That was ultimately best for the program. The short turnaround from Manny to Mario gave schools little time to try to poach players from our roster. Now likely they still tried while Manny was coach, but as long as he was retained you still had the uncertainty of whether he was actually leaving. And aside from FSU, the team did finish on a 6-1 run.
I love how they can’t believe a kid would choose anything over early playing time. How tf do they think bama gets recruits every year? And I love how quickly they went from “Miami is poor” to “Miami only gets kids because they have money”.
From their perspective...if only they had spent what Jimbo wanted. It’s a lot harder to get something rebuilt from a dumpster fire with years of bad play and bad press than to invest properly and keep a good thing going.
I honestly don’t see why. If you’ve started down that road, and we obviously had, you can just fire the guy. Recruiting was sh*t. We lost too many games early for a guy that far into his career at Miami, he kept a ST coach despite ample evidence the guy’s units were disgracing the uniform, and the defense that he insisted on heading up was the cause of our problems. But really, you don’t need a reason. You don’t win enough, that’s it.
That’s what I keep wondering. A few years ago they were on about how they had the money to compete with the sec, how did they get so broke? Obviously those failed coaches didn’t help, but it has to be more than that.
Sometimes I think we just have people who want an excuse to applause fsu for something.
They’ve been poor for a while. Or at least very cheap. Jimbo left them to take a head coaching job at a less prestigious school because FSU didn’t/couldn’t spend more on the program. It’s not like a Mario situation where a coach leaves for his alma mater. Jimbo left FSU and their three national titles to go to a perennial 8 win program with an empty trophy case because they were willing to spend
