We have a bad team. Everyone knows this. But not so bad that we should have lost to MTSU, Duke and FSU by 42. We've got coaches who are determined to make them adjust to their schemes and not vice versa. And I can guarantee Mario has broken these guys' spirit which is why they don't give two *****. We aren't 42 points worse than FSU. 35-33 nail biter loss - I could live with that. 45-3 to that FSU team means our guys didn't care. At all.
Mario doesn't believe in out scheming another team. He wants to line up and physically dominate the other team, and that is years away from happening at Miami if it ever happens at all. That's why he's so super focused on his OL recruits. And I get it, but it's not all about physicality.
Good coaches get the best out of what they have Mario, and your staff has not done that this season.
i think it all comes down to whether mario is a fraud or ~fraud. if he's the latter, which i hope, then at worst nothing that happens this year matters, and at best the guys who stick around, learning to become resilient and tough will become leaders and better football players going forward.
mario says he wants to build a championship program and has a plan to do so. if he really does, then the benefits will clearly outweigh the costs - this embarrassing season.
thus far he's done a superb job recruiting, a pretty terrible job assembling a coaching staff, and has failed at flipping the switch on this program's awful and long-running culture problems.
i suspect it would take multiple seasons like this one to have ill effects on his ability to recruit. luckily for him he has a near unlimited budget to rectify his hiring mistakes. whether he can change the culture of the football program i'm less sure of than i was when he was hired, but i sure hope he can.
this year has sucked and i've grumbled and complained along with everyone else watching mario & co coach this team, but in the long run if he's the program builder he says he is the dogsh!t football we've seen this year matters not.
this program has been sick for nearly 20 years. it not great that it's currently gotten even sicker this year. but, the folks with the money say they're gonna spend it, and mario seems darn sure that he knows how to cure this program. i truly hope he isn't full of ****.