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Golden needs to go, but I also believe some fans go over the top. Case in point the guy that sent that tweet to Cager.
 
I doubt the Tuscaloosa WhateverThe****TheNameOfTheirPaperIs has anonymous coaches/Saban railing against the fans' negativity in it. We're just doomed.
 
First guy says he knows in his soul they will win and next sentence says maybe we wont but he thinks they can... Guy is just trying to cash checks...

Golden has never won anything. ANYTHING. But he is a winner. These guys are salesman at selling crap
 
Pathetic truly pathetic that Goldie is *****ing about the fans. The man is paid 2 million a year to win football games. Criticism and expectations are part of the job.
 
$2 million a year ... I'll ignore the noise as well. That is why people need to be screaming at the ******** that agreed to that contract and are content to let it slide.
 
That entire article is a ******* disgrace and it epitomizes WHY we've fallen off the face of the college football map for the last decade.

They don't care. Period. Anyone that cares wouldn't be attempting a last ditch campaign effort to deflect their own internal problems by desperately trying to somehow pin it on the fans. The same fans that have stood by for the last decade and watched 3 straight horrible coaching staff hired, then extended, then given too much and subsequently making the situation worse.

It's time to turn up the noise even louder. Protests, multiple billboards, and showing up at the games (not buying tickets or going inside) and just discouraging people from going inside.

I swear I'd rather see the program shut down than continue to be run the way it is. **** this incompetent, inept administration and the sheep media who are willingly spewing their victim garage.

This program is a disgrace...nowhere in the article does it even touch on the heart of the matter....how the guy in question DESERVES to be fired and the frugality of the current administration is the reason the fans have become as desperate as they have.

They deserve whatever embarrassment they get from this point on. I sincerely hope we go 0-12 and the recruiting class falls apart.
 
That's some soft shouldered bull**** blaming fan negativity for anything. What do we have to cheer for to begin with? Mediocrity? The **** out of here with this ****. As a season tix holder, name one thing I have to look forward to next year when not one thing changed that got us to 6-7 in year 4. A visit to the Cowboys? Ok.


I'm listening BOT.
 
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Gapere said:
That's some soft shouldered bull**** blaming fan negativity for anything. What do we have to cheer for to begin with? Mediocrity? The **** out of here with this ****. As a season tix holder, name one thing I have to look forward to next year when not one thing changed that got us to 6-7 in year 4. A visit to the Cowboys? Ok.


I'm listening BOT.
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I hope to God you meant to say "ex" season ticket holder.

Anyone buying tickets to a game next year is part of the problem. Period.
 
Al Golden is showing all the signs of a guy that got into a job and realizes he is way over his head. He thought he would have time to learn on the job but his is a results oriented occupation and he has run out of time.

The administration thought they would get a bargain hire, the golden boy, with a big upside and Golden would eventually get it and make a winner out of the program. They also have run out of time. They are hoping the upcoming season will show some miracle turnaround and all will be well in Coral Gables.

Golden is feeling the pressure and he may go the extra mile to make changes, or maybe he will be so confident that his way will eventually be the success headline of the year and pin his hopes for success on the status quo. Time will tell.

So here we are, stuck with a poor coach and a program on the cusp of imploding and being asked to hang around and support our team, as usual, and hope for the miracle season to happen this year or in some future year. If you have the time, wait for the next episode.
Personally I'm losing any hope but I'll watch with great interest.
 
6-7 with the 2nd best recruiting classes in the ACC through the last decade (same with the last four years) means you're an underachieving set of m'fers. Now who does the blame fall upon, that's the question.

You can say (last I checked checked) 33% of our signing classes since golden have moved on or never made it in. You look at that number and it seems awfully high. Guess what, we're number one at something and it's player attrition. Hey, we win at something.

The other side, if you believe that everyone has a place they're supposed to be, then it's potentially all on the players. Okay, so let's say that's the case, what kind of dumb**** scheme is that? I'd rather defend certain parts of the field or plays knowing the offense could call something we're not necessarily focusing on, but we've got covered if need be. Essentially, you have stop gap after stop gap set up.

