Shit I would run through it year 1
I know some fairly big time Gtown alumns from around here. One in particular knows Cooley well and absolutely loves the guy
I’m really curious to see how Miami’s NIL deal develops. IIRC, dude is using his company’s ad budget to pay players to promote the company’s product(s); however, said company (LifeWallet) is publicly traded, and it’s stock has been getting hammered - down 90% over the past year. Maybe he just starts dipping into his personal accounts?
Can’t wait for the first NIL securities class action
Very excited to read about the inevitable “everything is securities fraud” story that happens with Miami in Matt Levine’s Money Stuff newsletter from Bloomberg.
Ruiz and Miami are the first ones to get hit with an NIL violation which is no surprise. Now he’s suing the NCAA to claim he isn’t a booster. This was over the recruitment of the Cavinder twins in case anyone missed it.
Ruiz suing the NCAA and his Ponzi scheme company and NIL deals are the most Miami thing ever. Somewhere Uncle Luke is smiling and nodding his head in acknowledgement.
If you know anything about Miami history and culture it is no doubt that this Ruiz thing is going to end in the proverbial tears. Just a matter of when.
Dude proly long lotsbof crypto
The city (technically the mayor) is long crypto:
For a laugh, look at the 1 year chart of its price:
Near and not dear to @AnonymooseHoo heart if I recall
Yup Miami city is banking it’s future on crypto (no pun intended) They have invested tons allowing crypto mining out by the Everglades and as the article says Suarez went all in on it. Ruiz got his money off his LifeWallet thing that was boasted by the pandemic and I think he is also leverage in crpyto. The University of Miami has followed suit and is depending on their newfound influx of cash for athletics on crpyto as well.
Seeing someone work through it in eras really highlights how much we struggled on the trail from 17-21. Went from averaging 1.5 All ACC performers (plus whatever all defense accolades) per class from 2011-2016 to 2 total between 2017-21. And 1 of the 2 is Kihei who obviously has downside your average All ACC performer doesn’t. Can see why we’ve had to patchwork the roster through the portal
McKneely and Dunn alone might match the individual accolades of the entire 2017-21 classes. Things are clearly looking up. Question is just how up?
Wow great post! I agree with this. So instead of going after top 50 kids like Keels, Power, “Funny Story” and the like we go after top 150-200 kids WITH athleticism and upside that fit our system. Looking at that Tennessee team they were *jacked and dook couldn’t do anything with them. I cringe whenever TB offers kids that dook is going after as well- he’s just wasting his time. We need to offer Ty Davis (6’5 pointguard in the Ty Jerome mold).
Regarding Kadin…If he’s going to get Mind f*cked next year also, then I’d rather for his mental health, and the fans mental have him move on and hopefully we can grab a Darion Atkins like player in his place.
I just don’t think it’s fair that both him and actually Taine were benched for SO long, and then expected to “be ready” and make magic happen during the ACC tournament and NCAA tournament when they hadn’t played for WEEKS at a time.
CTB was scheduled for his Coach’s Corner show last night and did not appear… interesting.
Exactly- no more undersized “combo guards” who can’t *combo. No more Morsell’s (which take 4 years to develop a shot), McCorkles (though I’m not really hating on him for taking the opportunity), Stattman’s- unathletic bigs who can’t shoot, Malachi Poindexters- undersized combo who can’t shoot (but played good D), Jabris- unathletic guard. I’m sure there are others, but again we might as well have gone with athletes in those positions if they can’t shoot, and if they can shoot but are not athletes they would atleast be as serviceable as a Ryan Pedula, and Hunter Cattoor.
Hmmmm anyone go in his stead?
They had announced yesterday that Elliott and Tiffany were going to do it.