madness
Taking my talents to South Beach
yea i dont care if he leaves but i would rather him stay because him leaving would mean pushing the reset button yet again
THE REIGN IS COMING....The Official Miami Hurricanes Football 2013 Season Thread
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Carlos Huerta
Just keep my rep red
reset on what though? Look at the way they finished the season. It's not good football.
A competent coach could come in here and do well with the amount of talent coming in.
What talent? The only talent we had was on the sideline. Everyone that was a top recruit or made any impact in games was injured. Al Golden is finally going to gethis cnce now that all the sanctions have been lifted he could finally recruit. We started the year good but as soon as all the injuries started happening right around the time of the Seminoles game we started losing. Now lets see how good we're going to be next season. And we could use the Seminoles since they won the Championship we could use them a as a measuring stick @Carlos Huerta
madness
Taking my talents to South Beach
and a lot of that talent will stray elsewhere if golden leaves. i'm willing to give him the NCAA sanction crutch for the past few years and see what he's finally able to put together.
if you get rid of him now recruits will jump ship, so you'll be getting a class that's just decent to add to the mediocre roster we already have. not even nick saban could work miracles with that.
At this point he has to leave. Even after that pitiful press conference and am interview he could still spin this into a positive. Now that he's made the statement, didn't really seem happy to BE IN MIAMI and now there's STILL reports of him being up for the Penn State job.
I can't defend dude anymore and I really wanted him to be successful
Wtf is going on this week Braxton b was playing in the UA game with a torn acl. The news with current class just keeps on coming inAspiring rapper Chad Thomas hopes his hits take UM’s defense back to top of charts
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
MIAMI —
Not many football players know what a euphonium is, let alone play one.
Then again, Chad Thomas isn’t solely a football player.
In addition to that instrument – which looks like a small tuba – Thomas also knows his way around a trombone, which he used to play in his school’s jazz band. He also has skills on the tuba, trumpet, drums, piano, guitar and bass. He’s also an aspiring hip-hop producer with a growing number of fans.
“A lot of people are surprised by it,” he said. “A lot of people don’t know: music was my first love, not football.”
Thomas, who plans to sign with the Miami Hurricanes on national signing day (Feb. 5), definitely loves the sport. He’s good at it, too — he’s a 6-foot-5, 230-pound defensive end who led Miami-Booker T. Washington High to a pair of state championships and is considered one of the top high school prospects in the nation.
Even his coaches at Booker T., who have produced elite talent for years, say Thomas is special.
“He’s one kid we can look at and honestly say, that kid has an NFL future,” Tornadoes assistant Tim Harris Jr. said.
Ready for the big stage
This fall, his college team will play in front of thousands of fans. Lately, Thomas has been practicing another craft in front of much smaller crowds.
Last Sunday at an American Legion hall in midtown Miami, more than 150 teenagers showed up to see Thomas sing over his self-produced tracks.
They waited for two hours in the dark ballroom, sprayed by neon lights and assaulted by club music thumping from a 20-foot wall of speakers, until 11:45 p.m., when Chad – he performs under his given name – stepped on the stage and grabbed the mic.
Clad in a plaid button-down shirt, dark jeans, white sneakers and a maroon Nike cap, Thomas performed the piano-laden slow jam “Thottie,” catchy “She Weak,” the island-flavored “Drum Roll” and others. He doesn’t have an album, instead making songs available for free download on his SoundCloud.com page (note: some explicit content).
His vocal hero is Nate Dogg, the late West Coast rapper-crooner who was beloved for his velvety hooks, but Thomas said he most enjoys producing tracks for local artists. His most successful collaboration is with Lil Dred, the 20-year-old son of former UM cornerback and rapper Nate “The Great” Brooks. Since its release four months ago, their song “No Shone” has been played than 230,000 times on SoundCloud.
His material has already made it into the Hurricanes’ locker room. One of Thomas’ future UM teammates, unprompted, predicted on his Twitter page “No Shone” would be a “Dade County classic.” His coaches give him feedback, too.
“He’s always got some new thing he comes in with,” Harris Jr. said. “He says, ‘Y’all hear my new track?’ and we’ll say, ‘That’s a nice one there, Chad’ … or, ‘Nah, Chad, you need to give that one up, you need to pass that one on.’
“The kids are the audience, but we’re enjoying it as adults.”
Dominant in the spotlight
Thomas, 18, a native of Liberty City, picked up instruments as a toddler and started composing songs on his keyboard at 7. He attended classes at New World School of the Arts and played football at Booker T. until his senior year, when his football career took off.
He became the top-ranked defensive prospect in the state and No. 3 in the nation at defensive end, according to 247Sports.com and Rivals.com. Both websites rank him as a five-star recruit.
A major piece of a team crowned No. 1 in the country by USA Today, Thomas had 12 sacks and led Booker T. to a repeat Class 4A state title. In January, he played in the Under Armour All-America Game with future Canes Kc McDermott and Braxton Berrios.
“Heading into his senior year, he took everything up a couple notches,” Harris Jr. said. “He was dominant in every game. We had a spotlight on us every game … if there were top guys on the other side, he was the one who stood out.”
Last year, UM’s defense stood out for all the wrong reasons, finishing 90th in total defense and producing just seven sacks in its final six games. Harris Jr. said it would be premature to say Thomas will make an instant impact, but believes it won’t be long.
“Chad has the ability to help them get better,” Harris Jr. said. “I do feel they have good players at that position, but I feel he can come infuse them with some energy. … He’s going to come in with a chip on his shoulder.”
He’ll also be hard at work on his music engineering degree at UM’s Frost School of Music, one of the country’s highest-rated music programs.
Academics are a major reason why, despite overtures from Alabama and Florida State Thomas says his next stop is Coral Gables.
“I love UM,” he said. In addition to the opportunity to restore shine to the Hurricanes, Thomas said he is attracted by UM’s small class sizes, teacher-to-student ratio and top music program. “I know I can go there and learn a lot.”
Sounds like he’s found the place to enjoy both of his loves.
“Chad is a kid that even now, he doesn’t just bank on football,” Harris Jr. said. “That’s how talented he is.”
I know were down on Golden, myself included. But brehs this shyt is ridiculous.
Jon Drummond is the DC of a run down "high school" located in some strip mall in SFL. Spreading lies on social media about the coaches of the hometown team. Dude was fired from a 7-7 team acouple of years ago, and admitted to being a runner for college coaches. Nowhere else in the country is this type of thing accepted. In SFL tho it seems to be the norm
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I can believe Travis Howard and duke told them not to come. Cause I remember some of the 08 boys telling future kids not to come when randy was here. It's all fukked up man
Nah breh, dude spitting bullshyt to cover his ass. Pete from CiS already shot down that rumor.
You really think if Duke and Tracy would still be hosting recruits if they were telling HS kids not to come
Hell I'm disappointed neither takes more of an active role in recruiting. They both take a real hands off approach and let the kid do as he wants.
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I know for a fact van dyke told the db from pace not to come and he went to usf and ojomo told Cory liguet not to come and he went to IllinoisNah breh, dude spitting bullshyt to cover his ass. Pete from CiS already shot down that rumor.
You really think if Duke and Tracy would still be hosting recruits if they were telling HS kids not to come
Hell I'm disappointed neither takes more of an active role in recruiting. They both take a real hands off approach and let the kid do as he wants.
And storm left because al golden was playing favoritism and we saw that with Clements
