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"Tough Team Meeting"

Mr. Dynasty1 said:
During a team meeting on Sunday, the UM coaching staff held the Hurricanes to that type of high standard.

9-23-19 Manny Diaz

Joe and Zach are joined by Manny Diaz and talk about the CMU game
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“We had a team meeting on Sunday and reviewed the film and its as a tough truth meeting,” Manny Diaz said on The Joe Rose Show on 560 The Joe. “We didn’t play very well on Saturday and we explored some of the reasons why. It is like when your children take a test and they pass the test, but they don’t get the grade that they wanted. You get to go back and explore some of the reasons why it happened. Let’s look in the mirror and find out who we really are.”

“There are penalties of great strain, effort, and aggression—like the penalty on Corey Gaynor on the sideline—if all our penalties were like that, then you’d live with it as a coach,” Diaz said. “But then you have selfish penalties

Diaz admitted that he saw poor habits during last week’s practice that carried into the Central Michigan game

“There will be competition at different spots across the team. We don’t want guys to feel comfortable, especially off of a performance like that


Take from it what you will.
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Did he discuss the play calling and Enos inability to change?
 
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Go Canes!! said:
Bad penalties have plagued this program for 40 years. Even the greatest teams we’ve ever had would have them constantly. They just out talented the other teams to overcome it.
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True, but the old teams penalties were much more the aggression or showboat nature - not just dumb *** meaningless ones. Plus the older staffs developed them so much that making up for the penalty was pounded into their genes. I was blessed to be able to see whatever practices I wanted with Howard and JJ -- mistakes were dealt with by the players themselves mostly but if not then by really scary coaches immediately with extra attention to players failing to take care of it themselves. It was the stuff of legends. You play like you practice so Manny's practices suck just a little less than Mark's, but still are losers.
 
Obviously you don't want stupid penalties but I am soooooo beyond sick of corches always going to that bucket of corchspeak first when explaining why their teams sucks. As if all would be solved if only their team would stop with the "selfish" penalties.

It's not even just Manny here but a pervasive tactic used by corches on all levels. They'd all be undefeated if their teams would just cut down on dumb penalties and protect the ball.
 
Gatorhater said:
True, but the old teams penalties were much more the aggression or showboat nature - not just dumb *** meaningless ones. Plus the older staffs developed them so much that making up for the penalty was pounded into their genes. I was blessed to be able to see whatever practices I wanted with Howard and JJ -- mistakes were dealt with by the players themselves mostly but if not then by really scary coaches immediately with extra attention to players failing to take care of it themselves. It was the stuff of legends. You play like you practice so Manny's practices suck just a little less than Mark's, but still are losers.
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Dude really?

In 11 regular season games the 2000 team, arguably the second best team here ever had 97 penalties for 952 yards.
In 11 regular season games, the 2001 team, the greatest team ever had 109 penalties for 944 yards.
In 11 regular season games the 2002 team had 124 penalties for 124 yards.

I can go on and on and on.

This has been a problem here forever. Please don't give me the showboating or aggression nonsense. Canes teams have ALWAYS been undisciplined and error prone, no matter who the coach was.
 
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TOcane said:
Not really if you listen to most of his interviews he tells it like it is. As much grief as this board gives him, they fail to realize that this is the first coach we have had in a while who is not afraid to make changes if something is not working. He has done this in every area we complained about. I get it the results have not been what we want but he is working to get this team where it needs to be.
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Except at halftime?
 
If the players were really “feeling themselves” after the Bethune game, well that’s all coaching. You’re a one win team against a division 3 school, how is it even possible for the players to feel good about themselves.
I know, turnover chains and touchdown rings to celebrate mediocrity. After year one, that **** should have only come out toward the end of the season. Bringing out a turnover chain against a Bethune or CM is embarrassing when you’re 1-2.

I’d bet that manny is sending the players mixed signals. He wants them to take ownership and be accountable, but then he allows the celebration of mediocrity during games. Can’t have it both ways.
 
soddyCane said:
Yep. A certain kind of dumb that has been a coach. If you see mistakes happening in practice, you stop and fix them. You show them what you want them to do and how you want them to do it. You can't expect the mistakes to magically go away once you get into the game.
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And special dumb to think they are not doing that and special dumb to write up this response showing you missed the point. We rest our case.
 
I'll wait to see if any adjustments are made. It's easy to say one thing but if you don't follow through with it, your words become pointless. They've made some incremental changes through four games but something significant might be needed if they're going to be more successful on offense.
 
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You guys would crucify him if he said nothing and you'll crucify when he says the players didn't play well. Some simply want to beat their chests to prove they were the first to say Diaz sucks.
 
Go Canes!! said:
Team rolled over Bethune-Cookman, thought the next week was going to be more of the same.

Kind of understandable.

The coaches letting that mindset last longer than five minutes is not.

Hopefully a lesson learned by all moving forward. We’ll know for sure next Saturday.
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It may be understandable but it's still mentally weak.
 
A problem Manny has is that Canes fans have unfortunately become experts at spotting **** coach tendencies. He checks a bunch of the boxes and its only been 4 games. We also know what happens next: it goes from players ****ed off about playing like garbage (and I'm skeptical many of them even care at this point) to accepting mediocrity.

Manny isn't any worse than the 4 ****** coaches that preceded him. He's another in the line. Different personality, same failure. It's obvious.
 
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