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Manny (likely) staying (through the end of season, TBD thereafter)

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Cliff notes....Headline is EXTREMELY misleading....

5 Weeks later, the landscape has changed for UM

-In-season coaching change highly unlikely. Reason: Admins want to protect the team from losing top freshman via portal (we all knew this)

- Due to team playing hard, , young guys developing and playing well, he is POSITION (not a sure thing) to be retained. If the team stunk up the joing against NC State or Pitt, he was as good as gone. He does have some support among trustees.
 
Jassid82 said:
This X10000000. There is no reason to say anything at this point. I cant read the article so maybe there are no actual quotes and the writer is just putting an opinion piece out. But for anyone at UM to say anything right at this moment is stupid. WAY too soon.

Im enjoying the ride too but this could all come to a screeching halt come Saturday at 4pm if we lose to GTech and Manny is booed off the field.
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he had some sourced quotes
 
TRick72 said:
Don’t have the athletic and was only able to read first few paragraphs but is their premise that if you fire him during season you risk losing the talented freshman to the portal but if you wait until after the season they stay?
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Which should tell you the story is worthless. Just like Feldmans buyout story
 
gambino97 said:
Cliff notes....Headline is EXTREMELY misleading....

5 Weeks later, the landscape has changed for UM

-In-season coaching change highly unlikely. Reason: Admins want to protect the team from losing top freshman via portal (we all knew this)

- Due to team playing hard, , young guys developing and playing well, he is POSITION (not a sure thing) to be retained. If the team stunk up the joing against NC State or Pitt, he was as good as gone. He does have some support among trustees.
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Thanks for the CN.

Had no idea the freshmen even cared that much for administration to be worried. Thought they wanted new blood anyway and would stick around to see who the new HC would be before making any rash decision. I thought we were more worried about losing guys if Manny was indeed retained.
 
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As much as we don’t like it (I know I don’t), if the dude wins the last 4 games he’ll get another season at the minimum. My guess is 2-2 he’s out, 1-3 he’s out. 3-1 they struggle with the decision but he still ends up out.
 
The only thing I took from it was “Money will not be an issue.” Look like Frenk took Herbstreit’s rant personal and is trying to fix it. UHealth will help pay for major renovations, facilities, coaching etc. Navarro did address the $15-$20 Million tag about moving on from Manny and his source again said, money will not be an issue.

Frenk better make good on that promise because if he doesn’t the fan base will come after him next.
 
Navarro's story is a giant nothing burger. Using a bunch of words to say nothing but some of y'all took the bait and are all big mad about...what, exactly? You know this admin didn't want to fire Diaz in-season and winning vs NC State & Pitt likely gave Manny enough slack until the end of the season. You don't have to be connected tot he program to know any of this, it's playing out in front of your faces. A bad loss against any of these crap teams upcoming seals the deal mostly because the noise around the program will reach a peak so they'll have to make a move, but until that happens, they won't.

Could he save his job if he wins out, wins the ACCCG, and a bowl game? I suppose, however anyone feels about it, that's a compelling "look at this" he can politic over to a group that really doesn't want to fire him if they don't have to.

But we keep coming back to this. What's more likely based on what you've seen in the Manny Diaz era? That he can run off 6, maybe 7, maybe 8 games in a row where the team wins them all? Or will they come out flat against a team they clearly have a talent advantage over and lose at least one more stupid game?
 
Noliaboi said:
As much as we don’t like it (I know I don’t), if the dude wins the last 4 games he’ll get another season at the minimum. My guess is 2-2 he’s out, 1-3 he’s out. 3-1 they struggle with the decision but he still ends up out.
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I personally think he has to win the bowl game too. ESD is probably going to be a disaster, so going 4-0 until bowl season only saves him so much. If he gets blown out in a bowl game, which going 8-4 may get a higher tier bowl, that should be enough to get him fired.
 
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jerive31 said:
Navarro's story is a giant nothing burger. Using a bunch of words to say nothing but some of y'all took the bait and are all big mad about...what, exactly? You know this admin didn't want to fire Diaz in-season and winning vs NC State & Pitt likely gave Manny enough slack until the end of the season. You don't have to be connected tot he program to know any of this, it's playing out in front of your faces. A bad loss against any of these crap teams upcoming seals the deal mostly because the noise around the program will reach a peak so they'll have to make a move, but until that happens, they won't.

Could he save his job if he wins out, wins the ACCCG, and a bowl game? I suppose, however anyone feels about it, that's a compelling "look at this" he can politic over to a group that really doesn't want to fire him if they don't have to.

But we keep coming back to this. What's more likely based on what you've seen in the Manny Diaz era? That he can run off 6, maybe 7, maybe 8 games in a row where the team wins them all? Or will they come out flat against a team they clearly have a talent advantage over and lose at least one more stupid game?
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If the dude does not write, then he does not eat. Occam's Razor, nothing more complicated than that.
 
IF there are real resources being committed and change at AD, waiting is the best move. We want the new AD hiring the next coach.
 
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