Hmm.....
I mean we also do the same at TE. Guys are committing here because we are TE U.
Your a recruiting vet....YOU SHOULD KNOW...South Florida kids are about the bag and getting to the nfl. That pitch works for them 100% all the time. So for us to magically have 3 de's going to be high picks..the same year south florida is choc full of high quality de's HAS to be a god send.
What other recruiting pitch you want them to throw out?. WEATHER?...the kids live **** here. lol..education? who gives a f*ck.
Again we may actually have the most de's that played here in the nfl currently..we have been doing something right there for the last decade. UFOMBA ****n Kamalu is an nfl de collecting checks lol
Sh*t is simple...Mannys defensive scheme is ultra productive for de's...we also send them to the nfl...You want in or not?.
The only problem on your list is CB...and just demoting that guy i expect an uptick in recruiting there at that position...ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING we have one of the best recruiters in the country at that position. We havenet had an issue recruiting wrs here in a while.
That’s why I said the whole discussion is silly. People overreact to every comment. It’s impossible to talk recruiting pitch strategy if the marketing logic is turned into a referendum on the program. The question is what’s the best way to sell the program. Doesn’t mean either way is ‘wrong.’ Just different pros and cons, different pitches.
I get it with TEU. I’d also note that the NFLU pitch has gotten us a generation of guys who leave early and never accomplish enough at Miami. I could frankly give zero ***** about the nfl piece of this relative to getting guys who help us win in college. But put that aside. Most of our TEs were not top recruits. Graham came from hoops, Walford, Njoku and Herndon were lower rated. Jordan and Mallory were our highest rated TEs since Olsen, iirc. Not sure they’re better than everyone since then.
We’re obviously going to play to our strengths where we can, and DE is an area of strength. Still, if we’re pitching a kid at DE on NFL, you can be sure his teammate we’re pitching at LB or CB is going to wonder why we’re not pitching them the same way. When you have a strong suit, you can be more confident in your story - you don’t have to run around in your pajamas yelling about it. That was my point. I‘ve been on the recruiting marketing topic for two decades around these sites. Do we have a good pitch that works and is consistent, has integrity, authenticity, resonates? What will Manny say to a group that includes DEs and CBs? Probably not talk about DEs and the NFL, unless he wants the CBs to scratch their head and risk it all winds up on some competitors site.
There’s an old adage about two bulls on a hill looking down at a field of cows. The young one says ‘hey, dad, let’s run down there and **** one a dem cows.‘ The older one says ‘no son, let’s walk down there and **** them all.’ Jizzing all over ourselves over a couple DEs sounds like the young bull approach. Let’s get this right, and take them all down (DE, LB, CB, S, OL, WR, RB, TE, QB). The DE prospects won’t fail to note our DE success and we won’t fail to remind them. Doesn’t mean our pitch at every position has to be totally different.
/WR and Lb also look like problems to me for recruiting. Not just CB.