Sun Sentinnel " Civil War within Hecht"

[stormbrewing]

Who runs this fuggin program? The BOT with the money power respect or some 1st yr HC with an ego problem along with some fundraising ****boy?

 

[Thommy30w]

This is the beginning of the end for Blake and Manny. Whether it happens soon , or at the end of the year, these two will be gone. I hope its sooner.

 

[canes23]

IMO, Alonzo is a much bigger threat to Blake than to Manny. If Zo ever makes it to the Miami athletic department, he would be hired for one reason only....take over for Blake James. Manny can still save his job (he’s made some good moves in hiring Lashlee) if he has a successful season next year.
Blake, on the other hand, is a dead man walking (IMO)

 

[MiamiCanesFan77]

UM President Julio Frenk is MIA as usual.

Anyone who has ever met him knows he is a disengaged hapless stiff who is currently overseeing an overall decline of UM in terms of fundraising metrics, academic rankings and of course the football program.

 

[simplycanes]

This is what happens when you make rich people have to do stuff & pay attention to sh*t that they'd rather not.

You start bothering them enough & they start asking for justifications about why people have their jobs, when they don't get the answers they like, heads start rolling.

Basically, you better do your job & be good at it, because if you make the money men work, they'll fire you, because they pay you so they don't have to work. Blake with his blatant incompetence over these years has always had an out to keep them from paying attention to him, he could always smooth things over & they would just sit back & let him get away easy... Now, he's got nowhere to hide. The donations aren't rolling in like they normally do & the product isn't matching the bull**** he tells them, so now they're starting to question his decisions, which means they're about to start finding answers.

Blake & Manny are on their way out if we don't win this season, which is exactly why the two of them have been playing Hot potato with this Highsmith hire, both Blake & Manny are trying to pawn it off on one another as the reason why the other one doesn't want him hired, when neither one wants him here because they know as soon as Highsmith gets hired they're both on the clock to get shít canned.

This is very much the way Foley ran UiF for years-- when it looked like a problem tomorrow, he implemented a solution today. By comparison, UM would have probably let Zook carry on for at least another season or 2 under the guise of being a "great recruiter" and let Meyer be scooped up by someone else. It pains me to give them credit in any way, but they seldom let the Bull Gators feel as though their money was being wasted. That's a big part of a booster network.

 

[gatorsSUCK!]

Fire BJ. Fire Bj Fire BJ. Fire Bj. He is an insurgent destroying our program from within

 

[canesdogo]

Guys we need the Rock to step up and fix this sh^^.
Money is no object, played at the U, hates to lose, likes the positive publicity, and above all LOVES his U more than words can express, so one stroke of the pen and Manny and James are history.

Clean house, with a new format, have the BOT's buy in, and tell Manny, and BJ to hit the trail, don't stop to clean out their desks.
Something would be cooking and we ALL could smell it......
New Canes football, and winning......what a fantasy...
you never know. LOL.

 

[The Sphinx]

Broken record, but UM needs to decide if they want to compete in the business of college football.

This. Fundamentally summed up perfectly.

Donna and her crew had visions of being Boston College. Cool with an annual 8-5 record while touting our academic prowess.

It’s a fundamental identity crisis which is very evident in our support of the football program. God bless Richt, because had he not fought tooth and nail for the IPF, we’d still have our guys darting in and out from the rain and lightning on Greentree. Pro Day in the rain... tells you all you need to know about a so-called P5 football program.

The Board needs to wake up from its 20-year delusion and realize that UM’s football program was the single most powerful, influential aspect of the university. Absolutely no need in denying that fact.

Make the football program elite again, and watch the ripple effect throughout other areas of the school.

We don’t need to fully turn our backs on education the likes of SEC factories, but we also don’t need to turn our backs on our football heritage either.

 

[SFbayCane]

Because he was soft and a yes man?

Yes (in bold).

Again, its not about politics but it bares noting that the Clinton syndicate has succeeded at the highest levels in large part because they've employed this tactic everywhere they've gone. When Bill was first sworn into office. He fired all 93 states attorney generals in his first couple weeks in office and put his people in place. Look at what Donna did after being handed the reins at UM. She went department by department and put her cronies in place. The examples are endless. If you want to be blown away, do some research on the White House Travel office "scandal" from 1993. You'll learn a lot about how hard these people play the game.


