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TemplarCane

TemplarCane

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Forgive yet another rant post, but there were too many where I could add this. So I made my own.

Miami isn’t going to hire a high-salaried big name away from a successful program. Why would someone locked into a $5/6M job leave for an office in Coral Gables? Offer $7M? To who? Stop.

The problem is The U has an AD with little more than a marketing and ticket sales background. We need any AD who understands the ‘Miami brand’ but more importantly understands what it takes to win in athletics. Or, at least smart enough to lean on a network of people who do. Someone who has worked with, for, and contributed to the success best in the business. Someone respected, with connections, who has calls returned.

Where do you think Blake James ranks among ACC athletic directors? Or in all P5? Do you think he’s on anyone’s short list if their AD leaves or retires? He belongs at a lower G5 or FCS program. He should be at FAU or FIU, not The U.

Miami fans need to hope Manny’s poor start is the growing pains of inexperience.

Coach Diaz speaks of the team handling the inevitable adversities that occur in every game. Let’s see how the HC of #TNM handles the adversities of a poor season.

What coaching or schematic adjustments are made during the season? Does he take a more active role in calling the defense? I wouldn’t expect him to fire anyone mid-season, that’s very unusual (even though it happened to him). Perhaps take over coaching LBs and have Patke focus solely on ST? At the end of the season will he be tied to ‘his guys’ or can he look deeper and make hard choices for the benefit of the program?

We’ll see...

And if I were Diaz I’d find away to chat with JJ as often as I could. Not a group therapy session with the other coaches. Head coach to former head coaching legend. A 30-minute call once a week. 15 minutes, once a month. Not schemes, or play calls, or stories from the glory days of the 80s.

Whatever it takes to learn about tough decisions that have to be made to be in order to be a successful head ball coach.

There would be no better mentor.
 
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I'll play. Look we don't have to hire some big name coach from a successful program. There are plenty of uber talented head coaches currently coaching at a smaller programs. I know that our current AD is a mental midget but a real AD would not find it that difficult to identify up and coming head coaching material. We may not get it right the first time but if we have a competent AD who is seriously looking, we will eventually get our guy. The big key here is to surround that head coach with the best staff possible.

Regarding Manny I would love to see him succeed. I would love to see him turn this thing around but I'm beginning to doubt that as a realistic possibility for one main reason. His staff isn't good enough plain and simple. I should have seen this coming but I let the hype and excitement get to me and I let it blind me from the reality I just mentioned above. This staff must be upgraded for Diaz to have any chance. I know what many of us thought. We thought that with Diaz as HC and someone who knows his system as DC(Baker) that we could leave the defensive staff as is and that the defense would just pick up where it left off. We thought that if we cleaned house and got rid of the offensive staff then brought in an experienced OC that we would be all set. WRONG!!!!!!!!!! Manny, especially being a first time head coach should have cleaned house on both sides of the ball and brought in the best staff that he could get. He needed veteran experienced coordinators and the best position coaches possible. He also needed to make sure that at least a few of those assistants were elite recruiters.

Right about now Diaz is beginning to realize that he screwed up big time in not doing the above. I can tell you right now that Baker is mediocre at best and that neophytes like Rumph, Banda and Patke are not going to cut it. Everyone can see just how lost this entire defense is under Baker. You were right when you said that Diaz may have to take over the defense himself. I think he must take over if we are to have any chance at turning this thing around. Then in the off season he needs to axe Baker, Patke, Banda and Rumph and maybe Stubblefeild. This is Miami. The goal here is to win. There is no time to waste on 2nd rate coaches.
 
FrancisSaywer said:
I'll play. Look we don't have to hire some big name coach from a successful program. There are plenty of uber talented head coaches currently coaching at a smaller programs. I know that our current AD is a mental midget but a real AD would not find it that difficult to identify up and coming head coaching material. We may not get it right the first time but if we have a competent AD who is seriously looking, we will eventually get our guy. The big key here is to surround that head coach with the best staff possible.

Regarding Manny I would love to see him succeed. I would love to see him turn this thing around but I'm beginning to doubt that as a realistic possibility for one main reason. His staff isn't good enough plain and simple. I should have seen this coming but I let the hype and excitement get to me and I let it blind me from the reality I just mentioned above. This staff must be upgraded for Diaz to have any chance. I know what many of us thought. We thought that with Diaz as HC and someone who knows his system as DC(Baker) that we could leave the defensive staff as is and that the defense would just pick up where it left off. We thought that if we cleaned house and got rid of the offensive staff then brought in an experienced OC that we would be all set. WRONG!!!!!!!!!! Manny, especially being a first time head coach should have cleaned house on both sides of the ball and brought in the best staff that he could get. He needed veteran experienced coordinators and the best position coaches possible. He also needed to make sure that at least a few of those assistants were elite recruiters.

