The latest topic beat up on the message boards yesterday; defensive assistant Micheal Barrow supposedly headed to Florida to lead the recruiting charge out of Gainesville and to coach linebackers for the Gators.
A day later, Barrow is staying put at UM and has been moved back to linebackers coach, after spending 2009 as an assistant.
Instead of sitting back, playing the wait and see game, Miami faithful took to the Intraweb to voice their displeasure with the situation. Some choice nugs posted online yesterday on various message boards:
“Why work for an unqualified lightweight at the U when you can work for the best in Gainesville?”
“This move was done simply by CUM for Barrow’s contacts with SoFla high schools. It was a recruiting move plain and simple. Shannon is toast.”
“One incontrovertible fact is it is hard for a team to gain traction when assistant coaches leave after one or two years. A new coach comes in and the team has to start at square 1 all over again. I don’t understand why Miami can’t keep its coaches around. Its hard to believe its just pay.”
“Good. He sukked as a LB coach anyways.”
“Sorry to say this but, it might be true because Urban is trying to hire another black coach. He only has one black on his staff rite now. He also needs to get someone to recruit S. fl, and Mike wants to further is career and not just be a assistant. Randy this is bad if you cant keep Mike B.”
“His specific job will be to come into Dade and Broward and take our kids. Not honorable. Guy cares more about a few extra bucks than the U. A true Cane would not accept that job. Either that, or he would and then literally derecruit kids he is going after. Eff Urban, and eff Barrow.”
“It’s a damn shame to see how much Shannons ego is affecting this program. I have been saying it all along. COACHES DONT WANT TO WORK WITH SHANNON.”
“Money obviously means more to Barrow than his core ties to Miami. Now you think “honor” is more important too? LOL. CUM hired him for one thing. To tell the kids the truth about the Miami program and Randy Shannon. I’ll take back the word “trash”. All he has to do is tell them the truth. How inept the head guy is. CUM will close after Barrow tell recruits the truth.”
“Meyer now has a former Miami guy who worked directly under Shannon who can relay to the kids how inept Shannon truly is.”
“First he gets demoted from LB coach to basically no real responsibility on the defense. Then Randy uses him to bring in the top talen nationally for visits b/c of his name recognition and then he gets passed over as recruiting coordinator. You think maybe he is fed up with being treated like a dog on this staff and is now looking for better opportunities elsewhere (even if it is with the enemy)??”
“I’m glad he is moving on. Just find it traitorous that he will now spend his time trashing his own university just for some extra bucks. Sold his soul. Not a Cane ne more.”
“Michael, you’re nothing to me now. You’re not a brother, you’re not a friend. I don’t want to know you or what you do. I don’t want to see you at the games, I don’t want you near my school. When you see our Canes, I want to know a day in advance, so I won’t be there. You understand?”
“I might hate Meyer, but man the guy is a genius. He’s now got the one thing he didn’t have. A former Miami assistant and Shannon loyalist who can now give props to the Gates and bad mouth Miami.”
“I can’t f*ckin believe this guy, I guess he didn’t save a dime of his NFL money, what a f*ckin Benedict Arnold. Go F yourself Bam Bam.”
Is it any wonder why Miami fans get such a bad rap nationwide? Nice work, superfans. Way to trash one of our own before the body was even cold. The rumor wasn’t an hour old before the hatefest started.
Barrow is Miami born and bred. A Homestead kid who came to The U in 1989, won two national championships and was an All-American his senior year, finishing seventh in the Heisman race.
After a thirteen-year NFL career, Barrow returned to Homestead High as defensive coordinator and came back to UM in 2007 as linebackers coach. Barrow spent 2009 as a defensive assistant, which according to Randy Shannon was done to help Barrow learn more about coaching the entire defense, possibly grooming him for a defensive coordinator gig down the road.
According to the Herald’s Manny Navarro, Barrow will be coaching linebackers again in ’10 and to date there’s no evidence that the former Cane linebacker even traveled to Gainesville, outside of a few premature Internet reports.
Anyone with an ounce of logic knows this was a power play. UF showed interest, Barrow – like any working stiff – responded in an effort to show his current employer that he’s a desirable employee. The result; a move back to coaching linebackers and probably a bump in pay. Safe bet Barrow had zero intention of coaching for the enemy… but played the game to jockey for better position at UM. The whole scenario played out in less than a day, yet the harsh words remain out their in cyberspace because some fans have no filter or patience.
Whether Barrow is on Miami’s sideline next fall, Florida’s or Homestead High’s, the reacting from the Canes fanbase was pathetic and it’s time for some folks to take some serious inventory. Message boards give everyone an outlet for their opinions, but sadly most commentary is knee-jerk, poorly thought out and nobody is held accountable for their brash, biased opinions.
For some idiots to state that the move to another sideline means Barrow “is no longer a Cane” – shame on you fools. A local kid that suited up for the hometown team, won two rings, did the program proud, played in the NFL and now coaches at his alma mater – he’s no longer part of the family if he takes another job?
Give it a rest, uber fan, hiding behind your keyboard bitching away instead of showing up for home games on Saturday. Barrow is more a Cane than every clown combined in a chat room on any given night.
To the mods at CaneSport and CanesTime, tighten up your game. The inmates are running the asylum and it’s time you remember that coaches, players, parents of players, alum, boosters and a slew of others are reading what a small percentage of this fan base are saying. Don’t let these people represent what for the most part is a stand up group of fans.
Weed out the morons and promote the words of those who do this program a service, not a disservice. Other message boards have their gestapos and it’s time Miami message boards employ a similar mentality. Enough is enough.
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I hate visiting the CanesTime forums these days. The doomers have completely taken over, and there is no room for reasonable discussion. The mods need to step up, and the fans need to calm down, or the board will degenerate even further.
