The university didn't fire their AD to retain Manny after a 6-7 win season (at best). The university isn't (supposedly) ponying up a substantial influx in cash flow to have Manny stay on another year. Maybe if Blake wasn't let go and/or we had a top recruiting class coming in, but none of that is reality at the moment.
Be careful about interjecting facts and reason into a CIS conversation.
Not much if anything.
The whole thing has been a dog and pony show. We all love Ed but someone as savvy as him should have seen the bulls*it coming from a mile away. I'm all for former players being involved with the program but they need to be kept at arms length.
What?!?! He's been here 5 years. How is it not his fault our defense is among the worst in the nation? How does it not fall on him that we have no real talent at linebacker, that our defensive players don't know how to tackle, that we play so much zone coverage when our south florida DBs have been raised since pop warner to thrive in man-to-man coverage even against some of the best WRs in the nation? How does it not fault on him that we hired Penos in 2019? And don't get me started on the in-game ***-ups and clock mismanagement, or the lack of discipline.
Stealing a paycheck to be some sort of figurehead.
