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RVACane said:
Some (as you said) not all. The important thing is that they hire a real, legit AD. That AD will not be beholden to a local politician or someone on the BOT working for that as his first act to keep Manny because of Manny Sr.
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Lake on the 24/7 pod was talking about the manny sr. Angle. It’s crazy.. then u remember this is UM.
 
1mg of Epi said:
Lake on the 24/7 pod was talking about the manny sr. Angle. It’s crazy.. then u remember this is UM.
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Is that the instant reaction one from Saturday? I don’t doubt the influence with some. When people talk about him giving the BOT marching orders, that’s far fetched as to scope. I know better.

I would think that whoever the influence was with, that it was expended at the time of hiring. That said, it shouldn’t matter. If a legit AD is brought in then it will be out of the hands of those who can influence it from inside. No legit AD is going to come in and keep a guy he doesn’t want. A legit AD will have demands before accepting.

Where we all need to worry is if they can’t or don’t get a legit AD. Then God knows what fûckery we’ll see. That’s why the AD hire is so critical. Not only do we need an accomplished AD in order to attract a high level coach - but also because that type of AD can set parameters of no interference as a condition of job acceptance.
 
I ain't buying any of this until I see it happen along with a slew of other changes at the top, not to mention a new Headcoach. Blake is indeed a major issue but he ain't the only one.
Which nothing I said is new news of course. It's been stated 10 thousand times
 
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RVACane said:
Is that the instant reaction one from Saturday? I don’t doubt the influence with some. When people talk about him giving the BOT marching orders, that’s far fetched as to scope. I know better.

I would think that whoever the influence was with, that it was expended at the time of hiring. That said, it shouldn’t matter. If a legit AD is brought in then it will be out of the hands of those who can influence it from inside. No legit AD is going to come in and keep a guy he doesn’t want. A legit AD will have demands before accepting.

Where we all need to worry is if they can’t or don’t get a legit AD. Then God knows what fûckery we’ll see. That’s why the AD hire is so critical. Not only do we need an accomplished AD in order to attract a high level coach - but also because that type of AD can set parameters of no interference as a condition of job acceptance.
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No, they released a new pod yesterday
 
OriginalCanesCanesCanes said:
Manny Senior has not had, and will not have, any impact on this. These people don’t understand that. They think a semi-retired lawyer, ex Miami mayor, whose name is associated with a mid-tier law firm (he’s NOT even a partner) and who is in a party ceremonial position, now has some kind of Rasputin type hold on the BOT. It’s all nonsense. Nobody that has football influence on the BOT gives a fūck about Manny Senior.

Strawley, is just some weird whipping woman that this site has. She does nothing and sets no policy and has no influence on the football program.

Blake is 100% in charge, and she’s just an operations person. Since most people here don’t have corporate or organizational experience, they probably don’t even know what an operations person is. Suffice it to say they never set policy. She’s literally a nobody. No offense to her, but she has little or nothing to do with the football program, certainly not about determining coaches or direction or any of that. It’s laughable.

The big issue with the BOT and the new AD is getting them to take that next BIG step, a big step to try to get up with the big boys. They both need to find sources of income (boosters) that we currently don’t have. It’s a big job.
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The only influence Senior has he is a Chairman of the Florida Democratic Party, of which he appears to be running like the City of Miami. That may impress the limousine liberal crowd on the board, which there are many, but nearly irrelevant to the football program. May help getting a tee time at La Gorce which for most of them all that really matters.
 
Pentagon Cane said:
The only influence Senior has he is a Chairman of the Florida Democratic Party, of which he appears to be running like the City of Miami. That may impress the limousine liberal crowd on the board, which there are many, but nearly irrelevant to the football program. May help getting a tee time at La Gorce which for most of them all that really matters.
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I think it’s less what he can do for them in the future vs what he may have done for them in the past and those long standing relationships. More like “remember that time I approved your development without a feasibility study or making you pay for upgrades to our infrastructure and you made $xx million dollars from it… yea, would you mind keeping Manny employed for a little longer?”
 
This school desperately needs an AD with top 25 CFB background. The school doesn’t know what it doesnt know

In all honesty, I don’t blame them for not opening up the coffers and blindly spending money without vision and leadership

Here’s to hoping that they’ve at least acknowledged the issue (leadership, experience, vision) and are willing to financially commit to drastic improvement
 
Cane6 said:
This school desperately needs an AD with top 25 CFB background. The school doesn’t know what it doesnt know

In all honesty, I don’t blame them for not opening up the coffers and blindly spending money without vision and leadership

Here’s to hoping that they’ve at least acknowledged the issue (leadership, experience, vision) and are willing to financially commit to drastic improvement
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No. No. No. No.

Can we please stop with the 'we HAVE to hire an established AD from a football school' crap. I'm completely fine if we go out and pull a #2 in command like Jeff Purinton from Alabama (has Orange Bowl Committee experience FYI) or a Graham Neff from Clemson, but no big time SEC or Big 10 AD is leaving their post to come to Miami.
 
It's literally a coin flip of James stays or goes at this point—slightly better odds he goes, than stays so an easy position to go all in on; "Sources are telling me he's gone"—and then this person is suddenly a genius for calling something the odds were in favor of happening. If he stays, it was "He had a foot out the door but some BoT members raised **** to give him one more year and others backed down."

Either way, what Danny is calling a "source" is literally someone he sees posting message boards—whose backstory he buys into—and they uses phrases like "breaking news" and "it's official" that James is out; because this rogue individual says so.

I really wish we could get Barstool back on the case with DBC here; this is job for El Pres, Big Cat and KFC to solve.
 
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JZCane0825 said:
No. No. No. No.

Can we please stop with the 'we HAVE to hire an established AD from a football school' crap. I'm completely fine if we go out and pull a #2 in command like Jeff Purinton from Alabama (has Orange Bowl Committee experience FYI) or a Graham Neff from Clemson, but no big time SEC or Big 10 AD is leaving their post to come to Miami.
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Agree.

We had fans screaming about Danny White coming from UCF to Miami—too blind to admit UCF is a better job—hence why he left for Tennessee.

Miami needs a #2 up and comer from a big program—and the right-fit guy, as the wrong one will use this place like the same stepping stone Hocutt and Eichorst did.
 
RVACane said:
Is that the instant reaction one from Saturday? I don’t doubt the influence with some. When people talk about him giving the BOT marching orders, that’s far fetched as to scope. I know better.

I would think that whoever the influence was with, that it was expended at the time of hiring. That said, it shouldn’t matter. If a legit AD is brought in then it will be out of the hands of those who can influence it from inside. No legit AD is going to come in and keep a guy he doesn’t want. A legit AD will have demands before accepting.

Where we all need to worry is if they can’t or don’t get a legit AD. Then God knows what fûckery we’ll see. That’s why the AD hire is so critical. Not only do we need an accomplished AD in order to attract a high level coach - but also because that type of AD can set parameters of no interference as a condition of job acceptance.
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I definitely don’t think that Sr could possibly be a puppet master, controlling the UM BOT and orchestrating some behind the scenes football coup. That’s a bridge too far. Could he call up a couple buddies and ask for them to advocate for more time? Sure, why not. That’s what politicians do.

You make a good point about the problems UM could face finding their next AD. Aside from the dirty laundry that’s been aired, it doesn’t seem like there is any leadership there willing to take on athletics. That’s why I think we’re going to get Gino as AD and Zo as a quasi GM for football. Put that in the vault, maybe we’ll know for sure 11/18.
 
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