UM announces Bob Shoop as Defensive QC coach; Diaz comments

Feb 1, 2021

CORAL GABLES, Fla. – The Miami Hurricanes completed their defensive coaching staff by hiring Bob Shoop as Defensive Quality Control Coach, head coach Manny Diaz announced Monday.

Shoop, a 32-year college coaching veteran, is the former head coach at Columbia and has served as defensive coordinator at three Power 5 programs. He most recently coached safeties at Michigan.

“Bob is a two-time Broyles Award finalist who has coordinated the defense at multiple schools and also has experience as a head coach,” Diaz said. “We are excited to add someone with his level of expertise to our defensive staff.”

Shoop spent the 2020 season in Ann Arbor after two seasons as defensive coordinator at Mississippi State. He also served as the defensive coordinator at William & Mary (2007-10), Vanderbilt (2011-13), Penn State (2014-15) and Tennessee (2016-17).

In 2019, Mississippi State’s defense led the SEC with 14 fumble recoveries (fourth nationally) and picked off 10 passes to rank second in the conference in turnovers (24). In 2018, Shoop was a Broyles Award finalist and was named FootballScoop Defensive Coordinator of the Year as the Bulldogs were the only defense FBS to finish top-10 in all four major defensive categories (total defense, scoring defense, rushing defense, and passing defense). MSU allowed only 12 touchdowns all season, the fewest allowed by any FBS team since 2011.

Shoop helped produce three 2019 first-round NFL Draft picks in Jeffrey Simmons (19th), Montez Sweat (26th) and Johnathan Abram (30th). Over his last 12 seasons, he has coached 20 NFL Draft picks with four at MSU, five at Tennessee, five at Penn State, three at Vanderbilt and three at William & Mary.

In 2014 at Penn State Shoop was named 247Sports' Defensive Coordinator of the Year. He was FootballScoop's FCS Defensive Coordinator of the Year and a Broyles Award finalist in 2009 while at William and Mary.

Shoop was the head coach at Columbia from 2003-05, posting a 7-23 record. He began his coaching career at his alma mater, Yale, in 1989 as a graduate assistant. He also has spent time as an assistant coach at Massachusetts (2006), Boston College (1999-2002), Army (1998), Villanova (1997), Yale (1989, 1994-96), Northeastern (1991-93) and Virginia (1990).

Shoop played wide receiver at Yale where he earned his bachelor's degree in economics. He was recognized with Yale Football's prestigious Robert Gardner Anderson Memorial Award for team spirit, dedication and leadership. He also earned four letters in baseball.

Shoop was a three-sport standout at Riverview (PA) High School and is a member of the Allegheny-Kiski Valley Sports Hall of Fame. He and his wife, Maura, have two sons, Tyler and Jay.

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The Franchise

Feb 5, 2021

Go Canes!! said:
This is what you came back for? Your retirement I guess was short-lived. Thank you as usual for your insight.

This place really does need your steadying hand

We need an emoji for you gagging on Manure's **** and balls.

I needed to come back here and stop the likes of you from running roughshod on some of these meek guys scared of your bloviating false bravado. I see you attacking everyone who doesn't want to double team Manure's **** and balls with you. The sheriff's back, son.

The Franchise

Feb 5, 2021

504CANE4LIFE said:
I feel why you got skepticism and want to see the results on the field but if people excited ain't nothing wrong with that. You can criticize Manny bout somethings I agree but he does see a problem and try to get at it IMO. I give you Baker, he was still going to be on the staff but with other coaches he made moves. With oh boy going to Utah how do we know that wasn't his only option and the writing was on the wall here already? One thing our defense was good at with Manny was half-time adjustments when he ran it. So he takes action when there's a problem. Offense last year, the defense this year. He not just sitting around and you have to like that in coach that's all I'm saying and it's ok to be excited bout that but I understand you need to see results.

Focus, young man. I am all for being happy with our offseason success and luck. What I am here to tamp down are the fluffer facts where the coach ball fondlers are trying to portray Manure as some big bad Hulk smashing his incompetent sons. He did nothing of the sort.

Go Canes!!

Feb 5, 2021

The Franchise said:
We need an emoji for you gagging on Manure's **** and balls.

I needed to come back here and stop the likes of you from running roughshod on some of these meek guys scared of your bloviating false bravado. I see you attacking everyone who doesn't want to double team Manure's **** and balls with you. The sheriff's back, so

I’m frightened about what must be on your laptop right now. You’re so deep in the closet it’s a little bit scary.

