Miami Fires Manny Diaz
December 6th, 2021 at 10:43 AM ^
Bing Bong! I can't believe they're getting Cristobal - but when mama calls, I guess you really do go home running.
December 6th, 2021 at 10:43 AM ^
So who is going to Oregon - Chip Kelly?
December 6th, 2021 at 11:46 AM ^
Yep. And Brady Hoke to UCLA.
December 6th, 2021 at 12:21 PM ^
As long as they're getting nostalgic, Willie Taggart is available ...
Seriously though, how about Sitake? Then maybe Bronco can go back to BYU.
December 6th, 2021 at 10:44 AM ^
December 6th, 2021 at 10:45 AM ^
Cristibol sounds like a good name for a Brazilian evangelical Christian soccer tournament.
December 6th, 2021 at 10:46 AM ^
All the Cristo-Bal's to Miami I guess. They got one yesterday too!
December 6th, 2021 at 10:48 AM ^
Nothing like openly kicking the tires on other candidates before you fire the current guy.
December 6th, 2021 at 10:56 AM ^
Is that different than looking for a job while you already have one?
December 6th, 2021 at 11:07 AM ^
Nah, it's more like your boss(es) interviewing your replacement candidates, in the open conference room, while you're still working at your nearby office desk.
The thing to be doing while this is going on is to re-read your contract carefully and then calculate exactly how much of a check you're due once they have you clean out your desk.
Fun times ;-)
December 6th, 2021 at 12:10 PM ^
Yeah, I don't feel too bad for Diaz. He's getting an $8 million buyout. I think how this search went down should more impact how future coaching candidates view the circus at Miami.
This has been quite the coaching carousel this offseason: USC, LSU, ND, Florida, Oklahoma, Miami, Washington, Oregon, Virginia Tech, Virginia, Washington State, Duke, TCU, Texas Tech. And not a single Big Ten job opened to date. If you exclude the Big Ten, that is 25% of all the other Power 5 jobs.
December 6th, 2021 at 12:22 PM ^
The New American Dream: getting bought out to not-work
Charlie Weis was a pioneer -- you don't have to be good at the job, you just have to get the job
December 6th, 2021 at 12:49 PM ^
Exactly. I’ve never understood how this exists in athletics but nowhere else.
December 6th, 2021 at 1:47 PM ^
Wait, you think this does not happen with CEOs that are fired?
December 6th, 2021 at 2:22 PM ^
Right. Golden Parachutes was not a phrase popularized for football coaches.
December 6th, 2021 at 3:25 PM ^
Isn't there a former player on the NY Mets that managed to negotiate a contract where he winds up getting paid millions of dollars NOT to play baseball for decades or something like that?
I just can't remember the guy's name...I must be getting old...
December 6th, 2021 at 5:12 PM ^
Bobby Bonilla.
December 6th, 2021 at 8:56 PM ^
Thank you!
https://www.foxbusiness.com/sports/bobby-bonilla-mets-contract-payments
$1.19 million a year from 2011 to 2035...nice non-work if you can get it.
I hope the agent who negotiated this contract is getting a solid cut of that action...he deserves it.
December 6th, 2021 at 10:50 AM ^
Tell me, tell me where [our program's] going
I don't know where [we've] been [with all these losses]
Tell me, tell me, won't you tell me
And then tell me again
My [defensive scheme] is breaking, my [alumni's hearts'] aching
And I don't know where to go
So tell me, tell me, won't you tell me
I've just got to know
[Mario[ Cristibol
There's so many things I need to know
Like, can you beat Florida State and Florida?
December 6th, 2021 at 11:58 AM ^
Great Styx tune that I love having stuck in my head.
December 6th, 2021 at 10:55 AM ^
Its going to be hilarious when this doesn't work out for them.
December 6th, 2021 at 10:56 AM ^
does he get to wear the turnover chain now?
December 6th, 2021 at 11:08 AM ^
Just a little karma payback here, considering Diaz accepted then reneged on the Temple head coaching position in 2019.
December 6th, 2021 at 11:42 AM ^
Will Moorehead do pretty much the same?
December 6th, 2021 at 11:50 AM ^
Moorhead probably should, even if he has no shot at the Oregon job. Akron is a terrible path to getting another decent HC job.
December 6th, 2021 at 12:30 PM ^
He HAD to know something was going to happen there, right? Or did Mario leave him blind to this possibility, and therefore clear to sign with Akron?