No matter what way you look at it, it's on the coaches. If you can't limit the player mistakes (I'm now 40 and if I made mistakes during my playing days, my *** would be off the field until I didn't make mistakes) then you find players that won't make mistakes rather than continually playing the same guys you want to blame. Our attrition rate, that had nothing to do with the cloud. Our second overall ranked classes in the ACC the last decade (the cloud didn't change our class ranking average) haven't measured up to our ACC standing.

Essentially, it's all bull**** and the only cloud is the one coming from the staff trying to obscure our deficiencies as a staff. I've gotta give Kehoe credit (someone who I've always considered a true Cane at heart with the best of intentions but a coaching liability these days) for at least acknowledging we have a short yardage problem that he's gotta deal with.

Bottom line, no excuses....
 
It is just disgusting what these three cheap### coaching hires have done to this program. That pig Urban Meyer laughs at the way Shalala and her cohorts giftwrapped and handed that SLUG domination of CFB.

And they wonder why the alums and fans are coming after them with pitchforks and torches????? ARE THEY SERIOUS????? GEEBUZ H Christie! Please give us a new President with the stones to can the whole bunch of them!
 
Telling kids not to go to UM because the coaches will ruin their careers and waster their talents? Unacceptable.
Those exact same coaches lying to kids and getting them to sign binding letters of intent, THEN firing/pushing out coaches after signing day? Totally acceptable.

Makes sense.
 
Hey at least Kehoe said they might not get enough time to fix it. Maybe he knows they are all gone next year.
 
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Didn't read all of it but was that banner true? The u part 3? Lol nice. Wish I would've seen it. Did it get air time?
 
Republicane said:
Telling kids not to go to UM because the coaches will ruin their careers and waster their talents? Unacceptable.
Those exact same coaches lying to kids and getting them to sign binding letters of intent, THEN firing/pushing out coaches after signing day? Totally acceptable.

Makes sense.
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We haven't gotten Any indication that he will do it.... He has never fired anyone....
 
Problem2 said:
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It’s part of the rhythmic nature of sports: Time heals the hurt of a disappointing season; hope builds as the next one approaches. But much of the optimism has been drained from this University of Miami fan base, replaced by an atmosphere so full of anger that players and the head coach have begun to speak out about it.

Every week, there’s a new symbol of discontentment: from prominent former players calling for a coaching change, to Duke Johnson’s mother asserting half the team would transfer if it could, to a “fire Al Golden” sign popping up behind ESPN's set at the College Football Playoff, much like the one removed from Bank United Center during a UM basketball game.

Then four-star UM oral commitment Mark Walton announced negativity is hurting UM's recruiting efforts.

Then a Canes fan paid for a banner to fly over AT&T Stadium before Monday’s championship game in Arlington, Texas, saying: “The U Part 3: [president Donna] Shalala/BOT [Board of Trustees] killed Miami football.”

And this, too, was telling: Michael Irvin said people can’t blame his nephew, four-star safety Tim Irvin, for committing to Texas because Tim Irvin “lives in Miami and hears how players are killing the coach.” (Irvin flipped to Auburn on Sunday.)

The negativity is wearing on people in the program. One UM coach who requested anonymity said it’s having a corrosive effect.

Golden said he’s aware of it but that commenting on the impact of it would do him no good. But he told canesport.com: “People are flat out cruel. I feel bad for the seniors. They got tired of it.”


That appears to be the case.

“It’s surprising and it’s hurtful,” departing linebacker Denzel Perryman said of fan anger in recent months.

Brad Kaaya said he didn’t expect this much negativity when he came here. Nor did he expect to be 6-7, presumably.

“We’re aware of it; it’s a tough environment, a small demographic that’s really vocal,” Kaaya said last month. “Some people can turn on you at any moment. For the last couple months, I’ve gotten all kinds of crazy stuff tweeted to me.

“I don’t look at it, and most guys ignore it because it gets in your head, especially a lot of the negative stuff, and will make you play bad. [My message] is we’re going to turn this around. I didn’t come here to be mediocre.”

His mother, Angela Means Kaaya, has become the voice of optimism on social media, railing against the negativity on Twitter.

