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when did you give up on AG

I started to have doubts before the start of last year... But that 6-7 season ended it for me... I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt...
 
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After the *** beating in the RA Bowl to Louisville.

Let's see....first post sanction bowl against a star QB who spurned the program. Sounds like a situation where the team should have been jacked up for a 1991 Cotton Bowl style whooping and instead they were flat, unmotivated, and the whole thing was punctuated by a wild throat-slash by said QB and he lived to tell about it.
 
I was a supporter until pretty late in his career. 2014 FSU game finally confirmed to me that Al Golden will never get it done here.

That game was the perfect opportunity for Miami to upset their ranked arch rival and then finish the year off strong with a 10 win season. It was home, we had two weeks to prepare, Primetime national television, our players were hyped. But Folden... folded. Since then I knew there was no hope with him running this program
 
Anybody who went past 2012 is an *** clown. That was the worst defense known to mankind. Ever. And our offense was pretty good. That defense broke every bad record. After the seasons was over and Folden defended No D, i was done. Somethings at Miami have no excuses. They just dont.
 
I hung in there until last year's loss to Ga Tech. We had lost to Louisville and Nebraska but attributed it to growing pains with a freshman qb. But watching us lose to GT with their fullback constantly running dive plays all day and no adjustment from our D was the final straw. It took me a while, I guess I am an optimist. but after that game I just knew we were never going to be good with AG running the show.
 
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i lasted a little longer than some. after i watched Louisville beat the **** out of us at the Russell bowl. was teetering before that though
 
Brickell said:
The 2013 VT game showed me that he would constantly be a failure here - a competent coach would have won by 2 TD's.

Though keeping NO D after 2012 exposed him as a nepotist.
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All of this. That VT game in 2013 was the last straw for me.
 
I have to say the home game against VT (2013?) The Coastal was there for the taking. Just had to beat a horrible VT team and the team played so uninspired. It was a rainy, drizzly day perfectly matching our teams effort. I started questioning myself as a season ticket holder after that.

What really got me rustled was when he was pumped and high fived No D on the sideline after barely hanging on to beat a ****** Nebraska team and their furious come back. Holy **** I wanted to jump through my screen and punch him in the face.
 
Wide splits game vs Wake in 2013 showed me this was the weakest 7-0 team I had ever seen. The wheels were wobbling like crazy. The subsequent collapse in 2013 sealed it for me. Follow that up with Golden's shameful attempt to sneak off the PedSt, then his beat puppy look when he was exposed, caused me to actually feel hate for the guy.

After that, I never listened to a word the guy had to say. He was dead to me.
 
OldhamA said:
Dan E. Dangerously said:
VT game in 2013. The Hokie's offense was complete garbage that year, and we couldn't stop them to save our lives. As the team is heading into the locker room, the sideline bimbo asks Gordlen about what they need to do better. VT did whatever they wanted against our defense, so naturally Al starts talmbout our running game not being good, and that was why we were losing. We had no business losing that game, and we had no business losing to Duke the following week. All the evidence you could ever need to turn on him was on display during those two games.
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Was that the game where we got Logan Thomas drafted?
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Logan Thomas put up huge numbers on us TWICE. The last time was so bad many people forget that he was 23 of 25 two years earlier. 23 of 25! You would think that's almost impossible.
 
Every moment after Artie Burns got that safety on Bridgewater has been like being in an inevitable slow motion car crash for me.
 
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Brickell said:
The 2013 VT game showed me that he would constantly be a failure here - a competent coach would have won by 2 TD's.

Though keeping NO D after 2012 exposed him as a nepotist.
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I told everyone who would listen, there was no shame in losing to the holes that year. They were simply the better team. But losing to VT was simply not an option. I know Duke was hurt but that game revealed how poorly corched and led this team was.
 
I gave up on Al Golden back in 2005 during his first year at Temple when he got molllywhopped by Bowling Green.
Right then and there I knew he would take Temple to a bowl game one day and eventually end up at UM amid fanfare
only to stink it up.
I saw the signs.
 
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