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The official Thank You Blake James Thread

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CTCANE said:
Great hire with Manny. We finally have a coach who isn't stubborn and not afraid to make changes. Fly the Banner!
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I mean you COULD be right, but I’ve already bought into the Fak James Blake era, anything else simply won’t do...
 
Hegemon said:
Dumb
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You Are Mad GIF
 
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Question. If we beat Clemson or even give them a **** of a game what’s the beef with James? last 5 years under his watch:

-Negotiated big $$ adidas deal
-Got $40 million IPF funded and built
-Massive improvements to all facilities
-Morris sent out to pasture
-DiMare was ranked Top 5 and had #1 recruiting class before Covid
-Brought in Diaz-Top 3-10 ranked team by yr 2 with Top 10 recruiting class
-Hired Ed Reed

Please be better than the “premature extension” answer.
 
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There is a really good chance Lashlee could turn out to be one of our greatest coaches ever.

There is a really small chance that Manny has what it takes to build a consistent top 5/10 team.

There is not a snowflakes chance in the Sahara that Blake has done anything of which I should be grateful for.
 
Noneedforaname said:
There is a really good chance Lashlee could turn out to be one of our greatest coaches ever.

There is a really small chance that Manny has what it takes to build a consistent top 5/10 team.

There is not a snowflakes chance in the Sahara that Blake has done anything of which I should be grateful for.
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Wow this is one 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 scorching hot take.
 
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Can we offer COACH Lashlee a new contract right now so we can keep em at MIAMI. How does it work in contracts
 
Go Canes!! said:
Question. If we beat Clemson or even give them a **** of a game what’s the beef with James? last 5 years under his watch:

-Negotiated big $$ adidas deal
-Got $40 million IPF funded and built
-Massive improvements to all facilities
-Morris sent out to pasture
-DiMare was ranked Top 5 and had #1 recruiting class before Covid
-Brought in Diaz-Top 3-10 ranked team by yr 2 with Top 10 recruit
-Helped bring back Ed Reed

Please be better than the “premature extension” answer.
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The biggest thing was it looked like he was going with easy hires that required no effort and hoped for the best. But just like Manny, every day he's still employed he has the opportunity to be the person to make a difference.
 
JD08 said:
The biggest thing was it looked like he was going with easy hires that required no effort and hoped for the best. But just like Manny, every day he's still employed he has the opportunity to be the person to make a difference.
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True. Or maybe he maybe he made two really good hires?

I guess only time will tell.
 
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Mods, can we bring back being able to see the emojis of posts before we open them up?
Especially for post like this? And somehow, a faceplate emoji or squinting eyes... 👍🏿
 
The only thing I credit James for doing is letting Manny go hire Lashlee. He also wanted Richt to hire a quality OC. Everything else... meh.
 
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Go Canes!! said:
Question. If we beat Clemson or even give them a **** of a game what’s the beef with James? last 5 years under his watch:

-Negotiated big $$ adidas deal
-Got $40 million IPF funded and built
-Massive improvements to all facilities
-Morris sent out to pasture
-DiMare was ranked Top 5 and had #1 recruiting class before Covid
-Brought in Diaz-Top 3-10 ranked team by yr 2 with Top 10 recruiting class
-Hired Ed Reed

Please be better than the “premature extension” answer.
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This is why we need smarter posters.

--"Negotiated big $$ adidas deal". Yeah, right. He didn't negotiate a **** thing. If he was such a master negotiator, he would have negotiated an extension with our LEGACY "first national university-wide shoe/apparel deal" supplier, Nike. Good lord, there was HISTORY behind our relationship with Nike, and he couldn't get that done. Meanwhile, adidas (and Under Armour) were desperate to make splashes in new markets. That money was thrown at us, not "negotiated". And let's not forget that adidas, and that relationship, nearly wrecked our hoops team. So, yeah, while I love how adidas has treated UM (for the most part), the deal had NOTHING to do with Beta Blake being some master negotiator.

--"Got $40M IPF funded and built". Yeah, now that it is done, people conveniently forget the fact that we were either the LAST (or second-to-last) of the Power Five to build such a facility. So, I guess it's OK to fail for a while, because once you finally accomplish something later than everyone else, you can be hailed for that "accomplishment". Let's not forget the humiliating "GoFundMe" begging that had to be done to raise the final $7 million.

--"Massive improvements to all facilities". Like what? If I have to hear ONE MORE TIME about the stuff being done at Hard Rock, I'm going to lose it. Blake had NOTHING to do with that (OK, maybe he signed off on some color swatches). So WHAT are these "massive improvements to ALL facilities" that you speak of? You used the word "ALL". What has he done for the arena, which opened 10 years before he became AD? What are the "massive" improvements to the baseball field? Tennis center? Track? Look, we all know that there have been upgrades to Hecht, and you already gave him credit for the IPF. WHAT ELSE?

--"Morris sent out to pasture". For the love of god, the man is now 70 years old. How much longer did ANYONE think he was going to coach. Morris retired on his own, he wasn't forced into doing it by Beta Blake. That's a fact.

--"DiMare was ranked Top 5". Nobody knows what this means. Was the TEAM ranked Top 5? We know we had a good recruiting class.
--"Brought in Diaz". Might as well just combine these two idiotic points. Hmmm, let's see, you are giving a ******* to an AD who elevated two assistant coaches (one who is a UM alum) to head coaches. In no way is this an "accomplishment" on the level of what Sam Jankovich did, by identifying and hiring guys like Jimmy Johnson and Dennis Erickson, who were virtual unknowns before they were hired. No, you are acting like it was some great accomplishment for Beta Blake to "convince" these UM assistants to take a promotion.
--"Hired Ed Reed". Might as well just wrap this one into the previous two. HE'S A UM ALUM. Seriously, how hard was this to conceptualize ("hey, I wonder if a Hall of Fame alum should be asked to work for his alma mater") or to accomplish? You are delusional to think that any of this is "outside the box" thinking by Beta Blake, or difficult to accomplish on his part.

Please be better than your idiotic porsts.
 
ThomasM said:
The only thing I credit James for doing is letting Manny go hire Lashlee. He also wanted Richt to hire a quality OC. Everything else... meh.
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Right. We are now justifying a 33% success rate for OCs under the last 2 head coaches.

Beta Blake "wanted" Richt to hire a quality OC, but failed to get this done. Then Beta Blake signed off on Dan Enos. Oh, but now that we have Lashlee, suddenly Beta Blake is da gawd, and all his prior failures are forgiven?
 
JD08 said:
The biggest thing was it looked like he was going with easy hires that required no effort and hoped for the best. But just like Manny, every day he's still employed he has the opportunity to be the person to make a difference.
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So let's think about this.

Larranaga was hired pre-Blake.

Blake hired DiMare, a UM alum and a UM assistant coach. Blake hired Richt, a UM alum. Blake hired Diaz, a UM assistant coach.

I'm not going to knock DiMare or Diaz, I actually WANT our alums and our coaching alums to do well, no matter if it is at UM or somewhere else.

But Blake hasn't had to make ANY effort here. And he certainly hasn't kept a list of up-and-coming coaches (like JJ and Erickson) in his back pocket the way that Sam Jankovich did.
 
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