To say Miami’s 2023 college football season was a disaster would be an understatement.
The Hurricanes dropped three of their last four games, including defeats to ranked Florida State and Louisville, before bowing out in the Pinstripe Bowl to Rutgers.
Not that the game wasn’t exciting. Rutgers triumphed 31-24. Still, Miami was once considered a college football superpower. Now, in a mid-tier bowl game, “The U” is losing against the Scarlet Knights.
That’s a fall from grace deserving of condemnation, and the Hurricanes got enough of it on social media. Former Ohio State quarterback Cardale Jones specifically targeted Miami.
To Jones’ point, Miami head coach Mario Cristobal is now 12-13 with a bowl game defeat in two seasons as the Hurricanes’ head coach. In the same sentence, he has a top-five recruiting class for 2024, including two five-star players.
Because it isn’t Miami’s on-field production that is attracting top recruits, NIL deals have played a huge role in Cristobal’s recruiting success.
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