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Manny Diaz was on Joe Rose this morning

The Franchise said:
You can tell Diaz is very smart and that he's the son of a politician. He's adroit at giving the fans the tough guy aggressive talk we want while also trying his best to keep expectations as low as possible so he looks like a genius if we field a competent defense.

You'd think he was still coaching La Tech players the way he talks. He's got some players especially on that DL. Don't be fooled.
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I agree but they have been an understanding defense for so long.
Part of me wants to believe he is being honest. They are not going to break all those bad habits and softness in one spring.
 
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Considering he has a degree in sports psychology, Golden was a trash motivator. It's clear that many of our players think they can skate by on talent alone. It's why so many players do nothing here until the NFL when their livelihood is actually on the line. Golden was just a bunch of empty slogans; he didn't have the clout or the ability to actually demand greatness from his players.

Hopefully Richt and co can finally instill some work ethic in the players they recruit so we don't see kids come in and flame out half way through their first seasons because they stop trying to improve.
 
The defense was brainwashed, defanged, and deballed under the last regime.

Good luck Manny. Those kids went through ****.
 
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"So when we hunt, we have to hunt in packs."

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JHallCanes said:
The defense was brainwashed, defanged, and deballed under the last regime.

Good luck Manny. Those kids went through ****.
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Hope Diaz knows its gonna take awhile for kids like CThomas and JYoung to "step into the light"...Wasnt gonna happen in 4 months. AQM has got a kid to feed so he is all in.... Guys like Willis and Norton are hungry and have that chip on their shoulder. (Norton for all the people who said he couldnt play DT and Willis has been a Lion in a cage for two years)

Diaz has to find a way to get the dawg out of these upperclassmen and he has 4-5 more months to do it.
 
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The Franchise said:
MIATL said:
His comments on the secondary lead to continued questions about why this staff wouldn't be/isn't interested in JC Jackson.

Having that kid would be an instant bump to the talent in our secondary.
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Why do I get the feeling the JC Jackson saga is far from over?
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If we need him bad enough to help us win right now....I don't understand why it's such a big problem. Just give him a year of restricted disciplinary probation and call it day.
 
one thing diaz said here or in another interview is that he sees some players that do belong here and others that do not belong here. i'm glad he's not sugar coating the golden projects!
 
252cane said:
The Franchise said:
You can tell Diaz is very smart and that he's the son of a politician. He's adroit at giving the fans the tough guy aggressive talk we want while also trying his best to keep expectations as low as possible so he looks like a genius if we field a competent defense.

You'd think he was still coaching La Tech players the way he talks. He's got some players especially on that DL. Don't be fooled.
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Nobody is being fooled. I think he is being 100 and some of these guys are just not as good as many thought or they are just soft.
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They should have just kept Folden and Doritos if it was all on the players being bad and/or soft.
 
Lol we hear this every time. Hopefully it's true this time, but even the "flawed" players we have are good enough to win the coastal.
 
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Two words to calm everyone..."Coach Kool"...I'm sure he likes what the South Fla. guys bring instead of a continuing saga of teaching corn-crib dl's at MisU.
 
Jassid82 said:
JHallCanes said:
The defense was brainwashed, defanged, and deballed under the last regime.

Good luck Manny. Those kids went through ****.
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Hope Diaz knows its gonna take awhile for kids like CThomas and JYoung to "step into the light"...Wasnt gonna happen in 4 months. AQM has got a kid to feed so he is all in.... Guys like Willis and Norton are hungry and have that chip on their shoulder. (Norton for all the people who said he couldnt play DT and Willis has been a Lion in a cage for two years)

Diaz has to find a way to get the dawg out of these upperclassmen and he has 4-5 more months to do it.
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Cthomas was 50% (2 years) filled with Goldenisms...he was gonna end up like chick (playing at **** near 280 lbs)... by summer I expect cthomas to be 0% Goldenized and ready to roll with aggression and getting up field dominating.
 
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The Franchise said:
252cane said:
The Franchise said:
You can tell Diaz is very smart and that he's the son of a politician. He's adroit at giving the fans the tough guy aggressive talk we want while also trying his best to keep expectations as low as possible so he looks like a genius if we field a competent defense.

You'd think he was still coaching La Tech players the way he talks. He's got some players especially on that DL. Don't be fooled.
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Nobody is being fooled. I think he is being 100 and some of these guys are just not as good as many thought or they are just soft.
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They should have just kept Folden and Doritos if it was all on the players being bad and/or soft.
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Its not all coaching neither. Its 50-50. Duke, perryman, walford, kaaya and a few others balled despite having a ****** coaching.

There is a legit head coach is in place now and we will find out how good these guys really are.
 
accomadus said:
thats a good point. Kirby was fast and quick. He put on a lot of bad weight and never really materialized after that...got slow and not productive....

That happened far too often under that old coach

2 best linebackers Golden recruited were Grace and Perryman. He had to be convinced to take both. That about sums it up.

Owens has star potential but I am vastly more confident that he will actually reach it now.

I feel bad for Kirby. Guy might have been a player in a competent defense.
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Kirby was the No. 7 LB in the nation coming out. He like every other top 10 positional player we recruited were thoroughly neutered.
 
ben said:
Manny Diaz still sees ‘fatal flaw’ in 2016 Miami Hurricanes | Canes Watch

summary from Matt Porter of PB Post:

The new doctor of defense, Manny Diaz, continues to see troubling signs as he assesses the health of his Hurricanes.

