I hate to say that I told you so, but as it turns out, I most definitely told U so.
Miami Hurricanes head football coach Al Golden released a statement Sunday, reaffirming his commitment to the University of Miami:
"There has been much speculation concerning my future at the University of Miami. While I am flattered that our progress at The U during an extremely difficult period of time is recognized, I am also appreciative of just what we have here at UM and I am not a candidate for another position. We are eager to welcome our student athletes back to campus next week and visit with prospective student-athletes and their families beginning January 15."
I said several times over the last few days that Al Golden was NOT leaving the University of Miami for his alma mater of Penn State University.
I said all along that the Penn State job was just a case of, and a situation that led to, a bunch of rumors, lies and speculation.
In fact I even wrote a lengthy article with that same title. And, of course once again, I was proven to be correct and 100% right.
With UM head coach Al Golden announcing today that he was staying at "The U" and was looking forward to closing out the 2014 recruiting class strong we all felt a sense a relief. The collective "WE" were the fans, players, coaches and maybe most importantly the recruits on the hook for the 2014 class.
And we like that. Yeah, we like that a lot.
After Hearing Alfred Pour Everyone Cups of Fool-Aid This Morning..
And Now Reading OGV's Post with an understanding of his postings that I have never had...
I'd Like to Thank God for Blessing Me With These Talents, My Parents But Uh....
My Talents Don't Wanna See Swiss Cheese!!
Im on the 12% Colby Jack for Everyone....
RCCF
Posted by: RCCF | January 06, 2014 at 02:30 PM
Bus*...lol
Posted by: RCCF | January 06, 2014 at 02:31 PM
CR
He in no way threw Coley under the bus.
Golden said of the offense that "We can talk about all the explosive plays, the things we did well. The two areas we failed in that negatively affected our team were time of possession, which really can be attributed to our lack of success on third down - and James (Coley) and I already met - our time of possession and third down conversions (are issues).
"We were second in the country in 30 yard plays or more. We want to continue to have an explosive element, but what I'd like to do is continue to be more balanced. We had the explosive element, improved 16 yards in our rushing yards per game, but I wanted to get that number higher, to 180 or 185 (from 160). In an ideal world I'd shoot for 200 because that would help us with time of possession. Our points per game were 34th in the country. We had more 10 plus yards run this year, and that's attributed to not only Duke (Johnson), Dallas (Crawford), Gus (Edwards) and OT (Eduardo Clements), but that's a lot of guys cutting downfield and giving extra effort. Our completion percentage wasn't as good as it needed to be. Obviously that's going to be a challenge for us this off-season, trying to get that completion percentage up to 65, 68, 69 percent so we can control the ball more. We were 15th in the nation in 20 yard passes or more; we had one less sack allowed than last year, which was really good, were 23rd in the nation. There's a lot of positives there, but without holding onto the ball or converting on third down we're not going to be able to move forward as a program, not just an offense."
How is that throwing someone under the bus?
Posted by: TLuv | January 06, 2014 at 02:32 PM
Plus the bears are all sleeping right now, except that one up in Yellowstone. You gotta wait for spring because the roads in the parks are covered in snow right now. Bryce Canyon may be open, but probably COLD.
Posted by: Dude on a Pale Horse | January 06, 2014 at 02:32 PM
Golden can't say we have explosive plays. He's wrong/lying. What we have are explosive players.
Posted by: Dude on a Pale Horse | January 06, 2014 at 02:34 PM
NEW BLOG IS UP!
Posted by: SOUP | January 06, 2014 at 02:36 PM
Golden can't say we have explosive plays. He's wrong/lying. What we have are explosive players.
Posted by: The Dude | January 06, 2014 at 02:34 PM
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Did the chicken or the egg come first?
Posted by: Ohio_Cane | January 06, 2014 at 02:37 PM
Posted by: TLuv | January 06, 2014 at 02:32 PM
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You're past 2 post:
Thinking same exact thing. Sometimes people want to hear only what they want. Golden said we had 5 explosive plays on D, someone said "Golden said we have an explosive defense!".
Posted by: 30CINCO | January 06, 2014 at 02:37 PM
NEW BLOG IS UP!
Posted by: SOUP | January 06, 2014 at 02:38 PM
I'm not sure I get the continuity stuff..
We're near the bottom of D stats, so we stay there?
We don't have any big time DL or LB's so we don't get any?
We lose big games against top teams and look terrible so we keep this trend going?
I'm not sure the past 3-4 days have offered any help going forward into next season.
Somehow AG is now one or done as coach at the U...and No'D will be there with him...
Posted by: Account Deleted | January 06, 2014 at 02:45 PM
If you don't think this program was a raging dumpster fire a month after Golden got here then something is really, really wrong.
Posted by: Go Canes | January 06, 2014 at 12:00 PM
Golden said out his own mouth to start judging him the moment he stepped foot on campus but now you want us fans to disobey HIS ORDERS??? Or was that another one of his lies?
Posted by: WWIN | January 06, 2014 at 05:14 PM
Best thing that could ever happen to powell is that he stays on the offensive side of the ball while NO'D is at UM.
Posted by: UpNorthCane | January 06, 2014 at 01:30 PM
Don't you worry about that, Golden and co will have him playing defensive back faster than you can say db!!!
Posted by: WWIN | January 06, 2014 at 06:27 PM
Brad Kaaya was at the NC game last night.
Look at this: pic.twitter.com/Jq03zOgx4C
Posted by: Montreal-Cane | January 07, 2014 at 03:31 AM