Where did Miami go wrong? College GameDay reacts to the downfall of the Hurricanes’ football program 

Herbstreit did more in a few seconds to change the trajectory of UM football than the administration did in 2 decades. God bless him!!

Thank you Kirk 🙏🏾

Kirk… THANK YOU!! UM’s Mount Rushmore has a place reserved for you. We all appreciate you.

They really miss miami 😪 dominating schools..every since that scandal it's been tough to really bounce back ..and that homegrown talent going elsewhere

I attended U of Miami from 1986 to 1991. I attended every home football game in the old Orange bowl and never saw them lose a home game. Never lost!. In that same period I saw them win Three (3) National championships. Thats how good we were!

“We weren’t individuals. We were truly a team.” Ed Reed.

Kirk loves The U. I love Kirk. Fire Manny. Bye bye. It’s not the recruiting. It’s the game day decisions that are his fault. Let’s get a banger in Miami and start making moves for W’s

Ed Reed has to realize that the formula that Miami had in the 80's and 90's is gone. UM was unique in that the local stars decided to get together on their own to build a powerhouse in their own backyard. It really wasn't the case of genius recruiting on the part of the school or its coaches. Those players owned it all; both the risks, and the rewards. How can you cultivate that sort of thing again?

Freshman are playing because upperclassmen were injured. Otherwise it’s been seniority over performance and potential.

I definitely got love for Herbstriet. I know he's an Ohio State guy, but he's always been a big advocate for The U.

Kirk has secretly always had a special place in his heart for “The U”

He did hesitate! He only changed the line up after the threat of being fired was all too real. C'mon Dez

Kirk is a true fan of the game. When he sees that a program could and should do better he will call them out. All his criticisms of Miami have been more then fair, extremely necessary and very welcoming to Miami fans. His comments did more to move the program forward than the past 3 years of Miami play combined. Thank you Kirk

Thank you 🙏 Kirk H we are sick as Miami fans Manny needs to go plain and simple. Manny plays the wrong players as fans we was screaming to play the more talented young guys and it took injuries to play them and we started winning no way you can keep a coach that FANS FREAKING KNOW BETTER

Kirk, U fans thank you. How just a few minutes of you shining a light has really got the ball rolling.

Rece and Herbstreit just gave a big kick in the as to The "U". They needed that. Let's go CANES!!!

Props to Kirk for stepping up and saying those harsh and 💯 accurate words describing the Miami Hurricanes downfall throughout the 2 decades and very weird for him to say that considering that he’s a Ohio State alumni, but the main focus is that Kirk not only as a college football analyst but as a fan in general wants to see The U become relevant along with FSU, USC, Nebraska and I can possibly throw in Michigan but they’re having a good season this year.

Kirk want us to be back so bad because he knows if we become the powerhouse we used to be it could be YEARS (decades) of Miami dominance again which will force every team out there to preform at a high level at all times because all the big names recruits will flock to Miami to the point we’ll be filled with only four and five stars and couldn’t even take them all. That’s what Kirk wants. That’s what college football needs. Is for the MIAMI HURRICANES to be THE TEAM TO BEAT.

"I ran for 347 yards against FSU the year I won the Heisman Trophy while at the U" - Brian Steltzer, CNN

Thank you Kirk! Go Canes!!!

The University of Miami will never get back to the way it was. How many of those players stay in Miami, plus it's a small private University. That amount of talent they had at that small private school was once in a lifetime. 🙌

I’m really glad ingot to see the canes from 1987-2002. Never will be done again.

The problem is we have enough talent in the state of Fla to be a top 3 program. We don’t have to rely on the portal to be great. That’s why Manny has to go, our (Florida) kids don’t want to play for him🙌🏾💯

Y’all need to thank footballville but y’all not ready for that conversation for Obvious Reasons shout out to X and D Streeter

It’s a lot it’s the school itself, the stadium, the administration, and coaching

Anyone find it odd that the three top programs in Florida are failing in a state with that talent?

Senior leadership is everything. Freshmen need to show up and have the fear of god in them when entering the locker room. I'm not talking hazing, but just being intimidated by the greatness of the upperclassmen. It's healthy for the young guys to see what greatness looks like. Looking for day 1 playing time is a huge mistake. If a freshman beats you out as a senior, that's a problem too.

Hard to get Sr, Leadership when your elite players bounce after their sophmore and jr. years.

One of the biggest problems Miami have is the players are going to other programs rather than do university of Miami. They are not the number one place that the top athletes in South Florida are going to now.

Its a shame that real estate so expensive in south Florida, because I think a small, 20-40 thousand ON CAMPUS stadium would be a huge difference.

Better Athletic Director & Better Coach!

This is the team that got off the bus in camo bc they were going to war. Teams were scared of miami bc they would thump u on the field, the parking lot, and leave w ur girl. They dripped swag, they walked different. That mindset has been missing for decades.

