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Teddy Bridgewater real reason

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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The latter. He wasn’t a good fit here. We really didn’t have the personnel to run the defense he wanted as well. And I don’t think he ever wanted to be here.
 

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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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Some people try to ignore that part. I thought he was just an overall awful HC here but I will say as far as marketing and social media, he was ahead of his time but that doesn’t win games.
 
skeeter said:
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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Off the top my head we lost guys like Geno & Shoelace after taking 3 qbs in 08. We did lose Joyner and Gio in 2010. However, I think RS did a pretty good job keeping the top south Florida talent home and finding sleepers like Hurns and Walford. That being said, the top talent (blue chip recruits) from south Florida between 07-2010 were a bit overrated. The top talent was guys who were ranked low like TY Hilton, Josh Robinson, Ricardo Allen, Johnathan Feliciano, Xavier Rhodes, etc. Even our 08 class. Outside Brandon Harris, our 3 stars outshined our 4 stars.
 
MedleyCane said:
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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We got some sleepers but we missed a lot. I don’t know if we started relying on the rankings or what but we should have invested more time into recruiting because some 2 stars became stars and potential nfl hall of famers.
 
GojiraCane said:
Objectively, he was the weakest recruiter. Some of classes were very lopsided towards certain positions.
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Not making excuses but the year before we had a punter playing WR. We only had 2 qbs. Kyle Wright & lowly Kirby Freeman. He had to rebuild the entire team and I think the ncaa implemented the 85 scholly rule then. There was no portal to plug in holes.
 
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lauderdaleballer said:
We got some sleepers but we missed a lot. I don’t know if we started relying on the rankings or what but we should have invested more time into recruiting because some 2 stars became stars and potential nfl hall of famers.
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Coker had some coaches who were lazy on the recruiting front, IMO, especially the later years. Way too many under recruited local players leaving the area whilst we were chasing players who were teasing us but had no intention of coming here. Case in point in missing local talent: how does a Khalil Mack end up at UofBuffalo?
 
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MedleyCane said:
Coker had some coaches who were lazy on the recruiting front, IMO, especially the later years. Way too many under recruited local players leaving the area whilst we were chasing players who were teasing us but had no intention of coming here. Case in point: how does a Khalil Mack end up at UofBuffalo?
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Exactly!!! Crazy. We swapped Jimmy Gaines for him. That was a miss on Shannon. Jimmy was a solid rotational player but Mack was a multiple all pro selection.
 
MedleyCane said:
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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Good info but Davin played at Hallandale. Great guy too.
 
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MedleyCane said:
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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Coker simply couldn’t recruit quarterbacks or wide receivers. That’s why you had gross anomalies with Shannon like three quarterbacks in 2008 signed (because we only had one returning player) and seven wide receivers signed in 2008. The positions that you thought were easiest for Coker to recruit became the hardest, and when you fail at one or two positions it undermines everything else.
 
grover said:
I never had an issue with him going elsewhere. I admired a lot of those coaches over at UL. But the upside down U was absolute bull****. Really hard to get over that as a Cane fan.
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Understand but you have to remember these are kids. Some mature mentally earlier than others but they are the exceptions
 
JHallCanes said:
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
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They made a very late run at Brissett.
 
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