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I don't think Manny survives the weekend

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I have no idea why he has even lasted this long. The perfect timing for a coaching change was after the Virginia game. I wonder if it's related to Blake James also being out(allegedly), and therefor he has no interest in making changes right now for the Miami coaching staff. Either way, we have nothing to gain by continuing to trot out Manny to be humiliated each week.
 
OrangeBowlMagic said:
And let me preface this by saying I almost never, ever bet this team, and am usually WAY more optimistic than most fans. So, take this with a grain of salt, as I'm usually wrong (hence the reason I rarely bet on or against Miami).......but I think this is the last weekend for Manny here. I think we're going to get beaten rather convincingly on Saturday and, at 2-5 with yet another home loss on national TV in which we're not especially competitive as only a 3 point dog, they're going to have no choice but to finally let him go.

To me, NC State is the kind of team who can expose Miami badly. In a sense, they're a better Michigan State. The only teams that Miami can beat are teams with really poor defenses, like UVA and UNC (I know we didn't win, but both games were close and could have easily been wins), that they can potentially outscore. Or teams with very poor QBs that they can limit (App State). They can't beat good defenses. And they can't limit good QBs. If you're just a balanced team, Miami really has very little shot, because any good QB is going to score on our defense, and any good defense is going to punish our terrible OL.

NC State is exactly that, IMO. Devin Leary is a good player, and yet while he's not explosive (72nd in the country in YPA, -35 rushing yards on the year), he's very accurate and doesn't make many mistakes (65% completion rate, only 2 INTs in 6 games). Also, they have two kids who are in the top 4 in the conference in missed tackles forced. Zonovan Knight is 2nd with 35 and Ricky Person is 4th with 34. What does Miami struggle with? Limiting QB completion percentage (we're 79th in the country) and missing tackles (worst on planet Earth, possibly beyond). So, I really don't see our defense holding them under 30 points.

On offense, we've started insanely slow the last 2 games with TVD as the QB. In both his starts, we have a grand total of 1 first down in the first quarter of BOTH games combined. And what is the strength of the NC State team? Defense. This is NOT Virginia and NOT North Carolina. UVA is 106th in YPP allowed, UNC is 61st. NC State? 18th. How do they do it? They're near the bottom in sacks and TFLs, so they don't get a lot of negative plays. What they do is play smart, sound football, and they're EXCELLENT on 3rd downs. 2nd in the entire country in defensive 3rd down conversion % allowed. They also don't allow explosive plays. They've only allowed ONE play over 40 yards all year (In contrast, our defense has allowed 6). So they make you earn everything. Not a good recipe with an inaccurate, freshman QB (TVD has completed 47.2% of his passes against FBS competition, which were he qualified, would be far and away dead last in the entire country). So, I really don't see our offense scoring 30 or much above it, unless something really crazy happens (special teams/defensive TD, one of their DBs blows a hammy in coverage, penalties, etc). If this is a "normal" clean game, I really don't see how they don't win by 10+ points.

And if we go out there *AGAIN* against a team who has less talent on paper than we do, at home, on ESPN2, in primetime, and lose something like 35-23, how can you possibly justify keeping a 2-5 Manny when we'll essentially be officially eliminated from any and all of our preseason goals? I don't see how you can justify keeping him now, but I guess the dumbass thinking is "well, the games were close and the team is competitive". Sadly, I don't think that will be the case this week.

(All this to say, bet your life on Miami. We're going to win 58-10, because nothing makes any ******* sense around here)
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Be ready to be surprised.
 
I think he needs to get crushed 45-17, or something that lopsided to get fired this weekend—as the last two close games gave the narrative of, "Two plays away from 4-2 instead of 2-4 and undefeated in conference play, instead of winless".

Realistically, I think he needs to get smacked up by back-to-back ranked teams to be gone—0-4 in ACC play, 2-6 on the year and 2-8 since last December's win over Duke (UM's last over a Power Five team).

All that to say, I would love to NC State just expose this team this weekend to put Miami out of it's collective misery and to send Manny packing.

I don't see how the Canes win either of the next two games, barring a miracle from the football gods.
 
Still think status quo remains until after the Pitt game. With all of the rumors floating around .. Manny's fate is less important to the programs future than that of Blake James .. he needs to be fired first. "Rumors" (I am no insider .. just read a lot of 'stuff') .. are Blake is looking for a new challenge and UM is doing a low key search for a new AD. Hopefully a new AD can be identified and hired by the end of this month? Too much to hope for? Would be a great announcement after the Pitt blowout loss "Miami takes new direction by announcing the hiring of ########## as the new Athletic Director effective immediately" and by the end of his first week on the job "Miami's new AD announces the dismissal of Manny Diaz as head football coach".
 
