Confessions from a "Slurper"

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-Yes, I have unconditionally believed in Al Golden, and his ability to rise this program from the ashes

-Yes, I have blamed talent more than coaching for our issues, based on the 2009-2011 recruiting classes

-Yes, I am starting to doubt if we can ever build a foundation/baseline from which to restart this program, we are back to the Shannon cycle of starting a season well, building momentum and good recruiting class, falling apart at the end of a season, then watch the recruiting class become a shell of itself (lets see what happens leading into 2/2), watch, rinse, repeat

-Yes, Miami got outcoached badly yesterday... they knew what we were doing on every play, and we were jailbreaking our DL all second half on called screens. Their players also have much higher "FBI" than our players

-On that note, whoever does not have Charlie Strong on the top of their coaching search is a racist, the guy is a BEAST, and toyed with Golden, Coley, Dono, from a strategic, preparation, and motivational standpoint.

-Having said all this, Coach Golden is officially on the clock for me...His timeline mirrors his predecessor, and he should be in the same boat going into next year, coastal or fired, and a loss to a USF/Duke type school an automatic consideration

-This community(305) vs The U thing is very concerning.. UM was the 305, and now we're seeing the 2 entities being separated on national TV...something tells me UM asked for this and its blowing up in their face..someone needs to patch this up quick, and we may need guys on this board and coaching circles, from the inner city to chime in and maybe start helping Coach Golden address administration, I dont know, something..

-This incoming class is important and I hope they have the ability to really shake up the attitude of this team, even though I'm back to thinking there is a force greater than the football program at play here, we'll see if baseball falls apart again in May. But I hope these kids Berrios, Thomas, Bethel, Yearby etc.. are dawgs, we need dawgs on this team. It seems we have a bunch of the well rounded good guy players that supplement dawgs well. Louisville was a kennel, they had an edge, we don't...

-Well, back to recruiting, the only thing we seem to compete at, but actually end up losing the big ones as well... Dalvin Cook and Lane coming would tell me a lot in terms of what the pulse is on UM and the ability to come back..
 
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I still like golden. His biggest flaw is that he hires his best friend who sucks at coaching. You don't need offense to play for championships. Look at LSU prior to this year. Jordan Jefferson is probably a worst QB than Morris is.

The offense got no short fields no chances to work on the opposing defense the second half of the season.
 
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-Yes, I am starting to doubt if we can ever build a foundation/baseline from which to restart this program, we are back to the Shannon cycle of starting a season well, building momentum and good recruiting class, falling apart at the end of a season, then watch the recruiting class become a shell of itself

This. This is Shannon's 2009 season all over again. I really think the recruiting class falls apart, and 2014 will mirror Shannon's 2010 disaster.

Only difference, Golden will not be fired, and 2015 will be worse.
 
I want to like Golden, but he has done nothing to give me faith. He's a great face for the program, but on the field....yeah. My only hope now is that he gets enough talent where even he can't **** it up, like Coker in 2001.
 
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-This community(305) vs The U thing is very concerning.. UM was the 305, and now we're seeing the 2 entities being separated on national TV...something tells me UM asked for this and its blowing up in their face..someone needs to patch this up quick, and we may need guys on this board and coaching circles, from the inner city to chime in and maybe start helping Coach Golden address administration, I dont know, something..

This concerns me. **** just is not right.
 
Anyone who thinks AG is danger of getting fired is crazy. Dude is signed thru 2020, or something like that. Remember the last coach that we had to fire after giving him a contract extension. What happened after that? (Rhetorical) he knows he's safe.
 
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-This community(305) vs The U thing is very concerning.. UM was the 305, and now we're seeing the 2 entities being separated on national TV...something tells me UM asked for this and its blowing up in their face..someone needs to patch this up quick, and we may need guys on this board and coaching circles, from the inner city to chime in and maybe start helping Coach Golden address administration, I dont know, something..

