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Barry Jackson New Article & what Mario must do now

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LatinCane said:
Like him or not, when Barry Jackson calls you out and begins to present facts, the national figure heads soon begin to regurgitate his columns. Both Desmond Howard and Stephen A. Smith live in Miami and College Game Day has used Barry’s columns in the past to make sure UM hears the message.
Mario is no where near close to getting fired and every year he seems to address issues that have plagued him the previous season but as the game of college football gets more and more expensive on every level and the amount of money at stake increases, this is not an environment of patience or slow and steady, gradual success.
Coaches with a better track record and more success are getting fired. Coaches who are building a faster, better product with less talent and less resources are getting hired. Guys like Bob Chesney and Tim Polasek are waiting for their shot and are bargains compared to what Mario is making.
A guy like Curt Cignetti, is Mario’s worse nightmare. He’s James Franklin and Brian Kelly’s worse nightmare. It doesn’t take 5-7 years to build a solid foundation and get progressive results. With the right coaches and the right players and the right support you can get it done. Mario just has to do some deep soul searching and admit his flaws. If Miami doesn’t tell him he needs to evolve his philosophy, the Miami fans and our support eventually do.
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It should already have been done after last year and it wasn’t!
 
Mario needs to figure out if he wants to win more or have this tough guy mentality with running down your throat

You have all these playmakers at WR and big OTs yet choose to run down the A gap because you want a bully ball identity

Guys like Brohm don’t give a **** what they do as long as they win… just win dammit we have talent yet want to play in a phone booth and play scared and hold on to leads bleeding the clock
 
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TexasCane90 said:
Mario needs to figure out if he wants to win more or have this tough guy mentality with running down your throat

You have all these playmakers at WR and big OTs yet choose to run down the A gap because you want a bully ball identity

Guys like Brohm don’t give a **** what they do as long as they win… just win dammit we have talent yet want to play in a phone booth and play scared and hold on to leads bleeding the clock
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Mario has a work "harder" and not "smarter" mentality, so I seriously doubt he changes that.
 
TemplarCane said:
What makes Jackson’s article stand out more is a number of the coaches he listed with worse conference records, playing conferences where there are many teams better than theirs.

Shane Beamer and Mark Stoops might have five or six better team in the SEC. Even in this more balanced era, South Carolina and Kentucky have little chance of exceeding Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas A&M, Texas, Oklahoma, LSU, and Florida. If they do play those teams close or actually win it’s only because those teams is having a down season.

Same for Luke Fickell at Wisconsin and Jonathan Smith at Michigan State in the Big Ten. They have a little chance to compete without Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, Oregon, and now Indiana. Competitive games are usually down years for those other programs.

Mario has a comparable or better roster than any program in the ACC last season and this season, and has been out-coached and lost as a double digit favorite four times in the last seven ACC games.

This is a pattern, not an occasional upset every coach suffers multiple times in their career. Even Nick Saban.

Mario is seriously underachieving and not living up to The Standard.

What is more disturbing is he doesn’t seem to understand why. Or maybe he does and but can’t thinking of alternative. His former boss and seven-time national champion HC Nick Saban adapted, during Mario’s tenure. What doesn’t Mario understand?
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I’ve come to a firm conclusion Mario is really just a well meaning Meathead. I ignored what FIU & Oregon told us about his stubbornness and lack of creatIvity. I believed after the kneel down GT he would learn from his flaws. CIS all believed he would reinvent himself ala Saban. Unfortunately, none of that has happened and I doubt it will. I’m to the point this Meathead is incapable of change. Each year I say I hope he wakes up but a Meathead will always be a Meathead.
 
Hurricane23 said:
Chadwell out of Liberty, or Sumrall out of Tulane would both take this job, and do better than Mario
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idk ... miami is different ... so many outside factors ... not sure a guy from a lower level has the juice to keep the streets in line, the recruiting prowess, and the ability to activate a community like mario has
 
sdaly12 said:
Mario needs to be the GM/CEO, he can recruit, knows NIL and portal.
hire good people and get out of the way
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I don’t believe Mario is smart enough to do this.

