He always had the built in excuse that the "team was young." That was his go to line after his favorite quote, "it starts with me" and then immediately after that throwing the players under the bus.
You beat me to it. Golden always kept an excuse in his back pocket and didn't hesitate to use it. "We're a young team" and "the cloud" were his favorites.
Ah, yes...who could forget the infamous "clouds" line? LAMO. Dude was the biggest clown and car used salesman in the history of major college sports.
Other top 10 hits included;
1. "That team we played was a great team"(every game after getting our **** pushed in, even when playing the Sisters of the Poor college).
2. "We'll go back and look and the film and we'll get it corrected." WTF?!?!? (I'm still waiting for his fired *** to make an in-game adjustment)
3. "Guys aren't buying in. We got too many players freelancing." (Well, perhaps if the D you and your boyfriend ran here wasn't a freaken Sudoku puzzle)
4. "We have too many night games." (One of my personal favorites. How did he even think of this crap. True bullshyt genius at work)
5. "Our goal is to win the Coastal." WTF?!?!?
(And to think that some posters were still slurping him after he sad this)
6. "We didn't stick to our core values." (Can you imagined if the kids had stuck to his "core values"? I shudder to think how much worse it could have been)
7. "Don't rise to the occasion. Trust what we have taught you." ( Once again...WTF?!?!?)
8. "We're trending up." (If by trending up he meant that we were getting worse every season, then he was right)
9. "All of the "me guys" are finally gone." (Duke, Denzel, Dorsett, Walford, Chick, Feliciano and Gunther should all kick his ***)
10. "Be a cheeseburger." (This was perhaps his Mona Lisa, his Sistine Chapel, his Starry Night. Dude is an idiot savant, with a major emphasis on the idiot part)