The Miami Hurricanes Athletic Department has slumped into a disgraceful state under Athletic Director Blake James. I wrote about this in 2018 in a post titled he decline of Miami Hurricanes men athletics, and three years later can you really say that I was wrong? Nepotism has been the name of the game for the disappointing baseball and football programs while the basketball program has seen a mass exodus after a slump under 71 year old coach Jim Larraaga. The series is hinged on dorky Jenna Hamilton making a babyface run into popularity with a major heel turn by cheating on her popular boyfriend Matty with hipster doofus Colin. When Jenna has turned to the sticky icky and her new Zac Smith Jersey, edgy boyfriend, her friends are pushed to LSU and Utah State and even her Athletic Director is left wondering... What are we gonna do about Manny, uh, I mean Jenna. According to Awkward guidance counselor-slash-utility-educator Val, A.S.S. have six key ingredients. They seem to share a lot in common with the six ingredients of Miami sad decline into ACC Coastal mid-level status. There are clear issues. The offense has stopped performing and the defense is broken. The team is penalty and turnover happy while being selfish and unable to tackle ball carriers. The special teams are atrocious, and the head coach should be focused on kicking and culture not being the DC, while he learns to be a head coach in the first place. 1- Establish the problem of the main character. Manny Diaz issue is that he shoulde been the head football coach at Temple, not Miami. However, who could blame him for taking the Miami job? That was on the AD Blake James and his Board of Trustees. Coach Diaz got a sizable raise and a ream job for a guy from Miami. However, instead of putting his head down and learning on the job, he held a kegger to embarrass Willie Taggart and borrowed a yacht like a ponzi schemer showing late night et rich quick infomercials. Here is video of Hurricanes coach Manny Diaz taking out a tackling dummy and his players joining in celebration. Each tackling dummy is labeled with something different including a 7-6 record and opponents team names. season. Ed Reed and Bob Shoop are on campus but I not sure anyone knows what either are doing on a day-to-day basis. It all sounded good on paper but in the end this program has suffered under the weight of Diaz not having a larger circle of assistant coaches. The 47 year old Diaz has coached at Florida State, NC State, Middle Tennessee, Mississippi State (twice), Louisiana Tech and Miami, as well as the 10 or so very expensive days in Philly at Temple https://www.mhoutletstore.com/Kai_leon_Herbert_Jersey-22. 3- The Jolly moment. What was Diaz jolly moment? Beat up on a a bad FSU program? Stealing Dan Enos from Alabama? It might have been on the yacht that evening as he accepted his new role as head coach. Miami has been whooped by most of the ranked opponents theye faced, like: UNC, Clemson, Oklahoma State, and Alabama. Theye lost to G5 opponents and dropped games to MSU, Duke and Georgia Tech, too. Woof. 4- The tragic event. Was this the FIU loss? Was it the demolishing of Miami by UNC? I think the true tragic event was the UNC game. It became the face saving event that saw Diaz fire his protege Baker and the naming of himself as DC. That typically a move made when the board and administration have said you have one more chance to make this work. Larry Coker did it. Randy Shannon did it. Al Golden refused to do it and it cost him his job. That event was merely a band-aid on a yacht with a giant hole in the hull. The Hurricanes are still committing egregious penalties, burning timeouts, suffering through kicking game miscues, unable to run against Power 5 opponents, dropping passes and the most egregious- losing to teams with much lesser talent. 5- The subject hits rock bottom. Is the subject Manny Diaz or is the subject Miami Hurricanes football? Wee all hoping the subject is The U and that rock bottom is Diaz on the job training project is canceled and he and Blake James are gainfully employed somewhere else in the immediate future. I never want to hope someone is unemployed Amari Carter Jersey, but I do hope theye employed elsewhere. If Manny Diaz is fired before Monday morning I'll eat banana pudding live on Mark Rogers this week.The Miami BOT and Admin need to make sweeping changes to the athletic department which could bring in a new football coach for the 22 season, and new basketball and baseball coaches for the 23 seasons. Out with the mobbed up Miami nepotism squad and in with some new blood that comes in with fresh ideas, financial connections, and coaching connections. If this holds, this will drop Manny Diaz to 15-12, with 4 losses in last 5. He's tried everything - two OCs, a turnover chain, doubling as d-coordinator, not doubling as d-coordinator, changing DB and DL and WR coaches, TD rings, a Martell,and alas, not nearly enough has worked.6- Help arrives. A new athletic director would be the help that would arrive and could resurrect the anes athletic department, although someone higher up needs to exterminate the roaches on the BOT. The football program has an IPF, a remodeled weight room, an NFL stadium to play in, and an improved budget as well as a College Football Playoff caliber Blue Chip Ratio.
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