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The Race to 300

moshated305 said:
Gimme all them stars kids that the staff have on the top of their board, and if you must go by lists, the kids with the highest scores, not just stars next to their names - I been checking the rankings everyday. Great time to be a Cane and a star *****!
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supacane said:
Yeah no, man tried to chastise me in January when I said top 5. Simple logic, he got a top 6 and a top 7 class at Oregon with basically no recruiting base. U then put him at his home school with the strongest recruiting base in the nation.Then u had his own ability to attract OL nationally which is the most underrated part of achieving a top class because these players usually go to a few schools. If u dig through my post I was bullish on this and I said getting top 12 for me was a everything went bad scenario, had that exchange with Cribby weeks ago before Rashada and others committed.

I don't care who we have to knock out of the top 5 I said, we will just knock them the **** out of it. I think we will finish with a better class than Texas and probably ND. Texas class if u look as a lower per player rank than us and ND im not sure how many more players they will add. Both are close to 20 commits already. I think we may also finished above UGA. Our rise have players that surely would have gone to these other schools, not even given them a look.

Younger fans don't understand how automatic Miami was when we were humming. The coaches of rival schools remember like us older millennials and older generations.

I started looking into it, it's possible we finish with a) the most 5 star players defending on the site and b) the #1 ranked class. Possible if we catch some big breaks like Cormani and M'pemba along with others.

Btw, I'm less enamored with 5 and 4 stars more interested in # of top 50, top 100 players cuz at the end of the day its who got the better players compared to their opponents that's gonna matter. So a 4 star that's #50 is not the same as one that's #340
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IMO it would take a couple of average to poor seasons for Mario to fall out of top 15. I suspect even if he has a couple of mediocre seasons to start he would land in 10-12 range by selling being part of a rebuild. Top 5 is obviously going to be dependent on the field success. 100. We're...
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Cribby said:
It’s going to be a big , fat , huge , thick , lengthy, girthy ,intense , throbbing class.







PAUSE!!
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If we can build a front 7 like this:

SDE - Jayden Wayne, Rueben Bain
NT - James Smith, John Walker
3T - David Hicks
WDE - Damon Wilson
LB/Edge - Jaquavious Russaw
LB - Malik Bryant, Bobby Washington

We will be battling for Championships in a couple years!

Not sure if this is possible, but would be a savage front
 
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OrangeBowlMagic said:
As I've shamelessly broadcasted on this board for years, I am a filthy, dirty, ****** star *****. So I am constantly checking who we are recruiting, where we sit in the composite, projecting the class vs others, etc. It's simply irrefutable in today's college football world...the programs who recruit the best players are the best programs year after year. Not exactly a novel concept or breaking news, but if you want to win championships, you must sign top ranked classes. Yes, there are other factors that go into winning, of course, but talent acquisition is non-negotiable.

So the "bar" for a truly elite class can be simply defined as 300 points on the composite. Class size plays a role into this, so it's not absolutely imperative that you get to 300 if you're taking a small class (Clemson being the annual reminder of this --- they sign a very high percentage of blue-chip players, but rarely gigantic classes that push them to 300 on the composite), but you can be assured that if you do sign a class of 300+, you're going to be very, very high in the overall rankings. Here are how many teams have gotten to this magical number over the past several cycles:

2018 -- 3
2019 -- 2
2020 -- 3
2021 -- 2
2022 -- 4

As you can see, this number puts you into the elite of the elite as far as recruiting classes go. Now, 2023 might be *slightly* different, as the NCAA has removed the 25 player cap, so there might be a couple more teams that hit this number because I believe the classes, for the most part, will be a little larger than usual. But regardless, if you sign a 300+ score class, you're going to be one of the highest classes in the country, if not definitively Top 5. Right now, Miami sits at 215, which is good for #10. So do we have a path to 300+? In January, when Mario was hired, I'd have suggested a nearby asylum for you to reside in permanently if you'd have suggested we get to 300 this class. Now, 6 months in, I genuinely believe that the question is not if we will get to 300, but how much above 300 will we finish? Which is absolutely absurd, but this is the result of hiring one of the best recruiters on the planet, putting him in paradise, with extra juice that he's back home, and giving him the support of an entire administration as well as dump trucks full of cash. So how do we get to 300?

