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

 

The crazy part is...Olsen probably won't see a worse defense all season.

 

The crazy part is...Olsen probably won't see a worse defense all season.

C'mon man. You really believe that? People start to think you've lost touch with reality when you always speak in hyperbole. It's a literary tool to be used occasionally. People will either think don't know how to express yourself or that you're just crazy if you say stuff like that all the time. Shouldn't you be more level headed with a name like Jedi Master?

 

The crazy part is...Olsen probably won't see a worse defense all season.

C'mon man. You really believe that? People start to think you've lost touch with reality when you always speak in hyperbole. It's a literary tool to be used occasionally. People will either think don't know how to express yourself or that you're just crazy if you say stuff like that all the time. Shouldn't you be more level headed with a name like Jedi Master?

You being serious dude? You're basically Don Bailey Jr's manifestation on this board. However ridiculous you find my point of view...understand I find yours even more ludicrous. To stick your head in the sand and ignore the issues that have plagued this program for the last 10 plus year that still exist today is the definition of assinine.

I see a horribly coached team with schemes on both sides of the ball that give the talent (which we do have) on offense and defense no chance to succeed. You see...well I have no ******* clue what you see since I find it impossible to agree with anything you say.

It's got nothing to do with hyperbole...it's called reality. We've got a ****** coaching staff. And to answer your original question....yes I have little doubt this defense will be at best only marginally better, if at all.

 

Malcolm Lewis was the highlight. He's is close to his 2012 form and there's been an amazing transformation in four scant months. He caught everything and i'm hoping there is more improvement coming.

ML was seriously the show. However, Carter 6 in white looked Huge and solid as ****. Figs is a grown *** man. Perryman is more flexible than he was last season. Waters is bigger but seemed just as fast. In the one on ones Olsen threw some nice deep balls. The TE group is the best it's been in a decade. SD orange 5 was as good as CW imho. Gus made a sick move between the tackles and honestly he didn't have the ability to do that last season. Hopefully the vision came from understand the blocking assignments and he anticipated the guard play. Scott was impressive. Dion is back. Artie Burns looked behind due to track and field? Yearby #2 in white needs weight fast. DC is at home in the secondary. Al lost weight. The first three times Tracy was on Stacy in the one on ones, Stacy ate Tracy's lunch.

I don't know who that chick is, but I want to make babies with her. **** Boo Ya!

I think it's Santana Lopez

 

Jesus ****ies some of you know nothing. I expect more from a supposed DC like Wildcat too.

Listen to the Golden interview, he says himself that the playcalling on both sides was dumbed down. They went vanilla. Don't be idiots, you don't tip your hand and show the world your best plays in a spring game. The offense went basic and didn't show the defense anything that they wouldn't know was coming. The defense, for the most part, did a good job stopping it. Schematically I don't know how you can get anything from this game.

I agree that Coley ran a pretty bland offense last year, but the consensus has been that Morris couldn't handle anything more than that... and multiple people in the media have said that.

 

Jesus ****ies some of you know nothing. I expect more from a supposed DC like Wildcat too.

Listen to the Golden interview, he says himself that the playcalling on both sides was dumbed down. They went vanilla. Don't be idiots, you don't tip your hand and show the world your best plays in a spring game. The offense went basic and didn't show the defense anything that they wouldn't know was coming. The defense, for the most part, did a good job stopping it. Schematically I don't know how you can get anything from this game.

I agree that Coley ran a pretty bland offense last year, but the consensus has been that Morris couldn't handle anything more than that... and multiple people in the media have said that.

I think the problem lies in individuals that make excuses for shoddy execution with phrases like "They went vanilla".

 

Jesus ****ies some of you know nothing. I expect more from a supposed DC like Wildcat too.

Listen to the Golden interview, he says himself that the playcalling on both sides was dumbed down. They went vanilla. Don't be idiots, you don't tip your hand and show the world your best plays in a spring game. The offense went basic and didn't show the defense anything that they wouldn't know was coming. The defense, for the most part, did a good job stopping it. Schematically I don't know how you can get anything from this game.

I agree that Coley ran a pretty bland offense last year, but the consensus has been that Morris couldn't handle anything more than that... and multiple people in the media have said that.

Gotta love it when people use the things coaches say to media as support for their argument.

You're correct in that some on this board know nothing, and it starts with anyone who honestly thinks coaches tell the media the truth. It continues with anyone who thinks the reason some of us think our coaching staff sucks has ANYTHING to do with the spring game. What you saw in the spring game was simply a continuation of what we saw last year.

