Idk if I agree with this....Miami isn't a one size fits all situation, I agree with OP on us having limited resources but only to the extent of our competitors. There was a poster a few days ago that brought out an excellent fact: He mentioned something like out of all the teams in Miami's situation, being a private school that receives ZERO state funding that your regular powerhouse programs receive. Now, with that being said, Notre Dame is in the category but we all know they have a "DIFFERENT" funding resource so they don't exactly fit. Comparative schools would include, Stanford (last time I checked Shaw is still the coach and he hasn't exactly performed well the last few years), Northwestern (top 25 season this year but not exactly considered a football powerhouse), Miami (has an advantage due to recruiting footprint/locale but while getting the Joes is good, we all know it takes the X's and O's to put it all together. Our administration is finally coming around to open that checkbook more than they have in the past and to me that's a sign of believing in what Manny is trying to do, clear evidence in 2020 is our 8-3 record with zero FCS games and a tough G5 UAB team that went 6-3 and won the Conference USA title.
Let's just do some numbers here, we normally play at least one FCS game which would've been another W, so now we're at 9-3, and we'd had another G5 team scheduled which would've been another W, so now we're at 10-3. Had we won 10 games this year would Manny be viewed favorably or viewed as a "trash" and we need him jettisoned out of Miami? Sound football minds would all agree that he'd be sitting quite nicely right now and that INCLUDES the Blake Baker fiasco and his decision to retain him (with there being a general consensus that Manny will run the DEF this year only, and once Bakers deal falls off the books post 2021 we add his somewhere in the $1M salary range to the "Kevin Steele" DC salary pot and we he goes out and brings in the kinds of DCs that command upward of $2M-$3M). Manny just needs to be our Defensive Coordinator for 1 season and do what he's already shown he can do, run an elite defensive unit.