The “he needs more time” takes are lazy and based on college football platitudes that don’t apply here.
We have players. Our culture under Richt was fine. All we really needed was an offensive coordinator. The entire rationale behind hiring manny without a search was that we could substitute in an OC into our existing framework and contend soon if not immediately.
Manny steps in and things have gotten dramatically worse. Not only is his OC choice a disaster, the culture is now a disaster and because he can’t recruit for **** our talent level will soon deteriorate.
We failed to show up in every single game this year we were supposed to win. Every single game. The reason for that is simple: the team is unfocused and undisciplined and doesn’t respect their head coach to make them accountable.
This is a culture issue that was not inherited, it was instead created by Manny. So any suggestion he “needs more time” is completely insane and based on nothing. What does he need more time for? To fix the culture issue he himself created? To allow the talent level to deteriorate further? He is making things worse, not better.
If you hire a guy to fix your air conditioning, and he walks into your house and breaks your refrigerator and ***** on the floor, you don’t give him more time to see if he can fix the air conditioning. You get rid of him.
Additionally, you may not realize this, BUT WE ******* LOST TO FIU. That merits his summary dismissal without further discussion. What planet are you people from.
