PBuc and Golden did not start off on the right foot as he told his half brother to look else where and cut him from the 2011 recruiting class.
Golden Cuts Ties with CB Davis
Jeremy Davis will not be a Miami Hurricane and is now considering UNC, USF and Vandy
January 12, 2011 4:27 pm
Jeremy Davis, the younger brother of former Hurricane All-American Phillip Buchanon, says he will not be at Miami.
And not because he doesn’t want to. But because new head coach Al Golden doesn’t want him.
Golden talked with Davis Tuesday night, which left Davis, who had been firmly committed to the Hurricanes since May 2009, disappointed.
“He lied to me,” Davis said. “I don’t know what’s up with the coach. He was trying to be extra tough on the phone for no reason. He kind of had an attitude with me and my parents. That didn’t go well. My mom is mad, my dad is mad. We have always been all about Miami our whole lives. It seems like he wants nothing to do with Randy Shannon’s players. He wants to bring in who he wants to bring in. He said it’s in my best interest not to go there and basically it wouldn’t matter how good I was that I wouldn’t get to play. That kind of hurts, but you move on with life and you hope the next decision is a good decision.”
Davis, a 6-foot cornerback with blazing speed, starred at Cape Coral his senior year after transferring from Fort Myers. He did not get cleared academically and ended up at Milford (N.Y.) Academy this past season.
He says he’s been cleared academically and will enroll early this semester. He’s currently considering three schools—USF, North Carolina, and Vanderbilt. He has ties to all three with former UM defensive backs coach Wesley McGriff coaching at Vanderbilt; former UM coach Butch Davis, who coached Buchanan, at North Carolina, and a former assistant at USC, who has coached Davis’ cousin at one point.
Florida assistant Aubrey Hill, UM's former recruiting coordinator, has been trying to persuade Davis to Gainesville, but Davis says he's not interested in UF or UM rival Florida State.
“(Golden) said I can’t play at Miami and that I’m not a Miami guy,” Davis said. “I’ve been Miami the whole time. Miami would have been my choice if I wasn’t for the coach. It just didn’t seem right for him that he was giving me attitude for no reason. He lied to me, he lied to my parents.”
Davis said that he’ll go to a school that he feels wanted and somewhere he can play early.
“I’ll still be Miami fan, I still love Miami,” Davis said. “But with the new coach, he and I just aren’t seeing eye-to-eye and if you’re not it’s not going to work out. Period. But there aint no love lost. I wanted to be there. I wanted to make a difference. I wanted to get the ‘U’ back to where it was.”
The timing of Golden's call makes it especially difficult for Davis, who was expecting to start classes at Miami in less than a week when Spring Semester classes start in Coral Gables on January 18th, and now must scramble to find an alternative.
Well, you want to know something. He didn't enroll at UCF in 2011. He signed in 2012 and redshirted. He did scout last year and he is not even on the UCF roster. Maybe just maybe he wasn't going to qualify which is exactly what happened. And maybe just maybe the kid isn't a Division 1 player. Of course he's ****ed. He can attack the university and the university can't comment. And this is not to defend Golden. This is to lay out the status of Jeremy Davis.
Hindsight is 20/20, how many players Golden recruited are no longer with the team and some not even playing football.
..and how many of those were last minute grabs or rosters fillers during the NCAA clouded era. It can be argued both ways and both ways could be argued correctly.
**** not the clud excuse again, bottom line you dont turn away a kid that's been committed and is also a legacy. Just like you dont kick off the team the current player on the team once you take over.
He didn't qualify. Once he did, the offer was no longer honored by Golden. And yeah, maybe he's been **** since, but having played competitive ball, motivation and future outlook means a lot. The guy was offered and the offer was rescinded once he qualified.PBuc and Golden did not start off on the right foot as he told his half brother to look else where and cut him from the 2011 recruiting class.
Golden Cuts Ties with CB Davis
Jeremy Davis will not be a Miami Hurricane and is now considering UNC, USF and Vandy
January 12, 2011 4:27 pm
Jeremy Davis, the younger brother of former Hurricane All-American Phillip Buchanon, says he will not be at Miami.
And not because he doesn’t want to. But because new head coach Al Golden doesn’t want him.
Golden talked with Davis Tuesday night, which left Davis, who had been firmly committed to the Hurricanes since May 2009, disappointed.
“He lied to me,” Davis said. “I don’t know what’s up with the coach. He was trying to be extra tough on the phone for no reason. He kind of had an attitude with me and my parents. That didn’t go well. My mom is mad, my dad is mad. We have always been all about Miami our whole lives. It seems like he wants nothing to do with Randy Shannon’s players. He wants to bring in who he wants to bring in. He said it’s in my best interest not to go there and basically it wouldn’t matter how good I was that I wouldn’t get to play. That kind of hurts, but you move on with life and you hope the next decision is a good decision.”
Davis, a 6-foot cornerback with blazing speed, starred at Cape Coral his senior year after transferring from Fort Myers. He did not get cleared academically and ended up at Milford (N.Y.) Academy this past season.
He says he’s been cleared academically and will enroll early this semester. He’s currently considering three schools—USF, North Carolina, and Vanderbilt. He has ties to all three with former UM defensive backs coach Wesley McGriff coaching at Vanderbilt; former UM coach Butch Davis, who coached Buchanan, at North Carolina, and a former assistant at USC, who has coached Davis’ cousin at one point.
Florida assistant Aubrey Hill, UM's former recruiting coordinator, has been trying to persuade Davis to Gainesville, but Davis says he's not interested in UF or UM rival Florida State.
“(Golden) said I can’t play at Miami and that I’m not a Miami guy,” Davis said. “I’ve been Miami the whole time. Miami would have been my choice if I wasn’t for the coach. It just didn’t seem right for him that he was giving me attitude for no reason. He lied to me, he lied to my parents.”
Davis said that he’ll go to a school that he feels wanted and somewhere he can play early.
“I’ll still be Miami fan, I still love Miami,” Davis said. “But with the new coach, he and I just aren’t seeing eye-to-eye and if you’re not it’s not going to work out. Period. But there aint no love lost. I wanted to be there. I wanted to make a difference. I wanted to get the ‘U’ back to where it was.”
The timing of Golden's call makes it especially difficult for Davis, who was expecting to start classes at Miami in less than a week when Spring Semester classes start in Coral Gables on January 18th, and now must scramble to find an alternative.
Well, you want to know something. He didn't enroll at UCF in 2011. He signed in 2012 and redshirted. He did scout last year and he is not even on the UCF roster. Maybe just maybe he wasn't going to qualify which is exactly what happened. And maybe just maybe the kid isn't a Division 1 player. Of course he's ****ed. He can attack the university and the university can't comment. And this is not to defend Golden. This is to lay out the status of Jeremy Davis.
There have been times where we've offered a player, he commits, doesn't qualify and has to go off to prep, gets out but goes off to another school. And we get upset about it. Our coaches don't like it. This is what happened in reverse. Golden is just as dishonorable as a player who does the same. Difference though is that what Golden did hurts recruiting and allows opposing coaches to point to him taking back that offer and use it to negative recruit.
