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All Not Golden With Miami Hurricanes Football

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Comments Posted on Dec 23, 2010 Last Updated Dec 23, 2010 Posted by Luke
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Everybody wants to know how I feel about the new University of Miami head football coach Al Golden. Like many Canes fans and local sports media pundits, I didn’t know much about the man Kirby Hocutt selected to replace Randy Shannon. Through my twitter feed, I found out Golden played linebacker for Joe Paterno and that he took Temple University out of the dog house.

But I also found out some other things that worry me like the fact Golden never beat a Mid-America Conference team with a winning record and that his overall record is 26-38. When you analyze Golden’s overall record, I can’t help but think what the heck is the University of Miami doing?

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Randy’s Gone, But Will Donna Shalala and Kirby Hocutt Step Up?

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Comments Posted on Dec 04, 2010 Last Updated Dec 07, 2010 Posted by Luke
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This week, Uncle Luke comes to terms with the end of the Randy Shannon era.

Saturday was one of the saddest days for Miami-Dade’s African American community with the firing of Randy Shannon as the University of Miami’s head football coach. At the end of the day, I can’t argue with athletic director Kirby Hocutt’s decision to let Shannon go, but his dismissal still hurts.

I haven’t hidden the fact that Shannon is a dear friend of mine, but his ascendancy to the top job of the Hurricanes program meant a lot to blacks. He was one of the few people of color to have a very high profile job in this town. We already know it is virtually impossible that a black person will ever be elected county mayor or be selected to be county manager, so seeing Shannon, a hometown guy, reach the mountain top was something the African American community could be proud of and aspire to.

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