Manny Diaz might as well have been the head of the National Weather Service on Tuesday.
At 7:27 p.m., the new coach sent out a hurricane warning. His tweet had no words, just a GIF of a storm brewing somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean.
At 8:16 p.m., he might as well have said it was a Category 4 storm by the name of Hurricane Jeff. The Miami Hurricanes Twitterverse erupted into a frenzy. Just before 10 p.m., Jeff Thomas took to Instagram to clear up any confusion: The wide receiver was coming back to Coral Gables just a day after he told The News-Gazette in Champaign, Illinois, he was following through on a previously announced transfer to the Illinois Fighting Illini.