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As Johnson sat at the computer in his home office, he answered my question by Googling the schedules of the UM teams he coached when the Hurricanes were an independent in the mid-1980s. He then, one by one, recited the names of some of his opponents.

Jimmy Johnson: Greatest coach, greatest lesson
Jimmy Johnson: Greatest coach, greatest lesson
"Florida … Florida State … Oklahoma … Notre Dame … Michigan," Johnson said. "We had a half-a-dozen games every year against marquee-type teams – and you only played 11 games back then. So half of our games were on primetime national TV every year, and that's when it meant something to be on TV. ****, these days, everybody's on TV every week."

In other words, Miami has nothing special it can sell big-time recruits anymore. Let's face it, the two decades of UM dominance were one of the biggest aberrations in college football history. Unlike other great dynasties – Alabama, Nebraska, Notre Dame, USC, etc. -- the 'Canes weren't built on fan support, booster contributions, plush facilities and highly paid coaches. Miami was built on one thing and one thing only:

Photos: Jimmy Johnson through the years
 
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"If a player wanted to go to the NFL, he'd come to Miami because we played a great schedule and because we played on television," Johnson said.

The problem is Miami, since joining the ACC, no longer plays a great schedule and therefore no longer has the market cornered on recruits who want to play on primetime TV. But UM's fans and administration are still living in the 1980s and believe they can become great again by just hiring and firing coaches.

Sadly, it has become all the rage at UM games for delusional fans to spend their money hiring airplanes dragging banners that say "Fire Al Golden." Golden, it seems, is simply the latest coach being victimized by UM's unrealistic fan base. If you want to blame somebody for the dilapidated state of UM's program, blame the administration, former school president Donna Shalala and the Board of Trustees.

Here's all you need to know: UCF has better facilities than Miami does. The Knights have an on-campus stadium and an indoor practice facility; the Canes have neither.

If it rains this week in Tallahassee, Coach Jimbo Fisher will move his Seminoles into a state-of-the-art indoor practice facility to get them ready for the Hurricanes. If it rains this week in Coral Gables, Golden will move his team into the school's indoor volleyball courts and perhaps try to work around the volleyball team's practice schedule.

Until Miami realizes it needs to start spending money – and lots of it – to upgrade its football infrastructure, the Canes will continue to wallow in the abyss of insignificance. Memo to Miami: If you want to play big-boy football, stop spending like a small-time program. Do you really think you can compete with the affluent programs that surround you -- Florida State, Florida, Alabama and Georgia – by pinching pennies? Do you really think you can compete in the Daytona 500 by showing up in a 1997 Buick Skylark?

Although ACC Commissioner John Swofford would never admit this publicly, he absolutely has to be second-guessing the league's decision to add Miami 11 years ago. Swofford's grand plan was to put Miami and FSU in separate divisions, play the ACC Championship Game in the State of Florida and have the two powerhouses annually face off in front of sellout crowds and a gigantic national TV audience.

Since Jimbo took over, FSU has certainly lived up to its end of the bargain, but Miami has now been through three head coaches and still has never even been to an ACC Championship Game.

After visiting J.J. over the summer, I think I finally realize what happened to Miami.

Johnson, the old UM coach, now lives in the Keys and spends much of his time on his boat in pursuit of dolphin, grouper, sailfish and marlin.

Sadly, it seems, his once-dominant program has also hung a "Gone Fishin'" sign on the door to college football relevance.
 
This program built itself on talent evaluation and development of said talent. We identified kids that projected greatness in year 3 and 4, even if they weren't the kid everyone was after as a HS senior. Our talent evaluations since Butch left has been nothing short of an overflowing port-o-let.

Get back to identifying, projecting, and delivering talented under the radar kids and we will be back. This staff has proven it cannot do this. Butch has proven he can.

Facility upgrades are a red herring. If that was the formula to CFB success Texas would be #1 or 2 every year. Find the best kids and get them on campus. Winning will ensue.
 
PatrickCane said:
This program built itself on talent evaluation and development of said talent. We identified kids that projected greatness in year 3 and 4, even if they weren't the kid everyone was after as a HS senior. Our talent evaluations since Butch left has been nothing short of an overflowing port-o-let.

Get back to identifying, projecting, and delivering talented under the radar kids and we will be back. This staff has proven it cannot do this. Butch has proven he can.

Facility upgrades are a red herring. If that was the formula to CFB success Texas would be #1 or 2 every year. Find the best kids and get them on campus. Winning will ensue.
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Everyone thinks in the information overload world we live in, that this is impossible. My argument to that is that Louisville did pretty **** well for themselves with loading up their roster with S.FL kids that were being over-looked by the other programs.
 
There are more NFL players in our backyard per capita than anywhere else in the United States. When we started taking care of that backyard, we started winning.

That is what built Miami.
 
canesplaymaker said:
As Johnson sat at the computer in his home office, he answered my question by Googling the schedules of the UM teams he coached when the Hurricanes were an independent in the mid-1980s. He then, one by one, recited the names of some of his opponents.

