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.
How does it feel to know that Miami is now merely a stepping stone job so that a coach can get to a 4th place team in the Big 12? It seems so long ago that any decent coach that Oklahoma St. had was quickly sucked into the Miami football machine. I guess this is the new reality of the status of the program.
Miami has always been a stepping stone, albeit to the NFL. Young leaving was merely the perfect storm. Assistant coaches salaries are rising dramtically, especially at public schools. Miami is never going to compete with their deep-pocketed donors. Add in all of Young’s Okie pressure from his native wife, and this was a no brainer. And if you want to get technical about it, OSU did finish #16 in the nation this past year; Miami only a game above .500. The difference is, OSU will never get above 4th place in their conference, while Miami has no ceiling in the craptastic ACC.
OK, first off, Kyle is a dong. Nothing is fuc’d here, dude.
Much as Tim Tebow is a once-in-a-generation College Football player, T. Boone Pickens is a once-in-a-lifetime College Football booster. And I don’t mean that each program gets one of these guys every generation. I mean that ALL OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL gets one of these guys each generation. T. Boone will die soon, his money will be pissed away soon thereafter by some incompetent Okies, Gundy will move on to a real program, and their fans will be back to pining for the days of Barry Sanders.