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How 30 for 30 pushed Miami's Al Golden onto the hot seat

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The truth is, Miami’s facilities are not great, its fan base is far below its chief competitors and its resources are not congruent with a program that sees itself as nationally relevant.
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I just feel so much better.
 
Kirijax said:
The truth is, Miami’s facilities are not great, its fan base is far below its chief competitors and its resources are not congruent with a program that sees itself as nationally relevant.
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I just feel so much better.
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And all of that was True throughout every single great team Miami has had
 
LexCane55 said:
Kirijax said:
The truth is, Miami’s facilities are not great, its fan base is far below its chief competitors and its resources are not congruent with a program that sees itself as nationally relevant.
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I just feel so much better.
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And all of that was True throughout every single great team Miami has had
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Yep. It's always been that way. but not this bad.
 
Kirijax said:
LexCane55 said:
Kirijax said:
The truth is, Miami’s facilities are not great, its fan base is far below its chief competitors and its resources are not congruent with a program that sees itself as nationally relevant.
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I just feel so much better.
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And all of that was True throughout every single great team Miami has had
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Yep. It's always been that way. but not this bad.
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It was worse. Weights food and coaching is all a team needs my man.

And road hoes.
 
Lol at him saying Miami U and not U of Miami & how the documentary pushed him to the hot seat but not his 28-21 record which he mentions. Wow that guy is awful
 
First paragraph is ignorant, childish, and downright stupid (Miami U? Every 15 minutes?). The rest...got no problem with it.
 
I love how it's our unrealistic expectations and glorious past that's pushing Fat Al onto the hotseat , not his terrible turrible turrible corching skills. Lol
 
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He needs to address the disappointment that happens in his own state where both Oklahoma and Oklahoma State get money thrown at them hand over fist, yet their results add up to less than what has been accomplished at UM.
 
This program needs a few people with money and influence to step forward and get it back on track. Get Butch back, build an indoor practice facility and eventually fund a stadium of our own not far from campus. Unfortunately, I don't see any of our cheapskate alums or so-called "benefactors" doing anything of the kind any time soon. Most other schools have at least a few wealthy alums to do this, but not us.

It sucks.
 
The mediocrity of the last decade has nothing to do with facilities or whatever shortcomings compared to programs with more in the coffers.

It has everything to do with a lack of vision and ambition by the people responsible for hiring the head coach. Two consecutive hiring failures following a backsliding Larry Coker lie at the feet of the ADs that Donna Shalala and the Board of Trustees hired.

If you hire the right coach, Miami sells itself and it's a self-sustaining winner. We're sitting in the middle of the absolute best players in the country, yet the HC can't convince more than a few to stay home? That's a serious problem. Then you compound that fact on the back of an atrocious defensive scheme that nobody in four years has made to look good, and you have the makings of a systemic circle of underachieving that now feeds on itself.

We can't win big games -> defense looks like garbage -> players don't want to come play for this scheme and coaches -> continue to not win big games -> continual erosion of the talent pool -> ad infinitum.

This isn't getting any better any time soon. The inability to attract top notch DTs is a crippling issue to a defensive scheme that requires your linemen to "engage and hold"- we get pushed back instead of winning the line fight, so everybody behind them has to play on their heels and more reactively than reflexively, which peels away whatever athletic ability or instincts our LBs and DBs have. They can't just "play", they have to think too much to try and stop big gains instead of being the aggressors in an era when offenses are increasingly sophisticated and spread you sideline to sideline to create space.



Just ridiculous to me. The problem is solved by getting the right HC, nothing less will do.
 
DCF in LA said:
The mediocrity of the last decade has nothing to do with facilities or whatever shortcomings compared to programs with more in the coffers.

It has everything to do with a lack of vision and ambition by the people responsible for hiring the head coach. Two consecutive hiring failures following a backsliding Larry Coker lie at the feet of the ADs that Donna Shalala and the Board of Trustees hired.

If you hire the right coach, Miami sells itself and it's a self-sustaining winner. We're sitting in the middle of the absolute best players in the country, yet the HC can't convince more than a few to stay home? That's a serious problem. Then you compound that fact on the back of an atrocious defensive scheme that nobody in four years has made to look good, and you have the makings of a systemic circle of underachieving that now feeds on itself.

We can't win big games -> defense looks like garbage -> players don't want to come play for this scheme and coaches -> continue to not win big games -> continual erosion of the talent pool -> ad infinitum.

This isn't getting any better any time soon. The inability to attract top notch DTs is a crippling issue to a defensive scheme that requires your linemen to "engage and hold"- we get pushed back instead of winning the line fight, so everybody behind them has to play on their heels and more reactively than reflexively, which peels away whatever athletic ability or instincts our LBs and DBs have. They can't just "play", they have to think too much to try and stop big gains instead of being the aggressors in an era when offenses are increasingly sophisticated and spread you sideline to sideline to create space.



Just ridiculous to me. The problem is solved by getting the right HC, nothing less will do.
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The saddest part is Al Golden's first press conference is the only thing he was truthful about. As much as many here would like to believe this is not a destination job, it truly is. The prestige might not be as high, but if there was ever an elite stepping stone to the next level or big success, it's at Miami.
 
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LexCane55 said:
Kirijax said:
The truth is, Miami’s facilities are not great, its fan base is far below its chief competitors and its resources are not congruent with a program that sees itself as nationally relevant.
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I just feel so much better.
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And all of that was True throughout every single great team Miami has had
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That type of logic by the administration is why Miami is in the spot they're in now. The landscape of college football has changed dramatically in the last 15+ years. You have to ante up to stay competitive and Miami hasn't. Going on the cheap for coaches doesn't work anymore. Miami got away with that for decades but it's finally caught up to them. Lackluster facilities and weak fan support didn't matter when Miami was winning but now that those days are gone, its much more of an issue.
 
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And all those great facilities and full stadiums and Tennessee and Michigan have been horrible as well. It's about talent #1.....we are always going to have access to that AND coaching #2. That's what holds us back period. TCU has around the same amount of fans has us....only in a smaller stadium.
 
DFC said "Just ridiculous to me. The problem is solved by getting the right HC, nothing less will do."

That sums everything up. Losing the OB hurts bad but everything else is BS. We always had subpar facilities. But we took those fast aggressive local kids, filtered in good number of out of state kids where needed and made them all faster and meaner. How much did the old sand pits cost? JJ didn't have lights on practice field -- they practiced in the dark when JJ said they needed it. How much does it cost to have players fighting each other for spots. Kids want to win and get to NFL more than waterfalls and indoor practice building. Get the right coach and the opulence of our opposition can be turned to our advantage. These other teams are not harder than our old teams, just harder than today's team. Right coach(Butch) makes today's Canes hard like old Canes and we will see that Bama and FSU are just big and soft like the old NU and OU teams. Howard said all Miami ever needed was a coach.
 
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