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Following 'The U' since '82—covering it since '96.
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Fans are to blame. They want 20 years of problems fixed overnight and when that isn't the case, they're sh*tting their pants year one and forgetting that this program is vested in getting things right.
Top notch head coach. Stellar athletic director. Boosters writing blank checks.
Mario is trying to change a broken culture. He's not a quick-fix guy like Riley, who brought his own offense, own play calling and own quarterback to Troy (which landed him the top receiver) and he's scoring points in an offensive conference (while also giving up a ton; 1,105 and 80 points to Utah and Arizona combined.)
Culture coaches need time to get their own guys in there and hard-*** coaches are going to turn off kids who enjoyed the country club atmosphere under Diaz. Period.
You had a program that allowed Jarren Williams to start against FIU after missing curfew and guy who were skipping practice for minor injuries with no repercussions for actions.
Diaz was afraid he was going to lose his best kids to the portal, so he played buddy-buddy with them and let them get away with lackadaisical energy—and now they have an alpha putting a foot up their *** to get them to chase greatness. That isn't going to translate immediately and a bunch of kids will never get it and transfer out.
This was always going to take a step backwards before it got better, but a lot of folks—tired of being irrelevant—decided that some transitive property stuff would turn 7-5 into 10-2 this year; that Miami should just wake up in the morning better than last year, which allowed them to just beat North Carolina and Duke at home (even thought the Tar Heels had a four-gam win-streak and the Blue Devils beat the Canes in back-to-back years a few short years ago.)
Outside of MTSU, Miami had business losing every other game on its schedule the way these kids are responding to the new regime—and I'm riding with Cristobal before i hang with a bunch of broken kids off Diaz's old squad.
Sure, fire Gattis at year's end. Couldn't care less, but do we have to scream about it every quarter of every game on a Saturday and then the six days in between games? My 12-year old has more logic and common sense than most of our fans.
If a kid like Cormani McClain buys into Cristobal's vision and chooses Miami three days after Duke kicked the Canes teeth in, our fans can trust this head coach a little more than halfway through season one.
In short, relax, people. It's unbecoming. Stop blaming 20 years of incompetence on the new guy; Miami's third head coach in five years and sixth head coach in 17 seasons.
Top notch head coach. Stellar athletic director. Boosters writing blank checks.
Mario is trying to change a broken culture. He's not a quick-fix guy like Riley, who brought his own offense, own play calling and own quarterback to Troy (which landed him the top receiver) and he's scoring points in an offensive conference (while also giving up a ton; 1,105 and 80 points to Utah and Arizona combined.)
Culture coaches need time to get their own guys in there and hard-*** coaches are going to turn off kids who enjoyed the country club atmosphere under Diaz. Period.
You had a program that allowed Jarren Williams to start against FIU after missing curfew and guy who were skipping practice for minor injuries with no repercussions for actions.
Diaz was afraid he was going to lose his best kids to the portal, so he played buddy-buddy with them and let them get away with lackadaisical energy—and now they have an alpha putting a foot up their *** to get them to chase greatness. That isn't going to translate immediately and a bunch of kids will never get it and transfer out.
This was always going to take a step backwards before it got better, but a lot of folks—tired of being irrelevant—decided that some transitive property stuff would turn 7-5 into 10-2 this year; that Miami should just wake up in the morning better than last year, which allowed them to just beat North Carolina and Duke at home (even thought the Tar Heels had a four-gam win-streak and the Blue Devils beat the Canes in back-to-back years a few short years ago.)
Outside of MTSU, Miami had business losing every other game on its schedule the way these kids are responding to the new regime—and I'm riding with Cristobal before i hang with a bunch of broken kids off Diaz's old squad.
Sure, fire Gattis at year's end. Couldn't care less, but do we have to scream about it every quarter of every game on a Saturday and then the six days in between games? My 12-year old has more logic and common sense than most of our fans.
If a kid like Cormani McClain buys into Cristobal's vision and chooses Miami three days after Duke kicked the Canes teeth in, our fans can trust this head coach a little more than halfway through season one.
In short, relax, people. It's unbecoming. Stop blaming 20 years of incompetence on the new guy; Miami's third head coach in five years and sixth head coach in 17 seasons.
