Yeah, right. That's a very idealistic view on UM and our history of addressing our cluster****s. Our putrid history of bungling things in the AD wasn't going to correct itself without divine intervention.
It took the worst lost in program history, one not even Coker or Shannon could muster. One so humiliating the opposition shrewdly didn't even go in for halftime, they stayed to prepare the body.
If Golden had lost that game in his usual fashion of 31-14 he would have "trust-the-processed" himself into surviving and Mark Richt would be the current HC at Florida State.
We'd be the ones lobotomized into believing Willie Taggart, Dan Mullen, or Lord help us, Mario Cristobal and their staff of "young energetic recruiters" we're going to save us.
That my friend is how UM of old handled things. During the nearly 20 years of inept leadership how many signs were there the brand was coming apart? How many great coaches who would have taken this job did we watch other programs hire in the names of saving face for Larry Coker and Randy Shannon? Too many.
In fact, as bad as that loss was, it took the prospects of several Golden Canes walking from their support and even the loss of sponsorships to make them begrudgingly write the check to get rid of Alfonso and his endless stream of failure absolving emails.
Mark Richt fell right into our laps and if we didn't have an urgent vacancy we'd have missed him. The Lord, through his many Messengers, made use get out of our own way. By his Hand, his messenger Dabo showed us just how embarrassing this program had truly become.
And by the way, don't think we are rid of all the demons either. Perhaps you've noticed what's been going on with our baseball program?