Im of the opinion that all of donna's hires within the AD should be shown the door.

 

[canefan96]

Yes (in bold).

Again, its not about politics but it bares noting that the Clinton syndicate has succeeded at the highest levels in large part because they've employed this tactic everywhere they've gone. When Bill was first sworn into office. He fired all 93 states attorney generals in his first couple weeks in office and put his people in place. Look at what Donna did after being handed the reins at UM. She went department by department and put her cronies in place. The examples are endless. If you want to be blown away, do some research on the White House Travel office "scandal" from 1993. You'll learn a lot about how hard these people play the game.

Yep, works like that in County (Broward) offices as well.


Im of the opinion that all of donna's hires within the AD should be shown the door.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Only way to correct this sinking ship is to fire Blake James.

 

[Canedude08]

All this stupid crap leaking out, and yet the simplest, most rational solution hasn't been broached: FIRE BLAKE, HIRE COMPETENT AD.

Miami could easily do that, no one has even mentioned doing so. Go ahead, fire Blake and bring in Alonzo as an AD, with zero experience, just to appease the "Miami Guy, Bro" crowd. It's almost like no one in the decision making process knows how to address the problem, and is more concerned about looking good in the media. Miami doesn't need a chief of staff for football, they need an AD that understands how to do basic crap, like conduct a decent coaching search. This isn't that incredibly complicated. Chief of Staffs in most major programs are basically glorified assistants that have zero power. Why? Because they are there to do what the HC tells them to do, and be a liaison between the AD and HC.

 

[Fightinibis]

Whatever Miami decides, whatever was resolved in a Friday meeting between a handful of angry Board of Trustees members and Hurricanes athletic director Blake James, they all need to understand one thing:

Alonzo Highsmith, respected as he is, can’t solve this program’s decades-long problems for them this winter.

He might help in some murky, “chief of staff” role. He’d certainly bring football insight, executive experience and good commons sense to his alma mater.

But if Highsmith is needed in some undefined job for an uncertain boss, it brings more issues about Miami’s troubles than his good talent.
It says James is failing, this program keeps falling and there’s questions whether coach Manny Diaz can find his way out of this mess alone.
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If you thought losing to Florida International, Duke and Louisiana Tech brought the merciful end to Miami’s season, look again. There’s a civil war inside the program that says the ugliness didn’t stop when the season did.

Board of Trustee members and big boosters are beyond upset. They’re pounding tables, threatening change — and want Highsmith hired, pronto, because they don’t trust James or Diaz to succeed without help. And why should they trust them? What has either done to inspire answers?
James has overseen seven years of nothing with this program. That’s got to change quick.

Diaz brings good energy, great personality. But he inherited known offensive problems and had to fire his offensive coordinator, Dan Enos, after one year.

Maybe Rhett Lashlee, who will reportedly be UM’s new offensive coordinator, is the answer. Maybe his successful time at Southern Methodist (seventh in scoring nationally, ninth in yards) translates immediately to Miami.

Lashlee, not Highsmith, will be the short-term hope for helping Diaz out of this hole. If this program gets out. If, in fact, the last three games didn’t expose bigger problems.

Because there’s another problem Diaz needs to solve besides the offense. He struggled dealing with disciplinary problems and inappropriate behavior inside the program. Could Highsmith help there?
Certainly Highsmith’s years as an NFL executive and UM observer should be valued. He’s seen every major college campus and talked with every coach in role as an NFL talent evaluator. If he doesn’t know Miami’s inner workings, he’s seen what works in winning programs.

Still, there are questions around Highsmith’s role. Namely, what is it? Does he have power or just a counseling voice? Would James and Diaz welcome someone essentially foisted on them? Is he working for them, the boosters or — here’s a voice no one’s heard much from — school president Julio Frenk?

