Official Spring Game Thread

Spring practice officially comes to a close tonight. It's the last meaningful thing until the season starts and that's not for another 5 months. Discuss here.

With the buildup to this weekend's game, the school has been hyping the ever-loving **** out of the reveal for our new uniforms. The players all seemed to like them.

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This gif of Duke's reaction tells you all you need to know how much they like them.

All we know now is this:

Everything is still hush-hush. Looks like 4 different combos; all green, all orange, "smoke", and storm-trooper. Yay. We'll know exactly at 5:00 PM. Once again, here's the schedule of events:

UNITE.14 SCHEDULE
2:00 p.m.	Parking lots open (Park in Maroon lot, enter Gate 4)
3:00 p.m.	Stadium gates open (enter through Gate D/E)
3:00-8:00 p.m.	Carnival on field
3:00-6:00 p.m.	Select-A-Seat
4:00-5:00 p.m.	Team Autograph Session
5:00 p.m.	New uniform unveiling
5:00-6:00 p.m.	Team Warm Ups on Field
6:00 p.m.	Kickoff on ESPN3 (FREE/OPEN TO PUBLIC)

If the carnival on the field were anything like Bikini Kill's it would be a game changer:


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Even though a Kathleen Hanna run carnival would be 10 times more bad ***, I'm alright with something that looks like this:

It's whatever...a good idea actually. Not like any you were psyched up about seeing our kick/punt coverage units anyway. It also cuts into one of the excuses for not going to the game by having something to keep your kids occupied with.

Where: Joe Robbie/Pro Player/Dolphins/Dolphin/Land Shark/Sun Life Stadium

Who:Miami Hurricanes

When: 6:00 pm/et

How: The interwebz on

Miami Notes

1. Andre Johnson, Clinton Portis, Lamar Thomas, & others inducted into UM Hall of Fame.
2. Ryan Williams expects to be back sometime this year.
3. The scoring system for this game is different than we're used to.

Miami Roster Stuff

Sucks to see Ryan listed in that group of injured players. Hope he's able to bounce back. Duke and Yearby are said to be used in limited/controlled plays tonight so they'll be out there. Also, that's a lot of "OR's", especially on defense. No clue really who will be playing with who. Same with who certain players will be lining up against.

Gameday Character:

RIP JoJo

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Allons-y

 

Post game interviews: Big Al

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Chip is in the house

 

Olsen

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Howard

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DP

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lmao on some passing judgement on olsen from the spring game, kids first game under the lights

 

Olsen himself said he didn't even expect to play this year. That was what he said a week ago when Ryan went down

Gives u an idea of the type of approach he has had this spring. Now he is the guy.

He has to improve but he's got 5 months to get ready. Let's let him develop and see where we are in 5 months...

Thank god we have the best RB in the country

I see Portis' talk went over his head then...

 

It's tough to find many positives with the QB play today, but some of you are acting like we witnessed Kirnobyl again. Calmate.

 

I didn't catch the game, but one thing I do know is that anyone on this planet would have looked a lot better if #8 was lined up in the backfield.

If Olsen is anything more than servicable this year I would consider it gravy. We can still win games if we can scheme well (ha, I know) and avoid injuries to our other playmakers.


Short of going either 0-23 with 6 INT or 27-28 for 480 and 7TD, nothing Olsen did today was going to change my feeling as to where we stand offensively right now. One way or another, we were breaking in a new guy this spring. Talk to me at halftime of week 1 if you want my opinion on the QB situation.

 

Watching the Spring Game replay now. Its quite clear to me that those that are clamoring for more variety in route combinations should watch the 7 on 7. For whatever reasons those routes are being called with more frequency there and not much the 11 on 11. So it isn't as if those thing don't exist in the offense.

 

Worried about the QB position....

I. Have. No. Idea. Why.

 

People are tripping over this Olson thing. Lets stop and think for 2 seconds like reasonable people.

