We are the U!

We were the U.
The admin turned its back on the team that made the school a national household name.
Then the other schools came down here spent tons of money buying youth coaches and families and haven’t left.
Until the admin decides to buy them back. We’re a 7 win team forever.
 
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We KNOW what we've become but our opponents still thrive and give extra effort whenever they play the U. Why do we play our best games against the gator, the noles and ND...for the same reason lesser teams get sky high for us. I loved the past but know what our future holds if the players we recruit don't get what they are signing up for. Becoming one with the U is family and historic but not if the recruits are casual about wearing the U. We can be great and the talent is on the team but why they lay down when facing inferior teams is a big problem and needs to be resolved. The teams that beat us is because we beat ourselves by lack of effort, not because they were better. We should've beat the gator and we did beat the noles and Va yet lost to VT and GT and FIU. That is on the team period.
What’s your solution?
 
We are not The U. In fact, we need to stop selling recruits on is being The U. When people say we have a cultural problem, this is where it starts. Players expect to play and be world beaters. When the Emperor is revealed to be naked mid season, the wheels fall off the wagon. What we need are players willing to play smash mouth football for 4 quarters and 12 games. This goes for fans too. We need fans who can support the team whether they go winless or lossless. Untill these things happen, there will never again be The U.
 
Fans wants to talk about ACC rev-share or adidas money—great. All these other schools get massive SEC or Big Ten money, as well as massive alumni financial support. Georgia's Magill Society had 1,100+ new members in 2018 at a minimum donation of $25,000-per-head—on top of what they're already raking in from their alum.

- The commitment to Magill Society is $5,000 per year. They encourage a 5 year commitment.

- They did not have 1,100+ new members in 2018. As of August 2019 they had 1,073 TOTAL members
 
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What’s your solution?
I know I'll get slammed but Manny Diaz has the right attitude and is trying to get the type player that would represent the U. I don't think (outside of Butch) that any other coach has the same perspective as Diaz. It won't be easy but he is attacking each failed element at a time and this recruiting class is key to getting the type player that has thrived here. Diaz may fail but at least his desires are sincere and he is in a learning curve that takes time. I hope and pray he is the right person at the right time just like butch was when he rebuilt us with quality Hurricanes.
 
I know I'll get slammed but Manny Diaz has the right attitude and is trying to get the type player that would represent the U. I don't think (outside of Butch) that any other coach has the same perspective as Diaz. It won't be easy but he is attacking each failed element at a time and this recruiting class is key to getting the type player that has thrived here. Diaz may fail but at least his desires are sincere and he is in a learning curve that takes time. I hope and pray he is the right person at the right time just like butch was when he rebuilt us with quality Hurricanes.
You seem like a nice person. Ok. He’s just not experienced enough and he has proven too show that woefully as a HC and this job shouldn’t have been his. I get the grew up in Miami thing but it’s not remotely enough. Our most successful coaches came from places like Port Arthur, Texas, Arkansas and Indiana or wherever Schnellenberger was from.
 
This is my alma mater and I'll always root for them to win. Even when I know its it's highly unlikely.

We're not what we were from the president on down.
 
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As I’ve mentioned on here in the past, Scnelly caught the CFB world by surprise and we rode that unprecedented momentum for 2 decades. We don’t surprise anyone anymore and fallen so far behind it’ll take another Schneily to get us back to those days of dominance.
 
Find a fan base that wants to write checks the way alum do at big time state schools with 40K undergrads—and you'll have a start.

Miami fans want a mansion, but this program can only afford a tract home.

Georgia just dumped $200M into their program—the majority of which came from alumni-related donations and fans supporting that program through donations, as well as undying support—living and breathing Bulldogs football, showing up every Saturday in droves. Same stories in Tuscaloosa, Baton Rouge, Auburn, Columbus, Ann Arbor, State College, Gainesville, etc.

Miami has 11K undergrads in a pro-sports metropolis—where most UM fans aren't alum and don't write checks back to the program. When things go south, they check out just as they would on the Dolphins or HEAT.


Fans wants to talk about ACC rev-share or adidas money—great. All these other schools get massive SEC or Big Ten money, as well as massive alumni financial support. Georgia's Magill Society had 1,100+ new members in 2018 at a minimum donation of $25,000-per-head—on top of what they're already raking in from their alum.


Miami better figure out how to do more with what it has, as it's never gonna see the financial backing that will result in a $13M coaching staff salary like Georgia sees—or their NCAA-leading $7M annual recruiting budget.

All these big money schools are playing chess. Miami ain't even playing checkers; it's going Chutes And Ladders style, while missing half the game pieces.

YA$E

Yet Another $ Excuse

It's not about $. It's about Stupidy. The BOT and AD and Hecht have no shortage of STUPIDITY.
 
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Find a fan base that wants to write checks the way alum do at big time state schools with 40K undergrads—and you'll have a start.

Miami fans want a mansion, but this program can only afford a tract home.

Georgia just dumped $200M into their program—the majority of which came from alumni-related donations and fans supporting that program through donations, as well as undying support—living and breathing Bulldogs football, showing up every Saturday in droves. Same stories in Tuscaloosa, Baton Rouge, Auburn, Columbus, Ann Arbor, State College, Gainesville, etc.

Miami has 11K undergrads in a pro-sports metropolis—where most UM fans aren't alum and don't write checks back to the program. When things go south, they check out just as they would on the Dolphins or HEAT.


