Manny Diaz says “I’m at peace” about his return to Miami

Trinton Breeze

Today at 12:28 PM 1 min read

Manny Diaz is making his return back to Hard Rock Stadium to play an 8-0 undefeated Miami Hurricanes team.

Here is what Manny Diaz said about Miami when he was asked about his return:

“There's a great saying that 'no man crosses the same river twice before he's not the same man and it's not the same river' and that's really the way I look at it. I've grown. I'm different as a coach, as a head coach and as a man than when I was at Miami. Certainly, the program is in a different place, by every metric, from when I was there. So I'm at peace, I've moved on. We still go down there a lot.”

Manny Diaz was Miami’s head coach from 2019 through 2021. He had a 21-15 record and was fired after the 2021 season.

Diaz has his Duke Blue Devils team as a contender to finish near the top of the ACC this season, as they are 6-2 overall and 2-2 in the conference.

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Shooter McGavin

Today at 4:58 PM

RVACane said:
I don’t know who he is I just recall you like the lightning

Former Lightning captain. Played there for 16 years. Future Hall Of Famer.

GojiraCane

Today at 5:30 PM

OldhamA said:
He brought in way more talent.

On paper he didn’t, but he was pretty good at identifying talent and had a number of people outperform their ranking.

CanesFan20

Today at 5:39 PM

Can’t really blame Manny for what happened, he got offered his dream job and he took it before he was ready because he knew it might not happen again. Our dumbass AD made the awful decision to not interview anyone else and pretty much offer the job to Manny on the spot. Mark Richt retired for the betterment of the program and instead of doing a thorough HC search we did that crap

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miamicanenyc

Today at 6:30 PM

GojiraCane said:
I could be wrong, but objectively I thought Shannon was worse as a HC. I remember it being also said that he destroyed relationships with S FL high school coaches. He had three out of four quarterbacks transfer within a five month period. He lost to S Florida in his final game.

Maybe true, but he did prevent a major black eye on the program with probation. He kept a lot of trouble away from the program.

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