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Devin Hester Interview

Dwinstitles said:
Knew Randy was this bad not even surprised. He's like a military dude for no fuqin reason at all.
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I'm convinced that the brawl with FIU led to Randy being hired given his style. If that event never happened, I wonder what direction we would've went in post-Coker.
 
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orange&green84 said:
I'm convinced that the brawl with FIU led to Randy being hired given his style. If that happens, I wonder what direction we would've went in post-Coker.
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that military **** dont work in sfla thats why that man cant recruit, he better thank Shapiro for that first class. Dude is one of the worst coaches of all time him Golden and Diaz are complete **** shows.
 
Ethnicsands said:
This is myth. The story was out before the ‘11 season. Golden’s first full class was ‘12. In that class, he got 2 5* kids and 8 4* kids, including Duke, Howard, Flowers and Bush. So he didn’t pay a big price for that story.

Golden also signed some very highly regarded players in the ‘13 class, including Grace, Elder, Coley, A. Burns, AQM, Olsen, Carter and Griffin.

What happened is that he signed too many busts and kids who didn’t make it in, and his appeal went down as people saw his teams play.
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I'll pile onto your post. In 2013, we signed 19 kids. Within 2 years, Olsen, Griffin, Sandland, Lockley, Ray Lewis II, Bond, Figueroa were gone. So that is 7 out of 19 from the 2013 class.

Back to his 2012 class, gone within 3 years were Jean-Louis, Kirby, Dewey, Hamilton, Lockhart, Blue, Witt, Terry, Briscoe, Hoilett, Dortch, Moore, Thompson, Dilliard, Gadbois. Gionni Paul could not play in our defense so he transfers to Utah and becomes first-team All-Pac 12.

Blame Shapiro all anybody wants. The attrition under Golden was unreal. The dude sucked.
 
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I have never understood when Miami has a mediocre program and an underperforming staff and they decide to promote within the staff. We didn't see it coming with Coker right away. Shannon was a bad same staff hire. Diaz was a same staff bad hire.

Years ago I applied for a regional sales manager position with a medical device company. After my fourth interview, I asked about recent company sales, was told they had been flat the last several years. I also asked who else was being considered for this position. They mentioned several external credible candidates that I knew from the industry and one internal candidate. They ended up hiring the internal candidate and a year later were posting the same position was listed. You hire mediocrity, you get mediocrity.
 
orange&green84 said:
Although true, and maybe Hester embellished on some parts. Randy has shown that he likes to have players in his dog house. It maps to his personality. And also explains why he wasn't getting burn at CB his Junior year.
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I’m sure he embellished , I’m also sure he’s forgotten parts of the story or just doesn’t remember things the exact same. But knowing what i‘ve been told on Randy the premise makes total sense.
 
SayWhat said:
He sure as **** did.

He had **** Romeo Davis out there over multiple guys. No disrespect to Davis, he did what he could, but he couldn't find a play to save his ***.

VT game at their house, WW comes out busting some heads and making plays like he's going to go down in our books as one of the best ever. He saw such limited action, but did a **** ton with it.

Randy gets asked about him and says some bull**** about needing to learn the plays better before he gets more action. I get that, but not when you have Davis who can't find the ball at all.

WW's never saw significant minutes and his handling reminds me of this Hester stuff. Shameful.
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Incredible that if you substitute a few names, it would 100% apply to this season as well.
 
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WW certainly had his personal issues, perhaps immaturity and not having someone upside his head or yank on his ear when he got into youthful trouble. Maybe he got a pass too often since he was a star football player. I don't recall any violent episodes. I am happy to read he's doing well in life now.

Regarding his play, he had to potential to dominate games and be an all-time great Cane.

To quote Bill Parcells regarding LT, who would free-lance as a rookie: "The challenge was to let the talent flourish without breaking down the structure of the defense".

