I am leaning toward no changes. I feel like Mario is quietly blaming the players and, unless someone voluntarily leaves, the staff will stay together for 1 more year before any shakeup. I don't believe anyone within the admin or AD is putting pressure on Mario to fire someone.
This is no inside take it is simply my gut feeling. Fans think otherwise but I am not so quick to do so....
No idea what will take place, but it's more than "quietly blaming players" if no changes are made. It's a trust in a long-term vision and philosophy and a belief that a one-year sampling size wouldn't be enough to assess things, as bad as this 2022 season was.
Hypotheticals are impossible, but if you didn't have an o-line that looked like a M.A.S.H. unit, a quarterback that didn't lose his mojo (more than play calling, TVD looked lost from day one this season), Chaney / Citizen going down preseason (and Parrish banged up much of the year), Restrepo going down early, etc.—5-7 could've very easily have been 8-4 / 9-3 this year (aTm, MTSU, UNC, Duke were all very winnable games)—and the pitchforks wouldn't be out in the manner they are.
Winning cures all. It blinded this fan base in 2017 when Richt had a lot of favorable bounces (FSU, GT, UNC, Cuse) to get to 10-0—fueled by night games against VT and ND solely BECAUSE the Canes were undefeated at the time (what does Irish game look like at 3:30pm with no College GameDay if Miami was 5-3 instead of 8-0.) Same with 7-5 last year and all the blowing of Lashlee and his air-it-out system to get to 7-5 (which could've easily been 4-8 if TVD didn't ball out with Rambo and Harley, eking out three wins by a combined eight points.)
I would still like to see Gattis / Ponce gone as the inability to work with the team they had (versus the team they want) delivered a ****-poor result ... and a more-modern offensive philosophy with some of the names fans are throwing out at OC could yield better results than the Gestapo from Michigan, who did it with a loaded team and is reportedly rubbing people wrong with his attitude, ego and process, proving to be a bad cultural fit.
That said, I've also been around long enough to trust that maybe The $80-Million Man sees or knows something that a bunch of message board yahoos are missing—and that IF Gattis is retained, there's a reason for doing so—even if it doesn't jibe on the surface.
All that to say, godforbid Cade McNamara lands at Miami after hopping in the portal, you can guarantee his old OC ain't going anywhere .... while McNamara going elsewhere could help seal Gattis' fate at Miami as landing that quarterback would certainly be a Coral Gables lifeline for him.
I'm still trusting in Gattis being gone as I think 45-3 to Florida State was one of those deal-sealing moments that are tough to come back from. Losing big to rivals always leaves a mark and for a guy that already laid his share of eggs this season, that felt like a backbreaker moment that can't be come back from ... but time will tell.
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