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It's an awesome addition and thank you both for taking the time to entertain us on a Sunday morning (listen to y'all on my morning jog). Is it possible to get it in Spotify format like the Monday-Friday podcasts?

Couple of questions from last weeks pods. There was a discussion midweek on the importance of keeping South Florida kids home and not bailing on them. Seems like there is pushback with some recent misses

- How do fellow South Florida RB's like Mark Fletcher and Jordan Lyle with comparable recruiting rankings that could have gone anywhere have no issue staying home but when it comes to Derek Cooper it's said he "doesn't believe in Miami enough"?

- It's said we need to win more to be taken seriously and continue to see 5 to 7 to 10 wins. Besides the negative recruiting "They lost in the Pop Tart Bowl" how can an elite recruiter as Mario has been referenced not overcome a couple of bad games to an overall body of work and program trajectory? It feels like recruits want to use that as an excuse not to come when plenty of out of state elite recruits have committed here with the exact same circumstances.

- On a midweek podcast after losing Calvin Russell, y'all encouraged us not to give up on South Florida recruits because so many of our current best players are from South Florida. How did we land elite local talent selling less earlier in the Mario era and now all of a sudden these local recruits claiming they need to see more from Miami when all Mario has given them more in every season? We've never heard the objection from national misses being this and seems like just a South Florida recruit objection. Is there more to the story with our current local relations?

- There was discussion, writeups, mentions even from prominent national media members on "Miami's potential path to the #1 class" just over a month ago. How does that topic come up and a month later we are reeling to stay in the Top 10? You can't go on record with that headline if there isn't information to make it it seem like it could happen for things to go completely belly up that swiftly.

- All last year and early this year we heard "2026 will be Miami's best class as they have seen Cam Ward and double digit wins". The season ended in January for everyone with no new info for any program in the wins and losses column. How is it now in July that all of that has changed with no new info regarding wins and losses?
 
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ball915 said:
- How do fellow South Florida RB's like Mark Fletcher and Jordan Lyle with comparable recruiting rankings that could have gone anywhere have no issue staying home but when it comes to Derek Cooper it's said he "doesn't believe in Miami enough"?
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Every recruitment is different. We had to flip Fletcher and Lyle late. Let's see what happens with Cooper. I'd pick Texas, but I don't think that's over yet.
ball915 said:
- It's said we need to win more to be taken seriously and continue to see 5 to 7 to 10 wins. Besides the negative recruiting "They lost in the Pop Tart Bowl" how can an elite recruiter as Mario has been referenced not overcome a couple of bad games to an overall body of work and program trajectory? It feels like recruits want to use that as an excuse not to come when plenty of out of state elite recruits have committed here with the exact same circumstances.
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I think local recruits just have a much different view of Miami. They've sat in empty stadiums for bad losses in formative years. They've heard their families talk about Miami being terrible. They've seen friends go to Miami and disappoint, and other friends leave town and flourish. Out-of-state recruits are more of a clean slate.

ball915 said:
- There was discussion, writeups, mentions even from prominent national media members on "Miami's potential path to the #1 class" just over a month ago. How does that topic come up and a month later we are reeling to stay in the Top 10? You can't go on record with that headline if there isn't information to make it it seem like it could happen for things to go completely belly up that swiftly.
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It's a momentum game. I think we've just come up short on a lot of the borderline recruitments. It's not that much different than the 2024 season. Sometimes your losses are at the end. No real excuse or fancy explanation. Fortunately for Miami, there is still time in the clock and they have some really good players committed. But they are behind on some important recruitments.
 
DMoney said:
Every recruitment is different. We had to flip Fletcher and Lyle late. Let's see what happens with Cooper. I'd pick Texas, but I don't think that's over yet.

I think local recruits just have a much different view of Miami. They've sat in empty stadiums for bad losses in formative years. They've heard their families talk about Miami being terrible. They've seen friends go to Miami and disappoint, and other friends leave town and flourish. Out-of-state recruits are more of a clean slate.


It's a momentum game. I think we've just come up short on a lot of the borderline recruitments. It's not that much different than the 2024 season. Sometimes your losses are at the end. No real excuse or fancy explanation. Fortunately for Miami, there is still time in the clock and they have some really good players committed. But they are behind on some important recruitments.
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that is more like D$... We do have a good class and a lot of time till signing day. We are not sitting on pile of cash without giving it to someone by signing day...
 
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