Manny Diaz
Manny Diaz went 43–26 as a head coach, 2019–2026, at Miami and Duke. Wikipedia’s season articles record one season differently (2026, 4–1); by them his record is 43–25. Share
- Record
- 43–26 career
- Seasons
- 6
- Schools
- 2
- Final AP top 10
- 0 seasons
- Born
- Mar 13, 1974
- Alma mater
- Florida State 1995
- Best season
- 2020 8–3, No. 22
Season by season
| Season | School | Record | Conference finish | Bowl | AP final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Miami | 6–7 | T–3rd | Independence Bowl L | ||
| 2020 | Miami | 8–3 | 3rd | Cheez-It Bowl L | 22 | |
| 2021 | Miami | 7–5 | 2nd | Sun (not played) | ||
| 2022–23: not a college head coach | ||||||
| 2024 | Duke | 9–4 | T–4th | Gator Bowl L | ||
| 2025 | Duke | 9–5 | T–2nd | Sun Bowl W | ||
| 2026 | Duke | 4–2 (Wikipedia: 4–1) | ||||
Each season links to the team’s season page; bowls and playoff games link to the game. Conference finishes from the Wikipedia article’s record table.
Players he coached
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José BorregalesConsensus All‑American, 2020
Every player from his seasons with a Heisman top-five finish, a national award, consensus All-America honors or a first-round pick. Photos: Wikimedia Commons, free licenses; credits on each player’s page.
How his teams did
| Kind of game | Games | Record | Won |
|---|---|---|---|
| Against ranked teams | 15 | 5–10 | 33% |
| Against top-10 teams | 4 | 0–4 | 0% |
| Against rivals | 21 | 13–8 | 62% |
| Conference games | 44 | 28–16 | 64% |
| Bowls and playoffs | 4 | 1–3 | 25% |
| Decided by 8 points or fewer | 35 | 21–14 | 60% |
| At home | 34 | 24–10 | 71% |
| On the road | 27 | 16–11 | 59% |
| At neutral sites | 8 | 3–5 | 38% |
| As our Elo’s favorite | 45 | 30–15 | 67% |
| As our Elo’s underdog | 24 | 13–11 | 54% |
His own 69 games on file, 2019–2026, as played (vacated wins counted, ties as half a win). Ranks are the AP poll going into the game; rivals are the ones either program’s Wikipedia article names; favorite and underdog by our own Elo rating, which reads only scores.
Against other head coaches
| Coach | Record | Their schools | Games | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dave Doeren 2020–2025 | 4–0 | NC State | 4 | |
| Mack Brown 2019–2024 | 1–3 | North Carolina | 4 | |
| Pat Narduzzi 2019–2021 | 3–0 | Pittsburgh | 3 | |
| Bronco Mendenhall 2019–2021 | 2–1 | Virginia | 3 | |
| David Cutcliffe 2019–2021 | 2–1 | Duke | 3 | |
| Mike Norvell 2020–2024 | 2–1 | Florida State | 3 | |
| Brent Key 2024–2026 | 0–3 | Georgia Tech | 3 |
Manny Diaz’s record against the head coaches he met three or more times, from the games on file, as played.
Most-faced opponents
| Opponent | Games | Record |
|---|---|---|
| North Carolinaseries | 6 | 2–4 |
| Virginiaseries | 5 | 3–2 |
| Georgia Techseries | 5 | 1–4 |
| NC Stateseries | 4 | 4–0 |
| Florida Stateseries | 4 | 3–1 |
| Virginia Techseries | 4 | 3–1 |
| Pittsburghseries | 3 | 3–0 |
| Dukeseries | 3 | 2–1 |
National title staffs
Every title staff- Won a national title on Florida State’s 1999 staff (Videographer) · the staff · source
The champions’ staffs from 1990 on, as the schools listed them that season: Staff lists: Drew Hoover’s how-many-rings (MIT), from the schools’ media guides and staff pages. Roles as the source words them.
How he was hired
- Hired by Miami for the 2019 season from Miami, where he was defensive coordinator. He had a prior connection to the school.
- Hired by Duke for the 2024 season from Penn State, where he was defensive coordinator.
Power-conference head-coaching hires since 2010, with each coach’s previous job and ties to the school as collected by hand from Wikipedia: Hiring facts: M. Schuckers, cfb_coach_analytics.
Career
| Years | Team | Job | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998–99 | Florida State | Graduate assistant | |
| 2000–01 | NC State | Graduate assistant | |
| 2002–03 | NC State | Linebackers coach | |
| 2004–05 | NC State | Safeties and special teams coach | |
| 2006–07 | Middle Tennessee | Defensive coordinator and safeties coach | |
| 2008–09 | Middle Tennessee | Defensive coordinator and linebackers coach | |
| 2010 | Mississippi State | Defensive coordinator and linebackers coach | |
| 2011–13 | Texas | Defensive coordinator and linebackers coach | |
| 2014 | Louisiana Tech | Defensive coordinator and linebackers coach | |
| 2015 | Mississippi State | Defensive coordinator and linebackers coach | |
| 2016–18 | Miami (FL) | Defensive coordinator | |
| 2019–21 | Miami (FL) | Head coach | |
| 2022–23 | Penn State | Defensive coordinator and linebackers coach | |
| 2024–present | Duke | Head coach |
Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.
