Miami Hurricanes Football: This Is on Blake James as Much as It Is on Al Golden

Before the Florida State game, Miami Hurricanes athletic director Blake James told the media that he would not make any decisions regarding Al Golden’s job until after the season because he thinks the team can still make a run at the ACC championship and he believes Golden is the right guy for the job.

After the Florida State loss for the sixth straight season, James maintained his statement and supported Golden on a “hard-fought” game. One that ended in a loss — again — to your bitter in-state rival.

While Miami bounced back and showed some life against a bad Virginia Tech team, they officially hit rock bottom on Saturday after a 58-0 loss at the hands of the Clemson Tigers, which is the worst loss in the history of the program.

58-0 meant absolute excellence at home for the Miami Hurricanes, but now it’s a number that is filled with disappointment, anger, and honestly, just plain disgust.

While the players are also to blame after that performance, most of the blame absolutely falls on the coaching staff.

Golden has been losing this program for a couple of seasons now and nobody in the Miami administration did absolutely anything to fix it. Golden decided to keep Mark D’Onofrio and James Coley as his coordinators even though the team couldn’t stop anyone and the team struggled to score on people, even with a really talented offensive unit.

Miami also let Golden lose to Florida State countless times, lose to Virginia and Duke, and get embarrassed, at home, against Pittsburgh. Not to mention, the Miami administration has allowed Golden and his team to be mediocre because the goal is just to MAKE the ACC championship game. Not win it, just make it.

You would think that after a 58-0 embarrassment on national television, with hundreds of recruits watching, would lead to Miami doing something about this horrendous coaching staff and the downfall of this once proud football program, but that’s not the case.

Blake James has already said that while he’s disappointed in the team, that their focus is now on Duke. Sorry, Mr. James, but your focus might be on Duke, but everybody else’s focus is on the end of this season until you finally decided to do the inevitable and make a coaching change. It’s just better if you do this now.

Miami has a talented recruiting class in 2016, but that won’t last long after Saturday’s garbage performance. They won’t make the ACC championship game after their second loss in ACC play and still having to travel to Duke and Pittsburgh. It just won’t happen, so why wait?

Fans hate Golden and that’s totally understandable, but the administration and Blake James are the one’s that let it get to this point. Miami could’ve forced some changes after getting destroyed against Louisville in the Russell Athletic Bowl, he could’ve done it before the banners became a thing that everybody knows about, he could of done it before this disaster of a season.

Instead, they let it get to the point that a blimp goes over Sun Life Stadium and there’s about a thousand people there because Miami is getting annihilated.

If you get on Twitter or Facebook right now, all you hear is people making fun of Miami. Not The U, but just the Miami Hurricanes. That team that gets beat 58-0 on national television and does absolutely nothing about it.

Whether losing like this is what this program needed to wake up or not, Blake James needs to do something about it — and now — or those “Fire Al Golden” chants that were heard at Sun Life Stadium on Saturday, will soon turn to “Fire Blake James” chants.

The U is being killed right now, and it’s because of people in charge.

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