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Recap: Manure & Penos, A Match Made In ****

TimeB0mb said:
I also think Orgeron would be the first to acknowledge he's not the smartest guy in the room. His salary is almost the same as Diaz (3.5 mil to 3.1). Orgeron is a defense oriented guy, but he hired Dave Aranda at an unheard of 2.2 million. Thats his side of the ball but he got the best he could find. Sure its easy to get a big $$$ guy for the opposite side of the ball (defense coach getting a big ticket OC and vice versa) but it takes a HC who can put his ego aside to get a better coordinator than himself on the same side of the ball. Yeah Enos sucked but Miami's defense was horrendous on 3rd downs. If Miami had a lockdown D, it would have given Enos a bigger margin for error. As I said, Diaz blew it with nearly all his staff choices (he seems to be ok at RB coach). Need new OC, DC, ST, TE, CB, DB, LB, WR, OL, and QB coaches. He has a little bit of work to do.
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I agree, Baker needs to be canned as much as Enos does
 
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sccane92 said:
I don't know who had the worst 1st season coordinators? Shannon ( Nix and Walton) or Manny.
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Manny, and it’s not even close. Here’s why:

2007 Schedule:
We played two G5 (one being FIU, Lol)
We played five top 25 teams (lowest ranked team we played was #21 in the nation).
We had 0 FCS team on that schedule.

We went 5-7.
*Our 7 losses came against teams with a combined record of 58-34.


2019 Schedule:
We played one top #25
We’ve played two G5
One FCS opponent

We went 6-6
*Not only did we lose and become the first P5 loss to one of these G5 opponent’s, our 6 losses came against teams with a combined record of 38-34.

Manny had a chit schedule compared to Randy.
 
WhatTheHell said:
If you've got a belly full of leftovers, come back later. Also, remove any children from within viewing distance of your device since disgusting and revolting human Dan Penos may be too much for youths to handle.


1. After Blake the Cuck is handed a get out of jail free card by great man Mark Richt, he immediately tears it up in his face and hired a coordinator from a 6-loss team without interviewing any other candidates.

2. "All he needs is an offensive coordinator, bro!" is what we hear about Manure.

3. In between driving around on yachts and having his team tackle dummies in a wrestling ring with "7-6" signs on them, Manure promises the fans that he will run an offense similar to his defense. He says it'll be "fast, cutting-edge, exciting, modern, and will put stress on opposing defenses."

4. Manure takes quite a while to hire his OC. He's smugly answering questions about it in interviews, and telling reporters "no one will remember how long it took asth long asth we get the right guy."

5. Spoiler alert: he hires the wrong guy.

6. He does his usual Manure act: talks tough, acts flashy, fails to deliver. Do we see a modern college offense? No. He hired a journeyman coach with one decent offensive output season to his name in 8 attempts.

7. Not only that, he hires a guy who is the complete opposite of what he promised fans and claimed to want in an OC. Instead of a spread out, high-flying, fast-paced offense, he holds a seance and tosses into the fire pictures of Bill Parcells and Bret Belima to summon the most boring offense a boomer can muster.

8. Miami, with its stockpile of talented skill position players and a young OL, spends the first half of season with 2 TEs on the field; Jarren under center; slow developing play action passes; and play clocks routinely being run down to :01. Welcome to 1995 offense, boys.

9. Manure not only lied about the offense he wanted, he cucked himself by coughing up $1.5 million dollars to a guy who's never once in his career had the type of offensive output to warrant that compensation.

10. The majority of our fans once again side with any hire or move by the staff, and assured us we got a real steal and stuck it to Saban, so Penos HAD to be good.

11. What does Penos do here? He does what he's done his entire career: produce an offense that was an abject disaster.

12. Penos, based on the numbers I can find (anyone with different info feel free to correct this) is paid as a top 7 coordinator in college football this season.

13. What does $1.5 million get you? Vs FBS teams, Penos was:

• 88th in scoring offense
• 100th in total offense
• 130th (dead last) in 3rd down conversions
• 127th in sacks allowed
• 107th in redzone TD%

14. Miami entered the spring with three, 4-star QBs on the depth chart. Two of which were Elite 11 guys.

15. Penos produced nearly identical stats to Jon Richt's in 2018 (minus 3rd down conversions, where he plummeted 70 spots into dead last, and red zone TD %, where he fell about 60 spots)

16. That 2018 offense was what made UM tell Mark he had to fire his son, and ultimately ended Mark Richt's career.


All in all, a pretty horrendous and incompetent calendar year for Manure on the offensive side of the ball.

• He lied about the type of offense he wanted
• He hired an absolute philosophical dinosaur at OC
• He paid a Bentley price for electric scooter results
• He passed on other candidates who all out performed his choice

There is not a single universe where Penos should return. He's overpaid and his philosophy will never work at UM (and based on his track record, anywhere really for him).

But herein lies the problem. Manure is an imbecile. A fake smart guy. You might see a terrible offense looking at you right in the eyes, but he sees "growth" or an offense that "had a chance to win every game."

By every available metric, the rational decision is to part ways with Penos and send him back to some hellhole city in the MAC via a catapult. However, Manure's quotes about the offense are worrisome, as he continues to make Golden-levels of excuses.

Manure is not the guy to lead Miami to a title, but if he keeps Penos in 2020 his time at his dream job will come to an end considerably shorter.

Guess it's time to see how "savage" and "ruthless" he is when it comes to making common sense staff decisions.
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gonna call you 'Nas' -- because this was 'ether'...
 
WhatTheHell said:
Manure's a corny clown with a loser mentality.

Orgeron is a maniac badass and never had a season as bad as Manure has at LSU.
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Ask any LSU fan about Orgeron before the 2018 season. They hated him. Wanted him gone. Easy to think otherwise now that’s he’s the Coach of the Year.

That said, I’m not defending Manny. I’m just looking at this realistically at this point. They haven’t fired him yet unfortunately. So he’s got another year. He still has time to save his job. Fire his coordinators and maybe things can turn around.
 
Tom Herman just legit cleaned house. Some of these guys have truly been his longest lasting friends in the business.

Its 6:09pm EST and Manny Diaz has yet to fire anybody.

Meanwhile, Texas wants in on Joe Brady and Graham Harrell.

We really suck.
 
Not to defend Manny either, but I'm tired of hearing the Orgeron story. He took a few years before he made his changes. He didn't do all of this after one year. He lost to Saban a few times trying to out smashmouth Alabama. Now in hindsight he's a genius. And people conveniently forget LSU fans wanted him out.
 
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