For the last almost 10 years we have had the talent to get 10 wins every year but the school keeps hiring terrible coaches.
Coker, Shannon, Golden, and, Diaz have come thing in common: their short time at Miami was the absolute peak of their career. They will all be known for doing nothing of note after Miami. Richts time here proved how much he was overhyped at Georgia.
The culture is a mess which is half on the players and half on the coaches. Modern kids and especially the ones we recruit dont prioritize winning. Football just isn't important to them. Alot of them are lazy. Alot are entitled.
Coaches are also to blame for their God-awful evaluations and recruiting. They set the culture which right now prioritizes looking good over playing well. The chains and rings. The social media brand manager. We end up with these 3 and 4 star players and a top rated class, but no other school wanted these "top rated" kids for a reason. Look at how many busts are on the team now. This is why we have to leave florida for certain positions like O-line, linebacker, tight end, and QB. 99% of Florida kids dont have it upstairs, and the ones who do go to the best schools.
Every failed regime has also mismanaged one side of the game schematically. The recent obvious ones were golden and the donofrio defense. Richt and his son and the offense. Enos and the offense, and lowkey the Diaz defense. Until we can master both sides together we will continue to suck.
Clemson is the ultimate team to emulate right now. Swinney slowly brought them up to greatness. It starts with proper talent evaluations and creating a winning culture. They bring in winners. Alphas. But they are SMART. The age of winning on speed and size are gone. To win now you need to be smart.
They take these kids; some who are highly ranked and some who arent, and coach them up so EFFECTIVELY. But again, these kids are capable of learning in the first place. They are smart. And they WANT to learn. They get them on an effective S&C program which uses steroids (as they've been caught countless times).
Then they are put in a scheme that suits them. Their coaches adapt to the strengths of their players and they mask their players weaknesses. This is how they start 0-stars and walkons who compete against 5-stars.
They get every single drop out of squeezing the orange to make juice. They get the most there possibly is out of their players while our players underachieve at Miami and then get drafted on potential, and develop after a few years of actual learning in the NFL.
If we had actual coaches right now, we would easily go 11-1 or 12-0 and score some points against clemson in the ACCCG, but we dont.
Sad to say, but it's an absolute MYTH, or a MISNOMER, about Miami having all that talent the past ten seasons! hUh? Yes. There's a lot of instances when said HS player, which y'all to RAVE and RANT about, is overrated or his HS rating is HIGH BALLED and what not. Then later, these same Cane fan's ask themselves... what happened to so and so. He was suppose to be All-Conference and all that.
And that's why I don't get caught up in the rankings game and all that ( I like to thing that I take it with a grain of salt. ). Because it does tend to happen, be it in major CFB or major CBB. That some HS player comes into certain schools with all these accolades, but he NEVER pans out. dUh. And believe it or not. It happens at Miami on a consistent regular basis!! OUCH. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's the coaching and all that, which is at fault. So what.