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Why Did Football In Miami Die?

Why Did Football Die in Miami?

  • The desecration of the OB and move to Joe Robbie (potential Indian Burial ground) hex

    Votes: 30 20.3%

  • A city that once had a lot of grit is now soft as charmin and the teams took on the personality

    Votes: 35 23.6%

  • a complete coincidental mismanagement of 2 once proud and dominant organizations

    Votes: 89 60.1%

  • they dont get their own homegrown players

    Votes: 21 14.2%
  • Total voters
    148
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None of those... Miami had a goldmine, and they let others come in and play with their gold at take it away. The owners of that Goldmine did not care because the Gold they previously had gotten made them rich and kept giving them benefits.

Long story short as long as the program is not losing money the top people don't care. They never cared lol Jimmy Johnson was not who he was before Miami, neither was Erickson. They always went cheap and will continue to do so. Kids see these other schools winning and living like kings while doing it the only thing we have to sell them on is the past, being close to home, and living in a popular city. NOTHING ELSE.
 
Mark Richt's resume was as good as the best of the other great coaches
such as Jimmy,Dennis &Howard.How does Randy Shannon,Larry Coker,
Manny Diaz compare to them?Great coaches give you great teams at the
U,The other three you got what you paid for.
Same with AD's.James compared to Sm Jankovich.... What the question?
 
The evolving landscape of college football with massive $$$ injections and facility investment + poor coaching hires that couldn’t come make up for talent inferiority.
 
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954canelife said:
None of those... Miami had a goldmine, and they let others come in and play with their gold at take it away. The owners of that Goldmine did not care because the Gold they previously had gotten made them rich and kept giving them benefits.

Long story short as long as the program is not losing money the top people don't care. They never cared lol Jimmy Johnson was not who he was before Miami, neither was Erickson. They always went cheap and will continue to do so. Kids see these other schools winning and living like kings while doing it the only thing we have to sell them on is the past, being close to home, and living in a popular city. NOTHING ELSE.
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what about the Dolphins? went through an almost
canesthing3 said:
This offseason is going to be incredibly long.
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enjoy it because the regular season is booty assss trash
 
It started with hiring Coker and hasn't come back, since. Back then I always wonder if they had hired even like a Schiano (left early for Rutgers) if the program at least would have been in much better shape for the following 4-5 years.

Imagine if they have the foresight back then to hire Urban from Bowling Green or Utah instead of UF, or even a Gary Patterson? Even a Butch rehire in 2011 would have had us in much better shape by today.

Just a bad bad administration that predates everything on the poll (and still outlasts it today).
 
954canelife said:
None of those... Miami had a goldmine, and they let others come in and play with their gold at take it away. The owners of that Goldmine did not care because the Gold they previously had gotten made them rich and kept giving them benefits.

Long story short as long as the program is not losing money the top people don't care. They never cared lol Jimmy Johnson was not who he was before Miami, neither was Erickson. They always went cheap and will continue to do so. Kids see these other schools winning and living like kings while doing it the only thing we have to sell them on is the past, being close to home, and living in a popular city. NOTHING ELSE.
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Preach!!!
We got lucky with Howard and the staff reaching out to the kids no one would recruit. By the time they started recruiting them we were on top of the mountain.
The bot has been riding that wave and the loyalty and love for the U has been kept alive by a few players that stay and the luck of having players make the league due to the proximity of talent.
The U is some urban legend that lived a life a long time ago. Something you watch documentaries on.
When we won our first natty Bama fans talked about Joe Namath and we laughed. The Talented players are being bought and the BOT wondering why kids want to go elsewhere while ignoring the arms race in college football to see who has the Ritz Carlton of facilities and staff sizes that dwarf ours. It’s not one thing that killed it.
But the last nail is getting ready to be placed on the coffin. That last nail is Father Time. The local and national fan base is shrinking and the new talent in sofla is being raised by parents who never witnessed us winning and aren’t even cane fans.
10 years ago the sofla parents were diehards that witnessed the glory years and had kids that grew up canes fans. New parents can only remember fiu brawls and national signing day embarrassments and a revolving door of disappointments on the field. Not to mention the obvious disparity and disconnect between a school and its football program.
We better get his next season right.
 
Multiple reasons in no particular order:

1. Administration decided it wanted to "clean up" the football program and its rogue national image.
2. Poor hiring choices across the athletic department and coaching staffs.
3. The loss of the Orange Bowl and the home field/recruiting advantage it gave Miami.
4. The disparity between the quality of high school football in South Florida and the rest of the country closed.
5. Losing Florida off our permanent schedule hurt us in a profound, immeasurable way.
6. Joining the ACC and playing a stale, largely uninteresting schedule every year.
7. Falling behind in the facilities arms race.
8. The college football landscape changed. Bigger schools with larger financial resources now have a more pronounced advantage than smaller schools with smaller financial resources. Hiring a top-flight coaching staff is out-of-reach for most of college football.
9. No on-campus stadium.

I could go on, but you get the idea...
 
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WhatTheHell said:
It's simple: The people in charge don't prioritize winning. They have made several lazy and poor hires, and have not sufficiently provided the funding necessary to win, though that seems to be hopefully changing recently.
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in other words, Shalala.
 
BeachCanes said:
The evolving landscape of college football with massive $$$ injections and facility investment + poor coaching hires that couldn’t come make up for talent inferiority.
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the other issue is when everyone was investing $$$$, Donna was treating program as a cash cow, reaping money but not reinvesting in program...double whammy
 
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