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Miami fires Manny Diaz, hires Mario Cristobal

Miami has moved on from Manny Diaz, opening the door for Mario Cristobal to come back from Oregon. Diaz was informed of his dismissal during a Monday morning meeting with Miami’s president, sources told Yahoo Sports’ Pete Thamel. Diaz, the son of a former Miami mayor, was given three seasons with the Hurricanes before the school — which currently does not have an athletic director but is close to landing Dan Radakovich from Clemson — opted to go in another direction. That next direction… Source link

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Miami brash and crass in chasing Mario Cristobal

ATLANTA — On Saturday night, as the city of Atlanta sat transfixed by Alabama’s throttling of Georgia in the SEC title game, a titan of a previous generation of college football plotted a long game of catch-up to that caliber of stage. A few miles from the Mercedes Benz Dome, University of Miami officials met with Clemson athletic director Dan Radakovich about becoming the school’s next AD. While plotting that move, they’d already begun feverishly and clumsily putting together an… Source link

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