Private convo between Mario and Joe, when Joe got the offer, had to be something like 'maybe not be so quick, Joe'...
December 6th, 2021 at 1:14 PM ^
Wow, Karma comes with 8 million bucks?
December 6th, 2021 at 11:11 AM ^
50/50 with Cristobal?
December 6th, 2021 at 11:21 AM ^
If Miami keeps churning through head coaches like this, they are going to run out of qualified Latinos to hire!
December 6th, 2021 at 11:26 AM ^
I think his mom has been having some heath issues lately... and his wife's parent are also in the south (Georgia I think)
shame for Oregon though
December 6th, 2021 at 11:28 AM ^
Cristobal doesn’t impress me as a head coach.
December 6th, 2021 at 12:26 PM ^
Same.
But it seems blueblood-ish programs are more interested in hiring recruiters than head coaches
December 6th, 2021 at 11:43 AM ^
Does Diaz get to keep the turnover chain?
December 6th, 2021 at 11:55 AM ^
Oregon has more money than Miami. How does Oregon not retain him?
Also, same with ND. ND has more cash than LSU. If they wanted Brian Kelly to stay, he would have. How does LSU snatch him from ND?
December 6th, 2021 at 12:02 PM ^
I think ND had soured on Kelly. He’s a piece of work.
December 6th, 2021 at 12:04 PM ^
ND also has more harsh, bleak winters in the middle of nowhere. Cold enough to make your face turn purple.
December 6th, 2021 at 6:39 PM ^
Kelly to LSU is still a weird one to me, but I don’t get why people are so concentrated on the salaries. These new contracts are all 6, 7, 8 million a year. The ability to build a dynasty in a recruiting hotbed is the focus.
It is an interesting development, though, seeing coaches go from one top team to another. Feels like an unprecedented time.
December 6th, 2021 at 12:30 PM ^
He'll get them righted. And when that happens expect ground to get broken on a stadium either on campus or in the city.
The Orange Bowl and the Miami energy was their 12th man for years.
The Stadium in Miami Gardens has failed that program.
We all saw the documentaries. When that program was right, the Dolphins took a back seat to the college guys back in the 80s and 90s. They are Miami's team.
That whole dynamic is also key to their recruiting.
They'll be back. Especially with two relative light weights installed at Florida and FSU.
December 6th, 2021 at 1:08 PM ^
This is truly a make or break hire for them at this point IMO. I think Richt would have been great at solidifying their program but unfortunately had to retire after only 3 years. Manny Diaz was never the solution - though I’ve never thought much of him since his stint at Texas as DC.
Cristobal has it all - the name, school affiliation, knows the area well, and so much more. If he can start to rebuild the state of Miami (the unofficial name of their recruiting pipeline), he can basically get 9-10+ wins annually while also somewhat hurting the recruiting base of those SEC schools a little bit.
At the end of the day though, Miami needs a real stadium in or near Coral Gables to get back to true relevance. The demolition of the OB for that eyesore Marlins stadium was truly awful.
December 6th, 2021 at 3:27 PM ^
That's exactly why I proclaimed the demolition of the Orange Bowl as, "the Death of Miami Football."
December 6th, 2021 at 12:33 PM ^
Is this where I color myself some shade of surprised?
December 6th, 2021 at 12:53 PM ^
I guess they fixed the glitch.
December 6th, 2021 at 12:53 PM ^
How does this impact our recruiting?
December 6th, 2021 at 1:00 PM ^
Oregon Ducks and losing coaches to the state of Florida, name a more iconic duo ?
December 6th, 2021 at 1:47 PM ^
Is Miami even fixable? Turnstyle coaching stop / career killer
December 6th, 2021 at 1:55 PM ^
Rumor in Eugene was that his team knew he was leaving well before their game against Utah and so they came out flat.
Can we take a moment, and look past wins and losses and realize how damn lucky we are to have a coach with the character that he has still roaming our sidelines? With all of the undue bs that Harbs had to endure over the past few years, being at an all time high this past off season, yet, he came back with a m'f'ing vengeance!!
How easy it could have been to go ahead and jump to the NFL as all the rumors stated, or to leave to another program when his salary was being cut and stipulations were made.
But no! Whether due to his sense of competition, his love for the University, or his just plain love for the kids he was coaching and wasn't going to leave them behind. We got m'therf'ckin' lucky!
Let the coaching carousel continue out there! We've got our guy. Go Blue!