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DTP said:
Golden was a bad fit culturally for Miami right from the jump.

Was Teddy the reason why local kids started leaving town or was it the guy wearing a Joe Paterno Tie trying to make Miami into Penn State South?
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Ehhh outside of the 1st year MNW and BTW haul, they were leaving town under Shannon too. Local recruiting sucked the last 3 years of his tenure.
 
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DTP said:
Golden was a bad fit culturally for Miami right from the jump.

Was Teddy the reason why local kids started leaving town or was it the guy wearing a Joe Paterno Tie trying to make Miami into Penn State South?
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I was a fan of Golden before he was offered here so I was a bit biased

But it was a huge red flag he couldn’t land Brissett when you look back on that. He pulled out all the stops and Brissett still chose to go sit the bench behind Driskell at Florida rather than come here and start immediately
 
gacaneaddict said:
Dwayne Bowe then Patrick Johnson errr Peterson were first South Florida high profile guys that spurned Miami for SEC schools, and sorta opened the floodgates. Max Jean Gillis was another in that mix.
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Oh, there were many during that time. You had the stud Davin Joseph from Hollywood Hills who went to Oklahoma, another OLman whose name escapes me who went from Norland to LSU. There were others but we also ignored other talented locals who wanted to be Canes. The LB from Immokalee (Rolle) who ended being a very good player at Ohio State plus Ryan Shazier whose Dad was close with Shannon. Losing the highly-acclaimed local prep talent hurt, but to me the bigger story was how so much under recruited local talent we ignored that often turned out to be very good college players. Instead, we morphed from a school who fielded an NFL team in the early 2000s to having to move a punter to WR and Brandon Seebald to OT a few years later. Coker, Shannon and co. committed malpractice.
 
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SCarolina Ibis said:
In an alternate 2013 universe, our big 3 were Bridgewater, Duke Johnson and Amari Cooper. Nobody wears a tie in the stands or on the sidelines. And players don't leave SF for the SEC.
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A bunch of guys who ended up at Louisville probably would’ve been canes if Randy hadn’t been fired. Eli Rogers, michaellee Harris, Bryant dubose, burgess jr, gerod holliman, Keith brown …
 
ben said:
A bunch of guys who ended up at Louisville probably would’ve been canes if Randy hadn’t been fired. Eli Rogers, michaellee Harris, Bryant dubose, burgess jr, gerod holliman, Keith brown …
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They could have come here to not get developed then. It wouldn’t have made an iota of difference in Randy having success. He was a terrible coach.
 
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RozayCane said:
Agreed! I don’t think Al gets enough credit for how he destroyed UM’s relationship with S.Florida. Dude was un relatable and tried to turn us into Penn State south.
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It was also that Temple mindset that got hik in trouble. He ignored too many talented guys because he thought he could find a team full of diamonds in the rough at his camps. He hit on some but also had jags who had no business at Miami taking up scholarships.
 
This was known when Teddy decommited. It wasn't some secret at the time. Randy was the one who started burning bridges with local coaches. I still don't like even thinking of Randy's tenure at the U.
 
Cane30 said:
This was known when Teddy decommited. It wasn't some secret at the time. Randy was the one who started burning bridges with local coaches. I still don't like even thinking of Randy's tenure at the U.
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Randy had specific vendettas and/or bad relationships with certain schools (central, Miramar). But he was set up to get a commit from any northwestern prospect during that era
 
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mosthated305 said:
It was also that Temple mindset that got hik in trouble. He ignored too many talented guys because he thought he could find a team full of diamonds in the rough at his camps. He hit on some but also had jags who had no business at Miami taking up scholarships.
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Golden did not know how to recruit elite players because he never recruited them at Temple.
 
DTP said:
Golden was a bad fit culturally for Miami right from the jump.

Was Teddy the reason why local kids started leaving town or was it the guy wearing a Joe Paterno Tie trying to make Miami into Penn State South?
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Losing.... it was the losing....
 
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anytime before the 80’s south Florida talent was leaving, Miami got a coach in the late 70’s, guys started to stay home more, however they were still leaving even then, fast forward to Butch Davis, he wasn’t landing all of the elite guys from south florida, but he did get some.
 
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