Well, here’s one thing everyone should agree on: Manny Diaz had to take this job. He had to leave Miami for Temple. He had to go from running one of college football’s best defenses to joining a school that’s suddenly a springboard for head coaches.
Yes, for all the questions this brings Miami, Diaz had to take another step toward chasing the most remarkable of dreams, the kind that draw all of us to sports in first place and did Diaz more than most.
“I want to thank everyone for being here,’’ Diaz said at Temple on Thursday afternoon to a university’s applause as the obvious storylines diverged.