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JG13 said:
Jose Armario tailgated with us at UNC a couple times...he was in charge of McDonalds in Latin america then. Nice guy, nice wife. Was active on the RCT message board for a while. Was usually at the football alumni dinners in Chicago. Those Bojangles fries with seasoning are legit.
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oh really… hmmm that clears some things up
 
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Looks like he read the board and posted all the names we had been talking about. Still, happy to see Jurich on there. Didn't think the school had the balls to go after him just because he's not squeaky clean. He was cleared of everything, but figured the allegations alone would mean he wouldn't be considered.
 
Allabouttheu_3 said:
Per David Lake

- On the front end, let me get this out of the way. The decision to separate from Blake James was a strong one by the UM administration and it should be commended. If you read the tea leaves, it is pretty clear that a change at head football coach is likely at the end of the season as well. With that being said, however, Manny Diaz still has key Board of Trustees members in his corner and they are willing to fight and continue to back him. It is not necessarily a forgone conclusion that Miami will move on from Diaz.

- With that being said, however, it is hard to ignore the strong message that the UM administration sent across the country to Eugene, Oregon. It is well known in UM circles that Mario Cristobal and Blake James do not like each other and that James would never be able to hire the coach of the No. 3 overall program in the country. Separating from James was a MAJOR first step to making a run at Cristobal.

- Why would Cristobal leave Oregon for Miami? Two reasons: Miami is home and being the head coach at UM has always been his dream job. Outsiders don’t fully grasp how much pull the University of Miami has with Cristobal in this regard, but people around the program know how much Cristobal loves UM and the city of Miami. IF the university were to come at him with the acceptable amount of resources and a vision from leadership for the future of the athletic department and football program, there is a belief that it would be very difficult for Cristobal to turn down the opportunity. A commitment, both in resources and vision, will be needed to make a run at Cristobal.

- Does Miami have the money to go get a Mario Cristobal? The constant message from people around this decision making process continues to be: “money is not an issue.” The U-Health healthcare system in South Florida makes a ton of money for the university and the UM leadership is finally willing to dip into those coffers to provide resources for the football program. We will see if UM puts the money up at the end of the day.

- There is a sense around Cristobal, however, that if Oregon keeps winning and makes the College Football Playoff, the chances of UM luring him away would be quite slim.

- What would be the biggest reason that Cristobal stays at Oregon beyond a College Football Playoff run? Cristobal is fiercely loyal and grateful to Nike CEO Phil Knight, who of course is Oregon’s top booster. It was Knight who gave Cristobal another chance at being a head coach and that is something Cristobal doesn’t take lightly.

- There are three deep pocket boosters/board of trustees members that are believed to be pushing for a run at Cristobal: Jose Mas, Marcus Lemons, and attorney John Ruiz.

- In terms of what Miami is now looking for in an athletic director, I have been told ‘somebody who understands how to lead athletics.’ Blake James was respected for his ability to fundraise, but he did not understand how to hold coaches accountable for middling performances. Loyalty to a coach is important, but at some point hard decisions have to be made.

Now onto some athletic director names that are worth knowing at this early stage…

- Tony Hernandez: Hernandez worked his way up the athletic department when Paul Dee was the athletic director. People around the UM program respect Hernandez for being highly intelligent and he knows what a successful football program is supposed to look like. He is currently the Deputy Director of Athletics at Texas Tech under former UM athletic director Kirby Hocutt. He served as Miami’s interim athletic director when Hocutt left for Texas Tech.

- Tom Jurich: You won’t find a potential candidate with a better resume of success than Jurich, who pushed Louisville’s athletic department to new heights. Jurich was Louisville’s athletic director from 1997-2017 and during his time he hired Rick Pitino as the basketball coach and played a big part in the football program getting to the ACC and making hires like Bobby Petrino and Charlie Strong. Louisville’s baseball program also took a step forward with his leadership. Jurich also vastly improved Louisville’s facilities during his time there. Jurich was placed on unpaid leave in 2017 after the Louisville basketball program was implicated in a FBI investigation. On May 18, 2018 the board of trustees agreed to a $4.5 million settlement with Jurich that cleared him of any wrong doing and phrased his termination as "retirement".

- Pat Chun: Chun hired Lane Kiffin as the athletic director at FAU, which is an interesting connection point. He is now the athletic director at Washington State. Chun worked his way up the ranks in the Ohio State athletic department, working 15 yards in Columbus, Ohio. He understands what a successful athletic department is supposed to look like.

- Jeff Purinton: Currently the Executive Deputy Athletics Director at Alabama. He is essentially No. 2 man to athletic director Greg Byrne. Purinton currently serves as the sports administrator for Alabama’s football team as well as men’s and women’s golf. He previously oversaw Alabama basketball. At one point, Purinton was believed to be in the mix for the FSU athletic director job.

- Alonzo Highsmith: The former UM running back has worked in NFL front offices and understands the business side of sports in addition to how to run athletics. Highsmith would understand what a winning football program looks like. Whether or not Highsmith is hired as the athletic director, there is a belief that he should be working within the UM athletic department as someone that oversees the football program.

