A week ago Yahoo! Sports dropped a mini-bomb that some thought would impact all things recruiting.
Days later, the University of Miami picked up four-star cornerback Artie Burns out of Miami Northwestern and today it was four-star safety Jamal Carter out of Miami Southridge who pledged his allegiance to ‘The U’, giving the Canes ten verbal commitments for the 2013 class — six four-stars and four three-stars, for those who keep score.
The six-foot-one, 185-pound Carter chose Miami over Florida State and LSU. He was recruited by linebackers coach Micheal Barrow, another Southridge product from the same neighborhood.
Carter cited that UM showed him love, puts tremendous talent in the NFL and that old school Canes return to the program. Carter is said to have a great football IQ and is a tremendous athlete. He is said to run a 4.4. and benches 300 pounds / squats 400 pounds.
A huge pick-up for ‘The U’. Welcome to the Canes family, Jamal!
Welcome to Miami! I am looking forward to seeing all this great accumulated talent developing into champions under the guidance of coach Golden. I went to Miami from 1985-1990 and would love to see us return to dominance in the near future.
GO CANES!!!
Great get for Golden and staff. We need playmakers in the secondary, and hopefully Carter and Burns fit that bill. I also think we need 2 or 3 DTs but I know this will be a smaller class. DT Bryant has a wandering eye, and I have the feeling he will be with another program on Signing Day. You can have 4 Derrell Revis’ in the secondary, but if you can’t pressure the QB, it doesn’t matter. We need more interior guys, but like I said, two great gets in the secondary.
Welcome to the U family Jamal. Looking forward to seeing you young guys get out there and make your mark. Work hard, play hard and make us proud. GO CANES!!!
Also helps that he has Soldinger to keep him in line. That’s one coach that Golden should’ve brought back on board.
Disagree about bringing Sol back. One of the best position coaches in his day, but he’s 67 years old. Look at Golden and his staff. The oldest guy – by far – and only throwback, is Art Kehoe, who is 55. Golden is 43 years old. So in D’Onofrio. Fisch is a few years younger. Carroll is even younger than that Barrow is in that age group, too. You can have one grizzly veteran on staff, and they have that in Kehoe. Sol, who was said to butt heads and rub some people wrong back in the day, wouldn’t be a good fit as a position coach with this young staff.
Soldinger had some of the best runningbacks and special teams units UM has seen in a LONG time. I mean it’d be an easy sales pitch. “Want to come play for a team that generates MAJOR NFL talent and work with a coach who’s coached the likes of Frank Gore, Willis McGahee, Clinton Portis?” Not knocking Terry Richardson, but you know what you get in Soldinger.
Kehoe on the other hand.. Was said to be not that great of a recruiter, and in all honesty.. His offensive lines weren’t all that great when he was on the way out. At all. If you claim you aren’t getting the talent you need on your offensive line for your unit to be great, WOULDN’T YOU STEP YOUR RECRUITING GAME UP?
I won’t pretend to know why Golden brought Art back. Maybe it was five rings, the legacy, a tie to the past, or because Golden thought he’d be a good fit on some level.
If you want a tie to yesteryear and all the past success, Art is one guy who has seen it ALL. He’s also closer in age to this current staff and again, could be seen as the grizzly veteran. He also hails from the Northeast – like a few guys on this staff – Golden and D’Onofrio, specifically.
Sol’s resume is still beyond impressive, but again, at 67 years old and almost a decade removed from coaching up the guys you mentioned – as well as the fact he supposedly could get ornery and didn’t always play well with others – that doesn’t bode well for a young, new staff looking to grow and rebuild a program.
I saw mentioned elsewhere that Sol should be welcomed back on the S&C front and to help in the weightroom and to that point, agree wholeheartedly. He should be part of the program. Just not sure he fits as a position coach in 2012. Not when Al is trying to assemble a young staff of up and comers. Again, Kehoe is the lone grizzly vet and really is a UM relic. Only person in program’s history who was a part of all five titles.
Just a quick question, and I’m not hatin..If USC is supposed to have reduced scholarships for the next three years, how do they have 18 verbals for the 2013 class? I know last year some of the commits enrolled in January so they counted towards the previous year’s class, but at some point you can no longer do that. Just curious.
John – Not sure the ins and outs there but would assume that coming off of probation, everything they’re doing is by the book right now — at least on the recruiting front and what’s obvious. Maybe it had to do with how many graduations freed up scholarships going into this season.