For now, it appears coach Manny Diaz and the administration believe changing offensive coaches, and perhaps dumping another assistant or two, will solve everything that ails a program that is 13-16 in its past 29 games and hasn’t won anything significant in more than a decade.
Not everyone internally agrees. According to a UM football administrator, there was some support inside the Board of Trustees, including from one key member, for Miami to hire Highsmith in a position of authority, for a job that would be similar to an NFL general manager and would give him some level of authority.