Why The Miami Hurricanes Will Never Be Good Again

Over the past couple of years, the Miami Hurricanes' football program has rolled downhill faster than a Lena Horne clone bobsledding naked in the Candian Olympics.

Brian Pata was killed. Miami had their on-the-field skirmish with Florida International. Sean Taylor was murdered in, what once was rumored to be, a drug-related incident.  Too many off the field incidents to discuss.

Now Randy Shannon is in and Larry Coker is out.  And nothing could be worse for the Miami football team.  Shannon is as loose as a hooker with his players, and obviously when you already recruit convicts, you're going to have a problem there.

Not to mention the terrible recruiting job, signing over ten players from one high school, Miami Northwest.  That is ridiculous.  When Coker had Miami as contenders, they recruited nationally.  If they ever want to become the Miami of old, they need to recruit nationally, not from just one high school.

USF and UCF are on the rise within their own state, and that is the cause for some recruiting battles they would have never had before.

They have just restarted the annual rivalry with Florida.  So they have automatically added another loss to their record each year.

Miami is now a middle-tier team in a middle-tier conference.

The future is bleak for Miami football. Shannon is a terrible coach and moving the Hurricanes in the wrong direction.

The athletic facilities at Miami are falling behind the times when compared to the rest of the country.  Even teams not in the top 25 have a nicer weight room than Miami.  Shannon has complained that they are not a state school, and that Miami's biggest donors focus on academics when pushing their money.

Jarvarris James is even been quoted as saying, "My job is to make sure Cooper knows enough to beat me out, but I've also got to be the best that I can be to keep Cooper on the bench.' That's the mentality we need to have.

In turn, if we've got two guys that are equal we're going to wear people down. That's how it's SUPPOSED to be! It shouldn't be a deal where, 'I'm the starter, I'm not worried about anybody. This is my spot.' That ain't Miami!"

If this is the team atmosphere that is being promoted by coach Shannon, that is terrible.  It is great to have players competing for positions, but under this philosophy, there is animosity.

There is a dark road ahead for the Hurricanes.

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