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Manny sounded pretty confident on Joe Rose today

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The Manny Diaz Show 11-15

The Miami Hurricanes fell in heartbreaking fashion to the Florida State Seminoles on Saturday. Some of the coaching decisions down the stretch by Coach Manny Diaz have been a topic of conversation.
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I wouldn't say he sounded confident. More like he usually does. I gotta say Manny seems to be handing the pressure pretty well. I'm no mind reader so I won't speculate as to what his mindset is. Joe asks tough questions in a subtle, respectful manner. Joe asked about all the **** that happened during the game:
Penalties - especially the first semenhole drive
Turnovers.
4th and 13
The goal line fiasco
TVD starting slow and rebounding

Manny usually responds quickly without hesitation. That's what I heard today.
 
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Fire Manny at the end of the season, it doesn't matter.

But ZERO reason Blake James should still be employed. NONE. The fact that nothing has happened on this front is pretty concerning, gotta be honest.

I don't believe the narrative that they're waiting to give James a soft landing. UM doesn't have that luxury.

If you're gonna bring in a new AD, and a new coach, then you gotta get the new AD in place now.

I don't know how UM works as far as employment, but there might be a requirement that the job has to be posted for x days before it can be filled. And then whoever you hire has to get background checked, and go through compliance training. Not to mention agree to a contract, etc. None of that can happen until the job is open. And then once they're in, they need to fire manny, and do a search for a new coach.

If you fired Blake James today, it might be a month before we hire a new coach. I don't know what the **** they're waiting for, honestly. They're acting like they have all the time in the world, and it sure doesn't look that way from the outside in.
 
RightSaidFred said:
Fire Manny at the end of the season, it doesn't matter.

But ZERO reason Blake James should still be employed. NONE. The fact that nothing has happened on this front is pretty concerning, gotta be honest.

I don't believe the narrative that they're waiting to give James a soft landing. UM doesn't have that luxury.

If you're gonna bring in a new AD, and a new coach, then you gotta get the new AD in place now.

I don't know how UM works as far as employment, but there might be a requirement that the job has to be posted for x days before it can be filled. And then whoever you hire has to get background checked, and go through compliance training. Not to mention agree to a contract, etc. None of that can happen until the job is open. And then once they're in, they need to fire manny, and do a search for a new coach.

If you fired Blake James today, it might be a month before we hire a new coach. I don't know what the **** they're waiting for, honestly. They're acting like they have all the time in the world, and it sure doesn't look that way from the outside in.
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My guess is the end of the week. Also, if Zo is part of the solution as the Associate AD for Football, then when is his Seattle commitment complete? Even if you have your guy(s) does not mean you can on board them right away.
 
423Hurricane said:
www.audacy.com

The Manny Diaz Show 11-15

The Miami Hurricanes fell in heartbreaking fashion to the Florida State Seminoles on Saturday. Some of the coaching decisions down the stretch by Coach Manny Diaz have been a topic of conversation.
www.audacy.com www.audacy.com

For your listening pleasure

I wouldn't say he sounded confident. More like he usually does. I gotta say Manny seems to be handing the pressure pretty well. I'm no mind reader so I won't speculate as to what his mindset is. Joe asks tough questions in a subtle, respectful manner. Joe asked about all the **** that happened during the game:
Penalties - especially the first semenhole drive
Turnovers.
4th and 13
The goal line fiasco
TVD starting slow and rebounding

Manny usually responds quickly without hesitation. That's what I heard today.
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Thank you for saying Joe asked the tough questions. He actually asks the tough questions every week but he does it in a respectful way like you said.
 
RightSaidFred said:
Fire Manny at the end of the season, it doesn't matter.

But ZERO reason Blake James should still be employed. NONE. The fact that nothing has happened on this front is pretty concerning, gotta be honest.

I don't believe the narrative that they're waiting to give James a soft landing. UM doesn't have that luxury.

If you're gonna bring in a new AD, and a new coach, then you gotta get the new AD in place now.

I don't know how UM works as far as employment, but there might be a requirement that the job has to be posted for x days before it can be filled. And then whoever you hire has to get background checked, and go through compliance training. Not to mention agree to a contract, etc. None of that can happen until the job is open. And then once they're in, they need to fire manny, and do a search for a new coach.

If you fired Blake James today, it might be a month before we hire a new coach. I don't know what the **** they're waiting for, honestly. They're acting like they have all the time in the world, and it sure doesn't look that way from the outside in.
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Miami is the only school that I've ever even heard the term 'soft landing' for failed coaches, failed AD, etc.

I've been pretty in-tune with family that has served on the BoT at Tennessee, a family member that coached at multiple SEC schools, and some other people that I know in various sports administration roles (SEC, ACC, AAC, Sun Belt, SoCon) - the picture they always paint is cut throat. I can't imagine any of them caring about a 'soft landing' for a failed employee. It shouldn't be a concern for someone that fails this badly and is compensated as significant as a Division 1 AD or Head Football Coach.
 
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Becanes said:
Thank you for saying Joe asked the tough questions. He actually asks the tough questions every week but he does it in a respectful way like you said.
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I respect the way Joe asks questions. He doesn’t shy away from the negative but asks in a respectful manner. If he came at Manny, or any other guest for that matter, like a bull in a china shop, the answers he gets, or not, would be much different.
 
