UM athletic director Blake James: “Al is our coach and will continue to be our coach... It’s a building process; it’s not a flipping of the switch..." http://miamiherald.typepad.com/spor...arlins-trade-talks-dolphins-heat-chatter.html
I vote for another self-imposed bowl ban this year for the atrocity that is our defense. Please no more embarrassment. Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk 4
Id have had a positive view of Golden had he just done what he was supposed to and won against two inferior teams. He lost both. Screw Golden.
Next year will be the same exact crap. Screw Golden and Blake James. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Another perfect season of mediocrity, if that, even. 6-6 for the year. I guess we'll get one of the 'Pep Boys Oil Filter' Bowls or something like that. It's been so long since we won a bowl game, we either lose or elect not to go. Coker was the coach the last time we won one. I'm guessing Duke will be leaving for the NFL, congrats to him for breaking the team's rushing record. I hope Golden grows a pair and tells his best buddy that they can still be friends, but he can't coach the defense anymore.
Pisses me off because we have top 25 talent but finish 6-6? I was okay with the losses to Louisville, Nebraska and FSU given the circumstances of each game. However the other three were just inexcusable. Could have just pegged GT as a bad day, it happens. Then Virginia and Pitt? No. Just no. Good news? Kaaya finished the regular season 25/11 TD to INT. Almost 3000 yards and 58.6% passing. Would have been way better without the low % Pitt and VT games.
Interesting. Al Golden is 28-21 with a bowl game left in his fourth year. Randy Shannon was 28-22 in his first four years as Miami's head coach. The bottom line is this. Miami can become what they were in the past. You can't look at that South Florida recruiting base and think otherwise. Look at all the players who are from the South Florida area that "got away" from Miami and are successful at these other programs. Louisville is successful largely because of the talent they recruit from South Florida. Look at Dalvin Cook at Florida State. Rashad Greene. Look at Amari Cooper at Alabama. If Miami just keeps the top local talent in Miami, they are a top 5 program in the country. Once you get the talent there, you have to develop it, or you need to excel with the x's and o's aspect of the coaching. The proper support must come from the administration folks though. I don't see that at Miami right now. I see an administration that doesn't put a lot of money into the football program. You are one of the few programs today that doesn't have an indoor practice facility. You do not have an on campus stadium. Your facilities lag behind even the worst programs in the SEC at this point. History will only take you so far in recruiting. When Dan Mullen first came to Mississippi State in December of 2008, one of the first things he did was call a meeting with all of the associate and assistant ADs at that time. MSU had a relatively new AD in Greg Byrne, but many of the assistant and associate guys had been there for years. He calls them all together for a meeting, and basically calls them to the carpet. He tells them that they are part of the problem, that they have accepted losing with the football program for too long. He told them that before success could be achieved, they had to change this and start giving the football program the support it needs. Losing was no longer acceptable. From that point on, every request Dan Mullen has made, he has gotten. He has a state of the art new football only facility on campus with a weight room that would blow your mind. We are slowly getting to the point where we can pay our assistant coaches comparable money to what they are getting at the more brand programs. We bowled in the North endzone of the football stadium prior to this year. Dan was a visionary. He came to a program that other coaches either saw as a stepping stone or a grave yard, and he has built a winner that will be able to sustain success. Maybe not the possible 11-2 success we have had this year, but we are no longer a door mat in the SEC. Miami needs that. Not Dan Mullen, but someone comparable. Someone that will come in and rankle some feathers in the administrative offices.
Read Barry Jackson this AM. Even more U of M players coming out and saying that Al Golden's coaching style works better with less athletic kids and not the type of athletes U of M has. Brett Romberg was quoted by Barry saying that. Colin McCarty asked if Jim Larranaga could coach the football team as well. When I think of Miami football, I think of the three wide single set offense with the Miami 4-3 defense that has linebackers who can absolutely fly around the field.
Duck call company. Phil Robertson is the patriarch of the family, but the company is now run by Willie Robertson. These guys make the best duck calls you can buy, and they used to make duck hunting videos.
Still not the bowl game I'd like to be in. I mean...an item that appeals to between 0.1 and 3% of the population
Food for thought. I was told yesterday that when Miami interviewed Dan Mullen before they hired Al Golden, one of the requests Dan made at his interview was to have an on campus stadium. Miami went with Al Golden instead. Dan understands the impact the fans and the atmosphere of the stadium can have on the game. At MSU, we have the smallest stadium in the SEC, but we also have one of the toughest venues to play at because of the atmosphere our fans create. Facilities are a big issue, and this is why you guys have a group of former players and alumni that are getting together to raise money to build an IPF.
Some thoughts: 1. If social networking/internet was as it is now in the 1990s, there would have been a firebutchdavis .com 2. I will never acknowledge that 2002 OSU National Championship, EVER.
Kinda silly, Ohio State outplayed Miami the majority of the game. Gamble was held (naturally not shown) but I must say I agree with Coker....it's not really a call you make in that spot. Either way Ohio State still scored 2 TDs after that play and the Miami offense had its chance and missed. Great 30 for 30 though the U has been and always will be my 2nd fav college program.
20/20 Hindsight, but the penalty that was called 8 seconds later, that was should never been called. different outcome in this game.
The officials were confused anyways, made the holding gesture (the right call) then announced P.I. They struggled in that moment no doubt.
Great show, great ad for the U. I was surprised that it covered a 20 year period, considering in 20 yrs the U won only 1 championship, so that time period is a fraud. I thought the show would be about the 2001 team only.
Watching the orange bowl get torn down was the most painful thing ever. Unforgivable. Sun Life Concrete Stadium will NEVER have the tradition the Orangebowl had. Now the only "tradition" there is the embarrassing Home run display.
Orange Bowl was the best!!! Sunlife cannot compare, fans or not, Orange Bowl was loud as hell, Mystique, intimidating. So sad! Marlins stadium, Glad they are not sharing the stadium with the Dolphins, but damn they had to tear down one of the best ever.
I thought it exposed lack of coaching and institutional control, and the mess that is the U. Now we know, no one gets coached up at the U.
Great sequel to "The U." I learned a few things I didn't know. I always thought Ed Reed's, halftime "I'm hurt, dawg!" speech was during the Boston College game when it was so close, not during the FSU game.
In other UM related news: Miami, Nike nearing end of revolutionary contract "They say all good things must come to an end. But for the University of Miami athletic department, it may be on to an even better thing. According to a report in the Palm Beach Post, the Hurricanes are on the verge of ending a 27-year partnership with Nike. When the 'Canes and the apparel giant agreed to the first all-sports contract back in 1987, it was the first of its kind in college athletics. But the Coral Gables, Fla. institution decided to let the agreement, which runs through Aug. 31, 2015, expire. Swoosh rivals Adidas and Under Armour have reportedly submitted bids "several million dollars per year richer than Nike’s deal" according to the Post report. Nike will reportedly be given the opportunity to match the bids — but isn't expected to. An announcement is expected prior to Miami's Dec. 27 Independence Bowl game against South Carolina." http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/yahoo...-end-of-revolutionary-contract-060217792.html
Not that it matters, but I watched a special on the start up company Under Armour and how it came to be. Now they are big dogs in the sports industry. In that case I'm in.