(09-29-2019 11:05 PM)Wedge Wrote:  

(09-29-2019 10:57 PM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote:  

(09-26-2019 06:23 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(09-26-2019 06:08 PM)Nerdlinger Wrote:  The Miami Hurricanes hold the record for the longest run as lineal champion: 32 straight games from 2000-2002.

The Miami teams that Butch Davis constructed at the turn of the Millenium were really something, as good as the best Jimmy Johnson/Dennis Erickson teams of a decade earlier.

They were so good that a bum coach like Larry Coker was able to ride them to a national title in 2001 and within a hair of another in 2002, but truth is, Miami was probably the best team three straight years, 2000 - 2002.

Honestly, Larry Coker was pretty good. He ended up an .800 coach (60-15) with only 1 sub-9 win season in 6 years. Firing Coker sucked Miami into the never ending cycle of switching coaches every few years to get back what Coker had.

Coker deserved a better second opportunity than a start-up program.

Yeah, that firing goes in the "Be careful what you wish for" category along with Nebraska firing Frank Solich.

I disagree about both. Miami and Nebraska have very high standards, and you could see the programs running down hill with both of them. Both inherited perfect situations and rode them for a couple of years but when the pantries ran out they were out of ideas.

Just because their successors were worse doesn't mean it wasn't a good idea to fire them. IMO, it was.