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Recruiting against rival football coaches and other schools would have been the easy part. Al Golden was recruiting against rumors and lies, too. Against uncertainty and doubt. Against opponents’ negative recruiting he said “at times entered into the realm of vicious.” He was recruiting against all those dirty headlines wrought by disgraced booster Nevin Shapiro. And against that invisible monster with sharp teeth: The looming, likely NCAA penalties.
This University of Miami coach persevered through all of that mess and somehow won Wednesday.
“I’m not going to sit here and tell you we didn’t get absolutely crushed by our opponents on this. And we fought back,” Golden said. “They saw a soft spot and they went after it. Guys took a shot at us, ok?...
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