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Mario's pain

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Yoyo82 said:
I'm not even sure what I'm trying to say. Definitely not about giving him grace or excuses.

Moreso trying to put myself in his shoes and think "what would I do?" and having all the fans ask themselves the same question.

There isn't really an easy answer for somebody who has to have had his confidence absolutely shattered.

Nothing he's done in 12 months now has worked, starting with the 2 blowout losses to Utah.
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IMO, it's simple. At the end of the season, you assess the team, the coaching staff and yourself. You find what you're good at, what you're bad at, and what needs to improve.

Like I posted in dmoney's thread, the only good thing about the utter failure this season is that it's clear that changes need to be made. It would IMO be worse if it wasn't so clear because maybe you could talk yourself into trying to explain it or justify the failures (e.g., if not for that play, if not for that injury, etc.).
 
BeachCanes said:
This is so corny. I don’t feel bad for Mario. He makes 8M a year.
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Not trying to get anybody to feel bad for him. Trying to understand his psyche/position to be able to predict what he'll do next.

It's easy for us to say "fire Gattis and hire a new coordinator"..

But obviously his hires have been colossal failures. Why would HE (let alone us fans) have confidence in his next choices? Should he hand hiring over to Zo? Rad? Or maybe a "poll the fans" 😂?
 
Yoyo82 said:


One thing I think we all need to think about in the midst of all this is Mario's pain. He needs to have some real soul searching going on.

There's no way he lays his head on his pillow at night and thinks "this is fine. It's all going according to plan."

This man has to be on suicide watch if he bleeds orange/green as much as we all think he does.

Put yourselves in his shoes. We all love this program. Do any of you all believe we even love this program a tenth of how much he does?

Now imagine you love this program and for 25 years it has been your dream to come back and lead it as a head coach. For 20 years you've frustratingly watched your beloved program struggle in mediocrity and stupidity. All the while you're learning and seeing the vast difference between the elite programs and your beloved program. For the last 15 years you've taken your wife away from her home and her family.. Your kids never got quality team with their extended family. You haven't seen your family since you've been traveling all over the country. You've taken job after job, traveling across the country, to hopefully one day get a shot at this dream job.

Then finally, the stars align. The culmination of everything you've worked and dreamed for aligns. Miami offers you your dream job. But not only that, they give you every demand and more to fulfill and execute at the highest level. there's no longer an excuse of "well if we had that" etc. You have the blueprint. You have the resources. You have an elite QB and the "best assistant coach" in the country. Everything is aligning perfectly just like you envisioned and planned.

And then what shows up on game day happens to be not just bad.. But possibly the worst Miami football team in 40 years. You set record after record for "worst ever". Your players have all regressed.. Your offensive line, your bread and butter, is significantly WORSE than last year. Your star QB looks sub par.. Your defense can't tackle and your players are all injured. Your team hasn't scored a TD for more than 2 complete games.

All of your alumni friends and brothers probably can't talk to you because of the shame and guilt they know you feel. Your own wife and kids, who are Miami hurricane fans, can't believe how badly you've failed. The players you coach, who you've promised every resource and commitment, can't trust you anymore.

This glorious homecoming has been nothing short of a colossal failure in every regard.. you literally don't have a single accomplishment from this season to hang your hat on.. Nothing. Everything has gotten worse.

How do you sleep at night? How do you stay motivated to keep on? Everything in your world revolves around the Miami Hurricanes. There is no escaping it. There is no silo for you to hide in. What does Mario do?

I think that's why he has this "back to work" mantra. It's all he can do. Put his head down and work and believe in the vision he's had for 20+ years. What else can he do?
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It’s a nice story but it still don’t mean he’ll be successful. He sucks n doesn’t bring anything to the team. Hire an OC as a HC.
 
I give zero ***** about how someone feels who is making the kind of money he is is while he makes players worse than they were last year.

It sucks that it didn't work out for Shannon, another former player / coach. Same with Richt. Feel bad for any of then though, nope, not one bit.
 
SayWhat said:
I give zero ***** about how someone feels who is making the kind of money he is is while he makes players worse than they were last year.

It sucks that it didn't work out for Shannon, another former player / coach. Same with Richt. Feel bad for any of then though, nope, not one bit.
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Not trying to get anybody to feel bad for him. Trying to understand/put myself in his shoes to be able to decide what he'd do next.

Like I said it's easy to say "fire and hire"... But he hired THIS staff just 9 months ago, believing THIS was the staff to bring Miami back to glory. 9 months ago and he couldn't have been more wrong.

How does he reconcile being so wrong and having any confidence that his next hires will be the right ones?
 
Yoyo82 said:


One thing I think we all need to think about in the midst of all this is Mario's pain. He needs to have some real soul searching going on.

There's no way he lays his head on his pillow at night and thinks "this is fine. It's all going according to plan."

This man has to be on suicide watch if he bleeds orange/green as much as we all think he does.

Put yourselves in his shoes. We all love this program. Do any of you all believe we even love this program a tenth of how much he does?

