Why did Richt hire Manny Diaz?

[252cane]

Any hi
re is an upgrade to Dorito. You could have hired a toy chimp playing cymbals and it would have been an automatic upgrade. That being said, let's hope that with a talent laden area like S. FL he can find the players to fit his schemes and be successful here.

I thought that was the case until I read how badly regarded Diaz was. Dorito was beyond awful and should have been fired after just 1 year at the U. But Diaz seems God awful as well.

This is the DC job, but think of how fans have made similar arguments about our head coaching. When we fired Shannon we all thought the next coach would be an automatic upgrade. That didn't turn out to be the case. Even when we fired Coker most of us probably figured the next coach would be no worse than a sideways move. That didn't turn out to be the case. Instead we got a pretty massive downgrade from Coker to Shannon, and a bit of a downgrade by replacing Shannon with Golden. Although both Coker and Shannon deserved to be fired, we did an awful job at replacing them.

Therefore downgrades are always possible, even if it seems unimaginable at the time.

Also, if you had done your research you will notice that M.Brown forced him to change how his corners played. Manny plays a lot of cover 3 to cover for his fire zone blitz's. Brown made him switch to more man on man. Which if you don't have a decent front 4 is disastrous. His style of defense requires speed to cover the zones and areas he assigns.

This will most likely be the most talented and fastest defense he has been able to coach since his top 12 defense @ Texas when they actually had talent. So yes the hire is skeptical because of his track record. But no one can deny he is one of the most aggressive D coordinators out there which is what Miami has been lacking for 4-6 years. I'm on a wait and see if he has learned from the past and has molded his defense. That's what separates the great D coordinators between the weak that read straight out of a book.

Can he learn from his mistakes, put pride aside and fix the holes in his playbook and scheme to refine and master it. That remains to be seen. He has absolute full control of his defense (which he didn't have with M.Brown). Whether you like the hire or not there will be an improvement over the last turds based on scheme alone. Go canes!

He is planning on playing a lot of man coverage here. But the word is they may run more zone this season because they dont know if the cbs can hold up in man.

Also the secondary guys aint that fast. The fastest dude is corn and he runs a 4.54.

 

[maurice3p]

Why didn't Richt bring Jeremy Pruitt over from UGA?

Georgia's locker room was split. Some players felt Pruitt was the head man in charge others felt Richt was. It caused tension.

 

[AK_Cane]

Any hi
re is an upgrade to Dorito. You could have hired a toy chimp playing cymbals and it would have been an automatic upgrade. That being said, let's hope that with a talent laden area like S. FL he can find the players to fit his schemes and be successful here.

I thought that was the case until I read how badly regarded Diaz was. Dorito was beyond awful and should have been fired after just 1 year at the U. But Diaz seems God awful as well.

This is the DC job, but think of how fans have made similar arguments about our head coaching. When we fired Shannon we all thought the next coach would be an automatic upgrade. That didn't turn out to be the case. Even when we fired Coker most of us probably figured the next coach would be no worse than a sideways move. That didn't turn out to be the case. Instead we got a pretty massive downgrade from Coker to Shannon, and a bit of a downgrade by replacing Shannon with Golden. Although both Coker and Shannon deserved to be fired, we did an awful job at replacing them.

Therefore downgrades are always possible, even if it seems unimaginable at the time.

Also, if you had done your research you will notice that M.Brown forced him to change how his corners played. Manny plays a lot of cover 3 to cover for his fire zone blitz's. Brown made him switch to more man on man. Which if you don't have a decent front 4 is disastrous. His style of defense requires speed to cover the zones and areas he assigns.

This will most likely be the most talented and fastest defense he has been able to coach since his top 12 defense @ Texas when they actually had talent. So yes the hire is skeptical because of his track record. But no one can deny he is one of the most aggressive D coordinators out there which is what Miami has been lacking for 4-6 years. I'm on a wait and see if he has learned from the past and has molded his defense. That's what separates the great D coordinators between the weak that read straight out of a book.

Can he learn from his mistakes, put pride aside and fix the holes in his playbook and scheme to refine and master it. That remains to be seen. He has absolute full control of his defense (which he didn't have with M.Brown). Whether you like the hire or not there will be an improvement over the last turds based on scheme alone. Go canes!

He is planning on playing a lot of man coverage here. But the word is they may run more zone this season because they dont know if the cbs can hold up in man.

Also the secondary guys aint that fast. The fastest dude is corn and he runs a 4.54.

Like I said it will be a test for him to see how he adapts. Not too sure on the man thing. I know they will play a lot of bump and run but I think their will be more zone than man. Especially with the speed in the back like you said. I'm not defending him, I'm on the wait and see list. Just saying I'm more interested in the week to week adjustments he will make. The other ****bag literally just had a book he flipped through (like waterboy) he never catered his defense to the opponent.

 

[ncncanes]

Wow - we are compare a guy that coached at an SEC Bowl team + Texas vs a d coordintaor that came from temple ---- wow - just - wow

 

[ThomasM]

I think he's an upgrade, but I have my reservations. I hope he puts it all together here.

 

[Dreds10]

I'm from Starkville and Manny Diaz was one **** of a coach especially when u get the horses up front. I wouldn't even listen to Texas when u don't have not one draft pick. He never had equal talent so for the math guys if he did more with less that means he should do better with more RIGHT?

UT always had great recruiting classes. I believe their defense did poorly in the NFL draft because they had been coached so poorly in college.

With Donofrio there's at least a bit of an argument that he wouldn't have been as awful of a DC if he had been coaching under a better head coach than Al Golden. Not that Donofrio was any good but some head coaches can make assistants seem worse than they really are. Diaz on the other hand was coaching under a far better head coach in Brown, which makes his defensive stats all the worse.

