In the end, it was beginning. Even as Manny Diaz said he was only told to beat Duke and how, “everything else has been out of my control,’’ utterly everything was out of his control by late Saturday afternoon.
By the time he hugged players on the field, celebrated in the locker room and talked to the media on Zoom, it was all in the hands of a couple of Board of Trustees members and school president Julio Frenk and two trusted advisors.
All the tea leaves and off-camera whispers say change is coming and has been for a while.