The Rundown Take
Grading Day: U Talk Hands Out Report Cards for a Season Nobody Wants to Remember
Two days removed from the Duke loss that sealed a 6-6 finish, Devin opened U Talk with an assignment for the whole chat: grade the season, position by position, coach by coach. Callers Billy Barrett and Devin's cousin Danielle Carroll worked through it live, and by the end nobody in the room could find a passing grade.
Key Takeaways
- Devin's only above-a-C grade goes to punter Lou Hedley — the lone consistent performer all season, alongside special teams overall.
- Manny Diaz grades out at a D from Devin, worse from Billy Barrett — "I can't flunk him all the way out" was as generous as it got.
- Offensive coordinator Dan Enos gets an F from Devin for a lack of aggressiveness and zero in-game adjustments.
- Defensive coordinator Blake Baker draws a D-plus to C-minus range — the defense abandoned the blitz package entirely and stopped disguising coverages.
- Devin wants Diaz to hand defensive play-calling duties back to himself and demote Enos, rather than fire the whole staff outright.
Nobody Passes the Test
Devin walked through every position group and came up empty — no consistency at quarterback between Jarren Williams and N'Kosi Perry, no push up front, defensive backs he described as "running up into the wrong hole" on live tape. Billy Barrett agreed the offensive line's inability to just "take a legal fight" and hold a block sealed Miami's fate, and pinned it on coaching more than talent. Both agreed six wins is unacceptable for a program that beat a Virginia team now playing for the ACC title, while losing to Georgia Tech and FIU.
Coordinators, Not Head Coaches
The recurring theme: Manny Diaz is a defensive mind who never took the defense back over, and Dan Enos, a former corners coach, was never equipped to run an offense. Devin argued Diaz should have kept his hand on the defense until Enos proved himself, and that the offense looks like a rerun of Mark Richt's conservative playbook — no motion, no misdirection, just lining up and snapping it. Danielle Carroll agreed it's time to blow the whole operation up, though both acknowledge the administration won't fire a first-year coach.
"I just don't see Danny Enos being our offensive coordinator anymore. I don't see how he can have all of this talent and not know what to do with it."
Silver Lining: The Class Coming In
Devin pivoted to the one bright spot — he likes the incoming recruiting class, but insists the staff has to find more offensive linemen, including going outside Florida to the Midwest. Whatever happens with the coaches, Devin closed by reminding the chat this is Diaz's own recruiting class now, with no more excuses about inheriting someone else's roster heading into year two.