- Gino Torretta: The former Heisman Trophy winner would check two boxes for the athletic director position: 1.) He understands the athletics side of leading an athletic department and specifically what a winning football program is supposed to look like. 2.) He understands the financial side of running an operation. Torretta’s post football career has centered around finances and asset management.

- It is hard to ignore the potential Columbus High School connection to the program moving forward…Jose Mas is a Board of Trustees member that deeply cares about UM athletics. He also attended Columbus with Mario Cristobal. Marcus Lemonis is a booster that also attended Columbus. Alonzo Highsmith is a Columbus alum. Cristobal’s right hand man, offensive line coach Alex Mirabal, also attended Columbus. These connection points are interesting.
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Thank you. I now know tons of stuff I didn’t yesterday. Great read!
 
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Page305 said:
"The U-Health healthcare system in South Florida makes a ton of money for the university".... You know how many times I've said money was and will NEVER be an issue for the program because of this! We have probably the top health program in the NATION. Money will always be there to spread around.
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Frenk posted that Miami raised more than 1.5 billion some days ago. Thats with a B. They are flush with cash. They chose to not spend it on football which is what Miami is known for mainly.
 
JD08 said:
Why do people continue to work past retirement age? Why do they take jobs other than where they currently live? Money, challenge, etc.

I'm just saying that everyone points to his age as a disqualifier, but maybe he doesn't want to dive all in. If he wasn't interested, why does his name pop up? He could end all the speculation in one statement.

It all points to a definite maybe, not a conclusive yes or no.
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Why do people keep working after retirement age? Because they are experts in what they do and work gives a sense of purpose. Some people have lots of outside hobbies and live to work. Lots of others just have work. Once they stop working, it's gives the feeling of "well, I guess I'm just treading water until I die now." For a guy like Jurich, I can understand if he doesn't want the last memory of his professional career to be getting fired and he'd want a chance to end on a high note.
 
What Miami need to also do is enlist the rich people for the stadium, and make it a place u can host concerts and events, that would pay for alot. 50k. Dont go half way and get soft. Do everything in one, create a crazy buzz
 
DMoney said:
Lake has a good source on all this stuff. He’s been accurate.

Notable name there is John Ruiz. I’d been hinting at that when I said there is a big money name people aren’t talking about.

Now that it’s out, Ruiz is about to be hugely wealthy and has a deep interest in sports and potential ownership. His son played baseball at Miami.
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Aren't the Soffers, specifically because of Carol, in on this too? I thought they were firmly in Mario's corner and ready to help make it happen..?
 
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JayCane20 said:
Diaz fixed the QB room and brought us to a modern offense. I'll give you that one for sure. But this season and his current recruiting class is not leaving the program in a good spot at all. Culture is also hard to measure - I'll have a hard time being convinced that he's changed the culture at all. He's playing young guys that won't quit fighting.. that's about it. Still a bunch of loser mentalities on this roster.

Golden left the DT position in as good or better shape than Diaz is going to leave it. The LB position is still a disaster. CB is still a disaster. OL is about equal to where Golden left it. DE is far worse than Golden left it. TE is worse than Golden left it. RB/WR/QB are the only rooms that have improved and can be attributed to Manny Diaz. Golden even left Rayshawn Jenkins, Carter, Jaquan Johnson at Safety. Njoku & Herndon at TE.
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S is better with Manny and I don't believe there is a single DL from the previous staffs that are as good as LT in terms of potential and talent. Willis was prolly the closest to what was leftover from golden to richt
 
LSU football's coaching search is in full swing and Oklahoma's Lincoln Riley is a name circulating among insiders should Tigers athletic director choose to go "big-game hunting" with this hire, according to 247Sports national recruiting analyst Cooper Petagna. Petagna said this week Riley and Texas A&M's Jimbo Fisher are considered among the top picks for the Tigers before they potentially move to secondary options in the search.

"The smoke down there is Lincoln Riley and, you know, when I've thought about this from the beginning, (LSU athletic director) Scott Woodward — who, obviously Washington fans are very familiar (with) and hired Chris Peterson at Washington and hired Jimbo Fisher at Texas A&M and gave him a contract that hadn't been seen before in college football — I think we're going to see something similar to that," Petagna said on Dawgman Radio. "I think there's a 1A group and a 1B group.

"In that 1A group — Jimbo Fisher himself, Lincoln Riley and I think that's it in the 1A group. I think you'll hear names like (Michigan State's) Mel Tucker, (Cincinnati's) Luke Fickell and now (Baylor's) Dave Aranda and (Louisiana's) Billy Napier. ... Those are going to be the guys as LSU works down their list, if they don't have success with those names I mentioned before, I think that's where the coaching search will end up.


"It's going to be interesting to see the reaction to that, when Scott Woodward was put in place at LSU to make this exact hire. The reputation Woodward has, he likes to go big-game hunting and that's what LSU fans respect."