Shannon was not up to the challenge.
 
lauderdaleballer said:
They did say WW struggled with learning plays, however RS should have found a way to get him on the field. Javon Nanton was a walk on that got about 6 sacks one year. Coaches have to think out the box and get creative. He didn’t. We should not have been running no pro-style or a 4-3 defense in the late 00’s either.
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I get what you're saying but Javon wasn't the greatest example. Our senior year, dude was the best Edge guy in the county, arguably the state. Light-years better than Willie Jones. I played against both, no comparison. He was a walk-on in the technical sense, same way Tana was(T&F scholly). Back in the good 'ol days when you could cook the books. Could've went to a number of high-level P5's but wanted to be here. There was no rocket science involved in getting him on the field. The most tragic element of the WW situation was that it didn't take a rocket scientist to get him on the field either. Willie was a generational talent and, despite his impulse-control issues, a very intelligent kid. I highly doubt that he had an issue digesting the playback. What I'm sure of is that Willie would abandon his assignment when his instincts told him to, making the play more often than not. I'm also sure that this, coupled with WW's big personality and the media attention he arrived with made him an easy target for Randy's ****list. Dude basically said, "I could have the next LT or DT on my hands but, ehhh, fucc it, don't need him. Now that Davis kid, he follows his assignment to a tee". Sad how he restrained some of our greatest talent here...
 
Devin had to get walked to his spot as a WR in the NFL, like it was Pop Warner. For all his talent, Devin never really cared to learn a **** thing. There's plenty to blame Randy for, but when a guy couldn't find a position in the NFL either, maybe it's just that guy.
 
SayWhat said:
He sure as **** did.

He had **** Romeo Davis out there over multiple guys. No disrespect to Davis, he did what he could, but he couldn't find a play to save his ***.

VT game at their house, WW comes out busting some heads and making plays like he's going to go down in our books as one of the best ever. He saw such limited action, but did a **** ton with it.

Randy gets asked about him and says some bull**** about needing to learn the plays better before he gets more action. I get that, but not when you have Davis who can't find the ball at all.

WW's never saw significant minutes and his handling reminds me of this Hester stuff. Shameful.
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I'm pretty sure in the VT game in 05 when Coker was still HC, Beason was the starter at Willie's position. I don't think it has much to do with Romeo Davis at this point.
They could have probably lined him up at DE on passing downs, but Beason was definitely the better player.
 
bmorecane said:
So everyone is buying his account of the situation huh
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Whelp Reggie Youngblood, L. ponder are chiming in on twitter pretty much saying similar things the staff did to players. I guess Greg Threat has an interview out there also (can’t find it). I’d believe Devin
 
Canedude08 said:
Devin had to get walked to his spot as a WR in the NFL, like it was Pop Warner. For all his talent, Devin never really cared to learn a **** thing. There's plenty to blame Randy for, but when a guy couldn't find a position in the NFL either, maybe it's just that guy.
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Hester had a 57 reception season in the nfl. That means that he was likely competent enough to play amongst the likes of Lance Leggett, Ryan Moore, Akeem Jolla, and Khalil Jones. He's not a genius, but you can't say he didn't work hard or improve at his craft either.
 
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RattlerCane305 said:
I get what you're saying but Javon wasn't the greatest example. Our senior year, dude was the best Edge guy in the county, arguably the state. Light-years better than Willie Jones. I played against both, no comparison. He was a walk-on in the technical sense, same way Tana was(T&F scholly). Back in the good 'ol days when you could cook the books. Could've went to a number of high-level P5's but wanted to be here. There was no rocket science involved in getting him on the field. The most tragic element of the WW situation was that it didn't take a rocket scientist to get him on the field either. Willie was a generational talent and, despite his impulse-control issues, a very intelligent kid. I highly doubt that he had an issue digesting the playback. What I'm sure of is that Willie would abandon his assignment when his instincts told him to, making the play more often than not. I'm also sure that this, coupled with WW's big personality and the media attention he arrived with made him an easy target for Randy's ****list. Dude basically said, "I could have the next LT or DT on my hands but, ehhh, fucc it, don't need him. Now that Davis kid, he follows his assignment to a tee". Sad how he restrained some of our greatest talent here...
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That’s sad man. I was actually rooting for RS but some of these coaches have to put their Ego’s aside. WW probably stays out of trouble if RS committed more time to making it work with him too. Obviously it was a challenge here, maybe he embraces the challenge by focusing more on ball if RS took more time with him but when he’s riding the bench in his home city, he gets discouraged but the streets were callin. I was kid at the time but I don’t think WW got in trouble while at UM though.
 
MiamiChris said:
Whelp Reggie Youngblood, L. ponder are chiming in on twitter pretty much saying similar things the staff did to players. I guess Greg Threat has an interview out there also (can’t find it). I’d believe Devin
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I keep asking about Threat. Canesville should find him and conduct an interview. He was a preseason AA but rode the bench after having 120+ tackles or something like that.
 
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