If you dont want Strong as HC bc you want a proven elite HC like Butch, Patterson, Briles, or Dantonio is perfectly rational... but to not want Strong but want Herman or Fuentes just means you're not thinking clearly.
The argument about what are you doing now is the dumbest **** I've ever heard of. I guess Fuentes didn't know what he was doing, just a horrible coach that shoudve been fired, his 1st and 2nd year at Memphis, when he went 4-8, and 3-9. But this year he all of a sudden ate his spinach and magically figured out how to turn the program around over night??
Tom Herman who is the least qualified no one has seen what his teams look like with his OWN players unlike with Butch, Strong, and even Fuentes.
Memphis 3-21 the 2 year prior to Fuente arrival.
Texas was 17-9 the 2 years prior to Strong's arrival. Those 17 wins were looked as a failure. Strong is 9-12
You say that like program expectations were the only reason that record wasn't good enough? The team was expected to be good enough to compete for the BIG 12 championship and compete nationally as well. Those Mack Brown led teams were suppose to have been fully developed and ready to win with highly rated veteran recruits.
2009 was the last time Texas had a double digit winnng season (13-1). 2010 they went 5-7, 2011 record 8-5, 2012 record 9-4, and 2013 regressed to 8-5 again and Mack Brown was fired... each of those years after 2009, Texas had a losing record in conference.
You all keep bringing up that stat as if Texas was a good team when Strong took over?? Mack had 4 years to get it right and completely sunk the program. But somehow it's fair to hate on Strong bc he can't magically turn around Texas in a year and a half?
Exactly... When Mack Brown was fired. He was fired because he was FN up that program.
Also look what other schools in Texas have done over the past few years.
Texas has not has not finished with class ranked higher in recruiting than Miami since 2012.
The Texas studs are gong elsewhere. Thats a fact!
People on this site bash coaches because they are biased towards another coach. Its the blueprint of a simple mind. They literally think Butch is Jesus. Most of them don't even know squat about Butch and cant remember one game he coached in.
Strong would be a one of the best options we have at the moment. To say he is a horrible coach just means you don't know what the F your talking about. This guy has 2 NC under his belt while coaching his kids at Florida and did things at UL that no one thought possible.
There is not another name that's been mentioned on this board that would lock down recruiting like he would.
Butch doesnt have the same contacts he had 17 years or even 5 years ago. He moved his focus to the UNC area.
Strong is a name that every single high school coach down here respects and is a black coach who is respected in just about every black household down here.
He is one of the main reason recruiting shifted to Florida down here over the past 5-10 years.
We simply do not get the best SFL recruits anymore and it has to stop. We might get a kid who is like Duke but those are far and few between and not enough to build your program off of.
We will never be Miami again without the Miami studs we want and need to fill holes. When we miss out on a need then that's not acceptable and this team has done that for the last 10 years. Yes, we can get enough talent to be a top 20 class but do we get the DTs we need when it counts? No. Do we get the RBs we need? No. Linebackers? No. Lineman? No. Miami has lost its depth and has holes everywhere and thats because we have lost our ability to recruit like beasts in SFL. We are no longer their number one option. It's our only real difference making attribute and people are blind to it because we get kids in the league or because have highly ranked classes. The real truth is that people on this board that lessen that fact dont know Miami football and dont know what the F their talking about.