Coaching tree
Worked under
- Bobby BowdenFlorida State
- Chuck AmatoNC State
- Rick StockstillMiddle Tennessee
- Dan MullenMississippi State
- Mack BrownTexas
- Skip HoltzLouisiana Tech
- Mark RichtMiami
- James FranklinPenn State
Assistants who became head coaches
- Dan EnosCentral Michigan
- Todd StroudWest Alabama
- Garin JusticeConcord
- Rhett LashleeSMU
- Bob ShoopColumbia
- Rich SkroskyRamapo, Elon
- Scott BooneRandolph Macon
- Willie SimmonsPrairie View A&M, Florida A&M, Florida International
Worked under (8)
| Head coach | Team | Years | His job | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bobby Bowden | Florida State | 1998–99 | Graduate assistant | |
| Chuck Amato | NC State | 2000–05 | 2000–01: graduate assistant; 2002–03: linebackers coach; 2004–05: safeties and special teams coach | |
| Rick Stockstill | Middle Tennessee | 2006–09 | 2006–07: defensive coordinator and safeties coach; 2008–09: defensive coordinator and linebackers coach | |
| Dan Mullen | Mississippi State | 2010–15 | Defensive coordinator and linebackers coach | |
| Mack Brown | Texas | 2011–13 | Defensive coordinator and linebackers coach | |
| Skip Holtz | Louisiana Tech | 2014 | Defensive coordinator and linebackers coach | |
| Mark Richt | Miami | 2016–18 | Defensive coordinator | |
| James Franklin | Penn State | 2022–23 | Defensive coordinator and linebackers coach |
Coached under him, later head coaches (8)
| Coach | With him | Head coach at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dan Enos | Miami, 2019: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | Central Michigan | |
| Todd Stroud | Miami, 2019–21: assistant head coach and defensive line coach | West Alabama | |
| Garin Justice | Miami, 2020–21: offensive line coach | Concord | |
| Rhett Lashlee | Miami, 2020–21: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | SMU | |
| Bob Shoop | Miami, 2021: defensive assistant | Columbia | |
| Rich Skrosky | Duke, 2024–26: senior analyst | Ramapo, Elon | |
| Scott Boone | Duke, 2024–26: special teams analyst | Randolph Macon | |
| Willie Simmons | Duke, 2024: running game coordinator and running backs coach | Prairie View A&M, Florida A&M, Florida International |
Other assistants under him (6)
| Coach | With him | |
|---|---|---|
| Blake Baker | Miami, 2019–20: defensive coordinator and inside linebackers coach | |
| Ephraim Banda | Miami, 2019–20: co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach | |
| Jonathan Brewer | Miami, 2020–21: offensive quality control coach; Duke, 2024–26: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| Rob Likens | Miami, 2020: wide receivers coach; 2021: passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach | |
| Travaris Robinson | Miami, 2021: defensive backs coach | |
| Jonathan Patke | Duke, 2024–26: defensive coordinator |
From coaches’ Wikipedia infoboxes (CC BY-SA) and each season’s article for its coordinators: an assistant’s seasons at a school count under its head coach in our records; jobs in the NFL and elsewhere, under the head coach whose own article lists the job that year. Names without a page here link to their Wikipedia articles.
Pay
| Year | School | Job | Contract pay | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Mississippi State | defensive coordinatorbonuses up to $47,917 | $575,000 USA Today | |
| 2014 | Louisiana Tech | defensive coordinator | $180,000 USA Today |
USA Today’s coaches salary database (2014–17, from public-records requests to the schools; Rachel Ehlers’ copy): the season’s contract pay, school pay plus outside money, before bonuses.
Pay of public employees in their public job only: head coaches, and assistants in the seasons our records name them a coordinator, at public universities.
How he coached
Diaz’s teams went for it on 25% of fourth downs and on 47% of those where the model said go for it, passed on 55% of plays and took 24.7 seconds a play, 2019–2026.
| Season | School | Went for it on fourth | When the model said go | Pass rate | Seconds a play | EPA a play | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 13 g | Miami | 26 of 111 23% | 56% | 58% | 27.5 | −0.03 | |
| 2020 11 g | Miami | 19 of 88 22% | 46% | 51% | 22.2 | +0.11 | |
| 2021 11 g | Miami | 20 of 90 22% | 37% | 58% | 21.7 | +0.05 | |
| 2024 13 g | Duke | 18 of 114 16% | 27% | 57% | 24.5 | −0.05 | |
| 2025 14 g | Duke | 43 of 104 41% | 70% | 56% | 25.4 | +0.19 | |
| 2026 6 g | Duke | 14 of 44 32% | 52% | 46% | 27.7 | +0.19 | |
| All 68 g | 140 of 551 25% | 47% | 55% | 24.7 | +0.07 |
His seasons as a head coach from 2004 on, from ESPN’s play by play: fourth downs where he went for it out of every fourth-down decision; how often he went when SportsDataverse’s fourth-down model said going for it was the better call; the share of his offense’s plays that were passes; seconds of game clock per offensive play (lower is faster); and expected points added per offensive play (EPA, a measure of how much each play moved the offense toward points). The season in progress counts its games so far. SportsDataverse’s coach tendencies, from ESPN’s play by play; the EPA and the fourth-down model are SportsDataverse’s.