UM's New DC Manny Diaz Talking Past Defenses

Again, if the man is struggling to field a top 25 defense in this division, with these players, with this DL coach, then he is simply repeating what he has done all of his career, and thus there is no reason to believe he is magically going to become the kind of DC we need to win at Miami.

The whole point of the hire is that "well with Miami talent and Coach Kool he should do a lot better." Great! Show me, or GTFOH. He hasn't earned the kind of trust to be able to have three years, b/c after 2 years if this D isn't nasty, his career shows you that it is almost a certainty the issue is it will never be elite, b/c that's who Manny Diaz is. Instead of handing him another year and another, like we did with Randy and Al and Dorito and Coker, cut ties quickly. Makes no sense to give a guy like this, who is lucky to have another major DC gig again, an open ended time frame.


Aristotle wrote "We are what we repeatedly do; excellence then, is not an act but a habit". I gave Golden the benefit of the doubt because of Shannon. He deserved a fourth year because you don't fired a coach that starts 7 and 0, but his DC was terrible for three years, and even took a good defense that Shannon left, and made them worse his first season at UM. Diaz needs two years to prove he was a good hire. None of this Oklahoma or Baylor crap were you see a team with a great record that has no chance of winning a title because they are terrible on defense.

Diaz could have stayed at MSU if he didn't want to be on the hot seat.
 
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Again, if the man is struggling to field a top 25 defense in this division, with these players, with this DL coach, then he is simply repeating what he has done all of his career, and thus there is no reason to believe he is magically going to become the kind of DC we need to win at Miami.

The whole point of the hire is that "well with Miami talent and Coach Kool he should do a lot better." Great! Show me, or GTFOH. He hasn't earned the kind of trust to be able to have three years, b/c after 2 years if this D isn't nasty, his career shows you that it is almost a certainty the issue is it will never be elite, b/c that's who Manny Diaz is. Instead of handing him another year and another, like we did with Randy and Al and Dorito and Coker, cut ties quickly. Makes no sense to give a guy like this, who is lucky to have another major DC gig again, an open ended time frame.


Aristotle wrote "We are what we repeatedly do; excellence then, is not an act but a habit". I gave Golden the benefit of the doubt because of Shannon. He deserved a fourth year because you don't fired a coach that starts 7 and 0, but his DC was terrible for three years, and even took a good defense that Shannon left, and made them worse his first season at UM. Diaz needs two years to prove he was a good hire. None of this Oklahoma or Baylor crap were you see a team with a great record that has no chance of winning a title because they are terrible on defense.

Diaz could have stayed at MSU if he didn't want to be on the hot seat.

What??? You use a great quote then try to excuse away why Golden never should have been hired in the 1st place. smh...

We know what Diaz is... We will know the 1st year what he can do with this talent and if he has modified his scheme. It won't take 2. I really don't care where we are ranked as a D his 1st year. What I do want to see is halftime adjustments and out scheming the other side.
 
However you just took two head coaches and used that same logic with a coordinator. We have had some good coordinators. Fisch was good. Bill young, etc. You never were sure because the hc sucked. So with that logic, MR should be fired. Even though we suffered like we did I still think a coach deserves 3-4 years before you can fire him. Your ready to fire this guy as soon as Kaaya completes his first swing pass! I never felt sorry for anyone. I like AG. I liked RS. I would have liked to see either one succeed. Because more than anything I want to see Miami succeed. But with your stance, you either now have to root for the defense to suck or you look like a complete *** hat for running your mouth like you have. I have no intention of painting myself into a corner.

I would love for the defense to be amazing. But you are living in a fantasy land where simply bc the coach got hired for Miami he is somehow going to be great despite having some really awful results at his last major program. It's the same mentality that was applied to Randy, Golden, Whipple, Coley, D'Onofrio, and on and on. That somehow everything will be vastly different bc he is wearing Orange and Green. It doesn't work that way.

Tell me, what do you expect from the defense next year? You can't claim to demand excellence but then be wishy washy about what you expect to see. I expect a top 25 in both scoring and total defense next year, with no blowouts or multiple 400+ yard games. Of course, this is something Diaz has never been able accomplish in his entire career, but those are my expectations b/c I refuse to lower the bar to excuse some coach that is a hired gun for our program. He has a job to do, that's it. Get it done, and I will be GLAD to eat mounds and mounds of crow.

Bump.

I believe Fully choked to death on all that crow.
 
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