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Miami became a national team when Howard became head coach. They were not an upper tier team until Howard. Why did Howard change Miami AND college football. Howard brought pro style offense to the U and to college football, in other words innovation. Howard left and Jimmy came here and most thought the dream is over, some cowboy from Oklahoma, what can he bring. He brought SPEED to the game. Indicative of this is speed replaced size in many programs. But Jimmy's strength was evaluating people whether it be staff or players. I could recite multiple instances where Jimmy recognized value where others could not, one example would be Russell Maryland, a chubby kid from Chicago who wanted to play for ND. The other evaluation that was so important was Staff. Just look at his coaching staff and realize their success after Miami. Then came Dennis from a primarily white Washington team to rough and tough Miami. Folks thought he'd surely fail but what did he bring, the one back offense and a system that was unique plus he kept our defense intact plus 2 NC teams. Next came Butch and he saw that Dennis fit players into his system but Butch sought talent and he was incredibly astute in analyzing talent, Butch built what was the most talented squad ever in college football, even better then Jimmy's 1986 team.

Now we have Mario, I'd like to know what he brings that could change football and fix the U? So far I'd say he is trying to dominate the LOS. Will that be enough? Will his staff be successful after the U? He did fire Gattis but Dawson came on strong but has slipped. Against A&M when A&M got to a one score situation, Dawson kept firing but since has seemed too conservative. What happened?

Down the road, WHAT WILL BE MARIO'S LEGACY? Or will he be another in the long line of failures in the most talent rich area of college football?
 
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I believe Mario is 11-11 here and a career .500 coach. Seems like we already know what to expect. But he played at Miami.
 
fraggle said:
Miami became a national team when Howard became head coach. They were not an upper tier team until Howard. Why did Howard change Miami AND college football. Howard brought pro style offense to the U and to college football, in other words innovation. Howard left and Jimmy came here and most thought the dream is over, some cowboy from Oklahoma, what can he bring. He brought SPEED to the game. Indicative of this is speed replaced size in many programs. But Jimmy's strength was evaluating people whether it be staff or players. I could recite multiple instances where Jimmy recognized value where others could not, one example would be Russell Maryland, a chubby kid from Chicago who wanted to play for ND. The other evaluation that was so important was Staff. Just look at his coaching staff and realize their success after Miami. Then came Dennis from a primarily white Washington team to rough and tough Miami. Folks thought he'd surely fail but what did he bring, the one back offense and a system that was unique plus he kept our defense intact plus 2 NC teams. Next came Butch and he saw that Dennis fit players into his system but Butch sought talent and he was incredibly astute in analyzing talent, Butch built what was the most talented squad ever in college football, even better then Jimmy's 1986 team.

Now we have Mario, I'd like to know what he brings that could change football and fix the U? So far I'd say he is trying to dominate the LOS. Will that be enough? Will his staff be successful after the U? He did fire Gattis but Dawson came on strong but has slipped. Against A&M when A&M got to a one score situation, Dawson kept firing but since has seemed too conservative. What happened?

Down the road, WHAT WILL BE MARIO'S LEGACY? Or will he be another in the long line of failures in the most talent rich area of college football?
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Mario brings elite level recruiting plus physicality team wide especially on both lines. He also brings a talent for transforming the offensive line which he has done. He also brings a complete revamping of infrastructure and the foundations aspects of the program including culture and buy in from those who play for him(generally).

Unfortunately, that is just about everything he brings and his limitations quickly become apparent. His game day coaching ability is severely lacking and his decisions regarding game management are downright atrocious! He is a micromanaging control freak who obsesses about and wastes time and energy on the most inconsequential of details all while meddling with the offensive system. He has the best intentions but he just can't help the fact that his meddling and over reach routinely cripples his offense and destroys QBs. You see Mario doesn't see the game like most of us do. He thinks that if he slows everything down and runs an ultra conservative 3 yards and a cloud of dust offense that he will wear down the opponent and build a winner. He never thinks for a second that dragging his offense down like that will resort in a huge increase in 3 and outs and put incredible pressure on the defense. He never thinks that slowing the offense down to the point where 20 points is the most they can score will cost them games because the days of defenses dominating on a weekly basis have been over for quite some time. He doesn't realize that his antiquated philosophy is making it impossible for him to recruit the elite QBs and WRs that he has to have in order for his 1975 style system to work.

So there it is in a nutshell @fraggle but you knew this already didn't you?
 
well his legacy won't be game day decisions...MTSU, GT, today or could be coach wasting the most talent, this years team is loaded with talent Gerry Faust would win with this team!

Believe me, I want him to succeed and he has added some tremendous talent, can he continue to recruit with his record? What can be done to get us winning again since we know he won't be fired. We don't have the millions Texas A&M has to fire a highly paid coach. The ONLY SOLUTION is if Mario pulls a Mark Richt.
 
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