Some will blame Randy, others will blame Golden, but what did us in was hiring both of them consecutively.
UM recruiting was already reeling under Shannon, who couldn't be bothered to show his face at Miami Central in the middle of a state title run, when literally every other coach/staff in America was there. Then, think of all the LB who went on to have good to excellent college careers while that ******* started Romeo Davis and Glenn Cook.
Golden was thought to be the right guy to fix all that because he had some success as a HC, and was the opposite of Randy in every way, but he was not the guy to patch things up locally and win back the culture at UM. He gutted it alright, but he didn't build it back in a manner that made any sense. He was consistently trying to find guys elsewhere to fit a philosophy or scheme which doesn't work locally.
Bridgewater would have probably helped hang onto some guys locally, but he wasn't saving either of these guys. It wasn't like Golden had pure *** at QB either. His bigger problem is that when he had a guy who could spin it, he had a defense that couldn't stop anyone. Sound familiar??