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What happened to " The U"? Will it ever be a national power again?

Posted on 11/24/23 at 1:39 pm
Posted by Islandboy777
DAUPHIN ISLAND
Member since Jul 2023
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Posted on 11/24/23 at 1:39 pm
All I know that it is a small private school in the rich part of Miami and the academic level there is high. Will the football team ever be a dynasty again?
Posted by Frac the world
The Centennial State
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Posted on 11/24/23 at 1:41 pm to
Posted by Horsemeat
Truckin' somewhere in the US
Member since Dec 2014
14506 posts
Posted on 11/24/23 at 1:41 pm to
Maybe.
Maybe not.
Posted by SportsGuyNOLA
New Orleans, LA
Member since May 2014
20080 posts
Posted on 11/24/23 at 1:46 pm to
Never
Posted by usc6158
Member since Feb 2008
37821 posts
Posted on 11/24/23 at 1:47 pm to
They’ll get talent with Mario and as long as Ruiz’s fraudulent company stays somewhat afloat, but that clown is never going to win anything of importance. It was a sad day when Oregon was able to get rid of him and hire a real coach.
Posted by GentleJackJones
Member since Mar 2019
4663 posts
Posted on 11/24/23 at 1:53 pm to
Supposedly their administration has deemphasized football. I don't know. Anyone know how their NIL game is? Their alumni (Sapp, Lewis, Irvin, Reed, etc.) even seem checked out.
This post was edited on 11/24/23 at 1:54 pm
Posted by ReauxlTide222
St. Petersburg
Member since Nov 2010
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Posted on 11/24/23 at 1:55 pm to
What happened the the U?

What year is it?
Posted by Tiger BTT
Member since Nov 2023
352 posts
Posted on 11/24/23 at 1:56 pm to
They've never recovered from that 2002 title game loss.
One minute they are being called "the greatest team in history", going for back-to-back titles, on a 30+ game winning streak.
They lost that Title game and dropped off the face of the earth.

Kind of bizarre.
This post was edited on 11/24/23 at 1:57 pm
Posted by ronricks
Member since Mar 2021
9872 posts
Posted on 11/24/23 at 1:57 pm to
Doubtful. They had a good run in 80’s and early 90’s. Plenty of programs will never reach that level of success.
Posted by Diseasefreeforall
Member since Oct 2012
6742 posts
Posted on 11/24/23 at 2:12 pm to
quote:

the academic level there is high

Not really.

Posted by chalmetteowl
Chalmette
Member since Jan 2008
51827 posts
Posted on 11/24/23 at 2:16 pm to
They died when everyone else started recruiting Miami
Posted by YNWA
Member since Nov 2015
7072 posts
Posted on 11/24/23 at 2:27 pm to
No. Cocaine money dried up. Everyone's getting paid across the country now
Posted by Jizzy08
Member since Aug 2008
11971 posts
Posted on 11/24/23 at 2:29 pm to
Miami’s administration holds them back. It’s a sleeping giant.
Posted by boston vol
Lexington-Fayette, KY
Member since Sep 2015
6244 posts
Posted on 11/24/23 at 2:31 pm to
quote:

What happened to " The U"?

Larry Coker
Randy Shannon
Al Golden
Mark Richt

That’s what happened to the U.
Posted by New Money
Athens, GA
Member since Jun 2023
2208 posts
Posted on 11/24/23 at 2:41 pm to
quote:

Mark Richt


Come on, now. If they would have given Richt 15 years, he would have built a foundation for someone else to win with.
Posted by Raoul Stimulato
Hale Bopp Comet
Member since Sep 2022
1725 posts
Posted on 11/24/23 at 2:43 pm to
Maybe. Maybe not.

Maybe go F yourself.
Posted by Ponchy Tiger
Ponchatoula
Member since Aug 2004
47671 posts
Posted on 11/24/23 at 2:47 pm to
quote:

All I know that it is a small private school in the rich part of Miami and the academic level there is high.


Academic level isn't high for athletes.
Posted by Globetrotter747
Member since Sep 2017
4909 posts
Posted on 11/24/23 at 2:49 pm to
1. I think money becoming such a big part of winning (through skyrocketing salaries for coaches and a neverending arms race for the best facilities) has hurt the U.

2. Not playing at the Orange Bowl anymore has hurt the program’s mystique. Both the the Dolphins and Hurricanes have sucked outside their Orange Bowl days.

3. Nationwide recruiting hasn’t helped. More programs are poaching players from the “State of Miami,” as Howard Schnellenberger called it.
Posted by grizzlylongcut
Member since Sep 2021
12629 posts
Posted on 11/24/23 at 2:55 pm to
quote:

They've never recovered from that 2002 title game loss. One minute they are being called "the greatest team in history", going for back-to-back titles, on a 30+ game winning streak. They lost that Title game and dropped off the face of the earth. Kind of bizarre.


Getting the shite kicked out of them during and after the 2005 Peach Bowl by LSU was the final nail in the coffin for that program.
Posted by Boodis Man
Member since Sep 2020
6601 posts
Posted on 11/24/23 at 3:14 pm to
Nope.

They could’ve replaced Coker with Gary Patterson and instead hired Randy Shannon. Instead of renovating the orange bowl, an intimidating home field stadium, they tore it down.

Through negligence and incompetence, their leadership and decision makers absolutely destroyed that program. They had a Ferrari and crashed it off the lot into a telephone pole
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