Finally, for Highsmith’s sake, would he be wanted next year if a regime change is needed?
This much is clear: If Diaz and James can’t win next season, Highsmith can’t save them. And Highsmith won’t be needed to tell anyone that considering the problems on the field and anger percolating inside the school right now.
The masses of UM fans, always louder in public than present at games, aren’t moving the needle here. These Board of Trustees and big-money boosters are. They’re done sitting back and watching this team fall short, year after year.


Exactly how far has Miami fallen?
It didn’t just have another non-descript finish in the ACC this year. It would have finished low in Conference USA this year after the FIU and Louisiana Tech losses.
That explains why it’s so ugly in Coral Gables right now. Maybe Highsmith would help rediscover the good years, the golden ones he was a part of. Maybe, too, Lashlee helps rediscover the end zone.
But some Board members and big boosters are tired of just waiting and hoping for success. They’re making their voices and wallets heard to be part of change. It’s why some met Friday with James. It’s why an ugly civil war has broken out inside a program that used to win.
Highsmith can’t be asked to play some savior role to success, though.
Its James and Diaz who have their futures staked to that.

Highsmith SHOULD never have been meant, or expected, to be a short term solution. It SHOULD have been meant to be the long term solution to problems that UM sat on for 15 years.

As usual, we are band aiding the knife wound and hoping to luck out for the short term.

Who knows, maybe 2-3 years will be enough time for Manny to learn on the job and become a satisfactory head coach...but they aren't spending a fortune around him...and I sure would like to know how many (if any) of these "big money" boosters were all in on the Manny hire in the first place.

 

[Cribby]

These *** clowns better be happy nobody nationally cares about this program. Because if they did they’d be eviscerated by the media.

Years of this client show lol, nothing ceases to amaze me.

#TNRB
The new rock bottom.

 

[mackjones]

Yes (in bold).

Again, its not about politics but it bares noting that the Clinton syndicate has succeeded at the highest levels in large part because they've employed this tactic everywhere they've gone. When Bill was first sworn into office. He fired all 93 states attorney generals in his first couple weeks in office and put his people in place. Look at what Donna did after being handed the reins at UM. She went department by department and put her cronies in place. The examples are endless. If you want to be blown away, do some research on the White House Travel office "scandal" from 1993. You'll learn a lot about how hard these people play the game.


Im of the opinion that all of donna's hires within the AD should be shown the door.

And naturally YOUR BOY trump has put his CORRUPT CRONIES in place, too. So I guess what's good for the goose, is good for the gander. dUh.

 

[SFbayCane]

And naturally YOUR BOY trump has put his CORRUPT CRONIES in place, too. So I guess what's good for the goose, is good for the gander. dUh.

Or whats bad for the goose N gander.


Again, leave politics out of it and look at the info being presented. Now apply that to what happened at UM since donna was put in place.

 

[mackjones]

Or whats bad for the goose N gander.


Again, leave politics out of it and look at the info being presented. Now apply that to what happened at UM since donna was put in place.

And who brought in the Clinton Administration, Trump supporter!?

 

[Canesfreak2020]

What a stupid article. It offered no new insight or any solution to our existing problems. All it did is restate the existing problems every fan with half a brain already knows exist. It is like Hyde was just stirring the bucket of crap that we all know exists and presenting it as some new insightful opinion by him.

 

[No_Fly_Zone]

Do you have specific into to this end?

Because from what I see, Marcus Lemons is nothing more than a donna cronie looking to further their agenda.

It's worse than that, fam. Even assuming Marcus Lemonis is doing all this great pro-athletics work in the background and really cares about UM football, for every Marcus Lemonis on the BOT, there are 3 Hilarie Bass's who don't give two ****s about UM football.

Including all the emeriti and organizational members, there's about 100 trustees. Even if you only count the "regular" members, there's almost 50. The idea that the BOT is behind positive change because a handful of athletics donors and a couple of guys in the BOT are calling for change is laughable. It's why @Andrew's supposition that the BOT isn't a problem is so far off.

 

[JAYBLAZE]

# Bring Alonzo Highsmith to UM Now make it happen, ......They better re-think this , or over half the fan base is walk away. This is critical....people talking ...Blake and Manny Diaz...in the spot light ...it’s crazy.....