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No other program has a problem evaluating OOS talent other than ours lol.1. Easier to evaluate a 3-star in South Florida. It's our neighborhood. We can watch him play live any time we want. ****, we can go talk to his barber if we want to.
2. Signing out-of-state 3-star kids over local 3-star kids is not a good look IMO. Not good for relationships, especially if that South FLA 3-star goes somewhere else and excels. Miami coaches look like clueless bums when that happens. It creates animosity between local players and coaches. It's hard for local players/coaches to get behind your program when you're passing up local studs and signing 3-star kids from out of town.
How TF does Utah & Oregon eval South Fla players being so far away?
And the politics Miami has to deal with is pure insanity. So, if we sign an OOS 3-star as opposed to a local 3-star it turns into WW3 between the program & HS coaches, but when we offer these very same kids & pursue them from 8th grade on & they hightail it out of town & sign with Bama, UGA, LSU, Oh St, TAMU, UF, FSU etc nobody says anything?
You know how many times we offered a local 3-star that still spurned us & signed elsewhere? Literally happens every class. So what do we do? We literally can't win in this scenario.
What was the reason a kid like Douglas Emilien signed with Minnesota over us?
In 2019, Tyrique Stevenson, Frank Ladson, Jordan Battle, Kaiir Elam, Akeem Dent, Khris Bogle, Mark-Anthony Richards (Ahmmon's lil brother), John Dunmore, Braylen Ingraham, Kenny McIntosh, Ge'mon Eaford, Jaden Davis, Anthony Solomon, Nay'Quan Wright, DJ Williams (Edge's Nephew), Wardrick Wilson, Mike Morris, Cornelius Nunn, Jarvis Brownlee, Tiawan Mullen, Jahmar Brown & Mark Fox all left South FLA & signed with P5 teams, we offered every single one of them except Tiawan which might end up the biggest miss of'em all.
The point being, yes we should always have the advantage of recruiting kids in our backyard, but at some point what do we do when all these kids are just leaving? Like seriously, we couldn't manage to sign one of'em & they all didn't sign with winning programs either, they just didn't wanna come to Miami.
I'm not in disagreement with you or D$ or any of yall, no one has to tell me the importance of keeping South Fl talent home, the only point I've made is, for whatever reason these kids just aren't interested man. We really have to do something to change that. Otherwise, those lists of players will look like that every year.