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Diaz is younger version of Swinney, Saban, Urban Meyer

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Clemson was very close to firing Dabo after he took over. He had to beat South Carolina that first year, and even then, he was the coach of the team when "Clemsoning" became a verb. The hard part will be for people to be patient as Diaz makes mistakes, which I'm sure will happen. He's winning the offseason so far. He's undefeated but hasn't won a game either. So far, he's done everything a successful coach can do. Hopefully it continues to gamedays as well.
 
I would say Manny Diaz is an equally talented more motivated version of Manny Diaz. Hears it hear first.
 
the guy hasn't even won a godd@m game yet and he's been crowned here and everywhere. love what he's doing, but the only thing that counts is what happens on two acres . . . (that f@cking Golden expression).
 
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Comparing Golden to Diaz is off base. Golden was fat, out of shape, and was passion on defense. Diaz is fit, aggressive, arrogant and ****y. Diaz is more likely to win because he isn't married to his style, or to the people he hires. Golden was married to that lame 3-4 defense, and that sorry *** DC, he went to school with.
 
A little too soon, but his personality and what's hes already brought to this program is a much needed shot in the arm and then some, that much is certain

If his coaching trajectory can match any of those 3 I'm all for it, minus the faqqotry of saban and the whole murder cover up and 8000 felons of urban lol
 
CaneFanWNY said:
A little too soon, but his personality and what's hes already brought to this program is a much needed shot in the arm and then some, that much is certain

If his coaching trajectory can match any of those 3 I'm all for it, minus the faqqotry of saban and the whole murder cover up and 8000 felons of urban lol
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And Manny doesn't seem like he's a jesus freak cheese **** either.
 
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demcanes26 said:
Comparing Golden to Diaz is off base. Golden was fat, out of shape, and was passion on defense. Diaz is fit, aggressive, arrogant and ****y. Diaz is more likely to win because he isn't married to his style, or to the people he hires. Golden was married to that lame 3-4 defense, and that sorry *** DC, he went to school with.
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Golden flat out sucked. It wasnt just this or that. Not just his defense or his unwillingness to fire people or change. It was all of it. He sucked. It amazes me that people still post about him as if he was thisclose to being a legit great coach. He was awful.
 
Ethnicsands said:
Golden flat out sucked. It wasnt just this or that. Not just his defense or his unwillingness to fire people or change. It was all of it. He sucked. It amazes me that people still post about him as if he was thisclose to being a legit great coach. He was awful.
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He didnt fail because he was a garbage coach. He failed because of banners and cyber bullies.
 
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In the three years as DC here, there's been three main things that Manny has done, on field, that I have really appreciated.

In year one, the first thing I noticed about his defense was that he did not respect quarterbacks who can't throw. No more worrying about getting beat over the top by some option quarterback who can barely complete a forward pass. He was going to come after you and make your guy complete passes out of his comfort zone. You'd think this would be a no brainer but we all remember D'Onofrio lining his guys up ten yards off the line against Georgia Tech. Hey, they might get 400 yards rushing but they are NOT beating us with that one in a million deep ball.

In year two, there were a couple of games where the defense looked out of it. We saw teams like Toledo and Virginia light up our defenders in the first half with quarterback play that seemed to make average guys look like Tom Brady. There was always some sort of mid game adjustment that would catch the opponent off guard in the second half. I honestly don't remember the last time we had a defensive coordinator that would make adjustments at half time. I don't know, Maybe Greg Schiano was the last one to do anything like that?

Year three, he saw the problems we had defending the spread and getting off the field on third down. He altered his defense (gasp! admitting what he was originally doing wasn't perfect?) and incorporated the striker position. They went from being a poor third down defense to the best in the nation.

This guy sees the problem and takes the appropriate steps to fix it. He's flexible and willing to change for the betterment of the team. He pays attention to analytics and makes calls based on logic instead of "coach instinct". If for whatever reason, he is not a successful head coach here, it will not be because he was stubborn and unwilling to alter his gameplan.
 
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