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NVA CANE said:
Sorry to muck up your thread Lu but this will be my only post off topic.

For all the ***s *****ing and crying about how all they want to do is talk football, well here it is. A great thread discussing football and not a single one of those ******s can be found. What a shock.
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you beat me to it NVA.
 
To be fair, Golden is the first coach at Miami to have his best pass rushers cover WR's. No one has done that!
 
Great read, Lu.

Beautifully distilled.

Couldn't agree more. Do more with less. That's what success is all about it, and it's what made Miami competitive and kept it so (until the last decade).
 
McGahee2TheHouse said:
tbaycane said:
Great read. All of our great coaches had different methods. I Dont know about all these revisionists and their version. Every miami champion followed a DIFFERENT blueprint

But all the coaches had the ability to do more with less overall
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I disagree. I think the blueprint has always been the same, unless we are defining blueprint in different ways.
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get the best players in sfla equals wins esy formula.
 
Dwinstitles said:
McGahee2TheHouse said:
tbaycane said:
Great read. All of our great coaches had different methods. I Dont know about all these revisionists and their version. Every miami champion followed a DIFFERENT blueprint

But all the coaches had the ability to do more with less overall
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I disagree. I think the blueprint has always been the same, unless we are defining blueprint in different ways.
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get the best players in sfla equals wins esy formula.
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If Golden has taught us anything, it's that you need more than just players. Having the best talent alone won't get it done when you're being out-schemed and refuse to use your talent to the best of its abilities.
 
Dwinstitles said:
McGahee2TheHouse said:
tbaycane said:
Great read. All of our great coaches had different methods. I Dont know about all these revisionists and their version. Every miami champion followed a DIFFERENT blueprint

But all the coaches had the ability to do more with less overall
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I disagree. I think the blueprint has always been the same, unless we are defining blueprint in different ways.
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get the best players in sfla equals wins esy formula.
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That's part of it.
 
Lu, thanks for the write-up. your hesitancy, and disappointment, come through. the problem is not only golden, but the AD. he is not a CEO type with vision, aggression, innovation and ballz. until that changes, we are not going to win.
 
UM doesn't have the rabid Alumni/donation base that other colleges have because we are a small private institution. Internet sites and radio shows do a **** poor job of trying to enact change with classless behavior and it only digs the university into a bigger hole.
 
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NVA CANE said:
Sorry to muck up your thread Lu but this will be my only post off topic.

For all the ***s *****ing and crying about how all they want to do is talk football, well here it is. A great thread discussing football and not a single one of those ******s can be found. What a shock.
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Interesting observation.

Regarding doing less with more, exactly what needs to be said about last season especially.
 
There's one common denominator with all our winning coaches. It's really simiple: they were good coaches. Whether you run a spread offense or a pro style or a 4-3 or 3-4, philosophy, scheme, style, it doesn't matter. Can you ****** coach? That's it.

There isn't a program in the country where a mediocre coach can go in and win big. Not Bama, not Ohio State, not UF, not Texas, nobody. Every school has had down years when they hired a crappy coach. All our winning coaches brought something different to the table, but they all could coach their asses off. Our last 3 coaches have sucked at coaching football.

One last thing, if you want to sustain winning over a longer period of time or if you're taking over a team that's down, you obviously need to be able to coach and recruit.
 
Does Saban do more with less? Did Urban Meyer do more with less at UF. How did he leave the program? Does Bob Stoops do more with less? Has stoops won without John Blakes recruits?

So what do we do with Golden if he wins 10-11 games?
 
omaha said:
Does Saban do more with less? Did Urban Meyer do more with less at UF. How did he leave the program? Does Bob Stoops do more with less? Has stoops won without John Blakes recruits?

So what do we do with Golden if he wins 10-11 games?
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I fail to see the point you're making. Perhaps you can clarify and I'll gladly discuss.

To answer your question, if Golden wins 11 games, I will be happy. Re-read the post, as those comments are in there: I openly hope he bucks his own trend.
 
Al would of lost at least two games with the 2001 Canes.
 
Great post. The ability to adapt is key to any coach/leader. To this point you have seen Golden come in with his guiding principles and stick to them. They have not worked at UM and he has stuck to his ways. To me this will be his ultimate downfall. We are talented enough to be a double digit win team and compete for the ACC but thie mismatch of scheme and talent so far under Golden do not let us reach our potential.

