2025 Roster Breakdown- Ranking our Players

Hurricanes Football
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Ranking Our Current Roster:

In parenthesis for the first few is where they finished the season at before the departure of seniors, portal, and early draft guys (Technically I only counted Arroyo as an early leave, although a couple of other had a 6th covid year left, etc)

  1. Beck
  2. Mauigao (4)
  3. Bain (5)
  4. Mesidor (10)
  5. Cooper (14)
  6. Brockmeyer
  7. Frederique (17) So
  8. Daniels
  9. Bissainthe (15)
  10. O’Connor RSo
  11. Lofton So
  12. Lyle So
  13. Lucas So
  14. Bell
  15. Brantley
  16. Fletcher
  17. Moten

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  1. Blay
  2. Aguirre
  3. Trader So
  4. Poyser RSo
  5. Bauman
  6. Bryant RSo
  7. Patterson So
  8. McCoy
  9. Scott
  10. Pruitt So
  11. Joyce
  12. D.Brown RSo
  13. McConathy
  14. Blount, So
  15. Richards
  16. Joseph
  17. Karnley So

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  1. D.Day So
  2. Oku RSo
  3. M.Williams
  4. Alderman
  5. E.Will RSo
  6. B.Washington
  7. R.Rod
  8. C.Smith

Unknowns:
QB: Anderson
RB: CWH
WR: Carr, C-Rob
TE: Carver
OL: Kinsler, Plazz, Francovilla, Minaya
DT: Horton, Russell, Jones
DE: Pickett, Rudolph, Lightfoot
LB: Hayes
CB: Mack
S: Thomas
K: Murray

Incoming Frosh not ranked…Long snapper Booker kickff/long field goal specialist Davis not ranked

NO JAGS at this time: Although the bottom 5-6 I wouldn’t argue with someone classifying them as JAGS. And certainly a couple on their way out were on their way or actually were JAGS

Of the losses, if each of these players were the only one on the loss list to stay, here would have been their ranking:

Arroyo (1), Horton (3), R.Williams (16), Allen (18), CJ (25), Kirk (JAG), R.Washington (Unk), Stafford (UNK/JAG), D.Hill (33), J.Harris (37), Poff (JAG), Tinilau (UnK/JAG), Tripp (Unk/JAG), Mooyung (JAG)

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I have 7 of our top 20 from the current portal as of the moment and all 8 new portal being the top 2 categories…

And 4 of our portal departures being top 20 and 6 in my top 2 categories (1st category is “impact” players, who start at 90% of schools in America or be top 3 in the rotation at all but maybe a couple schools…2nd category is average starters for a top 35-40 team or at the least a quality 2 deep player). Sophomores or especially frosh in the 2nd group or higher are something to be excited about. 3rd group is depth/glorigied jags.

Counting the seniors we lost/early attrition together… I have us losing 8 of the top 12 players on the team.

As far as top notch/ “elite or close to it”, guys that could start on almost every team in America. I have
as with just the top 2 at this time, Bain/Mauigao…At season’s end, I had us a definite 6, and possibly even 9 of those players. So we definitely need some guys to emerge.

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College football moves fast, man.

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Player development is KEY!
We seem to do well on the O but not the D.

I am curious to see who our new DC will be. A name that has been floated is Pat Fitgerald.

We need a DC “head coach” who can transform this group, develop them, and fill holes as needed. Not convinced that our D staff is elite at this point.

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We need to tackle. We’d have twice the number of tackles for loss if we just concentrated on wrapping up the tackle rather than just trying to trip ball carriers. Wrapping up tackling is fundamental football.

Another disconcerting thing is looping the wrong way. Time and again, our defensive linemen would loop themselves out of the motion of the play, leaving an open field to ball carriers. I greatly favor last second shifting of defensive players. It ruins blocking assignments of the others team’s offense. Shifting and blitzing with an extra player often gives a defender an unblocked pathway to the QB.

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We have seen very poor tackling in previous seasons. Maybe I didn’t notice, but I thought our tackling was decent this year.

If I had to pick the worst part of our defense, I wouldn’t say tackling, I would say being out of position. Either huge breakdowns in coverage or giving receivers too much padding, we would allow too many easy catches. Once that happened we were pretty average at tackling.

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Everything being said here is the absolute truth. On Monday evening I watched N Dakota St vs Montana St and it was fantastic. In terms of intensity, tackling and coaching both of those teams put Miami’s on-field product to shame.

I dunno but you gotta ask…is Miami overpaying for coaches who don’t have a steady track record ? Why are the coaches at FCS level able to coach up whatever talent they can get and on Mario’s sidelines everyone looks lost?!

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With flame retardant gear on… I have long considered that a lot of SoFla players “read their own press clippings” too often. They treat college as just a way station to their inevitable pro career. Or at least this seems to be the type of player who ends up on the UM roster.

Is it possible that other schools more selectively pluck the hard working, heads on straight ranked players from Florida and UM has their choice of the rest? Or Miami just doesn’t factor enough for personality traits over raw skills? (Cristobal seems to “say” he wants a certain type of player mentality.)

Of course, this does not touch on why players from other geographies are not “coached up” at UM.

When one watches a game like North Dakota State vs. Montana State one might be watching players who see playing college football as an end in itself. Their pride and craft. That is, until the P5 comes calling for the best players, hehe.

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Culture, I think in So. Florida is about hype and not technique whereas the kids in Montana and Dakota are less hype and more dedicated to the craft of playing technically sound football.

I’ve long said that WE lack on the field leaders. Who was our leader on the field this year on D? No one. On O it was Cam.

We lack leaders and we lack coaches who know how to develop talent, IMO

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I’d think it’s safe to say Powell and Kiki were the leaders.