Edgerrin James

You knew it wasn't Miami football, really.

But you try to support it, but now you can really feel it because you have one of us

at the helm, and we know Mario.

Mario in 1998, he's right there with us.

You know, he played ball there, so you can really feel it, and it's bringing that whole Miami thing back, so this time it's real.

Well I think it's selective.

You know now it's more

a collaboration of everybody coming.

But before it was your relationship with whoever's in front and it was picking and choosing.

Now it's kind of laid out to where it's like, hey, this is the University of Miami.

This is what makes us stick.

And that's one thing that I always have to compliment Mario on.

He make it a point that he want the guys here.

He want the guys involved.

Because it was a point where the guys didn't feel like they were welcome.

And it kind of affects the program in a way that people don't really see when these guys are mentoring these guys and helping these guys in youth ball, but they have a decision to make.

You're not pushing them to the University of Miami because it's not welcoming.

That's why I hear a lot of the guys we're talking about in the past.

But now it's like, hey, we need to get him here.

And everybody's on board trying to do whatever it takes to get any kid that –