We do know that Miami has to receive National Letters of Intent from one or two high profile signees in February or this will be the worst class of signees at Miami since Rivals.Com began tracking them in 2002.
USA Today’s Paul Myerberg acknowledged that the players that did not sign with the Miami football program were disappointing but that the Hurricanes still have time make Surge ’19 a quality class.
"“Heading into the early signing period, Miami’s class was notable more for the flurry of prospects who backed out of their verbal commitments. It’s fair to call a class currently ranked outside the top 25 by 247Sports.com a disappointment. But there’s still time for the Hurricanes to salvage this class by the traditional signing day, even if most of the top prospects are already off the board.”"
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The company Miami is keeping where the Hurricanes are currently ranked by Rivals was noted by Yahoo.Com’s Nick Bromberg. The Miami basketball program losing out to Duke for five-star center Vernon Carey Jr who is Hurricanes legacy was tough. The football program being mentioned with the Blue Devils in recruiting is much worse.
Bromberg also points out that Miami’s 7-5, 2018 season was the same as Duke and one game better than the Commodores. Duke upset Miami 20-12 at Hard Rock Stadium last month and finished one game behind Miami in the ACC Coastal Division Standings with a 3-5 conference record.
"“The Hurricanes are sandwiched between Duke and Vanderbilt in Rivals’ rankings at No. 43. Yikes. Though to be fair, Miami’s 7-5 record was the same as Duke’s and was one game better than Vanderbilt’s in 2018. Mark Richt’s team is so low because the 2019 class has just 14 commits and half of them are four-star prospects. So this is a ranking that doesn’t look nearly as bad when you start to go below the surface. But the surface isn’t too great, especially after a disappointing 2018 season.”"
The Hurricanes expected final ranking of 29th overall is exceeded by the average ranking of each recruit which would put Miami 23rd nationally. The quality of the Hurricanes Surge ’19 is better than the quantity.