So we're insulting a former coach—one who left a $20M buyout on the table, donated $1M of his own money to the IPF, upgraded UM's football's dated nutrition program and lobbied to get assistants more money—because he's have come down sooner on a talented, troubled kid that a lax SEC school thought was bad enough to get rid of?
Got it.
Have you even read why Holloman is out at Georgia? He wrote in a statement hat he punched his then-girlfriend in the face, in his door room at 4am, back in April 2018. The punch came after Holloman began to choke the girl while she was waiting on his brother to come pick her up and get her out of there.
Holloman hit her with his right hand, while pushing her off with his left—as she started hitting him after an argument. She didn't report the assault for almost two months, but when she did, police noted a visible scar above her left eye. She was later diagnosed with a concussion in regards to the assault (after attempting to cover-up for him, stating that she slipped in the shower.)
You're really trying to turn this ugly story into a knock of "Mork" Richt because he'd have booted the kid off the team immediately, instead of letting him lurk around an extra season and only finally dismissing him because the heat was too much regarding this clown hitting a woman? Good Lord, the forced hate against a man who showed up for three years and left this program in better shape than he inherited it in—it's downright pathetic at times.
Yes, Richt needed to go and was too tired to rebuild 'The U' on-the-field—but his efforts to rebuild the program as a whole and to bring UM into the modern era deserve to be celebrated. Without all his effort, there is no "The New Miami" era currently underway—as Manny Diaz never would've been hired as an assistant coach in 2016, revamping a defense that bottled out after five years of Al Golden and Mark D'Onofrio.
For all Richt's blunders; a vanilla offense, nepotism, et al—dude still had a 10-win season (Miami's first since 2003), delivered the Canes first Coastal Division title (in 14 tries), broke a seven-year losing streak to Florida State (and started a two-year win-streak) and kicked the *** off of No. 3 Notre Dame on national television, 41-8.
The fact anyone is still trash talking this man half a year after he gracefully stepped down, and again LEFT A FREAKIN' $20,000,000 BUYOUT ON THE TABLE is beyond me.
