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CaneinBroward said:
He was hired in less than 24 hours after Richt announced his retirement. No formal search for other candidates. Hiring the defensive coordinator on the outgoing head coach's staff is the definition of a lazy hire.

And by the way, no ill will on my part toward Manny. He did his best and wasn't up to the task. Blake James and the Board of Trustees get the blame to me. I never understood the bile CIS always gives to former coaches, but I hope Manny does well for himself.
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If you think you have the perfect hire sitting on your sideline, you don't waste money on a search firm, and you don't waste other peoples time going through the motions of a search.

Promoting a rising star from your own staff (and let's be honest, he was considered a rising star, right alongside Randy Shannon before him, and in the same vein as Kirby Smart) is common. He had all of the intangibles--the UM/So Fla connections and history, the Broyles award nomination, the showy SoFla vibe, and he had the D humming pretty well. And he came with a pricetag that didn't break the bank--which is what UM had always wanted and had gone for previous to hiring Mario.

We all know that he didn't work out. And we all know his shortcomings as an HC now. All I'm saying is that it was a logical hire at the time. One that turned out poorly, but not a lazy one.
 
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TemplarCane said:
Now give Mack Brown a few drinks and ask him the same question about Manny Diaz as DC.

As Texas HC, Mack fired Diaz after the worst defensive performance in Texas‘ history
As UNC HC, Mack inflicted the worst defensive performance in Miami history on Diaz

And we can roll the tape of Michigan running for over 400 yards on Penn State earlier this season…
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THIS. I can’t stand the manny slurping here. The guy a scumbag, grifter, salesman who is NOT a real coach.
 
CaneInHeelCountry said:
If you think you have the perfect hire sitting on your sideline, you don't waste money on a search firm, and you don't waste other peoples time going through the motions of a search.

Promoting a rising star from your own staff (and let's be honest, he was considered a rising star, right alongside Randy Shannon before him, and in the same vein as Kirby Smart) is common. He had all of the intangibles--the UM/So Fla connections and history, the Broyles award nomination, the showy SoFla vibe, and he had the D humming pretty well. And he came with a pricetag that didn't break the bank--which is what UM had always wanted and had gone for previous to hiring Mario.

We all know that he didn't work out. And we all know his shortcomings as an HC now. All I'm saying is that it was a logical hire at the time. One that turned out poorly, but not a lazy one.
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I disagree, for one reason, albeit, a small one. The circumstances that UM was in did not afford them the luxury to take that path in my opinion. Had Miami been a successful program and had Manny been highly sought after by other power 5 programs as a HC, then it would have been understandable. The coach who gave you your best season (2017) in almost 15 years, was the most experienced, accomplished and winningest coach Miami ever brought in (Richt). Up to that point, you did the top assistant from within with Randy. and failed spectacularly, you did the rising up and comer in Golden and failed spectacularly. Why not try what essentially just worked, if not for a debilitating disease and family health issues? Why circle back to the land of the unproven?
 
Since golden it’s been something stupid holding Miami back on one side or the other. Got a good offense but got Fritos on defense, got a good defense but got the coaches son stalling the offense, got a good offense but the HC try’s to run defense, got a bad offense and defense this year. Can’t get it together
 
Tru C said:
I disagree, for one reason, albeit, a small one. The circumstances that UM was in did not afford them the luxury to take that path in my opinion. Had Miami been a successful program and had Manny been highly sought after by other power 5 programs as a HC, then it would have been understandable. The coach who gave you your best season (2017) in almost 15 years, was the most experienced, accomplished and winningest coach Miami ever brought in (Richt). Up to that point, you did the top assistant from within with Randy. and failed spectacularly, you did the rising up and comer in Golden and failed spectacularly. Why not try what essentially just worked, if not for a debilitating disease and family health issues? Why circle back to the land of the unproven?
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Because UM is cheap. Or at least has traditionally been cheap.

At that time, Richt was a one-off who fell into UM's lap. We paid him well, but not top-dollar--he was on the decline and couldn't command top-dollar. After he retired, there wasn't anyone else like him to hire. No one with UM connections and success as a P5 head coach who would accept a sub-standard $$. So we thought we could get away with going back to our old ways of hiring an inexperienced up-and-comer. It had worked at other placed, so there was reason to believe it could work here.

Still, cheap does not necessarily mean "lazy."
 
CaneInHeelCountry said:
If you think you have the perfect hire sitting on your sideline, you don't waste money on a search firm, and you don't waste other peoples time going through the motions of a search.

Promoting a rising star from your own staff (and let's be honest, he was considered a rising star, right alongside Randy Shannon before him, and in the same vein as Kirby Smart) is common. He had all of the intangibles--the UM/So Fla connections and history, the Broyles award nomination, the showy SoFla vibe, and he had the D humming pretty well. And he came with a pricetag that didn't break the bank--which is what UM had always wanted and had gone for previous to hiring Mario.

We all know that he didn't work out. And we all know his shortcomings as an HC now. All I'm saying is that it was a logical hire at the time. One that turned out poorly, but not a lazy one.
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Sorry, agree to disagree. Randy was only hired because they couldn't find or pay for a better candidate. He wasn't a "lazy hire" because they at least performed a search at the time - Schiano turned them down for one. And to mention Kirby Smart in the same breath as Manny as a rising star is ridiculous.

Kirby was hired directly as an SEC HC from his coordinator's job at Bama. Manny's initial HC job was going to be.....Temple. Come on.
 
Haha. Has any former coach/media analyst ever said a bad thing about another coach out loud?
 
CaneinBroward said:
Sorry, agree to disagree. Randy was only hired because they couldn't find or pay for a better candidate. He wasn't a "lazy hire" because they at least performed a search at the time - Schiano turned them down for one. And to mention Kirby Smart in the same breath as Manny as a rising star is ridiculous.

Kirby was hired directly as an SEC HC from his coordinator's job at Bama. Manny's initial HC job was going to be.....Temple. Come on.
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It's not like we didn't have past experience hiring HCs from Temple, lol.

Again, point is that if UM thought they had their guy, there's no reason to go through the motions of a search. And they apparently liked what Diaz had to offer, at the right price.

It's no lazier than the Mario hire, IMO. Yeah, UM was finally willing to open up the purse strings to hire a big name--but we all kinda knew it was Mario or Bust. ****, we kept Manny hanging on a wire while we negotiated with Mario, so it was clear that if Mario said no, we'd make do with Manny. It's not like we went through a long and extensive search process--we went after the one guy we felt was right for the job.
 
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