So do us both a favor and save your sophomoric homophobic rants for someone who cares

The Franchise

Feb 5, 2021

Go Canes!! said:
I’m frightened about what must be on your laptop right now. You’re so deep in the closet it’s a little bit scary.

So do us both a favor and save your sophomoric homophobic rants for someone who cares

Lap up Manure's butt juice, weasel.

Go Canes!!

Feb 5, 2021

The Franchise said:
Lap up Manure's butt juice, weasel.

Not even joking. You’re completely ***, and it’s ok.

OriginalCanesCanesCanes

Feb 5, 2021

Ethnicsands said:
The whole ‘alpha’ debate seems dumb, but since you’re engaged in it, please consider that there’s nothing particularly ‘alpha’ about a staff analyst role. The whole concept of tension with ‘alphas’ working for you implies they’re in a ‘line’ or command role. What tension or complexity comes from having someone with no direct reports analyze game tape and propose ideas to you?

I didn’t even have the analyst in mind I had T Will and T Rob in mind. Shoop is there as a sounding board, analysis, etc, I would imagine.

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Empirical Cane

Feb 5, 2021

Ethnicsands said:
The whole ‘alpha’ debate seems dumb, but since you’re engaged in it, please consider that there’s nothing particularly ‘alpha’ about a staff analyst role. The whole concept of tension with ‘alphas’ working for you implies they’re in a ‘line’ or command role. What tension or complexity comes from having someone with no direct reports analyze game tape and propose ideas to you?

Manuela isn't going to mind because he needs staff to save his job--and he knows it. Others, however, might get ruffled if said analyst is coming up with better insight.

With that said, it seems these analyst positions are held by "I got nowhere else to go castoffs" looking to either hang out or rehabilitate.

Canes2082

Feb 5, 2021

Would be a shame if this thread got closed because some in here just cant help themselves.

Knock it off.. you can argue why Manny sucks or not without taking personal shots

Ethnicsands

Feb 5, 2021

OriginalCanesCanesCanes said:
I didn’t even have the analyst in mind I had T Will and T Rob in mind. Shoop is there as a sounding board, I would imagine.

Eh, he hired real position coaches who can recruit. No idea what the alpha theorists even think they mean but it can hardly be that he wouldn’t hire recruiters. That makes no sense.

OriginalCanesCanesCanes

Feb 5, 2021

Ethnicsands said:
Eh, he hired real position coaches who can recruit. No idea what the alpha theorists even think they mean but it can hardly be that he wouldn’t hire recruiters. That makes no sense.

Going off the rails here. My only point was that people were saying that Manny wouldn’t hire alphas as assistant coaches, and he did. He only only wanted yes-men working for him. I’m not particularly invested in any alpha versus beta type discussion, that’s a tired trope anyway, I’m just throwing back at people the stupid shlt they say

Ethnicsands

Feb 5, 2021

Go Canes!! said:
I’m frightened about what must be on your laptop right now. You’re so deep in the closet it’s a little bit scary.

So do us both a favor and save your sophomoric homophobic rants for someone who cares

So you’re frightened and scared, but don’t care. And yet you responded, and even called him sophomoric, which is as *** as it gets when it comes to smears.

Ethnicsands

Feb 5, 2021

OriginalCanesCanesCanes said:
Going off the rails here. My only point was that people were saying that Manny wouldn’t hire alphas as assistant coaches, and he did. He only only wanted yes-men working for him. I’m not particularly invested in any alpha versus beta type discussion, that’s a tired trope anyway, I’m just throwing back at people the stupid shlt they say

Whoever those people were, we can agree they’re dumb. I thought they meant at the DC position. A head coach who is afraid of his position coaches is as beta as they come.

canesthing3

Feb 5, 2021

The Franchise said:
LOL at the constant victory laps from the Manure munchers. You guys can’t let me quit this place in peace. You gotta draw me back in with this bullshyt of yours about how Big Bad Manure cleaned house.

You do realize he didn’t fire Blank Baker right? Or is this alternative Fluffer Facts you guys are now espousing unfettered since the moderates have stopped posting? Fact: Baker was going to be on this staff until that big drunk dope Orgeron bailed Manure out.

Manure was going to be DC and Blank was his game planner and still a member of the staff. He didn’t fire him and had absolutely zero influence on Orgeron hiring him. Orgeron liked Blank last year and still liked him this year. And guess who else was going to have him on his staff in 2021 if Orgeron didn’t throw him a life preserver? Yep. The guy you guys are celebrating for a firing he didn’t have the stones to make.

