Re: lots of chatter about miami never winning again

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Dec 4, 2015, 2:31 AM

I guess I am in the minority here but I see the Richt higher at Miami as one of the worst hires ever. Miami cannot fill up the stadium even with 9 win teams. The fans there want shots at the NC from the coach they hire. Richt has taken the best talent from GA and almost always has not 1 but 2 of the best running backs in the nation, some of the best recruits in the nation and play mediocre. They cam up ranked number 1 in the nation based on talent alone and then Boise State beats them easily.

Richt does not show much emotion on the sidelines and the UGA Alumni say he is a good Christian man. They good Christian man part is not going to mean anything to the loudmouth talking heads of former UM players who trash the team every time they don't win.

I think Richt is probably a real good guy and maybe a great guy to have as a neighbor or friend.

However, the coach at UM is more of a political position than 99% of the other schools in the nation and you have players coming in expected to have prostitutes and such provided to them just for considering coming to UM.

Richt coached in the SEC lEAST and has a #### poor record against top 25 teams. I just don't see that changing at UM.

I guess the only hope is that the staff at UGA limited Richt in what he could do but watching UGA lose badly to teams that shouldn't even been close to their talent level is a normal occurrence.

I also don't see those good football players in Florida wanting to go to UM because Richt is now the coach. We get into a lot of fights with UM and FSU because we have so much talent from the state of Florida. The kids these days want to go to the school that offers them the most and gives them a chance at a national championship. Unless Miami drastically improves, they are going to be fighting the consistent Top 10 teams for their recruits.

There is nothing better than a 58-0 win in Miami to make it clear to recruits that there are better schools to go to than UM.

Someone needs to explain to me why UM cant afford to pay more for a coaching staff when their tuition in Coral Cables is insane.

Unfortunately, if UGA gets a very good coach then it could make them a real 10 to 11 win team every year as opposed to the 9 win team that has a very close call against a horrible GA Tech team and it was not because of garbage TD with 1 second left on the clock to make the score look closer than it was.

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1. Miami had some pretty good classes under Shannon and Golden. And if I'm not mistaken several is recent years -even ranked in the top 10. Richt can recruit and/or has the staff that can.

2. Richt knows politics. He navigated UGA's for a long time. He doesn't need to make the ex-players happy. He needs to make the actual big boosters (or possible big boosters) happy. And I would bet that the amount $ given by former players is tiny compared to other alumni. Nobody cares what Michael Irvin or Warren Sapp thinks. Kids don't care what those old men think.

3. Richts demeanor, maturity, knowledge in running a program as CEO, and his character will appeal to the boosters. I think Richt will bring inthe $$$$

4. With $ they can improve the facilities on campus, etc. As far as a stadium goes, I have no idea if their campus layout could accomodate an on-campus venue even if the $ were raised. I think a 50,000 seat stadium would be ideal like Baylor's. But that even isn't a consideration right now.

5. Winning solves a lot. Golden and Shannon were young up and comers who couldn't hack it. I can see why Miami brought in an experiemced guy like Richt. His personal ties to Miami were just a bonus.

I can't think of a better hire they could have brought in at this point.

lots of chatter about miami never winning again