The focus went to chains and props instead of winning football . That loss to FIU and the players were dancing around on the sidelines was what ended my support of manny

I remember being on campus to buy a dozen tickets for my coworkers and their kids because of my passion for this team back in the early 2000s,This was for a game against Pitt Panthers and the great Larry Fitzgerald. I even saw Jon VIlma as a young kid walking on campus at that time and sending him prayers for the game and beyond. I missed that because people cared back then...I have lost that enthusiasm because the school administration has lost theirs for the past 20 years. The parents of current kids on the team get mad at the fans but they don't understand, it not the kids its the leaders, because we have live through the standards of greatness for this program. The results of mediocrity every year will wear the best of us down, we should at least challenge for the Coastal Conference every year.

That shows you how screwed up UM has been. It takes a sports commentator’s comments for the school to react. This should’ve happened a long time ago from within.

IT'LL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN.... I went to 36 of the games during The Streak. During the 80s-90s SoFla was awash in drug money, South Beach was THE place to get, Miami Vice molded a generation. Also, the talent level in Florida was exponentially better at skilled positions than 49 other States combined. The U didn't recruit, they picked. In other terms; "Yo Tre, would rather be on South Beach in December walking the beach with Bikini clad Alejandra, who's sporting 36D. or in Lincoln or South Bend, in 36' rain and watching cankles

My main problems with Manny Diaz and this whole athletic department is accountability, player development, adaptability, failure to adjust, and weak leadership IMO

Remember the time kirk get everybody fired at the U . Thank you bro for stating the obvious let's go Canes

What Manny was forced to put in the freshman due to injuries if not he would have kept in upper classman that weren't performing well

What Miami is facing is what the NBA is facing the export of it's greatness. Plus more options for students athletes in the State of Florida. FAU, FIU, UCF, USF and & FAMU teams. Besides the big programs like Florida 🐊 Gators and FSU 🏹 🔥 🐎

Win $1. Which array is Wake Forest currently indexing with yards passing per game? A. 423 B. 750 C. 665 D. 543 E. 318 What is the random variable? A. G B. T C. J D. O E. R

College football needs the U. It needs a team with that swagger. A legitimate team that can annually challenge Alabama in this decade, get that rivalry going strong again with Notre Dame and maybe Florida State. College football needs more than SEC dominance. I hope the U does it.

Ever since this team lost to Florida International. I dont think this football program will ever be good again.

Go out and find decent to good players with leadership and character skills on and off of the field. This has to be the place where you become a mature intelligent and driven adult not just a nfl prospect.

Miami will NEVER get back to that 90s-2000s era if they don’t keep in-state talent HOME. Ohio State, Alabama, Georgia, and Clemson have religiously pulled kids from our own front yard.

Shout out to Footballville‼️ They've been calling this out far longer than Kirk. However, Kirk does have a larger platform.

His first year his team had very good players. His OC was one Manny chose. Manny’s failure is all his. Manny was not ready to be head coach at a school like Miami. Should have let him go to Temple…

Ty Kirk from a Miami alum.

Miami was so happy that Manny left Temple to come back to Miami. Now look at what's going on

Where did it go wrong, Miami has lost four to five games on a regular basis , since 2006

The Canes have forgotten basic Pop Warner tackling methods, hit, wrap, and roll. They need to see how Ray Lewis tackles.

Coach Sabin said he wasn’t ready for a head coaching job

Tbh NCAA football is won in the recruiting . South Florida puts the most players in the NFL and UM isnt getting any of those players to the school. We need Money in the program asap ! And stop Thinking that these Kids are gonna want to come to the school solely based on things UM did 20- 30 years ago. BETTER FACILITIES A NEW MOTIVATION WILL BRING BETTER RECRUITMENT . U HAVE TO KEEP SOUTH FL PLAYERS IN SOUTH FL . Imagine if Lamar Jackson, Amari cooper or Teddy Bridgewater went to UM . Bridgewater and cooper were on the same Highschool team in MIAMI !

Thanks kirk beat players come from florida and go other places.. stay great coach will make them stay

$20 to $30 million MORE. What a joke. We have our priorities totally backwards in education. Also the buckeyes put a death nail in the program in the 2002 Championship game. They hadn't been the same since!

No fans and no stadium near campus.

Manny might have saved his job to be honest but they better find somebody on that staff that can recruit he can’t recruit South Florida like the great wise Corso said you can’t lose to FSU especially that FSU team

get better players and u come back, until they get that they wont win. They dont recruit at the clip that made them great. Its a different time now

I don’t think The U will ever be back on top on a regular basis. This is all pipe dreams. They have been bad for longer than they were good. It was lightning in a bottle during the 80s and 90s.

None of these guys have ever coached. Except for LC and he was fired. So until you have coached and been on that kind of pressure to win at a school like that. There options are no better than mine. I notice none of them said the wanted they wanted the job.