And don't feed me that garbage about Morris and the offense. If that was the case they should have pulled him at some point and gone with Williams. If you have a quarterback who you can't trust enough to call pass plays that attack the middle of the field...well then you're either an idiot or we were going to ****ed this year anyways even if Williams didn't get hurt. And what about this year? You're going to have a freshman running the show...so does that mean the middle of the field gets cut out of the playbook again? Needless to say you can't run an offense that way....no matter who your QB is or isn't.

This line of reasoning absolutely kills me.

 

to all the mopes

 

The crazy part is...Olsen probably won't see a worse defense all season.

C'mon man. You really believe that? People start to think you've lost touch with reality when you always speak in hyperbole. It's a literary tool to be used occasionally. People will either think don't know how to express yourself or that you're just crazy if you say stuff like that all the time. Shouldn't you be more level headed with a name like Jedi Master?

You being serious dude? You're basically Don Bailey Jr's manifestation on this board. However ridiculous you find my point of view...understand I find your even more ludicrous. To stick your head in the sand and ignore the issues that have plagued this program for the last 10 plus year that still exist today is the definition of assinine.

I see a horribly coached team with schemes on both sides of the ball that give the talent (which we do have) on offense and defense no chance to succeed. You see...well I have no ****ing clue what you see since I find it impossible to agree with anything you say.

It's got nothing to do with hyperbole...it's called reality. We've got a ****ty coaching staff. And to answer your original question....yes I have little doubt this defense will be at best only marginally better, if at all.

FAMU and ArkState both have better defenses than us, you're right. Thanks for the reality check.

You must not comprehend my comments. In fact, I know you don't because I seldom give opinions. I usually stick to theoretical scheme conversations. You never answered me when I posed several questions to you a few days ago. You must not have been able to hang. Your prejudices consume your mind. You can't see past whatever judgment you predetermined for yourself. Reality is not all negative, ever. It's never as good as it seems and it's never as bad as it seems.

 

The crazy part is...Olsen probably won't see a worse defense all season.

C'mon man. You really believe that? People start to think you've lost touch with reality when you always speak in hyperbole. It's a literary tool to be used occasionally. People will either think don't know how to express yourself or that you're just crazy if you say stuff like that all the time. Shouldn't you be more level headed with a name like Jedi Master?

You being serious dude? You're basically Don Bailey Jr's manifestation on this board. However ridiculous you find my point of view...understand I find your even more ludicrous. To stick your head in the sand and ignore the issues that have plagued this program for the last 10 plus year that still exist today is the definition of assinine.

I see a horribly coached team with schemes on both sides of the ball that give the talent (which we do have) on offense and defense no chance to succeed. You see...well I have no ****ing clue what you see since I find it impossible to agree with anything you say.

It's got nothing to do with hyperbole...it's called reality. We've got a ****ty coaching staff. And to answer your original question....yes I have little doubt this defense will be at best only marginally better, if at all.

FAMU and ArkState both have better defenses than us, you're right. Thanks for the reality check.

You must not comprehend my comments. In fact, I know you don't because I seldom give opinions. I usually stick to theoretical scheme conversations. You never answered me when I posed several questions to you a few days ago. You must not have been able to hang. Your prejudices consume your mind. You can't see past whatever judgment you predetermined for yourself. Reality is not all negative, ever. It's never as good as it seems and it's never as bad as it seems.

Cheerlead on brother. Do your thing.

 

The mopes would've moped with any outcome yesterday. Let's go over a few.

-If we came up with injuries, they would've said the Spring game should have been cancelled because we have no depth.

-If Olsen lit up the D, the mopes would've been cursing Dfr's scheme.

-If the running game dominated, it's because AG has diabetes/is fat.

-If the Defense dominates, they're going against a RsFr QB/Coley's offense sucks.

-If the D got edge pressure, Gadbois is a JAG.

Same ol BS over and over again. Rinse, wash, repeat.

 

The mopes would've moped with any outcome yesterday. Let's go over a few.

-If we came up with injuries, they would've said the Spring game should have been cancelled because we have no depth.

-If Olsen lit up the D, the mopes would've been cursing Dfr's scheme.

-If the running game dominated, it's because AG has diabetes/is fat.

-If the Defense dominates, they're going against a RsFr QB/Coley's offense sucks.

-If the D got edge pressure, Gadbois is a JAG.

Same ol BS over and over again. Rinse, wash, repeat.