-Olson is a redshirt freshman with zero actual in game experience.
-He played in a spring game where they are not taking things nearly as serious including the coaches.
-Regardless of how bad any of us feel about the defense, it is full of Juniors and Seniors. I don't see freshman starting and probably not too many sophomores.
- He again is a redshirt freshman with zero in game experience. There's are not many redshirt freshman and probably even sophomores who just come out and dominate right away. Not everyone is winston or manziel. That doesn't make them a bust.

Relax people. It might even take him a few games to get comfortable. Don't expect miracles. It is likely he will even cost us a game or 2 or more. It's part of the natural progression. If he were a junior playing like that, I might be concerned. I'll just wait to see what happens during the season.

 

Salami with the tip



Young with the INT thrown by Crow

LOL

lmao on some passing judgement on olsen from the spring game, kids first game under the lights

Showed nothing promising. Did not expect him to be Johnny Football or Winston whom both destroyed the football world in their red shirt freshman years or "under the lights". But I did expect him to at least hit 40% of his open receivers and not throw back to back bounce passes on 2nd and 3rd down.

 

Didn't Morris light up the defense last spring and had most thinking he was gonna be a solid qb. Let's wait and see what happens in august before we get really concerned.


Olsen struggling today is a good thing. It will light a fire in his *** to really get him to hunker down hopefully.

 

Didn't Morris light up the defense last spring and had most thinking he was gonna be a solid qb. Let's wait and see what happens in august before we get really concerned.


Olsen struggling today is a good thing. It will light a fire in his *** to really get him to hunker down hopefully.

I'll give you a better silver lining than that. No one should complain again about 3 star recruits, it shows these high school ranking systems are flawed. A 4 star All American Under Armour Elite 11 QB should never have a 33% passing game on a 65 yard field in a practice in his second year, never. Especially against a defense that gave up a million yards last year (accurate number). Lol there it is, Kaaya will be the one if he can reach receiver farther than 30 yards down field and hit open guys.

 

Watching the Spring Game replay now. Its quite clear to me that those that are clamoring for more variety in route combinations should watch the 7 on 7. For whatever reasons those routes are being called with more frequency there and not much the 11 on 11. So it isn't as if those thing don't exist in the offense.

How?

 

Watch espn/espn3

 

Didn't Morris light up the defense last spring and had most thinking he was gonna be a solid qb. Let's wait and see what happens in august before we get really concerned.


Olsen struggling today is a good thing. It will light a fire in his *** to really get him to hunker down hopefully.

I'll give you a better silver lining than that. No one should complain again about 3 star recruits, it shows these high school ranking systems are flawed. A 4 star All American Under Armour Elite 11 QB should never have a 33% passing game on a 65 yard field in a practice in his second year, never. Especially against a defense that gave up a million yards last year (accurate number). Lol there it is, Kaaya will be the one if he can reach receiver farther than 30 yards down field and hit open guys.

One former four-star recruit struggling mightily in a spring game proves that star rankings don't matter? But what about the other quarterback (Gray Crow), a former three-star recruit who attempted just one fewer pass and looked equally terrible today? By your logic, shouldn't his performance justify people complaining about unheralded three-star recruits? See how that works?

 

Thing about Kayaa's all star game was he was less than 50%, and that wasn't the super talented all star game.


He won't be ready either IMO.

The kid that actually may play early because of his running ability is Rosier.

 

So Olsen **** the bed?

 

So Olsen **** the bed?

Short Answer: Yes

Details: Playcalling wasn't really helpful, a lot of his misses were vertical routes in which there was tight coverage, a few bootlegs where the defender batted the ball down, and then just some straight up misses. And a Receiver fell down/ got pushed down on the INT.

So TFWIW

 

I think we just need to wait and see what happens in the Fall I think the person to be concerned about is coley

Can he put our offense in the right position to make plays and under stand our qb has mono game experience