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With rumors emerging that Diaz is sizing him up as his OC, I began looking deeper into Fedora’s career. I must say, after thinking it was going to be some guy who’s never called plays before named Ponce, only to hear Fedora’s name called, I was relieved.
Now, as far as a fit for Miami and Manny goes, after doing some research, I don’t believe an OC hire gets better than this.
But before getting to that, just to first get this out of the way again, here’s his body of work as an offensive coordinator:
Offensive Coordinator History: Total Offenses
Mid Tenn St: 71
Mid Tenn St: 16
Mid Tenn St: 5
Florida: 22nd
OSU: 92nd
OSU: 16th
OSU: 7th
Southern Miss: 20th
Southern Miss: 31st
Southern Miss: 18th
Southern Miss: 17th
8 of his 11 seasons as an offensive coordinator, he produced a top 25 offense.
His only truly poor seasons came both times in his first year at a school, and once in his first year ever as a coordinator.
Adaptability of Manny Diaz
As we know, Diaz is a very analytics-driven guy. He’s a far cry from the Richt school of thought where if you lost a game you simply didn’t “whip the man in front of you” or “give 110%.” The whole packing a lunch box to the game, jug-headed Neanderthal approach to the game is dying.
Manny is the modern sports intellectual and studies trends, self-evaluates, and adapts. Again, this was seen in practice the clearest when it came to 3rd down defense. After a 2017 season of getting his tlts torn off (ranked 75th in the country) on 3rd downs, he sat down, said “my shlt isn’t working” and invented the striker position. He admitted he was wrong, went back to the drawing board, and as you now, we had the best 3rd down defense in the country this season.
Manny leaned out his 3rd down defense and got faster. What are the intangibles people like about him? Innovative and adaptable. That’s the name of the game. Innovative and adaptable.
Enter Larry Fedora
With Manny, at least one thing you’ll get at head coach in Miami is a bright football mind. The last 4 hires were not X and O guys and weren’t going to give you a schematic advantage on either side is the ball. Manny is an analytics nerd and studies both the trend and performance of his team, along with those of college football.
In this regard, experts project that Fedora and Diaz’s vibing quotient “would be off the charts.” Here we observe that Fedora, like Manny, has always been a huge fan of studying not only his team’s every down performance, but the trends in college football. He’s also honed in on proactively adapting his system against defenses shifting toward stopping his offense’s tendencies:
Fedora was on the ground floor of the advanced metrics game in college football, always staying ahead of the curve and constantly undergoing self-evaluation and looking for feedback to improve:
A Schematic Fit Equal to Manny
During the Dark Ages of Dorito, when famine and disease was widespread, children suffered in the streets, and the sun was not seen for years, we all pleaded to the Gods to send us “an aggressive, attacking defense that utilizes Miami’s speed.” We just wanted our 4-3 defense because we knew it magnified our local talent and turned our defense into a championship caliber group of dogs.
Offensively, our recruiting area is just as ripe with that same speed and devastating explosiveness in our athletes. In the 80s, Miami found itself routinely at the forefront of offensive concepts. However, in the last 2 decades, the school you’d most expect to utilize true modern uptempo spread tactics has stayed away. No, instead we have several fans still clamoring for an offense comprised solely of fullbacks and tight ends. “Pro style offense, bro!” Even as the NFL shifts more and more toward college spread concepts.
However, with Fedora, we would finally have an offensive coordinator who wants to put his foot on the gas pedal, and not let up until he’s got 80 on the board. This season we were all disgusted with our lack of pace and our inability to stretch the field horizontally. Defenses never got tired, never had to take a false step or defend the whole field, and we’re able to basically sit Indian style in a circle with their DC getting their play call as Nkosi Perry clapped like a trained circus seal until the playclock read :01.
With Fedora, that South Florida speed would finally be let out of its cage and onto the track:
And as for adaptability, Manny and Fedora are also a great fit. As discussed above, Manny is not a guy who will just run his system every year without understanding his personnel. He won’t just blame the players and call them cancers like a certain recently fired bug-eyed weirdo who puts a tinfoil tent over his genitals whenever he drives by a Red Lobster. Fedora focuses in on both his personnel and his chess match with the defense:
Constantly adapting:
Wrapping it Up:
- Fedora gives you years of experience as a playcaller
- His style of offense - like Manny’s defense- is a perfect fit for the athlete Miami recruits
- Fedora is an analytics guy that thrives on innovation
- He will tailor his offense to his personnel
- He will adapt to that personnel as well as what a defense throws at him
If you have a chance to hire a passionate former ex coach that posted a winning record, and also has a long body of work as a highly-successful coordinator, you scoop him up immediately. This is the type of hire Saban makes and we all roll our eyes in envy.
Do it, Manny. DO IT.
Great write up. I would have left out the personal shot at Brown’s appearance and the genitalia. It was unprofessional.
I was ok with mentioning the locker room cancer comment though. Good stuff!
