“I told my wife the other day, ‘I haven’t had a dream when I go to sleep that didn’t involve football, maybe in the last six months,’ ”.
“I wake up and there’s always a situation, right?”
“The human element of it makes it hard. But what really gives me strength is coming to work every day and coaching my players … ”
“What makes things calm for me is knowing that I can walk in the meeting room and see those faces. Regardless of whether it’s a tough day or a great day, you love going in there and coaching these kids.” said one UM coach.
Another UM Coach added, “It was a family decision when I got into this business,’’
“We’ve kind of been around it and through it and know what it entails. But if you always keep the focus solely on why you got into it, your kids at home understand that dad’s a football coach and dad loves developing and being around young people — and they become a part of it. They become immersed in the culture, so to speak.”
“It’s a way of life for football coaches and families. It’s what we do as a family. But … in that, we understand it [and] our wives have to understand it. You get into it for young people and we just understand that sometimes the business part is a big piece as well.”
As for the children of this coach, “They get it,” he said. “To me, I still try to keep it [that] I’m Dad. You go home, I’m Dad. I’m not ‘Coach.’ Either way it goes, to them I’m going to be Dad, regardless.’’
Yet, a third UM Coach chimed in, “All you can do is focus on doing the best job that you can,”
“We made a pact as a team, as coaches — coach to coach, player to player, player to coach — that we were going to stick together, we were going to have unity and we were going to finish the season to the best of our ability.”
“You wake up, you go to work, you figure out the best way to teach and the best way to prepare and give them everything you have.”
Is it hard for your family?
“Of course,” this coach said. “[For] anybody in this situation, I would think it would be hard.”
But one coach who isn't caught in this ongoing "hard"ship on himself and his family is one who is probably relaxing in the keys fishing and relaxing with his stunning charming wife and their beautiful children is one Al Golden enjoying the wonderful Florida weather as opposed to the current chill weather of his native North East. He was relieved of this hardship his old ***'t coaches are undergoing, as these tough days came to a head for him on Oct. 25, 2015 the evening after UM’s worst loss in history: 58-0 to now No. 1 Clemson. On that evening, he “wish the Canes the best” an rode off with a settlement check for the balance of the calendar year, and the balance of his $7,000,000 upcoming in the next months and years to follow. Be assured that we won't see him suing the University of Miami for his back payment as his astute attorney secured contract terms which, expectedly, were very tight and clear insofar as to seamlessly forward his payments schedule to an offshore bank account in the Keys. This Coach and the family should be fine.
Now as to the other Miami coaches, they say they’re tending to their players first, then thinking about themselves and their uncertain futures as the Canes (6-4, 3-3 Atlantic Coast Conference) prepare for a 12:30 p.m. home game Saturday against Georgia Tech (3-7, 1-6).
As for the players, one Senior, former 5* and No. 1 recruit at his position, chimed in on their coaches, “My coaches, they’re men and they’re tough, so I think they can handle anything like that. But a lot of our coaches are very experienced so I’m pretty sure they’re going to get jobs. I’m pretty sure they’re going to move on …
“But the younger and new coaches.… when I look at their younger kids and wives, that’s what I think about. It’s hard on them.… It’s an uncertainty of where they’re going to be at. But it’s the thing with families. That’s what I look at the most, their families.”
Added another defender and one the fastest player on the team, if not the fastest, “We always think about the coaches and what’s going on, and that’s what motivates us. We’re all going through a lot. They’re going through a lot.”
“I know it’s tough. It’s kind of tough for us, too, because we go home not [trying to think] if they’re going to be here or not. We try to put it to the side, because we still have got games to go.
“Letting that kind of bother us is going to bring us down.”
None of the offensive players made themselves available as that side of the field kept their feelings private, or the defensive players express whatever they might have opined.
Well, maybe one reason Al Golden brought all these young and new 1st time coaches on-board is due to the fact that it was well known that Golden was on borrowed and the more established coaches wouldn't have wanted to come here and uproot their families from far away to a situation where a coach was trying to win while having never been a proven winner on the field at this level of competition. Maybe that's non-young coach Mario Cristobal left.
Personally, I think that the remaining games provide a tremendous opportunity to make a name for these coaches, particularly the Coordinators, and to a lesser extent the Interim HC. James Coley is on his own as though he is the head coach of the offense, as Mark D'Onofrio is the head coach of his defense. No need to sulk, coaches! The only reason they are sulking right now is not because their former head coach is gone, but because their coaching and their players suck on the field, as the players in their own words said that "We didn't execute"
A dozen colleges have sent head coaches to the beaches, but left remaining coaches with a great opportunity to make a name for themselves. But I hope that they all learned the lesson of life that if you don't win enough where and when it matters, the people not winning have to go. And if you players keep not winning for the next couple weeks, 100% of your coaches will probably all have to go, while the seniors might reduce their best chances to navigate it to the League, if at all.
Ultimately, the "situation" is really a life lesson not to feel sorry and sulk, but to seize an opportunity given. Show the world that you can learn from it by recognizing consequences of being a loser, and then win yourselves and win your coaches the next two games.
