In less than a month, Manny Diaz has gone from Miami defensive coordinator to Temple head coach to Miami head coach.
Miami was rocked by head coach Mark Richt's retirement announcement Sunday morning, and by midafternoon the school began a national search for Richt's replacement. Before the night was over, Diaz had a five-year deal and had told Temple that he was leaving as its head coach — he took the job there a couple of weeks earlier.
"It's been wild. There's no other way to explain it," Diaz said in a radio interview on Monday. "It's something that when everybody woke up yesterday morning, no one could have predicted. They don't write scripts for these things. If they did they would get thrown in the trash because no one would believe it."
Rodriguez finds work
Mississippi hired Rich Rodriguez as its offensive coordinator. Rodriguez was fired from Arizona in January after six seasons as head coach amid sexual harassment allegations. Before that, he was the head coach at Michigan and West Virginia.
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