forums

Former University of Miami players will be holding a roundtable on Thursday

Advertisement
Cribby said:
Tbh listening to former players opinions is nice but not the end all. Just like people mocking players for choosing Coker, that wasn’t former players. That was a bunch of 18-22 year olds that were only worrying about their current situation. Shocking a young male was thinking selfishly and in the short term. Those players knew with Coker they could pretty much coach and will that team to a title. They didn’t want a new guy coming in and ******** if all up. So because some players made a bad choice about a coach while they were current players mean they shouldn’t have an opinion as a former player? Nope , but like I said it’s not the end all.

I will say there’s some former players doing gods work on the down low. That doesn’t need the attention.
Click to expand...
100% Agree.

I’m not really upset at promoting Coker. The choice didn’t work out in the long run but he and the team were one bad call away from consecutive undefeated NCs. His strength was staying out of the way. And you, and they, we’re right. Another new coach could have easily screwed everything up and those teams been best ever not to win a title.
 
Trav said:
Why would they? They got to run the show and had the best team of all time, one championship, and another stolen by a zebra. From their perspective they made the right choice.
Click to expand...
Short sighted, really. A better coach WINS them the 2002 title, because the **** game wouldn't have been close. We then never go into a tailspin because Coker would have never been hired. Well, assuming they hired someone at least a little better than Larry Coker.
 
Mackmiller974 said:
Can you imagine the quality of Head Coach we could of attracted after that 2000 season instead of hiring Coker? We pretty much could of picked anyone we wanted to. Probably could of stole Nick Saban from LSU
Click to expand...
There's no way anyone can convince we we couldn't have done a **** of a lot better than Coker. We were primed for a title in 2001, and everyone knew it. So many coaches would have been more than happy to inherit what Butch had built, and we didn't even test the freaking market. We had ALL the leverage, and blew it.
 
ThomasM said:
There's no way anyone can convince we we couldn't have done a **** of a lot better than Coker. We were primed for a title in 2001, and everyone knew it. So many coaches would have been more than happy to inherit what Butch had built, and we didn't even test the freaking market. We had ALL the leverage, and blew it.
Click to expand...
We probably could of picked any college coach we wanted
 
ThomasM said:
There's no way anyone can convince we we couldn't have done a **** of a lot better than Coker. We were primed for a title in 2001, and everyone knew it. So many coaches would have been more than happy to inherit what Butch had built, and we didn't even test the freaking market. We had ALL the leverage, and blew it.
Click to expand...
Agreed. The worst decision of Paul Dee's tenure. He had to be the adult in the room to make the best decision for the players. By hiring Coker, the lack of discipline led to worse and worse results until 4 years later the Canes are getting in a melee on the field against FIU.

Dee should have kindly let the players voice their preference for Coker moving into the HC position, but then brought in the right guy for the job (whoever that would have been at the time). The players would be upset at first, but would respect it in the long run and won multiple NCs.
 
ThomasM said:
Short sighted, really. A better coach WINS them the 2002 title, because the **** game wouldn't have been close. We then never go into a tailspin because Coker would have never been hired. Well, assuming they hired someone at least a little better than Larry Coker.
Click to expand...
Those guys weren't thinking 5 years down the road. And quite frankly, I remember the fans' sentiments, and they were exactly the same as the players.
 
Advertisement
NE Canes said:
Do you actually know what Gino does for a living?
Do you actually know what an AD does?

I actually work in the financial industry and have worked with people just like Gino and people in his position. I am not sure anyone actually understands the business he is in or what he does. I will add, a lot of former college and pro athletes get in this business doing the exact samething Gino is doing. It does not make them qualified. Doing fine outside athletics does not make you qualified. Being a "savvy business guy" is not a job description or make you qualified. Omar, the guy who owns the car wash down the street could be a "savvy business guy" do you really want him as you AD.

This does not mean I hate Gino or that he is a stupid jock or even that I have some love affair with some coach. It just means there are other professionals out there who have years of actual experience and education doing this job, which makes them qualified.

Let's just say Gino does not have what the industry would consider the traditional qualifications for an AD position at a major university. You can't really argue this....
Click to expand...
Do you actually know what an AD does?
 
NE Canes said:
I do. Had a family member that was an AD for years.

Would you like me to teach you?
Click to expand...

It's an administrative position in athletics with core training in business management but, sure, you can explain the nuances of what an AD does that someone like Gino or Alonzo aren't capable of doing, delegating or ultimately learning. More to support your own stance than teach me anything, because you devalue Gino's 'qualifications' despite his athletic & academic accomplishments at "a major university", a degree in business management with significant experience in the financial services sector and lifelong commitment to college football.

Despite not having "traditional qualifications" Gino's real-life resume makes him uniquely qualified for the position.
 
Last edited:
MiamiCanesFan77 said:
All of these former players need to put their $$$ where their collective mouths are and financially support the program.
Click to expand...
That didn't go so well when the Rock gave $1 Million did it? Virginia embarrassed us the last game in the OB and we were already skipping down the yellow road to mediocrity with Blake James and Donna Shalayla. If I were one of them, I'd keep my money in my pocket till I saw the egg heads committing some money and making changes not because an ESPN analyst embarrassed their asses on the National stage worse than the team routinely did, but because they really believed in it.
 
Back
Top