Randy Travesty: Why Miami's Coach Shannon Must Go Now

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This season was one that looked promising and had all the making of vintage Hurricanes lore until Saturday, at 3:30 PM, happened. Clearly, we saw the opposite of a team striving to be in its first national championship game in many seasons.

And why us Canes fans are wondering, "Why did we look like a eighth grade flag football team that decided to play in Blacksburg wearing damn good UM costumes?"

Because our coach, our field manager and supervisor, the mover of the chess pieces let those pieces buy into the hype and make our team the guest star of LOST. Randy Shannon, master of the UM D for years has seem to lost his touch on even that, when asked at halftime he said they are playing good and we have to make adjustments.

Nice generic answer coach. Great adjustment to by putting some guy that was half decent at UM basketball and hasn't played football since his freshman year of high school in the hardest pressure packed situation possible, when you had plenty of other viable options.

Your clock mismanagement and running recruits out of town has me wondering if we aren't doing the right things for Miami's ascension to its glory days.

Were this circa 1990s, we would have already cut No. 80 Jimmy Graham and sent his ass back to his basketball that he obviously has no future in, and we would have had seven walk ons who could do the job begging coach for a shot.

But in this day, where you can't discipline your child without it being a child services matter, where mediocrity is king and excellence is supposedly only for few, we let an extremely inexperienced, untalented player do what he does best in a pressure packed situation, choke on two to arguably three balls that would've had us in the position to gain momentum in the game and up the rankings chart.

People have excuses like rain and the away atmosphere and other wastes of English words to try to cope with the fact that our coach didn't have us ready to play one of the biggest games of the season, and that's his only job, to put us in position to win every game, not just some of them.

To make the national and bring it back to the greatest city in the world, not to make the MPC computers bowl and come home with laptops. You want laptops, go to Office Depot!!!!

There was a time when any team saw the University of Miami on their schedule and a sharp tingle went up there spine that they didn't like. The next words out of their mouths were, "Wow I don't want to play them."

Now we are an after thought in a supposed forgotten conference of overachieving half-decent schools. We made the Big East with their automatic bids and crap notoriety because it didn't matter what conference we were in or even what state, all we did was figure out how to dominate and win.

Saturday, I saw a seemingly under-motivated coach not go and light a fire under his team's ass after a dreadful first half performance, a coach who hasn't made us better, only sub par or worse since he got a program supposedly already on the decline, thanks to the worst coach in UM history, Larry Coker.

Now I will give Randy that he has all the makings to be a true UMer, who cares and is fully vested in this program, but a real UM coach, like a Schnelly, or a Johnson, or a Papa Butch, would have never let us play like we did this past Saturday.

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