Miami is firing DC Lance Guidry

DMoney

Dec 31, 2024 1 min read

After a season in which Miami's defense likely cost the Hurricanes a spot in the College Football Playoff, the Hurricanes will be making a change at defensive coordinator.

Lance Guidry is expected to be fired, sources tell CanesInSight. Against FBS opponents, Miami finished 70th in scoring defense (26.7 PPG), 50th in 3rd Down Defense (37.75%) and 82nd in takeaways (1.3),

Mario Cristobal issues the following statement on the decision:

“I want to first thank Coach Guidry for his contributions to the University of Miami.

“In a continuous effort to always improve all aspects of our program, I have decided to make a change on defense. We will move forward and make decisions that provide our players, staff and program the best opportunity to win and develop at the highest level.”

The defense was one of the worst in the ACC during conference play, struggling with communication and pre-snap movement, among other areas.

Miami will now look for its third defensive coordinator of the Cristobal Era, following Guidry and Kevin Steele.

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Canefan4life

Dec 31, 2024

About a month too late

T$$$

Dec 31, 2024

JayCane20

Dec 31, 2024

Rarely is it fixed or done quickly but gotta credit Mario that he makes changes when they’re needed.

3rd time is the charm?

Gotta assume he’s gonna hit on one hire on defense at some point

AbsoluteUnit

Dec 31, 2024

Gentleman... settle in for the long haul of F5'ing until the day before spring practice when the new DC is announced (joking, but not really).

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jmiller

Dec 31, 2024

Hopefully we bring in a high level assistant coach who can take over if this next DC is successful and leaves

klineski96

Dec 31, 2024

hoops156

Dec 31, 2024

brock said:
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Chevis or salvea? I say They keep salvea but who knows

Fire them both. Joe sucks too

Problem2

Dec 31, 2024

TexasCane90 said:
Only one id hold on to would be Dnic but id the new DCord wants to bring in all of his guys I wouldnt bat an eye to it

Feels like the entire defense has been poorly coached

Meh, LBs were terrible and he didn’t recruit this class as well as we thought, besides closing on Wiley at the end.

Won’t be sad to see him go.

The U is back to work

Dec 31, 2024

Tony4Canes said:
Can't remember who or where but someone dropped hints about Pat Fitzgerald being main target

Has he ever been a DC? His wiki doesn’t indicate it - did he call defensive plays at NW?

brock

Dec 31, 2024

Gables Canes said:
NO to Taylor and Hurtt.

Yes to Fitzgerald

Why no to hurtt? He’s been a great coach in the league

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jsy

Dec 31, 2024

chris2183l said:
Finally! @DMoney any truth to the rumors that Scott and Lightfoot are considering the portal? I'd hope getting rid of this bum would be a positive step in the right direction to hopefully convince them to stick around

man if we lose scott
that would be devastating to the DT room
esp since we signed zero impact DTs this year in HS

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Canedude08

Dec 31, 2024

We wanted the guy fired, he gets canned and people still complain. He was decent last year, wheels fell off this year and he was held accountable. I’m not finding an issue here. Miami took a chance on an aggressive guy that had legit success at the G5 level, it didn’t work.

stormsurge13 said:
Big board from Lake:

Tyler Santucci
Cory Hetherman
Tom Allen
Andy Avalos
Jason Taylor
Anthony Campanile
Terry Joseph
Clint Hurtt
Pat Fitzgerald
Mel Tucker

Fitz or Tucker would be legit.

RozayCane

Dec 31, 2024

Glad we are moving in another direction.. hopefully a better one.

But I can’t lie.. Guidry was very likable and I wanted to see him succeed here.. good luck to him.

Business is business

Angry Ibis

Dec 31, 2024

Just Guidry? What about the rest of the complete failure on the D side of the ball?

Another hiring failure by Mario.

Alex Del Piero

Dec 31, 2024

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57Hondobdr

Dec 31, 2024

There will be no more cut and paste. New DC will be given power to bring in his guys. I think no one is safe ( D Nick probably only one worth saving). JT can recruit, but not the developer or hard worker we probably need. All 3 SMU guys ( Harvey, JHH and Elijah) played better when they left.

brock

Dec 31, 2024

Problem2 said:
Meh, LBs were terrible and he didn’t recruit this class as well as we thought, besides closing on Wiley at the end.

Won’t be sad to see him go.

Exactly , linebackers were not good this year. Bissainthes play got worse as the season went on. Kiko had a down year. Aguirre showed promise at times but still we can do without him too

Zbrod95

Dec 31, 2024

Stylie said:
The Rev told you.

Gables Canes said:
Finally. But man, what is wrong with Mario's ability to assemble a decent staff? This will be the 3rd DC in 4 years, which is frankly absurd.

Honestly, I think it’s the school. Legit guys t don’t view this job as elite so we have to find up and comers.

Hoyacane1620

Dec 31, 2024

ristwasdown said:
One thing I'll say is that Mario didn't really do his normal wait a while and it be a mutual parting.

Publicly fired him. Makes me thing Mario isn't very happy

the last shot the camera got of him on the sideline after Emory threw that pic told it all....