ball915
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He is a VP of Sales and not a CEO. Al dodged every tough question and tried to spin the the glaring obvious into every positive way possible. True leaders take the emotion out of it and attack challenges head on while doing what is best for business. Golden has been selling from the first minute he stepped on campus and it has gotten to the point where he is buying his own BS. He is in so deep that he is convinced that us as fans are still buying it as well as clearly the administration is. Because he is such a good salesman he will continue to be able to recruit great talent but his lack of coaching and staff decisions will prevent him from bring Miami to national championship level.
If you listen to his tone and demeanor he clearly is drained and coming to grips with that the Miami job is bigger than he expected coming from Temple. Instead of focusing on all of the positives he needs to look in the mirror and recognize that there are still too many negatives and that is what he needs to be putting his energy into. Sure, Coley and D'Onfrio aren't top tier coordinators but he states it himself that it starts and ends with him.
We can only hope that we are able to be successful with the "addition by subtraction" approach as there are some freshman coming in that are better now than our outgoing seniors. Personally, I give Al a bit of a break as his 2010 and 2011 (current juniors and seniors) classes are garbage and are playing young but they haven't developed players the way they should and haven't put players in the NFL after 3 years the way they should be.
The real problem after today is not so much the production we have had from Al but his approach to us as fans to think we are dumb enough to buy into these "improvements" statistically and that "continuity" is the formula for success. Please stop sugarcoating your interest in your alma mater which is perfectly normal and please stop trying to fool a fan base and administration with worthless stats when the product on the field speaks every volume we need to see and hear. While at it, please don't pull a stunt like last year at BTW and finish this class strong with some strong elite recruits and not projects. Thanks, Al.
If you listen to his tone and demeanor he clearly is drained and coming to grips with that the Miami job is bigger than he expected coming from Temple. Instead of focusing on all of the positives he needs to look in the mirror and recognize that there are still too many negatives and that is what he needs to be putting his energy into. Sure, Coley and D'Onfrio aren't top tier coordinators but he states it himself that it starts and ends with him.
We can only hope that we are able to be successful with the "addition by subtraction" approach as there are some freshman coming in that are better now than our outgoing seniors. Personally, I give Al a bit of a break as his 2010 and 2011 (current juniors and seniors) classes are garbage and are playing young but they haven't developed players the way they should and haven't put players in the NFL after 3 years the way they should be.
The real problem after today is not so much the production we have had from Al but his approach to us as fans to think we are dumb enough to buy into these "improvements" statistically and that "continuity" is the formula for success. Please stop sugarcoating your interest in your alma mater which is perfectly normal and please stop trying to fool a fan base and administration with worthless stats when the product on the field speaks every volume we need to see and hear. While at it, please don't pull a stunt like last year at BTW and finish this class strong with some strong elite recruits and not projects. Thanks, Al.
