forums

24/7 Outlook

Mr. Dynasty1

Mr. Dynasty1

Junior
Joined
Nov 28, 2012
Messages
18,554
Frenk now understands that athletics—and more specifically the football program—is a marketing opportunity for the university. When a football team is successful, it puts your entire university on a big stage, which makes the school more attractive to prospective students. For this reason, Frenk is willing to dedicate more of the revenue from the entire university (specifically what the U-Health system generates) to the athletic department. There is a sense that Miami’s athletic department budget is going to receive a supplement that they have never before received from the school.

During former President Donna Shalala's leadership era of the university, the athletic department was forced to operate separately within their own budget. Now that the U-Health system is thriving, there is plenty of money to spread around and there is a willingness to provide the necessary funding to athletics.

Somebody that is aggressive and has a vision for how to navigate the fast-changing college football landscape with the NIL, transfer portal, conference realignment, the NCAA potentially disbanding with football etc. The UM leadership wants an athletic director that will not shy away from asking whatever they want to help the athletic programs to have success. Miami may not always be able to provide what is asked for, but they want an athletic director that will always push the boundaries past the status quo. Miami’s leadership is attracting a lot of attention for their athletic director opening and while it isn’t a prerequisite, the sense is that experience with leading an athletic department would be preferred.

- The new athletic director, along with the president’s leadership, and some board of trustee members will ultimately determine whether or not Manny Diaz is retained as head coach for the 2022 season. It is not necessarily a forgone conclusion that Diaz will not return in 2022. Why? Miami’s leadership doesn’t want to simply make a move to just make a move.

If Miami does decide to make a change from Diaz, leadership is willing to pay a relatively high buyout number for a coach at another school, the buyout number of Diaz, pay a salary to a head coach in the $6M range, and provide that coach with a staff budget that is near the top of the ACC. If UM feels like they have an opportunity to bring in a championship level coach, they are willing to spend.

- The UM leadership sees a lot of value with bringing in a former Hurricane like Alonzo Highsmith into the program and helping lead the football program from an operations standpoint. Highsmith has the type of character that the UM leadership envisions for the future of the program: he is aggressive and knows what it takes to compete for championships.
 
Advertisement
Diaz possibly returning in 2022 has been mentioned in just about every podcast & article.

Someone wants that info out there. Why & what is the benefit? Fvk that!!!

Having Diaz come back is a no starter for me under any circumstance. If Mario says no, he’s not going to say yes next year. If he doesn’t come this year, he’s not coming here, period.

So move on and get the next best candidate. Don’t be afraid to take chances on some candidates with a checkered past (Kiffin or Freeze).

But in the end, you have to make Mario say yes no matter what it takes. All the chips have to be pushed in.

Let’s go!!
 
Mr. Dynasty1 said:
The UM leadership wants an athletic director that will not shy away from asking whatever they want to help the athletic programs to have success. Miami may not always be able to provide what is asked for, but they want an athletic director that will always push the boundaries past the status quo. Miami’s leadership is attracting a lot of attention for their athletic director opening and while it isn’t a prerequisite, the sense is that experience with leading an athletic department would be preferred.
Click to expand...
If this is true then surely there's only one man for the role....

Tom. Freaking. Jurich.
 
Advertisement
Mr. Dynasty1 said:
Frenk now understands that athletics—and more specifically the football program—is a marketing opportunity for the university. When a football team is successful, it puts your entire university on a big stage, which makes the school more attractive to prospective students. For this reason, Frenk is willing to dedicate more of the revenue from the entire university (specifically what the U-Health system generates) to the athletic department. There is a sense that Miami’s athletic department budget is going to receive a supplement that they have never before received from the school.

During former President Donna Shalala's leadership era of the university, the athletic department was forced to operate separately within their own budget. Now that the U-Health system is thriving, there is plenty of money to spread around and there is a willingness to provide the necessary funding to athletics.

Somebody that is aggressive and has a vision for how to navigate the fast-changing college football landscape with the NIL, transfer portal, conference realignment, the NCAA potentially disbanding with football etc. The UM leadership wants an athletic director that will not shy away from asking whatever they want to help the athletic programs to have success. Miami may not always be able to provide what is asked for, but they want an athletic director that will always push the boundaries past the status quo. Miami’s leadership is attracting a lot of attention for their athletic director opening and while it isn’t a prerequisite, the sense is that experience with leading an athletic department would be preferred.

