Mario has “Institutional Armor”

[305 MOUNTAIN MAN]

This for all the fire Mario NOW crowd. Let me break down to you why our (fans) prayers and energy should be directed towards Mario having a self-reflection/come to Jesus moment versus Mario should and will be fired ASAP emotions.

Plain and simple Mario has complete institutional armor right now.

1) The President of the school (albeit before he was President) helped brought him here. Think about that for a moment.

2) The big money backers and boosters are tied to him.

3) Radakovich came here knowing it was a rebuild and I guarantee Mario told them that in the interview as well. Should they have believed it? Probably not. But the portal and quick turnaround was a little newer and it was less evidence in 2021.

4) The buyout. We know this school not coughing up a 40 million dollar buyout.

So as a fan base, we’ll be better served to “try”forcing him to make changes with adapting/evolving/running the program. That’s where I think strategically the pressure points are and where we as fans can force more change. And that doesn’t not mean just changing the coordinators. It means hiring smarter and better people and getting out of the way. That’s what successful CEOs do.

As more knowledgeable people have already said, and most of us/you know this man is not going anywhere anytime soon!

So downvote the post, put the vomit emojis or whatever. I’m just speaking once the emotions are calming down from my personal angle. You don’t have to like or agree.

 

[TboneJones]

This for all the fire Mario NOW crowd. Let me break down to you why our (fans) prayers and energy should be directed towards Mario having a self-reflection/come to Jesus moment versus Mario should and will be fired ASAP emotions.

Plain and simple Mario has complete institutional armor right now.

1) The President of the school (albeit before he was President) helped brought him here. Think about that for a moment.

2) The big money backers and boosters are tied to him.

3) Radakovich came here knowing it was a rebuild and I guarantee Mario told them that in the interview as well. Should they have believed it? Probably not. But the portal and quick turnaround was a little newer and it was less evidence in 2021.

4) The buyout. We know this school not coughing up a 40 million dollar buyout.

So as a fan base, we’ll be better served to “try”forcing him to make changes with adapting/evolving/running the program. That’s where I think strategically the pressure points are and where we as fans can force more change. And that doesn’t not mean just changing the coordinators. It means hiring smarter and better people and getting out of the way. That’s what successful CEOs do.

As more knowledgeable people have already said, and most of us/you know this man is not going anywhere anytime soon!

So downvote the post, put the vomit emojis or whatever. I’m just speaking once the emotions are calming down from my personal angle. You don’t have to like or agree.

Good post. And yeah — nobody with a functioning brain thinks Mario is getting fired tomorrow. The man has political armor thicker than a tank and a buyout that makes the IRS flinch. He’s safe for now — we all get that.

But here’s where I push back:

Institutional backing isn’t a shield forever — it’s a timer.

Right now that support protects him.
If he refuses to evolve?
That same support eventually becomes the anchor that drags the whole program.

The sport is changing at warp speed.
Portal + NIL killed the “slow build bully ball” era.
You need scheme, adaptability, QB play, and creativity.
You can't caveman your way through modern CFB.

Mario’s superpower is building the foundation.
His kryptonite is everything that comes after foundation.

This isn't about firing him today, it's about the fact that:

If Mario doesn’t modernize
Delegate the offense
Hire killers, not buddies
And stop micromanaging football like it's 2012 Alabama…

Then we aren’t “rebuilding.”
We’re prolonging the inevitable blow-up.

Fans shouldn’t waste energy on “fire him now.”
We should be applying pressure on:

Adapt or get left behind.

Because if Mario evolves?
Miami becomes a monster.

If he doesn’t?
We’re just delaying the same conversation — with a worse record and a bigger buyout later.

This isn’t about patience.
It’s about survival of the most adaptable.

And right now, Mario is either about to level up —
or get exposed as a guy trying to play Spotify in a cassette deck.

Time’s ticking.