Fisher emphatically shot down LSU speculation this week, saying he would be the “dumbest human being” on the planet for leaving his current job. Fisher cites the Aggies' incoming 2022 signing class, investment from everyone tied to football at the university and even his ranch as reasons for staying put.


“I’ve told everybody I’m staying here, and I’ve told everybody that I plan on being the coach at A&M,” Fisher said. “Everybody thinks all coaches lie. I know. Y’all don’t believe us. … I’ve said the other things. I plan on being here. I love the AD. I love the president. I love the chancellor. I love living here. I love being on my ranch. The family loves it here. I love Kyle Field. I love the people here too. I love all that stuff, and that’s obviously not good enough.

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"I get it. I’m not mad at you. I read the reports when people come to me. I don’t want to hear it. I’m not interested. We’re going to recruit an unbelievable class this year, okay? So, I’m either the dumbest human being on God’s Earth, who is going to recruit all these guys to A&M so I can go over here and play against them. If I did that, you all would say, ‘That’s the dumbest human being, I don’t want him to be my coach.’"
 
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Hurricane4lyfe said:
LSU football's coaching search is in full swing and Oklahoma's Lincoln Riley is a name circulating among insiders should Tigers athletic director choose to go "big-game hunting" with this hire, according to 247Sports national recruiting analyst Cooper Petagna. Petagna said this week Riley and Texas A&M's Jimbo Fisher are considered among the top picks for the Tigers before they potentially move to secondary options in the search.

"The smoke down there is Lincoln Riley and, you know, when I've thought about this from the beginning, (LSU athletic director) Scott Woodward — who, obviously Washington fans are very familiar (with) and hired Chris Peterson at Washington and hired Jimbo Fisher at Texas A&M and gave him a contract that hadn't been seen before in college football — I think we're going to see something similar to that," Petagna said on Dawgman Radio. "I think there's a 1A group and a 1B group.

"In that 1A group — Jimbo Fisher himself, Lincoln Riley and I think that's it in the 1A group. I think you'll hear names like (Michigan State's) Mel Tucker, (Cincinnati's) Luke Fickell and now (Baylor's) Dave Aranda and (Louisiana's) Billy Napier. ... Those are going to be the guys as LSU works down their list, if they don't have success with those names I mentioned before, I think that's where the coaching search will end up.


"It's going to be interesting to see the reaction to that, when Scott Woodward was put in place at LSU to make this exact hire. The reputation Woodward has, he likes to go big-game hunting and that's what LSU fans respect."



Fisher emphatically shot down LSU speculation this week, saying he would be the “dumbest human being” on the planet for leaving his current job. Fisher cites the Aggies' incoming 2022 signing class, investment from everyone tied to football at the university and even his ranch as reasons for staying put.


“I’ve told everybody I’m staying here, and I’ve told everybody that I plan on being the coach at A&M,” Fisher said. “Everybody thinks all coaches lie. I know. Y’all don’t believe us. … I’ve said the other things. I plan on being here. I love the AD. I love the president. I love the chancellor. I love living here. I love being on my ranch. The family loves it here. I love Kyle Field. I love the people here too. I love all that stuff, and that’s obviously not good enough.

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"I get it. I’m not mad at you. I read the reports when people come to me. I don’t want to hear it. I’m not interested. We’re going to recruit an unbelievable class this year, okay? So, I’m either the dumbest human being on God’s Earth, who is going to recruit all these guys to A&M so I can go over here and play against them. If I did that, you all would say, ‘That’s the dumbest human being, I don’t want him to be my coach.’"
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I believe Jimbo. He isn't leaving TAMU. Riley is either looking for a raise or going to the NFL. I don't think he'd leave Oklahoma for LSU.
 
Anyone heard of Wayne Boich? He’s a Billionaire who lives in Miami Beach and went to the U and actually played tennis here. He runs in celeb circles and is friends with athletes like Chris Bosh Jimmy butler tom brady lebron etc. He already paid for the tennis team’s new scoreboard, someone needs to get in contact with him cause he will put money down to help the football program
 
hoops156 said:
S is better with Manny and I don't believe there is a single DL from the previous staffs that are as good as LT in terms of potential and talent. Willis was prolly the closest to what was leftover from golden to richt
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Safety is gonna be close. 2 draft picks in Jenkins and Johnson and Johnson played far better here than what his NFL career or draft slot will ever be able to measure. Willis' post Miami career didn't go close to what I thought it would - 2018 was probably the most dominant performance of a DT I've seen at Miami since at least early 2000s. Which essentially covers my lifetime of watching and comprehending UM sports.

Putting DT or DL in that category was mainly attributed to numbers. Beyond LT (agree he's more talented than the rest) Manny is gonna leave maybe 2 or 3 DT on the roster. DE is bone dry in talent and bodies. Golden left Norton, McIntosh, Moten, Willis, and Jenkins at DT and Chad Thomas, Trent Harris, AQM, Jackson, at DE and had Joe Jackson in the bag in the recruiting class.
 
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