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What might change your mind about current staff

What would change your mind about current staff:

  • Keep if they win out the rest of the season including beating Clemson or Wake for the ACC

    Votes: 90 29.5%

  • Keep if they start playing the best players and we see drastic improvement

    Votes: 15 4.9%

  • Recruiting looks great and you are sick of all the changes in coaches and believe they can improve

    Votes: 7 2.3%

  • Keep them, I've given up and really don't care what happens since this cycle keeps repeating

    Votes: 2 0.7%

  • Blake James resigns and Highsmith is hired. Wait and let HIghsmith decide.

    Votes: 31 10.2%

  • Nothing can save them, seen enough.

    Votes: 186 61.0%
  • Total voters
    305
  • Poll closed .
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I mean is there any chance you fire coaches who win the ACC for the first time. Not gonna happen but if a miracle happens that miracle is obviously going to save them.
 
If a miracle happens and they win every single remaining game, then win the ACC, only that would be sufficient to retain them.

Obviously that is a moot point, considering they are about to lose to North Carolina by at least 3 TDs. That and they have no control over the team or the toxic environment.
 
Nothing.

This program is what everyone thinks it is; a third-rate, first-time head coach "in charge" who has built a staff the way he thinks it needs to be built.

Manny lost me ten times over since 4th-and-17 in Chapel Hill—most-notably letting his team get big-headed over a three-game win-streak (Pitt, FSU, Louisville) only to get embarrassed by FIU, Duke and Louisiana Tech, as well as stupid hardware still showing up on the sidelines when this team is getting its balls kicked in—but NOTHING shows what an amateur Diaz is by two huge beta moves in an alpha job:

(1) Anything he did to block / not welcome Alonzo Highsmith back to the program in a GM-type role; settle on Ed Reed as some hype-puppet or mascot with zero say.

(2) The promotion-demotion of himself to defensive coordinator this off-season, instead of turning the job over to a veteran alpha while Diaz focused on playing CEO and fixing this program's problems.

No bigger loser move when climbing the corporate ladder than trying to do one's old job / not letting go of old responsibilities. Proves he's in over his head on a CEO level; that he doesn't know how to do the job, doesn't want to do the job and wants to keep playing defensive coordinator—but with the CEO title and cachet. It is amateur hour at its worst.


The ONLY move at the rate—and best-case scenario—can Diaz after North Carolina kicks his teeth in for a third time, promote Jess Simpson to interim head coach this year and hope that the lack of Diaz and new energy helps Miami turn some things around (proving Diaz was the cancer, while helping save a recruiting class) and then go out and throw all the money at a Kiffin, a Cristobal, etc. and start fixing what's wrong.

Ah, yes—dump James in the interim—or ensure the BoT has final say on hire if that bozo isn't fired with Diaz.

There is no "attitude change" or save while Dead Manny Walking is still H.C.I.N.O.—none.
 
Surprised about the number of keep votes given the sentiment around and the product delivered. Nothing can save them imo, ACC is remarkably weak, we are constantly unprepared and play catch up football and the locker room seems to be in disarray. We need someone that garners respect from the players and can develop talent. Manny has proven he cannot do that and blames past recruiting (which I dont understand how the media let that brutal pass as he recruited all the defensive talent currently on the team).
 
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I’ve seen enough to know they’re not gonna do anything different the rest of the year. But if they went 7-0 and then won the ACC (even if they didn’t win the ACCCG) they’re not getting fired.

I’d say going 5-2 to finish they don’t even get fired.
 
r0fl_57omp7 said:
If a miracle happens and they win every single remaining game, then win the ACC, only that would be sufficient to retain them.

Obviously that is a moot point, considering they are about to lose to North Carolina by at least 3 TDs. That and they have no control over the team or the toxic environment.
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Should that miracle start to happen, at what point does the momentum start to change? Hypothetically... we beat UNC 34-24, then NCST 38-27, Pitt, 33-20, GT 41-17, FSU 27-13, VT 34-31, Duke 45-10 and then we play Wake and win 27-20. Where is it in there again... hypothetically... that the momentum changes in the Miami world?
 
Dude said:
Should that miracle start to happen, at what point does the momentum start to change? Hypothetically... we beat UNC 34-24, then NCST 38-27, Pitt, 33-20, GT 41-17, FSU 27-13, VT 34-31, Duke 45-10 and then we play Wake and win 27-20. Where is it in there again... hypothetically... that the momentum changes in the Miami world?
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I’ll try and answer my own question. I think no one cares after UNC or NCST. After Pitt there is a small change... after GT lots of change going into FSU. after FSU I don’t think you could tell most fans sh-t.
 
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Dude said:
Should that miracle start to happen, at what point does the momentum start to change? Hypothetically... we beat UNC 34-24, then NCST 38-27, Pitt, 33-20, GT 41-17, FSU 27-13, VT 34-31, Duke 45-10 and then we play Wake and win 27-20. Where is it in there again... hypothetically... that the momentum changes in the Miami world?
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The momentum would change if there was a big, convincing win, against a "quality" team. So whoever has the best record or a good record and the canes beat them convincingly, the momentum would change. I won't say a points amount, because sometimes points don't reflect how the game actually went. The momentum COULD change after beating UNC convincingly.

The problem is none of that is going to happen so why are we even discussing it lol
 
ddann said:
^This.

Let’s not make things more complicated than they really are.
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Right.. what's more likely... The team turning 180 and winning the rest of their games or what we see is what we've got and we'll be lucky to lose another bowl game. At this point I'll be surprised if Miami even makes a bowl game. That's what we're looking at for year three.
 
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