-
Website
http://www.canesrising.com -
Original page
http://www.canesrising.com/2008/10/give-shannon-time-patience-required.html -
Subscribe
All Comments -
Community
-
-
Top Commenters
-
Popular Threads
All Comments
I'm shocked that someone who has been so critical and correct in his assesment of this team is supporting Shannon. Actually beyond shocked.
You did support Haith though and wrote that sappy "we're so close" column for All Canes when we finished 12-20 and last in the ACC, so I guess anything is possible. Looking back in the archives when we missed the NCAAs by a hair you talked about how bad we were. So I guess maybe you talk about how bad we are going to be because you somehow like it. Haith was a winner at 12-20 but loser for making the NIT. Shannon is the answer at 7-10 but we were losers in Coker's next to last year at 9-2.
Like everyone else you have a clear agenda. Too bad you are right so often given this realization.
Butch Davis wasn't a good coach either. So he loaded us up in recruiting, but he took a team that had played for the national title the previous year and got blown out at UCLA and FSU right away. So comparing Shannon with him is cherry picking. He sucked too!
This needed to be said.
Kudos to you.
Let me take it even a step further.
LSU, Texas, USC, Penn St, Alabama, Nebraska, Oklahoma and now Michigan. All these teams have had to rebuild and take their lumps. Some schools did it right like Penn State sticking with coaches, others like Nebraska panicked, fired Solich hired the wrong guy and are now 5-6 years deep into misery. Either we stay the course or risk falling off the face of the earth entirely. OU fired Gary Gibbs despite cleaning up the program and winning 6-7 games every year and then the program literally collapsed until Stoops came in.
Too much talent and too much mystique still exist here for Miami to ever be irrelevant. We will be back. It takes time.
Oh yeah that team would be the Canes.
Kartik, as for you this is a new low. Simply pathetic.
Hiring a head coach who had no experience and no business ever coaching is one thing. To continue to defend him is almost criminal. Butch Davis? How could you compare Shannon to him? Butch had so much more coaching experience than Shannon. What a pathetic comparison.
2 Super Bowls to 1.
Catch up or SHUT UP!
Is that fair? I think so.
I am sick and tired of having the offense sputter with Harris with Marve handling them so well.
Also (this may not be Shannon -- CHRIST I HOPE IT ISN'T), first-and-goal and all the offense can manage is a field goal?!?!
Something needs to change. Like, leave Harris out for an entire game and get some sort of 3- or 4- or 5-wide situation in goal-line offense -- just to shake things up.
I cannot understand why Shannon does this. I don't like losing but I see signs of us turning it around as you state except this Harris thing.
Seriously, I think Harris playing every game does mean Shannon should lose his job. You're either going to make a decision as to who your guy is or not. If you cannot you are not a leader and should not be coaching.
Shannon has probably cost us the best shot to win the last two games with this stupid QB switch. He always does it in the 2nd quarter and it always seems to be at a critical time. We got away with it against Texas A&M, but recall there too we had to settle for a FG. The last two games we've gotten the ball in great field position after a roughing the kicker and an awesome kick return and both times he's looked like a HS QB. Even when he completes a pass it is simply because Nix called a play so safe he couldn't mess it. The one time Nix tried to do something different with him he threw an awful INT.
I hope he transfers.
Did you see how much air he put under the ball the other day? I don't care how he played against Texas A&M. Against FSU and UF he threw 0 TDs and like 3 INTS, and had like 5 other sure INTS dropped.
Tyrod Taylor is gonna rin for 300 yards and throw for 200 more. We lose by 50
Same team making the same bonehead mistakes with the same incompetent donkeys trying to coach talentless, brainless players. This team (and coaching staff) is flat out BAD!!! And hasn't shown any improvement...that's the coaches!! Nix stiill sucks although he is by far the least of the evils.
Columns like this make me want to puke. Do you know what the U is about? It's about winning! I don't want to ever see these losers again!
Don't come here in the future then. We are Canes fans here not fans of "winning" like I am discovering so many UM fans actually are.
We are going to be terrible for years and years.
Just wait and watch. Duke will beat us.
We are not even close to rock bottom yet.
Screw you. I have a new found interest in the Dolphins also. I'm not wasting my time watching the Canes anymore. That's a real team with a real coach.
But the situation with Haith was different. You fail to mention we went from missing the Big East tournament in Clark's last year to sniffing the NCAAs each of Haith's first two seasons. The fire hatih crowd on Grassy were idiots who thoughts Clark was a good recruiter and that Diaz was going to be a lottery pick. One poster there even said Clark gave Haith a loaded squad, which as you point out was not true. That was based on recruiting rankings not on the actual quality of the players. The truth is Clark's classes have been ranked much higher than Haith's has. What Haith has done is recruit players who fit his system not simply athletes.
With Shannon our team has actually regressed. I like you blame it on the last few disasterous Coker classes becoming upperclassman. But the point is that the straight Haith/Shannon comparison does not work.
Great job!
You need to read the full recruit class of a coach to see how he does.
I will be that patient, I just think they'll turn it around in less than four years -- and I'm not even drinking the Kool-Aid.
Well quite frankly I see linebackers that are out of position to make plays on defense and quaterbacks that cant get in sink with their recievers.Defensive backs that dont know their positions.
Not to mention penalties for too many men on the field.Players and coaches calling time outs when they shouldnt be.
Coaches that dont know when to go for two point conversions...
TELL ME DOES ANYONE KNOW WHATS GOING ON AROUND HERE!!!!!!!!! THIS IS ALL ON COACHING!