He’s just very genuine. Fun to watch.
“Don’t Do It.”
Pretty heavily implied that Amos, Larvadain, or someone in a similar situation is still in contact with current players to warn them the grass isn’t always green in the world of the portal.
Who wouldn’t want to play for this guy? By the way, that is far from the entire press conference. He does break down who we signed and why we signed them. But that was my favorite part of the presser.
Heavy on the recommendation that we will need to step it up a good bit in the NIL category if we ever hope to move up to the level where we’re nationally competitive.
Respectfully curious……what does nationally competitive mean?
Being included in the list of 12 teams not going the standard bowl route.
Here is what I think it takes before NIL
- only play 1 buy game, which requires finding another $2-$3m in revenue per year
- Move to a conference that provides a stronger strength of schedule….potentially increasing the revenue to offset higher expenses
- Increase endowments to fund more for coaches to maintain continuity
- Increase endowments to fund an additional 20 scholarships (actually 40)
- Then, maybe go the NIL route. This is an empty calorie snack, compared to all above
Im not sure theres a better conference for Miami right now. I’m sure there will be another round of realignment when the ACC and B12 collapse…
I don’t think we need another conference, just have to dominate the one we are in and get a big nonconference win every year. That is how Boise started out building their dynasty and they were not in the Mountain West then.
I think Coach Martin agrees with you on the schedule but I dont. I love playing the p4 games. I wouldnt do the Kent schedule- but thisnyears schedule was great- two winnable power 4 games and a great experience. I am good with 2 p4 games only instead of 3 but we play enough Group of 5 games in our league. And the G5s we schedule are hard (Army- wku- marshall- james madison) This year UNLV is better than both Northwestern and UC
Guys. NESCADAD’s definition of nationally competitive is making the playoff.
The answers were what it would take….not what everyone wants to do.
There is no way anything less than a 12-1 MAC team gets in. The Boise story is real but is from, what, 20 years ago? Todays MWC allows a G5 team to schedule 1 buy game (presumably a loss), run the table in conference and get in.
And someone might say that the 2003 team would have done it……ok….one team in ~140 years of playing football.
I don’t think that meets the nationally competitive definition.
No freaking way the MAC or our current economic model allows this to happen for Miami. Sorry for being the grumpy old guy here
Seeing as though you are one of the few of us here who actually played football for MU, I’m gonna agree since I know shit about crap. I can’t be binary in any opinion other than the subjective. That said, here’s my question: are we in the right conference to get us to our best (whatever that means ie: football ranking, max student enrollment, endowment, whatever the brass ring is that football provides.)
Is the MAC helping or hurting us. And….go!
Listen to Chuck’s presser. That seems to be his definition. I was just relaying what he seems to believe is nationally relevant.
Chuck was very happy that we finally got the NIL fund off the ground and made it clear that giving to the NIL fund will help the program.
One thing to keep in mind about being national relevant is the possibility for playoff expansion. A big flaw in the current system is the 1-4 seeds don’t get to host a playoff game and therefore miss out on $10+ million in ticket revenue. Oregon or Texas would probably love to host the MAC or CUSA champion this year. For them, it would be an easy win and a big windfall of ticket revenue. For the G5, every conference champion could make the playoffs just like basketball. It’s a win win.
But a couple seasons of Oregon vs Liberty type blowouts would bring that experiment to a halt quickly.
Has that destroyed the NCAA basketball tournament?
Love it. Hope some new donors come out of the woodwork to donate to NIL
He mentioned an alum who created two endowed staff positions for full-time recruitment management as being critical to our success.