He's just the latest. Every coach since Butch has been a useless ****.
And people wanted him out after year 3 too. Heavily impacted his decision to leave Miami for the NFL.
That's bull****. He chased the money. He chops it up there as one of his worst decisions. His words.
I don't know which was more important, I've got to think the money was, but boy, he took endless abuse from fans, including probably some oldtimers here who used to post on Grassy. God, it was awful. I felt sorry for the guy. Calling him "Bush," "Botch,"....I remember he broke down and started to cry at a press conference the hate was so bad. People don't remember that. I'd look for an excuse to leave, too.
If you blame Butch for lying, you've got to remember, by being a college football fan, you've pretty much sold your soul to the devil. The proof of it is spending more than a few casual minutes passing through on a message board. College football is a dishonest, corrupt, unethical out of control monster driven by millions and millions of dollars. It is exploitative and both enhances and ruins the lives of many young men, particularly from poor backgrounds. It is what it is. It's not the kingdom of saints. At least I admit my addiction to this sometimes very unsavory business. I admit, I also have loved it over the past fifty years, particularly UM's golden years over the last thirty years, but my devotion is becoming weaker and weaker, with what I see of ruined lives (read up on Brayden Lenius' grandfather, and what pro football did to him because he was black and wanted to be a QB) and the damaged brains. (Google an article in the last year or so on former UM LB, Jay Brophy, and how just a few years at UM and with the Dolphins gave him a 70 year old's brain in the body of a man who is only about 50). A friend's son spent ten years in the NFL and now has migraines...wonder what his future holds.
So, Butch was probably only performing the profession he selected as he learned in order to be successful.
It's probably pretty bad in the pros. When I was in law school back in the late 70's, a friend of mine who worked as a law clerk at the NFL Players Association said he had been at an arbitration concerning the Dolphins having cut a player while he was recovering from injury and my friend said Shula lied through his teeth. He felt he should tell me since he knew I was a Dolphin fan (we were in school in DC, so there were very few.)
