They did not want to play for Golden.
Doesnt matter how we lost the area but we have certainly lost it and Ice Harris wasnt able to do anything to stop that. I see no evidence at all that Ice is able to bring in recruits even from the Miami area.
If no one wants to play for your coach there is nothing anyone can do. I don't care how good of a recruiter you are. People are not dumb and knew Golden's scheme and coaching was trash.
We still have some done fine recruits coming from other schools like STA and Gulliver yet some how we arent getting these guys from the apparent "stomping ground" schools that Ice should be getting them from. Using golden as excuse is a cop out.
You are not listening. They did not want to play for Al Golden. This is fact. The kids we got wanted to come to UM regardless of the coach. Those kids were coming no matter what.
I said years ago that no DT's where coming because of Golden scheme. All we landed were DE's because telling a DE that he could play standing up like a LB was a dream for most DE.
We had no chance at the other top players because Golden's name was so bad in S Florida