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Serious Question about Blake James

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MISTER OWL said:
Have you seen him in person? His oversized dress pants/sport coat combo have him looking like a little kid wearing his dad’s suit to Elementary school graduation

This is Miami. Look the f*cking part.
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OrangeBowlMagic said:
Y'all said the same nonsense about Kirby Hocutt and the dude goes to Texas Tech and they have one of the best athletic departments in the country. Quit crying about literally everything.
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*****ing about an AD that interviewed absolutely no one for the HC position, not to mention, the contract extension he gave Richt which nearly paralyzed the program, is not nonsense.
 
Blake James hired Mark Richt and Manny Diaz. One was one of the hottest coaches on the market at the time and the other had proven he could quickly turnaround one of the worse defenses in college football.

I mean who the **** did you expect him to hire? With our pay, who were we supposed to hire? We don't have the money to hire a proven P5 winner. Our only two routes are successful coordinators or successful G5 coaches.
 
OrangeBowlMagic said:
Y'all said the same nonsense about Kirby Hocutt and the dude goes to Texas Tech and they have one of the best athletic departments in the country. Quit crying about literally everything.
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That's the point; Miami will always be a stepping stone job for an athletic director. Period.

People need to accept the University of Miami for what it is—not what they want it to be or think it is.

Hocutt used it as a stepping stone to get Texas Tech. Eichorst used it to get Nebraska.

Paul Dee was general counsel for Miami who became AD by default; hired in 1981 as GC before taking over as AD in 1993. Sam Jankovich was AD from 1983 to 1990. Dave Maggart was 1991-1993 when Dee took over. None of these guys were calculated hires—and the last two that were bolted as soon as anything remotely bigger came up.

Miami has NEVER been a home run job for an AD and in all reality, in the big money game of college athletics, never will be.

Any good hire UM makes, they are going to get poached immediately. This mindset of throwing money at some big name and expecting UM to get a big hire—that's just not going to happen.

This is a job for a lesser guy like James, or a guy like a Hocutt who will bounce when the better opp comes—as he wanted to raise his family in Lubbock, not Coral Gables—and wanted to be part of the Big XII, which got him the conference Playoff rep gig, which never would've happened at UM.
 
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