Unconquered

I also note that Golden seems most upset that his players are spending all their time smoking the weed they are growing there instead of chipping in and watering the weed from time to time as well:

"It is disappointing," Golden said. "I think it's disappointing for the team to be honest with you. You can't just weed all of the time. If you're just constantly weeding and that's the problem. When you're trying to improve the program and move forward, you can't just weed the program. You've got to water your garden, too."

That's just selfish.

I'll be honest.....i thought Seantrel transfered out of there last year.

Never understood the practice suspension. Does a kid really care if he misses a few practices? This is not a deterrent at All!

Allen Iverson did not care about practice. Ask him...

So their "punishment" for smoking weed is being rewarded with getting the weekend off? Real disciplinarian al golden is.

I graduated the same year as Seantrel, and went to a rival school in the same conference. Seantrel has ALL the talent in the world, but anybody on my team could have told you that he had a high bust potential. Sure, his highlight tape is pretty incredible, but he did not consistently dominate in football (and even basketball), the way that he absolutely should have(The competition in Minnesota is just awful, we produce MAYBE 10 D1 prospects a year).

I can remember him in 9th grade at pretty much his same mammoth size, lining up at nose against our center who was lucky to be 180, and Seantrel really didn't do anything all game.

Now that he's having all these off the field problems, all I can do is shake my head in disgust. What a waste of God given talent!

Fwiw and the joking makes sense on the surface but one of the ways Golden actually does fit Miami's brand is in his insane valuation of practice. The man would sit a super star, if ever gets one, for a bad 5-8 day stretch of practice.

Sitting kids from practice with him is like saying for those days you are guaranteed to fall on the depth chart and the first day back you'll be lucky if you even start working your way back.

Every coach values practice. Look at Jimbo with how much he wants the IPF. I think Golden just uses his coach speak about practice to a whole new level.

I'm still not buying the hype that they are on some whole other level of practicing. Every coach tries to upsell it to his players to some extent to get the best out of them so he can watch and see who will be the best during the season. It makes his job much easier about filling out the depth chart if everyone goes full intensity.

I've even heard he has a white board where they put most wants on it. Using different color markers, just advanced technology and innovative thinking by the um staff.