Hstokes1447
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Howard Schnellenbeger 1980-1983
- 3 of 8 signing Dade County top 100 of All time.
Jimmy Johnson 1984-1988
- 4 of 10 signing Dade County top 100 of All time.
Dennis Erickson 1989-1994
- 4 of 12 signing Dade County top 100 of All time.
Butch Davis 1995-2000
- 9 of 25 signing Dade County top 100 of All time.
Larry Coker 2001-2003(His number would be different but this only covers 2001-2003)
- 3 of 6 signing Dade County top 100 of All time.
Who compiles the list of top Dade 100 of all time? Is it the Herald? Every year, when I see a list of top Dade, it seems like we're often not in it for a majority of the kids. Often, who the paper regards as tops in Dade are not the players we want. There's a disparity between the top as determined by the newspaper or whomever, and what we want to recruit for our needs. Besides, a lot of the top Dade kids have always had academic issues. They could get in somewhere else, but not at the U. I know that a statewide group, maybe the FHSAA compiled an alltime list of the best in the state. Do you have a link to the list of the Dade top 100?
The reason for using the list is to have some reference point to show elite Dade talent. If you look back through the post I also listed all of the guys who were on the list that were also offered and heavily recruited by Miami, so its safe to say Miami wanted them. That post also has a link to the list.
To your point about "Dade kids have always had academic issues" is a huge part of my argument. The poor Dade county education system will always be a issue for these kids. So regardless of how hard you recruit these kids there will always be a percentage of "elite' kids who get away simply because they couldn't get past admissions.