Good points..... I think the jury is still out for Diaz though and this should be his make or break job.... I do think that the flaws he does have, MR can at least help him on that sine he is battle tested and SEC approved lol

 

[865CaneFam]

Just remember when evaluating Manny Diaz..UF's defense under Charlie Strong always flourished when he had a good head coach, but sucked under Ron Zook...Manny's Defense sucked under Mack Brown which the program was already declining..But everywhere else he flourished..

 

[Rellyrell]

I don't know what happened at Texas and don't really care enough to go back and look at why he failed there. I just know Brown was a dead man walking and the talent was dwindling at the time Diaz was there.

But looking at what he did at Miss St is pretty good considering a few things. Miss St is probably the least talented team in the SEC west as far as recruiting. He was going against 3 of the top 5 or top 10 teams in cfb in Alabama, Ole Miss, and LSU every year. Throw in going against Kevin Sumlin and A&M which is a good offense.

Now he comes to Miami, easily the most talented team in the coastal, top 3 in the ACC in talent right now. Surrounded by talent to recruit. The potential at Miami is so much higher than Miss St it's not even close. The athletes he's recruiting match what he wants to do. He now has the best DL coach in football coaching the most important unit on his defense in order for it to be successful.

As far as 2016, he's got the most talented DL he's had as a DC. However, I'm not going to fully judge him just yet due to the secondary issues and he's most likely going to have 2 true freshman starting at LB. Still.. he should be able to draw up enough to handle the teams that we should handle (FAU, FAMU, App St, Duke, UVA, NC State) and shut them down enough to win regardless of our offense having a good day or bad day. As well as being able to show the ability to stop teams that have 1 key player (something Golden could never do was stop the super star from beating us single handed) like Conner at Pitt and VT's new QB and force whoever FSU has at QB to beat us and not let Dalvin do it 3 years in a row.

Solid, Solid post.

 

[AK_Cane]

I'm from Starkville and Manny Diaz was one **** of a coach especially when u get the horses up front. I wouldn't even listen to Texas when u don't have not one draft pick. He never had equal talent so for the math guys if he did more with less that means he should do better with more RIGHT?

UT always had great recruiting classes. I believe their defense did poorly in the NFL draft because they had been coached so poorly in college.

With Donofrio there's at least a bit of an argument that he wouldn't have been as awful of a DC if he had been coaching under a better head coach than Al Golden. Not that Donofrio was any good but some head coaches can make assistants seem worse than they really are. Diaz on the other hand was coaching under a far better head coach in Brown, which makes his defensive stats all the worse.

Good points..... I think the jury is still out for Diaz though and this should be his make or break job.... I do think that the flaws he does have, MR can at least help him on that sine he is battle tested and SEC approved lol

That's my thinking. With Richt you get an offensive mind plus someone who's been around big time college football for 30+ years. hes going to get a ton of experience stopping the run/pass every practice coordinating against Richt. So he can adjust and minimize his weaknesses

 

[rok]

mod need to banned the original poster

 

[44canes]

I believe he was hired to coach our Defense.

Nice!

 

[sebastiansbill]

Not confident in Diaz's hire at all. But having an elephant or a housecat as our defensive coordinator is an upgrade to Dorito.

 

[cane since birth]

First off richt and pruitt didnt get along and his defense was meh at georgia and he had major talent too

When diaz had talent his defense was great, unlike dorito who had talent and couldnt do jack, texas took a major dive in recruiting when A&M started to produce, also had a ton of busts too

I was meh on the hire too but lets see if his scheme fits with the type kids we recruit down here, unlike dorito who tried to use some old school big-10 BS scheme, lets wait and see with diaz before we start to judge him

 

[sebastiansbill]

First off richt and pruitt didnt get along and his defense was meh at georgia and he had major talent too

When diaz had talent his defense was great, unlike dorito who had talent and couldnt do jack, texas took a major dive in recruiting when A&M started to produce, also had a ton of busts too

I was meh on the hire too but lets see if his scheme fits with the type kids we recruit down here, unlike dorito who tried to use some old school big-10 BS scheme, lets wait and see with diaz before we start to judge him

agree

 

[AK_Cane]

Trust in Richt... Pruitt was already attached at UGA... I think if Richt wanted him he would have come.

Papa Shaq! Haven't seen you post in a while. How are summer workouts going for your son? Is it a different regime than early spring?

 

[UknowWhat]

Trust in Richt... Pruitt was already attached at UGA... I think if Richt wanted him he would have come.

Papa Shaq! Haven't seen you post in a while. How are summer workouts going for your son? Is it a different regime than early spring?

Going good..he said they are still working hard Gus hasn't let up...he is liking the small and fast pace of summer school...the new guys are adjusting fine...but he is extremely glad for being an EE....He has grown an half inch...a legit 6'2... Will be home tomorrow to walk across the HS Grad Stage...some of excitement is gone..since he already has a semester of college under his belt.. but will formally end that Chapter

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[paksat]

richt knows how to coach an offense, so I would "assume" he knows when someone knows how to field a well put together defense

richt faced his D, he must know that manny knows how to put together schemes

 

[Cribby]

Why didn't Richt bring Jeremy Pruitt over from UGA?

Georgia's locker room was split. Some players felt Pruitt was the head man in charge others felt Richt was. It caused tension.

Pruitt was a straight up cancer , snake in the grass.

That's what I was told from multiple Uga fans. That was before Richt was let go.

 

[Lazarre]

Jeremy Pruitt made name off Mark Stoops defense.

 

[Fightinibis]

Why post this now? Shoulda started this thread like 4-5 months ago

Because 13 others did.