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*Update Eddie Nunez Emerges as Strong Candidate for Miami AD Job

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Does anyone know if FAU AD interviewed for the job? Second interviews are just a weeding out process.
 
Sounds like no one has any idea about this guy's skills and approach as an AD. I'm not saying he's gonna be a good hire, but there just seems to be a lot of superficial critiques.

I will judge him on the following three issues early on:
(1) Will he recommend firing Manny?
(2) Will he make a good hire? Does he have the intelligence, charisma, skill, vision, and discipline to sell a big fish on the exciting future of our program?
(3) Will he act as an effective advocate for the football department? Will he secure resources from the admin? Will he fundraise? Will he grow our brand? Is he an alpha? etc.

No criticisms offer any insight into whether he will or will not execute on any of the above three.
 
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DiegoCane said:
No.

The impressive thing about him according to our decision makers is, he went to HS and community college in Miami. That's his qualifications.
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Wtf would UM target a guy whose football program has a losing record every season there he has been there. These are the best candidates they can find in the whole country?! This has to be a joke.
 
DiegoCane said:
Miami's AD candidates and qualifications:

Eddie Nunez- can yell Dale!
Alonzo Highsmith- played at Miami and scout
Gino Toretta- played at Miami and announcer, also a SJW so +100 points

I wonder why Miami isn't considered a serious program
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We are a clown show
 
WhatTheHell said:
What's wrong with Nunez is that the people who are considering hiring him seem to have his top attribute as "knows the city and the culture."

Cool. Big whoop. Give Tom Jurich a map and let him watch a couple Pitbull videos.

The main point is, when you've been mostly a joke in sports for nearly two decades, and your president publicly touts his renewed efforts to become a serious school athletically (including a huge investment of funds to make big-time hires) well, you're not expecting the AD from New Mexico with a shlt resume to be the first shoe to drop in this purported serious makeover of Miami athletics.
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What makes his resume ****? I would say the school he works at barely cares about athletics but why is his resume **** otherwise?
 
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A lot of hot takes in here. Some of the poRsts....... Holy ****! Others.... Thanks for the laughs!!! lol

The only thing I will say about this is that at least Mario and Zo have a track record of success at the highest level.

If it is Mr. Eddie Munster, where he is coming from as AD (I know his background at LSU. It is very good), the narrative is that of a puppet, great fundraiser (Where the fvkkk have we heard that before) and as a puppet. Did I say, puppet? Fair or not, that's what it is. This thread and others prove it. He will need to disprove it.

So from the get go, he is starting in a hole, in a position of weakness and if it is him, he's going to have a perception problem he's going to have to overcome and with action and establishing a track record of success over time.

It feels like the Manny situation. Not his fault that he is swinging for the fences and he might get the job. It's the people putting him in this spot.

This is the most critical AD hire ever, IMO, based on what's gone on here in the last 20 years and it's a **** of a risk to give it to some short timer AD from New Mexico, LSU background or not.

Time will tell. Good luck, Mr. Nunez!
 
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Lets interview Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera

Who cares if hes dead...heard he was a good fundraiser AND hispanic!
 
WhatTheHell said:
What's wrong with Nunez is that the people who are considering hiring him seem to have his top attribute as "knows the city and the culture."

Cool. Big whoop. Give Tom Jurich a map and let him watch a couple Pitbull videos.

The main point is, when you've been mostly a joke in sports for nearly two decades, and your president publicly touts his renewed efforts to become a serious school athletically (including a huge investment of funds to make big-time hires) well, you're not expecting the AD from New Mexico with a shlt resume to be the first shoe to drop in this purported serious makeover of Miami athletics.
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he didn't go to Columbus or from MDC like the rest of the new blood running the show. good thing we have dudes who took a geography class with them in the 80s to vouch for their prowess
 
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CanesNation26 said:
Sounds like no one has any idea about this guy's skills and character. I'm not saying he's gonna be a good hire, but there just seems to be a lot of superficial critiques.

I will judge him on the following three issues early on:
(1) Will he recommend firing Manny?
(2) Will he make a good hire? Does he have the intelligence, charisma, skill, vision, and discipline to sell a big fish on the exciting future of our program?
(3) Will he act as an effective advocate for the football department? Will he secure resources from the admin? Will he fundraise? Will he grow our brand? etc.

No criticisms offer any insight into whether he will or will not do any of the above three.
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From the sounds of it he's not making the hire, and the BOT has been working on Mario behind the scenes.

He's another puppet.
 
Other than Gino & Zo, why is it this guy's name is the only one ever mentioned in the mainstream Miami media... seems off. He the only guy we're interviewing? Probably blind hope me reading into it too much.
 
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First, I think Nunez would likely be another puppet hire and is probably exactly what Epstein wants.

That said, the previous AD signed the football coach to an extension right before Nunez was hired and I believe Nunez literally didn't have the money at his disposal to fire anyone and pay the buyouts. He has since made some moves recently.

He may actually be a good AD, but much like the HC hire, Miami absolutely needs to be going after bigger fish if they truly have a newfound commitment to sports.

You do not have a campaign stating you're going to take sports more serious than ever before, pump loads of money into said sports, then turn around and hire a no name AD that is only qualified because of where he was born.
 
CanesNation26 said:
Sounds like no one has any idea about this guy's skills and character. I'm not saying he's gonna be a good hire, but there just seems to be a lot of superficial critiques.

I will judge him on the following three issues early on:
(1) Will he recommend firing Manny?
(2) Will he make a good hire? Does he have the intelligence, charisma, skill, vision, and discipline to sell a big fish on the exciting future of our program?
(3) Will he act as an effective advocate for the football department? Will he secure resources from the admin? Will he fundraise? Will he grow our brand? etc.

No criticisms offer any insight into whether he will or will not do any of the above three.
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Hey look, sound logic is still in the building!
 
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