I have not hate for Randy Shannon. Guy is Miami Hurricane. Would still be here somehow if he could. Best of luck to him There are a lot of soft-shouldered, self-hating fa@@ts among our fan base that just love to show themselves and hate on former players. I've never got it. Guy played here, graduated from UM and coached here .Good luck to him. People have to work and people have to make a living. I hope he is successful at UCF.
Shannon had a lot of roles throughout his life that helped us to succeed in football. Yes he was not effective as a head coach, I get it. you guys all sound like Randy was responsible for all of our woes the last 14 years.
started by burning bridges with central and other major programs because he couldn't get over grudges. coached our first losing season since 1979, including the worst ever home loss (at that point) when closing down the orange bowl. coached at uf, negatively recruiting against us. he was better than golden, but that's like saying that getting shot in the chest is better than getting shot in the face. his tenure set the tone for almost a decade of mediocre football. gtfo.
Yet you give him no credit for bringing in the last No. 1 Recruiting class we had. Hired staff from high school in the Miami. First FL coach I saw do that. The coaching bridges work both ways, lots of high school coaches in the tri-county are just as bad playing the prima donna role and sent all their players to other schools besides UM (please don't try and simplify this when you know what goes on down here with players and payments. Tri-county is a hot bed of talent).
The 2007 season was already a downward spiral. Regardless of who would have coached us, our talent was subpar and had been trending to mediocre. There is a reason so many freshmen played in 2008....high school seniors/college freshman were beating out 5 year Seniors at UM. If you can't recall the state of affairs back then db305 then you have not been a fan that long. Coker set the tone before Shannon and that is on the administration for promoting within instead of making the best hire at HC for the program.
There also has not been one Miami coach since Schnellenberger where one Miami high school or another had not complained that their players or team were not getting love from UM. It's current environment of recruiting. Perhaps some of these coaches bashed UM and Shannon because we wasn't playing the game or maybe we just weren't paying enough. I am sure there are several high school coaches that would complain about Richt but he has made it a priority to establish strong connections between UM and the local community.
As far as poor backyard recruiting, this was an issue before Shannon, certainly during Coker who was recruiting nationally based on stars and ignored a lot of the talent we had in our own back yard only to try and show them love after we were jilted during the recruiting process.
As mentioned, the issue was not with Coker, the issue was with UM who treated the UM football program like a second class citizen. Cheap, convenient and non-controversial was their agenda. It was this same administration that brought in Golden and just continued our mediocrity. I don't blame Coker or Shannon taking the opportunity to be HC but UM is not a place where you can learn while on the job. Notice the changes and commitment to the program once a new president came in?
hUh. ( The powers that be undermined Mr. Onion Head. In more ways than one. ) dUh.
( What's that? Go look it up in the dictionary! )