We know nothing in life is a lock, but I am going to list a few kids here that I believe we are all VERY confident will wind up Canes when ink comes to paper:

Rueben Bain
Christopher Johnson Jr.
Jayden Wayne
Tommy Kinsler

Adding those 4 gets us to 252 points, on only a total of 16 kids. I believe we will sign well north of 25 this cycle, probably between there and 30, so who else do we need to get to attain 300+, and how much higher than that can we realistically expect at this point? Well, there are a million ways to skin a cat, and nobody is going to project all 28-ish kids on the nose this far out, but IMO this is a VERY realistic path going forward. And I went conservative here:

- We will most likely add 2 more receivers, and for the sake of being conservative, I added Hykeem Williams and Andy Jean and DID NOT add the higher ranked Jalen Brown.
- IMO we will push for a 2nd back aside from CJ Jr. but with nobody being extremely likely from the high end kids, I didn't add anyone else to the class.
- I believe we take at least 6 linemen, so again taking the conservative route, I added Alinen and Freeling and DID NOT add Okunlola, although in reality he is probably more likely than the aforementioned 2.
- I added Malik Bryant, as I feel we're the team to beat for him, but did not add a 2nd backer to be conservative. I do think we will sign 2, though.
- I think Bonsu is a silent commit, but even if not, IMO he's in this class. I also feel that we are in a GREAT spot for Aguero at the moment, so although it's probably not a conservative approach to add him, I do feel he's more likely than not. So I popped both of them into the class.

This only gets us to 23 commits...and we're now at 299.66 on the composite. And again, this is WITHOUT Okunlola, WITHOUT Jalen Brown, WITHOUT David Hicks, WITHOUT Popo, Baxter, Hussey, Damari Brown, Acheampong, Stanquan Clark, M'Pemba, Kirkland, Cormani, LeBlanc, Braxton, John Walker, and I'm sure several I'm missing. Look at that list...I think we're pretty confident we're getting AT LEAST a couple kids from that list, and we're at 300 points without ANY of them.

This really is going to be an elite, elite class when the ink dries. Again, I thought we had zero shot at a Top 5 class in January. And this is coming from the most optimistic dude on the planet when it comes to Mario and his ability to recruit. Here we are 6 months later, and I'll be SHOCKED if we land with less than 300. What this man has done (and those around him deserve a lot of credit as well) in 6 months is honestly hard to even comprehend. What a time to be alive, and what a time to be a motha****in' Miami Hurricane.
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Great breakdown. And yea, I don't think most of us are psychologically ready for this instantaneous paradigm shift..
 
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bobbydigius said:
The crazy part which I mentioned in another thread about us getting to 300 is that because of NIL the top 7 schools might get to 300. NIL was supposed to bring parity but the early returns is that it’s just amping up an arms race between a select few schools. The fact that we had 4 schools reach 300 last cycle was eye catching. SC, Miami, Bama, UGA, ND, Texas and Ohio State may get there. That’s not even mentioning 8-4. ND is already at 280
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Look at the list of top 10 players in ‘23 and who they chose. That’s parity.

Now go look at the list of top 10 players in ’21. That’s not parity.

NIL is no doubt bringing parity to the sport. Instead of 3 schools getting all the elite kids, and playing each other for titles every year, now many more schools are getting a piece of the pie.

We might not notice it this year, but give it a couple years and you’ll see Bama’s run of dominance slow down big time. New teams playing for the title. Etc etc.

Only people knocking NIL are SEC homers who know they had a better setup when it was all under the table.
 
ThatWasMyIdea said:
Look at the list of top 10 players in ‘23 and who they chose. That’s parity.

Now go look at the list of top 10 players in ’21. That’s not parity.

NIL is no doubt bringing parity to the sport. Instead of 3 schools getting all the elite kids, and playing each other for titles every year, now many more schools are getting a piece of the pie.

We might not notice it this year, but give it a couple years and you’ll see Bama’s run of dominance slow down big time. New teams playing for the title. Etc etc.

Only people knocking NIL are SEC homers who know they had a better setup when it was all under the table.
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100 % yet man crying talking bout it's not football they grew up watching. I have no interest in watching a team play 12 games and only 2 are merely competitive. Even the conference realignment. Yes more big matchups.
 
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I know there's a strong correlation between high school recruit stars and NFl draft. But this is the year we all should really really really stop caring about them.

Why? Because Mario's staff will be recruiting 6ht, 7th, 8th, 9th graders before they even have a rating and well before they "settle" into the final rating. The recruiting sites will be following their lead, not the reverse. In fact, I guarantee you that the Miami rating curse will flip on its head within a year or two, and a legit Mario offer will trigger an additional star more often than not, just as a Bama or Tain offer do today.
 
sstcane said:
If we can build a front 7 like this:

SDE - Jayden Wayne, Rueben Bain
NT - James Smith, John Walker
3T - David Hicks
WDE - Damon Wilson
LB/Edge - Jaquavious Russaw
LB - Malik Bryant, Bobby Washington

We will be battling for Championships in a couple years!

Not sure if this is possible, but would be a savage front
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Don't think Miami has a chance with Russaw, hes either Bama or UGA.
 
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If we get Jalen Brown and Jayden Wayne over the next 4 days then we'll have the number 5 class.

We'd be less than 1 point away from Clemson at #4 overall...with two fewer commits.

We'd be tied with Texas in having the most 5 stars (3 total) committed.

It's getting crazy y'all.
 
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