Head Coach Accountability (LONG) How to fix it

[SSCane]

Yeah, except there's absolutely no reason why the AD needs to know much about football. He needs to be able to see failure and fire it. It shouldn't matter why the HC is failing...fix it or you're losing your job. That's it. Pressure the top coach and let him figure it out or find a new job. You're never going to get anywhere micromanaging your HC. Ether he fixes sht or he's not your guy.

True, but Blake James can not make the next hire. Blake needs to be the first to go IMO. If the football program is running well fundraising will take care of it self. I don’t care how god a fund raiser he is. This crap keeps happening another 10 years there won’t be any fans left.

 

[SpikeUM]

Those are names that would imo do very well here.

I agree with everything you wrote, but there is one overriding necessity. Before Manny is replaced, we need to at least replace Strawley and/or add a football GM. Otherwise, the next head coach might be Patke or Baker.

 

[jsy]

Oh no Stefan Adams said it best on the pod when he said you can get away with a 6-6 season year one. Can't do that next year or then your class will look like USC's real fast.

Their oline class is significantly better than ours but overall yeh it’s hard to believe their class

 

[g8rh8rMD]

Another NSD, albeit an early one, and a top 15 class in in-tow. This is not going to be an account about the merits or miss of this class for this site and talented writers will do a remarkable job covering the signees. However this will be about the individuals, who for the better part of two decades, have claimed to have all the answers.

Miami continues to mire in the depths of ACC coastal **** with no realistic stairway to climb up. So where do you start construction when there is a perpetuating wheel bogged down in ashes?

The athletic director and his assistant have proven one thing. They are strictly not football savvy enough to understand when the intricacies of the sport are failing them. (On field metrics/recruiting/etc) I would argue that they do not know the difference between an RPO or a ROTH IRA. Blake James and his underlings have enacted a hands off approach to coaches and staff decisions to an almost diabolically program killing fault.

That hands off construct allowed Al Golden to retain his best friend. Mark D'Onofrio's defense was allowed to be a bigger sanction then the actual one. James? He sat idly bye and said that staff decisions would be on the discretion of the head coach. Now enter Mark Richt. He was granted the ability to call his own plays and bring in a very under qualified quarterback coach in his son. The result after three years of that particular nefarious affordability didn't end well.

Once again you see how poor staff choices wrapped in nepotism and friendship were allowed to fester to the point of catastrophic field results. When you hear the phrase "inmates run the asylum" the collective choice to allow a poor defensive coordinator and subsequent offensive coordinator wallow in an ineptitude created chaos. And it is something that should at least have it's own quality control.

Manny Diaz doesn't have all the answers. He just proved it after a 6-6 record and 0-3 off bye weeks. Diaz does not have the experience needed as a head coach and cannot be simply afforded the right to make all the staff decisions without proper vetting or a sounding board. I think it is time for the University and the powers that be to look at a position where head coaches will be held accountable at the microscopic and critical levels.

Just today you have a pompous arrogant offensive coordinator who scoffed reporters saying he didn't know what a spread was. Shotgun? Quarterback runs he said. "We do that." But do you know how many designed quarterback runs the team actually ran this year? Five. (dgoould) I wonder if Jennifer Strawley knows that? Regardless of spread or not, Miami had the worst scoring output ranking nationally in over 11 years (cfb stats) But who above Manny Diaz is analyzing the trends with the ability to enact necessary change? Right now? No one.

Blake does not have an affinity in this arena. So get someone in the power structure, a director of football operations/general manager/AD of football who can. I don't want to get caught up on the semantics of the position title but rather someone who will finally know what the F they are doing. STOP allowing the head coaches to make decisions carte blanche that are detrimental to the program. Miami coaches seem to be really adapt at that sort of thing.

Blake raises money. He is good at it. So have at it. If the BOT does not want to fire the guy then so be it. But if Miami is EVER put in a situation where it needs to replace an offensive coordinator or head coach for that matter, I simply cannot say that I have faith in Mr. Blake James. I need someone better. I need someone smarter in this one area.

There are doctors and than there are doctors who specialize. When you need brain surgery you don't call the proctologist. But the way the football program has been run lately it might as well have had its head up its own ***. So go get a "football AD" that actually KNOWS football.

There is also a huge financial stake here. One that the university shouldn't ignore. The ACC championship game/New Years Bowl money is something you cannot simply write off. Why would you? The payouts are astronomical and program changing beneficial. Miami has "on paper" the second best signing class in the ACC yet it will be content to march out another 6-6 season? That isn't good enough. That means something is wrong.

