We're glad to welcome on former Miami Hurricanes defensive back Tolbert Bain II to the boards for tonight's fan Q&A session. He's definitely excited to talk some Hurricanes history with you guys and is also very passionate in his thoughts about where the program is currently at. I'll be turning the thread over to Tolbert in a few minutes, so if anybody has any early questions or comments they want to get in first, post them now and he'll be able to start responding right around 8.

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Appreciate you all having me on, looking forward to talking some Canes football past and present. You know I got some good stories to share.

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Hi Tolbert, thanks for doing this. Thoughts on this weeks game? Any prediction?

 

Hi Tolbert, thanks for doing this. Thoughts on this weeks game? Any prediction?

what up man, gonna be a hard and physical game. we'll see if we got any stronger. big time getting the hot weather at noon thats our 12th man

 

Welcome Tolbert! Thanks for joining. Why does UM struggle recruiting South Florida?

 

Favorite player on the current squad and why?

 

Why does UM struggle recruiting South Florida?

its not a matter of struggling, some kids just want to get away. we still getting some top kids cause we got kids playing on sundays making rosters. it's more developing the talent we get

 

Favorite player on the current squad and why?

all the kids from northwestern and al blades jr

 

If you could change one thing about Miami right now, what would it be?

 

If you could change one thing about Miami right now, what would it be?

get back to winning

 

Coach Bain what’s good? Fellow MNW alum here. My question for you is: With all the Blood, Sweat and Tears that you and former Hurricanes put in to help build this program to the highest level of success imaginable, I need you to explain why it seems that former Hurricane greats like you guys don’t have a voice in how things are being handled as it pertains to the program? It’s one thing to have a bad year or so but this is 15 plus years now of us being mediocre. How do you guys accept that? Do you all really not have the voice to make a change? We need the real spill. I fear that’s the only way change may happen. I know in the past I heard Portis advocated for Blake to get the AD position but how do y’all feel about the current state of the program under him? Appreciate you Coach

 

get back to winning

You take the easy way out but thank you for answering.

 

Favorite story from your time at Miami?

 

Coach Bain what’s good? Fellow MNW alum here. My question for you is: With all the Blood, Sweat and Tears that you and former Hurricanes put in to help build this program to the highest level of success imaginable, I need you to explain why it seems that former Hurricane greats like you guys don’t have a voice in how things are being handled as it pertains to the program? It’s one thing to have a bad year or so but this is 15 plus years now of us being mediocre. How do you guys accept that? Do you all really not have the voice to make a change? We need the real spill. I fear that’s the only way change may happen. I know in the past I heard Portis advocated for Blake to get the AD position but how do y’all feel about the current state of the program under him? Appreciate you Coach

its like general motors, you can say you dont like a feature in the car. but its such a big company you dont have a big voice. we dont accept it. all great miami teams had great assistant coaches. head coach is only as good as his assistants. me and some other former canes dont think we have the right assistants right now and if you watch- we dont make any in game adjustments

 

Favorite story from your time at Miami?

its wild, theres too many. when myself and melvin we were redshirts freshmen for the 84 orange bowl- mel and i made the cover of jet magazine as cheerleaders on the sideline. we knew from the bus ride we were gonna win that game. i never seen the ob that electric ever

 

its like general motors, you can say you dont like a feature in the car. but its such a big company you dont have a big voice. we dont accept it. all great miami teams had great assistant coaches. head coach is only as good as his assistants. me and some other former canes dont think we have the right assistants right now and if you watch- we dont make any in game adjustments

Okay, so you had Wanny, Butch and Senator Tubberville (as a GA) all as staff ... who was the guy you absolutely knew would be a great one? who surprised you?

 

Okay, so you had Wanny, Butch and Senator Tubberville (as a GA) all as staff ... who was the guy you absolutely knew would be a great one? who surprised you?

no one surprised us and you had dave campbell on the staff too. everyone who jimmy hired belonged there and same with erickson and butch. all the assistants were great. that's why all the schools kept taking our coaches and we kept reloading. as a player- we knew randy shannon would be great cause he was like a coach on the field

 

Tolbert, where can we find some old school style Canes linebackers? Cuz we're desperate ☹

 

Do you think our problem over recent yrs is strictly on coaching/staff, or the entire infrastructure starting at the BOT/AD level?

 

its like general motors, you can say you dont like a feature in the car. but its such a big company you dont have a big voice. we dont accept it. all great miami teams had great assistant coaches. head coach is only as good as his assistants. me and some other former canes dont think we have the right assistants right now and if you watch- we dont make any in game adjustments

Appreciate ya answer Coach. If I’m spending money on that car then it better be reliable. To use your same analogy, right now we got sold a Lemon and instead of doing away with the lemon we keep trying to patch up the small problems and take it to the shop to get fixed. But soon as we drive off, something else breaks down. That’s basically our beloved program the past 15 years. Nothing gonna change until that car is salvaged to the junk yard (clean house).