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fincane said:
This is it. IF Miami ever decides to prioritize having a schematic advantage and teaching then the winning will feed into the recruiting. Mario is already hearing it from Oregon fans about the lack of development.

They know they’re in a terrible conference and are wondering why they’re not dominating games. I know people here will say you’re Oregon and be happy with what you have but that’s loser talk and they’re not having it. They’re ready for that recruiting success to translate to on-field performance week to week.
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Just commenting on the last sentence.

Contrasting Mark Stoops, getting the bottom of the barrel of SEC recruiting pool fighting the recruiting power houses of the SEC with their bag men and car dealerships to Mario Cristobal in Oregon, dominating recruiting in the West Coast with the only competitor being USC in downtime.

Still, Oregon is not showing it on the field against weaker teams in a weak conference.
 
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RightSaidFred said:
Because he’s not being brought in to be AD. If reports of 30 million /yr for football are true, then someone has to manage the stuff it’s earmarked for and make sure we get a return on it

Imo Highsmith’s role would be Player Development & Recruiting, ie a functional role managing the recruiting department/ budget, transfer portal, strength and nutrition, and self scouting.

Basically stuff we have the head coach doing now, not the AD. And you free up the coach to act more like an NFL coach
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So let’s assume he’s not interfering with any athletic director functions, what you’re mentioning seems like it would be someone that should work for the coach, not as a partner. I mean I don’t think anybody knows what his real role will be to be honest assuming he is even hired.
 
OriginalCanesCanesCanes said:
So let’s assume he’s not interfering with any athletic director functions, what you’re mentioning seems like it would be someone that should work for the coach, not as a partner. I mean I don’t think anybody knows what his real role will be to be honest assuming he is even hired.
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Nobody knows, that’s right.

The way I would structure it though is make player development and personnel (recruiting, S&C, portal, self-scouting) be separate from the coach. Like it works in the NFL.

Seems to me college coaches are asked to do way too much. And most of it has nothing to do with coaching, ie running practices, gameplanning, that stuff.

But yeah, more than one way to skin a cat for sure. The NFL model is what I would try to follow though, and Highsmith’s best contribution IMO is scouting and development
 
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Jedi Master Cane said:
I liken Mario to a Butch archetype and Lane has some Spurrier in him . Neither is anywhere near those levels yet, but that’s the TYPE of coaching styles each represents . Give Lane talent and he’ll out coach the **** out of Mario, but the argument is Mario would accumulate more talent if he was down here 365.
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It took 6 years for Butch to get to double digit wins. Cristobal could probably recruit well, but are fans willing to give him 6 years? And I know people will say "yeah but the scholarship restrictions", USC also had crippling sanctions, but in his 2nd season, Kiffin went 10-2 with only 51 scholarship players on the roster.
 
Cribby said:
Where did the Monday announcement come from? I only heard it would be soon and a decision was made. I never heard an exact time.
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Perhaps they are conflating Mike Ryan's tweet on a big scoop* for tomorrow??

*or whatever he labeled it as, you know just to be specific
 
TimeBum said:
It took 6 years for Butch to get to double digit wins. Cristobal could probably recruit well, but are fans willing to give him 6 years? And I know people will say "yeah but the scholarship restrictions", USC also had crippling sanctions, but in his 2nd season, Kiffin went 10-2 with only 51 scholarship players on the roster.
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You’re talking to the guy advocating for Lane as his top choice . I’m with you .

And yes, the Mario hiring will require patience by the fanbase since our depth chart still sucks at several positions
 
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canadianhurricane said:
If , you believe, all that went down without him having some knowledge, then this is a terrible hire. He WAS cleared. Mind you, him and Rick Pitino have both publicly supported each other after their UL days. Jurich was actually fired, wrongfully, from UL because he wouldn't fire Petrino after being directed by the UL Pres.

From that, I concluded, whatever happened, Petrino and Jurich are both completely fine with each other's actions. That's my AD!

And he was cleared! So he understands how to play the game!
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I'm not saying anyone is 100% guilty or 100% innocent. I am simply stating that if a person is cleared, that means that the evidence (or lack thereof) tilted more heavily in one direction, and that person continues to be employable.

Lots of guys come out of NCAA investigations without being found "guilty", while nobody makes the effort to "clear" them. Meaning...there was evidence, just not enough.

To go the extra mile to "clear" someone and change the grounds for which he left the University is something more. And, believe me, I realize that Petrino and Pitino were questionable in their own character, so I am not acting like Jurich is some sort of perfect blameless angel.

Degrees of guilt actually DO make a difference. Regardless, he will not find the same environment and..."tolerance for gray areas"...at Miami. So if he wants to join that kind of an organization, that is fine.

The bigger issue that as long as a Trustee can't just dismiss Jurich's past accomplishments as a product of corruption or cheating, then Jurich will be the most qualified AD Miami has had since Dave Maggard. And if you pair Jurich with a Miami-insider like Alonzo Highsmith, then you minimize the risk of the same kind of MASSIVE failure that Maggard experienced.
 
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