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Reviewing the Classes: The Class of 2007

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We spend so much time on recruiting, but we rarely take time to look back. This series examines every class for the past five coaches- Manny, Richt, Golden, Shannon, and Coker. As Mario’s first class enters Year 4, what are the trends he needs to avoid if he wants to break the cycle?

Of course, bad coaching and development played a massive role in our downfall. But for this exercise, I wanted to focus on pure talent acquisition. That’s why I use NFL numbers. The NFL has the most...

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This is when I first got heavily into recruiting and spent my days roaming canestime.

I was excited about RANDY and this class. For some reason I never felt Marve was gonna be it and was a jacory guy from the start.

The Allen Bailey recruitment solidified to me that kids wanted to play for Randy and he could really recruit.

Jermaine McKenzie had the craziest high school highlight I’ve seen to this day.

Remember Shawnbrey McNeal hitting the hole like he got shot out of a cannon? I thought he was going to be a stud.

Hank is one of my favorite canes of all time

RIP JOJO
 
Previous articles starting in 2001:

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Reviewing the Classes: The Class of 2001

We spend so much time on recruiting, but we rarely take time to look back. This series examines every class for the past five coaches- Manny, Richt, Golden, Shannon, and Coker. As Mario’s first class enters Year 4, what are the trends he needs to avoid if he wants to break the cycle? Of...
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Reviewing the Classes: The Class of 2002

We spend so much time on recruiting, but we rarely take time to look back. This series examines every class for the past five coaches- Manny, Richt, Golden, Shannon, and Coker. As Mario’s first class enters Year 4, what are the trends he needs to avoid if he wants to break the cycle? Of...
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Reviewing the Classes: The Class of 2003

We spend so much time on recruiting, but we rarely take time to look back. This series examines every class for the past five coaches- Manny, Richt, Golden, Shannon, and Coker. As Mario’s first class enters Year 4, what are the trends he needs to avoid if he wants to break the cycle? Of...
www.canesinsight.com www.canesinsight.com

www.canesinsight.com

Reviewing the Classes- The Class of 2004

We spend so much time on recruiting, but we rarely take time to look back. This series examines every class for the past five coaches- Manny, Richt, Golden, Shannon, and Coker. As Mario’s first class enters Year 4, what are the trends he needs to avoid if he wants to break the cycle? Of...
www.canesinsight.com www.canesinsight.com

www.canesinsight.com

Reviewing the Classes- The Class of 2005

We spend so much time on recruiting, but we rarely take time to look back. This series examines every class for the past five coaches- Manny, Richt, Golden, Shannon, and Coker. As Mario’s first class enters Year 4, what are the trends he needs to avoid if he wants to break the cycle? Of...
www.canesinsight.com www.canesinsight.com

www.canesinsight.com

Reviewing the Classes- The Class of 2006

We spend so much time on recruiting, but we rarely take time to look back. This series examines every class for the past five coaches- Manny, Richt, Golden, Shannon, and Coker. As Mario’s first class enters Year 4, what are the trends he needs to avoid if he wants to break the cycle? Of...
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When people list the best receivers in UM history, Hankerson often gets forgotten. The kid still sits 8th in career catches and 3rd in career TDs while at UM. He was a baller. Especially in that 2010 season.

Cooper was one of my all time favorite backs. He was a tough runner. One of those dudes who wasnt in the top tier like Edge or McGahee that most Hurricane fans remember, but a James Stewart or a Donnell Bennett level.
 
Talented but Star-crossed class.

Cooper’s injury in Orlando if I’m not mistaken led to them changing the turf.

The McKenzie/Marve car accident was a shame. Would’ve been interesting to see what they could’ve done if they were healthy from the jump.

Didn’t Wiggins show up, run a 4.8, get in a locker room fight and promptly leave for a directional Michigan school?

And didn’t ojomo lose weight and miss time after a walk on broke his jaw?
 
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THIS CLASS BRINGS BACK SO MANY MEMORIES. I was a kid and this is when I had really started getting into recruiting. This **** is nothing but nostalgia man. ****.

I thought Robert Marve was going to bring us back to the promised land LMAO. Graig Cooper was suppose to be what Shady McCoy became. I wasn't tuned into Leonard Hankerson as a recruit but his senior year & Senior Bowl were so good, I thought he was going to be a perennial Pro Bowler. Then injuries and Dan Snyder happened.
 
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THIS CLASS BRINGS BACK SO MANY MEMORIES. I was a kid and this is when I had really started getting into recruiting. This **** is nothing but nostalgia man. ****.

I thought Robert Marve was going to bring us back to the promised land LMAO. Graig Cooper was suppose to be what Shady McCoy became. I wasn't tuned into Leonard Hankerson as a recruit but his senior year & Senior Bowl were so good, I thought he was going to be a perennial Pro Bowler. Then injuries and Dan Snyder happened.
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“…back into the promised land…

And this was 18 years ago. 😩
 
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Still recruiting some knuckleheads that didnt love football - Robert Marve was one here - that would be influenced by previous classes that are still lingering around. Randy, for as much of a hardass as he was, recruited a few too many of them. We would take a commitment from wild man Zach Kane in the next class as well.

He'd be able to go into some homes and pull some recruits Coker could not. Allen Bailey in this class. Arthur Brown in the next. We'd also land Brandon Harris next year.

Improvements in OL recruiting due to Jeff Stoutland.

We start pulling more Florida prospects, but at this point we are swinging and missing on the ones that would ultimately matter and getting players with just lesser upside. This is not a gross class. It has a lot of college starts and plenty of productive players...but also, as mentioned, we're at The Standard being lowered for acceptable right now. Graig Cooper was a nice player, but he ultimately is not a Miami caliber running back, nevermind a starter. Special shouts to his nemesis, the Turf Monster over at The Rock who was recruited the same year.

All in all, a good class for Randy that he will absolutely capitalize on, but we're also getting to the point in Miami history that poor support, resources, infrastructure, and just not the right hires at head coach will give us 75 cents on the dollar for some Good 'Canes and we'd have a bad habit of our top recruits not being top conference players.

This is going to be a good area to examine mistakes and try to compare to Mario, I think.
 
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