Now imagine you love this program and for 25 years it has been your dream to come back and lead it as a head coach. For 20 years you've frustratingly watched your beloved program struggle in mediocrity and stupidity. All the while you're learning and seeing the vast difference between the elite programs and your beloved program. For the last 15 years you've taken your wife away from her home and her family.. Your kids never got quality team with their extended family. You haven't seen your family since you've been traveling all over the country. You've taken job after job, traveling across the country, to hopefully one day get a shot at this dream job.

Then finally, the stars align. The culmination of everything you've worked and dreamed for aligns. Miami offers you your dream job. But not only that, they give you every demand and more to fulfill and execute at the highest level. there's no longer an excuse of "well if we had that" etc. You have the blueprint. You have the resources. You have an elite QB and the "best assistant coach" in the country. Everything is aligning perfectly just like you envisioned and planned.

And then what shows up on game day happens to be not just bad.. But possibly the worst Miami football team in 40 years. You set record after record for "worst ever". Your players have all regressed.. Your offensive line, your bread and butter, is significantly WORSE than last year. Your star QB looks sub par.. Your defense can't tackle and your players are all injured. Your team hasn't scored a TD for more than 2 complete games.

All of your alumni friends and brothers probably can't talk to you because of the shame and guilt they know you feel. Your own wife and kids, who are Miami hurricane fans, can't believe how badly you've failed. The players you coach, who you've promised every resource and commitment, can't trust you anymore.

This glorious homecoming has been nothing short of a colossal failure in every regard.. you literally don't have a single accomplishment from this season to hang your hat on.. Nothing. Everything has gotten worse.

How do you sleep at night? How do you stay motivated to keep on? Everything in your world revolves around the Miami Hurricanes. There is no escaping it. There is no silo for you to hide in. What does Mario do?

I think that's why he has this "back to work" mantra. It's all he can do. Put his head down and work and believe in the vision he's had for 20+ years. What else can he do?
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What has he been learning at these elite programs and under these elite coaches? This is the opposite of what Bama looks like, Saban makes adjustments, he always has probably the best Safety group in the country because that’s the position he focuses on, Saban’s not hard headed enough that he doesn’t adapt to the changing times of college football, Saban’s teams are well coached enough that they don’t get delay of games on special teams, Saban’s teams don’t waste TO’s continuously, Saban’s teams can run a two minute drill, the list goes on and on. We can’t do any of these things, Mario’s specialty, the OL might be the worst unit on the team and has regressed from last year, Mario’s team can’t even complete a 4 minute drill, Mario doesn’t even make it to the 2nd and 4th quarters with any timeouts, Mario doesn’t even give officials a look when they blow calls. Saban is in an officials ear every chance he gets. He would have been just as well had he come here under Golden when it comes to learning on the job. It doesn’t seem like he learned a thing while he played here and while he coached under Saban.

The offense that we ran while he was here in the late 80’s, early 90’s was less archaic than this offense that we are running now. It seems like this caveman’s mantra is “recruit good, win games”.
 
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Yoyo82 said:
Not trying to get anybody to feel bad for him. Trying to understand/put myself in his shoes to be able to decide what he'd do next.

Like I said it's easy to say "fire and hire"... But he hired THIS staff just 9 months ago, believing THIS was the staff to bring Miami back to glory. 9 months ago and he couldn't have been more wrong.

How does he reconcile being so wrong and having any confidence that his next hires will be the right ones?
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Not a clue and it won't matter, he'll be out the door one day well before his lifetime contract is done. He could quit today and live a life most on here could only dream of.

He needs to find two coordinators with proven results he trusts and hand over the keys. Let them sort out their staff and that means everyone (even his mini me) is on the chopping block so they can fill out their staff.

I don't even know what he's good at at this point. His baby the OL is a steaming pile of dog ****. I'm not even going to say recruiting because recruiting is about NIL these days.
 
SayWhat said:
Not a clue and it won't matter, he'll be out the door one day well before his lifetime contract is done. He could quit today and live a life most on here could only dream of.

He needs to find two coordinators with proven results he trusts and hand over the keys. Let them sort out their staff and that means everyone (even his mini me) is on the chopping block so they can fill out their staff.

I don't even know what he's good at at this point. His baby the OL is a steaming pile of dog ****. I'm not even going to say recruiting because recruiting is about NIL these days.
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You and I could recruit with Ruiz in our back pocket.
 
Should have kept the offensive scheme that was working until his players got here. Idk what is up with the defense but it’s sad watching them get bullied around all game
 
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CoronaDoug said:
He is still supporting Gattis and his offense in the post-game presser.

“We got to find ways to produce … Coach Gattis runs a great offense … ran it really well at Michigan.”
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This man ain’t open to change…and Gattis wouldn’t know change if it hit him in the face.
 
Yoyo82 said:
They were also a few plays away from a 3-9 season.
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The games were close. We only waxed by Alabama and MSU pulled away late when King went down.

This year we got waxed by MTSU, Duke, and FSU from the first quarter.

This is completely different . Gattis is sucking all the energy out of this team on both sides of the ball. Steele hasn’t been perfect, but Gattis leaves him no room for error.
 
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