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UM announces Simpson as DL coach, Van Dyke as CB coach, Baker retained as DC, Diaz to call plays; Diaz comments

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SCarolina Ibis said:
It amazes me that Patke is good enough for Miami but not Utah State.

And Rumph.. If he wanted to keep Rumph on staff, ok. But putting Rumph in the recruiting dept borders on insulting.

Its like Manny thought.. What's Rumph worst at? Recruiting. So thats where I'll put him. What's Baker worst at? Coaching defenses. So thats where I'll keep him. Whats Patke good at? Nothing. So that's what I'll have him do.
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I'm not keen on the actual details of this portion i'm gonna address, since I didn't actually look into it but I do wanna say:

based on what a big time poster who is plugged in has said, rumph might be better at recruiting then you guys think. Apparently banda was getting in the way of his targets, hence why a lot of things don't make sense. I'm not saying it's one way or the other, i'm just putting that out there.
 
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Serious question to Stefan when he heard the news of this. Did you laugh to keep yourself from punching a hole through a wall?
 
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SCarolina Ibis said:
It amazes me that Patke is good enough for Miami but not Utah State.

And Rumph.. If he wanted to keep Rumph on staff, ok. But putting Rumph in the recruiting dept borders on insulting.

Its like Manny thought.. What's Rumph worst at? Recruiting. So thats where I'll put him. What's Baker worst at? Coaching defenses. So thats where I'll keep him. Whats Patke good at? Nothing. So that's what I'll have him do.
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Rumph is there to collect a paycheck until he finds another gig. That’s fairly obvious.
 
Juanka said:
Baker is his boy, and had a kid a couple years ago. He has to look after him. That what it is let’s be real. And he loves him some Rumph . The guy can’t recruit, or develop , but he is loyal to manny. Playing favorites with the coaches, just as he did with players on the field.
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This loyalty instead of accountability is going to take us down the drain.
 
TheOriginalCane said:
I will never give up on my alma mater, but I have officially given up on Manny Diaz ever growing up from a boy to a man and becoming a great college football head coach.

He clearly doesn't understand what it takes to address the structural and coaching related issues on defense, and I do not care to hear any of his explanations or excuses any longer.

I still hope we win every game, but I am ready to start discussing head coaching alternatives.
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He will go down with the ship, just like Golden. No reason to keep Baker, but he is!
 
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Juanka said:
Baker is his boy, and had a kid a couple years ago. He has to look after him. That what it is let’s be real. And he loves him some Rumph . The guy can’t recruit, or develop , but he is loyal to manny. Playing favorites with the coaches, just as he did with players on the field.
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Completely wrong.

No other DC candidate would agree to Manny calling the plays. Baker would.

Has nothing to do with "friendship", has nothing to do with "Blake just had a kid".
 
Tobias23 said:
He will go down with the ship, just like Golden. No reason to keep Baker, but he is!
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Can't disagree. I'd love for the ship to sail to a championship, but it's time to start figuring out how to lower the lifeboats.
 
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Alabama has about 90 former head coaches employed as analysts.

Miami, meanwhile, is retaining a DC that isn’t even good enough to call his own plays on game day. What a joke.

And please, please, please tell me that Manny won’t be able to buy himself another couple of years when he finally has to fire Baker and bring in a real DC. This was it. This was his last mulligan and he played it the way he wanted to. He doesn’t get any more.

Dead Manny Walking.
 
The last coach to win a natty calling plays? Jimbo at FSU?

Not a fan of the moves but I'll try to hold off on judging until the second half of Bama.
 
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Man that is so ******* disappointing.
 
The only way this makes sense is if this is just Manny being nice and allowing Patke, Baker and Rumph to find other jobs. Maybe he has Barrow in his back pocket to come in as soon as that happens. Then go find a ST coach. But my goodness, this wreaks of incompetence on the surface.
 
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