It's not a "Florida" thing b/c other teams that have Florida players aren't soft. It's a coaching, development, schematic, respect, scouting, etc. thing.
-Coker benefited from a culture that Butch built. Once Butch's recruits left, Coker was left butt naked and unqualified for the job.
-We then hired Randy Shannon who came from
the same culture that Coker let erode. To Randy's credit, he did try, but he came from a broken regime and was ill-equipped to put out the chit show fire that Coker.
-We then hired Golden....Golden tried to bring an old BIG10 philosophy to a school known for speed and athletes. I feel Golden could've been more successful here, but he was dogmatic and arrogant on doing things his way, never embraced the Miami culture (the real one), and refused to hire a staff that would challenge him to make him better (eerily similar to what's going on now). He put friendship and arrogance over the program.
-Richt was hired 5 yrs too late; he literally used this job to fulfill a dream, to coach w/ his son. That's why my boy
@k9cane referred to his tenure as Richtirement. The staff he put together was not strong, outside of Thomas Brown, to be honest. At least Brown had P5 experience w/ results, but his three main guys were his former players and his son! Nepotism at it's finest. He coasted, and when the decision came to hire a new staff, he chose to leave.
-Since we just love ground hogs day here, we hired Manny who came from
the same culture that Richt let erode further. Manny, is more Golden than Shannon. Manny has also created a very divisive spirit around the program as it was Def v. Off as opposed to team.
Regardless,
We've had players who have been deemed "soft" from CA, TX, MN, NY, and FL. Clearly, we have a program problem, not a player problem.....look no further than the back and forth bull chit w/ Zo coming on board and what his job duties would include.
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