Howard is wrong. The only reason why Diaz is playing Freshmen is due to injuries. Bear said the roster didn’t have talent when he got there yet he was the DC before he became the HC and the defense was one of the better defensive units when he was the DC. So if they have a talent gap it’s because of him.

Kirk is entering the air of respect the U fans have for Coach Bowden. We will give him honorary U status when he is in vactioning in Miami. Manny's error was wanting all credit for Miami's success for himself and not playing underclassmen early. Pride comes before the fall. When he was forced to play the young players because of injuries to the vets, Miami started winning. Now it's too little, too late.

Bear has the best point. He’s done everything you want done as a HC, but has came so close to getting it right, but just off.

Ed Reed

This is where they went wrong. The program has NEVER been the same since this devastating loss. 😆😆😆 Go Bucks!

Bear..... Manny has made the correct moves OFF the field, but his own inexperience as a HC has cost the team wins themselves. Inexcusably poor clock management and his own trademark as a DC holds no weight. Even the turnover chain has lost it's charm. Sheep in wolf's clothing.

Miami should've brought back Butch when they had the chance. Manny is all talk, but he suuuuucks. This years defense could be the worst defense in the last 40 years, lol

Every since we hot embarrassed by LSU in the Peach Bowl, it's been all down hill n to many downs than ups. But you cant have folks who don't care about athletics running the sports team

There’s just no way a small private school can ever go back to the mountaintop in this college football landscape again…especially with that stadium situation

Now that everyone has been down on Miami not being what they once were -- anybody want to say anything about NEBRASKA, USC, TEXAS. Evidently the Canes are a team many love to hate. GO CANES!

They went wrong the minute they switched from Nike to Adidas!

Any miami graduates in a athletic dept out there.

Miami was trending during the 80s the heat

Recruiting out of state getting blue chippers from Idaho

Miami went wrong the second they hired diaz is where they went wrong

Didn’t have to watch the video to know. You got the answer in the thumbnail

Miami has to go back to Nike that’s a huge difference

Wonderful 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌👀

I disagree with his firing. They are not in Alabama’s league so that loss should not hurt his evaluation.

I really don’t mean this with any kind of hate.... but Miami is never going to be truly great again until they have their own stadium. That is a MUST.

Scheduling bama for first game of season is a big no no

Where did they go wrong? When they moved out of the Orange Bowl and then gave the city the permission to demolish it. That's where.

Miami has had a few bright spots in 20 years but there needs to be significant focus on football. Senior leadership is lacking. Maybe king being hurt limits that leadership on the field. But this team needs outspoken leaders who lead by example first. Miami also needs the recruits to be in there with a leader mentality. Sorry to say but I've seen players on this team that have no business being at Miami. Their lack of ability, size, speed, is not what Miami should be putting on the field. Our line backers alone are horrendous. Who are they? I'd like to see tyrique be more a leader too. Recruit players who lead by example first.

God Idk who was worse Golden or Diaz as the U head coach smh

Bear is disingenuous or he' doesn't have a clue. Typically I like Bear, but giving credit to Manny for making changes is grossly misguided. Manny made changes due to injuries and the outside pressures from Kirk. He has been playing guys that have no business starting over talented young guys and making excuses for starting them. He made changes to the defense from last year and they are worse than they were the year before with Manny running the defense. This year has been the worst tackling team in the country, but you want to give him credit for making changes on the defense... Really? You've out recruited every team in the ACC for the last 5 years other than Clemson and we're losing to likes of VA, GT, Duke, etc... in previous years. He's done less with more and deserves to be handed a pink slip.

When Jimmy Johnson left? 🤣🤣🤣

All the best football players in high school come from Texas tho

They don’t call it the “death penalty “ for no reason lol

We love Herbie...

Go Noles!!

Kirk is a real one

Miami needs Urban Meyer

The game of college football is better when Miami/Florida / FSU/Texas/ Michigan are good and competing!!

They need to bring ray lewis and Ed reed as head coaches

players that are able to monetize and promote themselves will never be part of the team mentality ,they are and will be only for themselves

UM alumn here (2002). This is all on Frenk. Shalala did better..which is crazy. Blake James, good riddance. Happy and hopeful with the Mario Cristobal hire.

Butch Davis left for the Cleveland Brown coaching job after 2000, Larry Corker won games and a title with the talent Davis recruited.Butch was a Jimmy Johnson protege he coached like jimmy, speed and defense and good on special teams. larry,randy,al,mark,and manny just was not able out recruit the top SEC schools since Butch Davis left the school. Jimmy Johnson is not walking through that door( sorry) hurricane and cowboys fans. LET SEE what the future holds go CANES just win in the ACC.

Miami's success was an aberration.

Recruiting... recruiting... and recruiting

U can’t look at stats and say manny deserves another year 😐