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Which fired coach do we hate the most?

Which fired coach do we hate the most?

  • Larry Coker

    Votes: 21 5.6%

  • Randy Shannon

    Votes: 32 8.5%

  • Al Golden

    Votes: 200 53.1%

  • Manny Diaz

    Votes: 124 32.9%
  • Total voters
    377
TXCANE4 said:
Hate is a strong word so I don’t “hate” anyone per say but I disliked Golden the most. Dude gave off major used car salesman vibes.
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To be fair, think he believed his corny three yards & a cloud of dust way. Typical Big10 mindset. Misfit. The other 3 were just uninspired, cheap, lazy hires. Typical
 
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ItsAUThing.com said:
Diaz by a landslide.

Coker was a substitute teacher who meant well, but was in over his head. Outside of retiring after the Peach Bowl, not much more the man could've done.

Shannon is a former player, was a good assistant and recruiter and never should've been put in charge—but the administration was cheap and has no game plan for 2007 after Greg Schiano turned the job down. Shannon didn't have the CEO portion of the job down and lacked the leadership skills or personality to be the face of the program, a leader of an entire team or boss to a coaching staff. Lifer assistant; never was head coaching material.

Golden was the biggest fraud of the bunch; an empty suit with padded stats—a modicum of "success" at Temple, his big dumb binder, his tie, his "are you kidding me" presser. He was off-brand from day one (a product of Joe Paterno and Al Groh) and he was an excuse-maker who always tried to cite any positive, when the result was a colossal beating or lopsided loss.

Diaz took the cake, though. Writing was on the wall with him from his Texas defensive coordinator days. Canned and demoted, built his resume back up at Louisiana Tech and Mississippi State—where average was good enough and he was "ready" for the next opportunity.

All smoke and mirrors with Manny; the yacht, the cigars, the edgy Twitter game early on, the stupid tackling dummies with "7-6" only to go 6-7, losing to FIU years one. No control of his players—wanting to be liked and accepted instead of feared and respected; not one leadership quality to be found anywhere within the man—a perennial assistant who never should've been a head coach .... but politics played in his favor.

The fact he was "protected" because of his family's pull in the city; nauseating—and will forever celebrate "4th-and-14" with his old man on the sideline with him in Tallahassee for that back-breaking loss. Without that, this yahoo is probably still at Miami (or at least would've been harder to run off) ... and when you read Barry Jackson's latest piece regarding how he ran the show, wanted to buddy-up to players so they wouldn't leave the program, played a kid like Jarren Williams after he insulted Diaz by missing curfew pre-FIU .... this wasn't even the inmates running the asylum, this was a teacher's assistant being put in charge of the class and having no clue how to handle the gig.

Good riddance to all, though "hate" is a silly word here. Nothing personal against any of these guys, outside the fact they all set the rebuild and comeback back a country mile.

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I still can't believe we were a good coverage on 4th down away to have this guy back has HC.
 
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Golden wasn't a fraud. @Sebastianspipe and I talk about this. the guy was suckered into a bad situation and got to the point where he said ***** it and just let his boy get paid. Im not a fan of golden but he had a better eye for talent than Diaz and actually developed kids into NFL players. His scheme on defense was a disaster with coach d but they gave up at a certain point because of the cloud. the guy recruited pretty well with a hand tied behind his back.
 
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TooColdToHold said:
Coker, Shannon, and Diaz cared about the program but just couldn't do the job. Golden didn't give a **** about Miami.
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He certainly valued his relationship with his BFF more than he did the university, his players, the boosters, the alums, the parents, the former players, etc.

And, I’ve gone on the record stating my belief that if he had simply approached the D the same way he approached the O, he would’ve been far more successful and might have grown into a solid coach. He elected blind loyalty to his BFF over all else including himself and it became his undoing. He literally threw away his career for Donuts.

If he had hired a killer DC and operated like a Bobbah Bowden, there’s no telling how high he might have taken us.
 
supersaiyanshel said:
Has any major, big time championship program had a worse string of consecutive hires as we did?
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Oklahoma after Switzer quit - Gary Gibbs, Schnelly (I know he had his issues for that one year, but he was horrible), & John Blake - 10 years of bad football.

Alabama had a 10 year run after Gene Stallings of DuBose, Franchione, Price, and Shula

Perhaps Nebraska (although Pelini had a couple of good years).

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CaneinBroward said:
Oklahoma after Switzer quit - Gary Gibbs, Schnelly (I know he had his issues for that one year, but he was horrible), & John Blake - 10 years of bad football.

Alabama had a 10 year run after Gene Stallings of DuBose, Franchione, Price, and Shula

Perhaps Nebraska (although Pelini had a couple of good years).

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Good ****.
 
Goin' off the board w/ brother-in-law. Maddening to watch the efense (no D) during that era.
Though I wouldn't say hate.

*as for thread detractors: live and let live
 
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