He made a good hire by getting Richt and getting the BOT to open the checkbooks, but he kept Folden around way too long. Get a stadium deal done and then he'll be cut throat.
he had no choice on golden. sorry shala wasn't letting him be fired on her way out. he kept golden until clemson game at that time miami had lost to fsu and cinncy thats it. the clemson game was bad though. he then fired him and when richt became available hired him.
its not james fault he didn't have the authority to fire golden before the season. he wanted to wait till after season but clemson forced his had with 58-0 blowout. golden was kept coming into season because donna wasn't letting golden get fired while she was on her way out.
I get that. But he went soft and accepted "the process". That's my issue. The past month and a half has made him look good on paper. I'm willing to say he's shown the ability to be a good A.D. with what's transpired since October. But giving Folden the benefit of the doubt kills me. I hope for everyone's sake he is killer. And makes the U great in everything athletically.
ya but he was just doing press speak. listen to nfl gm's they keep a coach all season say all the right things, "he is our coach" we believe in him all that fun stuff and at end of year bye bye. that is what james was doing.
james was already contacting richt about interest before he canned golden. look i know keeping golden extra year sucked but we got richt cause of it. that said james was just saying all the right things until he fired golden.
he said we expect more, will evaluate at end of year, we expect to win all the time. he was saying that if golden lost to guys like cinncy he wouldn't have job at end of year but people just wanted golden gone so bad they didn't pay attention. golden was gone the moment miami lost to cinncy. james was just waiting till end of year, firing golden midseason wasn't in plans until clemson beat us so bad he had no choice.
most schools don't like to fire coaches midseason even nfl teams dont like to do that. in the end he did it because he realized miami needed immediate change not at end of year but he knew after cinncy game golden was gone at end of year just didn't say it;l