The 2013 Miami RedHawks: A 5-Year Retrospective

“Time heals all wounds”.

Whoever uttered that phrase obviously never watched their alma mater go from conference champions to the worst team in college football in the span of four years. The 2013 season was a culmination of failures between the administration and the coaching staff. Before we discuss that season in detail, let’s look at how the first dominoes to fall got us to this point.

In the winter of 2010, athletic director Brad Bates had a decision to make. Mike Haywood had just left the Miami football program after going from worst-to-first and taking the MAC Championship over Northern Illinois in what can only be described as one of the classic games of the MAC (Haywood promptly lost…