This is a very good point and maybe the most troubling thing about the whole program right now.

It's like kids from the 305 are actually turning against Miami and taking pride in going to other schools and playing against us and whooping our asses. It's like we are becoming a joke to players from our own backyard. And people wonder why we keep losing elite kids like Amari Cooper, ermon lane, alex collins, dalvin cook, etc....they have no respect for us as a program. We're a joke.
 
-Yes, I have unconditionally believed in Al Golden, and his ability to rise this program from the ashes

-Yes, I have blamed talent more than coaching for our issues, based on the 2009-2011 recruiting classes

-Yes, I am starting to doubt if we can ever build a foundation/baseline from which to restart this program, we are back to the Shannon cycle of starting a season well, building momentum and good recruiting class, falling apart at the end of a season, then watch the recruiting class become a shell of itself (lets see what happens leading into 2/2), watch, rinse, repeat

-Yes, Miami got outcoached badly yesterday... they knew what we were doing on every play, and we were jailbreaking our DL all second half on called screens. Their players also have much higher "FBI" than our players

-On that note, whoever does not have Charlie Strong on the top of their coaching search is a racist, the guy is a BEAST, and toyed with Golden, Coley, Dono, from a strategic, preparation, and motivational standpoint.

-Having said all this, Coach Golden is officially on the clock for me...His timeline mirrors his predecessor, and he should be in the same boat going into next year, coastal or fired, and a loss to a USF/Duke type school an automatic consideration

-This community(305) vs The U thing is very concerning.. UM was the 305, and now we're seeing the 2 entities being separated on national TV...something tells me UM asked for this and its blowing up in their face..someone needs to patch this up quick, and we may need guys on this board and coaching circles, from the inner city to chime in and maybe start helping Coach Golden address administration, I dont know, something..

-This incoming class is important and I hope they have the ability to really shake up the attitude of this team, even though I'm back to thinking there is a force greater than the football program at play here, we'll see if baseball falls apart again in May. But I hope these kids Berrios, Thomas, Bethel, Yearby etc.. are dawgs, we need dawgs on this team. It seems we have a bunch of the well rounded good guy players that supplement dawgs well. Louisville was a kennel, they had an edge, we don't...

-Well, back to recruiting, the only thing we seem to compete at, but actually end up losing the big ones as well... Dalvin Cook and Lane coming would tell me a lot in terms of what the pulse is on UM and the ability to come back..

I'VE SAID THIS AT LEAST 100 TIMES BEFORE....SO HERE'S 101....THE PROGRAMS IMAGE MEANS MORE TO THE UM ADMIN THAN SUCCESS ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD EVER WILL.....THE SAME (NOT SO PUBLICIZED) INTERNAL BATTLES TODAY ARE THE SAME BATTLES FROM BACK IN THE GLORIOUS DAYS OF JJ -VS- FOOTE....BACK THEN, THE ONLY SUCCESS IN TERMS OF FOOTBALL WERE COMPETING EACH YEAR FOR NATIONAL TITLES...THE CANES WERE THE BULLY / BAD BOY WRECKING BALL OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL....DESTROYING ANYTHING IN IT'S PATH AT ANY GIVEN TIME.....WHILE THE UM ADMIN LOATHED IT...

AFTER JJ LEFT, THE UM ADMIN MADE IT 110% CRYSTAL CLEAR THEIR IMAGE WOULD CONTINUE TO BE WHAT FOOTE DEMANDED...WHERE IVY LEAGUE & SOCIALLY GROOMED STUDENTS & ATHLETES ROAMED THE CAMPUS & COMMUNITIES THROUGHOUT SOUTH FL....HELLO 2013

