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Are you guys serious have yall been watching miami defense this years its been horrible. Strong rightnow looks like the better defensive coach. You can't make me believe louisville have more talent than miami.

Put Golden on the short short list. Anyone who can win at Temple is a miracle worker, and we could use a couple. (Or, he just has a lot of luck, whereas Dooley seems to have none.)

Al Golden is 38-45 for his coaching career, and 0-1 in bowl games.

I'm not seeing it as an upgrade by I'm willing to listen.

You certainly could make the same argument for Dooley's 17-20 record at Louisiana Tech, but that didn't matter to many fans.

Ryan's post was where I was going with Golden's record.It just looks a lot like Dooley's which is why I'm not seeing an upgrade and he isn't making any waves at Miami at 5-5 this year.

I'm somewhat familiar with Temple and agree that program peaked when he was there. The most recent exposure I've had of Temple was this past week here in Cincinnati. Thats said I think UT could draw a better prospect. JMO

It's almost impossible for a team's record to improve every year, especially when building up a lower-tier program. Plus, looking at what Louisiana Tech's current team is doing, it looks like Dooley might have been well on his way to winning big there.

But that's not my point, really. The point was just that a losing record isn't good enough, period, in the eyes of many fans.

A losing record is a losing record, anyway you slice it. Not saying Golden wouldn't be a good hire, but this will be the most important hire in our programs history, we at least need someone who's proved they can win at the D-1 level, and that still doesn't guarantee success, but it will provide hope....for a while at least.

This is how bad La Tech was.... they recruited me out of high school.

Trust me, that's bad.