Hurricanes Recruitment: Just because this was expected doesn’t make it any better as 5-star WR denies Miami’s flip attempt, commits to.

A past variant of this piece expressed that Smith had marked his NLI with OSU. As of 5pm, his marked NLI had not been gotten by any school. This piece has been altered to state Smith reaffirmed his obligation to OSU, not marked his NLI for lucidity and exactness.

In the realm of enlisting, you win some, and you lose some. Miami lost a major one today when Hollywood (FL) Chaminade-Madonna 5-star WR Jeremiah Smith — the #1 player in America — scorned the old neighborhood Sticks and reaffirmed his obligation to Ohio State on the main day of the Early Marking Time frame.
Regardless of whether getting Smith to remain at home in Miami was continuously going to be an extreme errand, this is as yet quite possibly of the greatest miss in this class for the Sticks.

At 6’4″ 200lbs, Smith is everyone’s All-American. He has prototypical size, mind blowing expertise, and first class exhibitions in each game he’s played for the beyond 3 years, and possible longer than that. He’s a finalist for the MaxPreps Public Player of the Year. Furthermore, the rundown continues and one. Miami has made yet another terrible mistake at the receiver position by allowing a player of this caliber to escape with his rare combination of size and ability.

You probably have a list of elite South Florida receivers who have left Miami for other teams in the past. Folks like Amari Cooper. Jeudy Jerry Calvin Ridley. Brandon Inniss. Ja’Corey Streams. Xavier Williams. Sadly, Smith has now joined that group and will trade for a team other than Miami.

No, there is no such thing as a “should get” enlist. What’s more, indeed, Miami has a couple of All-American WRs previously endorsed in the 2024 enrolling class in Ny Carr and Smith’s HS partner Jojo Broker, yet missing on Smith is one more in a long queue of misses on the top nearby players for Miami.

After Smith’s initial obligation to OSU over a year prior, everyone, Miami included, was confronting a daunting struggle in this enlistment. Miami and Florida State (and others, however those were the top groups) made an honest effort to get Smith to flip. The two schools got the skilled collector nearby no less than multiple times each. Be that as it may, it actually wasn’t sufficient. Damn.

So the work was there. The work was made. The presentations were made. However, eventually, Brian Hartline’s history of progress in creating collectors at Ohio State was a lot for Miami, or anybody, to defeat for the #1 player in America.

I disdain it, however such is reality.

More on Miami enrolling through the Early Marking Period and towards Public Marking Day in February.