On a night when Florida returns to the National Title game after a ten year absence, Florida State and Miami continue to bumble and stumble around their respective coaching searches. FSU Head Coach Bobby Bowden has ended negotiations with Jimbo Fisher after Fisher continued to stall Bowden, which is a sure sign he has been in on Nick Saban's lying all along. Expect Fisher to surface in Tuscaloosa any day now. Miami has lost out on Dirk Koetter who will instead take the Offensive Coordinator's job with the Jacksonville Jaguars.
In the past two programs of Miami and Florida State's stature used to have no trouble lining up assistants. In fact in Dennis Erickson's day, Miami it could be argued had a better top to bottom coaching staff than most NFL teams. That's why Miami's program stayed on top for so long: superior coaching, with sometimes inferior talent. (We have had this discussion on the site before but I firmly believe that through the years Miami has always tended to get less talent than FSU and often times less talent than UF also, but Miami up until the past few years has always had far superior coaching staffs to both in-state rivals. The talk that Miami is "NFL U" is nothing more than a myth, when you consider the larger number of FSU players with positive NFL impacts than Miami players since the mid 1980s.) Miami needs an Offensive Coordinator of stature, but the rest of Randy Shannon's staff seems to be falling into place nicely. Expect some major announcements this week.
Florida State's staff is in much worse shape than Miami's with Kevin Steele, the best recruiter on the staff already having defected to Bama, and the need to hire a strong Offensive Coordinator.
Monday, January 08, 2007
It goes from Bad to Worse for Miami and FSU
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"Florida State's staff is in much worse shape than Miami's with Kevin Steele."
I'll assume you meant to say without Steele, so yes, that is a blow but one that will easily be overcome if Amato comes back.
And get your facts straight...Fisher is not a candidate for the Alabama position. Second of all, FSU just signed Trickett from WVU, one of the top 3 offensive line coaches in the country, Lawrence Dawsey (All-American receiver at FSU) from South Florida as receivers coach. The OC position will be filled with someone just as skilled as Fisher, i.e. Fedora, Sarkisian, Hatcher, etc.
Miami will continue to 3rd best in the state for years to come.
I stand by what I said. Florida State's coaching not players is the ONLY reason they continued to lose to Miami after 1987 when they had far superior teams. FSU right now has top 10 talent yet lost 6 games. They are not in better shape than Miami, even though 6-6 is about where Miami's talent level is and that is where they finished. UM has at least proven through the years they know how to hire coaches on their staff whereas Bowden's staff has progressively gotten worse after Art Baker left, then Brad Scott, Marc Richt, etc, etc......
I believe FSU has left close to 10 titles on the table and has only 2 to show for itself. The only titles Miami truly should have won were in years they didn't end up winning the title (1986 + 1988). It's amazing how FSU fans will not look back and realize they could have been the greatest dynasty of all time and like to point fingers elsewhere. More impact NFL players for 20 years running now have come from FSU then any other school and more impressive college players have played at FSU than any other school, yet the Noles except for 1999 (even in 1993, because you guys found a way to lose to an inferior ND team that year) always found a way to lose to a team with inferior talent. That's the bottom line.
Actually FSU and Miami are fighting for third, and I agree with K that Miami despite a loss to FSU looks much more together in games than do the Noles and is now 3rd, with FSU 4th. USF of course is 2nd! Miami lost every game close because their D is still very good. Their O is the worst around, but FSU got blown out by Wake and any team that lost to NC State this year cannot be taken seriously. NC State did not win another game after beating FSU.
Miami is getting either Walt Harris, Kevin Rogers or Mike Shula as OC, so the drop off from Koetter isn't that severe. In fact in the case of Harris it maybe an upgrade. I'm not sure FSU has any comprable names on their list. Advantage Miami.
Well, OC isn't a problem any more as FSU and Jimbo Fisher have finally worked out a deal.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2724432
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