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Why did Richt hire Manny Diaz?

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Orangebowl said:
jdiaz1013 said:
Any hire 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.
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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.
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How did Cleveland fans feel when Bellicheck was hired by NE? How about Jets/NE fans when Carroll was hired by USC?

Im not suggesting Diaz will have the same type of success, but he needs a year at least to see if there is any upgrade in performance over D'Onfrio.

Yes, past performance is an INDICATOR, but it isnt a GUARANTEE of future performance.

Just see how it plays out.
 
Jeeperaf said:
How did Cleveland fans feel when Bellicheck was hired by NE? How about Jets/NE fans when Carroll was hired by USC?

Im not suggesting Diaz will have the same type of success, but he needs a year at least to see if there is any upgrade in performance over D'Onfrio.

Yes, past performance is an INDICATOR, but it isnt a GUARANTEE of future performance.

Just see how it plays out.
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Fair enough.
 
Trust in Richt... Pruitt was already attached at UGA... I think if Richt wanted him he would have come.
 
Richt was never bringing Pruitt with him. They had an entirely dysfunctional staff up in Athens last year, with Pruitt trying to push for a lot of culture changes that Richt was not on board with. Pruitt coming to Miami with Richt was a non-starter.
 
Anybody asking why Richt didn't bring Pruitt is suspect at best as an OP.
 
I get the feeling that Diaz may call a majority of the defensive plays - but he is going to be spending more time on the DB's while Kool is handling the D-Line and possibly calling some of the defensive plays.
 
Orangebowl said:
Futbolfreak11 said:
I believe he was hired to coach our Defense.
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And Donofrio was too. And I'm dead serious when I say that Diaz is probably less well regarded by Texas fans than Donofrio is by Miami fans.

They were all having massive laughs and the time of their lives on Hornfans when they learned Miami had hired him. It was very similar to how UF fan sites were when they learned South Carolina had hired Muschamp.
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Is it even possible to regard someone less than we did No'D???
 
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I didn't love the hire, but we'll see. At least we will be aggressive.
 
We'll find out soon enough how good Diaz is as a DC....

However, I know that Kuligowski will make him (and Richt) look a lot better by being the DL coach....

Orangebowl said:
Futbolfreak11 said:
I believe he was hired to coach our Defense.
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And Donofrio was too. And I'm dead serious when I say that Diaz is probably less well regarded by Texas fans than Donofrio is by Miami fans.

They were all having massive laughs and the time of their lives on Hornfans when they learned Miami had hired him. It was very similar to how UF fan sites were when they learned South Carolina had hired Muschamp.
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I would've reached out to Randy Shannon first bc he would kill it with a Coach Kool led Dline, but Richt knows what he's doing so whatever
 
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.
 
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I think Coach Richt should have kept Coach D'Onofrio on as the Defensive Coordinator.
 
Orangebowl said:
jdiaz1013 said:
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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.
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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.
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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!
 
I hope Mark Richt knows what he is doing because if he wants to be successful at Miami he needs to fix our Defense. Miami hasn't had a serious Defense since 2003. I am not sold Manny Diaz is the answer.
 
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canesfanmpls said:
I get the feeling that Diaz may call a majority of the defensive plays - but he is going to be spending more time on the DB's while Kool is handling the D-Line and possibly calling some of the defensive plays.
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Diaz is the Lb coach and dont think he has ever coached dbs. Diaz is the dc and will call all the plays. Where in the **** are you getting this **** from?
 
I'm not sure why he was hired. He's terrible. His defenses will get pressure but we're still going to be terrible against the run and the tackling will still be a joke. Probably the worst hire Richt made.
 
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