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Mandy Diaz: Coward & Liar, or Ruthless Man of Action?

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apfenny3 said:
I really like Manny and hope it works out for him, but the only way that happens is if Enos gets canned. I think he’s a solid QB developer but nothing more than that, he can’t run an offense and Manny will be making his bed if he doesn’t get rid of Enos at the end of the season
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There are people around the program who like manny. They don’t want him to fail. Early on it seemed like enos was a bad fit personality wise. Enos is well respected. Perhaps just not the right fit here. We might as well have keep art kehoe at least he gets guys into the league lol
In fairness manny is a first time HC. Butch had to fire people. All coaches do. He picked a guy who’s universally respected. Problem is he coaches like he has bama s line
 
It will be interesting to see what happens this off-season. Manny being a defensive guy isn't going to fire Enos midseason when we have no one who is remotely qualified to call plays behind him. If he gives him the boot after year 1 then Manny has a chance to save himself. One issue I see is Manny doesn't exactly have a strong Rolodex where he can call someone up and most young coaches hire guys they know which is why we ended up with below average coaches like Baker, Patke and Banda.
 
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WhatTheHell said:
Let's journey back to January, eh PLAYERS?

A time when rumors of Applewhite, Fedora, and the Clemson guy swirled like turds down a toilet. A time of hope and optimism. It took Mandy a while to make his OC hire, as he claimed no one would care about the timeline as long as he "got it right." Well, spoiler alert amigo, ya ******* got it dead *** wrong, BROTHER.

Anyway, his awful decision aside, here's what Manny was pumping out about his potential OC hire at the time:




Welp. That was a ******* lie.

Let's break this down. As you know, we are none of these things Mandy claimed to desire on offense, and I'm still not sure why he hired Dan Penos if these were his goals, as Penos' offense is not, and has never been, any of these things. Instead, we're marching out what looks to be some random NY Giants offense from 1993 on most plays, and we occasionally mix in some painfully telegraphed end arounds every now and then if we're REALLY feeling crazy. Wow, Dan, so edgy.

So, let's situate ourselves in the present and see where we stand. We know what Mandy claimed to want, and we see with our own god damned eyeballs we are the opposite of that, but how about quantitive data on the subject? Is Penos as bad as he seems?

Our offense vs FBS teams this season:

94th in plays run
79th in yards per play
95th in total yards
104th in points scored
128th in 3rd down conversions
113th in redzone TD percentage
125th in redzone scoring percentage

Oooookay, wow, holy shlt-- so it's even worse than I thought. What the fvck, Dan? Jesus. So we're not fast, innovative, or cutting-edge. We run a slow pace, we can't score, can't move the ball, and can't convert to sustain drives. Alright then.

Tough to shake off those repulsive numbers but let's try to not let permanent failure and *** ******* Dan Penos derail this post.

Now, back to the matter at hand: Mandy also commented on his OC hire that he wanted an offense that was exciting enough to attract recruits and keep kids home. I ask you, if you're a WR or RB from the great God's country and football powerhouse of Broward County, do you want to come play for this offense after watching the Pitt game or would you rather have all your pubes plucked out one-by-one while blowing your dad in broad daylight? Exactly. Me too.

So Mandy finds himself flailing around in year 1 with a 4-4 record and arguably the worst offense of any Power 5 progrum. The real kicker? Vs FBS teams, Mandy's defense is top 25 in every category listed above except for opponents 3rd down conversions.

What does this mean? If Mandy didn't completely shlt his guayabera on the OC hire, he is looking at a much better season right now and those Touchdown Rings look a lot less ridiculous and the Canes Air Force is firmly grounded in their hangars.

Mandy screwed up as a new head coach, but where does he go from here? That brings us to the big question of my post. Mandy is at a crossroads right now. This offseason, he has the choice of either becoming Al Golden, or giving himself a fighting chance to actually have a successful career at Miami. Al Golden also found himself stuck with a terrible coordinator hire whose unit checked in around the 90s or worse in almost every category, and he refused to adapt and make a change. He's cleaning urinals for the Lions now.

The truly elite, championship-winning coaches like Urban and Saban would pull the plug on their own grandmothers to land a recruit. They'd run a bus full of orphans off of a cliff to secure a title. Winning requires you to be cutthroat and able to recognize when you've made a mistake. But you also need to be capable eliminating that mistake and eradicating the rot swiftly and decisively. Mandy doesn't have time to have bad seasons as a new coach, especially not when he's been here now for 4 seasons in some capacity. There is no time to waste.