“I wake up and there’s always a situation, right?”
“The human element of it makes it hard. But what really gives me strength is coming to work every day and coaching my players … ”
“What makes things calm for me is knowing that I can walk in the meeting room and see those faces. Regardless of whether it’s a tough day or a great day, you love going in there and coaching these kids.” said one UM coach.
Another UM Coach added, “It was a family decision when I got into this business,’’
“We’ve kind of been around it and through it and know what it entails. But if you always keep the focus solely on why you got into it, your kids at home understand that dad’s a football coach and dad loves developing and being around young people — and they become a part of it. They become immersed in the culture, so to speak.”
“It’s a way of life for football coaches and families. It’s what we do as a family. But … in that, we understand it [and] our wives have to understand it. You get into it for young people and we just understand that sometimes the business part is a big piece as well.”
As for the children of this coach, “They get it,” he said. “To me, I still try to keep it [that] I’m Dad. You go home, I’m Dad. I’m not ‘Coach.’ Either way it goes, to them I’m going to be Dad, regardless.’’
Yet, a third UM Coach chimed in, “All you can do is focus on doing the best job that you can,”
“We made a pact as a team, as coaches — coach to coach, player to player, player to coach — that we were going to stick together, we were going to have unity and we were going to finish the season to the best of our ability.”
“You wake up, you go to work, you figure out the best way to teach and the best way to prepare and give them everything you have.”
Is it hard for your family?
“Of course,” this coach said. “[For] anybody in this situation, I would think it would be hard.”
But one coach who isn't caught in this ongoing "hard"ship on himself and his family is one who is probably relaxing in the keys fishing and relaxing with his stunning charming wife and their beautiful children is one Al Golden enjoying the wonderful Florida weather as opposed to the current chill weather of his native North East. He was relieved of this hardship his old ***'t coaches are undergoing, as these tough days came to a head for him on Oct. 25, 2015 the evening after UM’s worst loss in history: 58-0 to now No. 1 Clemson. On that evening, he “wish the Canes the best” an rode off with a settlement check for the balance of the calendar year, and the balance of his $7,000,000 upcoming in the next months and years to follow. Be assured that we won't see him suing the University of Miami for his back payment as his astute attorney secured contract terms which, expectedly, were very tight and clear insofar as to seamlessly forward his payments schedule to an offshore bank account in the Keys. This Coach and the family should be fine.
Now as to the other Miami coaches, they say they’re tending to their players first, then thinking about themselves and their uncertain futures as the Canes (6-4, 3-3 Atlantic Coast Conference) prepare for a 12:30 p.m. home game Saturday against Georgia Tech (3-7, 1-6).
As for the players, one Senior, former 5* and No. 1 recruit at his position, chimed in on their coaches, “My coaches, they’re men and they’re tough, so I think they can handle anything like that. But a lot of our coaches are very experienced so I’m pretty sure they’re going to get jobs. I’m pretty sure they’re going to move on …
“But the younger and new coaches.… when I look at their younger kids and wives, that’s what I think about. It’s hard on them.… It’s an uncertainty of where they’re going to be at. But it’s the thing with families. That’s what I look at the most, their families.”
Added another defender and one the fastest player on the team, if not the fastest, “We always think about the coaches and what’s going on, and that’s what motivates us. We’re all going through a lot. They’re going through a lot.”
“I know it’s tough. It’s kind of tough for us, too, because we go home not [trying to think] if they’re going to be here or not. We try to put it to the side, because we still have got games to go.
“Letting that kind of bother us is going to bring us down.”
None of the offensive players made themselves available as that side of the field kept their feelings private, or the defensive players express whatever they might have opined.
Well, maybe one reason Al Golden brought all these young and new 1st time coaches on-board is due to the fact that it was well known that Golden was on borrowed and the more established coaches wouldn't have wanted to come here and uproot their families from far away to a situation where a coach was trying to win while having never been a proven winner on the field at this level of competition. Maybe that's non-young coach Mario Cristobal left.
Personally, I think that the remaining games provide a tremendous opportunity to make a name for these coaches, particularly the Coordinators, and to a lesser extent the Interim HC. James Coley is on his own as though he is the head coach of the offense, as Mark D'Onofrio is the head coach of his defense. No need to sulk, coaches! The only reason they are sulking right now is not because their former head coach is gone, but because their coaching and their players suck on the field, as the players in their own words said that "We didn't execute"
A dozen colleges have sent head coaches to the beaches, but left remaining coaches with a great opportunity to make a name for themselves. But I hope that they all learned the lesson of life that if you don't win enough where and when it matters, the people not winning have to go. And if you players keep not winning for the next couple weeks, 100% of your coaches will probably all have to go, while the seniors might reduce their best chances to navigate it to the League, if at all.
Ultimately, the "situation" is really a life lesson not to feel sorry and sulk, but to seize an opportunity given. Show the world that you can learn from it by recognizing consequences of being a loser, and then win yourselves and win your coaches the next two games.
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