Anyone sitting too far on one side is a **** fool
Nail, meet head.
I definitely disagree with those saying Golden should be fired but then coming back and saying he is a great CEO and great recruiter etc. We went from having the worst gameday coach ever who didn't even know how to coach practices (and make kids actually work out and run and get better), to Golden who came in and elevated kids draft stocks in one year by actually making them work and get better (McGee).
The program is finally heading in the right direction, and I hopeeee people can come to terms with that. Recruiting is very solid, talent is starting to fill the depth chart completely, practices are efficient as we all got to witness first hand the other day (which translates to players getting better), and we might have a 10 win season for the first time in 10 years.
While I totally want D'Onofrio gone, that by no means at all has any relation to Golden being gone.. I want Golden here 100%. Really hope he pulls the trigger and lets Coach NoD walk (or pushes him to a HC job at a ****ty program). Maybe I'm putting too much stock in Golden, maybe not. If Coach D is let go and we change our defensive philosophy from this read and react **** to an attacking D (a la ex-Defensive Coordinator Jim Johnson of the Philadelphia Eagles) I will cream myself and the sky is the limit for this team. We will ****ing take off and spew confidence out the wazoo as we'll be unleashing these athletic freaks onto QB's and racking up sacks and turnovers hopefully.
Couple things here, first good posts. You are right that Radio was the worst, the absolute worst. The thing for me is that things got so bad with RS that people kinda forgot what excellence(which is what we should strive for at Miami) actually. We saw any signs of improvement, and there was tons at every facet of the program and many would mistake it for excellence. Did Golden handle the NCAA mess about as well as it good have been handled? Absolutely. Is he an ace when it comes to media relations? Once again yes. But that is where we kinda hit a fork in the road.
I think Golden is a very good recruiter, but Im not ready to put him in that elite category just yet. 2012, on the surface he did about as well as anyone could have hoped for by getting pretty much every local stud, and the big time pull of Howard, and all of this under the cloud. I hate that term BTW. We never had a chance with OOS kids because of the investigation, so I never faulted him on Goldman or Diggs. What I think doesnt get brought up enough is the rest of the class. That whole year all I heard, was Golden found diamonds in the rough at Temple left and right, Wilkerson! Wilkerson was a 2 star!!!!! Well he started the Al Golden camp, which according to what I was lead to believe, would be the ace up our sleeve against the 'cloud'. Yeah maybe we couldnt get every super stud like UF or FSU, but Golden was gonna use his eval skills to bring in these unheralded studs that S Fl produces every year. Well the camps came and went along with the commits and how many of those evals actually were on the mark????? I only bring it up because, whenever someone that was just trying to raise some legit concern, they would get labeled this hater, when they were just raising a concern over something that they ended up being right about. Then we had the debacle of 2013, and now 2014 looks great but lets see how we close. Bottom line is that I still dont see Golden as elite, and that is supposed to be his strongest suit when it actually comes to the team. Yet if I say Golden isnt elite in this department, I get labeled a hater, but the reality is that these same people have been brainwashed(maybe the wrong word) into believeing that anything better than what we saw from RS is somehow elite.
Lastly comes the Dorito, and this one is pure and simple. Dorito is an extension of Golden, he is running Golden's system. We can get a new guy in place, but what evidence do we have right now, that it would make a difference? The evidence I have is that Golden has run this very same defense his whole coaching career, and that he himself has shown signs of being stubborn. Does that sound like the root of the problem is with NoD or the HC? Yet if this gets brought up you are labeled a hater......
Bottom line for me is that I sympathize with the supposed haters a lot more than the supporters, why? Well Ive been smart enough to pay attention to what happened with the previous 2 regimes. More often than not, the haters, have a better pulse on what is going on. We are at a crossroads with Al, lets see what he does and how he adjusts, cause if he does turn the corner I will be the first in line to give him props, but if he keeps shetting the bed(Duke this year), then I will call like I see it and not try to rationalize in my head why its all okay.
