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Man I like your optimism but you have to know this is a pipe dream.
Why its not going to be a top job...
1. Multiple other better jobs out there right now.
2. No fan support (look at the stadium)
3. Plenty of fan backlash and unrealistic expectations (the banners). Like it or not that shiat matters to coaches and is why Spurrier left UF.
4. Admin who doesnt want to make UM a money making football machine. (look where the stadium is)
5. Budget pay grade and no investment from Admins.
6. In a location where most of the high schools have well below national avg test scores and no academic exceptions allowed.
7. Admin who will not pay top dollar for your assistants.
8. No indoor practice facility in one of the most weather unfriendly places in the country.
I could go on and on really. But the truth is that coaches will have options and they will want to go where they can be successful. At Miami the odds are stacked against your success when compared to other schools.
Miami's hope is an up and comer that no ones is interested in or someone who has allegiance to the program.
I would take Butch, but I would also take Cristobal if he was allowed to bring in Butch as a DC and AHC (which might be the only way Butch can return). He has been under Saban's wing for some time and it might be the best way for us to tap into Miami's biggest asset and that is its local high school kids. I would even think about keeping Coley as the OC if you stripped him of play calling and hired someone like Dorsey as the QB coach. If Chud would consider OC then that's a no brainier but I don't want him as the HC.
$3 million dollars is plenty to get a good HC this time around. Butch Davis would come for $2 million. Even if Herman, Fuente, Pagano, etc passed Butch will be there, so missing out on a good candidate or not getting one of the good ones is not an excuse. I'm fine if they target a hot name like those, but if they miss out and settle on Cristobal, they shoot themselves in the foot. As far as facilities, we can compete. We have all we need. And in reality if Golden showed he could win, the admin would probably give football a chance and would have already made the indoor facility a priority. But right now the priority is figure out how to win and who is going to win. Once we settle on a HC that can do that, we might get the indoor. Fans come with winning as well.
One thing solves every problem above. WIN. That starts in the next few months. Hire a coach that is going to do it.
Do we really think the next guy is going to get 3 mill with Al's buyout? I am thinking Al wouldn't have gotten that if it wasn't to save face on the NCAA issue.
Maybe they do dish out the funds, but I am just not sure enough that they will want to make a big enough splash to take money from other designated university funds to do so.
If it were my business I would put up 5 mill allow for some academic exceptions and go for Chip Kelly. Wouldn't care if it had to go on a credit card for god's sake because it would pay off in year one.
Chip is another genetic engineer like Al. He wants only HIS type of players -- jut like Al. We have Miami players. Need a coach who will do what MIAMI players do best, not what they want to do.
um... except Chip wins....
Chip wants fast players with lots of stamina which is the definition of a Miami player. What he wants is what we got loads of in SFL. It would be the perfect combo not to mention half of our games would be in 85+ degree weather and that would destroy any team from being able to keep pace with us.