His offenses always look the same. Is that because he can’t help but force his philosophy on the OC? Or is that because he will ONLY hire OCs that run his philosophy?

Last year was the exception not the rule.
 
hoops156 said:
i now know and have learned my lesson is to not judge this team until november
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cway313 said:
Richt had us at 10 wins. The #1 pick in the draft got us 10 wins not Mario. I don"t trust his ability to find another QB. The admin doesn’t have a track record of completing a coaching search. Locking in on one guy and hiring him without conducting interviews is how you end up with ****** results over and over again.
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richt got us to 10 wins without a real QB and half the amount of talent this roster has. along with that, we lost our starting RB that year too and richards missed multiple games. he extracted every bit of talent/effort out of that team.

last year, as we all can see, is because of Cam Ward. a lot of us tried to tell you guys this last year but didnt believe us. this roster is way more complete than last years roster and struggle weekly.

its time to treat mario like a make a wish kid on the sidelines and make him feel important. let a real coach handle gameday and game prep.
 
Papo said:
True fam and I agree with you but we would score a lot more points.
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not if the identity is ground and pound, slow, methodical which is what mario wants to be. its going to come down to an offseason of soul searching for him to make the flip. if he does and completely lets go of his identity, we have a real shot at making real noise next year. if he doesnt, same old every year no matter how much talent is on the roster. we already wasted three years of Bain, Cici. lets not waste 2 more years of baby jesus.
 
Hurricane23 said:
Chadwell out of Liberty, or Sumrall out of Tulane would both take this job, and do better than Mario
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this. there are plenty of coaches who would kill to come down here. ****, lane was begging for this job.

the issue is the program higher ups and donors want their guy and will only support their guy (whether its manny or mario). theyre all fully invested in Mario and we have no way of paying a 61 million dollar buyout, so hes not going anywhere. just have to hope he sees the light after 20 years
 
3FW said:
Mario is a problem, but IMO play calling is not near our biggest problem. The problem is we play extremely tight and that is passed from the coach to his staff and to the players, this is what creates the perceived lack of discipline. What it really creates is the failure to execute. There is nothing that I see that can fix this without getting a new HC.
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I agree with you about playing tight. I said it two games ago. That loss at Louisville was the trigger. The coaches have known the margin of error was slim and I really think they relaxed a bit after getting through the OOC games. I blame the Louisville loss on arrogance; they didn't bother to look at the game the way Brohm did. They got behind early and had to put it on Beck. Fair or not, that's what happened. Yes, he had alot of interceptions; not all of those were on him. That loss caused everyone's sphincter to tighten up.

The players look tight. They don't look like they are having any fun . Stress makes for mistakes. I also think the offense has stopped believing in the game plan. They are the ones on the field - Beck has been handcuffed. It's obvious they are all frustrated. The defense literally quit after the offense failed to score in OT. I'm sure that was born of frustration, too.

It's put up or shup up time for Mario. Lighten up and let the offense play. IDK if Dawson is capable of making the offense what the fan base would like but he has shown over the years he can dial up a few plays every game. It's time to do it. Make the offense fun again.

And something has to be done about the OL and the pre snap penalties. This has NEVER been an issue before this season. It's not even just one player - it's across the board. You have to start having some sort of repercussions for this. Sit the guy a series or two. Who cares at this point. You cannot continue to give away 40+ yards every game.

IDK if the staff doesn't trust Beck or if it's also distrust of the WR room. I know they talk a good show about "feeling good about the room". Yet the lack of substitution from that room says something different. That muffed catch that turned into an interception was not Carson's fault. It was squarely on JoJo. It seemed to shut down the down field passing game .....

I've heard Pete say a few times there are defensive players who are refusing to sub off the field. Who? Why? Bain?
 
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