Fans wants to talk about ACC rev-share or adidas money—great. All these other schools get massive SEC or Big Ten money, as well as massive alumni financial support. Georgia's Magill Society had 1,100+ new members in 2018 at a minimum donation of $25,000-per-head—on top of what they're already raking in from their alum.


Miami better figure out how to do more with what it has, as it's never gonna see the financial backing that will result in a $13M coaching staff salary like Georgia sees—or their NCAA-leading $7M annual recruiting budget.

All these big money schools are playing chess. Miami ain't even playing checkers; it's going Chutes And Ladders style, while missing half the game pieces.

Congrats Captain Obvious, you pointed out that Miami is at a significant disadvantage, due to things the institution can't control. That said, the powers that be shouldn't handicap the program even further by being utterly incompetent. It doesn't take millions of dollars to conduct a decent coaching search. It doesn't take a huge alumni/donor pool to not make a panic hire less than 12 hours after a coach retires. Those are things that should come naturally to anyone with any semblance of common sense. Miami doesn't have an AD that can do the basic crap in the job description, and there isn't anyone holding James accountable. No one on the BOT seems to care, and it's apparent that the big money boosters don't truly give a **** either. If they did, they would pull support and force significant change.

Miami will NEVER have the financial resources that the typical state football factory does, but the BOT and others can be better stewards of the funds we DO have. In other words, don't settle for Manny Diaz without looking at available options. Maybe if you hire a Bill Clark, he doesn't work out, but odds are his floor is significantly higher than Manny Diaz, as we saw this year. Miami has to make rational hires, and then hope that they hit. You look at the last 20 years of hires, the ONLY two you could possibly believe were made by competent hiring managers were Al Golden and Mark Richt. Think about that, Coker, Shannon and Diaz were awful hires(It didn't pass the smell test after Day 1 for all three), especially when one noticed that the school did relatively little in searching for a qualified coach. Golden ultimately failed, but when you look at a lot of the good stuff that has happened with the program, especially in regards to updating facilities and outreach programs, the dude had something to do with that. He brought in fresh ideas, and while he was undone by being overly loyal to garbage assistants, you could at least make a case that he left the program in better shape than what he inherited. Richt led Miami to their best overall record since 2003 in year two, with a ton of Golden guys. You look at Richt's first two years, he should have easily won 10+ in both years, especially year one. Miami was trending upwards, and then crashed as inept QB play and stubborn play calling forced Richt to either make a change, or retire. He did the honorable thing and retired.

Instead of building upon the good the two sane hires did, James went right back to the "Promote from within" well and grabbed Diaz. It's most likely going to be a miserable failure. If Miami had merely taken the best mid major guy they could have found, within their budget the last 5 hires, odds are they would have hit on one, if not more. Instead, Miami made three awful hires, and two sane ones. Good luck getting that to work out. It is extremely unlikely that any of the awful hires were going to succeed, especially at a program in which you can't cover for mediocrity at the top. Ed Orgeron isn't a great HC, he's average at best. That said LSU has the money and resources to surround Ed with the best assistants money can buy, which allows him to do the ONE THING he's outstanding at and that's recruit. Miami has to find guys with upside, guys that have cut their teeth somewhere, to where they aren't trying to learn the basics at Miami. You have a small window to make significant change, you need someone that can come in and at least be decent out the box. Bill Clark would have been that, even a guy like Jay Norvell could have filled that role. I love Scott Satterfield, Miami could have had that guy, but that takes a forward thinker at AD.
 
head Coach - no experience

QB - no experience

2 OL - No experience

Our offensive leader is a transfer

Our QB threatens to transfer because he doesn't get his way(prima donna, no leadership)

Our Kicker is horrible

New OC and DC

Teams going to struggle.

We won games we shoulda lost and lost games we shoulda won

Seems about right for year 1.

Some of the kids ARE the problem.

All we can do is see if Manny can fix this next year. Some of our problems are easily correctable others aren't.

I agree with a previous poster, lets see it in the fall. **** the spring.
 
Find a fan base that wants to write checks the way alum do at big time state schools with 40K undergrads—and you'll have a start.

Miami fans want a mansion, but this program can only afford a tract home.

Georgia just dumped $200M into their program—the majority of which came from alumni-related donations and fans supporting that program through donations, as well as undying support—living and breathing Bulldogs football, showing up every Saturday in droves. Same stories in Tuscaloosa, Baton Rouge, Auburn, Columbus, Ann Arbor, State College, Gainesville, etc.

Miami has 11K undergrads in a pro-sports metropolis—where most UM fans aren't alum and don't write checks back to the program. When things go south, they check out just as they would on the Dolphins or HEAT.


Fans wants to talk about ACC rev-share or adidas money—great. All these other schools get massive SEC or Big Ten money, as well as massive alumni financial support. Georgia's Magill Society had 1,100+ new members in 2018 at a minimum donation of $25,000-per-head—on top of what they're already raking in from their alum.


Miami better figure out how to do more with what it has, as it's never gonna see the financial backing that will result in a $13M coaching staff salary like Georgia sees—or their NCAA-leading $7M annual recruiting budget.

All these big money schools are playing chess. Miami ain't even playing checkers; it's going Chutes And Ladders style, while missing half the game pieces.
Really well said. It's the blunt and bitter truth.
 
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