OP and about half the posters on this site act like prison bltches that take it in the ***.
Miami’s failures have been due to not recognizing changes in the CFB marketplace and planning and implementing accordingly.
While the major obstacle will be not having anywhere near the monetary resources of the top 10 P5 financial powerhouses, there are other advantages Miami has that are unique only to itself.
When we get a staff that can effectively take advantage of those unique resources, and consistently win, the entire picture will change. While we still may miss out on the families looking to get paid, there are other 4 stars out there.
Winning is the key.
Manny was not my first choice, but I can tell he’s smart enough to understand what needs to be done. Whether he can actually get it done is another matter.
But eventually, someone will crack the code and we’ll be back in contention. Maybe not like 80’s/90’s where we were playing for a ship, or close, practically every ear, but contending for playoffs regularly.
This is football, not advanced cryptography. There's no "code," my dude.
That is to say, what needs to be done is obvious. Miami has done it before, in the 80's and 90's. And that's what frustrates me as a fan.... it's clear that we're not willing to do what it takes anymore.
Back in the 80's, UM did more steroids than the Bulgarian swim team. We had trainers who would literally shoot the kids up.
We had the best coaches in America... coaches who would go on to win Super Bowls, or who had already won Super Bowls. We had position coaches who would go on to become head coaches in college and the NFL. We had elite, forward-thinking schemes.
We dropped more bags than Samsonite. We literally ran one of the dirtiest programs in the history of college football.
We got that reputation for a reason - it was true.
Now, Miami has tried to distance itself from the past. They've tried to whitewash it. They've put lies out there like "Tad Foote hated football," "Miami was never thug U", etc.
But those of us who remember, we remember.
We ran a program that would make any team in the SEC today blush. We did everything it took to pick our program up from being a nobody to being the greatest there ever was. We gave no *****, and we reaped the rewards.
We'll never do that again. Today's Miami is a pussified, neutered, bland, boring, loser institution. They're not good at anything, and they're mediocre at everything.
It is what it is.