This isn't simply a talent issue at Miami and it hasn't been in a long time. While they don't have the talent to knock of the big boys of the world "yet" it is grossly under-performing and losing to teams they out-recruit regularly and religiously. If Miami simply can beat the teams it is supposed to beat and best good teams merely 50% of the time it would at least allow a few steps up that proverbial ACC ladder.

So in closing go get me a carpenter. I don't trust Manny to make all the necessary decisions. He doesn't have the experience. I don't have faith in Blake James because his track record and hands off approach got us here. So here's to hoping there is someone out there who is smarter than Manny and more hands on than Blake. Oh but where could we find such a man...

my man...

 

[kryptonite]

True, but Blake James can not make the next hire. Blake needs to be the first to go IMO. If the football program is running well fundraising will take care of it self. I don’t care how god a fund raiser he is. This crap keeps happening another 10 years there won’t be any fans left.

Obviously he's unfit to pick a HC and we'd be foolish to let him do it again. My point was just that an AD only needs to understand rewarding greatness and punishing failure. He doesn't need to know football, he needs to know how to motivate people who do.

 

[ssvir]

All good stuff, except ACC, Like many other conferences have a divided payout of bowl money and ACCCG game play. Basically everyone gets a cut.

This. Though the economic impact of a successful football program has been well documented.

CFP calibur team = more student applications and more donations.

More applications = more competitive students = raising the educational profile of the university.

More donations = self-explanatory.

 

[g8rh8rMD]

I think you astutely summed up the reality of many of us. Especially with what that pompous *** had to say today. Our only hope is that Manny sees the same things we do , can admit he made a monumental mistake in hiring that ***, and has the balls to make a change.

#**** - copyright September, 2019 (g8rh8rMD)

PS, FTG

 

[filmcane]

Another NSD, albeit an early one, and a top 15 class in in-tow. This is not going to be an account about the merits or miss of this class for this site and talented writers will do a remarkable job covering the signees. However this will be about the individuals, who for the better part of two decades, have claimed to have all the answers.

Miami continues to mire in the depths of ACC coastal **** with no realistic stairway to climb up. So where do you start construction when there is a perpetuating wheel bogged down in ashes?

The athletic director and his assistant have proven one thing. They are strictly not football savvy enough to understand when the intricacies of the sport are failing them. (On field metrics/recruiting/etc) I would argue that they do not know the difference between an RPO or a ROTH IRA. Blake James and his underlings have enacted a hands off approach to coaches and staff decisions to an almost diabolically program killing fault.

That hands off construct allowed Al Golden to retain his best friend. Mark D'Onofrio's defense was allowed to be a bigger sanction then the actual one. James? He sat idly bye and said that staff decisions would be on the discretion of the head coach. Now enter Mark Richt. He was granted the ability to call his own plays and bring in a very under qualified quarterback coach in his son. The result after three years of that particular nefarious affordability didn't end well.

Once again you see how poor staff choices wrapped in nepotism and friendship were allowed to fester to the point of catastrophic field results. When you hear the phrase "inmates run the asylum" the collective choice to allow a poor defensive coordinator and subsequent offensive coordinator wallow in an ineptitude created chaos. And it is something that should at least have it's own quality control.

Manny Diaz doesn't have all the answers. He just proved it after a 6-6 record and 0-3 off bye weeks. Diaz does not have the experience needed as a head coach and cannot be simply afforded the right to make all the staff decisions without proper vetting or a sounding board. I think it is time for the University and the powers that be to look at a position where head coaches will be held accountable at the microscopic and critical levels.

Just today you have a pompous arrogant offensive coordinator who scoffed reporters saying he didn't know what a spread was. Shotgun? Quarterback runs he said. "We do that." But do you know how many designed quarterback runs the team actually ran this year? Five. (dgoould) I wonder if Jennifer Strawley knows that? Regardless of spread or not, Miami had the worst scoring output ranking nationally in over 11 years (cfb stats) But who above Manny Diaz is analyzing the trends with the ability to enact necessary change? Right now? No one.

Blake does not have an affinity in this arena. So get someone in the power structure, a director of football operations/general manager/AD of football who can. I don't want to get caught up on the semantics of the position title but rather someone who will finally know what the F they are doing. STOP allowing the head coaches to make decisions carte blanche that are detrimental to the program. Miami coaches seem to be really adapt at that sort of thing.

Blake raises money. He is good at it. So have at it. If the BOT does not want to fire the guy then so be it. But if Miami is EVER put in a situation where it needs to replace an offensive coordinator or head coach for that matter, I simply cannot say that I have faith in Mr. Blake James. I need someone better. I need someone smarter in this one area.