Is Mandy a ruthless badass capable of making the tough decision necessary to save his career and this progrum, or is he a moron that will stay loyal to Penos, ignore what's in front of him, and instead opt to blame the players and execution, refusing to rectify his mistake in enough time to stop the bleeding?

Mandy has two choices in the coming months:

He can make the move of an elite level head coach by giving a nod to the executioner and allowing the sword to swing, ending the Penos era and clearing the way for him to hire the type of OC he claimed to originally want; or he can be too stubborn/stupid to realize the disease that must be eliminated in order for him to have a chance to succeed.

I fear it'll be the latter, but for the sake of our dying progrum, I hope he stuns us all and sends Dan Penos back to the depths of 1990's football **** where he belongs-- otherwise, we'll be firing up another head coaching search very soon.
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Man you write good! Hard to argue with anything you said. The concept car Manny presented with his gift of gab preseason, was a futuristic innovation, all bells and whistles included beauty on the road. What he actually ****ted, is a beat up, refurbished Yugo. Pathetically, he’s gonna blame the kids, supported by more “analysis.” That’s the SFLA culture (All included), where “It’s always someone else’s fault.”
 
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mackjones said:
This is what is called Miami's version of The Twilight Zone

Miami is a consistently inconsistent team
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the defensive numbers are so misleading to me. I look at UNC's defense/new defensive coordinator Jay Bateman:

59th in passing efficiency defense
57th in total defense
53rd in scoring defense
51st in 3rd down conversions pct defense
73rd in rushing defense
36th in sacks
55th in turnovers gained

but you look at the fact that they have gone against

#7 scoring offense Clemson (held to 21 pts instead of 42.4 ppg)
#18 scoring offense Wake Forest (held to 24 pts instead of 37.1 ppg)
#9 scoring offense Appalachian State (34 instead of 41 ppg)

even #77 South Carolina held to 23 from 27.6
#63 Duke held to 17 from 29.5
#59 TechVT held to 43 from 30 ppg (6OT)
even #84 us held to 25 from 26.8 (small but still)

# 119 GT allowed 22 (and they average 18) scored more than their average.

Look at us, though, with our much higher ranked defensive numbers:

UF #45 scoring offense (held to 24 from 32 ppg)
UNC # 79 scoring offense (allowed 28 and they average 27.5). A wash but still bolding)
CMU #74 scoring offense (held to 12 and they average 28)
VT # 59 scoring offense (allowed 42 and they average 30 ppg)
UVA # 61 scoring offense (allowed 9 and they average 29.9)
#119 GT allowed 28 but they average 22
Pitt #115 allowed 12 but they average 21


We've certainly held some teams below (UVA and CMU most pronounced) but on average we are facing 79th ranked scoring offenses and they are facing 55th. The best offense we have faced was UF and that was with Franks and not Trask (who looks much better at QB so that would have likely been worse).

Our defense so far has proven almost nothing and has faced a Feliepe Franks UF team as the top offense this year. Wow. Plus you factor in historical recruiting we simply have on average more talent at each level of defense than they have and it makes it worse.

Duke, Louisville, and FSU will each be better offenses then we on average have faced so far this year.
 
well I think we all know now that Saban was probably coming to can pEnos rather than make him OC when Locksley left.
 
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I'm in the fire Enos school of thinking. Recruits will come if they see the offense will be what Manny promised in December (if he hires the right guy). Plus! we could probably sign a class and then can him and potentially keep the class if it's an upgrade.
 
WhatTheHell said:
I am sure offensive players and recruits will be really broken up about not getting a chance to play for the 104th ranked scoring offense in the country.

Continuity for continuity's sake has never, ever worked. A bad coach is a bad coach.
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I see 84th ranked Scoring offense on the NCAA website. I was looking at it earlier when I was ripping this ****show in another thread.
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our SOS is 77th so it’s awful. I’m curious about the average total defense we’ve faced.
 
good news in all of this is unlike HC's coordinators and position coaches are usually on a year to year contract which makes it a lot easier to run their a$$es up the road when they turn out to be completely opposite of what you told the world you wanted in one.
 
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