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Urban Meyer will have no less than a hundred options if he wants to get back into coaching. What the f**k is he gonna offer with a week-long audit. Stop it.

I'll give you a quick analyzation for free.

College football is a big money sport and Miami is a small private school with 11K undergrads in a pro sports town, with a small alum base and a fan base predominantly made up of non-alum with no deep-rooted ties to the program—slow to write checks and quick to turn their back ("Ooh, yeah—the HEAT are back, baby! Canes, who??")

When you have Georgia pumping $200M into their program, with a ton of alum-fueled money—almost $30M alone coming from their Magill Society sign-ups n 2018 and a $7M recruiting budget / $13M staff budget—you realize this is a different ball game.

Toss in the fact Miami is an unforgiving pro sports town with an off-campus stadium and marginal overall support, in comparison to all-in college towns, packed stadiums, biggest show in town, et al—and that's another hurdle.

Fact is, Miami ain't the job this fan base thinks it is. Most guys who coach in college want a college town experience career-wise and for their families who follow them there. UM offers literally none of that. Takes a different guy to come to The U.

Miami used to be a place that launched NFL careers, gave you a crack at national titles every year and was a revolving door of guys who succeeded at the next level.

Now it's a place where four of the past coaches have been put out to pasture and Diaz is the fifth hire in 14 years—taking over a program 97-71 from the 2005 to 2018 bowl games.

This program is a different beast and needs a right-fit guy to fix it. Last three times this job was open, no one wanted it.

Schiano declined in 2007, Golden got it over Edsall and Trestman in 2011, Richt swooped in last minute when there were no other names attached and Diaz was hired quickly to avoid another failed search that would've seen this year's seniors leaving early and a 2019 class decimated. Right or wrong, that was the mindset.

The thought that you'd throw $100K at Urban Meyer to come assess things in a week and solve a 15-year problem, completely ignoring the private school versus state school and lack of big money alum real-life problems—you simply don't get it.
 
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Urban Meyer will have no less than a hundred options if he wants to get back into coaching. What the f**k is he gonna offer with a week-long audit. Stop it.

I'll give you a quick analyzation for free.

College football is a big money sport and Miami is a small private school with 11K undergrads in a pro sports town, with a small alum base and a fan base predominantly made up of non-alum with no deep-rooted ties to the program—slow to write checks and quick to turn their back ("Ooh, yeah—the HEAT are back, baby! Canes, who??")

When you have Georgia pumping $200M into their program, with a ton of alum-fueled money—almost $30M alone coming from their Magill Society sign-ups n 2018 and a $7M recruiting budget / $13M staff budget—you realize this is a different ball game.

Toss in the fact Miami is an unforgiving pro sports town with an off-campus stadium and marginal overall support, in comparison to all-in college towns, packed stadiums, biggest show in town, et al—and that's another hurdle.

Fact is, Miami ain't the job this fan base thinks it is. Most guys who coach in college want a college town experience career-wise and for their families who follow them there. UM offers literally none of that. Takes a different guy to come to The U.

Miami used to be a place that launched NFL careers, gave you a crack at national titles every year and was a revolving door of guys who succeeded at the next level.

Now it's a place where four of the past coaches have been put out to pasture and Diaz is the fifth hire in 14 years—taking over a program 97-71 from the 2005 to 2018 bowl games.

This program is a different beast and needs a right-fit guy to fix it. Last three times this job was open, no one wanted it.

Schiano declined in 2007, Golden got it over Edsall and Trestman in 2011, Richt swooped in last minute when there were no other names attached and Diaz was hired quickly to avoid another failed search that would've seen this year's seniors leaving early and a 2019 class decimated. Right or wrong, that was the mindset.

The thought that you'd throw $100K at Urban Meyer to come assess things in a week and solve a 15-year problem, completely ignoring the private school versus state school and lack of big money alum real-life problems—you simply don't get it.
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I honestly don't get it. There's no reason at all to believe Miami is an attractive job, but CIS soldiers on. Only here do people talk about coaches who make our entire coaching staff salary by themselves and have won NCs being willing to come here. For what? Because of the recruiting? Sht, every sec team has the money to spend as much time in Miami as UM coaches do. Plus a few teams from each of the other conferences. And that's not even getting into the bag game or mentionioning how many coaches have come to Miami to kill their careers.

There's nothing attractive about the Miami job if you've already got a P5 job or are getting mentioned for one. The only thing we can attract right now are losers and undervalued DII coaches.
 
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