The 2018 season was a rough one, that God forsaken onside kick vs UVA still has me shellshocked to this day lol
But there was still hope because we had just come off the 2017 season where we were playing in the ACC title game (even though we got shellacked by Clemson), we as a team were still just a competent OC & a QB away from turning things around.
I was 100% against hiring Diaz the way we did, I wanted Josh Heupel, Mike Norvell (whoops lol), or possibly a guy like Neal Brown, I absolutely hated the Diaz hire but I was willing to give him a chance because I’m usually pretty fair to most coaches (except for Folden I wanted Folden gone from day 1). It sucks how things completely turned against us a program because Flake James didn’t do his due diligence, but even with all the stress & drama of the 2018 season I still had hope for the program...
Right now, I don’t have much hope unless we get a good HC & find a new AD, I’m pretty certain Diaz gets fired sometime this year, but I have very little optimism this Admin & BOT will make the right hire to replace him. I still think they’re going to be dirt cheap & look for a bargain bin hire, I really hope I’m wrong though.