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Listen there is no doubt Butch is the best talent elevator ever and could do great things at Miami.
Butch proved that in Miami you dont need to be a great game day coach if you can get the kids that matter and there is no other place in the world that has as many top notch D1 players as they do in the Miami area. That is without a doubt the one huge advantage that Miami has over every single other program in the world.
That's the blueprint every coach should follow and the next three coaches basically had no eye for talent whatsoever.
Butch did the same thing at UNC but without the regional advantage he could never build the depth.
I always laugh when people say Golden had 7 legit pro players last year and couldn't win. Butch would have 7 legit pro players that no one recruited and twice as many other legit pro players that people did recruit hard. Butch would have more first rounders than Golden had NFLers.
Wihtout any other considerations Butch would be the perfect fit to bring Miami back. I would be willing to deal with his vanilla Xs and Os because in Miami that can work. His depth made Miami practices the best place on earth to get better. If you wanted to start at Miami you had to walk thru a mine field every day in practice so by game time it was easy. Butch teams played mean as **** and they abused their opponents.
Butch was fired in 2011 and he has been looking for a head gig ever since he was fired. Butch would also come in on the cheap. So whats the problem? Many people on this board say nothing but two things. "Fire Golden" and "Hire Butch" But do they ever ask themselves what the problem is?
When Butch left Miami he left a lot of people ****ed off. Many of our boosters still remember that and they still hold a grudge against him.
ESPN.com: GEN - Davis' lies undo years of hard work at UM
Also while Butch was not directly linked to the NCAA scandal by the NCAA it is clear in the court of public opinion that he did nothing to avoid it.
One of their biggest faults was that UNC was not forthcoming during the investigation. The school knows more than the NCAA does. Butch was fired and Williams was not.
Former players have come out and stated that Butch did know and didn't care and one of those very same players told the media that not only did Butch know he told them that if they came to UNC for academics then they should have gone to Harvard. Butch Davis himself does not deny making that statement in fact he admits it.
Miami's administration is about as gun shy as any other administration in the country and they are **** bent on selling Miami to the world as an academic institution.
That makes Butch Davis about as unlikely as a candidate for this job as any other candidate in the world.
Butch proved that in Miami you dont need to be a great game day coach if you can get the kids that matter and there is no other place in the world that has as many top notch D1 players as they do in the Miami area. That is without a doubt the one huge advantage that Miami has over every single other program in the world.
That's the blueprint every coach should follow and the next three coaches basically had no eye for talent whatsoever.
Butch did the same thing at UNC but without the regional advantage he could never build the depth.
I always laugh when people say Golden had 7 legit pro players last year and couldn't win. Butch would have 7 legit pro players that no one recruited and twice as many other legit pro players that people did recruit hard. Butch would have more first rounders than Golden had NFLers.
Wihtout any other considerations Butch would be the perfect fit to bring Miami back. I would be willing to deal with his vanilla Xs and Os because in Miami that can work. His depth made Miami practices the best place on earth to get better. If you wanted to start at Miami you had to walk thru a mine field every day in practice so by game time it was easy. Butch teams played mean as **** and they abused their opponents.
Butch was fired in 2011 and he has been looking for a head gig ever since he was fired. Butch would also come in on the cheap. So whats the problem? Many people on this board say nothing but two things. "Fire Golden" and "Hire Butch" But do they ever ask themselves what the problem is?
When Butch left Miami he left a lot of people ****ed off. Many of our boosters still remember that and they still hold a grudge against him.
ESPN.com: GEN - Davis' lies undo years of hard work at UM
Also while Butch was not directly linked to the NCAA scandal by the NCAA it is clear in the court of public opinion that he did nothing to avoid it.
One of their biggest faults was that UNC was not forthcoming during the investigation. The school knows more than the NCAA does. Butch was fired and Williams was not.
Former players have come out and stated that Butch did know and didn't care and one of those very same players told the media that not only did Butch know he told them that if they came to UNC for academics then they should have gone to Harvard. Butch Davis himself does not deny making that statement in fact he admits it.
Miami's administration is about as gun shy as any other administration in the country and they are **** bent on selling Miami to the world as an academic institution.
That makes Butch Davis about as unlikely as a candidate for this job as any other candidate in the world.
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