The Worst,now that's a stretch.Let's start with two far worse,the two that bailed on the U and went to Texas Tech and
Nebraska.Then throw in a number fired for sexual proclivities;i.e. example Minn.AD.
Now for what James has done.!)Hired Richt,brilliant.2.)Hired Larranga.Even more brilliant.3)Nearly
completing finance indoor athletic facility.Great.4)Fired Golden in middle of season.
Biggest problem with James,his resume looks almost too good.
A few things to get the record straight:
1. Blake James was hired on February 8, 2013. Jim Larrañaga was named the 12th head coach of the University of Miami basketball program on April 22, 2011.
So the biggest and only successful hire we had recently had nothing to do with Blake James.
2. He didn't fire Al Golden. That was Frenk. Blake James was still supporting him that week. Stop with this narrative that Blake fired him. In addition, even if Blake fired him, it was way too late. There was no reason Al Golden should have been the coach in 2014, let alone 2015 when he was still employed in the position. It was way too ***ing late and way overdue.
3. It took him 5 years to graduate from Minnesota State University- Mankato. Prior to Miami, he was the senior AD at Maine. Yes, Maine. Big bad Maine. His bio featured him being a ticket salesman (
Blake James Biography - University of Miami Hurricanes Official Athletic Site). The only reason he was hired as Miami's AD was because Donna decided that a puppet was needed and he was the senior position when Shawn Eichorst resigned in October, 2012.
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Miami has hired atrocious ADs recently, Eichorst and Hocutt are ***cing atrocious ADs. Blake being better than them is not an accomplishment.
As for Richt being a brilliant hire, I don't know how anyone can say that at this juncture. He was fired and Blake, without any plan, scooped up an unemployed coach. We just went 8-4, we just matched the regular season win total from the year before. We just watched VT and a new HC win the Coastal in year 1. Hopefully this becomes a brilliant hire but at this juncture it was purely luck that Richt is at Miami. But for UGA firing Richt, Miami has a different HC.