Miami Football: 3 reasons Manny Diaz was a bad hire for Hurricanes
1. Diaz has never been a head coach
Again, looking back to history not being on Manny’s side — Miami hasn’t had much luck with coaches that are new to being a head football coach. I was all on board with Manny heading to Temple, proving he could run an entire program at the Group of Five level, and coming back to Miami in five years. But to give a brand new football coach, one that was fired by Texas five years ago, and has had shaky recruiting at Miami the keys to the ACC car — that’s a high risk hire.
Giving a head coach a chance that hasn’t been in the Power Five is a massive risk that doesn’t pan out often (see: Golden, Al) but this is another internal hire with no head coaching experience. Diaz will now have to push his focus from being strictly on defense to booster events, administrative meetings, media sessions, TV and radio appearances, recruiting events, and all of the other hassles, headaches, and horse crap that comes with being a head football coach.
A true national search would’ve brought in someone like Neal Brown who has created a monster at Troy, Mike Norvell who has produced a powerful offense at Memphis, or Dino Babers who made Syracuse relevant and a bowl winner over West Virginia. Those wouldn’t have been expensive hires but still would’ve brought in coaches who have ran entire football programs.
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It’s a dangerous hire and his entire tenure will be determined by his pick at offensive coordinator. I hope Manny Diaz is ready.
Prediction: Two seasons and a 14-12 record