The Rundown Take
Top-Three Recruiting Class, Same Old Problem: Why Won't Miami Pay Its Own Guys First?
The night before Miami's bowl game, Devin and Larry Frank Jr. hopped on with late notice to break down a number-three-ranked 2024 recruiting class and the quarterback limbo still hanging over the program. But the real theme of the night was NIL priorities — the panel and callers kept circling back to how close Miami came to losing its best receiver to money, all while chasing an outside transfer quarterback who hasn't even signed.
Key Takeaways
- Larry Frank isn't upset Miami lost out on five-star Jeremiah Smith to Ohio State, pointing to three quality four-star receivers already in the class as insurance.
- Larry Frank calls the defensive line the biggest position-group jump of the cycle and predicts it repeats the offensive line's 2023 turnaround in 2024.
- The Cam Ward/Will Howard quarterback decision is still frozen — both panelists agree neither transfer looks like a slam-dunk NFL prospect, and nothing else in the portal moves until one of them decides.
- Devin argues Miami let its best wide receiver almost walk over money while it's ready to hand a transfer quarterback well over a million dollars sight unseen.
- Caller Mr. Magic wants Jacurri Brown to get real reps now rather than another offseason quarterback search, arguing the position alone cost Miami multiple games this year.
Develop What You Have
Larry Frank made the case that Miami already has the pieces to win with a "good enough" quarterback in the mold of Ken Dorsey — a returning offensive line anchored by an Indiana transfer center, a deep backfield, and receivers who don't need a transcendent arm behind them, just a passer who avoids turnovers. Multiple callers, including a fan who identified as "Lakers All Day," pushed the same argument for staying with Jacurri Brown rather than importing another unproven transfer.
Pay Your Own First
Devin's sharpest point of the night: Miami reportedly let a star receiver nearly walk over NIL money before finally meeting his ask, while simultaneously prepared to hand a still-undecided transfer quarterback a reported $2.5 million. Larry Frank agreed college football is a business now and players are right to leverage outside offers, but both said the program has to take care of proven contributors before chasing outside names.
"You let a receiver walk out the door and you're starving the receivers that got you where you're at right now — it don't make no sense to me."
Grading the Class
A caller pushed back on Larry Frank's grade for the recruiting class, prompting a clarification: outside of missing the state of Florida's top-ranked player, Larry Frank called the haul close to perfect, highlighting the flip of a top running back from Ohio State and a major defensive line overhaul. The show closed with well-wishes for the bowl game and a return to the regular Friday schedule.