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nvlahos

nvlahos

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1. Manny really screwed up his staff selection. The Enos hire totally killed this season from the start. And while I think there's still alot of problems on the defensive side (Banda, Patke, Baker), this years Offense was the worst I've ever seen, and totally sucked the life out of the team, game after game. I get why Manny went with Enos (coming from Bama, resume looked good, he was considered a good QB coach, said all the right things about fitting system to the players, etc.), but all of that was surface level bull****, and unfortunately Manny learned a hard lesson as a first year HC. Moving forward he has to get an innovative spread type OC. If the Offense could've fielded just a Top 50 offense, the season would've been totally different.

2. Blake James made a huge mistake hiring a first year HC to run/be the CEO of this program. Manny is a good DC and a football politician. He says the right things, but lacks alot of the knowledge and experience to run a P5 program right now, and it showed from day 1 with his staff choices. Should've let him take the Temple job and see if he could successfully run a smaller program before giving him the keys to the U. This should not have been a rebuild year for Miami, but by Manny being a 1st year HC it turned into one cause he himself is building his HC career on the fly.

3. If Manny wants to be the successful and bring back the "Miami Culture", he keeps talking about, he needs to get rid of the following -
  • His buddies (Banda, Patke, Baker)
  • Turnover Chains & Rings
  • Dancing, Celebrating, Social Media bragging
We are a laughing stock, and its an embarrassment to the former greats who worked hard and dominated powerhouse programs.

I don't believe Manny is the guy to turn us into the U of old, but if we can get a good/the right OC hire and keep fielding Top 10/20 defenses, there's no reason this program can't consistently be a Top 10-20 program (that sneaks into the playoff every now and then) & exciting team to watch that puts up alot of points on offense and alot of Sacks, Turnovers, TFLs etc. on defense that attract recruits.
 
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nvlahos said:
1. Manny really screwed up his staff selection. The Enos hire totally killed this season from the start. And while I think there's still alot of problems on the defensive side (Banda, Patke, Baker), this years Offense was the worst I've ever seen, and totally sucked the life out of the team, game after game. I get why Manny went with Enos (coming from Bama, resume looked good, he was considered a good QB coach, said all the right things about fitting system to the players, etc.), but all of that was surface level bull****, and unfortunately Manny learned a hard lesson as a first year HC. Moving forward he has to get an innovative spread type OC. If the Offense could've fielded just a Top 50 offense, the season would've been totally different.
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Regarding this point I find it dangerous to overly revere a guy who's been a blip on a program's run of success (Enos at Alabama) simply because they were at that program with an already established system (see Kiffin revolutionizing their offense. Oh and Saban basically near-dominating modern football).
 
nvlahos said:
1. Manny really screwed up his staff selection. The Enos hire totally killed this season from the start. And while I think there's still alot of problems on the defensive side (Banda, Patke, Baker), this years Offense was the worst I've ever seen, and totally sucked the life out of the team, game after game. I get why Manny went with Enos (coming from Bama, resume looked good, he was considered a good QB coach, said all the right things about fitting system to the players, etc.), but all of that was surface level bull****, and unfortunately Manny learned a hard lesson as a first year HC. Moving forward he has to get an innovative spread type OC. If the Offense could've fielded just a Top 50 offense, the season would've been totally different.

2. Blake James made a huge mistake hiring a first year HC to run/be the CEO of this program. Manny is a good DC and a football politician. He says the right things, but lacks alot of the knowledge and experience to run a P5 program right now, and it showed from day 1 with his staff choices. Should've let him take the Temple job and see if he could successfully run a smaller program before giving him the keys to the U. This should not have been a rebuild year for Miami, but by Manny being a 1st year HC it turned into one cause he himself is building his HC career on the fly.

3. If Manny wants to be the successful and bring back the "Miami Culture", he keeps talking about, he needs to get rid of the following -
  • His buddies (Banda, Patke, Baker)
  • Turnover Chains & Rings
  • Dancing, Celebrating, Social Media bragging
We are a laughing stock, and its an embarrassment to the former greats who worked hard and dominated powerhouse programs.

I don't believe Manny is the guy to turn us into the U of old, but if we can get a good/the right OC hire and keep fielding Top 10/20 defenses, there's no reason this program can't consistently be a Top 10-20 program (that sneaks into the playoff every now and then) & exciting team to watch that puts up alot of points on offense and alot of Sacks, Turnovers, TFLs etc. on defense that attract recruits.
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The flip side is that unlike Richt and Golden, it doesn't seem that Manny will hold onto the underperformers on his staff. He knows he's on the hot seat and needs to improve next year, and seems to be taking the steps to replace everyone. If he makes the right hire this time, Miami can still wind up being a 9-10 win team next year, easily, with the current talent.

We'll see what happens, but if the turnaround manifests itself next year, the momentum will pick up again in recruiting as well.
 
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The TNM, chains, dancing, etc. are a marketing tool and gimmick but had we won 10+ games, the whole board would have a vastly different opinion of those things. They only look stupid now because we went 6-6. They were actually a pretty good idea to build hype around the program (recruiting) and worth the risk (if there actually was any aside from looking stupid now?). Obviously Manny could just not back it up

And as we all know, Enos will go down as one of the worst hires ever. But no one and i mean no one thought he would be this bad ever. At worst, he should have been average and put up Richt like numbers. Manny obviously ****ed this hire and deserves full blame but lets be clear no one saw this offense coming

Not trying to defend Manny as its clear he's over his head and I want him gone myself but lets at least keep it real
 
Agreed, OP. Miami is NOT the program for a 1st year HC trying to learn how to run an elite program. We have zero tolerance for losing, so any coach has to step in and win Day 1.

Manny hired a bad staff. A bunch of incompetents, bad fits, and guys in over their heads -- including himself.

The talent is there to win the Coastal. Absolutely no excuses there. If we can't dominate the Coastal, then our coaching staff has failed.
 
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That **** is only cute when you're winning. As bad as we were this season, a real OC can make next season a good one. Not too worried about the defense other than getting a top flight recruiter.
 
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