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don't you, whether your favorite program is going to permanently suck? I mean, after 20 or so years, it seems like you'll be an old man before they return, if ever.
Think about the poor fucker who's still waiting for SMU to recover?
Maybe Miami will always suck. Maybe Washington will too. Or by the time they don't, I won't care anymore because I've picked up a wood carving hobby or something.
Fuck. What a shitty deal.
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I'm at 15, and have wondered if I should just lock myself in a room during husky games, work on a puzzle and save myself the time, aggravation etc.
UW's collapse has been noteworthy. Only Colorado's (in terms of an accomplished peer) has been worse.
But Jim Owens' last 11 years weren't a whole lot different than 2003 to 2013. The lows weren't quite as bad (1-9 in 1969 and 2-9 in 1973) and the highs were better (two 8-3 seasons). Overall it was only slight less shitty than the recent period.
I think winning fixes all kinds of problems, but therein lies a bit of a chicken/egg dilemma.
The stadium situation sucks. It's not a bad venue, but the location sucks and it lacks that clear connection to the city of Miami that the Orange Bowl had.
Shannon and Golden have recruited some damn good players there though. They're still getting their share.
Hot up and comers will look at Dade County alone and see what can be done there. It's just a matter of the program being lucky enough to pick the right one.
They were a mess before Butch Davis showed up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Michigan_vs._Ohio_State_football_game
Coaching matters.... Miami is just another example.
You are spot on. The level of talent they produced from 2000 to 2002 or 3 was arguably unprecedented and clearly shouldn't be anybody's standard of measure, including Miami's.
But when I see NFL highlights, I still see a bunch of Miami guys still doing it, even though the players from that 2000 era are starting to peal off in their careers.
But I've come to believe that you really need to have lady luck on your side when picking a coach. Golden kind of fit the bill, in that he turned around a perennially dismal Temple program with Northeastern US left-over recruits, and he was young and known as a good recruiter.
Didn't pan out.
I couldn't agree more. With the right coach, Miami will rule college football again. They were nearly completely dead in the 70's. The University even considered dropping the football program. Then Schnellenberger took over the team and turned them into a national power. In year two he had them ranked and winning a bowl game. In year five he won a national championship and the rest is history.
They've always had access to (and competition for) some of the best high school football players in the country. Sanctions have hurt them some, mostly in terms of depth, but they still get talent. It boils down to getting the right coach, and when they do, look out, they're likely to field another historically good football team.
Here is an absolute fact. If Chip Kelly was announced for Miami tomorrow they would be skull fucking the ACC in three years.
Miami still has a Top 10 recruiting class within 50 miles of its campus every year.
The Doog or should I say Hoog is strong with this thread.
You can cook the fact that Miami will not be returning to a CFP caliber game anytime soon and I'll mail you the fuckin recipe.
And my comment is, what the fuck would a hapless cewg know about a program returning to winning form? The cewgs have never had such a form to which they might someday return, so this is really fucking foreign territory for you my Oregon-living cewg friend. We may as well be arguing about particle physics and super colliders. GTFO of this convo. It's embarrassing.