- The new athletic director, along with the president’s leadership, and some board of trustee members will ultimately determine whether or not Manny Diaz is retained as head coach for the 2022 season. It is not necessarily a forgone conclusion that Diaz will not return in 2022. Why? Miami’s leadership doesn’t want to simply make a move to just make a move.

If Miami does decide to make a change from Diaz, leadership is willing to pay a relatively high buyout number for a coach at another school, the buyout number of Diaz, pay a salary to a head coach in the $6M range, and provide that coach with a staff budget that is near the top of the ACC. If UM feels like they have an opportunity to bring in a championship level coach, they are willing to spend.

- The UM leadership sees a lot of value with bringing in a former Hurricane like Alonzo Highsmith into the program and helping lead the football program from an operations standpoint. Highsmith has the type of character that the UM leadership envisions for the future of the program: he is aggressive and knows what it takes to compete for championships.
Click to expand...

Episode 5 Reaction GIF by The Office
 
Trav said:
How is possible Frenk could not have understood that before?
Click to expand...
because the only other position in higher education prior to miami was dean of harvard school of public health. before that he was a politician in mexico. he doesn't really understand much culturally in american higher ed outside of what he learned in the harvard bubble. this has reared its ugly head several times when he made political statements on behalf of the university and ****ed off a sizable chunk of the donor base.
 
Mr. Dynasty1 said:
Frenk now understands that athletics—and more specifically the football program—is a marketing opportunity for the university. When a football team is successful, it puts your entire university on a big stage, which makes the school more attractive to prospective students. For this reason, Frenk is willing to dedicate more of the revenue from the entire university (specifically what the U-Health system generates) to the athletic department. There is a sense that Miami’s athletic department budget is going to receive a supplement that they have never before received from the school.

During former President Donna Shalala's leadership era of the university, the athletic department was forced to operate separately within their own budget. Now that the U-Health system is thriving, there is plenty of money to spread around and there is a willingness to provide the necessary funding to athletics.

Somebody that is aggressive and has a vision for how to navigate the fast-changing college football landscape with the NIL, transfer portal, conference realignment, the NCAA potentially disbanding with football etc. The UM leadership wants an athletic director that will not shy away from asking whatever they want to help the athletic programs to have success. Miami may not always be able to provide what is asked for, but they want an athletic director that will always push the boundaries past the status quo. Miami’s leadership is attracting a lot of attention for their athletic director opening and while it isn’t a prerequisite, the sense is that experience with leading an athletic department would be preferred.

- The new athletic director, along with the president’s leadership, and some board of trustee members will ultimately determine whether or not Manny Diaz is retained as head coach for the 2022 season. It is not necessarily a forgone conclusion that Diaz will not return in 2022. Why? Miami’s leadership doesn’t want to simply make a move to just make a move.

If Miami does decide to make a change from Diaz, leadership is willing to pay a relatively high buyout number for a coach at another school, the buyout number of Diaz, pay a salary to a head coach in the $6M range, and provide that coach with a staff budget that is near the top of the ACC. If UM feels like they have an opportunity to bring in a championship level coach, they are willing to spend.

- The UM leadership sees a lot of value with bringing in a former Hurricane like Alonzo Highsmith into the program and helping lead the football program from an operations standpoint. Highsmith has the type of character that the UM leadership envisions for the future of the program: he is aggressive and knows what it takes to compete for championships.
Click to expand...


"During former President Donna Shalala's leadership era of the university, the athletic department was forced to operate separately within their own budget."

That has happened under EVERY UM President, including Tad Foote. Nothing new there.

If the overall profitability of UHealth enables a larger general operating budget allocation, I am completely in favor of that. But let's not pretend that is something that was arbitrarily determined by one particular president. We didn't have UHealth under Foote, and Shalala's initial acquisition of UHealth did not come cheap. I am very excited that UHealth has finally turned the financial corner, but this all could have been done 6 years ago.

Better late than never, I guess.
 
Advertisement
cf3000 said:
They don't want to make a move just to make a move? I can think of a few reasons not to retain CMD.
Click to expand...
They are 100% firing manny. They have to play politics/ maintain optics and make it seem like keeping him is an option because what else are they going to say? “Yes we will fire him no matter what”? No way.

If he loses out or fails to make a bowl , he will be fired

If he wins out and wins a bowl , they will have “mutually parted ways”
 
LOL at possibly retaining Manny because they don’t want to make a move just to make a move.

How ‘bout making a move because the current head coach should never have been hired in the first place and has clearly demonstrated that he is incapable of getting the job done?

Is that making a move just to make a move?

Total insanity.
 
Back
Top