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Manuela has brought on a talent (Lashlee) that has de facto replaced him as HC.

He knows, the players know it, we know it.

IF Lashlee succeeds, hot name for HC vacancy in 21. IF he fails, then no damage to him because of the long line of "Miami is a dumpster fire" blah blah blah...

Where did Penos in the Aenos end up??

What shrimp.boat is Brown a deck hand on?

Nix is a HS coach, Whips has been through what--37 different teams, etc...etc...etc...
 
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The changes he made were no brainers. Question is, can he instil some toughness, discipline, and PRIDE? Can he get the team up for a game NOT FSU? Can he coach worth a crap during a bye week? He lost every single game when the team had more than a week to prepare. That is bad coaching. That is the sign of a coach that doesn't have a clue what he's doing. It would be different if we were playing Bama coming off a bye week. I'd understand losing to a team like that. But come on. We didn't play one great team coming off a bye week. ****, were any of them even good? I'm not the only one who noticed we looked coached down coming off a bye week.

Manny needs to improve his coaching during the season. Until then, he's just a spoiled rich kid that is allowed to buy the toys he wants to play with. "My Enos doesn't work. Can I buy a new Lashlee? Thanks, Mr. James!"
 
ThomasM said:
The changes he made were no brainers. Question is, can he instil some toughness, discipline, and PRIDE? Can he get the team up for a game NOT FSU? Can he coach worth a crap during a bye week? He lost every single game when the team had more than a week to prepare. That is bad coaching. That is the sign of a coach that doesn't have a clue what he's doing. It would be different if we were playing Bama coming off a bye week. I'd understand losing to a team like that. But come on. We didn't play one great team coming off a bye week. ****, were any of them even good? I'm not the only one who noticed we looked coached down coming off a bye week.

Manny needs to improve his coaching during the season. Until then, he's just a spoiled rich kid that is allowed to buy the toys he wants to play with. "My Enos doesn't work. Can I buy a new Lashlee? Thanks, Mr. James!"
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to play devil's advocate, replacing Donofrio after Louisville sodomized them in the bowl game was also a no brainer.
 
I am predicting a rude awakening for this fanbase when it comes to the "new" offense. When your O line breaks down, I don't care what you call. When your receivers can't catch, I don't care what you call.

It was evident when people demanded Richt take risks, and as soon as he did, the same folks were screaming "WTF?!"
 
Ecush said:
to play devil's advocate, replacing Donofrio after Louisville sodomized them in the bowl game was also a no brainer.
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Only difference, UM was still going cheap as **** back then. Granted, ANY DC would have been better at Miami than D'Onofrio. Manny was allowed to pay Enos way the **** more than we've ever paid any coordinator. He was then allowed to fire the failure, and go get a big time OC in Lashlee. UM is bending over backwards to help Manny, and that's great. Now, he needs to grow up in a hurry, or they will take the keys to his car.
 
colperm said:
Obviously the head coach bears ultimate responsibility for the on field product. But if we’re being completely objective I think most would agree that our kicker cost us 2-3 games last year. If that doesn’t happen, we’re all singing a much different tune right now.

Call me an optimist, call me a Manny Diaz fan boy, call me whatever you want.. but the from a CEO standpoint Manny has done a lot of things right. He’s shown the ability to diagnose and correct issues, the staff has out-recruited our on field product, and we’re positioned for success going into the 2020 season.

I wanted him gone after the way last season finished up. But I think he’s done nearly everything possible to prove he deserves this shot at rebuilding the program
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The kicker didn't lose the games vs GaTech, FIU, VaTech, Duke, LaTech...bad coaching, unprepared coaching, inexperienced coaching. Change those 3 and we win all those games
 
blushrts said:
Exactly, this defense is built to play with a lead and get after the quarterback and create chaos. Teams like Wisconsin who pound the ball are it's kryptonite. But those teams can't pound the ball if you get a lead on them.

Game has changed. The defenses can't just shut people down. You have to put points on the board, and the defense has to get a few key stops/turnovers.
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Except in that Orange Bowl we got a big lead and Hornibrook threw for 4 TD’s... Manny’s D always makes pedestrian QB’s look like Heisman winners
 
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Dude said:
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.
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You judging a coach by draft prospects that he didn't recruit, wow... Clearly player development and gameplanning is his downfall.
 
The kicker was the biggest problem last year. Win those three extra games and the entire season is different. The players don't quit and lose against Duke and FIU if they win the early games.
 
NC_Canes_11 said:
Except in that Orange Bowl we got a big lead and Hornibrook threw for 4 TD’s... Manny’s D always makes pedestrian QB’s look like Heisman winners
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Their DE intercepting the screen pass changed the game. None of those guys were open if the db had just looked at the ball either.
And yeah that was an odd game, Pinstripe bowl the next year is what I expected out of them game plan wise.

Also just remembered the blatant hold on one of those where Richt went loco.
 
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NC_Canes_11 said:
Agreed. We also made a lot of mistakes on offense, but there is zero excuse for giving up that kind of day to Hornibrook.
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True. You can see the difference between an offensive line that holds and one that allows the defense to pressure the QB by comparing Hornibrook's WI performance to last year's.

If we had that kind of line...
 
TimeB0mb said:
A couple days after he was hired, an elite safety that EVERYONE said was signed, sealed, and delivered to UF chose Miami in one of the most surprising recruiting moves in recent memory. Maybe just a huge coincidence that Williams played for Reed (in an all star game I think).
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I said Williams came here due to Reed arrival and CIS sunshine pumpers stated Williams's relationship Banda's is the reason he came even thou Williams didn't commit during the early signing period
 
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blushrts said:
Their DE intercepting the screen pass changed the game. None of those guys were open if the db had just looked at the ball either.
And yeah that was an odd game, Pinstripe bowl the next year is what I expected out of them game plan wise.
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I agree the turnovers got them back into the game, but Hornibrook had his best game all year against us BY FAR and no Idc about his BYU game, they were terrible. Unknown guys having days is a thing against us.
 
JD08 said:
True. You can see the difference between an offensive line that holds and one that allows the defense to pressure the QB by comparing Hornibrook's WI performance to last year's.

If we had that kind of line...
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That’s part of my complaint as well. We couldn’t get to him, but never adjusted to stop his dinking and dunking all the way down the field.
 
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