Nope, Schnellenberger Said screw it and recruited the hoods and ghettos of Dade and Broward counties instead of a the prior mix of yankee kids. The Pacific and Big 10 had been recruiting the area heavily before. Howard just opened the flood gates to many kids that had gang and other background problems. They could play ball and unlike the other conferences, there was now heavy concentrations of screw ups that could ball in one place. Not to mention mountains of drugs... USC is very similar, remarkably really just LA instead of miami.