Brace yourself as it’s coming. This year? Simply the tip of the iceberg for Al Golden and the Miami Hurricanes. Starting nest season, the gloves are off and the floodgates will open.
A quality bunch was reeled in on National Signing Day, but due to a few late decommits and overblown expectations in Coral Gables, some focus remains on the ones who wound up elsewhere, instead of on those who signed on.
While the sentiment is that Miami should be “back”, truth be told, based on what Golden inherited and spent two years dealing with, the fact the Hurricanes are even relevant is a bit of a miracle in itself. Same to be said for a consensus Top 10 class mostly put together last season when the talk of NCAA sanctions still hovered.
When judging this recent Miami haul-in, the past half decade-plus must be factored into the equation.
The 28-23 record Randy Shannon amassed over four seasons. The broken culture, sense of entitlement and lack of conditioning. Golden walked into a hot mess—and that was six months before Nevin Shapiro even became a household name.
There weren’t any signing day surprises for Miami this year, which tends to happen when all heavy lifting on the recruiting front is taken care of by Thanksgiving. Golden and staff had upwards up 30 verbal commitments weeks before bowl season, while other major programs posessed half that.
The Hurricanes lost a few late and hoped for some last-minute pick-ups, but in reality, anything else would’ve been gravy based on what had already been accomplished.
Miami notched a top-ranked class in 2008, which sits as a benchmark to the anti-Golden contingent.
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Guys, this whole linking Facebook to an article and then linking it to another article thing is really obnoxious. I get that you’re probably getting paid for clicks to Bleacher Report, but seriously, if you’re gonna post it, please just post the whole article.
… not trying to be obnoxious, Ryan. Trying to make the best / most of the situation. Very hard to churn out a ton of original content—especially in February, two months after football’s regular season wrapped.
No one is getting paid for clicks. I was hired as a Feature Columnist for B/R in August and writing three to four articles a week for them since. It doesn’t leave as much time to pen original pieces for allCanesBlog.com—though there have been several exclusive pieces written here every month.
B/R will not allow me to cut/paste an entire article here at allCanesBlog.com. The loophole for me is cutting/pasting a chunk of it as a teaser and hoping that loyal readers of this blog will click through to check out the rest of the piece.
Again, what you’re deeming “obnoxious” is our attempt to post new content at this site, with our hands tied—and in the end, we’re literally asking readers to click ONE link at the end, while scrolling down a few paragraphs to where they left off. We hope you can understand.
With football season and recruiting in the rearview, the next six months will have more of a concerted effort at allCanesBlog.com with baseball, spring football and everything leading up to fall. B/R will be back on the radar for kickoff, though not at the same capacity and with more effort put in here at ACB. Hope that makes sense. Go Canes. – C
Best class in years, I’m with Al the “Canes” are coming back.