Acquisition, development, and deployment at the University of Miami

Bobby Bowden was known for saying that in a recruiting class one-third of the athletes, regardless of “ranking” must become starters, one-third must become role players, and one-third will sadly be bench warmers or transfers. If two-thirds of your signing class don’t play you’re in trouble.

Urban Meyer believes in the 10-80-10 Principle which is that 10% must be elite, 80% must be compliant, and sadly 10% will be defiant. Your job as a head coach, a boss at Target, or an educator is to get as many of the compliant 80% into the 10% elite category, and to get as many of the defiant 10% to buy in to the 80% compliant as possible.