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Change to the offense won’t really matter. There is no coach currently worth keeping on this staff. It is a complete joke just as CMR staff was. At least he had a few proven guys.
 
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The biggest thing you forgot to mention when it comes to accountability is the type of leadership these kids are being coached under because the dancing on the sidelines is a joke.... this team needs to be focused and ****ed off every game for getting chewed out all week win or lose not dancing while losing to FIU after a loss to Duke.

That’s 10000% on Diaz soft ***... if he tried to switch it up and start acting like Nick Saban it won’t be received, the players are going to look at him crazy for being fake because it’s always a party with chains and rings Bc that’s the standard he set.
 
Let's just keep it real. Our program will never be championship caliber again. not solely because we wont have the talent but because everyone except the people in control of making changes knows the problems. we as fans just care too much. people who love the game of football see the problems and possible. solutions but those in charge dont care to make the changes.
 
Ethnicsands said:
Good start to a list. I will add some items but re your comments:

- lack of discipline is a coaching issue and is downstream from lack of solid culture and lack of leaderhsip both in the locker room and the staff and IMO in the AD. Manny’s #TNM culture spawned a talk **** and dance culture. It’s on him. It’s worse, not better than under richt. And it wasnt right under richt.

- We havent had a very good qb since dorsey. It’s no coincidence that our good twams were led by GREAT qbs. A hall of famer in kelly, an nfl first round pick and 2x pro bowler and heisman finalist in kosar, Heisman Trophy winners in Vinny and Gino, walsh was first round pick, heisman finalist, all american, sammy baugh trophy winner, erickson won unitas award and golden arm award. Dorsey second in heisman, 2x finalist, all american, 2x qb of year etc. We didnt get those guys by accident. We had coaches who could recognize talent. Evaluators.

- OL - just go look at my comments in the threads last fall. I dont care about stars. we have evaluated poorly. For ages. We lack talent and depth.

- our team speed has deteriorated big time. DBs, WRs, LBs. A few exceptions but not enough. Golden then richt really took us towards a different model and it aint right for us.

- WRs. SMH. Whee have ou gone, Joe DiMaggio (Eddie Brown)? Coker destroyed the WR roster and it just aint been right since. AR should have been a great. But this aint a Miami WR room.

- Too slow to offer. Go look at my recruiting process thread from last winter. We have no plan. We are doing it wrong and have been for ages.
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Good post.
All of this has to do with HCs (supported by a failed admin strategy) that really dont know how to keep the team's attention. Unfortunately Al Golden probably was the best at this, but he never pushed himself by upgrading his officers for recruiting or schematic purposes, and when the losses piled up, they tuned him out too. These HCs keep talking about the next class, as if these 18 year olds are gonna fix the problems the paid adults are creating week by week. Culture is an every day thing... and now Manny has been hired to fix the issues he created. This is wild that he's allowed to get away with his "rebuild" nonsense.
 
TheOldU2002 said:
but asking for and then being satisfied with some assistant firings just buys diaz more time.

if you want a real Miami team then Diaz has to go, period.
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I already said if it were me I'd make changes from james, strawley, and new staff but that realistically won't happen so I chose to go through the theoretical route of compromise.
 
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Andrew said:
We always claim our next QB is our best. If Enos sucks then let's see how another coach develops our QBs. I find it difficult to fire Butch Barry. He is playing three freshman and needs time to develop them.
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Kids got worse and his recruiting is like watching a 22 year old with a receding hair line trying to pick up chicks. (Sorry Balds, you know it’s true)
 
DMoney said:
We suck. So this is a long list. The problem might be as simple as "Manny Diaz and the people who hired him." But someone is going to have to fix these issues, so let's address the specifics:


We are too slow to offer. We aren’t good enough to offer kids late. We need to be first and we need to be aggressive. OL recruiting is a perfect example. Everyone down here knew this was a historic OL class in South Florida. But the SEC beat us to the punch and took the best guys. How does LSU offer a Cuban OL before UM? That’s unforgivable. We don’t have a problem dropping guys, so get in early and be aggressive.

Barry is saying the right things about OL traits but he is slow to actually identify those players. For example, I posted about a player named James Pogorelc from Virginia. This was in May 2019 and he still had no offers. His testing numbers were public and his film showed a prototype tackle in the Barry mold—tall (6’7), flexible, coordinated, laterally quick (4.68 shuttle) with great grades. I even sent his name to the staff. We did nothing.

Flash forward seven months. We are still short on tackles, and Pogorelc now has offers from Michigan and Stanford. If we had gotten him on campus in spring or Paradise we could have stolen him. Now, there’s no chance. Given the state of our program, we need to be ahead of the curve.
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How much is this on the on-field coaching staff vs the off-field staffers responsible for combing the portal, JUCO and HS ranks for
players that can help this program, especially for under-the-radar and under-recruited prospects?
It seems to me those guys are weak.
 
