Al Golden: 'I Want to Build a Winning, Championship Organization'

Many feel Al Golden's seat is sizzling, but you wouldn't know it from hearing him speak at ACC Media Days. His words were highlighted by his desire to "build a winning, championship organization that can sustain and endure."

"Somebody said this has been a boring offseason, this has probably been the most revitalized [offseason]," Golden said on the Big O Show. "When you spend all your time thinking about your team and not on a bunch of nonsense I think it energizes you. I think the staff feels like the same way.

"I can't wait. I'm really looking forward to being with this group... I'm excited about where we are and I love this team. I do. I love their mentality right now in what they're trying to get done."

Big O told Golden a lot of people lost faith in his ability to turn the program around (with Big O among them), that his team was better than Pitt, UVA and shouldn't have lost those games.

"I think at the end of the day, football is a game where the best team wins and if you turn the ball over or you finish last in penalties, you're not the better team," Golden responded. "You may be more talented but you're not the better team. And we weren't the better team and that's my responsibility to get it fixed. If people have lost faith, hey my faith has never diminished in this job. My faith when we had no facilities and we had no training table and we weren't paying for summer school, and through all the rainouts and all that, my faith has never diminished in this program. And I promise you that we are working our tails off and we have a great group of guys right now and the staff and that's why I don't worry about anything on the outside. As long as the inside is good, as long as internally it's good, the rest will take care of itself. We've fixed a lot of things in the last 18 months and I'm excited about where we're going and what we're doing.

"Again, I understand -- everybody wants to win right now. I want to build a winning, championship organization that can sustain and endure for a really, really, long time and that's not commensurate with a lot of people. I want to build something that can endure. It's not these five-year increments where it gets blown up. I don't want to be a part of that. I want to try to build something special and we have a bunch of people right now that are trying to do that."

In the last few minutes of the interview, Golden explained Miami's decision for why they infamously defended Georgia Tech on the goal line last season with so few players on the defensive line.

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