The one bright spot during Diaz tenure was seeing Lashlee making the most of a limited roster. I was on board with Diaz getting fired, but I didn’t understand why people were lusting after Cristobal. His teams always look poorly coached. Yes he can get talent but this is the NIL era. Was the wrong coach for the wrong era. Recruits don’t care about the record, they want to get paid. I didn’t see the point of paying 80 million for Cristobal plus the buyouts. His ceiling was a lesser Mark Richt (richt actually had his team’s prepared).
Thought the most practical idea was hiring Lashlee as HC, and taking all that money that was going to go to Cristobal and put it towards NIL. Imagine having 5 million extra a year for the next 8 years to go towards filling out the roster.
Downvote all you want, but despite our records and our dominant W in week one, I think recruits are feeling UF right now more than UM. A HC is selling hope. They look like they are trending up. We are trending down- week after week UM doesn’t look prepared. And even if it’s not his fault, Cristobal going to be blamed for wasting Ward (though I think it’s more of a Dawson and Ward issue)