I still think hes a good DC, I wouldnt put him in the must get, or great, category, but hes definitely not bad.
This room has been pacified
Even though Miami had some ****** lines under Manny, I'll go 9 or 10 wins.
Did you watch our defense last year? That was with a bunch of blue chip recruits and high priced transfers. Imagine how bad it would have been if they didn’t give the staff millions to buy players? I’m still waiting for a Mario linebacker to do anything. We have to sign transfers every year because the guys he recruited can’t play.
This year is make or break. As of right now, Mario hasn’t done anything any run of the mill, average coach couldn’t do here. This year can change the whole script. We can win the conference. We can make the playoffs. We can have a bunch of Mario recruits become star players/draft picks. If that happens then, **** yes, we’re back. If we win 8 or 9 games and play in another pop tart bowl. He’s just Manny with a ****load more money.
10 wins in a season where we played Alabama and Michigan State (11-2) in our non conference schedule would have been our best season since 2002.
Good dc don’t he hold like 1 and 2 for the most rushing yards ever giving up in a game ?
What does “make or break” mean? What does it look like? If the team underachieves and goes 9-3 or (gasp) 8-4, what’s going to happen? How about 7-5? Does Mario get fired? Coordinators booted? I don’t see anything like that happening until he’s down to a couple years left on his original deal.
If I'm correct his Defenses at Texas and Miami set conference records for yards allowed in a game.... Not a good stat to pad your resume with.... Again..... Manny does well for a stretch but then opposing OC's see it coming and it all falls apart...
It means if Mario can’t win with this team, he isn’t going to win anything here. I doubt he would get fired. He would at least get one more year. After that he would be five years into an 8 year deal and buying out the rest of his deal isn’t unrealistic. Nobody waits until their coach’s contract is up to let them go. We don’t HAVE to suffer four extra seasons if he flops this year. While the powers that be might have a friendly relationship with him, that could easily sour with more mediocrity. The people actually paying the money for these players aren’t going to keep throwing their money in the garbage.
I never bought the “opposing OC’s figure him out” line. The guy has been a DC for almost two decades. There’s a ton of film. It doesn’t take opposing coaches three years to decide to finally watch that tape of the North Carolina game to see what works. I’d venture a o say that’s the FIRST thing an opposing coach does when preparing for his team. The fact is that Manny is a ****** recruiter. His defenses play well when he has good players but as time goes on, he replaces them with worse players and they fall apart.
It's not that they CAN'T see it. It's that they don't WANT to see it.
Cam would’ve never gone to Miami if Diass was still the corch. Cam mentioned one of the reasons he chose Miami was because of the OL.
Of course.
He's set a record at Texas, Miami, and PSU. Most rush yardage allowed in a game at all 3, AND most pass yardage allowed in a game at PSU and that was broken in the same season.
