And this is Miami comments:
How would you describe the way Miami recruits your players?
Coach 1: Miami has T-Rob (Travaris Robinson), so at some point, they’re going to land some guys. That’s been the card everywhere he has gone.
Coach 2: I would say lackadaisical or very laid back. Not as aggressive as others. You’ll have to wait until signing day to see if that approach works.
Coach 3: I think Miami’s pretty aggressive. They’ve done a really good job in the past of getting kids on campus whether it be a Junior Day or whatever it is. They’ve always recruited our kids hard. They send their coaches our way and their coaches are usually on point.
Coach 4: My buddy is there, T-Rob. He’s amped it up a lot. But before that, they did a good job. They recruited our linebacker. They were recruiting him before T-Rob got there.
Coach 5: It’s almost non-existent. I took our running back who committed elsewhere as a sophomore down there to a camp a few years back. Al Golden offered him there. That’s the last time I’ve been down there and the last time I’ve been asked to go down there by Miami. Now, there are Tampa kids that go down there for camps. But here’s my opinion: I think Dan Mullen does a better job recruiting football players and figuring out how to fit them into a system. We had a defensive lineman who was 6-2 1/2 not 6-4 and Miami told me they were not offering him. That’s Miami. They’re much more numbers-based.
Coach 6: I think they’ve done a good job recruiting our players. We’ve had three or four kids play at the University of Miami over the years. So, obviously, they’ve done a good job coming into Gainesville and getting talent when they really want it.
Coach 7: When (Georgia assistant Todd) Hartley was there, I thought Hartley did an awesome job. For years, kids from this area wouldn’t go to Miami. There were one or two kids in the early 2000s who went down there and didn’t do very well, and it became a cautionary tale that if you go to Miami they’ll favor the South Florida kids. You won’t get the same opportunities as the kids from Dade, Broward or Palm Beach. But once they got (Shaq) Quarterman, (Michael) Pinckney, (Kendrick) Norton and (Will) Mallory and they were successful, Miami started making in-roads in Jacksonville.
Coach 8: Our primary recruiter was Mike Rumph for years and now DVD (DeMarcus Van Dyke) has taken over. One thing I’ll say about DVD, I’ve had his number since he was down at ASA College in Miami. He’s been the same recruiter since then. He was a hard recruiter back then and he is now. We don’t have a lot of dealings with them now because we don’t have anybody they want now. But they do keep tabs and invite us to camps and stuff. Our relationship with them and the distance isn’t a problem. They’re always accessible. My coaches, I’ve got a couple of guys who talk to their guys on staff. We’ve known T-Rob since he was at South Carolina and (tight ends coach Stephen) Field was a high school coach before. They really do have an ace recruiting staff.
Coach 9: We don’t see much of Miami. They have checked in on a few kids and evaluated a few kids through the years. Again, we haven’t had a lot of big-time prospects in two or three years. That’s just the way it is. Even from the (Dan) Mullen staff, back when they could get out, we would see them every spring. Miami, we probably don’t see them much. But I have seen ’em some.
Coach 10: They do a good job, too. They’re going to get on guys before anybody else. If I’ve got a dude, they get on them before Ohio State or Michigan or Alabama. They’re proactive with how they recruit and I think they do a good job. Manny (Diaz) does a great job contacting coaches and letting them know what’s going on.
