New Penn State DC Mandy Diaz Press Conference

It is not apples to apples. Golden, Shannon, Mario, Mark, etc. did not have a quarter of the commitment the administration has with Mario. Anything less than National Championship would be a fail. Do not want to hear it's his 1st year, we won the coastal!!! No $8.5 mil should win us the ACC outright next year. NO EXCUSES. He inherited a team that went 6 - 1 down the stretch with a a legit QB.

I root for the CANES. So I truly want Mario to succeed, but if we take our Many sucks goggles off, Mario is an ehhhhh hire.

Folks point to Manny getting hired because of daddy. You ask me, the Columbus boys are the Canes new daddies...

GO CANES!!!

If Mario had a QB this year he'd be in the College Football Playoff. Mario can build the program. Just needs to make sure he hits in the QB room and The OC hire
 
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Just seeing this, been off for Christmas but knew Manny got hired there. What I take from this is not necessarily how Manny will work out there but how much James Franklin is in over his head. If James Franklin is rushing to get Manny Diaz as his DC perhaps he should call Mack Brown and hear his thoughts. If James Franklin is hiring Taylor Stubblefield as his WR coach after only 1 year at UM after Manny hired him... I mean look at the lack of development of our receivers. If you want receivers to drop passes you may have your man. If you want defenders that miss tackles, you might have your man. Maybe Gurvan Hall can transfer there, and then again maybe Manny doesn't want to eat his own cooking, better chance of getting uncontaminated players to perform for a year or two versus bringing your old guys with all those bad habits (that you instilled in them). No love loss for PSU, if this is all the payback we get for the 1987 Fiesta Bowl and for Al Golden then go ahead Manny and do your worst!
 
I came across this observation from back in 2013. A telling post-morten that turned into a prescient pre-mortem of what came and went as the Manuela era of Hurricanes history. This article, almost word for word, could describe his time on Coral Gables, just as it will likely describe his time in Happy Valley.

 
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