utahphinsfan
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I'm sure Ravens fans though the same thing about losing to Flores and the Dolphins. Gotta lace 'em up and actually play the game.
But, streaks eventually end.
I'm sure Ravens fans though the same thing about losing to Flores and the Dolphins. Gotta lace 'em up and actually play the game.
I never claimed Shula was the first choice or the 100th choice. I merely stated that he had total control over the hiring of his coaching staff during the years Robbie was the owner. Huizenga did want Shula to change some of his coaching staff after the failed 1995 season but if Shula decided to quit because of that request, it actually fit right into Huizenga being able to hire Johnson. There were already rumors after the season that Huizengawanted to hire Jimmy Johnson. So perhaps going to Shula and requesting he change some of his assistants was Huizenga‘s way of letting Shula make the decision to retire. Especially since Shula had always had 100% control over the hiring and firing of his assistants in his 26 years as the Dolphins HC.Well you're wrong about all of it. Bear Bryant was the dolphins first choice but he declined - Shula was their second choice. You're another one that continues to be misinformed about the facts regarding what went on with Saban and Miami to perpetrate a nonsense narrative put forth by the organization and the south Florida media.
Shula was forced out because they wanted him to get rid of Olivadotti and he wouldn't do it. You're lying again, kinda like what you're accusing Saban of doing.
Furthermore, the dolphins ARE the minor leagues. Wake up fella. It ain't 1972 anymore.
I know how and why the Shula family distanced themselves from the organization in his later years. My nephew is married to one of Don and Mary Anne's granddaughters.
I never claimed Shula was the first choice or the 100th choice. I merely stated that he had total control over the hiring of his coaching staff during the years Robbie was the owner. Huizenga did want Shula to change some of his coaching staff after the failed 1995 season but if Shula decided to quit because of that request, it actually fit right into Huizenga being able to hire Johnson. There were already rumors after the season that Huizengawanted to hire Jimmy Johnson. So perhaps going to Shula and requesting he change some of his assistants was Huizenga‘s way of letting Shula make the decision to retire. Especially since Shula had always had 100% control over the hiring and firing of his assistants in his 26 years as the Dolphins HC.
It should be noted Jimmy Johnson, Dave Wannstedt, Saban and even Cam Cameron all had 100% control over the assistants they hired and fired while Huizenga was the owner.
As far as Shula distancing himself from the organization is concerned. He was made a Dolphins Vice-Chairman after he retired from coaching and he was in the stadium for many games after retiring from coaching. Obviously he might not have liked the way he was pushed out but it was time for him to go and at least Huizenga made an effort to include him as part of the Dolphins by naming him a vice-chairman.
As an Alabama fan I can see that you are buying into the lies of Saban regarding his time in Miami and why he left. As I stated before, he is a great coach in the minor leagues but he was mediocre in the big leagues and he left before he would have been eventually been fired. He just wasn’t good at dealing with mature players and his ablities as a football coach works better with young impressionable kids.
If you don’t understand that all college football is, is the minor league system for the NFL. You obviously don’t know the difference between professional athletes and the 99.9% of the athletes who play football at the college level. The minor league Dolphins as you call them would destroy the 2021 Crimson Tide on the football field. That is the difference between the major and minor leagues in football.
I decided to bury the hatchet with Saban long ago. Yeah, he did fail in the NFL - and that was something he knew would be perceived when he left. And he knew his words, which he gave honestly at the time, that he wasn't going to Alabama would haunt him.As an Alabama fan I can see that you are buying into the lies of Saban regarding his time in Miami and why he left. As I stated before, he is a great coach in the minor leagues but he was mediocre in the big leagues and he left before he would have been eventually been fired. He just wasn’t good at dealing with mature players and his ablities as a football coach works better with young impressionable kids.
If you don’t understand that all college football is, is the minor league system for the NFL. You obviously don’t know the difference between professional athletes and the 99.9% of the athletes who play football at the college level. The minor league Dolphins as you call them would destroy the 2021 Crimson Tide on the football field. That is the difference between the major and minor leagues in football.
Truth, it’s a b**** ain’t it lmfao.I watched Don Shula his entire time as the head coach of the Dolphins and I NEVER saw the FO force him to hire an assistant coach. He had 100% control over every assistant coach hired on his staff.
Saban also had 100% control over football operations, which included the hiring and firing of all the assistant coaches on his staff. Saying that one of the reasons he left the Dolphins was because he couldn’t hire the coaches he wanted to hire is totally false.
The reality is that while Saban is an excellent HC at the minor league level. He was average or below at best as a head coach at the professional level. He was given every thing he requested as the Miami Dolphins head coach but even today blames the medical staff because the Dolphins didn’t sign Brees.
The fact is 30 other teams didn’t sign Brees either but their coaches didn’t lie about not taking another job and then take the job anyway.
To his credit, Saban was smart enough to leave for the minor leagues before he was fired. Because he just wasn’t good enough as an NFL head coach. Even though he was given more control over the entire organization at that time than any previous HC in NFL history who had previously had no NFL head coaching experience.
The best thing that ever happened to the Dolphins is Saban left to go back to the minor leagues. Like Meyer, he is more suited to deal with the young teenagers he can control with fear and not the players at the NFL level who are not afraid to speak up when they are treated like little boys.
...There’s a reason why so many former NFL head coaches come to work for Saban while the dolphins staff couldn’t get a job at Weber State.
Urban Meyer is the least of their problems in my opinion. They’re in trouble at quarterback.
That quarterback they just drafted #1 overall was the most overrated offensive prospect to be drafted in the 1st round in a decade - since Jonathan Baldwin came out of Pittsburgh.
But that’s probably only breaking news to all the people that only saw him play one game in college against Alabama - then anointed him the best QB prospect since the Sphinx was built. While simultaneously trashing Tua.