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Barry J. article discussing the internal power struggle

Cane_Mutiny said:
I'm not sure I'm sold on this Highsmith-as-Manny's-boss arrangement, tbh. Although it definitely could help in the short term, it sets a weird precedent where instead of firing a coach we know to be incompetent, we change the whole leadership structure of the football program. Why can't we just get a fckin competent head coach like plenty of other schools have????
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Because Blake would still be in charge and just **** it up again.

The point would be to give AD power for just football to somebody who knows what the **** they're doing.
 
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mavericksouth said:
Agreed. The multiple boss thing doesn't work and it's not appealing to other more competent coaches when we go to hire someone else after Manny is terminated. If Blake James must remain in place, then I vote for James being AD of all other sports while Alonzo runs football exclusively. Blake and Alonzo are Co ADs. The football head coach only answers to Alonzo.
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Absolute disaster.
 
rrose8 said:
Power struggle is only going to make next season worse. Players won't compete/care since they know Diaz will be gone.
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That's another problem in itself...We
need to get some players in here who want to compete and care for the **** University of Miami , not ones who play depending on if there's a power struggle or not . These are the type of players that accept losses to FIU and LA Tech and dance as it happens

I believe Miami should beat those teams with my dog coaching . Silly me
 
"The roster stinks" -- attributed to an anonymous "UM football person." My fave quote from the article.

If hiring Zo were pressed hard by James, could it make Diaz quit? Very possibly.
 
hotshot said:
"The roster stinks" -- attributed to an anonymous "UM football person." My fave quote from the article.

If hiring Zo were pressed hard by James, could it make Diaz quit? Very possibly.
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James would never do this, he has no balls. He is all for letting Diaz make his own decisions without input. That is why he needs to go. No leadership or balls not to mention terrible decision making.
 
NicKane said:
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The funny part is, hiring butch davis would've solved all of this, lol, and now they trying to block zo, lol, its official, UM is being run just like the old Dolphins, they really dont want Miami guys, lol. If i didnt know any better, you'd think don shula was the new UM advisor, that **** tried to block jimmy johnson from becoming the Dolphins headcoach for years til wayne huizenga had to tell em, man get yo *** out the way. Its actually comical how much of an idiot flake james, he keeps talking about all this autonomy he keeps giving to the headcoaches, but is to foolish to realize ****, you keep giving all tbese 1st time headcoaches that much responsibilty and they keep failing because its obvious he dont know **** about football but he's the "athletic director" ***** you directing if you just gone hire a guy and say, hah, here you go, and just hand em the keys, it because flake james dont know **** and hasnt learn ****.

And now you got diaz's insecure *** over there trying to earn all the spoitlight, fine, if coach diaz wants ro gamble on his overall football operational ignorance, np, wont be long for him too either, than just like UM has been doing **** *** backwards the last 15years and phucking up young men football careers, they'll try and circle back to zo, and will be lucky if he dont tell em like coach richt did flake james, ***** off!

Could you imagine the 3 **** broads trying to sit down with zo, all they would be able to do is STFU and listen, like now tgey add nothing of value unless it coincides with losing!
 
caneworld said:
Just fire our incompetent ticket master AD and hire someone who is a proven AD... it isn't that complicated.

Someone like Danny White or Jurich ....
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What Terd is saying makes sense given that Blake has his allies on the BoT so more than likely will not be let go at the moment. This proposed position would be a workable compromise in our situation. It would take heat off Blake too. It appears Manny is the guy who is opposed to it and holding things up.
 
Salt said:
What Terd is saying makes sense given that Blake has his allies on the BoT so more than likely will not be let go at the moment. This proposed position would be a workable compromise in our situation. It would take heat off Blake too. It appears Manny is the guy who is opposed to it and holding things up.
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How can a 6-7 terrible HC like Diaz make demands and why is Blake not overruling him? No leadership, no balls as usual. This is incompetence at its finest. The BOT should step in as well.
 
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Young coaches are mighty prideful - and on a wholesale level - they sink their own boats as they already "know" what they "know."

Compare to a mature Ed Orgeron. Realized he needed a new offense - and without hesitation, brought in a top offensive guy to HELP LSU get to where they're having a good year.

Highsmith - properly approached, would go something like this - Manny would say, "You know things I don't. You have decades of experience I don't have - thus your instincts are based off experience. You've seen most everything - you know talent, you know the mindset this program really needs, and you have acquired lots of football wisdom."

