After the Storm: Duke

What are the buyout terms? Is it less costly to continue to lose, have a lost recruiting class, and play in front of half empty stadiums for a season?

IF what you are saying is true, then the person/people responsible for granting this extension with its “prohibitive” buyout should be gone immediately.

You don’t regain a sunk cost by doubling down on stupid. If they gave him a guaranteed contract, that money has already been spent. You aren’t “saving” anything by continuing to fail.
The people responsible are probably the people on the BOT who blessed it. Just a guess that it had to be run by the money people. The person i know most of my life on the BOT has given so much money to the school on the academic side that there is no way anything happens there.

Now, they extended Richt when he looked like he was doing everything to get us to the next level...10 wins, ACCCG, upper tier recruiting buzz. We'll see what happens. In the real world these BOT members would get rid of an employee who tanked like this with recruits jumping ship. Doubt they'll do that here.
 
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How about baby steps- just addressing special teams? Imagine the difference if we had a punter who could kick it 50 yards instead of 20. Or players who knew how to block on kickoffs? We have one of the most explosive players in Thomas and every time he has a decent return it gets called back.

You want to know the saddest thing? It is a 100% established fact that Rick has never cared much about special teams. It was one of the biggest complaints at UGA. Football is a tough sport. You can't leave points on the field. His teams have done that his whole career and he never adequately addressed it. You simply cannot be successful with a coach who knows his team will miss out on 150+ easy yards (between KR/PR returns and punts ) a game and doesn't fix it.

That would be a band aid on gun shot wound... the ST and the QB handling this year are the best indicators of what a horrible head coach Richt is.

If after 15 years at the top he hasn't learnt, he never will.

We should learn from history instead of trying to deny it with delusional hope..
 
Very solid analysis, so reminiscent of the Golden years when changes needed to be made but he never pulled the trigger. It is pretty crazy that although their Defense is terrible D'Onofrio is coaching a better team right now.

You say this is not Miami Football, but over the past 15, almost 20 years, this has been Miami football. A **** joke, other programs have evolved and adapted to the new game and we are woefully behind the eight ball. I am not sure Miami will be back.
 
I don't get why Mark won't get fired this year.. What is the fix.. your head coach says publicly he doesn't have any answers.. to me that says it all.. QB play is pathetic and you didn't really recruit anyone for 2019 after a decent kid fell in your lap in 2018.. that position is makes or breaks football in the 21st century.. it hasn't always been that way, but it is today at any level of football.. Just from a business standpoint, you have a guy that has been in the business for 40 years and your business has a complete collapse at the most important position and you are going to overlook that.. Mark should know better than anyone on that campus what is needed... but as a boss I gotta say time to make a change and I have my top 3 list
 
Not watching not anything im done i will be on eye in the sky.....knock out one more vid and its over its done. This is who we are now and we cant compete in this era and i cannot watch a non dominant miami i just cant. Its been 15 plus years its over. While bama build the greatest empire of nfl lineage and teams we have ever seen since the canes its just no fun no more. Its a monopoly and im not putting myself through it anymore. Hopefully this mean eventually be done period with all of it....cant root for a miami team whos higher ups just care about academics and paper football and swimming and medical bs. Theres my vent but im going to do my best to fulfill this cause they hurting me too much.

I know imma bytch when it comes to losing i dont like it

Dabo was a 1st yr head coach. Ur comparing apples to Mac & Cheese.
 
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Georgia’s recruiting and lack of spending: Start with the lack of an indoor facility, which was a big deal and put Richt and his coaches far behind the top SEC programs. When UGA finally increased the recruiting budget to more than $1.3 million – Georgia’s main recruiting rivals were all spending significantly more in their recruiting efforts. A big portion of that goes to off-field staffers who do a lot of the tedious recruiting work, allowing the full-time coaches more time for evaluation and in-person recruiting. The Georgia administration finally agreed to raise their recruiting funding to a higher level, but by then it was too late for Richt.

Richt was 145-51 at Georgia, a .7398 winning percentage that is the best ever for a Bulldogs football coach.

Only Bob Stoops and Barry Switzer at Oklahoma and Tom Osborne at Nebraska won as many games in the first 15 years as a head coach, according to NCAA records.

As I posted in another thread: Dabo Swinney took over the Clemson Tigers during the 2008 season with 7 games remaining and won 4 of those game while losing 3. In his 2nd year, he led the Tigers to a 9 and 4 regular season. But, in his 3rd year, his record was 6 wins and 7 losses. During his first 4 years, he lost 3 of 4 bowl games. The usual suspects were screaming that Swinney be fired immediately and listed a mountain of reasons why he is such a terrible coach. Yet, today, Swinney is considered a God-like figure in Tiger land.

