sebastian91
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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.
As others have said, the landscape of college football has changed a lot since Howard said that. A good coach is still the most important thing, but today's college game requires more than that now. The money is too big, and so are the egos. These players today have to be coddled...they don't want to work for anything...the admins have to be PC about everything, and there are actually limits to what coaches can do (e.g., back in the day, it was OK to run players in triple digit heat until they collapsed, or send them back out onto the field after getting their bell rung). Yes, we need a good coach, but I don't personally believe that this program will ever be "back" until there's a legit "college gameday experience". Dade County kids are going to these SEC schools and seeing what a real college football experience is. They're treated like kings, and they can get away with rape, not going to class, and have boosters lining their pockets. Then they go on their OV to Miami and spend hours on a bus getting to the stadium, see 25k booing fans, banners flying overhead calling for the coach to be fired, and a **** poor product on the field. Dade County is a freaking dump, and I don't blame these kids at all for getting the **** out of town if they can.