Why do you keep using the word failure? I essentially said Baker was going to be a P5 coordinator for the next 3 decades, do you consider that failure?
There's no shame in the Peter Principle. Inherent in it is that the only ones among us that don't get there some day are the ones without...
The official O/U for every mediocre team in ACC/SEC/B1G is set at 1.5 crappy seasons of Blake Baker over the next 25 years. If Manny's protege's don't Peter Principle themselves to at least that, we got a problem.
People keep demoting Patke off the field. That ain't happening. Based on his description, he's the one that should go be a low G5 / FCS coordinator.
Diaz had 3 "proteges" over his career, Patke, Banda, Baker. One of those made it.