The Boston Globe reports that head football coach Al Golden has agreed to a contract extension through 2019.
Since the University of Miami has announced that it will not attend a bowl game this year, let's take a look at the 'Canes under Al Golden's tenure this season. As of November 26th (last game for Miami), the Hurricanes were 6-6 against a production schedule strength of schedule equal to 60.42, which is slightly more difficult than the average strength of schedule for all 120 FBS schools.
Miami currently (these numbers most likely will change at the very end of the season as more games are played by other FBS schools) is the 60th most productive team in the nation, with the #56 best offense (slightly above average) and the #66th best defense - slightly below average.
Yet even though Miami fired Randy Shannon after a better record and a better productive team last year, Golden get's a contract extension. This might be due to the fact that there is an opening at Penn State, where Golden has ties, and to lock up their coach they offered him a contract extension. I wonder what Randy Shannon's take on this would be? My guess is that he has too much character to make a negative statement. I don't seem to have that character trait in as great an abundance.
Miami knows they have a good coach in Al Golden. He arrived and weeks later Miami was hit with the Nevin Shapiro scandal. the season was pretty much toast after that, and they knew it would give Golden a lot of incentive to leave. They did what they had to do to secure him.
ReplyDeleteI agree that Golden is a good coach. I also note that Miami had a good coach in Randy Shannon, and that in terms of production - Shannon's Hurricanes were better than Golden's, but Golden gets a contract extension.
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