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If you want to be real for a minute, the scary part is that Flipcois was another horrible character evaluation by Manure. He fell in love with his physical traits and ignored the diva behavior and lack of heart and grit. You generally don't win with guys like this, but there we were begging him at the end even though he had flipped on us twice already.
I don’t want to turn this into a “let’s take this opportunity to bash Manny some more” fest, but this is exactly one of the things I continue to be extremely concerned about: an apparent deficit in “reading” people and his own team.
It was apparent in the loss to FIU, in reading his team prior to this horrific loss, in the team’s performances during and after bye weeks, and in specific cases like this recruit (assuming he was as heavily involved as Banda).
Granted, even the best recruiters miss. Sometimes they miss on talent, sometimes they miss on character, sometimes they miss on both.
Also, I realize his post season moves have been very good. So my hope is, that his first year was an anomaly, and he markedly improves his “reading” abilities.
No one will be happier than I if he turns the ship around and gets us back to big winning ways.
But I can’t be blind to these types of deficits, which are death to a coach. Hoping for a great season this year (assuming we’re having it) and a much much improved team performance and coaching performance.

