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Yeah. He'll have NO IMPACT on recruiting. And he can't speak to the players AT ALL about what they need to do to improve. Brilliant. Yes, we have had 15 years of failure because of individual recruiters and individual coaches. Riiight. We need an organizational and culture change. We need...

Dopiest thing you've said yet. The hiring changes everything. It changes the org chart and puts an end to Beta Blake and Manny giving their meaningless mea culpas on local radio shows. What is your alternative? Roll through the next 10 months with absolutely no answers to give to local...

So you would support hiring Alonzo if he still had football eligibility left? Let it go. The losses to FIU and LaTech are behind us. What is in front of us is a long rebuild of our culture, methods, and execution. We need leadership, and Alpha Alonzo is much more capable of providing that...

I expected you to start changing the parameters as you lost the debate. Nobody said "random local kids". But for over a decade, we have been recruiting SoFla poorly. You can't just isolate on one particular kid. This is a hallmark of Miami football. We are losing out on MULTIPLE good...

He began in scouting. He has done much more in recent years. And, no, missing out on kids is NOT "very far down on the list of things to fix". It is, chronologically, the first thing that needs to be fixed. Fortunately, most people can work on more than one priority in the same timeframe.

Here is a depressing statistic, maybe someone with better computer skills can put this into a table and post it. Year, Rivals Recruiting Ranking, Final AP Poll Ranking 2003: RRR-5----------AP-5 2004: RRR-4----------AP-11 2005: RRR-7----------AP-17 2006: RRR-14---------AP-unranked 2007...

Yep. Think about what has CONSISTENTLY gone wrong across 5 coaching staffs. Annual top 25 talent, but almost never finishing ranked in the top 25. Annually picked as a top ACC team, never won an ACC Championship (and only one ACC-CG appearance). We have gone 1-9 in our past 10 bowl games...

First, the elite players that we miss out on are NOT the ones on whom we delay giving an offer. All the SoFla kids who went to Bama and Clemson had offers from Miami 2 years prior. I am talking about kids with athletic ability and leadership skills who are being used incorrectly at their high...

What a devastating wit. Five year old reference. Don't you have some administrative work to do?

Yeah, Jen, because that is exactly what people have been asking for. Head coach. Overreact and oversimplify much? Hey, at least if you and your boss Beta Blake hire Alonzo for Head Coach, you would have spent more time considering candidates than you did when you hired Manny.

It is absolutely worth mentioning. Recruiting is the FOUNDATION. If we don't offer some of these SoFla kids soon, they will "form relationships" with coaches elsewhere. We start with getting the SoFla coaches and players back on our side. We address the assistant coaches next. And we work...

Actually, that IS part of the problem. For whatever ridiculous reason, we have developed 15 years of gun-shyness on pulling the trigger on SoFla offers. Maybe it's the Willie Williams hangover. Scouting/evaluating is absolutely one part of the equation. Another part is running the football...

Oh, here comes Jen Strawley to defend Beta Blake. You're right, none of these "young cats" would be impressed with an athletic administrator who is on camera telling the opposing team that he's not scared of them. Yeah, those "young cats" are going to respect Beta Blake more, because...

There you go, posting dopey stuff again. The issue is not "let's hire the best resume". That's how you fail. Miami would not be "stupid" to hire Alonzo for a newly-created role. There is no template. Where we are going, there are no roads. We can blaze our own trail, we are not going to be...

Well, Beta Blake, I have underestimated your genius. Certainly, Emig will take a lateral position that probably pays less (do you honestly believe we would pay more than Ohio Taint?) and in a city that has a higher cost of living than Columbus Ohio. Why are we paying search firms when we could...

I don't know that we have "settled". At one point, UM hired JJ after he went 7-4 in the regular season at Oklahoma State. JJ then lost three straight bowl games at UM, before finally winning the National Championship in 1987. Erickson, while he had some good 1-year turnaround numbers, was...

More dopiness from Beta Blake's burner account. The Associate AD of Ohio Taint is going to be in the running for plenty of ACTUAL AD positions. Stop inventing bogus reasons for Alonzo to be "unqualified" for a newly created position.

You continue to post dopey nonsense. The only "certainty" is that we want Alpha Alonzo to be a part of the program. This particular "role", of having someone at (pretty much) an AD level, but for just one sport, is a new phenomenon. YES, "nobody knows what the role entails" because this is...

What a dopey post. All you have to do is put about 15 seconds of The U documentary on a permanent loop in the Hecht, and everyone is going to know who Alonzo is. What are his NFL successes? Why don't you ask, why don't you do some research? He's had a big part of scouting and building the...

The culture is not "broken with Diaz at the helm". The culture has gone astray for 15 years. The more accurate way of saying things is that Diaz is not the guy to put at the helm to guide us back (culture-wise). Diaz did a great job with the defense. He may yet hire a good OC, and prove to...