portal anyhow. You've got another week for undergrad players to submit paperwork, and then a few days for the university to "process the paperwork", so we could see underclassmen names for the next two weeks, and then "graduating" players could announce over an even longer timeframe.

Second, why are you talking about Peyton Matocha? DO YOU EVEN SEE HIM ON THE ROSTER? That, right there, should be a dead giveaway. People have talked about how Peyton already has a job lined up. Relax.

Finally, you are acting like the standard is "so many other programs that have flipped half their roster". Why do you think that UM hasn't done the same? And think about what that means. To reach that percentage, you need a healthy number of transfers. And while some transfers will perform better at their new locations, I've never understood this baseless assumption that 1,000 or 1,500 or 2,000 players will all suddenly become better players simply by the musical-chair process of transferring. "Flipping half the roster" involves 42 new players. Outside of approximately 25 HS signees, that would require every one of these "many other programs" to bring in 17 Portal transfers each. Let's not act like that is ideal or will result in success for all of those teams.

I think you are overly concerned with whether, presumably, five more guys are leaving in the next few weeks. Which is very likely to happen as the semester ends.
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All reasonable points. Just to clarify, I used Matocha as an example of a kid who decided to graduate instead of hitting the portal to continue playing football at another school. At least that's what I understood happened. Which, to your point, may be what a lot of the kids still on roster that I thought would leave may be planning to do come May or even after summer 1 or 2 terms.
 
rok said:
WR M. Redding

TE D. Mamarelli

OL M. McLaughlin, L. Seymore, R. Rodriguez, C. Washington

DE T. Davis, C. Williams
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I wasn't planning to name names. But barring couple of differences of opinion, you identified most of those I had in mind.

We also seem to be bunched up at Corner with Couch, Porter and Curtis. They all can play. But only 1, at best, is going to be standing next to Davonte come Game 1. Ideally we land a true starting CB in the portal. If not, Damari, Stafford and Graves will have a say in who is CB2. ... To be clear, if all of them are open to staying and unselfish about it, then that's by far the best outcome.
 
grover said:
I wasn't planning to name names. But barring couple of differences of opinion, you identified most of those I had in mind.

We also seem to be bunched up at Corner with Couch, Porter and Curtis. They all can play. But only 1, at best, is going to be standing next to Davonte come Game 1. Ideally we land a true starting CB in the portal. If not, Damari, Stafford and Graves will have a say in who is CB2. ... To be clear, if all of them are open to staying and unselfish about it, then that's by far the best outcome.
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Curtis is another candidate for sure. Nothing against any of them just standard operating procedure when a new staph takes over.
 
DTP said:
Every year dozens of players enter the portal and never end up at a new school. Some guys are ok with not being a starter and enjoy the P5 experience at an expensive private school in Miami vs getting playing time at an FCS school in Arkansas.

I knew a guy who played at Miami in the late 90’s/early 2000’s but only saw the field during blowouts. He stayed for five years and got a valuable education because he knew he wasn’t NFL material and transferring to a lesser program just to get more playing time wouldn’t matter in the big picture.
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More than dozens..hundreds make that mistake
 
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