Andrew said:
We always claim our next QB is our best. If Enos sucks then let's see how another coach develops our QBs. I find it difficult to fire Butch Barry. He is playing three freshman and needs time to develop them.
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Our OL sucked all year and he wasn't even staying in contact with local P5 level kids. That is enough incompetence to get fired alone.
 
duke4heisman said:
Hopefully the entire process takes more than a regular work day...smh
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UM is slow to learn and by the looks of it still haven't.

Over the past few seasons, it hasn't just been that we were losing to the likes of Duke and Georgia Tech, we were losing to them consistently. Every season there would be an inexplicable lost to a program like that.

Now, this season we lost two all of them plus a few other real head-scratchers like FIU.

The program has completely collapsed and even if you like Manny as a person and think he still has potential as a coach, you have to have some awareness and recognize that he is not cut out to turn around all of these problems.
 
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simplycanes said:
UM is slow to learn and by the looks of it still haven't.

Over the past few seasons, it hasn't just been that we were losing to the likes of Duke and Georgia Tech, we were losing to them consistently. Every season there would be an inexplicable lost to a program like that.

Now, this season we lost two all of them plus a few other real head-scratchers like FIU.

The program has completely collapsed and even if you like Manny as a person and think he still has potential as a coach, you have to have some awareness and recognize that he is not cut out to turn around all of these problems.
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The problem starts with the AD.
 
DMoney said:
We suck. So this is a long list. The problem might be as simple as "Manny Diaz and the people who hired him." But someone is going to have to fix these issues, so let's address the specifics:

Lack of discipline. We dropped from 48th to 104th in penalties. We finished with a total score of 41-42 against G5 teams. For comparison, Richt’s UM teams averaged a 43-18 win against G5. Worst of all, Manny was 0-3 coming off byes. The stats show that this team lost focus at every opportunity. Manny might be attuned to analytics, but analytics don’t mean much if your players don’t respect you.

The first change should be accountability. In retrospect, it was a mistake to bring back Jeff Thomas. He’s not good enough and his football character is not good enough. It’s one thing to tolerate a hard-working whoremonger like Michael Irvin. Jeff isn’t that kind of team player. Navaughn Donaldson is another example. He was too fat to play. Pat Riley doesn’t condone that with professionals. Manny shouldn’t condone it with college kids.

This class is critically important because of the high number of early enrollees. If they are ready to play, it gives Manny more leverage to bench underperformers.

Lack of leadership in the QB room. We’ve struggled here since at least 2007. It’s either been criminal issues (Marve and Olsen), discipline issues (Jarren and Kosi) or work ethic issues (Rosier, Jacory, Morris). The only guy who conducted himself like a quarterback was Brad Kaaya. Not coincidentally, he’s also our all-time leading passer.

We can’t rely on Jarren or Kosi. Ideally, Tyler Van Dyke is the real deal and a worker. If there is any doubt in January, bring in a grad transfer to compete. Maybe he comes in with the new OC.

Enos has been a bust. This one is easy. The top 5 teams in yards per play are Oklahoma, Alabama, LSU, Clemson and Ohio State. It’s an important stat. Enos finished 90th. Even Richt’s teams averaged 51st, and he was using a playbook from 1992. There is no choice but firing Enos. And since “pro-style offense” has been the common thread through 15 years of failure, it is time for a dedicated spread offense.

The OL stinks. Barry’s OL can’t run block or pass block. They are 113th in yards per rush. They are 112nd in sack percentage. Barry is also struggling to recruit. Signing Day is a week away, and he only has two commits. Barry needs to fired along with Enos.

The Michigan model is our best hope. They were awful in 2017. Harbaugh hired a new coach and developed his young starters. Eventually, they grew into a solid unit. Nelson, Campbell, Gaynor, Clark and Scaife should get better – individually and as a group – with more time in the weight room and more experience. Time will tell how much better they get. There was some really bad film but also flashes of athleticism and toughness.

Donaldson should not play again until he loses at least 25 pounds. Given his knee injury, a full redshirt makes some sense. You can bring him back for the last four games and keep his redshirt. A grad transfer should come in to compete and add depth. Herbert and Hillary are currently unplayable.

No speed in the back 7. Our LBs and DBs were too slow this year. The speed at LB should improve naturally with guys like McCloud, Brooks and Huff. Speed at DB is another story. This class is a disaster. I’ve defended Rumph and Banda in the past because their players developed. But they have been negligent this cycle. This class reminds me of Golden and Shannon’s depth-killing DB classes. That's how you end up starting grad transfers. Manny needs to evaluate that operation from top-to-bottom, with all options on the table.

