I love how every Miami fan's reaction, is to just fire the coach and staff, as if that's going to wave a wand and make everything great.
I've told a buddy of mine(Da U fan) for years, the same problem persists with Miami. They become great in a time and era when there was no internet and camps, and kids took pride in staying home in SoFLa playing for a 2nd rate program with average facilities. It was cool to party with 2 Live Crew, and be the bad boys. Thing is, once the web came around and kids started traveling more to camps at other campuses, they saw what they could have and utilize, and the networks they could form outside of SoFLa. Why stay home and play on a dilapidated field, in a HS weight room, playing for 10k fans, when you could play at bigger schools throughout the country, get out of the neighborhoods and away from the bad influences at home, and have some of the best facilities in college with the best nutrition, and play in front of 80,000-100,000k screaming weekly. Firing Manny after 1 or 2 seasons, sets them back as a program even more, because it's just a rinse and repeat cycle. Bomani Jones made a great point on his podcast, the Miami former football players want the team great more than the University of Miami program does. And that's the biggest difference between them and say an OSU, Alabama, Lsu, Oklahoma, etc. And that will always be their downfall and constantly keep them average to sometimes above average
