MedleyCane
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But don't lose hope, Hurricanes. The next best thing might actually be the best fit. Kentucky coach Mark Stoops is this close to sainthood in Lexington, and though a statue in front of Kroger Field sounds nice, perhaps the program's winningest coach since Bear Bryant would rather compete for a national championship before retirement age. Miami might offer that promise, and he knows it's possible in South Florida after serving three years on Larry Coker's staff in the early 2000s.
Stoops is also affordable. He's paid $5.3 million per year by the Wildcats but his buyout is less than $2 million. He's not only one of the SEC's better coaches, he's also a tremendous recruiter, a quality lacking in recent years at the ACC school.
Cristobal makes sense to Miami, but pulling him away from the best situation in the Pac-12 for a program stuck in the middle of a weak ACC is a difficult proposition, even without money problems.
Stoops makes sense and is a financially viable option.
If that fails, try Tom Allen at Indiana. He's a Florida guy, a tremendous recruiter and has done much more with much less in Bloomington.
Reality will not stop the old timers and former players with big voices and zero power from living in the past, spitting out big names and ignoring the reality at Miami, the program time forgot.
This reads like it was penned by an angry 15 year old.
Tired Subject too, btw.
And, yes, Blake and Diaz should have been fired yesterday, but who reads 100th version of same pablum?