I hope he can prove us wrong. Go Canes
 
I also think the point Lu made about culture is on point and especially this year. I think one of Golden's biggest failures as a coach is his lack of being genuine in football. This isn't about whether he's a nice guy or any of that, but more about his slogans or his hashtags. I believe a former player even touched on it by saying they always felt golden was trying to sell so they couldn't connect or buy in.

Aside from his first year I don't think his players have ever bought in. To me Golden is a classic textbook guy, he regurgitates what he reads or knows but never knows how to deviate from that book when necessary. So when he ingrains things like #brickbybrick or #wefense , sure the players will mention it, but from the outside looking in there seems to be something very hollow about all of it. Hence a real culture is never created. The problem is compounded by losing of course. If golden could win players would buy in, since he can't they probably deem his motivational ploys as gimmicks and a joke.
 
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NVA CANE said:
I also think the point Lu made about culture is on point and especially this year. I think one of Golden's biggest failures as a coach is his lack of being genuine in football. This isn't about whether he's a nice guy or any of that, but more about his slogans or his hashtags. I believe a former player even touched on it by saying they always felt golden was trying to sell so they couldn't connect or buy in.

Aside from his first year I don't think his players have ever bought in. To me Golden is a classic textbook guy, he regurgitates what he reads or knows but never knows how to deviate from that book when necessary. So when he ingrains things like #brickbybrick or #wefense , sure the players will mention it, but from the outside looking in there seems to be something very hollow about all of it. Hence a real culture is never created. The problem is compounded by losing of course. If golden could win players would buy in, since he can't they probably deem his motivational ploys as gimmicks and a joke.
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This is spot on analysis. On one hand I want to give him credit for sticking to his beliefs, since that is hard to do in today's society, but that same stubbornness is hurting his decision making on and off the field and leading to losses. I honestly do not think he is far off from being a good coach, but he needs to be more adaptive to what the players need in terms of play style and abandon some of the things that clearly don't work for them. My fear is, and his history suggests, that he is too hard headed/stupid to Change some of his core beliefs. He came to Miami and wanted to make the team more accountable and break the cycle of underachieving by making the kids deserve victory. The problem he has is the kids are now doing what he asks, which is quite the burden, but he has not placed them in a position on the field to win because of stubborn core beliefs. That's why the bottom keeps falling out at the end of the season. Kids are over worked and not seeing the results of their hard work on the field because he can't adjust.
 
There is no nobility in a stubborn idiot sticking to his beliefs. In fact, there's a good chance that Fraulden will destroy Kaaya.

Firing Day is 87 away.

For you, Mr. Kaaya.

[video=youtube;2uXbz_p5K1U]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uXbz_p5K1U[/video]
 
mydas77 said:
NVA CANE said:
I also think the point Lu made about culture is on point and especially this year. I think one of Golden's biggest failures as a coach is his lack of being genuine in football. This isn't about whether he's a nice guy or any of that, but more about his slogans or his hashtags. I believe a former player even touched on it by saying they always felt golden was trying to sell so they couldn't connect or buy in.

Aside from his first year I don't think his players have ever bought in. To me Golden is a classic textbook guy, he regurgitates what he reads or knows but never knows how to deviate from that book when necessary. So when he ingrains things like #brickbybrick or #wefense , sure the players will mention it, but from the outside looking in there seems to be something very hollow about all of it. Hence a real culture is never created. The problem is compounded by losing of course. If golden could win players would buy in, since he can't they probably deem his motivational ploys as gimmicks and a joke.
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This is spot on analysis. On one hand I want to give him credit for sticking to his beliefs, since that is hard to do in today's society, but that same stubbornness is hurting his decision making on and off the field and leading to losses. I honestly do not think he is far off from being a good coach, but he needs to be more adaptive to what the players need in terms of play style and abandon some of the things that clearly don't work for them. My fear is, and his history suggests, that he is too hard headed/stupid to Change some of his core beliefs. He came to Miami and wanted to make the team more accountable and break the cycle of underachieving by making the kids deserve victory. The problem he has is the kids are now doing what he asks, which is quite the burden, but he has not placed them in a position on the field to win because of stubborn core beliefs. That's why the bottom keeps falling out at the end of the season. Kids are over worked and not seeing the results of their hard work on the field because he can't adjust.
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Basically its like Golden read a manual on how to build an airplane but only has the parts to build a car. The pieces don't fit what he's trying to build but he keeps forcing it, meanwhile he refuses to pick up the car manual laying right next to him.

Makes no sense and is a classic case of incompetence and stubbornness
 
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