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MANNY DIAZ TO FSU?! Could Florida State Actually Hire a Former MIAMI Head Coach?! · FSU Football: Doak Talk

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  Speaker 1: All right, next name, Manny Diaz. Talk about Manny Diaz
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. This is an interesting one. You guys
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  Speaker 1: know I like Manny. I think he should definitely be
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  Speaker 1: a candidate for the position 100%. I'm not saying you
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  Speaker 1: give the job to Manny, but he should 100% be
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  Speaker 1: in the running. Talk about Manny a little bit. 21-15
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  Speaker 1: at Miami during his time in Miami. First-time head coach.
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  Speaker 1: 23-11 currently at Duke. 23-11 thus far at Duke. He's
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  Speaker 1: currently 5-2 at Duke. ACC champion. Knows Florida. Recruited the
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  Speaker 1: area pretty damn well, in my opinion. He's a Florida
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  Speaker 1: State alum. Understands the quarterback port of recruiting, right? Understands
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback port of recruiting. What I say about that.
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  Speaker 1: What I mean by that, rather. If you guys follow
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  Speaker 1: FSU from a Twitter standpoint, well, follow FSU from a
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  Speaker 1: Twitter standpoint, you're kind of entrenched in the big three
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  Speaker 1: You know about all these coaches, right, and how they
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  Speaker 1: do or how they're doing, rather, due to the big
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  Speaker 1: three ties. So if you guys remember, we called Manny
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  Speaker 1: the portal king way before Mike. Manny Diaz was literally
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  Speaker 1: the first P5 coach, if I'm not mistaken, to kind
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  Speaker 1: of dabble in the portal to that degree. He ended
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  Speaker 1: up getting De'Aaron King from Houston transferred over to Miami.
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  Speaker 1: ended up going like 8-3 or 9-3 or something like
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  Speaker 1: that during his second year during that time when he
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  Speaker 1: had De'Aaron King. I think Jalen Hurts also took a
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  Speaker 1: visit to Miami before and let him go to Oklahoma
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  Speaker 1: with Lincoln Riley. So he knows how to recruit the
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  Speaker 1: transfer portal from a quarterback standpoint. Murray, I forget the
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  Speaker 1: guy's first name, but it was a Texas quarterback, and
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  Speaker 1: he's first year at Duke. Texas quarterback Murray entered the
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  Speaker 1: transfer portal. Duke and Manny went and prioritized him and
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  Speaker 1: brought him over to Duke from Texas. That really didn't
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  Speaker 1: work out. What does he do the next year? He
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  Speaker 1: goes and get Mensah, probably the best quarterback in the portal.
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  Speaker 1: He brings him to Duke. And we all know how
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  Speaker 1: that story ended. Mensah was one of the better quarterbacks
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  Speaker 1: in the ACC last year, leading Duke to their first
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  Speaker 1: ACC championship, winning nine games in back-to-back years for Manny. Then,
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  Speaker 1: of course, The last day of the transfer portal, and
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  Speaker 1: I hate this shit for Manny. I just hate it
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  Speaker 1: for college football in general, but the game is the game.
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  Speaker 1: The very last day of the transfer portal, after announcing
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  Speaker 1: previously that he was returning to Duke, he ended the
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  Speaker 1: portal and transfers to Miami in the wee hours of
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  Speaker 1: the portal, right? Not giving Manny enough time to kind
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  Speaker 1: of pivot and move forward from that. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they also lost their best receiver as well, too.
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  Speaker 2: He's at Miami. So you lose.
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  Speaker 1: Arguably the best quarterback in the ACC, or the best
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  Speaker 1: quarterback in the ACC, in my opinion, one of the
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  Speaker 1: best quarterbacks in the country. He lose one of the
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  Speaker 1: better receivers in the ACC as well on the last
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  Speaker 1: day of the transfer portal.
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  Speaker 2: That's fine.
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  Speaker 1: What does Manny Diaz do? He pivoted that to currently
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  Speaker 1: five and two now. The man wins ball games in.
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  Speaker 2: The ACC, bro. We're talking about Duke. Duke. Duke.
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  Speaker 1: Like, Duke has been the punching bag of the ACC
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  Speaker 1: for as long as I can fucking remember, man. Like,
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  Speaker 1: Mike Elko did a pretty good job.
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  Speaker 2: Don't get it twisted.
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  Speaker 1: But I think Manny has took that to another damn level.
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  Speaker 2: Like, it's Duke.
