I tried telling themSome of you all owe an apology to Lemonis.
She should just do it even if she's not authorized. Leave here a true redemption story. I mean Tony Hernandez tried to make idiotic hires when he was interim for like 3 weeks so Ol' J Strawz should just use thar precedent.You know you inadvertently raise a good point. One rationale for not firing Manny after Blake was fired was supposedly that they don't have an AD to do it, and the BOT does not want to get involved with firing a coach. But Strawley is technically the interim AD. If they really wanted Manny out, she could do it.
This reminds me of those dudes who tell prison stories on YouTube. They say whenever a dude needs to be shanked or beat down for breaking rules they make one of his good friends do it as a way to prove himself.I want Jenn Strawley to be forced to do it
Mario is going to invade Manny's early signing day conference like Hall and Nash invaded Nitro (Mirabal is Hall).I think the plan is for Mario Cristobal to personally fire Manny.
Right after he wins the Pac-12 championship, he’s gonna snatch the mic from whichever dumbass reporter is asking him post game questions & cut 15 minute long wrestling promo about how Manny Diaz is a dead man walking...
Then finally culminating with him firing him Vince McMahon style & then challenging Roman Reigns to a **** In The Cell match for the Universal Title belt.
I think the plan is for Mario Cristobal to personally fire Manny.
Right after he wins the Pac-12 championship, he’s gonna snatch the mic from whichever dumbass reporter is asking him post game questions & cut 15 minute long wrestling promo about how Manny Diaz is a dead man walking...
Then finally culminating with him firing him Vince McMahon style & then challenging Roman Reigns to a **** In The Cell match for the Universal Title belt.
I'm not sure what the best outcome for us here is:This board is going to get interesting if Mario gets road up on in the championship game
I fully expect Utah to handle them again.This board is going to get interesting if Mario gets road up on in the championship game
Wait, I though these guys were nothing more than zero valuable information and inside jokes?Mike Ryan/Lebatard and David Samson discussed the following today:
- AD search could likely take up to another week (sigh)
- Feldman will probably be the person that will break Mario news (Good or bad).
- Mike cares about accuracy with his info and wants to elevate the program.
- Firm is not leaking any names. Leaks are on Miami end. The firm has a lot of power due to Frenk relying on them heavily.
- Samson believes that Miami didn't need a search firm for this position but helps with the competing factions at play (Epstein crew vs Mas group)
- Frenk will make final call. Leaning heavily on Rudy Fernandez (#1) and Echevarria (#2).
- Epstein is toothless but is doing his best to make Miami look like a circus with his leaks and Epstein is pro Status quo.
- Rudy was team Nunez (Columbus crew preference) but search firm didn't give a favorable recommendation. He wasn't up to their standards.
-Eddie Nunez broke up with Miami before they could break up with him.
- Eddie Nunez overplayed his hand.
- Lemonis is anti Manny and anti search firm and anti Status Quo. Wants Mario here.
- Mario knows what can be done here especially if he has all of the support in place that he wants.
- Samson is ok with giving the power to Mario. It's the way college sports is headed. Whoever the AD is should just worry about the other sports and let Mario have the power on football.
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For @TRick72 - Samson movie update:
Movie: 14 Peaks
- Mountaineer from Nepal who decided he was going to climb all of them over 8k meters (Everst, K2, etc) in the world within 7 months.
- It was like "Free Solo" on steroids
- Very Dangerous climbs
- During filming of the movie, he took picture of the Everest traffic trying to reach summit that went viral all over the world.
- Led to a Twin Peaks discussion - 29 degree beers are a hit in the South Florida heat and the ***** (I will not add a booty gif).
- LeBatard said he never saw the show Twin Peaks.
- Samson signed off by saying he was going to Twin Peaks.
This Mike Ryan cat claimed in first podcast he did as well... although maybe he ws joking?Because Feldman has sources at both Oregon and Miami.
Considering The Athletic, that is an accomplishment.Navarro is a complete hack. He got the Nunez BS fed right in front of his house, wrote an exclusive piece and got hammered a few hours later. Dude is close with Kelvin Harris, who is the biggest Manny Diaz-supporter on the platform.
Out of all the Athletics writers, Navarro is bottom tier.
You do realize that Mario wanted to hire him to work at Oregon after UM didn't give him a job. Relationships are important, not everything is a power struggle. Maybe Mario values his input and knows that he isn't the smartest man in the room, rather than act like he is (which is our current problem).Maybe the problem is …
The more power you give the AD, the less enthusiastic Mario has for coming here.
The less power you give the AD, the harder it is to find a strong AD.
I don’t understand a possible Mario-Alonzo alliance. Why would Mario want a football-specific AD who is a scouting guru? That’ll probably alienate Mario — having a guy supervising him too closely.
Zo: Hey, there’s this great right tackle in South Carolina. We should pull out all stops to recruit him
Mario: Sorry. I have other plans for that slot.
Zo: But this SC kid will solve a lot of problems for us. Let’s get him.
Mario: Nope. I have a portal kid who will fill that slot.
Zo: Well, go for both.
Mario: Can’t. I’m running out of slots and I’ve got to fix our linebacker mess.
Zo: Big mistake.
Mario: I like to make my own mistakes. Go figure out how to build an on-campus stadium. Get off of my turf.
Zo: F$&k you
Mario: F$&k you
This reminds me of those dudes who tell prison stories on YouTube. They say whenever a dude needs to be shanked or beat down for breaking rules they make one of his good friends do it as a way to prove himself.
If people don't understand how search firms work there's not much you can do to help them. If you've ever worked with a headhunter for a job you know the things you have to go through to qualify yourself to that firm before they will present you.
The right decision should have been made already. We’re about to be at three weeks without an AD. If you believe Mike Ryan’s reporting (which I do) Blake James had been a lame duck for months.
We will all play the result with the eventual hire and that’s the right thing to do. But the leaks, the time, and the current presence of Manny as head coach are not positive signs. Hopefully the end result wipes all that away.
We’re gonna need a bigger boat!Read between the lines. If Nunez was "not good enough" for Turnkey, and a P5 AD shark is swimming in the water but just below the surface, then it means that UM has not quite secured the AD that we want. And who knows what the reason is. Money? Timing? Maybe this P5 AD wants to know that Mario will definitely say yes before he says yes.
We are speculating here, but is fairly easy to narrow the options down by using logic. The artificiality of "but, but, but three weeks have passed" is just nonsense. While some people can find examples where an AD was hired quickly, it is just as easy to find examples of AD searches that took much longer than 2-3 weeks.
If a P5 AD shark is swimming around in the water, let's make sure we land him properly.
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Exactly. Just because he's slithered away from selling Manny to Frenk back then and is smart enough to try distance himself from that (whereas Epstein has entrenched himself in it) doesn't mean his judgment has improved and he knows what the **** he's doing on the AD front.
Luckily, there (hopefully) seems to be some more checks and balances in front of Frenk this time. I'm usually pretty anti search firm and consultant but I'll gladly take an L on that front if Turnkey ends up having blocked nonsense and provided a legit candidate pool- one legitimate enough to have justified their anti-Jurich stance (if true).