One day after Miami athletics director Blake James suggested he would allow Al Golden to finish the season, the school reversed course on Sunday night and fired its football coach, effective immediately.
Golden leaves with a 32-25 record at the school and a damning 17-18 mark in the Atlantic Coast Conference. He replaced Randy Shannon, whose record at Miami was 28-22 and a similarly uninspiring 16-16 in the ACC.
This means that Miami, as a program, is basically .500 in the ACC over the last decade. That’s terrible. But it’s also indicative of a larger question.
How committed is this school to having a championship-caliber football program?