Departing center Shane McDermott said some fan behavior --- including posting Golden’s home address on a web site --- has been “a little extreme, what they’ve been doing. But we need to perform better. I feel bad for coach Golden because he works his butt off.”

But Phillip Dorsett said the reason this team keeps losing is obvious to him: “When a play is called, everybody has to do their job. You can’t have one player doing their own thing when everybody else is doing what they’re supposed to do. There’s always something.”

Perryman blames "guys freelancing" for the underachieving.

Whereas Johnson’s mother says “kids are tired of this crap,” Duke Johnson says: “I wouldn’t say it’s all coach Golden’s fault. I wouldn’t put it all on him.” He said UM fans need to “relax.”

But Johnson’s mother is not alone in her concerns. Among complaints raised by several parents during conversations in recent weeks: lack of halftime adjustments; the defense playing too much soft zone; the read-and-react defensive philosophy; players being misused; defensive players being asked to learn too much (“the system is too sophisticated for a lot of these kids,” one said).

Offensive line coach Art Kehoe has a unique perspective because he was an assistant on all five championship teams. He has seen championship-caliber coaching up close.

“I don’t want to be an eternal optimist because we definitely have problems we’ve got to solve,” Kehoe said last month. “We have to get better in the red zone. That hurt us in the Pittsburgh game. We have to get better in short yardage. We have to get a little bit tougher up front in the o-line. None of offense, defense or special teams is up to standards of Hurricanes fans….

“We haven’t been where we should be in probably a decade in terms of BCS, top 10, top 20, winning the ACC, being in the national title picture.”

But, Kehoe said: “I’ve been with Howard Schnellenberger and Jimmy Johnson and Dennis Erickson and Butch Davis and Larry Coker and they all have their pluses and minuses. I look at this guy [Golden] and he’s relentless and he’s a winner. People need to understand, whether we run out of time or not, what he’s doing is right.

“I want to see it come to fruition because he’s a good man, a good leader, a superb coach. I know, in my heart and soul, we’re going to win. I may be proven wrong, but I don’t think so. I think we’re going to win big.”

So where does the optimism come from, beyond his faith in Golden?

“Al knows we have a potential All-American quarterback,” Kehoe said. “Just he alone is going to make us take a jump next year. [Kaaya] has got that ‘it’ factor. He’s just so cool to me. He’s not full of himself --- just a determined, purposeful cool dude. He’s got California swagger, kind of like being a John Wayne type. He’s not trying to be cool. He’s just cool. Our players look up to him and like him.”

Former UM All-American center Brett Romberg said Kehoe called him and former UM offensive lineman Joaquin Gonzalez to chew them out in October after they publicly criticized the coaching staff.

"They’re entitled to their opinion,” Kehoe said. “I love Joaquin and Brett. We talked. They’re two of the best players I ever coached, two great leaders. I just wanted to tell them… we’re addressing every single thing we can, whether it’s the way we practice, the way we plan. We’re visiting pro football teams [the Dallas Cowboys] and college teams, getting ideas. This guy [Golden] exhausts every avenue of trying to be better.”

Kehoe insists he has no issue with ex-players voicing complaints.

But with every setback, the swirl of negativity ratchets up.

“Al talks about ignoring the noise to our players all the time,” Kehoe said. “If anyone is going to ignore the noise, he is. He’s a master at it.”

But Golden’s fully aware of it, telling Canesport that “everyone is too busy *****ing to accept the progress that has been made.”
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http://miamiherald.typepad.com/sports-buzz/#storylink=cpy

Golden exhausts every avenue to get better except for you know, changing things up after a 6-7 season. **** you too Kehoe.
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I agree with all of that. I think Golden's got serious systemic problems, caused by his slavish devotion to his defensive philosophy, and his apparent insistence that the offense go into a shell later in the game. I really am very pessimistic that this can be fixed. I think he'll be gone absent a miraculous improvement this coming season.

Still, some of the fans are horrible--flying a banner at the championship game? Trashing the staff on national TV, giving out his home address...it's only hurting. No sane coach would want to come to Miami after seeing this.
 
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