Supposedly trick is visiting Tennessee, Wisconsin, Texas tech, and Florida
Very much so.
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I wonder why I spent money to travel to Wisconsin, Rutgers and Oxford to support a team made up of mercenaries whose primary goal is to pick up a pay check from another program. Itās getting more trsnsctional every season.
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This is my alma mater. I donāt want to just āroot for the laundryā. This sport sucks more by the day.
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Maybe we will never have the cache to do this, but Iād like to get to get to a place where we can work on 2 year cycles with 2 year contracts (with buyouts to the extent enforceable - guess we will see with that case involving Georgia and Missouri). Find a core of kids that want to be here for at least 2 years and build around that, with the goal being to really compete for the G5 playoff spot in the second year of each cycle. I think there is value to staying in a program for more than one season, even for kids who end up being good enough to go somewhere bigger.
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Alex-What are 4 teams that didnāt win a bowl game this year.
Antwon Thomas is in the portal. What a wasted redshirt recruit that was. 12 now in the portal and more to come
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There will inevitably be contractual stipulations with these. Otherwise, the bulk of individual donors will tap out and youāll maybe have corporate owned ācollegeā teams
What makes you think he redshirted for any reason other than he wasnāt good enough to see the field?
Yeah, I donāt think having kids redshirt so youāll have them for their 5th year is a tactic that works for anyone these days.
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He was injured early
How do you feel about Miamiās 13-0 basketball program?
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3 star originally was at Washington for a season then spent last year at UNC
Iām sure heād be happy to get out of that shitshow at North (Carolina).
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I am pleased. Iām still not happy about the extent of use of the portal in football..
Thereās a book called The Infinite Game about evaluating situations and maximizing long-term value. The core idea is that if you arenāt participating in a finite process with a time limit and clearly defined rules, youāre playing an infinite game where you should try to design things to be successful at their mission forever (instead of maximizing short-term gains).
Whatever an infinite game mindset is, college football/basketball has taken the opposite approach. I still get joy from college sports because I care about Miami, but I definitely follow the sport less nationally than I did a few years ago.
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The team that only brought in one transfer this season? The team where 10/13 scholarship players were initially recruited to Miami as freshmen?
Part of whatās made that run so fun is that itās team of Miami guys, plus a small number of fully committed transfers who are with the program for multiple years.
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Ask me tomorrow after we see how they fare against top MACTION rather than assortment of branch campuses and broke-ass bible colleges that comprised the nonconference schedule.
Iām asking because Iām sure you know there is a connection to the fact that our coach is the son-in-law of one of the wealthiest families in Ohio and our uncanny ability to land/retain the guys we want.
Hard to bemoan the state of college football when basketball works the exact same and weāre using it to our advantage.
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