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Manny Diaz game management was horrible.

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The management of the clock on the delays were pretty ugly but otherwise he was good especially considering it was his first game.
Now, if you meant he should have strangled his OL corch on live tv for whatever that performance was on the line then sure I’ll buy in
 
I thought Diaz should have gone for it on the first drive, instead of settling for the field goal. You don't win games like that with a parade of field goals. Set the tone for your era. That would have been valuable, regardless of whether we converted. Instead he allowed Mullen to make the first gutsy move, and that was rewarded.

Also, once we settled for that field goal on the right hash we got into a comfort zone of kicking field goals from that far right hash. That is risky as heck. This is not after the fact. As soon as that play after the fake field goal penalty ended up on the far right hash I said to the people watching the game with me that I hope we don't get stuck kicking another field goal from that angle. College kickers are notorious for missing that kick to the right. You are really tempting matters by forcing the kicker to succeed from that angle time and again.

We weren't aggressive downfield. That was a major fail. Short passing games do not defeat top SEC defenses. That has been true for more than a decade and will continue to be true for the next decade. I was longing for the days of Rosier overthrowing those routes. From very early in the game it looked like whichever team was more willing to take downfield shots would probably prevail.
 
This could only happen to us. It was a perfect storm of a HC coaching his first ever game as a HC, a freshman QB protected by freshman tackles, an AD with no feel for his program being persuaded by boosters with too much power and too little knowledge, overall complacency throughout the program without a concept of team, sacrifice, and what it takes to win.

Last night was one of the ****tiest looks imaginable and yet we should have won, which only makes it even ****tier. These next 2 weeks are going to be excruciating unless you have Kool-Aid injected into your bloodstream every 20-30 minutes. We're a bad, bad, bad, bad, bad team today.

Diaz deserves credit for instilling toughness but everything else lags behind. One step at a time, I suppose.
 
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Awsi Dooger said:
I thought Diaz should have gone for it on the first drive, instead of settling for the field goal. You don't win games like that with a parade of field goals. Set the tone for your era.
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I was thinking it too for a second. Then I thought, maybe Manny was wanting to get points so his new Q and offense could end their first drive of the season on a positive note, settle down and go into the next one with some momentum and confidence.

Man with everything that went wrong: time management, all the sacks, hurries, the fake punt, missed FG, horrendous calls, the stupid penalties, the dropped passes, the muffed punt, the two big plays the D gave up for TDs - our new Q didn't turn the ball over and the team continued to battle and put themselves in a position to win on the last play of the game against a Top Ten team.

The Canes didn't fold under adversity -something Diaz said he was working on, and we had a truckload to face this game. The team showed the toughness he spoke about instilling; they pulled out every contested fumble from the a pile - not sure I've ever seen that particularly since most were under Gators that first landed on the ball. Even Sacife dug one out to keep the O's slate clean.

Manny gave a very experienced HC, Dan Mullen, with a so called superior team, all he could handle. And he did it with a broken team from last year, no clear QB coming into the season and position deficiencies created by bad recruiting cycles and recruited for a different offense.

Please! I'll take this for a first game to build on, based on what this program has offered the last 15 years. He's going to be a special HC, those of you who can't see that are mutton heads.
 
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HSFC said:
yes they did, 4 turnovers, bad penalties, and when that happens you should not win, but he did. So make of it what you want.
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