That maybe he should have taken that South Florida HC offer after his first season at Texas when he was golden.
Whatever he's thinking, from what we've seen, Robinson could simplify it and make it more fundamentally sound.
I still cannot figure out if Manny's failure was schematic or teaching ability. I tend to think it was a failure to teach what he wanted our defenders to do, because the early season confusion and utterly blown assignments have decreased to near zero in the weeks since he was let go. I hope he is living well on his salary and lands on his feet somewhere.
tejas, baseed on comments made the last couple of weeks, this is generally well accepted now as the reason for the defensive turnaroun.d HIC was just poking fun at the thoughts in Diaz's head using this same line of thinking. was pretty funny too!
I hope he is not having to worry about how he is going to support his family in the future. Hopefully he has enough contacts established that he will have some job offers of some kind waiting for him at the end of the year. I think he is probably a good man, well intentioned and hard working but miscast as the D-coordinator and line backer coach at Texas.
He just sits around mumbling "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.".
I think he will have learned you don't have to complicate everything all at once to make your mark. I also hope we did right by him. From everything I saw of him he tried to do right here.
He's probably rolling around in his $675K and wondering when he'll get the color commentator callback from ESPN.
If it was either schematic or lack of ability to teach, who would hire him with either of those problems?
Seems like a good guy who was in a position he wasn't qualified for getting paid way more than he was worth. I'm sure he could become an OC somewhere. There's a huge market for people who can make a defense look so bad.
If Manny had landed an HC job, he might have covered up his weak fundamentals indefinitely. Recruit that Florida talent, hire solid assistants and let them coach the players up. The most disappointing thing about the Manny situation is that Mack didn't know that Manny had failed until the BYU game. Having decided to keep him around, Mack's number one offseason job was to make sure Manny was taking care of business. Mack was unable to watch the practices and see that the defense was still not being taught the basics. Ugh.
He's trying to figure out how to make 2+2= eleven. The guy lived off smoke and mirrors, but I wish him well.
Whatever he thinks about I don't know, but I hope he reflects on this and last season and learns from his mistakes. If so, he'll do fine. If not, he'll constantly fail.
