The Armchair Boyz Rule

This blog is a tribute to Canes fan Herbieibis...

All of the elite athletic department folks look down at us with contempt.

Head coaches have done the same when questioned about their failures.

The media thinks we know nothing and we should leave the analysis to them.

To all of these educated yet narrow minded people we say: Choke on it!

The Armchair Boyz have been right every time and right from the beginning.

When Larry Coker lost his team leaders in Reed and Gonzalez and then proved couldn't recruit worth a damn because he was old and tired and relied on scouting system ratings of players we called him out. The next thing you know he had a punter playing at wide receiver and Coker had lost his mojo. Plus his QB recruits were awful. The Armchair Boyz saw it and called it out. And then, just like that likable Larry went on to stepping down the road in a sour mood.

When Randy Shannon was hired to save the program we cut him some slack. As a former player, defensive coach and local guy made good we thought OK, maybe we have something here. But it wasn't long before we figured out that he couldn't lead or gather a staff worth supporting. He then proceeded to alienate the local high school coaches and even the media turned on him. He then told Joe Rose on live radio: "Don't call the dogs out Joe". The Armchair Boyz saw what was happening and the dogs were readily summoned and Hurricane Randy was politely shown the way out the door.

When Al Golden arrived in what seemed a total surprise in the middle of the night riding on his 12 pillars of something or other that only he could describe (and zero accomplishments to show for it) the Armchair Boyz said: "Who is this tie wearing JoPa disciple coming here to fatten and slow our defense down to where the looked like dough boys on a cold winter day?" Nope, the Armchair Boyz were having none of that. D'Onofrio became D'No in short order and Golden apparently sank his ship with his butt buddy on a reef in Key Largo visiting Jimmy Johnson. Kehoe promised us. They have not been seen since.

Ah, and then stepped in the eventual and true Savior of the program, experienced head coach and former 'Cane QB Mark Richt. Fresh from his firing at Georgia where it was alleged that he couldn't win the big game, he came to Miami just to win enough to well, you know, enjoy life in shorts and sandals. Miami is kinda casual like that if you know what I mean?

But Marky-Mark seemed old and tired and at times disinterested. The Armchair Boyz saw that which is why he left fat and happy after just a few years and a hefty buyout clause. But then more empanadas are better than less, I guess?

And now we arrive at Manny, Manny, Manny. Oh, where do we even start? He left for Temple to replace Geoff Collins who went to Georgia Tech. Then Geoff beat Manny in his first year. Manny had a cup of coffee in Philly and said well maybe this ain't for me and high tailed it back to Miami at the URGENT wishing of UM AD Blake "Head Fake" James to apparently assume Richt's place among the scrap heap of recent coaches at Miami.

Surely Temple was hurt by Manny's sudden departure and incredible turn of events. Or well, maybe not so much. We'll never know.

When Diaz was announced we the fans pretended to be excited. Even for a brief minute (Turnover Chain) the Armchair Boyz were encouraged. This was going to be "The New Miami"! Whatever that meant it had to be good, right?

And then, well, it wasn't. It was worse than the old, really old MIami. It was worse than anything we had ever seen. And I mean ever and that's a long time. We got beat badly by ACC opponents North Carolina (first year coach), Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech (first year coach), and Duke. Add to that being beaten by inter-city rival FIU and former UM coach Butch Davis. Could it get worse?

And then it did. In the bowl game we scored ZERO points against La Tech after allegedly doing something call "practicing" for several weeks. The Armchair Boyz were clearly not happy. It simply doesn't get any worse than that.

So now we are signing off as the Armchair Boyz in recognition and consolidation behind Herbieibis who says: "I'm hurt dawg, don't ask me if I'm hurt."

Comments

[58 Straight]

Seems like every coach with a vagina besides Manny is doing their job.

Posted by: solarcane | January 08, 2020 at 03:40 PM

Oh my, that's gonna leave a mark.

[BigWindyCane1]

Herb,
If we have 7 schollies left, I would get 3 OLs (2 OTs) preferably from the portal. That UGA OT Cade Mays looks pretty good right now.

I would also look at a QB grad transfer, like Jaime Newman, the Wake Forest QB.

Any other position we fill at CB, LB, DE or WR would be nice, but not as impactful as OT and QB

[Terrance M Sullivan]

Thanks Soupster!

[solarcane]

Lo Highsmith on the state of Miami

A key trait that Highsmith is looking for when he evaluates players? He wants players that can bring an infectious work ethic to a team.

“The number one criteria I’m looking for from great players is efficacy,” Highsmith said. “That means the power to affect other people and make others great around you. I’ve always felt that my greatest strength as a football player was making people around me better. You make people around you better with your work ethic and being a good teammate. Then that becomes infectious on a team and everybody is pushing each other to get better. I want people to change things because of their work ethic. Those are the type of kids we must recruit to be a better football team.”

Highsmith recognizes that the key to success in sports boils down to acquiring and developing talent.

“I don’t think anybody is going to be successful without talent,” Highsmith said. “That is the bottom line. As long as your recruiting process is right and you are teaching the young people who are cutting up film to evaluate what good players are—you have to have been around great players to understand what great players are. If you haven’t been around great players, it is hard to tell what a great player is.”

[solarcane]

. If you haven’t been around great players, it is hard to tell what a great player is.”

I think this is why telling kids in 2020 how incredible guys like Sean Taylor played at Miami falls on deaf ears. They know Trevor Lawrence is incredible because the see him playing on Saturday, but they are not interested in what happend 15 or twenty years ago.

Miami needs a true super star that today's kids want to play on the same team with.jmo

[KYcane]

That dude has a photographic memory of everything Canes dating back to the dark ages (pre-1983).

Posted by: 58 Straight | January 08, 2020 at 06:15 PM

A walking talking sports encyclopedia

[TonyCabe]

Alpine...are you saying...dare I utter the words...”a cloud” that Coach L had to deal with?

[Herbieibis]

Cade May is pipe dream. He'll be a Vol.

[Herbieibis]

Did Zo say talent. We have some of that, don't know how to use it but we got some and more than most in the ACC.
I guess that speaks to the coaches not being able to use it or coach it.

[58 Straight]

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