I really don't buy any of that stuff to be honest with you. We heard the same thing about Jaquan Johnson.
Same im glad bandy is a cane as he should be. At the end of the day kids are going to go where they wantBuilding Bandy up to be a south Florida leader that other kids will follow was the problem. Lots of unnecessary words to exaggerate the situation. Bandy has been great, none of the other kids should reflect on him.
I really don't buy any of that stuff to be honest with you. We heard the same thing about Jaquan Johnson.
I really don't buy any of that stuff to be honest with you. We heard the same thing about Jaquan Johnson.
This at the end of the day kids are going to do what they want. But there are certain kids you simply can't miss on like Quincy Wilson who had a good bit of influence, dalvin cook, cooper and others. Who knows how that 2012 class would have ended up if duke johnson didn't go to Miami...
Recruits having 'influence' is always overrated. Kids are gonna go where they wanna go and where they think its best for them. This is the same reason package deals almost never work out. On occasion there have been transcendent players that other recruits look at and say "i wanna be on that dude's team" but that is rare.
Kids only have negative influence down here. If a kid comes here, other kids won't follow. If they leave, somehow they can pull multiple kids away, sometimes years after they graduated. If Amari Cooper comes to the U, I don't think we would be having other WRs say "I need to follow Cooper to the U and continue the SFL WR Tradition" like Jeudy said this week. We are an outlying case in almost everything.
Recruits can only act as a conduit for other croots...
Unless your staff is handing bags to a high profile recruit in order to recruit his teammate, then they don't have much (if any at all) influence on getting other kids on board.
The only thing they can do is tell other croots about the staff & give them the real about how the program works.
Also, if you payed attention, McFarland stated that Bandy was a huge reason as to why Miami is his #1 school...
He said Bandy is his guy & that he tells him everything he wants to know about the program & the Coaching staff.
Bandy has been a big part of Mac's recruitment.