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“Nothing against Manny (Diaz), but Mario has two rings he won here as a player,” a veteran on Miami’s roster told The Athletic at a recent event put on by billionaire booster John Ruiz, founder and CEO of LifeWallet, which has signed more than 120 Hurricanes in different sports to name, image and likeness deals. “It’s a little different when he yells at you. We all listen and believe everything he says.”
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Blake hired a dude nobody respected. Well done bud
 
“Nothing against Manny (Diaz), but Mario has two rings he won here as a player,” a veteran on Miami’s roster told The Athletic at a recent event put on by billionaire booster John Ruiz, founder and CEO of LifeWallet, which has signed more than 120 Hurricanes in different sports to name, image and likeness deals. “It’s a little different when he yells at you. We all listen and believe everything he says.”

Lol. Diaz doesn’t yell at anyone. God forbid he ever got frustrated from poor play and held anyone accountable.
 
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Pretty Much nothing new, but this is pretty much everything:

The Hire:
- Diaz may have been retained if he beat FSU, but We wanted Cristobal bad, and if Cristobal rejected us, Diaz was going to remain coach. There was no Plan B (No Lane/Orgeron/Whoever).
- Cristobal Hire was led by Rudy Fernandez and Joe Echevarria with help by Manny Kadre and Jose Mas.
- Day after they pitched Cristobal on returning, he told them he was coming home. He bought in to what Family, Friends, former teammates had been trying to convince him for weeks.
- Miami administration was serious about investing in Football facilities, stadium closer to campus, and biggest payroll for assistants and staff in ACC.
- Diaz wouldn't have received ALL the financial support Cristobal is going to. Staff funding yes, facilities? Unlikely.
- Seeds were planted since Fernandez saw us lose to FIU. But wasn't enough and too soon.
- Weeks after Herbstreit called administration out, Frenk callled Fernandez and told him to find a fix.
- Will spend more than $100M in Facilities upgrades.
- UHealth getting into the black freed up the Money for the University to invest in the next big endeavor = Football.
- Miami only sells tickets for 4 of 18 sports.
- Football pays for every other team (probably just not basketball and maybe baseball). And it plays a major role in schools marketing strategy.
- Ruiz has signed over 120 Miami Athletes to NIL Deals.

The Staff:
- Cristobal wanted to run a 4 Man Front defensively, not a 3-3-5.
- Cristobal has a deep contact list due to how many widespread candidate searches he's conducted in the past.
- One former assistant says he basically takes his sweet *** time to hire.
- DC Candidates were Doug Belk, Anthony Campanile, Glenn Schumann, Clint Hurtt (Confirmation insiders here were right in all the names)
- Saban really liked Steele and how he call games, articulate and connect with players.
- Addae has great ability to articulate fundamentals, technique, and scheme. Cristobal thinks he's definitely a future HC.
- Pure Power Spread is what Cristobal wanted the offense to be.
- Cristobal was impressed by Liam Coen (Rams OC now).
- Bradys name was thrown around, but he wanted to remain in NFL.
- Other rumored targets included Jason Candle, Kendal Briles, and Andy Ludwig.
- with those rumored targets, Cristobal said he was "talking to about six guys" but that "guaging interest doesn't neccessarily mean being offered a job" (*cough* Briles *cough*)
- Gattis visited Miami first weekend in February. Less than 24 hours after arriving he was offered job and accepted.
- Joe Moorhead and Saban both raved about Gattis.
- Gattis said he would not have taken Miami job under any other staff, if the facilities commitment wasn't there, and if he didn't think he could win a championship.
- 3 days after Gattis accepted, Cristobal was able to convince Ponce to leave his OC spot at App St.
- Says staff is layered to grow from within - Ponce as future OC probably.
- Got guys who gave up D1 On field jobs to be analysts.
 
