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Search your soul and answer honestly: can Richt win a ship?

Didn't do it at Georgia, which has a greater resource pool - and as long as Dabo,Nick, and Urban are still coaching - don't think so.
 
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Meat said:
Richt was my #1 choice for Miami even before he left Georgia and became available. I wanted Richt more than Chip Kelly or Gruden or any of the other big name coaches that dudes on Canesport would talk about.

Dude was made for this job.

Mark Richt is one of the truly elite coaches in college football. His record speaks for itself.

He's proving me right, too. He won the Walter Camp Coach of the Year award this year.... and earned every bit of it for winning 10 games with a totally depleted roster. He's recruiting like an absolute beast.

If he finishes out this recruiting class with just the guys we lead with - Nesta, Briggs, Chatman, Chatfield, Ezzard, Goss, and possibly Campbell - that will be a top 3 class and it will blow away everybody else in the ACC by a mile.

He's building a champion here. Anyone who knows what they're looking at can tell you that. It's going to be very bad news for the rest of college football.
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honestly, i wasnt all about richt, but i think miami is a better fit than "Bulldog football" because he was a UM player and FSU is where he learned to coach.
 
I think he needs to be a CEO type coach. I'm not sure if he can call offensive plays that are successful against teams that are better than us physically and mentally. We need an offensive genius coach as well as one on defense to get a 6th ring. Maybe if we keep pulling in top 5 classes every year, we'll get lucky where talent will be enough to beat a bama because we'd have almost equal talent. It's going to take a special QB to pull it off and we don't have a 5 star deshawn watson on our roster yet. Perry and Williams have potential to be good but they aren't 5 star once in a generation QB like what bama has right now (according to different) to out duel them. We'd need a lot to fall our way to win a title in the next 3 years.

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I really believe he will, I saw some things about him that dispel the myth he can’t win because he is nice, 4 and 15 against Notre Dame and we are up big and he goes for it. And the attach of the ref in the bowl game. Guy has control of the program unlike at Georgia where the boosters do.
 
TheRichtShow said:
Larry Coker won a NC, so I'll go with yes, it's certainly possible
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GAME!!! SET!! MATCH!!! I completely Agree

Coker did ....So Don't EVER tell me anyone else CAN'T do it.

Anyway, as Coker abundantly proved.... Its NEVER all on the HC to win it all

Good players and luck play prominent roles in success

Anyway we'll soon find out within the next 4 years if he keeps on recruiting like he has
 
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HSFC said:
Didn't do it at Georgia, which has a greater resource pool - and as long as Dabo,Nick, and Urban are still coaching - don't think so.
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Miami has 1 power 5 school within 340 miles of it. How many Power 5 schools are 340 miles from Athens? Richt has never recruited out of Coral Gables before now.
 
Yes he can win a ship. Ppl saying he is a 10 Win coach that’s fine. Becuase 10 wins gets you to Charlotte and then it’s a play in game for a playofff birth. Once your in the playoffs anything can happen.

Richt is the perfect man for this job. Not just becuase of the machine he is creating while he is here. But the infrastructure he is leaving behind to make sure we loose ties with our most precious asset and equalizer which is our recruting base. That way we never fall off again as long as we make competent hires.
 
Watching Vikings - Saints and saw Vikings wrs running beautiful pick routes in man coverage. Leaves other wr running free, wide open. It's quasi legal, but most times refs aren't going to flag a wr for "blocking" a CB into another close to LOS. Do you think maybe Richt considers pick plays / rub routes as "cheating" and his morality would never allow him to design plays that exploit the rules?
 
Fulmer, Stoops, Coker, Miles, Mack Brown, Chizik, and Jimbo have won one in the last 20 years. All coaches Richt is as good or better than. The other 13 belong to Bowden, Jim Tressel, Pete Carrol, Urban Meyer, Dabo Sweeney, and Nick Saban. Every coach that has won 10 games in a season at Miami (except Butch and they won the following year) has won a title at Miami.

Not sure how long Richt plans on coaching but I think he’s very close to winning one
 
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MainLineCane said:
TheRichtShow said:
Larry Coker won a NC, so I'll go with yes, it's certainly possible
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GAME!!! SET!! MATCH!!! I completely Agree

Coker did ....So Don't EVER tell me anyone else CAN'T do it.

Anyway, as Coker abundantly proved.... Its NEVER all on the HC to win it all

Good players and luck play prominent roles in success

Anyway we'll soon find out within the next 4 years if he keeps on recruiting like he has
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There was 100 corch or more that could have won it all that year with that talent
 
Kempo Cane said:
MainLineCane said:
TheRichtShow said:
Larry Coker won a NC, so I'll go with yes, it's certainly possible
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GAME!!! SET!! MATCH!!! I completely Agree

Coker did ....So Don't EVER tell me anyone else CAN'T do it.

Anyway, as Coker abundantly proved.... Its NEVER all on the HC to win it all

Good players and luck play prominent roles in success

Anyway we'll soon find out within the next 4 years if he keeps on recruiting like he has
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There was 100 corch or more that could have won it all that year with that talent
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And yet a ricochet off Matt Walter's hip and a dropped 2-point conversion almost cost us at BC and Virginia Tech.
 
