The Sphinx
Hand me the keys you ******* **********!!
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Where did anyone defend Golden? I know that for the less intelligent, the world can only be seen in black and white, but few things are truly that simple. Golden lacked the ability to separate loyalty from doing what needed to be done. That is what sunk him, because eventually people saw through him and his pitch.
You have to be heartless when it comes to modern collegiate athletics. Whether it is cutting bait with assistants or flat out lying to recruits to get them in the door(Or looking the other way when stars do things that most of us would consider scummy), you have to be a bit of a sociopath in order to succeed. It's not an accident that there are few, and I mean few elite coaches that you could say are solid human beings. There are a lot of bull**** artists, and flat out scumbags roaming about. Golden, by all intents and purposes was a decent guy, but he just lacked the temperament to be the kind of coach the Miami program needs.
Ehhh.... Let's please not minimize the Chernobyl calamity that was Al Golden. I give him credit for two things and two things only: for not bailing on us after the Shapiro **** hit the fan and for beating UF. That's it.
Al Golden is the one idiot who actually tried to take away our heritage; our brand. The guy comes to the University of Miami, known for decades for it's speedy, ferocious, attacking defense and brings that slow, prevent, read-and-react bull**** and had guys playing 30 pounds overweight. That's like trying to implement the Air Raid offense at Wisconsin. Completely stupid.
Radio and Coker were incompetent, but they at least knew what the U should be. They didn't try to change us. They just couldn't get it done. Richt had the right idea but was just burned out.
Golden was what he was - a glorified G5 head coach who had no business ever being the head coach for the University of Miami. He was the absolute worst and it's not even close.