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pacusmc

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Almost 2 decades of watching all the local talent leave and bring glory to other schools.
We sit here at nsd with that token UM hat getting left on the table.
We were the trend setters. The school that went after the athletic faster dline that is the model today. We ran through the smoke and held four fingers in the air. Erickson and his offense. We gave players personality and were hated so much that we single handedly made the NCAA re-write the rule book that was even nicknamed the Miami rules.
We envisioned the state of Miami as a recruiting ground and then everyone else followed.
Nick Saban coached at the Dolphins and I’m sure he noticed how hard it would be to pull all these kids from Florida and California to Alabama.
He knew he basically had to turn than program into a **** near all inclusive resort with a support staff to delegate everything.
Now as schools and the facilities are copycats of each other it is only fitting that new trend should emerge.
In a world where social media rules and the winning programs are On espn all the time and media blowing any loss out of proportion; the top kids are only consoldering a few schools. Making it harder and harder to take a program to the next level.
It only makes sense to circumvent the recruiting process and go after kids that will be a day one impact via transfer. Way more efficient to deal directly with a 20-21 year old that wants more playing time and is a proven
Product on the field. A lot easier than trying to kiss a kids *** since he was 15 and convince his coach family friends teamates handlers etc only for him to shun you at the last minute and if he does chose you there is still the chance that he doesn’t pan out relative to the work you put in. Compare to the work bama or Clemson or othe rorograms have to do to UM. I’m sure our school spent more time recruiting Crowley than osu did.
Stevenson spent more time here than any other campus by far and atended more games than the school he picked.
The move to explore the transfer market heavily is a brilliant move aimed to supplement recruiting shortcomings and augment any deficiencies on the team.
A second or 3rd year kid isn’t worried about bags or facilities anymore. He wants the nfl.
If we start pumping out nfl talent via transfer it would be a big deal. The nfl is full of fcs and small p5 school talent. Top p5 schools are full of untapped potential cause kids are sitting due to politics or personality or scheme conflicts with coaches or teamates.
What better place to try to turn your dreams into reality than at the U.

Go canes!!!
 
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and let’s relax a bit on the whole “he chose another school first” thing too many here are doing.

These guys ain’t a chick who banged some other dude.
 
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OU has already set the trend with the transfer portal. They have transfers who won back to back Heisman Trophies. They've always injected JUCO talent to their teams for decades. This has been their secret sauce but we need to take a page out of their playbook until the U is back winning on the recruiting front.
 
Teams have been using the transfer and grad transfer market for ages to fill holes...but I don't recall seeing such wholesale use of this market by teams to keep the talent level up.

Now...I don't think this is going to be a real, regular thing for Miami...but I think this year, its shining a light on 1) how dire our current roster construction is...there are holes EVERYWHERE and its a problem and 2) how dire our current recruiting class is that we need to start plucking players looking to bounce after their first year.

With that said, I would like for Miami to use this more often. Really get the current players involved, too. Any HS teammates that are highly regarded looking to bounce? Players are going to know that before anyone else and it could give us a jump on this market. Brevin has been clearly very active with his former teammates and might pull off two major recruits to Miami.

OP makes a great point, too...the transfer market is usually outside of the scope of the bag game. Also, D$, I believe made the point in a previous thread...Miami is a great destination spot for a one year stop before you go pro.

Lots of factors that make me support going to the transfer, GradTransfer, and even JUCO market more often in the future.
 
Agreed. We definitely need to brandish our talent levels and the quickest way to do that is via the portal and JuCo route. If we can continue to secure the type of players that we’ve picked up already via the portal, it will speak volumes to others looking to transfer out especially if we continue it and start winning consistently. We are forced into this path thanks to the abysmal recruiting class we landed in the early signing period late last year. That leaves massive holes that Manny now has to fill immediately and into next year as a weak class ruins you for multiple seasons not just the year the class was signed. In order to bridge those gaps, and do so quickly, Manny is a man on a mission to restore this roster to the levels they need to be at in order to consistently compete not only via dominating the Coastal, but also if we want to get to the CFP; beating Clemson in the ACCCG. We do that, and finally we can usher those two words everyone keeps spouting off every time it appears the sleepy giant Miami stirs on the college football landscape....we back.
 
Get immediate help here any way we can get it. Win. More local studs will stay. Never all of them. But more will fall our way
 
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