Please don't reference Larry Coker.
Stevie Wonder could've coached that team to a National Championship.
He had the greatest collection of talent in the history of college football.

I don't know my answer to this question. All I know is, at some point we're gonna come across a team with similar talent to us, and we're gonna have to out-coach that team. Can we do that?

I watched that Clemson game and that wasn't just a difference in talent that I saw.
We also allowed Wisky to run up and down the field on us and we had more talent than them.

So when we finally stack our roster in a couple years...
Do we have to look forward to a let-down against an inferior opponent every season?
 
Coach Macho said:
Please don't reference Larry Coker.
Stevie Wonder could've coached that team to a National Championship.
He had the greatest collection of talent in the history of college football.

I don't know my answer to this question. All I know is, at some point we're gonna come across a team with similar talent to us, and we're gonna have to out-coach that team. Can we do that?

I watched that Clemson game and that wasn't just a difference in talent that I saw.
We also allowed Wisky to run up and down the field on us and we had more talent than them.

So when we finally stack our roster in a couple years...
Do we have to look forward to a let-down against an inferior opponent every season?
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BoRtch had the same roster and couldn't win it all. CoRker did.

Anyway, I'm with you on Richt.

He's had bad losses in year 1 and year 2. That has me doubting his ability to win a NC.

Year 3 will tell us a lot...2 full classes, his QBs (unless Rosier starts again), no more excuses.
 
Some people here are trying way too hard to be pessimistic and are looking very stupid in doing so.

The guy won 10 games (should have been 11 against Arky State) with a roster that is not championship caliber. I can't wait to see what he can do with 3 and 4 recruiting cycles of his own talent to work with. I believe that it is inevitable that he will win multiple championships. Just have to be patient.
 
Coach Macho said:
Please don't reference Larry Coker.
Stevie Wonder could've coached that team to a National Championship.
He had the greatest collection of talent in the history of college football.

I don't know my answer to this question. All I know is, at some point we're gonna come across a team with similar talent to us, and we're gonna have to out-coach that team. Can we do that?

I watched that Clemson game and that wasn't just a difference in talent that I saw.
We also allowed Wisky to run up and down the field on us and we had more talent than them.

So when we finally stack our roster in a couple years...
Do we have to look forward to a let-down against an inferior opponent every season?
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You mean like how Urban lost 55 - 24 to Iowa. Or how Dabo lost to Syracuse this past season and Pitt the year before?

Such a "deep" post though lol
 
The Ops implication is that he can’t win a Ship. But honestly, as long as we get the Sony Michels, Amari Coopers, Calvin Ridleys, Dalvin Cooks, Jerry Jeudys, Nick and Joey Bosas, Pat Surtains, Josh Jobes, Tyson Campbell’s, ...well you know the list. Not just get the very, very good players, from down here but THE best of the best, from SoFla, and until the culture changes from “sign with Miami so we can play in the NFL,” to “sign with Miami so we can compete for a National Championship, and MAYBE, play in the NFL, and keep your Juniors from declaring for the draft, then the answer to the Ops question is a resounding NO. He cannot win a championship.
 
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The Coker and Chizik references are inane.

Coker was the coach in name only when we won the ship with the best CFB talent ever assembled (not by him). Chizik had Cam Newton and Malzahn back when Malzahn was breaking brains.

Mack Brown is probably a better comparison (won his first championship in his 21st season). Difference being that Brown spent his first 3 years at Tulane and next 10 years at UNC, not exactly national powers.
 
When it comes to the absolute cream of the crop in college football it all comes down to who has the best players. Yes, innovative coaches can make a difference but if you don't have the same caliber athletes as your opponent, most of the time, you'll lose. We've seen it for years when teams like Oklahoma and Oregon got to the championship game only to get trounced by SEC teams loaded with NFL talent. Clemson wasn't able to hang with the big boys until they started getting superior talent on their lines and even then they needed an incredible quarterback to get passed Alabama. You get the best players, you get a chance to win titles. Even then, you're not immune to losing to lesser talented teams. Ohio State got blown out by Iowa. Is anybody there wondering if Urban is the right guy to get them another title? Alabama and Georgia both lost to an Auburn team that lost 4 games. It happens.

If you look at every team that has won a title in the last 20 years, the common denominator isn't quality coaching, it's superior talent.
 
Why put a ceiling on our coach in his second year here? It's like you guys are getting paid by our rivals to sway recruits.
 
Richt came close at Georgia—again quality SEC East competition, where he had to beat the SEC West champ to get to the title game. The narrative isn't unlike Bobby Bowden having to get through Florida and Miami every year, outside of playing in the ACC. Another great coach who lost some tough games that ultimately cost him national championships.

No. 3 Georgia fell to No. 2 Alabama in the 2012 SEC title game by four points. Bama went on to roll Notre Dame in the title game—which Georgia could've pulled had they gotten past the Tide.

Richt will have a more clear-cut path at Miami than he would've at Georgia. ACC Coastal is wide open. Need to win the conference title game. Do that and you're arguably in the Playoffs as a Power 5 program.

He CAN do it. WILL he? We'll see. All the stars have to align to win it all.
 
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