QUESTIONS: WHY WAS THERE WAS SO MUCH "BACKLASH" FROM THE UM ADMIN AFTER DESTROYING TEXAS ON THE 1991 COTTON BOWL?.....THE FIU BRAWL? ANSWER: "BAD BOYS" WERE NOT AND ARE NOT TOLERATED....THAT SAME "HOLIER THAN THOU" IMAGE / ATTITUDE HAS BEEN JAMMED DOWN THE THROATS OF LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL COACHES AND PLAYERS....DRIVING THEM AWAY BUT IN THE SAME TIME, SENDING THE MESSAGE THAT IF WE DO CHOOSE TO RECRUIT YOU, YOU BETTER BE WALKIN' OL' LADIES ACROSS THE STREET AND IN CHURCH EVERY SUNDAY.....ASK YOURSELVES THIS.....IF UM IS SUCH A DEFINED PIPLINE TO THE NFL, WHY WOULD GOLDIE HAVE TO BEG FOR FORMER PLAYERS TO "COME BACK" ...OR ASK LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL COACHES FOR PERMISSION TO ATTEND THEIR PRACTICES?

FAST FORWARD TO PRESENT.....GETTING TRUCKED BY LOUISVILLE MEANS NOTHING TO THE UM ADMIN AS LONG AS OUR "CHOIR BOY IMAGE" STAYED IN PLACE.....

IN SHORT....THE PLAYERS RECRUITED IN SOUTH FL ARE RECRUITED TO COMPETE IN THE CLASSROOM 1st AND FIT FOOTE-BALL IN ANYWHERE AFTER THAT.....

THINK ABOUT THE HEAD COACHES WHO HAVE COME AND GONE..... JJ WAS THE ONLY COACH WHO HAD ENOUGH SACK TO TELL FOOTE TO STUFF HIS FOOTBALL SUCCESS STR8 UP HIS ***......EVERY COACH AFTER JJ HAS BEEN NOTHING MORE THAN A DISCOUNTED DOLLAR STORE PUPPET THAT THE UM ADMIN CAN CONTROL WHEN NEEDED....

THE FANS ANUAL PRAYERS FOR 7-10 WIN SEASONS ARE ABSOLUTELY FINE WITH THE UM ADMIN JUST SO LONG AS EACH PLAYER GRADUATES.....SO WITH THAT SAID....WELCOME TO DISNEY WORLD SO:neonu:TH.....END OF STORY
 
Anyone who thinks AG is danger of getting fired is crazy. Dude is signed thru 2020, or something like that. Remember the last coach that we had to fire after giving him a contract extension. What happened after that? (Rhetorical) he knows he's safe.

If Al Golden loses 4 games next year and continues to give up 500 yards/game then he will be gone. There will be nobody left in the stands. The FAA will have to intervene given all the planes and banners that will be flying all over the place
 
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If Al isn't sitting in his office right now knowing he has a serious problem on his hands he needs to go. No more sugar coating ****. Yes we won 9games. Yes we went to a bowl game and yes we beat UF. BUT..

In the games where the talent was equal or better then ours we got slaughtered! I mean the games were not even competitive! (FSU, Duke, vtech, Louisville)

And the defense is absolutely horrible. It's to the point now where I'm afraid to hand this staff any top level defensive talent in fear they will F it up. Look at Chick! He has gotten WORSE as the years go on!

Al is on the clock fan base and alumni wise. Which should scare the **** out of him. I don't give a F what Donna and the admins tell him. Once the fanbase and the former players turn on u it's curtains. He's gotta have this thing fixed by next year.
 
golden had a much worse launching point than shannon.. that buys him time.

How? Did you see the roster when Shannon took over? The only thing Golden had that Shannon did not is the NCAA thing. For that, he does get a pass. Noone was expecting us to be elite this fast, but we have enough talent to not be embarrassed by bad teams.
 
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Lane and Cook aren't coming. Let's get over it.

Does that suck? Yes.

Does it mean we dont have a great recruiting class? No.
 
My opinion of Al has changed. I thank him for navigating this program through the Nevin Shapiro mess. But I want him gone. He's not right for this program.
 
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