Not envious whatsoever, but when I have people tweeting at me saying "This is all Goldens/D'Onofrio's/Coley's fault" it's a little aggravating when the reality of it is that it starts by being good recruiters and not letting schools like FSU, UF and Alabama take top players from your "Backyard"
Tito, I get your point, but I am confused. Are you saying it is not that they are crappy coaches but rather that they suck at recruiting? Cause it is the same dudes doing both. I admit I can't tell if they getting the craped kicked out of them on the recruiting trail or on the practice field. Then one thing we all can see is that they certainly are having their rears handed to them on the PLAYING FIELD!
Answer me this. If Ed Reed was a freshman recruit in Al's first recruiting class, would he be on the field? He was and is a free lancing gambler who ocasionally got burned but usually won the game for us and is a NFL HOF type and maybe greatest ever safety. I don't think we would have ever heard on Ed. Remeber, Tracy is, I think, the highest rated recruit Al has had, and I remember him being accused of free lancing his first year and losing his black shirt.
You need the *s and the coaches need to know how to use them. But your point is well taken. Nobody needs to coach up Duke or Stacy. The question is are guys like Tracy and others being coached DOWN?
I think the coaching is questionable to a certain extent. I think anyone here can admit that
Tracy Howard was significantly better than he was last year regardless of the fact that he was a freshman. Most of those guys have progressed to some degree like Duke, Howard, McCord and others. But with guys like Highsmith, Rodgers, Robinson, Pierre, Henderson, and others I've seen little to no improvement. And all those guys are players who have been here for 3 years under Golden. I just feel that recruiting is more important than people take it for, sure you have those teams that don't have to recruit very well to be successful, but with where Miami is located; it should be a must.
I'm sorry but this makes no sense. are you saying that the freshman improved due to coaching but the upper classman didn't b/c they don't have enough talent? who wants coaches who can only develop elite talent? i'd say is far more indicative of what the coaches do with players they have been coaching for 3 years rather than freshman who usually see their biggest jump between 1st and 2nd year regardless of coaching.
He is saying the seniors are already maxed out to the best of their abilities, come on, what team wins with pure freshman and sophomores being their best players. FSU qb is truly a sophomore and their top WRs are both truly Juniors bc KB is a redshirt soph. Some people are missing the point, Miami has recruited a bunch of 3 star depth guys and missed on the 4 star and 5 star studs. Yes we know the ed reeds and the ray lewis were not highly recruited guys, but also back then recruiting wasn't so publicized and marketed as a business as it is today. Today these sites have made players much more marketable within the college system, meaning that many 4 stars truly are 4 stars, and you guys are forgetting that Golden got 9 wins with his juniors, chick was his first makeshift class. Guys DP is our best player on the D and he was a 3 star, and if EJ wouldn't have been booted he might be the best player on the D. How many recruits can you name that have redshirted and still not contributed on anything other than special teams. I know I can think of a bunch of names, O'Donnell, Holliet, Witt, Blue, and many more. Guys Golden's first real class are sophomores, the best players on FSU are Jrs and Srs, given that Winston is great, he isn't their best player. All 3 of the stud rbs are juniors, 1 being a 4 star, the other 2 are 5 stars, even though Karlos Williams is a converted safety he was still a 5 star. Can anyone here honestly name one senior on the Defense that is good, because the best seems to be Shayon Green which had his best year and we stole him from pitt. Or was it Jimmy Gaines that we beat our Buffalo for him? Seriously some people just don't want to realize we just are not very good right now. When your best players on offense, Duke and Coley, are sophomores and freshman, you have a year or 2 to go.
