Big Interview: Miami Head Coach Manny Diaz
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
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🗓️ 17 February 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Andy Staples welcomes special guest Manny Diaz to the show. The Miami Head Coach talks about landing D'Eriq King, hiring Rhett Lashlee as OC and bringing back Ed Reed as Chief of Staff. Plus, now that Mel Tucker has been introduced in East Lansing, the pressure is on to live up to the massive contract he couldn't turn down. Should college football adopt the XFL's new kickoff rule?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Andy. We've got a great show for you today. Big interview with Miami head coach |
| 0:06.4 | Mani Diaz. He has made a lot of changes, particularly on the offensive side of the ball, as the |
| 0:11.5 | hurricanes try to recover from a disastrous end to the 2019 season. We're also going to talk a little bit |
| 0:16.9 | more about Mel Tucker's move from Colorado to Michigan State. That story feels like |
| 0:21.6 | it just keeps on going. Also, I'm going to make a rule suggestion. I watch the first week |
| 0:27.0 | into the XFL, and it inspired me to push for a change in college football because they've got |
| 0:33.7 | a really good idea going on in the XFL that I think needs to move to the college game. |
| 0:38.3 | All of that and more on the Indy Staples show. |
| 1:01.5 | Thank you. Welcome to the Andy Staples show. |
| 1:03.6 | Big episode today. |
| 1:08.0 | Mani Diaz, the head coach of the Miami Hurricanes, is our big interview. |
| 1:11.9 | You're going to hear a lot from him about the changes they've made since the end of last season. Remember last season ended very poorly. They lost to Florida International. |
| 1:17.1 | They lost to Duke. They lost to Louisiana Tech. They're changing offenses. They have a new |
| 1:21.3 | quarterback. There's a lot going on at Miami. Before we get into that, though, do want to |
| 1:26.7 | extend our condolences to the family of Deerrick King, quarterback at Miami. Before we get into that, though, do want to extend our condolences to the family |
| 1:29.1 | of Deerick King, quarterback at Miami. His father, Eric, passed away on Saturday. And I talked to |
| 1:35.1 | Eric King last year for a story on Deerick when Deerick was still at Houston. You would not find a more |
| 1:40.3 | proud dad. It just breaks your heart to hear that news. |
| 1:45.7 | And Deerick has tweeted out, you know, he's going to make him proud for the rest of his life. |
| 1:50.1 | And you love to see a son who loves his father that much, but you just hate that |
| 1:55.5 | Eric King's not going to get to see the rest of his kids growing up. |
| 2:00.6 | And it's just it's one of those awful, awful things. to see the rest of his kids growing up. |
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