Correct me if I’m wrong but the most any of those Oregon State and USF teams won in a year was 4 games while he was there. And FSU best record when he was there was 6-7?
I get the local ties but what has he shown at the college level to warrant all this commotion about losing him? Is it just his recruiting? We just signed the number 11 class with 3 good potentially great transfers added on top.
It’s not like he’s leaving to some top program he’s going to Marshall... the same Marshall that just pushed out the C-USA head coach of the year. Marshall will not be beating us for any recruits we are targeting.
You think position coaches are responsible for Wins & Losses?
And you’re missing the point. The reason why it’s a deal that he’s leaving is because he’s a really good recruiter & when you’ve struggled with recruiting like we have you want to keep as much help as you can on your staff. You mention how we just finished with the #11 class, Coach Lockette is part of the reason for that, we had the most success we’ve had in recruiting Local talent in quite some time & it’s no coincidence that he was here when we did.
In addition to the fact when you have coaches like Baker & Patke who are unqualified to be here in the first place on staff it makes losing a guy like Lockette look worse because he brings more value to the team than them.
It doesn’t matter whether he’s going to Marshall or NE Louisiana State, the point is, he was here & could’ve been a very good addition to our recruiting efforts & helping secure future talent from local schools that we’ll be battling it out with SEC powers for.
No it’s not the end of the world that he’s gone, no one has ever said that, the point that yall keep glossing over is the fact is he brings something that we’ve been missing for decades at the U, while simultaneously we have coaches who are nothing more than Rubber duckies on staff who bring absolutely nothing to the table.
The reason why you guys try so hard to discredit Telly or minimize his impact is because yall constantly trying to justify every dumb decision Manny makes, but then yall will be the same ones all shocked & surprised when we miss on some high caliber 4/5-star kid we were recruiting & won’t understand why we couldn’t land him. It’s because Manny has ducks on his staff that yall will catch bullets for while bashing the dudes who can actually sell & get NLI’s signed.
Lockette is not irreplaceable nor is he the greatest coach ever, NO ONE HAS SAID THAT. But you know what he is? A **** good weapon to have on the trail when you’re trying to land kids like Wesley Bissainthe or Shemar Stewart etc., instead yall want us to load up on Patke’s & Baker’s who barely know what day it is let alone give us a shot to bring in elite talent. You’d rather have him here at Miami than letting him go, regardless of where he’s going, that’s the point.
But at the end of the day it’s really all a moot point, you guys get real obtuse when trying to justify bad moves, but just ask yourself, if you have to reach so far to explain a questionable decision, why are you defending that decision in the first place?
