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Nothing sollie said was a big deal. That’s just him, talking how he talks. Didnt sound bitter at all.
 
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Sollie was my coach back in my Jr. High days so naturally he become one of my favorite coaches at the U. He was tough but fair, and you knew you could always talk to him. With all said (and I'm still trying to give him the benefit of doubt) to me he came across somewhere between stodgy and bitter.
 
CashMoneyCane said:
Ted Hendricks! We need Hendricks closer to the football program. I mean, the man's nickname is "The Mad Stork" for crying out loud.

Get that man an analyst job.
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I used to see Ted at this bar when I was a kid in Miami Springs, my brother and I would toss the football around in the parking lot and when Ted would come out he would join us.
He was a cool guy you could see the surgical scars on his knees from his years of playing and he had this insane sounding voice that was still intimidating as he got older.
He loved to drink and it was probably too kill all that pain he suffered from his playing days.
 
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CashMoneyCane said:
Well said.

There's a weird schism between the old guard and the new. We had five rings in 18 years followed by zero rings in 17 years. We're at a tipping point in the most real way possible. I get why a guy like Soldy would feel vindictive. But that also, to me, seems to be a product of not having him around.

He's an old man who has a lot to say and wants to be heard. It would behoove us to listen to some of it.
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My only issue was he seemed somewhat hypocritical.... saying how kids are too entitled, don't want to work, think they are just gifted a spot, then turns around and says Manny should have hired someone like Kehoe, or maybe himself, or some other old time cane. To my knowledge, none of those guys are coaching still, so while coaches can be entitled, players cannot? Also reminded me of this article:

http://caneswatch.blog.palmbeachpos...r-talks-hurricanes-issues-supports-al-golden/

Basically says the same thing, kids are b!tching and moaning, but he supports Al Golden. The parallels between the two articles are similar.
 
This is all very predictable, and all of it means absolutely nothing, and none of it has any impact whatsoever.

Basically just sports news filler. Like the cushiony stuff they put in your boxes from Amazon, it’s literally worthless.
 
caneinorlando said:
Solid isn't the word....Ask these guys...
Alonzo
Conley
Bratton
Bentley
Bennett
McGuire
Jones
Edge
JJ
Gore
Mcgahee
Portis...etc...
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Was my coach in Jr. High (middle school),then in High School, **** of a no-nonsense coach. As a running back if you could'nt block or pick up the blitz you were not gonna play. Best assistant coach Miami ever had, IMO.
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D_G87 said:
Old heads need to realize the players are different now. Physically, mentally... this is the social media era. It’s not going away and kids love it.. they will say anything for likes and retweet’s... kids now just don’t play and think football 24 hrs a day... it’s a new era of football and Manny understands that... old heads struggle adjusting to this new era of players... not saying it’s bad or good but it’s reality.... your environment has to be geared to this new aged student athlete. Even Saban has adjusted.., look at Clemson, Ohio State, etc..
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It's not really about social media though. It's about thinking that when you get to Miami you've made it. Thinking that winning just happens because you're better than everybody else. Kids talk about the struggle, but the ones who get D1 offers don't struggle quite as hard for them. They dominate up until college by being bigger and faster than everybody else and they get used to that. Coaches and scouts see them dominating on natural ability and recruit them. The issue is that they seem to have less of a grasp of the fact that if you aren't always working, somebody else is getting ahead of you.

Part of why we lose to inferior teams is that the team kinda thinks they'll show up and be handed the win. They assume teams will roll over for them, but the well coached ones won't. Pitt will get lucky every few years because they've still got that attitude. They know they don't get respect unless they take it. Same for UVA and the rest of the Coastal. They still understand they have to earn it every day.

As you point out, kids are different now. And it's the job of coaches to get the best out of them despite those differences.
 
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There's a fine line you have to walk when it comes to the previous generations of coaches. You always have to respect their accomplishments. Especially guys who have been part of multiple title winning teams. At some point you have to separate the past and present though. Just because things were a certain way 20 or 30 years ago doesn't mean they're still like that today. There's a certain mindset among UM fans that because we had success doing certain things a long time ago, we would have the same success if we did them today. Never mind the fact that the game is totally different from the rules, to the style of play, to the kids playing it today. Should Oklahoma fire Lincoln Riley and bring back the wishbone? I mean, look at all the titles they won doing that. You don't want to alienate the past greats but let's be real. There's a reason why guys like Kehoe and Solinger aren't coaching anymore. Clappy cleaned house over a decade ago.
 
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CashMoneyCane said:
I didn't look it up. I feel like he's close to 70. The nostalgia is all well and good, but we need to be reasonable.
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Soldinger at 70 coaches circles around anybody on this staff, he'd straightened out offensive side of the ball in a minute.
 
I’m 47 and thought that the last person in the world that would fugg up an offense was cmr with all his experience and knowledge of the game. There May have been a single or a plethora of reasons why it didn’t work.
But whatever it or they were it didn’t.
I’ll take my chances with the new dudes.
 
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