CORAL GABLES — When it was announced on Monday that Blake James was parting ways with the University of Miami as the university’s athletic director, questions naturally arose if there will soon be more changes to come for UM’s athletics program, especially for the football program led by coach Manny Diaz.
James hired Diaz as UM’s football coach in 2018 as the successor to Mark Richt, who coached the Hurricanes for three seasons before abruptly retiring from coaching on Dec. 30, 2018.
Diaz, who was UM’s defensive coordinator under Richt and had accepted the head coaching job at Temple a month prior, was hired as Miami’s next football coach one day later in a move that James detractors criticized him for due to making a hasty decision and not conducting a national search.