Bill Young Leaving Follow Up

Randy hates the cold. And all you Polly Prissy Pants Cane fans. Pull on an officially licensed wool coat and grow a pair!

Well at least this loss was quick and to the jugular. News becomes public yesterday afternoon, 24 hours later, he’s gone. I like the brevity.

Now, what is next for Miami? Will the hell fires reign down on Randy’s defensive recruiting class until Urban steals every last one of them and Miami goes 0-12 next year? Uh, maybe? I keed, I keed. Bill Young was not known as a recruiter by any means. He was a 61 year old X’s and O’s guy. I didn’t want him to leave, but I don’t believe there really will be any drop off.

This year’s defense was either tremendously young or tremendously shittay, depending on the position. Either way, it couldn’t tackle, let alone find, who the hell had the ball against Ga Tech. There is no depth, especially on the D-Line. Each recruiting class will address this problem until it becomes a strength.

Randy subscribes to the theory of “He who has the best players, wins.” His vaunted defenses of his coordinator days would run a basic 4-3 scheme, rotate in two waves of D-linemen, get relentless pressure with just the 4 man rush, and let the back seven create plays with their athelticism. Once Dorsey and Co. put some touches on the board, said D-Line would pin it’s ears back and really start the ruckus. Start the mother fuckin’ ruckus! Bam. More turnovers, short field, touchdown, rinse, repeat. Game over.

The new DC, even if Randy decides to wisely take over the reins if he doesn’t find a suitable candidate, will be able to put this side of the ball on auto-pilot. Teach them up in practice, make sure they are making the correct reads, and let them play. It’s the offensive side that needs to give the D a lead to work with. Just like a pitcher in baseball.

The “turmoil” of the past few weeks is completely media and crazy fan base driven. Randy Shannon and Miami are in the early stages of a fantastic partnership, not unlike that of Bill Belicheck and the Patriots. Yeah, yeah I know Randy has not done shit yet. But do the Pats fans worry when they lose coordinator after coordinator to other teams? Of course not. They learned post Weis and Crennel that the only guy who matters is the top dog, Billy B. Give him solid quarterback play, and he will get you to the playoffs 4 out of 5 years. Give him great play and he will take you undefeated and on the cusp of the best season in history. It’s a difficult argument to make at this point, but I believe we are in the Browns days of Belicheck’s career with Randy right now. Miami just doesn’t have the depth or the experience of players to lead to compete right now. You want to get rid of the best chance in the history of the program to have a stable coaching situation for the next 15 years? Randy is creating something special, we just have to be patient and see it out.

Lieutenant Anton out.

Miami DC Bill Young gone to OSU

Don't we all wish we had a T Boone

Okstate.com has confirmed Miami’s DC Bill Young will be leaving the Canes to take the same position with Oklahoma State. This is definitely an unexpected turn for Randy in his OC search, let alone leading up to National Signing Day in a couple weeks. More to follow soon.

Jamaal Brown is gonna Strip your Car Mofo!!

This is old news, and I only caught it after reading the ultimate Canes writer Bruce Feldman link to it, but it’s too great a story to pass up. 

Jamaal Green, who led the 2001 National Title team in sacks, has re-emerged as a Border Patrol agent in El Paso, TX. Talk about a career change. I think this story is fantastic. He got his degree in Criminology, and spoke openly about his health being more important than a long term NFL career. 

“They (co-workers) said, “That’s crazy that you would do that, leave your dream to come to the Border Patrol,’ ” Green said. “I tell them that was never my dream….In my position (as defensive end), it’s so brutal that by the age of 45 you might not be able to walk straight. My health is more important than the extra money.”

This is also a great excuse to pimp a great underrated movie, one forgotten too soon, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. Barry Pepper is one of my favorites actors, fantastic in The 25th Hour, and also pretty good in this. Gotta love the Southwest Texas landscapes. 

Now, if Jamaal somehow manages to catch my namesake, trying to cross over into Juarez, he deserves a fucking Congressional Medal of Honor.

Steve Logan as Potential OC

Dammit! Get your Jesuit ass back here! What happened to getting all the second best Catholics in the country???

These guys with Boston College ties just won’t die! In comes another well-talked about OC name in Steve Logan, most recently the offensive coordinator under Jeff Jagodzinski. I guess once Coach Jags deciding to get himself fired Logan wanted out as well. Can’t really blame him. BC is at best a perennial 9 win team, with the once every 15 years squad who gets a Matt Ryan type player during the perfect season of an entire down year for all teams, and they still end up with a bunch of losses. You’ll never win an national title there, and now that they got all “That’s my Gameboy!” and had to follow Va Tech and Miami to the ACC, they won’t be winning any league titles either. When you can’t beat a one trick pony Virginia Tech team two years running, it’s just not going to happen.

Logan best resume guaging ability was his time with East Carolina, Head Coach from 1992-2002. He is their all-time winningiest coach (69-58), and pretty much put the program on the map with 5 bowl appearances. I recall vividly a 1999 Thursday night win against Miami that seemed huge when I was in high school.

I think a lot of Hurricane fans are putting too much thought into the fact Logan was the Head Coach of the East Carolina team that demolished Miami 31-6, back in 1996. Get over it people. This guy grabbed lightning in a bottle with Matt Ryan, and they both had a great year together. Give him credit, because Ryan was not that great his junior year, definitely not top 3 NFL draft pick material. BC, Jagodzinski, and Logan all benefited from a huge downturn in the entire ACC conference.

Steve Logan is definitely one of the better coaches available. Could Logan do wonders with Miami’s talent level? Absolutely. I just feel he would sign his offer letter with Miami, and while he’s walking to his new office, would be thinking when he will start contacting new places for his own HC job. This guy is too NFL. Miami needs someone more ready to stick around for at least 4 years, someone less name-proven. And frankly, BC sucks. Anytime I watch them, even with Ryan last year, I never got the sense their offense was tearing it up. Ryan would have some deep balls thrice a game, and that was that. Next!

ACC Recruiting Update Part 2

Be sure to catch the second part of my ACC recruiting over at Canespace. Today I breakdown the aptly named Coastal division, home of the Canes.

Part 2 here.