Miami Hurricanes

and he does close it out 6-3! Huge win for Miami.

I was going to say last week after they beat FSU that if Miami could beat MTSU and Duke then they would really be on to something. But instead they lost to both. Not even a split.

Not looking good this year once again but help is on the way next year. The Canes have a couple of good players committed for next season.

Bojan Jankulovski, 14.18
Adria Soriano, 13.65
plus Tatskui Shimamoto 13.02 who would fit into the current lineup nicely.

Lomacki back in the lineup for today's match vs GT. At #4 (played #1 last year)

Kirijax should consider coming back. Hurricanes had their best season in a long time thanks to the young talent on the team and will add 3 new guys next year who all have a UTR in the 13.60-13.90 range.

Clemson_tennis said:

Kirijax should consider coming back. Hurricanes had their best season in a long time thanks to the young talent on the team and will add 3 new guys next year who all have a UTR in the 13.60-13.90 range.

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He can't talk politics here. Have you seen his twitter? HAHA!

andfor said:

He can't talk politics here. Have you seen his twitter? HAHA!

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Yes.

Miami takes down ND today.

Super bump. 5 years since this thread has been used wow. The Hurricanes used to have a close following in here.

The men lost today 4-3 to Penn, on the heels of the 4-3 loss to Louisville. The Canes’ last chance to boost the ranking before ACC play. They will likely spend most of the year outside rankings unless they can pull off a shocker at some point.

Oh wait Nevermind. That 4-3 score was leftover from their previous match. I should have known with the time difference it hasn’t been played yet (currently overseas)

head coach Piric stepping down at the end of the season

Miami will now have a chance to go a new direction. Piric did ok over 8 seasons but nothing great.

They can get an upgrade if Radakovich (AD) wants to commit more to tennis. He made fairly cheap and uninspired hires for men’s tennis when at Clemson, so let’s see if he pays any more mind to it as Miami athletic director.

Clemson_tennis said:

head coach Piric stepping down at the end of the season

Miami will now have a chance to go a new direction. Piric did ok over 8 seasons but nothing great.

They can get an upgrade if Radakovich (AD) wants to commit more to tennis. He made fairly cheap and uninspired hires for men’s tennis when at Clemson, so let’s see if he pays any more mind to it as Miami athletic director.

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Miami has so much potential. I know an alum in the area who would be great for the job, but I'm far removed from knowing if he'd have any interest to leave his jr. training system he currently runs.

Yeah Piric is a decent coach and would do decently at several places but overall not that right fit for Miami I don’t think. He made the tournament 4 out of 8 years few and were never higher ranked than like #30 for very long.

He has an odd recruiting pipeline for Miami. I feel like Miami should tap into the Florida American talent; promote the academic standards at the university to try and get some of those 5 stars who eye good academic schools and should also be attractive to Latin American players.

Clemson_tennis said:

Yeah Piric is a decent coach and would do decently at several places but overall not that right fit for Miami I don’t think. He made the tournament 4 out of 8 years few and were never higher ranked than like #30 for very long.

He has an odd recruiting pipeline for Miami. I feel like Miami should tap into the Florida American talent; promote the academic standards at the university to try and get some of those 5 stars who eye good academic schools and should also be attractive to Latin American players.

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Until class of 2023, no FL American player at 5 star/blue chip level had chosen Miami over the last 10 years. What is surprising is the out of state choices were Ivy’s and Mid-west schools-Big 10 and Notre Dame. One year in the last decade out of 11 FL bc/5 stars 6 chose Ivy’s, 3 Big 10, one USF and I forgot the last. Of course a lot of FL blue chips chose FL-some FSU but they used to be mostly international. Not too long ago USF and UCF were often in top 20 or 25. Fl Atlantic was a pretty good MM too and attracted 5 stars. Miami has a reputation of being stingy with merit $. If a player is a smart 5 star/bc in FL or South, if his parents are pulling full freight, they are going to choose UVA, Duke, UNC over Miami even if it means sitting on bench. Only knew one guy from Southerns who went to Miami but as a transfer from Big10-his parents were both doctors. Seems like Miami would attract players from the elite families in Latin America but I don’t know how many of those play high level tennis and even if they do if they want to play on hard courts. With at least 4-5 good public d1 options in state and lots of good academic options out of state for those who want a change in seasons, Miami has its work cut out to get more top Americans