This Miami team has made huge steps the past few years, and there is far more to be excited about than there is to be frustrated about.
Exactly. I love how people continue to get at Shannon as if he has run this program into the ground.
Let's see: Consistent season ending record improvement - check. Firing the bad coordinators and hiring good ones (who thinks Whipple is NOT the right man?) - check. Filling recruiting needs rather than going after random five star flameouts - check. What more are we asking here? All this done after coming into a horribly jacked up situation with Coker's ouster.
It'll be interesting to see how many of these haters climb aboard the bandwagon when Miami wins the ACC or national championship.
Bravo, 305.
I am so sick of those thin skinned pu$$ies on CT and CS message boards. Doom and gloom is a gross understatement. They're a bunch of clowns who know nothing about football, or life for that matter.
Everything Randy does is put under a microscope. Anything that happens which falls under general rules of coaching and running a college football program, they lose their shit completely. My twelve year old daughter has more composure and a better grip on things.
Glad to see someone finally call out what's going on over there and not shocked it was you, my friend.
And a quick disclaimer, I am not saying everyone on those boards is a fool. There are a bunch of good writers and posters on the site, but sadly a small percentage of the ruh-tards ruin it for everyone else and give Cane fans a bad name.
M.H.
Win and there will be no hate. It's not like Randy has kept coaches around and it's so far fetched for this to happen. I agree it can look bad for recruiting though.
I'm not trying to lose friends, but we have the dumbest fanbase in the nation. I try to dissuade myself from that opinion, but the masses unceasingly prove themselves as shallow & dense.
These people give me such a migraine. There such a profound identity crisis within the ranks of Miami followers: the delusion that we are a major college program is deep & wide. I contend that we have been the illegitimate of college football since our beloved Schnell left us for the USFL. No one has stayed here past even a whiff of furthering their career; we win, we get bastardized.
But this omnipotent fanbase thinks we should go drop $5 mil on Brian Kelly because UiF could. Thinks the U gets recruits like a Federal Stimulus stipend. Thinks we should pack the house every Saturday because they do in Columbus. It's like we have to teach every single one of these clowns (as you suggested, 305) that Miami is much more than winning NCs, it's earning them--& above all it has never been automatic, plug & play, State U, media lovefest, keep up with the Mack Jones', clean cut or by virtue of getting more respect than we deserve.
I use every keystroke I can to out these small-minded punks. Solid post.
Post 1,853 railing against the message board fans.
When will you get that this is what most message boards are like? You get mob mentalities multiplied by the psychology of anonymity, which promotes the vapid, fickle, aggressive, and charged.
How are you so obsessed with the message board fans? The dregs of the boards are not worth dedicating the majority of your keystrokes toward. When will you come to grips with this?
Reposting things by a bunch of nobodies accomplishes NOTHING!
Post 1,853 railing against the message board fans.
... and yet another post from you bitching about me bitching. What's your point?
When will you get that this is what most message boards are like? You get mob mentalities multiplied by the psychology of anonymity, which promotes the vapid, fickle, aggressive, and charged.
What makes you think I don't "get" what they're like? I completely do, which is why I choose to comment on the asinine nature of them.
I chose to write on the topic (re: message boards forming their mob mentality over an unsubstantiated rumor). If you want to read it, great. If you don't, great. If you have a comment, bring it on... but to keep giving me shit for what I choose to write about - you have no leg to stand on.
Again, if it's not for you, move along. Don't read it... but quit pissing and moaning about my topic of choice.
How are you so obsessed with the message board fans? The dregs of the boards are not worth dedicating the majority of your keystrokes toward. When will you come to grips with this?
I am attempting to hold a mirror up to the face of the moron who shittalked a long-time Cane, a NFL veteran and current Miami head coach -- implying that he's not a "real Cane" if he goes to Gaineville, yet they're "real" Canes because they log way too much time online complaining about anything and everything.
It's bad enough to bitch daily about a Randy Shannon "problem" that isn't going away anytime soon... but to shred Mike Barrow over an unsubstantiated rumor that was proven incorrect within hours? To go back and re-read some of this drivel, which looks even more idiotic now that he's still at UM, it deserves to be discussed.
Reposting things by a bunch of nobodies accomplishes NOTHING!
Such is one man's opinion. Other are chiming in and have something to say on the matter.
If it's not for you, leave. Seriously.
I dig your style and get the point you're trying to make -- I simply don't understand your MO of trying to knock down topics of choice here, contempt for weak arguments on message boards or overuse of an idiom.
You come off like a well-versed personality. Bring more to the table than just trying to knock me down.
Wait, let me get this straight, some of you spend money each month for a subscription to a website where the revenue does not go to the University? Just to bitch about said University? Instead of wasting your money on a dumb rumor based site, donate that money each month to the school, and then maybe something positive will come from it. I read Manny, Shandel, AllCanes and every now and then, Jorge Milian or Canespace. But I have never wasted a penny on one of those paysites. Any info worth its salt will make it to one of these other outlets in a matter of moments. I guess my point is, I just don't get it. Many of our so called "fans", I don't think really get what it truly means to be a genuine fan.
I think Justin's comments were dead on.
ease up doubters.. this iis efn michael barrow we are talking about.. if you know anything about Miami football history you know he's as much the reason we are the U (i hate this term as much as swag) as anybody else..
We owe him the benefit of the doubt, and at the end of the day, its a business when you are a coach..grow the f up..
u would make a business decision based on you only because thats life.
M Barrow, I hope u were just entertaining their offers but all the best for whatever your decision is...
U earned my respect a hell of long time ago...
U invented LBs with speed..
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I used to have a Rivals account but I didn't renew it this year because it's gotten so bad.