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bdcane4eva said:
he'll survive....FSU game is the turning point.
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Seems much more likely to me. That said, nothing that Blake or anyone above him has done in the past has convinced me that they'd make a move on Manny mid-season. I'd say it's even 50/50 they make a move at all. Would have to take pressure from those holding the purse-strings.
 
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Rickd said:
Still think status quo remains until after the Pitt game. With all of the rumors floating around .. Manny's fate is less important to the programs future than that of Blake James .. he needs to be fired first. "Rumors" (I am no insider .. just read a lot of 'stuff') .. are Blake is looking for a new challenge and UM is doing a low key search for a new AD. Hopefully a new AD can be identified and hired by the end of this month? Too much to hope for? Would be a great announcement after the Pitt blowout loss "Miami takes new direction by announcing the hiring of ########## as the new Athletic Director effective immediately" and by the end of his first week on the job "Miami's new AD announces the dismissal of Manny Diaz as head football coach".
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I would like to be a fly on the wall as Blake James interviews for another AD job. "Qualifications? Well, I ran three major sports into the ground, but I am good fundraiser and offset that lost revenue by about 10%. So you could say I'm 10% better than the average AD."
 
Tru C said:
I dont know, TVD said he gonna let it rip this time and State cant hang
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OrangeBowlMagic said:
And let me preface this by saying I almost never, ever bet this team, and am usually WAY more optimistic than most fans. So, take this with a grain of salt, as I'm usually wrong (hence the reason I rarely bet on or against Miami).......but I think this is the last weekend for Manny here. I think we're going to get beaten rather convincingly on Saturday and, at 2-5 with yet another home loss on national TV in which we're not especially competitive as only a 3 point dog, they're going to have no choice but to finally let him go.

To me, NC State is the kind of team who can expose Miami badly. In a sense, they're a better Michigan State. The only teams that Miami can beat are teams with really poor defenses, like UVA and UNC (I know we didn't win, but both games were close and could have easily been wins), that they can potentially outscore. Or teams with very poor QBs that they can limit (App State). They can't beat good defenses. And they can't limit good QBs. If you're just a balanced team, Miami really has very little shot, because any good QB is going to score on our defense, and any good defense is going to punish our terrible OL.

NC State is exactly that, IMO. Devin Leary is a good player, and yet while he's not explosive (72nd in the country in YPA, -35 rushing yards on the year), he's very accurate and doesn't make many mistakes (65% completion rate, only 2 INTs in 6 games). Also, they have two kids who are in the top 4 in the conference in missed tackles forced. Zonovan Knight is 2nd with 35 and Ricky Person is 4th with 34. What does Miami struggle with? Limiting QB completion percentage (we're 79th in the country) and missing tackles (worst on planet Earth, possibly beyond). So, I really don't see our defense holding them under 30 points.

On offense, we've started insanely slow the last 2 games with TVD as the QB. In both his starts, we have a grand total of 1 first down in the first quarter of BOTH games combined. And what is the strength of the NC State team? Defense. This is NOT Virginia and NOT North Carolina. UVA is 106th in YPP allowed, UNC is 61st. NC State? 18th. How do they do it? They're near the bottom in sacks and TFLs, so they don't get a lot of negative plays. What they do is play smart, sound football, and they're EXCELLENT on 3rd downs. 2nd in the entire country in defensive 3rd down conversion % allowed. They also don't allow explosive plays. They've only allowed ONE play over 40 yards all year (In contrast, our defense has allowed 6). So they make you earn everything. Not a good recipe with an inaccurate, freshman QB (TVD has completed 47.2% of his passes against FBS competition, which were he qualified, would be far and away dead last in the entire country). So, I really don't see our offense scoring 30 or much above it, unless something really crazy happens (special teams/defensive TD, one of their DBs blows a hammy in coverage, penalties, etc). If this is a "normal" clean game, I really don't see how they don't win by 10+ points.

And if we go out there *AGAIN* against a team who has less talent on paper than we do, at home, on ESPN2, in primetime, and lose something like 35-23, how can you possibly justify keeping a 2-5 Manny when we'll essentially be officially eliminated from any and all of our preseason goals? I don't see how you can justify keeping him now, but I guess the dumbass thinking is "well, the games were close and the team is competitive". Sadly, I don't think that will be the case this week.

(All this to say, bet your life on Miami. We're going to win 58-10, because nothing makes any ******* sense around here)
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The team who scored the highest amount of points on Clemson this year was NC State which was 14 after 4 quarters (27 was the final). Georgia scored 10 on Clemson and that’s the #1 team in the nation at this moment. So, I’m curious to pick your brain. How many points do you think NC State scores on our gReAt dEfeNcE.
 
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