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  Speaker 1: Understands defenses. Understands how to recruit defensive backs and just
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  Speaker 1: that type of deal. One of our– Makai Jones. Is
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  Speaker 1: it Makai Jones?
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  Speaker 2: Makai.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on. What's the state that we got from Duke
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  Speaker 1: to God?
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  Speaker 2: Something that starts with a D. Does his last name
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  Speaker 2: start with a D? I don't know. I know it's
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  Speaker 2: Makai something.
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  Speaker 1: Makai, yeah, it's not Jones. What the hell number is he, man?
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  Speaker 1: That's how terrible this FSU team has been this year.
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  Speaker 1: One second, I was pulling the roster to get his
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  Speaker 1: name correctly.
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  Speaker 2: My apologies to Makai for not having his name correctly. Correct.
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  Speaker 2: It's Makai Jones.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Makai Jones, I was right. So yeah, we have
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  Speaker 1: Makai Jones who Was a true freshman for Duke. Started
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  Speaker 1: as a true freshman for Duke. In the transfer quarter,
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  Speaker 1: we ended up snatching him from Duke, and he started
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  Speaker 1: for us.
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  Speaker 2: Now, do I think we could have gotten better than
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  Speaker 2: Makai Jones? Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: I do think that. He had some limitations for sure.
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  Speaker 1: But the dude was playing a good ball at Duke
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  Speaker 1: and was starting as a true freshman, and we felt
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  Speaker 1: like he was going to have to play for Florida State.
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  Speaker 1: So you get Manny Arpolo, I think he can do
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  Speaker 1: pretty well. So the cons. He was fired at Miami.
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  Speaker 1: fired him at me as a first-time head coach. And
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  Speaker 1: I know as FSU fans, that's your biggest gripe. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: why do we want a damn reject from our rivals?
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  Speaker 1: Context matters. That's that bullshit big three thinking.
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  Speaker 2: Fuck that.
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  Speaker 1: Think bigger picture. Context matters. He was a first-time head coach.
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  Speaker 1: First-time head coach. First-time head coach at the University of Miami.
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  Speaker 1: He went 21-15 at the University of Miami. Um, Miami
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  Speaker 1: did not invest in Manny Diaz at all, at all,
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  Speaker 1: at all. He had no resources at Miami. Miami, as
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  Speaker 1: a matter of fact, Mario Cristobal wouldn't accept the Miami
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  Speaker 1: position without certain assurances as far as investing in the program.
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  Speaker 1: So once Mario signed, everything was butter as far as
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  Speaker 1: the investment within the program. Manny wasn't afforded that investment.
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  Speaker 1: 21-15 as a first-time head coach. He wasn't even supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be the Miami head coach at that point in time.
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  Speaker 1: He agreed to be the Temple head coach and should
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  Speaker 1: have took that job to get your G5 training wheels
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  Speaker 1: as your first-time head coaching job. But Mark Rick retired
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  Speaker 1: from Miami abruptly, causing Miami to double back and panic.
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  Speaker 1: I guess you could say panic and make the easy
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  Speaker 1: hire in calling Manny Diaz back from Temple because he
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  Speaker 1: actually agreed to that job. So you go to Miami
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  Speaker 1: as your first-time head coach. You fail there at 21-15.
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  Speaker 1: You get fired. You go to Penn State as a
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  Speaker 1: defensive coordinator under James Franklin, very respected coach, and put
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  Speaker 1: up elite defenses at Penn State. You leave Penn State
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  Speaker 1: after learning from a real good head coach, learning from
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  Speaker 1: your mistakes at Miami.
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  Speaker 2: You transition that and you... You transition that and you.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry. Bad kids. You transition that and then you Go
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  Speaker 2: to Duke, right? He's been winning ever since then, Duke.
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  Speaker 1: Man, the dude is 23-11 at Duke.
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  Speaker 2: Like, bro.
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  Speaker 1: Over these last few years, I'll take 23-11 at Florida State.
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  Speaker 1: What we've been having with Mike Norvell, this man is
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  Speaker 1: 23-11 at Duke with an ACC championship at Duke. So, again,
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  Speaker 1: I do think there's value in failure when you learn
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  Speaker 1: from your mistakes. And I do think many DSs learn
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  Speaker 1: from their mistakes at Miami as a first-time head coach.
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  Speaker 1: He's still young. He's still prime. Like I said, Florida
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  Speaker 1: State alum. So I think Manny should be a solid candidate.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think Florida State fans should dismiss Manny as
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  Speaker 1: a candidate just because of his failures at Miami. Everything
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  Speaker 1: has context, in my opinion. Well, that one specifically has context.