Fair enough. Then GT is a school full of nerds without a logo as iconic as Miami or a vocal supporter close to Campbell (his fame might be overrated, but it dwarfs any person who could make Tech cool).
I think Miami really got kind of lucky to be honest. It happens.
Before 1980 it was literally nothing. Schnellenberger built it up by bringing a modern (for that time) passing game at a time when everything was literally wishbone, option, 3 yards and a cloud of dust still- by convincing top local kids that would never go to Miami to stay home and to come to Miami, and he also recruited kids from some rough ghettos of South Florida that the big football schools in the country for one reason or another just wouldn't recruit at the time. Now Miami's problem is they can barely keep top kids to stay home now and everyone recruits those all those kids down there now. Miami also took a massive jump up in conference play. They were Independent for a lot of years and then joined a pretty lean Big East- and really ever since they've jumped up to the ACC and had much tougher conference play- they've been struggling.
Miami could've went into the tank after Schnellenberger left, but they somehow or another fell face first immediately into Jimmy Johnson- a guy that was an even better coach than the previous one- and btw is so underrated as an all-time great and really just might be the best coach not named Belichik of the last 30+ years. Jimmy was even better at Miami than Schnellenberger and really built it up to another level over his 5 years- and then Dennis Erickson replaced Jimmy and just kept it going until the whole thing came crashing down in scandal/probation. Miami went through a little struggle under Jimmy Johnson disciple Butch Davis coming off probation, took him 6 years to finally breakthrough. His OC Coker got promoted to head coach, and it was a slow slide downhill after 2-3 years once all of Davis' recruits cycled out of the program.
Miami's entire history is really 3 coaches. Schnellenberger built it up, Jimmy took over and then took it to another level, and then Jimmy's disciple Butch Davis rebuilt it back up after Jimmy's replacement Erickson had the program come undone by NCAA probation/sanctions. Erickson had it on auto-pilot until they got popped by the NCAA and Coker was just a guy who was handed the keys to a Ferrari for a couple years.
They've stepped up hugely in conference play by joining the ACC, they are way behind in the facilities/stadium arms race, and the higher ups at the school really don't care about football and honestly never did- which is why Schnellenberger left and why Butch Davis also left. Butch turned down the Houston Texans and Alabama before finally accepting the Browns job two years later. And they can't keep the home town talent there- cat is just too out of the bag and South Florida is open season now- every school in the country recruits down there.
In Miami's backyard- just off the top of my head- Patrick Peterson (1st rd pick), Amari Cooper (1st rd pick), Joey Bosa (1st rd pick), Nick Bosa (1st rd pick), Dalvin Cook (2nd rd pick- baffling- should've been 1st rd), Sony Michel (1st rd pick), Calvin Riddley (1st rd pick), Brian Burns (1st rd pick), Trayvon Mullen (1st rd pick), Jerry Juedy (1st rd pick). They look a lot different with these players staying home to play for them.
They aren't locking up their backyard anymore, they are struggling to keep them in. FSU, LSU, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Ohio State, Clemson, ND, and everyone else is taking them basically at will. Miami is dead imo. That home-grown talent is what made them- and they can't keep it all to themselves anymore.