There are doctors and than there are doctors who specialize. When you need brain surgery you don't call the proctologist. But the way the football program has been run lately it might as well have had its head up its own ***. So go get a "football AD" that actually KNOWS football.

There is also a huge financial stake here. One that the university shouldn't ignore. The ACC championship game/New Years Bowl money is something you cannot simply write off. Why would you? The payouts are astronomical and program changing beneficial. Miami has "on paper" the second best signing class in the ACC yet it will be content to march out another 6-6 season? That isn't good enough. That means something is wrong.

This isn't simply a talent issue at Miami and it hasn't been in a long time. While they don't have the talent to knock of the big boys of the world "yet" it is grossly under-performing and losing to teams they out-recruit regularly and religiously. If Miami simply can beat the teams it is supposed to beat and best good teams merely 50% of the time it would at least allow a few steps up that proverbial ACC ladder.

So in closing go get me a carpenter. I don't trust Manny to make all the necessary decisions. He doesn't have the experience. I don't have faith in Blake James because his track record and hands off approach got us here. So here's to hoping there is someone out there who is smarter than Manny and more hands on than Blake. Oh but where could we find such a man...

Well said!

Are you or any of the CIS inner circle folks hearing anything about the BOT's creating such a position?

 

[g8rh8rMD]

This. Though the economic impact of a successful football program has been well documented.

CFP calibur team = more student applications and more donations.

More applications = more competitive students = raising the educational profile of the university.

More donations = self-explanatory.

more applications = more donations

reference - Lori Loughlin, Felicity Huffman, et al

 

[SSCane]

Obviously he's unfit to pick a HC and we'd be foolish to let him do it again. My point was just that an AD only needs to understand rewarding greatness and punishing failure. He doesn't need to know football, he needs to know how to motivate people who do.

True, but as pointed out in Roman’s post, Blake does not punish failure, he either does nothing to correct the issues or prematurely extends contracts for mediocre performance.
Getting a GM to oversee football would certainly help, but I think it would be best to get ride of James and most of the athletic department and get some people in here that are competent. I think fundraising for the athletic department is going to get much much tougher in the coming year(s) with .500 football program in the crappy ACC costal.

 

[Roman Marciante]

Well said!

Are you or any of the CIS inner circle folks hearing anything about the BOT's creating such a position?

I can only hope. Maybe some loose interest here and there....But unfortunately not anything concrete for me to comment on. But I will break down TVD's senior film this week.....

 

[CashMoneyCane]

Seriously. I don't get why my accounting professor didn't know the difference between a guard and a tackle. I'm so ****ed my academic advisor didn't know who the coach at Boise State was. And Julio Frenk doesn't even know what nickel coverage is!

This is miles beyond stupid. The university is a school. The school has a football team, in addition to multiple other sports. Why shouldn't the AD be intricately involved in baseball? Basketball? Women's soccer?

Y'all sit here on the outside of the university trying to make it about nothing more than football.

Should my degree be in defense?

Administrators are administrators. They should have NOTHING to do with what a head coach does. The head coach runs the football program. They are accountable for everything. If THAT person isn't doing HIS job, then he should be fired. How many elite coaches want to go to a program and be micromanaged by a career desk jockey?

It doesn't work in the NFL, at all, but you think it'll work at Miami?

I seriously don't think you have any idea what an athletic director does.

 

[Ethnicsands]

The athletic director and his assistant have proven one thing. They are strictly not football savvy enough to understand when the intricacies of the sport are failing them. (On field metrics/recruiting/etc) I would argue that they do not know the difference between an RPO or a ROTH IRA. Blake James and his underlings have enacted a hands off approach to coaches and staff decisions to an almost diabolically program killing fault.

There is a certain porster on this site who has been saying this for a long while.

Blake raises money. He is good at it. So have at it. If the BOT does not want to fire the guy then so be it. But if Miami is EVER put in a situation where it needs to replace an offensive coordinator or head coach for that matter, I simply cannot say that I have faith in Mr. Blake James. I need someone better. I need someone smarter in this one area.

So in closing go get me a carpenter. I don't trust Manny to make all the necessary decisions. He doesn't have the experience. I don't have faith in Blake James because his track record and hands off approach got us here. So here's to hoping there is someone out there who is smarter than Manny and more hands on than Blake. Oh but where could we find such a man...

Blake failed. Fire him. There can be no accountability with a head of football reporting to an incompetent james. That just spells greater excuses and more people to blame for losing.

 

[Dan E. Dangerously]

I hate the idea for an "AD of Football." Blake is supposed to be that but isn't qualified.