I mean who calls a play with a QB spy with everyone else in spot drop zone where you vacate the middle of the field and give up a simple dig route on the dagger? Could have at least done a green dog blitz or delay or something to make Travis move his feet a little.

Of course that guy will be confident. He literally doesn’t know that he doesn’t know. Dangerous
 
Mnhurricane said:
I mean who calls a play with a QB spy with everyone else in spot drop zone where you vacate the middle of the field and give up a simple dig route on the dagger? Could have at least done a green dog blitz or delay or something to make Travis move his feet a little.

Of course that guy will be confident. He literally doesn’t know that he doesn’t know. Dangerous
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A family friend that's an FSU fan that usually gets us tickets for games at Doak (alum that used to be an FBS defensive coordinator) was shocked they didn't bring some kind of CB/nickel blitz off the right side of the line (with 3 down lineman) to flush Travis to his left (with Keontra spying) and force him to try to make the spy miss in space with his legs and beat everyone else to the 1st down marker.. both would have never happened.. or throw on the move to his left to the short side of the field where there actually ended up being no WR that would have been in his vision. He would have thrown back towards the middle of the field.

I haven't fact checked it but apparently Travis has the worst (or was the worst a few weeks ago when he saw the stat) passer rating in America when rolling to his left. You'd think the analytics would have told that.. if we were looking at the relevant analytics.
 
JayCane20 said:
A family friend that's an FSU fan that usually gets us tickets for games at Doak (alum that used to be an FBS defensive coordinator) was shocked they didn't bring some kind of CB/nickel blitz off the right side of the line (with 3 down lineman) to flush Travis to his left (with Keontra spying) and force him to try to make the spy miss in space with his legs and beat everyone else to the 1st down marker.. both would have never happened.. or throw on the move to his left to the short side of the field where there actually ended up being no WR that would have been in his vision. He would have thrown back towards the middle of the field.

I haven't fact checked it but apparently Travis has the worst (or was the worst a few weeks ago when he saw the stat) passer rating in America when rolling to his left. You'd think the analytics would have told that.. if we were looking at the relevant analytics.
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It almost suggests that the head coach/defensive coordinator has absolutely no clue what he’s doing.
 
It’s ova, the program is ova. I knew it died when we hired and then subsequently lost to FIU. The sooner you accept it the better. This admin doesn’t care, and they never will.
 
Keeping him appears more and more that this was a political hire and keeping his job is the pay off.
 
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JayCane20 said:
Miami is the only school that I've ever even heard the term 'soft landing' for failed coaches, failed AD, etc.

I've been pretty in-tune with family that has served on the BoT at Tennessee, a family member that coached at multiple SEC schools, and some other people that I know in various sports administration roles (SEC, ACC, AAC, Sun Belt, SoCon) - the picture they always paint is cut throat. I can't imagine any of them caring about a 'soft landing' for a failed employee. It shouldn't be a concern for someone that fails this badly and is compensated as significant as a Division 1 AD or Head Football Coach.
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How many were dumb enough to hire the son of a former BOT member?
 
JayCane20 said:
A family friend that's an FSU fan that usually gets us tickets for games at Doak (alum that used to be an FBS defensive coordinator) was shocked they didn't bring some kind of CB/nickel blitz off the right side of the line (with 3 down lineman) to flush Travis to his left (with Keontra spying) and force him to try to make the spy miss in space with his legs and beat everyone else to the 1st down marker.. both would have never happened.. or throw on the move to his left to the short side of the field where there actually ended up being no WR that would have been in his vision. He would have thrown back towards the middle of the field.

I haven't fact checked it but apparently Travis has the worst (or was the worst a few weeks ago when he saw the stat) passer rating in America when rolling to his left. You'd think the analytics would have told that.. if we were looking at the relevant analytics.
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That is also a great point. There was almost 0 chance Travis was going to make the whole team miss for 14 yards even with us missing 15 tackles before getting him down. Amazing how this guy has no clue how to call a game. Looked like it should have been quarters of some kind, but our insistence against using matchup (Most of the time) made for a simple pitch and catch while there were two defenders covering air on the left hash. We are hard to watch for years now I'm beginning to wonder why I put myself through the pain
 
JayCane20 said:
A family friend that's an FSU fan that usually gets us tickets for games at Doak (alum that used to be an FBS defensive coordinator) was shocked they didn't bring some kind of CB/nickel blitz off the right side of the line (with 3 down lineman) to flush Travis to his left (with Keontra spying) and force him to try to make the spy miss in space with his legs and beat everyone else to the 1st down marker.. both would have never happened.. or throw on the move to his left to the short side of the field where there actually ended up being no WR that would have been in his vision. He would have thrown back towards the middle of the field.

I haven't fact checked it but apparently Travis has the worst (or was the worst a few weeks ago when he saw the stat) passer rating in America when rolling to his left. You'd think the analytics would have told that.. if we were looking at the relevant analytics.
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That would require you to be prepared. You will notice that Diaz does not have a card for situational down and distance. It was very clear that FSU knew EXACTLY what he was going to run on 4th and 14.
 
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