What are your real feelings for local players who used UM to reach their goals?

[luisitin]

Through the years so many local players early on the process commit to Miami and use us to get national attention and end recruited by other teams(Alabama, Georgia, Clemson).
All these players were supported by this community, this town’s people since they played on peewee league and now they decide to turn their back to the city’s team and go play for our enemies.
We have to start doing something and let them know, so they can feel the same way we feel.

 

[NateDogg]

To the kids that simply choose another school I cant hate them for it.

To the kids that have clearly used UM to end up elsewhere, I wish nothing but the worst in football and in life.

 

[CalCane]

I just wish people in south Florida would ostracize these pigs when they try to come home. Stay in those sh&tholes you left for. But nobody cares. South Florida youth sports are a cesspool. No pride and everyone is for sale. That’s why we should focus on true heroes like Gurvan Hall who wanted to rep his hometown instead of falling for the chopper and the bags.

 

[Zbrod95]

You start rescinding offers...point blank. Stop inviting high schools that push kids away to your camps and hand out individual invites...and when the coaches complain then you tell them to stop telling kids to go to other schools and do it publicly with proof and in front of their players.

Places like Deerfield high...

 

["U"crazy]

My feelings are that they deserve the same treatment that they give the hometown/Miami fans. if they wanna give a middle finger, then they can take a middle finger. And that's putting it in an extremely nice way

 

[TemplarCane]

Going elsewhere is a business decision.

I draw the line at divas playing Miami and not de-committing when they have no intention of signing.

Getting played is Miami’s problem, however. Experienced ace recruiters should know when they’re being used and have better options than flipping verbals to lesser programs.

 

[Brains]

I think they are scumbags and should be treated accordingly.

 

[Silver King]

You can't blame them for wanting to win or compete for a NC; its the American way. Its the same thing they have done in area high schools forever - now in the era of (above board) FHSAA Free Agency, its reinforcing that; go to the team that has the best shot.

My feelings are, do the things necessary to be competitive and end up in the Top 10 for a couple years straight, then it will be easier to keep them here. Not Rocket Science

 

[canesmang1]

It’s not the kids. It’s their family/handlers putting price tags on them

 

[CountDookoo]

Move on!

 

[Cuban Cane]

Mete el dedo en tu culo. They didn’t deserve to be in Miami. Eat **** and kick rocks

 

[TriStarCane]

I feel the same way about them I do about any player that isn’t a Cane: I ******* hate them and wish them the worst

That’s just the type of fan I am for all sports tho

 

[ssvir]

I wouldn't **** on them if they were on fire.

 

[Gatorhater]

People do what they think is best for themselves and have that right. But if they turn their back on the Cane family and chose another then they are nothing to us.

 

[cane14]

Can’t really blame people for choosing Bama, UGA and Clemson over 7-6. Loyalty is nonexistent nowadays. Win more games and we’ll retain more commits.

 

[ericane]

So I understand that everyone is ticked off about these kids and their decisions, but the question is, what can we as a fanbase/community do about it? I’m tired of these kids playing the home team with no ramifications. If they’re taking bags, how do we call them out? If they choose to “represent the 305” in the SEC, how do we make it clear that they, their families, and their handlers are no longer welcome in South Florida? If one kid from Tuscaloosa played Bama like these kids play Miami multiple times on an annual basis, there would be such a backlash to that kid that another kid in the community would never do it again.

I’m tired of the pats on the back when these kids make choices to go elsewhere. It’s time to stop respecting the decision and making these kids feel some heat. We need to come up with some tangible ideas because outside of one of us winning the powerball and dropping bags all over the community, nothing is going to change, and quite frankly, I’m tired of losing (as I know you all are).

 

[Atom Atlas]

How bout not going on a 4 game skid to people we should always beat and having one of the worst offenses in football??? Ya think that might convince kids to stick???

 

[1LuvCane]

 

[Andrew]

You start winning

 

[canecodpiece]

"Christmas is over and business is business." We used to say, fine go elsewhere, you will take the L from us. Now not so much. There are better places to be coached, trained, and developed then here now, better places to maximize your potential. "Show out for my city" and "keep the crib clean" or whatever the *** Banda says is just low-IQ sloganeering. Distances have shrunk and less and less people feel a cultural or social bond to their community - distant opportunities are increasingly a possibility. When the son of an Italian artichoke farmer leaves Isernia for Milan to get an education, network the right people, and get a job, his father doesn't say "Giuseppe, why you leave, you need show out for rural Tuscany?" Until Miami once again is SEEN as a destination that maximizes opportunities, we are just an old artichoke farm.

The question you should be asking is: are the people captaining the Miami football ship capable AND willing to conceptualize and actualize the numerous steps that have to be taken to increase that success profile? It's not about slogans, SWAG, "muh city," "da 305," - it is about running a program in a professional, goal-oriented, non-banana republic manner. Kids are sharp these days, they know real - and we have a lot of busters associated with this program. Until that changes, they are going to use UM as a interstate rest-stop on their way to bigger and better dreams (in their minds).