Should have titled this thread troll bait.... If golden left now it would set us back another 10 years you guys are dumb.... Butch isn't coming here and nor is another high-profile coach, when was last time Miami hired a high-profile coach? ******* idiots!
So just to clarify you logic, we haven't hired a high-profile coach in a while so we should just settle for Golden and hope for the best because him leaving would saddle us with some unproven coach and that would set us back 10 years? What total bunk. Golden leaving would bring in somebody just as unproven as he is and could pull off the same average results. And Butch is just as likely as any other candidate you could name at this point.
Actually we have never really hired a high profile coach except Howard. JJ was some dude that ALWAYS lost to OU. Dennis had some funky gimmick offense. Butch was an assistant coach as was Larry and Randy. It took JJ four years to win a NC after managing to lose with the greatest team of all time (at that time at least). Dennis won until he ran out of JJ/Butch's recruits. Howard was the been everywhere, done everything bomb with outstanding resume. Golden's qualifications were fine. It is his job results that are not measuring up.
Oh, Butch would take the job in a second. That does not say he would be offered it, or even be any good at it. But him taking it at this point is not really in doubt. Personally, I prefer Chud, with Butch as DC and recruiting co-coordinator(only a moron would not what Butch friggin Davis running the recruiting show).
My only apprehension with Chud is I think he'd jump to the NFL as soon as he got an offer. Butch would jump at the head coaching offer and come for pennies. I also don't think the NFL would come for somebody so old and I don't know if he'd even want to go at this point. But
you hit it on the nose with whether the administration would offer him the job. That's the only hurdle. But this all irrelevant if Golden comes through this year.
Well, UL set the table with re-hiring Petrino. When it was believed Golden might by going to PSU, there were a lot of emails pushing for Butch, so it's not like his name isn't front and center.
1. Miami was the one who screwed Butch over on the contract, not the other way around. They ran JJ off as well.
2. Butch has a record as a proven NC team builder.
3. Butch is extremely familiar with Miami football, and the Miami community, and Miami community relations.
4. Butch is the Master at personnel evaluation and recruiting.
5. Butch would dominate recruiting the 305, and about twenty other area codes around the nation.
6. Butch's team put one NC trophy in the case, and Ohio State has the other one that should be in the case.
7. Butch knows defense. Butch knows Miami defense.
8. Butch knows how to get the most out of his players.
9. Butch knows how to have his teams game ready as well as anyone.
10. Money-wise, Butch is a lot of proven coach for the dollar.