TVD Torches Manny Diaz

[caneULM]

Now that is exactly why Manny should never be a power 5 D coach again. That was terrible.

Now here's the question.

Was that as bad as D'No having the safety's and LB's lined up at the back of the end zone while the offense was at the goal line.

Just think how bad it's been with coaching over the last 10 years plus.

I try not to but unfortunately for me and the rest of us, its deeply lodged into our memory.

Like I and many on this board have said, it was plain and simple the university didnt care one way or the other about Miami football over the past 15+ years.

 

[caneULM]

Considering the millions of girls that get the same crap done to them on a daily basis, the fact that these players even reported it means they are pansies

Yep. And the fact I enjoy every bit of negativity that school gets and always will.

 

[KevinCaneFace]

A reminder to all of those who gave a lot of us guff for "rooting against" Diaz in the pointless 2021 football season; caring more about the greater good of this program, than some throwaway season that would've at best resulting in some third-rate bowl game.

Last season was the first time in four decades of being a Canes fan that I was actively rooting against the Canes. Once they hit 1-2 after folding against Michigan State, I was done with that fraud Diaz and any team he was in charge of.
TVD willed the kids to wins over North Carolina State and Pittsburgh by playing out of his mind—which set a great stage for this season—but those wins made a loss in Tallahassee even more necessary, as a rally-the-troops moment against those deadbeats could've saved Manolo's little job.

Thankfully the football gods cared more about UM's long-term future and stole his little feel good moment (with Papí on the sidelines with him). Wins against NCST, PITT and GT were by a combined eight points. Is that Miami football? Was that kind of team every going win big under that little fraud?

That loss against the Noles "made" their season—while SAVING Hurricanes football. The game entirely changed that day. Put ol' Manny Diaz in the UM Hall of Fame and the Ring of Honor for that loss as it solidified the changing of the guard and the comeback.

What’s great is I was able to get Mario Cristobal as my favorite teams head coach without ever having to say I was rooting against my favorite team.

 

[DTP]

Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

The last week in September Herbstreit calls out the University, which was clearly caught off guard. They then spend weeks scrambling to get a coherent message out to the public that doesn't make much sense. Frenk goes on the big screen at the UVA game and addresses the situation, which was bizarre. At that point it's clear the University doesn't have a plan yet. That's 5 weeks from the FSU game.

It's not until AFTER the FSU game that word starts leaking in the media (via Mike Ryan) that the University is willing to invest more dollars into the sports programs and take things seriously. Blake James gets fired AFTER the FSU game. Meanwhile, Oregon was 9-1 and #3 in the country, making a playoff run. The FSU loss prompted a major response, both from a personnel standpoint and a PR standpoint, that wasn't there before that game.

If you want to tell me Blake James was gone after the Herbstreit rant then I believe it. I also believe, up until a certain point, many people at Miami thought Blake James being replaced was going to be enough. I am sure Miami people contacted Cristobal and were trying to get him here maybe some time in October, but I also think that was not certain until some time post FSU.

I think Manny was being kept around because they weren't sure Cristobal would come. I think people thought if Cristobal turned it down and Manny won out there would be a way to bring him back because there was nobody else. I think once they lost to FSU nobody could defend it anymore and it was all in on Cristobal, which is why post FSU you suddenly get public messages out to the world about Miami willing to spend tens of millions of dollars.

I don't know what actually happened but I can't buy a story that the University went from not caring at all to securing one of the best coaches in the country and spending SEC money in a matter of a few weeks, which would have been the timeline post Herbstreit rant and pre FSU game. I think it was much more dynamic and fluid than that. I think they didn't know the outcome until the end of November.

The wheels were in motion after the UNC game. It took a bit to coordinate the whole thing. We're all aware that there was a contingent of the BOT that was **** bent on bringing in Mario Cristobal and making the athletic department resemble one that actually cares about football again. There was also a segment that was OK with the status quo. The plan was always "hire Mario, pay him what he wants and give him whatever he needs to build the program back". Manny Diaz was not fired early because there was no other plan. It was either hire Mario or keep Manny. The BOT wasn't going to approve all the spending increases for just any other coach who wanted the job. Exactly who contacted Mario and when and how it happened is certainly not public record and I'm sure there's some kind of tampering rule that would prevent any official job offering in the middle of a season. It would not surprise me in the slightest to find out that Mario knew he was coming to Miami well before his last season at Oregon was over.

It was Mario or nobody and winning or losing the FSU game had no impact on whether Manny Diaz would be retained or not. Mario would still be our coach and Manny would still be at Penn State even if Miami had won in Tallahassee.