Mark Richt is a top flight human being and the same can be said of him as a head football coach. No one knows better than Coach Richt that significant change will be required over the offseason. Sometimes it is not the play (or scheme), but the actors (players). Yet, when one fairly grades the current QB’s and offensive line it doesn’t seem that to greatly improve the football team will require a Stephen Hawking type of solution.

My bet is on Mark Richt…a true Cane

Dabo is in his 11th year as a HC and has won a ring. Richt is in his 18th year as a HC and hasn't won one yet. Dabo was a first time HC at Clemson, Richt was a HC for 15 years before he came to Miami. The only people who like betting on Richt are the ones, who like paying their bookies every Tuesday. I'm sure you are your bookie's favorite client. Congrats!
 
Perhaps the game is passing CMR by . . . I doubt it though.

Would a new qb coach/offensive coordinator change what is happening on offense?
Could that coach be one of CMR's assistants? I do not mean on current staff. Could a new voice be effective in making change?
If it can happen under CMR then that is what should happen. If he can't then the admin has a tough decision to make imo.
 
What are the buyout terms? Is it less costly to continue to lose, have a lost recruiting class, and play in front of half empty stadiums for a season?

IF what you are saying is true, then the person/people responsible for granting this extension with its “prohibitive” buyout should be gone immediately.

You don’t regain a sunk cost by doubling down on stupid. If they gave him a guaranteed contract, that money has already been spent. You aren’t “saving” anything by continuing to fail.
I honestly think with ACC TV money etc there is less incentive to eat a $20 million buyout.
 
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great write up. I wish some of these questions would be asked directly to Richt by the media. Some media members are starting to ask the tough questions but not enough.
 
At this point, Mark Richt just doesn't have it in him to build a consistently successful football program.

Between the administration & the HC, there is no urgency to win. Complacency and mediocrity have permeated throughout the team.

The result is the **** sandwich being laid on the field on Saturdays.

$4 million/year for this? Unacceptable. It's time to cut losses.

Fire Mark Richt
 
Stefan,
Can you do an in depth analysis on what it costs to get rid of Richt and his awful staph this year and cost/benefits of delaying the decision....over the next year or two.. not just $$%
 
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The hard truth is that for many on our staff their best isn't good enough.
CORRECT, if I am CMR i would tear it down staff wise as well
need full time ST coach, outside of Dugans and Brown they all GO
I would challenge the inept B.James and BOT for cash for a top notch staff.............. Jon Richt come on man
recruiting is sliding away fast, you know what they are saying in living rooms about CMR great man but game has passed him by
 
Oh yes, this admin in very dumb and have zero foresight or vision. They are academic bureaucrats that haven’t the slightest clue on how to develop a winning organization. You don’t have to look further then the hires they have made over the last 2 decades. The have not made a single successful coaching hire since 1995, when they hired Butch. Think about that for a sec, that almost 25 years ago since they got a hire right. This administration is not the solution but rather the problem. They are more likely to extend Richt than fire him! Fuqin morons, all of them!

Don’t forget they also allowed the storied baseball program to decline under Morris who was also here WAY longer than he should’ve been. Their only saving grace has been Coach Larranaga, who runs the basketball program. The BoT and AD have to also be put to the fire for crapping not only on the football program but the other successful franchises we had in baseball. Thank God for Coach L
 
I honestly think with ACC TV money etc there is less incentive to eat a $20 million buyout.

Interesting. You're saying with more revenue, we are even less likely to do what's right for the future of the program??

In other words, the ACC/TV revenue means that we can essentially count any gate, concessions, donations, hurricane club, etc, revenue as the pennies you find between the seats in your car and absolutely not care about the product on the field as the school's revenue really isn't determined by what it puts into football?

You are probably right.

Hey UCF fans, got any room on the bandwagon?

BTW, I retract my statement about Miami not playing UCF and USF. Blake, please make this happen. Thanks
 
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Interesting. You're saying with more revenue, we are even less likely to do what's right for the future of the program??

In other words, the ACC/TV revenue means that we can essentially count any gate, concessions, donations, hurricane club, etc, revenue as the pennies you find between the seats in your car and absolutely not care about the product on the field as the school's revenue really isn't determined by what it puts into football?

You are probably right.

Hey UCF fans, got any room on the bandwagon?

BTW, I retract my statement about Miami not playing UCF and USF. Blake, please make this happen. Thanks
Unfortunately that’s exactly what I mean. The way CFB is structured, there’s gotta be a point of diminishing returns as far as investing into a program goes. TV is where the money is. Tix sales, at a rented venue, isn’t.

I’m not sure what % of the gate, concession, etc the AD gets from a home game, but I Gotta think it would take a while to cover a $20mill buyout. From a financial standpoint, how much of a net gain can be realized with increased Ticket sales against buying out another staff?
 
I can't see the current admin continuing on at $4 million/year, if it's not working out.
Those imbeciles don't care. Hence hiring Bicht and his shichtshow. That's the point of my collage, they haven't had a clue in 15 years, it's been one disaster after another.
 
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