eepstein0 {l Wrote}:eagle9903 {l Wrote}:DavidGordonsFoot {l Wrote}:The Miami job sucks. It shares many of the same institutional challenges as the BC job but the fanbase and powerful football alumni are delusional.
They may have just made three bad hiring decisions consecutively. Coker was an uninspiring internal hire who shared his predecessor's loss of control over the program but wasn't good at winning at the same time. Coker was supposed to get control over the program, which I guess he kind of did by being so bad on the field that the coolest five star recruits didn't want to get shot at Miami anymore. The Golden was a square peg in a round hole. Hire Petrino down there and they are in the playoffs in four years IMO, which separates them from us by a wide margin.
Kids don't want to play at Miami anymore. They are a distant third behind FSU and Florida. That stadium sucks, it's way off campus, no one goes to the games, etc.
Petrino wouldnt get them anywhere near the playoff
Anyone saying Miami is a bad coaching position is wrong:
1) Name brand to sell to recruits.
2) Elite recruiting territory.
3) ACC Coastal
4) ACC Coastal
5) ACC Coastal
Who cares about the alumni or how many people come to games. For a potential coach, if you can recruit talent and you have a winning scheme, it is the EASIEST division in the power 5. That means wins, that means ACCCG's, that means playoff discussion, that means career opportunity. You don't need to find a coach that wants to spend the rest of his life there, just someone that wants the best possible opportunity to take a team from irrelevance to relevance and enjoy all the credit for it. An opportunist. PLENTY of those out there.
I've heard the argument thrown around that Miami should really hire someone in the Big 12 mold. They have the athletes in the Miami area to run an aggressive, uptempo Baylor/TCU spread offense, which would be a novelty in the ACC and could be enough to put Miami in the Coastal race starting almost immediately, since you can ride freshman in the skill positions.