"Come. I want to learn everything I can from you and there will be times you may get irritated - as I'll be steadily asking you to share more and more wisdom. I may disagree at some point - but I'll state my reasoning - and together I'm certain we'll come to the best decision. Let's get this program back on track - and your being here will accelerate my own person learning."


But Manny's too damned stupid.
 
UMFarArcher said:
Young coaches are mighty prideful - and on a wholesale level - they sink their own boats as they already "know" what they "know."

Compare to a mature Ed Orgeron. Realized he needed a new offense - and without hesitation, brought in a top offensive guy to HELP LSU get to where they're having a good year.

Highsmith - properly approached, would go something like this - Manny would say, "You know things I don't. You have decades of experience I don't have - thus your instincts are based off experience. You've seen most everything - you know talent, you know the mindset this program really needs, and you have acquired lots of football wisdom."

"Come. I want to learn everything I can from you and there will be times you may get irritated - as I'll be steadily asking you to share more and more wisdom. I may disagree at some point - but I'll state my reasoning - and together I'm certain we'll come to the best decision. Let's get this program back on track - and your being here will accelerate my own person learning."


But Manny's too damned stupid.
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Pride cometh before the fall.
 
mirvin88 said:
Because Blake would still be in charge and just **** it up again.

The point would be to give AD power for just football to somebody who knows what the **** they're doing.
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Well I can't argue with that... But honestly, my point still stands -- if the problem is the AD, fire the **** AD! I get that there's no appetite at UM to fire Blake because of his fundraising or whatever, but this Highsmith idea seems like an acknowledgment that the people who SHOULD be running the show are incompetent to manage the school's most important athletic program, but rather than shītcan Manny & Blake, they'd rather upend the whole organizational structure of the Athletic Department. Just a bad precedent to set, I think.
 
CANEFAN83 said:
How can a 6-7 terrible HC like Diaz make demands and why is Blake not overruling him? No leadership, no balls as usual. This is incompetence at its finest. The BOT should step in as well.
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Right. But that's not apparently happening because the board is split. At that point what is a compromise solution that's feasible?
 
Yeah...this pretty much confirms the scenario many of us predicted had happened. Manny wants a fanboy, and Zo wants decision making power to fix the house he helped build.
 
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Some of y’all stay in the past, or y’all stay in delusion.

There’s no power struggle. It’s just people on the BOT that didn’t get their way when Manny was hired still trying to get their way.

We’re not hiring a GM for football to be above Diaz. We can hire a GM for football to work for Manny. Or, we can fire Manny and hire someone who can do the job. But we’re not hiring someone to fire Manny, at some point. Nor are we hiring someone to create a package deal with a HC. And anybody thinking that is crazy.

We probably made the wrong hire with Manny. Doesn’t look like he was as prepared as he thought he would be. It happens.

But we don’t create a structure to accommodate the bad hire. You give him the chance to fix it, and make your next move based on the results.
 
MIATL said:
Some of y’all stay in the past, or y’all stay in delusion.

There’s no power struggle. It’s just people on the BOT that didn’t get their way when Manny was hired still trying to get their way.

We’re not hiring a GM for football to be above Diaz. We can hire a GM for football to work for Manny. Or, we can fire Manny and hire someone who can do the job. But we’re not hiring someone to fire Manny, at some point. Nor are we hiring someone to create a package deal with a HC. And anybody thinking that is crazy.

We probably made the wrong hire with Manny. Doesn’t look like he was as prepared as he thought he would be. It happens.

But we don’t create a structure to accommodate the bad hire. You give him the chance to fix it, and make your next move based on the results.
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This position should be more as asst to Blake, not Manny. This should be above Manny and not his call to make. Blake needs to pull trigger if he thinks it's best for program, not Manny.

You still let Manny sink or swim with getting his own assistants though. The AD/ or his asst. can have ultimate veto power, or act as consultant in hiring process but giving HC that authority to bring his own guys makes sense. No HC worth their salt would want to work under a different arrangement.
 
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MIATL said:
Some of y’all stay in the past, or y’all stay in delusion.

There’s no power struggle. It’s just people on the BOT that didn’t get their way when Manny was hired still trying to get their way.

