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Miami lands 4-star LB Raul Aguirre, beats out Alabama, Ohio State, Florida
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Mario Cristobal and Miami scored another big victory on the recruiting trail Tuesday, landing a commitment from four-star linebacker Raul Aguirre of Fayetteville (Ga.) Whitewater.
Aguirre, ranked the No. 121 overall prospect in the 247Sports Composite, will be the highest-ranked linebacker to sign with Miami — assuming he remains committed — since Shaquille Quarterman in 2016. He picked the Hurricanes over offers from Alabama, Ohio State and Florida — schools he officially visited in June.
Aguirre, who took a pair of unofficial visits to Coral Gables this spring, is originally from Miami. His father went to Christopher Columbus High School, the same private Catholic school Cristobal and a few other Miami staffers attended.
He’s the second linebacker to commit to Miami’s 2023 class, which is now ranked No. 7 nationally.
Last season as a junior, Aguirre recorded 80 tackles, three for loss with a sack, and one interception in eight games. He also had two catches for 30 yards and a touchdown as a receiver.
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Aguirre, ranked the No. 121 overall prospect in the 247Sports Composite, will be the highest-ranked linebacker to sign with Miami — assuming he remains committed — since Shaquille Quarterman in 2016. He picked the Hurricanes over offers from Alabama, Ohio State and Florida — schools he officially visited in June.
Aguirre, who took a pair of unofficial visits to Coral Gables this spring, is originally from Miami. His father went to Christopher Columbus High School, the same private Catholic school Cristobal and a few other Miami staffers attended.
He’s the second linebacker to commit to Miami’s 2023 class, which is now ranked No. 7 nationally.
Last season as a junior, Aguirre recorded 80 tackles, three for loss with a sack, and one interception in eight games. He also had two catches for 30 yards and a touchdown as a receiver.
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But I did kind of follow this kid's recruiting. The juice is that Bamers was all-in on this kid so a lot people thought Saban would win this one. But that Columbus tie is strong and that made me think Mario had an edge over Saban for this one.
He is doing there precisely what I thought he'd do. Now let's see if they can translate it into at least a divisional title and threaten for the ACC. JFC. If he can make even just a little run next season, recruiting will go through the roof. Mario will win more battles with Saban and hopefully keep the damage that Kelly can do at LSU to a minimum. South Florida loses a TON of kids to those two programs specifically, along with Georgia lately. Mario can keep a good % of those kids home, but he needs something on the field to go with the silky smooth swarthy Cuban charm.
One player drafted in 2022. Thibs was in the 2019 class. He was the 5* along with 11 4*.
Let’s see if he and his coaches do a better job of developing players at the U.
Saban out coaches him if they swapped rosters.
Besides, the DWAGs tell me Oregon's 4 stars are paper tigers and not "real" 4 stars. Those same people say Mario sucks using the same rationale you do.
But seriously, Mark Aguirre is a highly underrated footnote in NBA history imo. Rarely mentioned. Borderline hall of famer?
And it’s not like the Chargers developed Herbert during fall camp and 1 NFL week into a top 5 QB. Herbert had that skill set at Oregon.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/boxscore/_/gameId/401135288
These numbers are unacceptable with a soon to be top 5 nfl qb playing college football. Juwan Johnson was also better than Dillon Mitchell, redd, or JJ.
Mario will improve your talent massively and he’s a good guy (with a hot wife). But you’ll get tired of him quickly. His offensive brand of football is unwatchable.
His offense was a change of pace from every other Pac 12 team and took advantage of a lack of athleticism at linebacker.
Look, John Elway himself never led the Furd to a bowl game .... a bowl game of any kind. A guy like Mariota, who was crazy athletic, can take over a game more or less on his own without a great supporting cast. Guys who are primarily passers and good, but not generational, runners generally can't. I'm not the guy who is going to get into some protracted debate about scheme, and I'll take everyone's word for it that Crisco's running of the pistol was not the best of whatever choices they had with their personnel. But I find disingenuous this revisionist narrative that if Herbert had thrown more or if they'd gone back to tempo read-option that Oregon somehow makes a deep run in the playoffs and challenges the juggernauts. I don't see that happening. Herbert's supporting cast ranged from average D1 to pretty good. There were no other "great" players other than arguably a healthy Verdell, whom I'd describe more accurately as very good rather than great.
Again, the wheels were falling off the program and Cristobal got you? guys settled down and back together, brought in some good talent and punched the then conference bully and hated rival right in the fucking mouth for 3 straight and got you a Rose Bowl. I can't explain Utah nor can I explain his stubborn adherence first to Shough-prounced-Shuck and then to Brown. He needs to review those decisions if he's going to take the next step as a coach.
But come the fuck on: Oregon's receiving corp. was B to B+ at best. Oregon wasn't going to do great things with Herbert just letting it rip!
Herbert running on 2nd/3rd down beat Washington and won them their critical games that season. Even if you don't like the pistol, if you pair it with that kind of an athlete that can also hit some average receivers when he needs to, it's hard to stop that.
Their fans wouldn't stop jacking off to their defense but I thought the offense and how they controlled games is what he hung his hat on. Their defense got carved up quite a bit too. They shouldn't have dropped that ASU game.