It’s all become as uncomfortably obvious as that sour smell leaking from Miami’s football program. Firing athletic director Blake James was Step One. Coach Manny Diaz has made it inevitably easy to be Step Two.
A clear-the-decks change is underway inside Miami in a manner that has the constitutional feel of necessary news more than good news. What the school does next tells whether there’s any good news. And the school, in this context, the idea is a few deep-pocketed Board of Trustees members and couple of aides to President Julio Frenk.
That’s how it works. These powerbrokers turned to famed alum Alonzo Highsmith for a football overlord role last winter only to be blocked by James and Diaz.