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I'll start at the beggining. When I heard he was being considered I wasn't at all excited. He didn't seem to have any particular area of expertise aside from his defense that I was never impressed with. He just seemed to be a very mediocre boring coach who rode every cliche in the book.
When he was hired I admit I got sucked in by his silver tongue and charisma. Then in the off season that followed I observed a couple of huge red flags. The first was the retaining of Andrew Swassey. The second was the hiring of Art Kehoe. Nothing personal against Art but the move struck me as odd. Surely this seemingly competent coaxch would have a list of great OL coaches on speed dial.I shrugged it off anyway and looked forward to the season. I remember there were these Temple Football promotional videos with AG and Doriti doing their thing. I distinctly remember the video of Dorito getting all intense at practice was a huge hit amongst our fans. They all gushed about his passion and intensity. So I watched the video and I liked his aggressiveness compared to the mild manner guys we have had. The one thing I remember most about this video clip was Dorito yelling this sentence " It's not about you "! I thought nothing of it and wrote it off as coach speak. As it would turn out, that one sentence contained a basic summation of what his defense was all about. At that point however I knew nothing about their scheme other than it supposedly featured both even and odd fronts and more zone.
Then came the Maryland game. The very first time I saw us on defense, I hated what I saw. I had never seen anytging like it at Miami. The players seemed very slow and tentative and it was like we were letting them have 10 yards in exchange for keeping everything in front of us. The whole thing was so counterintuitive and terrible. It looked like our defense was running in quicksand. Maryland kept running that WR screen over and over with no CB even in the picture and they were gashing us for 8-12 yards everytime. No adjustments ever came. Then came the moment I knew deep down that Folden was a clown. The sideline reporter asked him about the WR screen killing us and Golden said that Maryland knew we had some depth issues on D so they were running that play in order to wear us down by making us run. Wow! He cant be serious I thought.
I didnt want to believw that we had hired another bum so I disregarded my good judgement and gave him the benifit of the doubt in regards to talent level, culture and so on. I kept thinking that we just didnt have the players to run his system and was in denial but doubt was growing and deep down I knew the truth The RAB however was that watershed moment. When I witnessed that and heard Deon Bush post game saying how we have to get it fixed blah blah blah. At that very moment, All of Golden's BS illusions came crashing down and I felt like such a sucker for getting duped for so long. This was at the end of the 3rd hear and we are still trying to get the same stuff fixed? It didn't make any sense and I knew that it was never going to get fixed. The defense and the overall coaching and leadership were the things that were broken and it all starts at the top. Then came the disappearing act and the lost recruiting class. Golden has been the enemy ever since.
Sorry for the long rant but I needed to vent!
When he was hired I admit I got sucked in by his silver tongue and charisma. Then in the off season that followed I observed a couple of huge red flags. The first was the retaining of Andrew Swassey. The second was the hiring of Art Kehoe. Nothing personal against Art but the move struck me as odd. Surely this seemingly competent coaxch would have a list of great OL coaches on speed dial.I shrugged it off anyway and looked forward to the season. I remember there were these Temple Football promotional videos with AG and Doriti doing their thing. I distinctly remember the video of Dorito getting all intense at practice was a huge hit amongst our fans. They all gushed about his passion and intensity. So I watched the video and I liked his aggressiveness compared to the mild manner guys we have had. The one thing I remember most about this video clip was Dorito yelling this sentence " It's not about you "! I thought nothing of it and wrote it off as coach speak. As it would turn out, that one sentence contained a basic summation of what his defense was all about. At that point however I knew nothing about their scheme other than it supposedly featured both even and odd fronts and more zone.
Then came the Maryland game. The very first time I saw us on defense, I hated what I saw. I had never seen anytging like it at Miami. The players seemed very slow and tentative and it was like we were letting them have 10 yards in exchange for keeping everything in front of us. The whole thing was so counterintuitive and terrible. It looked like our defense was running in quicksand. Maryland kept running that WR screen over and over with no CB even in the picture and they were gashing us for 8-12 yards everytime. No adjustments ever came. Then came the moment I knew deep down that Folden was a clown. The sideline reporter asked him about the WR screen killing us and Golden said that Maryland knew we had some depth issues on D so they were running that play in order to wear us down by making us run. Wow! He cant be serious I thought.
I didnt want to believw that we had hired another bum so I disregarded my good judgement and gave him the benifit of the doubt in regards to talent level, culture and so on. I kept thinking that we just didnt have the players to run his system and was in denial but doubt was growing and deep down I knew the truth The RAB however was that watershed moment. When I witnessed that and heard Deon Bush post game saying how we have to get it fixed blah blah blah. At that very moment, All of Golden's BS illusions came crashing down and I felt like such a sucker for getting duped for so long. This was at the end of the 3rd hear and we are still trying to get the same stuff fixed? It didn't make any sense and I knew that it was never going to get fixed. The defense and the overall coaching and leadership were the things that were broken and it all starts at the top. Then came the disappearing act and the lost recruiting class. Golden has been the enemy ever since.
Sorry for the long rant but I needed to vent!