In reviewing the team’s scrimmage of the spring and the recent weeks of practice, the defensive coordinator said his unit still lacks the mental toughness needed to win this fall.

“We want to be defined by that word, and we’re still quite a ways from that,” he said.

In a WQAM interview on Monday, he illuminated an issue that led to several blowout losses in recent seasons (think Clemson 58-0, and North Carolina 59-21, and the final four games of 2014). “Our calling card, a little bit, has been to let go of the rope,” he said.

“It can’t just be wristbands and t-shirts and slogans. This is something that’s got to be earned on the field. It’s got to be earned in the weight room. That is as important as an offensive route or a blitz on defense or a coverage. Until we have that, we’ll still have a fatal flaw on our team.”

Slogans like “ignore the noise” and “full speed ahead” and “brick by brick” and “don’t take the cheese” and “deserve victory” were plastered all over Al Golden‘s program. They were seen on placards in the football facility and on banners at the practice fields as well as on the wristbands and t-shirts Diaz referenced. They are relics now. What remains are players who, generally, let things slip too far before pushing back.

Diaz and Mark Richt have struck similar chords in recent weeks, making it clear the team’s current levels of effort and consistency are unacceptable. Few — if any — coaches will express complete satisfaction with their programs. This new staff, clearly, has high expectations.

Other comments from Diaz:

He thought Saturday’s outing was “mixed bag” of a scrimmage, with his defense bringing less heat than Thursday’s pre-scrimmage practice. “I thought overall, defensively, we played a little slow, a more little timid for what I prefer,” he said, offhandedly comparing his players to dancers who nervously count their steps. “Unfortunately that’s not all that unusual for the first time out. … I think we’ll be a different outfit next Saturday.”

UM’s next scrimmage, which unlike last Saturday’s scrimmage is open to the public, 2 p.m. Saturday at Oxbridge Academy in West Palm Beach.

He said an attacking defense, while something he wants to establish, does have a weakness. He also pointed out that more passive defenses have worked elsewhere.

“There have been great coaches that have done it both ways. There are some people, for example, that want their defensive linemen to just hold the point of attack, don’t get their feet across the line of scrimmage and the linebackers shuffle between two gaps. And then there’s people that want their defensive linemen to penetrate and get upfield and the linebackers to attack the line of scrimmage and hunt the tackle for loss. There have been great defenses that have done it both ways.

“We believe that the best way for UM is to attack. Now the thing is, the weakness of an attack defense is if we all don’t attack together, if some guys sit and some guys rest and some guys hang out at the line of scrimmage, you create a vertical seam in the defense. So when we hunt, we have to hunt in packs. That’s a little bit of what showed up on Saturday. We all have to go together.”

He pointed out five defensive tackles — Kendrick Norton, R.J. McIntosh, Anthony Moten, Courtel Jenkins and Gerald Willis — who have “flashed, who have shown the ability to make a play in the backfield.” Diaz said being able to rotate five (or more) will help defend against high-tempo offenses designed to wear out big-bodied linemen.

Asked about defensive ends Chad Thomas and Al-Quadin Muhammad, Diaz said he liked Muhammad’s effort but he is far from a finished project. Thomas, he said, isn’t consistently showing his five-star talent. “You’ve got to do it when you feel good, and you’ve got to do it when you don’t feel good,” he said. … Potential’s a dirty word in our profession.”

UM’s early-enrollee linebackers Michael Pinckney, Shaquille Quarterman and Zach McCloud “will help us” this fall, he said. “If you came in and watched practice, you couldn’t believe they should be in English 12 right now.” Miami’s early enrollees (those three, quarterback Jack Allison and defensive end Patrick Bethel) are slated to speak with the media on Tuesday.

At defensive back, Diaz said he’s still trying to determine who the best players are. Any position switches — such as moving sophomore safety Jaquan Johnson to cornerback — could happen in the summer. “We certainly have got to improve in the secondary,” he said, in particular tackling.

Fans who want a more aggressive Miami defnese will be happy to know the first defense Diaz called in the scrimmage included bump-and-run coverage (physical, man-to-man defense in which the cornerbacks cover receivers tight at the line of scrimmage; different than the soft, passive zone scheme often employed by Golden and Mark D’Onofrio). However, Diaz said, he isn’t sure if he has the cornerbacks to play it full-time (secondaries must be fast, well-conditioned and physical to play that style) or the disruptive ability in the front seven to do it (if a quarterback has too much time to throw, no secondary can consistently succeed). He did say he is recruiting toward it, and believes he has recruits coming who can do it. “It’s a hallmark” of Miami football, Diaz said.
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literally threw up in my mouth after reading all these stupid slogans.
 
Golden used up all the excuses for 10 more years. Just deliver the frigging wins. Better coaching makes better players. Kool is the only hire that impressed me. The rest of these guys, including our own Boca boy need to prove they deserve to be here by beating FSU. If we wanted excuses we could have kept those idiots. We fired Golden and hire another guy who someone else fired. Staff needs to win. With Golden everyone was too small now everyone is too slow. We know we were not fast enough. Beat the other team with your players and shut up.
 
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