Jimmy Johnson: Greatest coach, greatest lesson
Jimmy Johnson: Greatest coach, greatest lesson
"Florida … Florida State … Oklahoma … Notre Dame … Michigan," Johnson said. "We had a half-a-dozen games every year against marquee-type teams – and you only played 11 games back then. So half of our games were on primetime national TV every year, and that's when it meant something to be on TV. ****, these days, everybody's on TV every week."

In other words, Miami has nothing special it can sell big-time recruits anymore. Let's face it, the two decades of UM dominance were one of the biggest aberrations in college football history. Unlike other great dynasties – Alabama, Nebraska, Notre Dame, USC, etc. -- the 'Canes weren't built on fan support, booster contributions, plush facilities and highly paid coaches. Miami was built on one thing and one thing only:

Photos: Jimmy Johnson through the years
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Link to a source, or it's BS.
 
Miami prospered not because of administration but in spite of it. The University of Miami's backyard is overloaded with talent. Miami was playing a different kind of football back then. Everyone else has caught up. We were also cheap. We hired the young up and comer and for a while it worked. However, administration didn't want to nurture and grow the program when it had the chance. Now the games changed. You have to spend money to be relevant and the administration at UM isn't concerned with athletics.
 
Ssoto0055 said:
Miami prospered not because of administration but in spite of it. The University of Miami's backyard is overloaded with talent. Miami was playing a different kind of football back then. Everyone else has caught up. We were also cheap. We hired the young up and comer and for a while it worked. However, administration didn't want to nurture and grow the program when it had the chance. Now the games changed. You have to spend money to be relevant and the administration at UM isn't concerned with athletics.
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Cheap? We were going to make Wanny the highest paid coach in the land. We made Coker the highest paid coach in the nation. Shannon was a cheap hire, Golden was a semi-cheap hire that was brought in for his image and APR ratings by Donna.

Shalalalalalalalala is gone now, so now we have to hope that the BOT goes back to how it used to be and care about football. It's Miami, a down year for us is the 18th recruiting class in the nation. Any coach that comes here and wins can cruise to a top 10 class thanks to our backyard alone. Recruits don't come here because we have to practice in the rain. Recruits don't come here because they see the salesman and their schemes are failing horribly.

I guarantee if we bring in a nice coach, be it a big name or Herman or Fuente and they tear it up, win the Coastal in year one, then the recruits will flock even more. Get a guy in here that wins the division every year and actually can win the conference and provide us with the possibility with playoffs every year and it's a top 10, top 5 class every single year.
 
Is this an article? If so, from where?
Note: There were plenty of televised games each week during Miami's resurrection from 1998 to 2002.
 
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The thing is, we aren't (as a fan base) even comparing ourselves to the Canes of the 80s and 90s anymore...at this point, we're just trying to get back to the level we were in the early 2000s

I'm pretty sure we were able to recruit fairly well back then, even while competing with major programs

Enough with the sh*t excuses
 
LOLOLOL STILL HARPING ON RECRUITING.

SECOND MOST PLAYERS IN THE NFL

Recruiting is not the issue at all.
 
Having to practice on the volleyball teams court when it rains and Ucf having better facilities says it all.

It's time to come to 2015 Miami.
 
robtorres34 said:
Having to practice on the volleyball teams court when it rains and Ucf having better facilities says it all.

It's time to come to 2015 Miami.
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What happens if it rains at FSU this week? Are they moving the game inside to the practice field?
 
Canes21 said:
robtorres34 said:
Having to practice on the volleyball teams court when it rains and Ucf having better facilities says it all.

It's time to come to 2015 Miami.
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What happens if it rains at FSU this week? Are they moving the game inside to the practice field?
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UM used to use working in the tropical elements to our advantage. Now, faqgits in the media trying to keep UM down by keeping Folden employed want to use it as an excuse. Bianchi is a well known Ufayg honk. Of course he loves Folden.
 
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I think if Golden wasn't such a stubborn *******, we wouldn't hate him so much. But since he has been here, he hasn't changed a **** thing. He keeps running the same ****** scheme out there every week. Every week we look completely unprepared in comparison to our counterpart. Every week we fail to make adjustments at half time and get obliterated. His record when trailing after half time and after the 3rd quarter is horrendous. And we are supposed to blame that on not having nice practice facilities? **** that. I'm not stupid. It's year 5 and this is the same **** team as year 1.
 
Is this the same UM and Folden that were bragging and hashtagging about pumping $500M into the facilities? Now, they want to use facilities as an excuse? Fck off.
 
Canes21 said:
robtorres34 said:
Having to practice on the volleyball teams court when it rains and Ucf having better facilities says it all.

It's time to come to 2015 Miami.
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What happens if it rains at FSU this week? Are they moving the game inside to the practice field?
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Exactly. We used to have a junkyard dog mentality. Rain? Heat? Who cares? Just bring it and we'll stomp you out. Elite recruits aren't coming because they've watched other highly touted 4 and 5 stars come here and fade into obscurity from misuse.
 
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