What Broke Miami

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These are both great points

Mike Leach & Dino Babers looked much better as candidates last year when they won 10-11 games. This year they win 5-6 games they don't look as good. People who downplayed Cristobal last year are now thinking we missed when he has a 12 win season. It's hard to identify the right guy.

On top of that - Miami won 9 games twice in 10 years before Richt. Richt wins 9 & 10 games his first 2 seasons, then the fanbase wants to run him out of town when he has a 7 win season. We're a fanbase that's won 10 games 1 time in 16 years, but still demand 10 wins a season from the head coach.

As for talent:
- Bama signed 12 5 Star players in the last 4 years. If only 50% work out, then they've got 6 guys playing at a 5 star level.
- Miami signed 1 5 Star player in the last 5 years - Lorenzo Lingard. We have no margin of error for him not to work out, and he didn't.

Good lord. Richt deserved to be run out of town.

10 wins in the ACC Coastal is not an achievement. And Richt’s 10-3 season in 2017 was about as bad as a 10-3 season in a Power 5 conference can be, except for maybe Richt’s 10-3 season in 2015 at UGA. For God’s sake, the 2004 and 2005 Miami teams, which were considered failures, would be 7-10 point favorites over the 2017 Miami team.

And Richt was making Banda and Patke co-DCs. Banda should be a Division II position coach, Patke should be a high school position coach, and Richt was making them co-DCs. With Banda and Patke as co-DCs, Richt Sr. as playcaller, Richt Jr. as QB coach and Searles as OL coach, we might not have made a bowl this year.