You live in a town where cow tipping and sister f**king is the norm. What did you expect from the radio "talent" in that hillbilly hellhole?
I work in Gainesville and listen to the local sports radio station at lunch and on the commute home. Even though its a Gator station and I expect homers for both the callers and host, most of the time I enjoy the chatter. Yesterday that changed, they brought up the Miami/Gator game which lead to the discussion of "Is Miami ever going to be back" conversation. That quickly escalated into the host saying that Mark Richt was a terrible hire that has no chance of ever winning anything meaningful and if we couldn't win with Randy Shannon who, in his words was the "perfect" coach for us we'll never win. They went on to say how Miami is now destined to be a 7-5 team from here out. I wanted to drive to the station and punch those fools in the mouth, they were all over Randy being in Gainesville now and how great of a recruiter he is and said that he has the "head coach" swag.
I work in Gainesville and listen to the local sports radio station at lunch and on the commute home. Even though its a Gator station and I expect homers for both the callers and host, most of the time I enjoy the chatter. Yesterday that changed, they brought up the Miami/Gator game which lead to the discussion of "Is Miami ever going to be back" conversation. That quickly escalated into the host saying that Mark Richt was a terrible hire that has no chance of ever winning anything meaningful and if we couldn't win with Randy Shannon who, in his words was the "perfect" coach for us we'll never win. They went on to say how Miami is now destined to be a 7-5 team from here out. I wanted to drive to the station and punch those fools in the mouth, they were all over Randy being in Gainesville now and how great of a recruiter he is and said that he has the "head coach" swag.
I do agree, the administration didn't do Randy Shannon any favors. However, it still doesn't explain Randy's many other shortcomings as a head coach. He was not ready for a HC job then, and I doubt he is now. He's just not a head coach. Nothing wrong with that, unless you've got a HC job.Randy Shannon couldn't win here because he didn't know the difference between a timeout and a turkey sandwich.In their words, Randy is a Miami guy that had all the local relationships and had a Miami pedigree, if he couldn't do it no one can.. WTF??
Randy Shannon couldn't win here because he had no staff support, or money to get better staffers. In addition, hard to say if he even knew who to go out and get (if he did have the funding) because his whole coaching career was spent in Miami (Miami Hurricanes, Miami Dolphins, Cane as a Player, Miami Norland for High School). Only his NFL playing career was spent outside of Miami.
What short comings? Nick Saban surrounds himself with people that he expects to be phenomenal...
Clemson has a top DC and a top OC and tons of support staffers to copy Bama
Urban goes out and gets the best coaches he can...
LSU? They just snatched up who they think is a good DC
At NO POINT in Shannon's HC career did he have a good OC. You just plain can't do it all as a HC...You need the full package. Doesn't make it any better that he is 100% a defensive guy his whole career.
The only thing that can be said about Shannon that is on him, is burning relationship bridges...Aside from that, what quality OC do you expect a guy who has been confined to 1 city to be able to grab? Especially on a low budge and his first gig....People even try to bring up the Shapiro crap as a negative against Shannon when the reality is Shannon hated Shapiro and TOLD his players to stay away from him...and that **** happened before he got there (along with while he was there, not dodging that).
While I don't like it, I can see where the radio host was coming from.
The facts bear out... Miami HAS pretty much been a 7-5 team for the past decade and a half... why would anyone not from Miami believe that would suddenly change? Because of a head coach? Sorry, but if you put Nick Saban at Kentucky, they're still gonna be Kentucky.
There's only so much a coach can do.
So I can see where they're coming from. Also, Randy Shannon is a true Cane from the old days and gets an undeserved bad rap around here. If he had a better QB, he would of won more games in Miami. Before you crown Mark Richt wait for him to show something on the field IMO
Don't expect any respect until we've actually won some meaningful games on the field IMO that's the point
If you're in the Gainesville area @mjl7atlas @Cribby @Cane Kenny you should listen to the Big Boy Radio morning show with Adam Reardon [MENTION=559]radiocane[/MENTION] . He's a huge Canes fan who posts on this board.
I'm on every Thursday at 8:30 to talk Canes.
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O ok. I guess that makes them national championship contenders....WIN 10 GAMES IN A SEASON AND BEAT UP ON MARK RICHT COACHED TEAMSWtf has UF done lately?
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I was once up there visiting a friend that was dumb enough to go to that hellhole for grad school. This was during Teblow's senior season. They filled a solid hour of radio one day having a "serious" discussion about if Tebow right then was better than Ben Roethlisberger the NFL QB. People were calling in and having serious debate as to how the Steelers offense would be more dynamic right then if Teblows was the QB or how the Gayturd's offense would actually be less effective right then if Roethlisberger in his current freaking NFL state was allowed to QB their team. The level of discourse was probably on par with something that you'd either hear on North Korean state television or in the meetings of a hardcore religious cult.
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I think they should have kept Mushump around a little longer. He was just about to get that thing turned around.
Al Golden is undefeated against the gators.
I think they should have kept Mushump around a little longer. He was just about to get that thing turned around.
Al Golden is undefeated against the gators.
Seriously? Muscamp had a virtually identical record to Shannon and golden despite taking over a far better situation than either of them did. Muschamp took over for Urban Meyer who won 2 national titles and by year 3 Muscamp was 4-8. The SEC East division was pretty weak in Muschamp's tenure too, no better than the ACC. I think Muschamp is an even worse coach than any of Miami's recent coaches. No matter how awful they both were, Shannon and golden never lost to a Ga Southern type opponent. How Muschamp got the SCAR job is mind boggling.