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take a look at Bama...they knew they were going nowhere and needed the "RIGHT" coach. they decided on the guy they believed could get them to the promised land.

they went after "Moses" Saban and did whatever it took to get him .

no search committee, no 35 candidates. no wishy-washy AD.

they had a plan and focused like a laser - check the results !

sure would be nice if Miami could do just that......be focused and have a plan and the right people in charge.

hire the RIGHT coach - Butch Davis- and lets get on with it.
 
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Palm Harbor Cane said:
If he goes to the Dolphins his career is over with Tannehill is a coach killer!!!
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I have hated Tannehill since they drafted him but he has improved quite a bit. Coach Lazor and his crappy offense sucks and is very predictable. They literally run maybe 10 plays. I am actually beginning to think with good coaching Tannehill could be very good. Payton is a very good offensive coach. I would love to see him with either the Canes or the Dolphins but I don't see him leaving the NFL.
 
Chuck Norris said:
I'd like to see us seriously go after Sean Payton.
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Butch is the guy for me. None of the other names that keep coming up are even close. Palton, however, is one the gives my a second thought. If those idiots refuse to hire Butch, then Sean would be interesting. Aside from having actually won something, the dude is the only HC I know to get suspended for a year. What is a better qualification for a Cane than that?
 
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mdpcane said:
take a look at Bama...they knew they were going nowhere and needed the "RIGHT" coach. they decided on the guy they believed could get them to the promised land.

they went after "Moses" Saban and did whatever it took to get him .

no search committee, no 35 candidates. no wishy-washy AD.

they had a plan and focused like a laser - check the results !

sure would be nice if Miami could do just that......be focused and have a plan and the right people in charge.

hire the RIGHT coach - Butch Davis- and lets get on with it.
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Most Miami fans are in denial at this point when it comes to this job and big time coaches. The level of interest and respect between Bama and Miami is a wide gap. No coach in their right mind would choose Miami over a school like Bama, or anything remotely close. The admin over the years has killed this program. They had a real shot in the early 2000's to raise the overall athletic program to great heights. They failed miserably while other programs went full steam ahead into the modern era. Miami has had a great run through football but they are squarely behind the times. I think fans over value the location of the program in regard to the recruiting base. If you are good enough, you can win at most any location. Does that mean win national titles, not necessarily, but win a lot of games and get yourself into a conference title situation every few years; which could place you at the final four.

I don't think coaches look at Miami the same way the fans do. They see Miami in the modern light while Cane fans are still caught up in the past. Does that mean Miami can't achieve greatness again, no, but I am not sure coaches (at least the ones we want) see it as an easy road to victory.

Coaches may show a cursory interest, but its probably more of a check the box type of thing with multiple jobs open. I have said this from day one. Miami will be left with Butch instead of choosing Butch.
 
To be fair, Bama had their own missteps in the late 90s and into the 2000s, when they hired guys like Mike DuBose, Denis Franchione, and Mike Shula. And don't forget the Mike Price fiasco. So let's not pretend that they've always made great hires.
 
You're looking at saban in retrospect. Even for him, I'm sure support wasn't universal at the time. If money and facilities and all that were no object, you still wouldn't be able to name a coach that NOBODY would object to.

I'd also like to point out that al looked like a much better idea than he turned out to be. At the time we thought we had a pretty good team. Clean up the penalties, the mystifying lack of tacking ability and teach jacory how to throw to people on his team and the ACC would be ours. From there we were 2 recruiting classes from a NC. And al, what with the sports psychology degree and Temple turn around, looked like he'd be up to the task. Point being that these things are always uncertain- saban could come here and totally suck, you just don't know until you try.
 
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I like how and what you said, except for the Butch Davis **** again. not because I am against the guy but because it defeats the whole purpose of your post for UM to look for the best candidate
 
FWIW, here's an article about Bama's coaching search from just before Saban was hired.

In addition to Rich Rod turning them down, they also got turned down by Saban at first, as well as Spurrier. Those are all respectable first-line candidates. But I thought this was interesting:

"It wasn't clear who the Tide will turn to now, though the university's original wish list also included Navy's Paul Johnson, Wake Forest's Jim Grobe and possibly California's Jeff Tedford."

Jim Grobe? Paul Johnson?

Also, in 2000, they offered and were turned down by Frank Beamer and our own Butch Davis.

Also interesting: Bama reportedly offered Rich Rod 2 mil/yr. That was 9 years ago. Amazing how coaching salaries have skyrocketed in less than a decade.
 
cocanes said:
I like how and what you said, except for the Butch Davis **** again. not because I am against the guy but because it defeats the whole purpose of your post for UM to look for the best candidate
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No ****, it completely smacks the rest of his post in the face, because Bama for the longest tried it's hardest to live in the past and hire Bear disciples.
 
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