All they will do is undoubtedly give the job to an alumnus that can insulate the administrators from blame. That's all it is for. Giving Highsmith or whoever a fancy title so when **** goes wrong they can trot out a former player to take heat off of the people who are in charge.

 

[TheOldU2002]

Another NSD, albeit an early one, and a top 15 class in in-tow. This is not going to be an account about the merits or miss of this class for this site and talented writers will do a remarkable job covering the signees. However this will be about the individuals, who for the better part of two decades, have claimed to have all the answers.

Miami continues to mire in the depths of ACC coastal **** with no realistic stairway to climb up. So where do you start construction when there is a perpetuating wheel bogged down in ashes?

The athletic director and his assistant have proven one thing. They are strictly not football savvy enough to understand when the intricacies of the sport are failing them. (On field metrics/recruiting/etc) I would argue that they do not know the difference between an RPO or a ROTH IRA. Blake James and his underlings have enacted a hands off approach to coaches and staff decisions to an almost diabolically program killing fault.

That hands off construct allowed Al Golden to retain his best friend. Mark D'Onofrio's defense was allowed to be a bigger sanction then the actual one. James? He sat idly bye and said that staff decisions would be on the discretion of the head coach. Now enter Mark Richt. He was granted the ability to call his own plays and bring in a very under qualified quarterback coach in his son. The result after three years of that particular nefarious affordability didn't end well.

Once again you see how poor staff choices wrapped in nepotism and friendship were allowed to fester to the point of catastrophic field results. When you hear the phrase "inmates run the asylum" the collective choice to allow a poor defensive coordinator and subsequent offensive coordinator wallow in an ineptitude created chaos. And it is something that should at least have it's own quality control.

Manny Diaz doesn't have all the answers. He just proved it after a 6-6 record and 0-3 off bye weeks. Diaz does not have the experience needed as a head coach and cannot be simply afforded the right to make all the staff decisions without proper vetting or a sounding board. I think it is time for the University and the powers that be to look at a position where head coaches will be held accountable at the microscopic and critical levels.

Just today you have a pompous arrogant offensive coordinator who scoffed reporters saying he didn't know what a spread was. Shotgun? Quarterback runs he said. "We do that." But do you know how many designed quarterback runs the team actually ran this year? Five. (dgoould) I wonder if Jennifer Strawley knows that? Regardless of spread or not, Miami had the worst scoring output ranking nationally in over 11 years (cfb stats) But who above Manny Diaz is analyzing the trends with the ability to enact necessary change? Right now? No one.

Blake does not have an affinity in this arena. So get someone in the power structure, a director of football operations/general manager/AD of football who can. I don't want to get caught up on the semantics of the position title but rather someone who will finally know what the F they are doing. STOP allowing the head coaches to make decisions carte blanche that are detrimental to the program. Miami coaches seem to be really adapt at that sort of thing.

Blake raises money. He is good at it. So have at it. If the BOT does not want to fire the guy then so be it. But if Miami is EVER put in a situation where it needs to replace an offensive coordinator or head coach for that matter, I simply cannot say that I have faith in Mr. Blake James. I need someone better. I need someone smarter in this one area.

There are doctors and than there are doctors who specialize. When you need brain surgery you don't call the proctologist. But the way the football program has been run lately it might as well have had its head up its own ***. So go get a "football AD" that actually KNOWS football.

There is also a huge financial stake here. One that the university shouldn't ignore. The ACC championship game/New Years Bowl money is something you cannot simply write off. Why would you? The payouts are astronomical and program changing beneficial. Miami has "on paper" the second best signing class in the ACC yet it will be content to march out another 6-6 season? That isn't good enough. That means something is wrong.

This isn't simply a talent issue at Miami and it hasn't been in a long time. While they don't have the talent to knock of the big boys of the world "yet" it is grossly under-performing and losing to teams they out-recruit regularly and religiously. If Miami simply can beat the teams it is supposed to beat and best good teams merely 50% of the time it would at least allow a few steps up that proverbial ACC ladder.

So in closing go get me a carpenter. I don't trust Manny to make all the necessary decisions. He doesn't have the experience. I don't have faith in Blake James because his track record and hands off approach got us here. So here's to hoping there is someone out there who is smarter than Manny and more hands on than Blake. Oh but where could we find such a man...

this is why you hire a head coach who DOES have experience.

i find it absurd that your solution for Manny’s inadequacies is to find someone to do his job for him, while he continues to collect a check.

just hire a real head coach.

 

[Roman Marciante]

Seriously. I don't get why my accounting professor didn't know the difference between a guard and a tackle. I'm so ****ed my academic advisor didn't know who the coach at Boise State was. And Julio Frenk doesn't even know what nickel coverage is!