Right about now Diaz is beginning to realize that he screwed up big time in not doing the above. I can tell you right now that Baker is mediocre at best and that neophytes like Rumph, Banda and Patke are not going to cut it. Everyone can see just how lost this entire defense is under Baker. You were right when you said that Diaz may have to take over the defense himself. I think he must take over if we are to have any chance at turning this thing around. Then in the off season he needs to axe Baker, Patke, Banda and Rumph and maybe Stubblefeild. This is Miami. The goal here is to win. There is no time to waste on 2nd rate coaches.
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I agree there are talented HCs are smaller programs. The comment is more directed at posters whining Miami will make a cheap hire by selecting one of those coaches. Imagine the CIS outrage in 1984 when Miami hired a .500 HC from Oklahoma State.
 
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JJ went 8-5 his first season here, losing his last three games, with a team that had won the title the season before.

Think 4th and 17 was bad?

That year Jimmy's team had the biggest collapse in this program's history, blowing a 31-0 halftime lead to lose 41-40.

They followed that one up by giving up the Hail Flutie play the next week.

So yeah, he should talk to JJ.
 
Miami doesn't have the financial assets to hire quality assistants. Akin to today's major programs. So, I suggest Diaz takes a 500,000 grand cut in salary next winter and hire a DC!
 
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FrancisSaywer said:
I'll play. Look we don't have to hire some big name coach from a successful program. There are plenty of uber talented head coaches currently coaching at a smaller programs. I know that our current AD is a mental midget but a real AD would not find it that difficult to identify up and coming head coaching material. We may not get it right the first time but if we have a competent AD who is seriously looking, we will eventually get our guy. The big key here is to surround that head coach with the best staff possible.

Regarding Manny I would love to see him succeed. I would love to see him turn this thing around but I'm beginning to doubt that as a realistic possibility for one main reason. His staff isn't good enough plain and simple. I should have seen this coming but I let the hype and excitement get to me and I let it blind me from the reality I just mentioned above. This staff must be upgraded for Diaz to have any chance. I know what many of us thought. We thought that with Diaz as HC and someone who knows his system as DC(Baker) that we could leave the defensive staff as is and that the defense would just pick up where it left off. We thought that if we cleaned house and got rid of the offensive staff then brought in an experienced OC that we would be all set. WRONG!!!!!!!!!! Manny, especially being a first time head coach should have cleaned house on both sides of the ball and brought in the best staff that he could get. He needed veteran experienced coordinators and the best position coaches possible. He also needed to make sure that at least a few of those assistants were elite recruiters.

Right about now Diaz is beginning to realize that he screwed up big time in not doing the above. I can tell you right now that Baker is mediocre at best and that neophytes like Rumph, Banda and Patke are not going to cut it. Everyone can see just how lost this entire defense is under Baker. You were right when you said that Diaz may have to take over the defense himself. I think he must take over if we are to have any chance at turning this thing around. Then in the off season he needs to axe Baker, Patke, Banda and Rumph and maybe Stubblefeild. This is Miami. The goal here is to win. There is no time to waste on 2nd rate coaches.
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Amen brother! Couldn’t have said it better myself.
 
Everybody knows we aren’t gonna go get Urban, but holy s*** that doesn’t mean we should settle for a former bartender and a grad assistant. Manny was handed this job and right after Richt was supposedly told to fire his son or leave, we gave Manny complete control and he did exactly what Richt did. He protected his guys and blamed it all on Richt’s offense. Are we gonna have to wait for three years to get accountability with Manny?
 
Home Slice said:
Manny's here for at least 3 years like it or not. Prayers that he is the right man for the job. Stay tuned.
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Well my friend I can tell you how that remaining two years will go come this offseason. If manny doesn’t clean house on the coaching deficiencies on the defensive side of the ball and hire a REAL ST coach then this is just golden and Richt all over again. I had hoped manny wouldn’t ruin his coaching career like those two did by keeping friends/family on board that have no business coaching at this level. We will see this offseason if manny is serious about winning, holding everyone accountable including the coaches he picked and being a successful head coach. Minimum two of patke, Banda, rumph, and Baker have to go. One coach needs to coach the ALL the DBs, no wonder we have constant break downs back there with these kids getting different coaching between two different coaches. Smh and one coach needs to solely coach ST and it needs to be an experienced coach! And preferably the two new coaches aren’t just experienced but also good recruiters. If manny does that, then I’ll know he’s serious and I’ll support him. If he doesn’t I’ll just be counting the months till December 2021 and hopefully the new coach and AD being hired.
 
Now you guys know why I was so critical of Rumph. You know who you are, as many of you defended him! But I knew all along we were going to pay for his misses. Did not think it would be UNC though that broke the camels back, which is even more troublesome!

WE just can't swipe it under the rug and move on from the fact that we whiffed on the most impressive CB class in the modern era. There was always going to be consequences for that. We're paying for it now. And we're going to keep paying for year in and year out until we make changes.
 
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