One thing I’d like us to do is pursue big-time traits out of state. If you can’t get the Tyriques of the world with the total package, find a tough high-ceiling guy and pair him with a high-floor local player. There are plenty of viable DBs in South Florida and you can task your recruiting department with tracking down out-of-state speedsters.

We are too slow to offer. We aren’t good enough to offer kids late. We need to be first and we need to be aggressive. OL recruiting is a perfect example. Everyone down here knew this was a historic OL class in South Florida. But the SEC beat us to the punch and took the best guys. How does LSU offer a Cuban OL before UM? That’s unforgivable. We don’t have a problem dropping guys, so get in early and be aggressive.

Barry is saying the right things about OL traits but he is slow to actually identify those players. For example, I posted about a player named James Pogorelc from Virginia. This was in May 2019 and he still had no offers. His testing numbers were public and his film showed a prototype tackle in the Barry mold—tall (6’7), flexible, coordinated, laterally quick (4.68 shuttle) with great grades. I even sent his name to the staff. We did nothing.

Flash forward seven months. We are still short on tackles, and Pogorelc now has offers from Michigan and Stanford. If we had gotten him on campus in spring or Paradise we could have stolen him. Now, there’s no chance. Given the state of our program, we need to be ahead of the curve.

We need a more consistent run game. Miami finished dead last nationally in power success rate, per Football Outsiders. Some of that is on the OL. But in general, the Enos run game was boom or bust. If Dallas leaves, this becomes a much bigger problem. Harris, Lingard, Chaney and Knighton are big-play backs but they aren't guys who chew up yards between the tackles. Marcus Crowley could prove to be one of the biggest misses from the 2019 class.

One option is adding more of a QB-run dynamic. Trevor Lawrence has run for 407 yards and 7 TDs this year. Lawrence is a better athlete than our QBs, but the difference is slight when you look at testing numbers. Get those guys involved.

We have no proven WRs. One of the most glaring aspects of the FIU and Duke games was that our WRs couldn't separate. Some of that is schematic. But we don't have enough proven playmakers. It would be nice to see athletic workers like Payton and Wiggins step up in the bowl game and carry that into the offseason. We need a couple players to separate from the pack.

We need to get more out of our TEs. This is a first-world problem, but we never got Jordan and Mallory going at the same time. One adjustment I would make is using Mallory more like a flexed receiver. He was in-line too often when they were together and he performed worse than I expected. Throw him some screens and get him running with the ball. Jordan is just as good of a receiver, but he is so much better as a blocker that it makes sense for him to take on the bigger role there.

Add it all up and you have 6-6. The only group I'm comfortable with is DL. We've finished 2nd, 2nd and 7th in sack percentage the last three years and now we are stopping the run. Recruiting is also going well. That's a godsend, because DL is one of the most difficult positions to restock.

The bowl game is irrelevant but also important. The young guys and the OL should be eager to prove themselves. And Manny needs to show that he can keep his players focus when it isn't FSU or Florida week. So far, he's failed spectacularly.
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D$ coming to the dark side and finally saying it like it is.

I'm all kinds of spun up now. For once, it's not just fan p!ssing and moaning, which does happen a lot (and many take it to the far extreme). This staff has serious issues and it's infected the program.
 
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#26-MEAST said:
Let's just keep it real. Our program will never be championship caliber again. not solely because we wont have the talent but because everyone except the people in control of making changes knows the problems. we as fans just care too much. people who love the game of football see the problems and possible. solutions but those in charge dont care to make the changes.
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This program has been dead for a long time.

We got lucky in past hiring quality coaches who knew what they were doing.

Since Butch it’s been repeat city. Hire unproven guys who have no clue.

Randy’s team had no nutritionist or strength program. 2007-2011 no nutritional or strength program.... what?!?!

Golden... never did anything as a coach, but had a binder. Also retained Swasey which was a massive red flag.

Richt... never got with the times, but aleast got us the IPF, a team nutritionist and a certified strength coach even tho he was ***.

Manny’s entire staff is a joke. The entire staff! No joke but FIU has more qualified coaches. Diaz hires Feely based off what again?

Due to our 15 year ineptitude.. we’ve let virtually every program lap us. We were the kings. We were cutting edge. We were innovative. No we are worse than Duke football and stats prove it.

For ***** sake Clemson will have more championships in a couple more years.

Alabama will break our 1st round streak

Bama or Clemson will break our home win streak.

Maybe one day will get lucky again, but Manny and his losers ain’t it
 
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