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Why Are Most Angry with a Gino hire?

I can't believe we've just been through 3 years of people constantly whining about Manny being hired after never being a head coach, now suddenly many are OK with an AD who's never even remotely done the job before.
 
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PIPO said:
Many here complain about Miami not caring about football. It’s obviously valid as many things done over the last 20 years show that.

Well, looks like Miami is going out and getting Gino as AD. Possibly Zo in some capacity and possibly Mario as HC.

If that doesn’t slap you in the face as Miami now starting to care about football, I don’t know what will.

There are valid points for no prior AD experience, Miami only people, etc.

Let’s give it a chance if this is how it’s going to play out. It’s Miami caring about football. Let’s not miss on that.
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I'm not saying I would be upset with the hire, I'm saying I would be disappointed that there was so much talk of new recourses to do better than Miami has been doing. To not use them, or to use them on something we could do just being basic Miami is pretty lazy. When you line that up against everyone else making moves, it looks like we don't really care. And yes, we have to compare ourselves to other schools cause we're supposed to COMPETE with them! This isn't competing IMO. This is just assuaging one part of the base or another to moving forward. We've done that since Coker. We know the results of easy moves like this.
 
AUcane said:
You can’t just gloss over “no AD experience” - that’s huge.
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Yes. Understood. It is huge.

But if he interviewed better than those that are current ADs and the put people around him as well that can do many of the roles or know exactly what they need to do, it could work out.

I get it. High Risk/High Reward.
Gino has a business background. He’s done many other things outside of football.
 
If it is Gino, Xo and Mario, Bi God lets roll. Definitely a large improvment over what we've had.
 
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PIPO said:
Yes. Understood. It is huge.

But if he interviewed better than those that are current ADs and the put people around him as well that can do many of the roles or know exactly what they need to do, it could work out.

I get it. High Risk/High Reward.
Gino has a business background. He’s done many other things outside of football.
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Alf Gluten blew away the search committee with his binder and pillars. The interview is meaningless to me.

Leach is a horrible interview but a fantastic coach.
 
Echtcane said:
I can't believe we've just been through 3 years of people constantly whining about Manny being hired after never being a head coach, now suddenly many are OK with an AD who's never even remotely done the job before.
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Understood. With you on a lot of it.

Perhaps for me is just the excitement, as air headed as I might be about it, that they are caring this time about football. In the end, if you get the coach in place to make it all work, it makes the AD job a lot easier in terms of fundraising, projects, etc.

Get the AD help with the other things associated with the job. Surround him with smarter people than him.
 
Because those of us with an IQ above room temperature are tired of this Miami Guy Bro crap. WHY CAN'T THIS SCHOOL HIRE EXPERIENCED, QUALIFIED PEOPLE? WHY? GINO HAS NO, I REPEAT NO RELEVANT EXPERIENCE FOR THIS JOB. Jurich is right there and Miami hires some random ex jock from the glory years. SC realized that it doesn't work and here we are, doing it anyway.
 
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I’m okay with Gino, if after all the research, he’s the one. I just don’t understand it at this point. Be interesting to see what he brings to the table as far as AD tangibles and intangibles.
 
PIPO said:
Understood. With you on a lot of it.

Perhaps for me is just the excitement, as air headed as I might be about it, that they are caring this time about football. In the end, if you get the coach in place to make it all work, it makes the AD job a lot easier in terms of fundraising, projects, etc.

Get the AD help with the other things associated with the job. Surround him with smarter people than him.
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I agree that we do need that element, the seriousness about success, the caring about UM athletics, at an administrative level. I'm just skeptical of well-intentioned ineptness. For all the blind hate directed at Manny, the guy does care, and I have no doubt wanted desperately to succeed here, but a series of missteps that may not have occurred with more seasoning may have doomed his chances at the job he really wanted. I just want to improve the odds of success if we're making real changes now.
 
PIPO said:
Yes. Understood. It is huge.

But if he interviewed better than those that are current ADs and the put people around him as well that can do many of the roles or know exactly what they need to do, it could work out.

I get it. High Risk/High Reward.
Gino has a business background. He’s done many other things outside of football.
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The problem is.... the people interviewing him have no ******* clue what Miami needs to do to become a winner.

What does Julio Frenk or some Turnkey search firm know about building a national championship football team?

So how would they even know who interviewed well and who didn't?

The smart play was to go hire someone who has done it before. Jurich was the move to make. With Alonzo hired in some capacity to be over football ops.
 
I do not assume anything until there is an official announcement from the University. But, let's say it is Gino. His current LinkedIn bio has his current role at GAMCO Investors, Inc. as "Institutional asset management. Public Funds, Taft-Hartley and High Net Worth clientele." How does institutional asset management correlate to running an athletic program? Is there some overlap? How are the tasks and objectives similar?

LinkedIn Bio
 
RightSaidFred said:
The problem is.... the people interviewing him have no ******* clue what Miami needs to do to become a winner.

What does Julio Frenk or some Turnkey search firm know about building a national championship football team?

So how would they even know who interviewed well and who didn't?

The smart play was to go hire someone who has done it before. Jurich was the move to make. With Alonzo hired in some capacity to be over football ops.
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Don’t disagree with you. I was a Jurich guy. His accomplishments are unquestionably solid.

How he got those done is debatable in terms of background investigations but not for me to judge nor have all the details.

Like I’ve said, I might be just a bit too happy about UM caring about football again and that in the end, AD role is not like Manny who doesn’t know how to be a good HC. If you have a good head coach and take care of business on the field, makes the AD job a lot easier and makes him look smarter than what he probably is.
 
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Honestly, if all any of us care about is the football program, then so be it. Gino will invariably have more football knowledge than any AD we could possibly hire, so if everyone's goal is to treat the football program as a sacred cow, I'm not sure I understand the complaint. That said, does he have the qualification and experience to run an AD? No. But if your interest is the football program > any other sport, whatever.
 
Pixelated bukake said:
I do not assume anything until there is an official announcement from the University. But, let's say it is Gino. His current LinkedIn bio has his current role at GAMCO Investors, Inc. as "Institutional asset management. Public Funds, Taft-Hartley and High Net Worth clientele." How does institutional asset management correlate to running an athletic program? Is there some overlap? How are the tasks and objectives similar?

LinkedIn Bio
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Well, we might find out.

At least he’s not being some gasbag radio guy and that’s all he does, spew & throw up opinions.

Finances are important as an AD. Seems like he has an understanding in that. Possibly managing people and assets.

Maybe his contact list may have potential investors into the program. Etc, Etc.
 
PIPO said:
Hoping that is the case.
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To be fair, brother...idc who the AD is...I'll know everything I need to about whoever it is if Manny Diaz, Jim Larrañaga, and Gino DiMare are here when each's respective seasons are over...if they are, whoever the AD is, needs to walk around with a red nose on until he, too, gets fired.
 
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