All the Golden bashers can continue to do so to each his own but I'm going support cause he is the coach of Da U and I want my team to be great and as of now he is the captain of da ship it's so easy to be negative that's da world we live in. Let's be real bout some things it took that guy over there at fspooo 5yrs to get them where they are at and he didn't have to deal with half the stuff Golden did. I always said this would be the year we really would see what Golden is bout. If we win five games like the experts say then I agree off with his head. But come on fellas let's be real he had a lot of obstacles to go through and it took a couple of years just to get quality depth down da roster and we still saying da LB'S need it. He couldn't red shirt anyone when he got here da 1st couple of years. He is our coach so I hope he succeed call me naive but I just think he had an up hill battle when he took da job. I mean he turn temple around so he got to know something. I think we get caught up thinking is da 80s-90s when they didn't have ucf,usf and these other lil Florida schools where those kids starting for them most likely would have been at DA U giving us that depth much quicker. Butch didn't turn it around over night either and everyone was calling for his head to. Just a thought 504CANE4LIFE
The sanctions Golden dealt with were a joke compared to what Butch dealt with and Butch only had one really bad season considering the circumstances. All of butches seasons except 1 were as good as Golden's best season (and this was considered bad at the time due to unrealistic expectations). I won't take anything from the way Golden handled the situation when he first got here, but it was obvious from the beginning his coaching scheme was questionable at best, but he got the benefit of the doubt as most suspected we would have some issues. The problem here is far too many underestimated the talent on the team when Golden took over. We had a good team. yes we lacked some depth, but we had a better team still than many of the teams beating us. Anyone with any sense knew last year's team was going to be the real deal and Golden squandered the best team we've had in about 10 years with one of our worst records in the last 30.
As far as the Temple thing, you do realize a big part of the "turn around" was from dropping to a lower conference? They were facing some of the worst teams in college football while he was there and still couldn't win there. Golden is in over his head. He couldn't win last year with one of the most talented teams in college football. Depth was not an issue. Sanctions were bare minimum. Schedule was soft as baby ****. We even had FSU beaten only to let it fall apart by coaching like soft *****es scared to lose in the second half. Al has spent so much time trying to come from behind, that he doesn't know what to do when he has the lead early. We have significant issues this year. With that said, anything less than 10 wins and Al needs to go.
One quick thing u say we had all that talent when he got here but y da NFL didn't think so we didn't have a lot drafted those first couple of years. Refresh my memory if we did maybe I'm wrong
I will state as I did in the first post, depth did become an issue. Part of which was from guys who who were either kicked from the team or left early. I'm not saying everyone was elite, but just that most were solid players by college football standards. Also, keep in mind making it to the NFL does not dictate that players were scrubs, they just weren't part of the elite group (1% of all players who make it to the pros). Most of the teams we faced in Golden's first year would have killed to have the players we had, including the ones who didn't go pro.
As far as talent from day 1, we had 6 players drafted (Vernon, Spence, Miller, Benjamin, Streeter, and Washington). We also gave the boot to Ray Ray and Aldarius Johnson. Then you had guys who never lived up to their potential. Other players who signed through FA included DL Adawale Ojomo (Giants), DL Marcus Forston (Patriots), DL Micanor Regis (Falcons), DB JoJo Nicholas (Giants), LB Jordan Futch (Bucs).
In addition former UM players QB Jacory Harris and OL Joel Figueroa also recieved invitations to rookie camp tryouts with the hometown Miami Dolphins.
That year we went 6-6 including a loss to Maryland who was extremely bad.
Other players we had on the roster: Buchanon, Linder, Seantrel, Telemaque.
Talent was there. I'm not even including the freshman from that year such as Dorsett, Perryman, Scott, Chick, Gionni, and Eddie Johnson. Depth was an issue, but we had more talent than most of the teams we played. A lot of these guys are still in the league and many get significant playing time/starts.
Again, this was not to say we were a championship team, but we were better than most of our opponents.