This is miles beyond stupid. The university is a school. The school has a football team, in addition to multiple other sports. Why shouldn't the AD be intricately involved in baseball? Basketball? Women's soccer?

Y'all sit here on the outside of the university trying to make it about nothing more than football.

Should my degree be in defense?

Administrators are administrators. They should have NOTHING to do with what a head coach does. The head coach runs the football program. They are accountable for everything. If THAT person isn't doing HIS job, then he should be fired. How many elite coaches want to go to a program and be micromanaged by a career desk jockey?

It doesn't work in the NFL, at all, but you think it'll work at Miami?

I seriously don't think you have any idea what an athletic director does.

In parts.

Football is the largest money making sport and actually funds most other sports
Your parallels are lazy because...
No. The president of the university or your accounting professor should not be required to know football
But the "ATHLETIC DIRECTOR" or ONE OF HIS SUBORDINATES should
If THAT person isn't doing HIS job? Well if the AD isn't versed enough in football intricacies how does he know?
You have an OC 130/130 on third downs, terrible in SO many metrics, But if he keeps his job?
It does work in the NFL. IT IS CALLED A GENERAL MANAGER lol
The ONLY thing I actually agree with what you said was that I seriously don't have any idea what an athletic director does because I have ZERO idea what Blake James is doing.

"Miles beyond stupid" Try a phrase like, I disagree with this in many parts. Because I am just pretty sure you called me stupid ace. And let's keep the personal attacks on opinions to a minimum.

 

[TheOldU2002]

In parts.

Football is the largest money making sport and actually funds most other sports
Your parallels are lazy because...
No. The president of the university or your accounting professor should not be required to know football
But the "ATHLETIC DIRECTOR" or ONE OF HIS SUBORDINATES should
If THAT person isn't doing HIS job? Well if the AD isn't versed enough in football intricacies how does he know?
You have an OC 130/130 on third downs, terrible in SO many metrics, But if he keeps his job?
It does work in the NFL. IT IS CALLED A GENERAL MANAGER lol
The ONLY thing I actually agree with what you said was that I seriously don't have any idea what an athletic director does because I have ZERO idea what Blake James is doing.

"Miles beyond stupid" Try a phrase like, I disagree with this in many parts. Because I am just pretty sure you called me stupid ace. And let's keep the personal attacks on opinions to a minimum.

Your issue is that Manny shouldnt be allowed to hire coaches bc he is not experienced or good enough.

The most obvious answer is to HIRE A HEAD COACH WHO IS EXPERIENCED AND GOOD ENOUGH. Not make up some random fake job so your boy can continue his fanboy job.

 

[kryptonite]

Seriously. I don't get why my accounting professor didn't know the difference between a guard and a tackle. I'm so ****ed my academic advisor didn't know who the coach at Boise State was. And Julio Frenk doesn't even know what nickel coverage is!

This is miles beyond stupid. The university is a school. The school has a football team, in addition to multiple other sports. Why shouldn't the AD be intricately involved in baseball? Basketball? Women's soccer?

Y'all sit here on the outside of the university trying to make it about nothing more than football.

Should my degree be in defense?

Administrators are administrators. They should have NOTHING to do with what a head coach does. The head coach runs the football program. They are accountable for everything. If THAT person isn't doing HIS job, then he should be fired. How many elite coaches want to go to a program and be micromanaged by a career desk jockey?

It doesn't work in the NFL, at all, but you think it'll work at Miami?

I seriously don't think you have any idea what an athletic director does.

That's what I'm saying.

 

[Roman Marciante]

this is why you hire a head coach who DOES have experience.

i find it absurd that your solution for Manny’s inadequacies is to find someone to do his job for him, while he continues to collect a check.

just hire a real head coach.

Mark Richt had TONS of experience. But Blake thought having him call plays and bring in his under qualified son was a good idea. Someone who was a little more football savvy might have asked a couple more questions. This wheel will continually perpetuate if you can't develop certain stop gaps.

 

[Roman Marciante]

Your issue is that Manny shouldnt be allowed to hire coaches bc he is not experienced or good enough.

The most obvious answer is to HIRE A HEAD COACH WHO IS EXPERIENCED AND GOOD ENOUGH. Not make up some random fake job so your boy can continue his fanboy job.

When did I say Manny Diaz was my boy? The undertones of that was that he shouldn't have been hired. He had ZERO head coaching experience. And when it looks like the AD isn't getting fired soon, what is next? You have Blake hire someone else? Well he just messed up the last two hires? So what is YOUR option then? I mean I am curious. (This should be good) (popcorn gif)