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helluva recruiting opportunity there

Miami?  Nah.  It's a shithole.

Miami is awesome. If you're rich. If you don't have money- and these college kids sure as shit don't- they aren't going to enjoy it. And nobody really gives a shit about Miami football in Miami so it's not like the star players get treated like royalty wherever they go and get hook ups like they would in say Columbus or Austin. 

I think the big problems with Miami are; it's a private school, small campus, no stadium on campus, poor facilities, little to no fan support, and while they have tons of elite talent to recruit from in the area- I doubt most of these kids lived and breathed Miami football and grew up dying to play for Miami like a lot of kids in Ohio grow up diehard OSU. A lot of them are fans of other teams growing up- even Florida or Florida State.

I'm not sure Miami can ever comeback.

You know I'm just baiting you, MDot.  I actually like Miami, it's a cool town.

But you make some good points.  Miami made itself a power in the 80s with a lot of underhanded recruiting dealings-- the kinds of things which NLI are making available to kids everywhere, and completely within the rules.

I've speculated that NLI would actually end up disadvantaging many of the historical cheater-programs.  The ones that were more than willing to pay players, while other schools that actually had a lot more money, declined to engage in the cheating, or at least kept it minimal.  

Now those programs that have a lot of money, that have a lot of boosters with money, will be able to funnel that to the players by completely acceptable means.  It didn't just even the playing field, it tilted it heavily away from the less-monied and less-scrupulous programs.

You know, like Miami.

FIFY

that's certainly true. 

my point was- any college town where it's ALL college football and the fans are diehard and the players are worshipped- those kids getting into any bar, club, restaurant and getting free shit. Miami? Most people wouldn't even know who the f any of them are. Aidan Hutchinson right now or Braylon or Mike Hart or Woodson or any top player during their playing days walks into somewhere in Ann Arbor- it's like Elvis just walked into the building- everyone loses their shit.

I got kicked out of line for a bar in East Lansing for yelling at the bouncer that Chris Hill wasn't good enough to get to skip the line.  I stand by that, but if a decent but forgettable starting PG gets that treatment.

Lol exactly.

In the college towns- the players are worshipped like gods. The big cities- no one cares.

I never saw a football player off campus.  I saw them plenty on campus.  Athens is a fair sized town with a lot of bars, so they could have been out and I never noticed them, and players back then were not as large as those of today.

Maybe they had a bar in the athletic dorm.  Maybe Dooley rode herd on them.

Tennis was, and is, a huge sport at UGA. 

most state schools have gigantic campus. problem with big-city private schools like USC and Miami are the campus size. They might be a couple hundred acres each, max. The giant state schools usually at least a couple thousand acres. Literally 10's of times bigger. And typically there isn't much to do in these towns but football anyways. 

UGA main campus is 762 acres, about 30 K undergrad and 10 K grad.  Medical school is in Augusta, the engineering school is in Atlanta.

Oddly enough, Berry College in Rome, GA has 27,000 acres.  You probably never heard of it.

Ohio State has 1,665 acres.