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As happy as I am about Miami making this playoff run, I really wish this guy could have got a CFP run too. I know he was close in 2017 but we know how that went. I've said it 1000 times and this is 1001, I will never speak ill of this dude and his contributions to this program.
 
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caneULM said:
As happy as I am about Miami making this playoff run, I really wish this guy could have got a CFP run too. I know he was close in 2017 but we know how that went. I've said it 1000 times and this is 1001, I will never speak ill of this dude and his contributions to this program.
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without a doubt. The guy gave our university $1 million of his own money and made massive changes to the team in a short span of time.
 
That 2017 team was incredibly underrated. I remember Walton (7.6 YPC) looking like he he was gonna be the best back in the country before he got hurt. Same with Richards (18 YPC) who was well in his way to being an all timer.
Rosier's shoulder was another one that changed the offense.
But the emergence of Brax, Deejay, Homer, Hern kept us in the season. So many big plays by all of them.
That defense was so much fun to watch every level too.
4 deep in the edge, the emergence of Norton and RJ (dominated ND),
Shaq, Pic, JJ, MJ.
That team and Richt will always have a special place for me.
I think there were too many were cynical "fans"at that point to truly appreciate the talent and the adversity they overcame that year.
 
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caneULM said:
As happy as I am about Miami making this playoff run, I really wish this guy could have got a CFP run too. I know he was close in 2017 but we know how that went. I've said it 1000 times and this is 1001, I will never speak ill of this dude and his contributions to this program.
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He became immortal coming off the bench to beat The Gstor in 1981.
 
mosthated305 said:
He was the start of Miami catching up with the rest of college football. If only we would have been serious about football while he was in his prime and he plucked him from UGA. Once Herbie went in dry on the entire university we went all in but Richt started everything when he put his own money into the program.
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Herbie did that because of Vilma.
 
caneULM said:
As happy as I am about Miami making this playoff run, I really wish this guy could have got a CFP run too. I know he was close in 2017 but we know how that went. I've said it 1000 times and this is 1001, I will never speak ill of this dude and his contributions to this program.
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So you’re telling me in 2016 when we lost 4 in a row, or in 2017 when we lost to Pitt and then obliterated by Clemson in ACCCG, and in 2018 when we lost 4 in a row including to Duke and BC, and his offense went to ****, you didn’t speak ill of that man?


Answer: of course you did
 
caneULM said:
As happy as I am about Miami making this playoff run, I really wish this guy could have got a CFP run too. I know he was close in 2017 but we know how that went. I've said it 1000 times and this is 1001, I will never speak ill of this dude and his contributions to this program.
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This whole ‘is not hurt’ thing is officially cringe.
 
I always wonder how differently 2017 would have played out if Kayaa had stuck around another year. Rosier had a lot of guts and more scrambling ability, definitely made a lot of big plays, but what would a pure passer have done with that team? Not sure we would have beaten Clemson, but doubt we got upset by Pitt and may have still made the playoffs.
 
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P-Tizzle said:
So you’re telling me in 2016 when we lost 4 in a row, or in 2017 when we lost to Pitt and then obliterated by Clemson in ACCCG, and in 2018 when we lost 4 in a row including to Duke and BC, and his offense went to ****, you didn’t speak ill of that man?


Answer: of course you did
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By the time Richt came onboard for 2016, he had to clean up the devastation and decay left by Shannon and Golden. I did not envy him one bit for the task he had ahead of him.

Was Richt perfect? Absolutely no. He had his faults, but if he had been our HC in 2007 right after Coker, our program would not have fallen off the cliff the way it did for almost a decade until he showed up.
 
The Sphinx said:
By the time Richt came onboard for 2016, he had to clean up the devastation and decay left by Shannon and Golden. I did not envy him one bit for the task he had ahead of him.

Was Richt perfect? Absolutely no. He had his faults, but if he had been our HC in 2007 right after Coker, our program would not have fallen off the cliff the way it did for almost a decade until he showed up.
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Here's the reality. The ONLY reason why Richt is in our good graces is because one, he has an awful debilitating disease, and two, he walked away from a lot of money. During the parts of his tenure that I mentioned in my above posts, CIS wanted to kill that man and his son. Facts.
 
P-Tizzle said:
Here's the reality. The ONLY reason why Richt is in our good graces is because one, he has an awful debilitating disease, and two, he walked away from a lot of money. During the parts of his tenure that I mentioned in my above posts, CIS wanted to kill that man and his son. Facts.
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The second part isn’t any small gesture. It puts him in the category of maybe <1% who have the moral compass to live that out.
 
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