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calinative umstudent said:
Pretty Much nothing new, but this is pretty much everything:

The Hire:
- Diaz may have been retained if he beat FSU, but We wanted Cristobal bad, and if Cristobal rejected us, Diaz was going to remain coach. There was no Plan B (No Lane/Orgeron/Whoever).
- Cristobal Hire was led by Rudy Fernandez and Joe Echevarria with help by Manny Kadre and Jose Mas.
- Day after they pitched Cristobal on returning, he told them he was coming home. He bought in to what Family, Friends, former teammates had been trying to convince him for weeks.
- Miami administration was serious about investing in Football facilities, stadium closer to campus, and biggest payroll for assistants and staff in ACC.
- Diaz wouldn't have received ALL the financial support Cristobal is going to. Staff funding yes, facilities? Unlikely.
- Seeds were planted since Fernandez saw us lose to FIU. But wasn't enough and too soon.
- Weeks after Herbstreit called administration out, Frenk callled Fernandez and told him to find a fix.
- Will spend more than $100M in Facilities upgrades.
- UHealth getting into the black freed up the Money for the University to invest in the next big endeavor = Football.
- Miami only sells tickets for 4 of 18 sports.
- Football pays for every other team (probably just not basketball and maybe baseball). And it plays a major role in schools marketing strategy.
- Ruiz has signed over 120 Miami Athletes to NIL Deals.

The Staff:
- Cristobal wanted to run a 4 Man Front defensively, not a 3-3-5.
- Cristobal has a deep contact list due to how many widespread candidate searches he's conducted in the past.
- One former assistant says he basically takes his sweet *** time to hire.
- DC Candidates were Doug Belk, Anthony Campanile, Glenn Schumann, Clint Hurtt (Confirmation insiders here were right in all the names)
- Saban really liked Steele and how he call games, articulate and connect with players.
- Addae has great ability to articulate fundamentals, technique, and scheme. Cristobal thinks he's definitely a future HC.
- Pure Power Spread is what Cristobal wanted the offense to be.
- Cristobal was impressed by Liam Coen (Rams OC now).
- Bradys name was thrown around, but he wanted to remain in NFL.
- Other rumored targets included Jason Candle, Kendal Briles, and Andy Ludwig.
- with those rumored targets, Cristobal said he was "talking to about six guys" but that "guaging interest doesn't neccessarily mean being offered a job" (*cough* Briles *cough*)
- Gattis visited Miami first weekend in February. Less than 24 hours after arriving he was offered job and accepted.
- Joe Moorhead and Saban both raved about Gattis.
- Gattis said he would not have taken Miami job under any other staff, if the facilities commitment wasn't there, and if he didn't think he could win a championship.
- 3 days after Gattis accepted, Cristobal was able to convince Ponce to leave his OC spot at App St.
- Says staff is layered to grow from within - Ponce as future OC probably.
- Got guys who gave up D1 On field jobs to be analysts.
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Thanks! Great stuff. Of course there will some here that would have done it better and will let us know.
 
Says staff is layered to grow from within - Ponce as future OC probably.


That statement tells you everything about a leader. Can be a football HC or someone managing people in business or manufacturing facility. You have to be able to sustain loss from within.
 
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calinative umstudent said:
Diaz may have been retained if he beat FSU, but We wanted Cristobal bad, and if Cristobal rejected us, Diaz was going to remain coach. There was no Plan B
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The administration was playing chicken with people who had nothing to lose. If they snubbed their nose at Kiffin & kept Diaz, half our base would have been out. Out, out. I'm shocked we made it this long tbh. Sigh...
 
This:


"Sometimes, during our darkest hours, we gain great clarity. In that second half (against FIU), even though we were losing by a lot and it was FIU’s home game, and their student body is five times the size of ours, 80 percent of the people in that stadium were still cheering for us. I said to myself, ‘Wow, we still own a share of people’s hearts.’ That’s not going to be the case forever if we don’t invest in the program. And so that was the thought in the back of my mind as we we’re working on this, as I was advising Frenk and the board leaders on this topic.”
 
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