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Manuel Alberto Diaz II (born March 13, 1974) is an American football coach who is the head football coach at Duke University. He served as the defensive coordinator and linebackers coach at Pennsylvania State University from 2022 to 2023 and as the head football coach at the University of Miami from 2019 to 2021.
Defenses under Diaz have been a force behind the line of scrimmage, as his units since 2016 have ranked in the top 10 nationally in tackles for loss each year: No. 5 in 2022 (8.0 per game), No. 9...
Jan 2, 2019 · Thirty-five years to the day after winning its first national championship, the University of Miami introduced Diaz as its first Cuban-American head football coach.
Oct 18, 2023 · Manny Diaz at Penn State: How the ex-Miami coach became the ideal hire for James Franklin - The Athletic. By Audrey Snyder. Oct 18, 2023. STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — The first time Penn State players...
Dec 6, 2021 · Miami has fired coach Manny Diaz. Diaz had two winning seasons in his three years in charge of the Hurricanes.
Dec 7, 2023 · Manny Diaz, who has coached in the ACC and the SEC, returns to his alma mater as the 23rd head coach of the Blue Devils. He brings with him experience as a defensive coordinator, linebackers coach and head coach at various schools, including Penn State, Miami and Florida State.
Dec 6, 2021 · Loyal to a fault, and not ready for all the demands of his dream job in his first head coaching stint, Diaz, the 47-year-old Cuban-American son of a former Miami mayor, was fired Monday morning...
