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My thought is that hopefully with a spread offense we are putting up a lot more points and allows our defense to play a little more loose. Can’t play well when you are always playing at a deficit
 
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TheEye said:
We said this last year. The same “Portal Master” got us Tate Martell. The same “change maker” replaced Richt’s offense with Enos’ offense. This is the same school that already fired a coach and upgraded it with a DC that “gets the culture” while then firing HIM for an overrated HC that only could land a job at Temple! Tired of Ground Hog’s day in Coral Gables!
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If you think last years offseason moves are comparable to this years offseason moves, I don’t know what to tell you. Just gonna have to wait and see when the season starts.
 
canesthing3 said:
If you think last years offseason moves are comparable to this years offseason moves, I don’t know what to tell you. Just gonna have to wait and see when the season starts.
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“If you think Diaz is the same as Big Fat Al, I don’t know what to tell you” is literally what I heard a year ago. What followed was a 7 loss season.
 
blickycane222 said:
Agree, but it’s worrisome that he didn’t make changes on the defense.... it’s obvious Rumph and patke are terrible. And you can make the case for Blake Baker as well because he made some dumbfounding decisions last season. With all that being said, I do have to give manny credit for addressing the disaster of an offense.
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rumph is terrible? Look what he has done with corn elder, M Jack, Trajan (until last year when he had one foot out the door), Blade,s and watch what he does with williams, couch, and dunson. Ivy is limited.
 
Ecush said:
It is hard not to recognize and give him credit for identifying the teams needs and addressing them this offseason. This offseason especially has challenging in ways we will probably never see again. Manny was able to do the following.

Replace Enos with a successful uptempo spread guy who runs a system that relates well to the S Fl athlete.

Sign the best (arguably) available transfer qb to run this new uptempo spread

Sign the best Ot in the portal with a good deal of experience who replaces perhaps the worst tackle in college football.

Move Baxa who single handedly cost us games and sign a grad transfer who has a big leg and proven results.

Add the best defensive grad transfer on the market in Roche who combined with GR15 and Phillips creates the best DE rotation in the country.



Now we may find a way to f up the season still, but manny identified the biggest issues and absolutely crushed them.

Now if he can improve his in game coaching and the secondary improves .....we may have something this year.
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W/L record will have a lot to do with Manny learning how to win football games. For better or worse that's what Miami signed up for when they hired a novice, they probably believed their own BS with the hire too. As much as I am a win now guy, Manny has shown some good things as a guy that learns... yes, there are many, many red flags also. I wouldnt pull the plug too early on Manny if he shows us a little bit. One of the main things I'm looking for out of him this year is producing top draft picks, that'll tell me a lot of what I need to know. Right now Rousseau is a projected high 1st rounder, if Manny gets him there, and another guy like Hall & maybe Jordan somehow go in the late 1st, we might have ourselves a staff.
 
Mr954 said:
My only concern is Manny Diaz believes in his Defensive Philosophy so much he doesn't care about LB and CB recruiting. If he did he wouldn't be allowing Rumph to take guys who were WRs never playing CB ever... Yet Miami seems to love this method. Instead of going hard after Omarion Cooper this year, Asante Samuel Jr, Jaden Davis, Elam, Mullens, and the list goes on. Don't even get me started on LBs.

Manny Defense is good, but we meet Physical teams like Wisconsin we get gashed. Clemson QB Bryant looked like a Heisman Trophy winner against us years back.

Patke def needs to go, but yes Manny is making me somewhat happy.

A wise person told me "A hard head makes a soft a**". He needs to learn from his mistakes.
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There's nothing wrong with doing that if the kid is evaluated properly. Other coaches do this. Quinton Dunbar and Fabian Moreau are examples.
The rest I agree with.
 
He had no freakin' choice but to can Enos and hire Lashlee.

If he had a clue, he wouldn't have hired Enos in the first place!
"I want someone who makes things difficult on defenses."
That man has never had an elite offense in his entire coaching career.

And then you take a 5'2" dual-threat spread QB (Martell) knowing **** well that your new OC is coming here to run 21 Personnel/under center.

And as far as the transfer portal goes...
Yeah great. We can convince 21 year old kids to come here and enjoy South Beach for their last year in college. How 'bout convincing them when they're 18 instead? Do a better job of that.
 
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He lost to FIU in addition to other awful teams.

Obviously we all want to see the team win but personally until he wins the ACC I will not give him credit for a thing.

I honestly want to say that National Title but I guess I'll be reasonable and I am sure people will think my viewpoint is ridiculous but it's not as ridiculous as losing to FIU.
 
OrangeBowlMagic said:
14th in the country in YPP allowed. And that was playing off a Dan Enos offense and the single worst kicking game I’ve ever seen at the collegiate level.
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Don't get distracted by the stats - Miami has played a poor offensive schedule and the lack of recruiting work at some defensive positions has resulted in less than ideal depth as well as missing on better talent opportunities.

If the recruiting and development had been better, it would have been so critical to go out and use the portal for so many defensive players recently......Hill, Bolden, Roche, Phillips and Nnoruka. Instead we're constantly plugging holes to prevent the leaks. Cherry picking is fine but too much portal dependence results in poor roster depth as the IC limit kills the overall number.

Let's not forget we played a walk-on LB last year and have very little depth at CB.....6 total scholarship players including 2 true freshmen.
 
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The Franchise said:
He definitely addressed all of the most pressing personnel issues. It remains to be seen if he self-analyzed and addressed his own massive failures as a leader/button pusher.
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Exactly. Everyone wants to blame some kicker who was 4 of 15 in high school his senior year. Who signed him? Richt. But who didn't sign anyone else? Manny. Who is his coordinator? Patke. Who hired him? Manny.

Culture and chit both run downhill. The fact that this dummy either a) lied to his constituents about what he wanted on O or b) did a **** poor job of interviewing Enos shows incompetence.

Do you think Manny interviewed Lashlee or just took his word for which scheme he would run? Has Lashlee done anything besides say "up tempo" "spacing" "make plays"? Is this going to be his UConn '17 O or his SMU '19 O? They weren't the same offense.

Ps. re Baxa: Never let the game come down to kickers or refs.
 
PSU Cane said:
Don't get distracted by the stats - Miami has played a poor offensive schedule and the lack of recruiting work at some defensive positions has resulted in less than ideal depth as well as missing on better talent opportunities.

If the recruiting and development had been better, it would have been so critical to go out and use the portal for so many defensive players recently......Hill, Bolden, Roche, Phillips and Nnoruka. Instead we're constantly plugging holes to prevent the leaks. Cherry picking is fine but too much portal dependence results in poor roster depth as the IC limit kills the overall number.

Let's not forget we played a walk-on LB last year and have very little depth at CB.....6 total scholarship players including 2 true freshmen.
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It's a culture-less program.

Average O on the '19 schedule per SP+ was 69th. 4 teams ranked 100 or worse of 130. The only 3 offenses higher than 48th were Florida, UNC, and Louisville. L'ville had a bottom 30 defense (as we saw). UNC and Florida were analytically good teams.

I don't get the hype around Phillips besides he was good in high school and looks good coming off the bus. Guy hasn't done anything since turning 18 years old.
 
Each year is different...last season everybody was optimistic cuz we hit the portal just as hard....I'm not too high or too low....I stay even til it's proven on the field.....let's hope Diaz has complete control of team chemistry...last season was a complete mess....
 
Loving all the new additions. 3 former spread OCs banding together and contributing to form a Sonny Dykes/ Gus Malzahn run and gun will be like watching a completely different team. I hope the new coaches teach Manny what to do during bye weeks.
 
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