We’re not hiring a GM for football to be above Diaz. We can hire a GM for football to work for Manny. Or, we can fire Manny and hire someone who can do the job. But we’re not hiring someone to fire Manny, at some point. Nor are we hiring someone to create a package deal with a HC. And anybody thinking that is crazy.

We probably made the wrong hire with Manny. Doesn’t look like he was as prepared as he thought he would be. It happens.

But we don’t create a structure to accommodate the bad hire. You give him the chance to fix it, and make your next move based on the results.
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The next move would be to let the same incompetent AD select the next coach and take it to the same dysfunctional BOT to approve. So effectively trying the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. I think they have a word for that.
 
No way Blake doesn't go down swinging on this one. Blake and Manny ran their little buddy game to get the Intern the HC job. They obviously are close and Blake went to bat for suck boy. Blake thought it would be the in thing to do to bring in a local Cuban kid with family ties to the Miami mayor's office. Those two clowns thought it would be a never ending parade of compliments and it would only grow larger after their inaugural season. Blake was fast forwarding to some God like parade for himself and Manny after they achieved all this make believe success. It obviously was make believe because there was no way Manny was ever going to be competent enough as a HC to win anything.

Obviously neither one of them was up to speed on how in over his head Manny is. Blake is in sure fire panic mode and is closing off everything to protect himself. He knows his, and Manny's days are numbered. Blakes whole career is going down in flames because of this hire.
 
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***-e-skr said:
No way Blake doesn't go down swinging on this one. Blake and Manny ran their little buddy game to get the Intern the HC job. They obviously are close and Blake went to bat for suck boy. Blake thought it would be the in thing to do to bring in a local Cuban kid with family ties to the Miami mayor's office. Those two clowns thought it would be a never ending parade of compliments and it would only grow larger after their inaugural season. Blake was fast forwarding to some God like parade for himself and Manny after they achieved all this make believe success. It obviously was make believe because there was no way Manny was ever going to be competent enough as a HC to win anything.

Obviously neither one of them was up to speed on how in over his head Manny is. Blake is in sure fire panic mode and is closing off everything to protect himself. He knows his, and Manny's day are numbered. Blakes whole career is going down in flames because of this hire.
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This is 100% correct. Reading the tea leaves in Barry's article, I'm now starting to get the sense that Blake will eventually have to use his authority or it was be his ***. The noise is ratcheted up so high right now and Blake knows that his job security is directly tied to Diaz, whether he likes it or not.
 
1mg of Epi said:
The pros operate in chaos and disorder?

I actually think In the specific case of UM this arrangement makes perfect sense. There is an AD who has failed in his job as it relates to choosing leaders for each team. You have a coach who has failed in his job as it relates to choosing assistants for his team, and players as well.

Adding someone who has a track record of success doing the things the HC and AD usually do makes perfect sense. There’s no reason Zo can’t answer to Blake, as Blake is still the AD but is Just hiring Someone to take over some tasks. And there is no reason Diaz should be allowed to continue to operate without a football person over his shoulder.
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You make good points and I’ve gone over a bunch of scenarios with this. Other people have stated this; and it’s that there is no job there. We can throw out all the scenarios we want, but there’s no way Blake will hire an Alonzo Highsmith type of guy to oversee Diaz. This is more of a fan reaction to how bad Diaz has been. People are saying this will save Blake’s job. Really? Because if the Canes go 6-6 next year even with Highsmith, which is very possible, both Blake and Diaz are gone.
So the fan reaction to a terrible season is to bring in another guy, not a college guy btw, to oversee the guys who messed up. Why? Fire Diaz and Blake and hire the right guys this time. It’s that simple.
Some posters on here are throwing AZ’s name around as if he’d be a savior. The risk of doing something no other program does, at an athletics department as political and dysfunctional at UM is borderline hysterical. it’s not as simple as, ‘I hate Diaz he sucks, Alonzo will come in and change everything.’ I’m not talking about you specifically, but people on this board throw out ideas and get upset when you tell them it’s not realistic or that it’s a lot harder than they make it seem.
What hiring Highsmith does, in a role where he has power over the HC, is it tells me that Miami is the school that doesn’t trust its HC or AD to do their jobs. And we’d be the only ones. And people want to spin it like it’d be innovative. No, it’s not. Hire the right coach, hire the right AD and let them be innovative on their own terms.
 
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