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I wanted someone with HC experience (and good results) from a P5 conference but a smaller national program who has exceeded their given programs traditional results. Someone like a Matt Campbell at Iowa State was a main choice. Babers as has been mentioned. Even was open to the UAB coach, Bill Clark, who's done very well, as well as Satterfield whom Louisville took from Appalachian State.

Agree with Mullen above as well.
 
ItsAUThing.com said:
Cristobal wasn't interested with Diaz was hired. He was one year in at Oregon and there was no way the Ducks were letting him go after they'd just done one year with Willie Lump Lump before he bailed out for Tallahassee.

Mario would've been an option when Richt got the gig late 2015, when he was at Alabama—but at that time Richt was a better on-paper hire as Mario's only HC experience was FIU.

Fact remains there aren't a slew of guys interested in this job and aren't a lot of big named guys available. Look no further than OU turning the keys over to Lincoln Riley or Ohio State giving to an inexperienced Ryan Day the gig when Urban Meyer stepped down—instead of either program going for a big name guy—speaks volumes based on big names available.

Florida State settled on Willie Taggart when Jimbo Fisher took off—aTm WAY overpaying Fisher as they wanted a "big name" guy, who is underachieving thus far—and Florida settled on Dan Mullen; a decent B-level coach but certainly not a home run hire.

LSU stuck with Ed Orgeron, who isn't anything without his assistants. Tennessee has more athletic department money than God—spending $5M annually on recruiting; third in the nation—but keeps whiffing on their guys; Derek Dooley, Butch Jones and now Jeremy Pruitt.


To the original point; if I had my druthers, I would've liked to have seen Butch Davis rehired in 2015 when Richt got the gig. 63 years old at the time, mended fences with UM and went public with the apologies in "The U Part 2"—which came out around then and had him front and center again for the first time in years.

Once Miami passed on Butch then, I was happy with the Diaz hire in 2018. Manny revamped the defense quickly over three years—rebuilding a hot mess that Golden / D'Onofrio left—and that side of the ball looked like old school Miami for a while now.

Any outside hire beyond Diaz—again, who was available and wanted the gig? Can't think of anyone out there who would've been a good fit or worthwhile hire in 2019 as this job simply isn't as desirable as our fans think it is.
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I disagree about Butch. Not because I'm mad, I just don't think he'd do anything. I honestly can't see how folks think something he did 20 years ago is relevant.

Other than that, this is a great post that points out several things CIS likes to ignore.
 
Well since realistically we can only choose coaches from failed regimes I didn’t have time to put much thought into it
 
NicKane said:
Mario and his recruiting and his ability/connections to actually build a quality staff. versus Diaz and his merry band of GAs and JV coaches.
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I’ve mentioned this before

He’s built a strong staff with P5 experience across the board, on both coasts. You don’t see any Patke’s On his staff
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As I posted at the time: James Pierce Leavitt. He served as the head coach at the University of South Florida from the football program's inception in 1997 until 2009, compiling a record of 95–57. He had USF ranked as high as #2 in the nation before being fired for allgedly assaulting a player.
 
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brock said:
Cristobal, that’s the type of coach Miami needed recruiting wise
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I wasnt on board with this at the time but now looking at it i rather have Mario.

I was more on Butch Herman or that goofy looking dude with that exotic *** offense forgot his name. But i knew what Mario Butch or Herman brought recruiting wise. Probably would of all failed cause of the inside leadership at UM
 
You guys make such a big deal about connections and putting a staff together with connections and manny doesn’t have connections which may or may not be true. But if that is the case then explain to me why Richt put together the staff he did. The defensive staff is the same as it is now sans stroud. And the offensive staff was nothing to write home about. Maybe Miami just doesn’t have the coin these coaches are asking for. Not a chance we could get a Dave aranda level guy for 2 million.
 
NicKane said:
Mario and his recruiting and his ability/connections to actually build a quality staff. versus Diaz and his merry band of GAs and JV coaches.
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Oregon will also toss money at assistants, Miami wont so I am not sure how great a staff he would build here and Enos was a good hire. No one knew he would run pa every play and go under center 50 percent of the time with two true freshman starting offensive lineman
 
PredaCane said:
as head coach that was interested in us? Unlike some I'm willing to give Diaz a fair shot but who did you guys want? Not the pipe dreams like Saban or Meyer but who had GENUINE interest in the job?
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On the sorta realistic list (ruling out dudes like Peterson and Meyer)

Wittingham
Chryst
Mullen

Also acceptable

Shaw
Bootch Davis

Wildcard (i.e. f#ck it, it will prob burn the program down but at least the postgame interview will be fun)
LEACH

Get him the f#ck out of my office:
Cristobal
 
JD08 said:
I love how people drool over Cristobal. His record at FIU was 27-47 and 39-53 at Oregon. Butch is 18-12 at FIU and people bash him.

For comparison, he was 51-20 at the U and 12-23 at UNC.

Hire Cristobal and I guarantee he'd be the second incarnation of Richt.
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Cristobal is 12-6 at Oregon, 39-53 is his overall record (including tenure at FIU). He also got FIU its first two winning records ever, before having a bad year. I'm not sold on him as a coach - especially his game day coaching - but people liking him for UM makes sense
 
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PredaCane said:
as head coach that was interested in us? Unlike some I'm willing to give Diaz a fair shot but who did you guys want? Not the pipe dreams like Saban or Meyer but who had GENUINE interest in the job?
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Butch back when Gluten was hired, and Butch or Mullen when Richt was hired.

Impossible to know who was interested when Manny was hired because we never actually asked or ran a search.
 
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