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Ferman is hinting that Highsmith deal is on the way

mjackson6 said:
The optics of this move look good but the only way it truly works is by taking power from both James and Manny. Manny can’t have the end all decision on staff, personnel, scheme, etc and Blake can’t have the power to be the only person involved in a coaching search or other relevant decision related to football.

Seems great on the surface but good luck luring a legit HC here in the future that can’t make his own decisions and have full control of his program. After Blake’s many **** ups im sure he realizes what hes done and is willing to let someone else take some heat. But Manny didn’t sign up to have a GM over him (he needs it but he’s not gonna be happy about it) and no other legit HC is going to want that either.
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All of this.
 
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ZCanes said:
Ferman has had his issues, no doubt. But at least lately he’s been kind of going scorched earth on the admin. He’s always been in the middle ground even when coaches were obviously failing but this time around he hasn’t been pulling any punches. Everything helps at this point
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Scorched earth as in collaborating with a Yahoo reporter who singlehandly attempted to destroy UM football, if not entire athletics department?
You couldn't have come up with a better description.
 
mjackson6 said:
The optics of this move look good but the only way it truly works is by taking power from both James and Manny. Manny can’t have the end all decision on staff, personnel, scheme, etc and Blake can’t have the power to be the only person involved in a coaching search or other relevant decision related to football.

Seems great on the surface but good luck luring a legit HC here in the future that can’t make his own decisions and have full control of his program. After Blake’s many **** ups im sure he realizes what hes done and is willing to let someone else take some heat. But Manny didn’t sign up to have a GM over him (he needs it but he’s not gonna be happy about it) and no other legit HC is going to want that either.
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Who gives a fvck about what first time head Novice manny thinks?! Fvck him, he doesn’t like it then don’t go 6-6 with losses to FIU and duke, don’t have the 130/130 dead last offense in the nation, don’t have one of the worst 3rd down defense and absolute worse 4th down defense in the country! Manure is in no way able to bltch about anything, he should just be happy he’s lucky enough to get another year to redeem his disaster of a first season. You don’t like it manny, then there’s the door! Alonzo as forgotten more football then manure knows and manure knows it.
 
Highsmith was a great player and, from all accounts, remains a great Cane to this day.
Also, no one can dispute his knowledge of the game.
But will he be objective when making potential hiring and firing decisions?
The last thing we need is someone attempting to hire an old UM retread who does things the "Cane" way....Personally, I think it would be much cheaper to hire a real athletic director.
 
MedleyCane said:
Highsmith was a great player and, from all accounts, remains a great Cane to this day.
Also, no one can dispute his knowledge of the game.
But will he be objective when making potential hiring and firing decisions?
The last thing we need is someone attempting to hire an old UM retread who does things the "Cane" way....Personally, I think it would be much cheaper to hire a real athletic director.
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Hiring a real deal AD is the proper move but 15+ years of shenanigans has proven we don’t do proper moves. Bringing in Highsmith would be a positive, though.
 
ZCanes said:
Hiring a real deal AD is the proper move but 15+ years of shenanigans has proven we don’t do proper moves. Bringing in Highsmith would be a positive, though.
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I want an AD with a strong football background, from a school that won alot of hardware, and it doesn't have to be Div1a.....I want a fresh set of eyes and ideas, not someone looking to make "splash" hires or hire a UM...we need to embrace progress and stop chasing ghosts.
 
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You can’t have an AD picking assistants, how will that look to players knowing the HC has zero power?

Manny still hasn’t made changes which is frightening
 
mjackson6 said:
The optics of this move look good but the only way it truly works is by taking power from both James and Manny. Manny can’t have the end all decision on staff, personnel, scheme, etc and Blake can’t have the power to be the only person involved in a coaching search or other relevant decision related to football.

Seems great on the surface but good luck luring a legit HC here in the future that can’t make his own decisions and have full control of his program. After Blake’s many **** ups im sure he realizes what hes done and is willing to let someone else take some heat. But Manny didn’t sign up to have a GM over him (he needs it but he’s not gonna be happy about it) and no other legit HC is going to want that either.
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Your two paragraphs seem contradictory. If the second paragraph is correct (which I agree with), how can what you say in the first paragraph is the only way it can work? It seems it won't. Might as well make AH head coach and GM in that scenario. Who will want that?
 
MedleyCane said:
I want an AD with a strong football background, from a school that won alot of hardware, and it doesn't have to be Div1a.....I want a fresh set of eyes and ideas, not someone looking to make "splash" hires or hire a UM...we need to embrace progress and stop chasing ghosts.
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You and I know that isn’t going to happen, unfortunately. This is a middle ground solution which isn’t ideal but better than the status quo. Trust me, I wish we would just get a real AD but that ain’t happening. They are in love with Flake.
 
MedleyCane said:
Good question.
I'm dying to know what Blake is good at as well.
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Hearing rumors from sources that The Pope will be team chaplain next year.
 
mjackson6 said:
The optics of this move look good but the only way it truly works is by taking power from both James and Manny. Manny can’t have the end all decision on staff, personnel, scheme, etc and Blake can’t have the power to be the only person involved in a coaching search or other relevant decision related to football.

Seems great on the surface but good luck luring a legit HC here in the future that can’t make his own decisions and have full control of his program. After Blake’s many **** ups im sure he realizes what hes done and is willing to let someone else take some heat. But Manny didn’t sign up to have a GM over him (he needs it but he’s not gonna be happy about it) and no other legit HC is going to want that either.
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I agree but I think he might leave Manny to make staff selections and then hang Manny on it. I don’t know exactly how it works so with that said, I would think that’s why Blake doesn’t force the issue mostly. If he forces a different staff and it goes wrong, Manny has a built in excuse that he was forced to work with someone else’s personnel. He can probably just suggest he make changes initially.
 
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Liberty City El said:
If this keeps all the ****sticks within the administration who don't care about Football away from the Football program, I'll take it...

They just need to move out the way & let someone who knows & cares about Football make the decisions, instead of just staying status quo all the time & accepting mediocrity.
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Sounds like this is exactly the plan.
 
My post has nothing to do with whether or not AH would be good at this position. So under this setup, Blake would be President of athletics and AH would be GM of football. AH would be in charge of football and only football.

Two Questions:

1. Is there another school that has actual success using this setup? Please state the school(s).

2. Who would be in charge of basketball or other sports?
 
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