You learn many sayings from ancient wisdom. This saying is apropos for many on this board. It goes like this....
"If you don't like where you are.....go somewhere else".
It's obvious that many (too many) no longer find any joy in the Canes. The constant whining about the coaches, players, game plans, etc. lend credence to this observation.
Maybe it's time for those who are among the whiners to heed those ancient words of wisdom to find another team to complain about! They'll surely be happier wherever they land.
PS......Happy New Year!
It's the way of today's world. combined with the length of this drought—and when you sprinkle in the hellscape that is social media and an entire generation of people who argued behind screens, while never taking a punch in the mouth in real life—we wind up here.
Us old schoolers who lived through the late '90s and that rough 1995 to 1999 run—it felt like a lifetime at the time, but in reality it was six years... whereas Miami is currently six years removed from 2017 and beating the brakes off of Notre Dame—which happened after roughly a dozen years of incompetence and this program backsliding.
The misery is understandable, but the lack of logic and common sense has gotten insufferable.
The problems of 2005 through 2021 are not the problems of 2022 and 2023. Miami just started dumping real money into football two years ago, after decades of penny pinching and Donna Shalala's 16-year run of a kill-what-you-eat approach to athletics. The program's process of extending Coker, hiring Shannon from within, selling that empty suit Golden as an up and comer, going nostalgic with over-the-hill Richt, or promoting from within again with Diaz—that all ended the minute Miami has that U Health COVID money and some big time boosters throwing cash at the program.
No, Mario doesn't have this thing where fans want it in year two—but it's a two decade problem that newfound money just started getting thrown at.
When you see turds like Brashard Smith and Leonard Taylor trolling Miami like rival fans on game day against Rutgers—two Diaz guys, no less—you see the cancerous rot that still hasn't fully been flushed out of this program.
New coaches seem to take a step forward year three. Norvell did it at FS-Who, Sark did it in Austin and Fisch just did it out in the desert, as well.
Miami just brought in a monster class, more portal guys are coming and godwilling a Cam Ward—all of which bode well for year three—which will set up another monster recruiting class for 2025.
Exhale and let it play out... opposed to two decades of wrath and rage coming out amidst every recent loss.
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