A quick update after talking to some people

Unless she hired Gattis and JD, that blame ship has sailed…
Not necessarily. Once she left, no one did anything to change it until Herbstreit hit the airwaves. Not that she's the sole person to point at, there's numerous characters that have a hand in this either through neglect, outright incompetence or distain for the program.

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I see we are already in midsesson meltdown mode. part of this is bc of all the sunshine we have been fed about this year recruiting which clearly has not come to fruition. The other part is canenation usual meltdown mode.
 
Their coach face planted in the NFL for two and a half seasons...
But also turned around a Baylor program that one maybe a game or two before he got there.

We win 9-10 games this season the momentum will be in our favor.
 
Excuses. Focusing on 20 years is bull****. No one said, give Manny a break the program has been bad for 20 years — No. they said win 10 games *****…
It’s worse than that tbh

Manny was the product of…I can’t even think of a word bad enough to accurately describe his hiring process…but anyway Mario coming here was predicated on the fact that he would never be limited on resources

So while I don’t think it’s ever fair to hold 20 years of ineptitude on one guy that just got here, Mario did plenty on his own last year to deserve the criticism

You don’t produce the worst product in recent Miami history all because of other people that’s for sure

This is definitely the most critical season I can remember coming up. Not that we gotta win 10 games or put numbers on it but we need to show we are going in the right direction from top to bottom
 
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Not necessarily. Once she left, no one did anything to change it until Herbstreit hit the airwaves. Not that she's the sole person to point at, there's numerous characters that have a hand in this either through neglect, outright incompetence or distain for the program.

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And then we committed resources and hired Gattis and JD….👀

People get caught in the Shalala quicksand…

Gattis and the results and the backlash and the course correction are all on Mario.

JD is on Rad.
 
Don’t think it was as much 5-7 as it was incompetence.

You can’t choose what you inherit, but no doubt about it flipping the majority of the staff after one year (it was the only way) makes people question his own intelligence.
Exactly. A Texas 2021 type of 5-7 is ok in year one. They were extremely competitive and just needed a couple more difference makers. Our 5-7 was just depressing.
 
Excuses. Focusing on 20 years is bull****. No one said, give Manny a break the program has been bad for 20 years — No. they said win 10 games *****…
Excuses? Seems like facts that we’ve been a **** show for 20 yesrs.

Here’s another fact. We weren’t **** from 1926 to 1982. You can do the math on how many years that was. As unprecedented as that 20 year stretch was from “83 to ‘02, it was an anomaly in the history of Hurricanes football.

Here’s another fact. We got so far behind in every facet of the CFB landscape over that 20 year period of mediocrity it’ll take a Butch Davis effort to overcome it if it’s even possible at this point.
 
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Excuses? Seems like facts that we’ve been a **** show for 20 yesrs.

Here’s another fact. We weren’t **** from 1926 to 1982. You can do the math on how many years that was. As unprecedented as that 20 year stretch was from “83 to ‘02, it was an anomaly in the history of Hurricanes football.

Here’s another fact. We got so far behind in every facet of the CFB landscape over that 20 year period of mediocrity it’ll take a Butch Davis effort to overcome it if it’s even possible at this point.

Butch Davis, Megatron, Cobra Commander, Nick Saban

Or

USC, TCU and Duke improving in 1 year.
 
So he has to suck first before he can be motivated to be good?
That’s a question for Mario himself, not me. I don’t like being exposed to all of this “negativity” even though most of it is reality based. I wish Mario could receive it directly because he deserves to be exposed to it. A person shouldn’t need to be doubted and suck before being motivated, I actually hate that new mindstate. In my 30+ years as Canes fan, when things get resoundingly bad like this, it’s usually something good (news) on the horizon or the football program responds. It’s all about sustaining that response and making that sense of urgency part of the culture.

I want Mario to feel pressured and not complacent. He needs to coach, scheme and gameplan like his hair is on fire. That “this will take time” stuff is the expectation for the fans, it’s not the expectation for him.
 
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Butch Davis, Megatron, Cobra Commander, Nick Saban

Or

USC, TCU and Duke improving in 1 year.
LOL at Megatron and Cobra Commander.

Duke no doubt was a shocker to errbody. All I’ll say is each situation has it’s own nuances and comparing each to ours is like comparing apples and oranges.
 
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Not much more to say than what’s been said. Been getting heat for what has been painfully obvious for weeks. The amount of hype infused into this board is insane

“JT is the Hartline of DL recruiting”
“Biggest recruiting month EVER”
Whale emojis and smug gifs
Best DL class in the nation
Downvotes and “it’s too early”

This has been bull**** the entire time and when someone brings counter points with data or factual trends it’s all the excuses and all the down vote emojis because there really is a narrative trying to be maintained. We are not going to tweet and podcast ourselves to a championship.

Mario and staff obviously have a narrative they are pushing and it’s being propagated by Twitter and the press secretaries, who I don’t see tonight btw 🧐. The data has been in front of our faces the whole time and many choose to ignore or don’t understand post NIL recruiting trends so they try to tell themselves a happy story. Mario and co have gone all in on a gut shot and he has to land that card on the river. Hopefully our bankroll shows up when we need it the most Otherwise we are ****ed. We will find out together
Without NIL, Cristobal serves no purpose. He’ll recruit as well as Larry Coker did with wide receivers and quarterbacks in 2004-2006.

Either fund it or shut it down.
 
IMO Hankerson would have been a Hartline level hire. WR recruits want to play in an offense like the 49ers. Irony is he is a "UM guy" that actually would have been worth the price, but Cristobal went with a UM guy who had been stuck at the G5 level since 2017.
I will say I wanted Hankerson for sure. Thought it would have been a home run.
 
It’s amazing that as a supposed ace recruiter thatMario doesn’t see there is a need to do something to create some type of momentum within the program.

It’s great he’s so stealth and all but all the big programs have guys committing to create momentum showing recruits that yea big names do want to play there.

All they’re seeing commit right now at Miami is midrange 3 stars and no matter how underrated we or the staff think they are fact is all the kids see is Miami getting a bunch of 3 stars.Mario needs one of these big names to pop or maybe the reason he doesn’t is all this talk is just that, talk.

I’ll wait till the end of July to see if this “ magical “ month as is being advertised actually pans out.Hopefully it’s not all BS.
 
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