So, yeah. Celebrate the good fortune. Celebrate Manure hiring a couple great assistants after Orgeron took his son Blank off his tiny hands. But don’t get so lost in the haze of guzzling Manure’s zesty bath water that you lose track of facts because then I’ll have to stomp back here like a truth cop to set the record straight and urinate on your smoldering fire of alternative facts.

Manure is still the same guy who called plays situationally in 2020 but somehow decided not to call plays when his team was being historically sodomized by old man Brown. Listening to the Manure Munchers, you’d think he called plays during all the good defensive efforts but ghosted us during the horrible ones.

Keep prancing and flitting around like fairies prematurely celebrating like we won a NC, but the jury is still out on Manure as a HC whether you like it or not. If all that mattered was the off-season he’d be a perennial NC.

And he got lucky as fck with Blank. Otherwise, it would have been the same two clowns running the D that got gutted by old man Brown. Perspective, ladies. I hope he proves us critics wrong, but he sure as **** hasn’t accomplished that yet

Ah, here comes a so called Miami fan to try and kill the positive momentum on this board with other so called Miami fans cheering him on. Only on CIS, you gotta love this place.

Let’s ignore the fact that multiple ppl said he told Blake to look for employment elsewhere, Cribby said well in advance that the defensive room would look drastically different and that he hired a staff of killers to replace the departures. Yep, let’s ignore all of that so we can continue with the corny nicknames and shït on the program in your desperation to be proven correct about Manny.

I don’t think there is anything sadder than the portion of Miami’s fanbase that want nothing more in the whole wide world than for Manny to fail so they can go on a message board and gloat about how they were right all along to a bunch of ppl they don’t know.

RVACane

Feb 5, 2021

Is it better if Manny fired Baker and we paid a buyout or that Baker left for whatever reason and we paid no buyout, and then Manny added TWill in place of Baker after adding TRob, Simpson and Shoop???

If Manny got lucky then so what when the result is that we paid no buyout and he brought in the 4 coaches he did? That’s a lot of good luck he did nothing for.

Canes2082

Feb 5, 2021

The thing I give Manny credit for is he is making necessary changes and for once in a long long time the staff we have in place is solid on both coaching and recruiting levels.

Do I wish he hired a DC? Yes i do but there's nothing we can do about that now.

Now they need to go out there and actually win games.... not just the ones they should but actual meaningful games.

JD08

Feb 5, 2021

I have no vested interest in any coach. If Manny keeps making good moves to better the team, then good on him. I just want to see results.

Go Canes!!

Feb 5, 2021

Ethnicsands said:
So you’re frightened and scared, but don’t care. And yet you responded, and even called him sophomoric, which is as *** as it gets when it comes to smears.

My vote would go to people who bold random words while ignoring an obvious homophobic cry for help, but hey we’re all entitled to our own takes.

WestGA'Cane

Feb 5, 2021

OriginalCanesCanesCanes said:
Going off the rails here. My only point was that people were saying that Manny wouldn’t hire alphas as assistant coaches, and he did. He only only wanted yes-men working for him. I’m not particularly invested in any alpha versus beta type discussion, that’s a tired trope anyway, I’m just throwing back at people the stupid shlt they say

So how would you categorize the Baker, Banda, and Patke hires? The 'yes-man' connotation may be exaggerated, but weren't/aren't they all understudies of Diaz?
I do applaud the recent staff additions, but the previous group collectively seemed in over their heads, and that's what a lot of folks' opinions were based on. And they were a large part of Manny's tree, thus perceived as his boys, or yes-men.

Ethnicsands

Feb 5, 2021

Go Canes!! said:
My vote would go to people who bold random words while ignoring an obvious homophobic cry for help, but hey we’re all entitled to our own takes.

what is a ‘homophobic cry for help’?

maybe you should just send him a pm and offer whatever help you fancy providing?

T
Tit-e-skr

Feb 5, 2021

Midlo Cane Fan said:
Probably in title only, possibly co-dc's. Manny will show them his defense, they will no doubt brainstorm and give input. DC will teach the defense to the team, Manny will call plays.

This made me laugh- loudly.

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UM announces Bob Shoop as Defensive QC coach; Diaz comments

UM announces Bob Shoop as Defensive QC coach; Diaz comments

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