I'd tell him thanks for being someone who led by example in THE OLD REGIME, but in good conciseness I couldn't send him back out behind that O-line until we can fix it.
As the new guy, I'd institute a one-two player recruiting limit on Dade for a couple years and fire up my staff to go out and find more football ready talent around the state and nation.
We haven't won anything for a couple of decades now, the local Blue Chippers know that better than anyone, and they haven't come here. It seems many of the players that do come, may come with the athleticism, but not with the basic skills (or intangibles), like technique or discipline they should have mastered in high school (We shouldn't have to focus so **** much on teaching corners to turn to look for the ball, blocking, tacking to 3rd, 4th and 5th year college football players. They had no problem facing inferior payers when they were the biggest stud on the field in HS; then they can't against somebody with equal talent?). Consequently, we spend too much time on getting them up to speed, rather than developing them. Or, they're simply head cases that don't pan out or that have helped define the culture.
Slowly return to local recruiting after you've esablished your program and culture and established a more varied recruiting range. By then, the local talent might realize you've only been going after two of them each cycle. If they see you're making strides towards winning, it might motivate some to stay home. Why? Because we've relied way too much on the bottom of the barrel talent that's been left for the Canes to grab after it's been cherry-picked.
For a new regime, it's easier to establish a change in culture to incoming freshman, then to change a culture that's been perpetuated at Miami since the winning days - the only thing the players failed to notice, is they talked the talk of a winning future that was left them by others but they just didn't walk the walk. They been living on a swagger check a different type player from another generation of Hurricane athletes cashed, and they've driven bounced that check and driven the program into the dirt.
All this takes time, and this fan base ran out of that a while back.