I'm rustled. That was a debacle yesterday any way you slice it.

 

http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=17&f=2759&t=12813708

 

The mopes would've moped with any outcome yesterday. Let's go over a few.

-If we came up with injuries, they would've said the Spring game should have been cancelled because we have no depth.

-If Olsen lit up the D, the mopes would've been cursing Dfr's scheme.

-If the running game dominated, it's because AG has diabetes/is fat.

-If the Defense dominates, they're going against a RsFr QB/Coley's offense sucks.

-If the D got edge pressure, Gadbois is a JAG.

Same ol BS over and over again. Rinse, wash, repeat.

I'm rustled. That was a debacle yesterday any way you slice it.

I guess we look at things differently. While there are areas of concern, there were also positives. The Unis, Kamalu, Gus, Kirby, Hertelou, Crawford, Bush to mention a few. Add those to what we know we have in Duke, Stacey, Flowers, Figs AQM/McCord. It's not all that bad.

Olsen is the obvious glaring area of concern. But like I said in another thread and got negged to oblivion, if he didn't fvck off last season and put in work he would've been
much better yesterday. But according to many, it's a rights to passage to take a giant **** on the team and "get laid". Obviously from yesterday Olsen looked like a guy who hasn't seen live action in that type of situation since his Junior year of high school. You're right, that is a bit of a black cloud over yesterday.

 

QB is the weakest link on O. that's a fact.

Coley had no catches. the superstar and biggest talent at WR to grace his presence in Miami for the past 10 years.

 

The crazy part is...Olsen probably won't see a worse defense all season.

C'mon man. You really believe that? People start to think you've lost touch with reality when you always speak in hyperbole. It's a literary tool to be used occasionally. People will either think don't know how to express yourself or that you're just crazy if you say stuff like that all the time. Shouldn't you be more level headed with a name like Jedi Master?

You being serious dude? You're basically Don Bailey Jr's manifestation on this board. However ridiculous you find my point of view...understand I find your even more ludicrous. To stick your head in the sand and ignore the issues that have plagued this program for the last 10 plus year that still exist today is the definition of assinine.

I see a horribly coached team with schemes on both sides of the ball that give the talent (which we do have) on offense and defense no chance to succeed. You see...well I have no ****ing clue what you see since I find it impossible to agree with anything you say.

It's got nothing to do with hyperbole...it's called reality. We've got a ****ty coaching staff. And to answer your original question....yes I have little doubt this defense will be at best only marginally better, if at all.

FAMU and ArkState both have better defenses than us, you're right. Thanks for the reality check.

You must not comprehend my comments. In fact, I know you don't because I seldom give opinions. I usually stick to theoretical scheme conversations. You never answered me when I posed several questions to you a few days ago. You must not have been able to hang. Your prejudices consume your mind. You can't see past whatever judgment you predetermined for yourself. Reality is not all negative, ever. It's never as good as it seems and it's never as bad as it seems.

Cheerlead on brother. Do your thing.

These blind faith optimists are like Kevin Bacon in Animal House with their hands in the air telling everyone to remain calm, all is well.

What's remarkably depressing is to look back at some of the old threads from when this regime was first put into place. Look at some of the concerns people voiced and you'll see that literally nothing has changed since then.

I get jimmies being rustled over those who are pessimistic, but it's more that the cheerleaders can't face the reality of the current state of the program.

 

C'mon man. You really believe that? People start to think you've lost touch with reality when you always speak in hyperbole. It's a literary tool to be used occasionally. People will either think don't know how to express yourself or that you're just crazy if you say stuff like that all the time. Shouldn't you be more level headed with a name like Jedi Master?

You being serious dude? You're basically Don Bailey Jr's manifestation on this board. However ridiculous you find my point of view...understand I find your even more ludicrous. To stick your head in the sand and ignore the issues that have plagued this program for the last 10 plus year that still exist today is the definition of assinine.

I see a horribly coached team with schemes on both sides of the ball that give the talent (which we do have) on offense and defense no chance to succeed. You see...well I have no ****ing clue what you see since I find it impossible to agree with anything you say.

It's got nothing to do with hyperbole...it's called reality. We've got a ****ty coaching staff. And to answer your original question....yes I have little doubt this defense will be at best only marginally better, if at all.

FAMU and ArkState both have better defenses than us, you're right. Thanks for the reality check.

You must not comprehend my comments. In fact, I know you don't because I seldom give opinions. I usually stick to theoretical scheme conversations. You never answered me when I posed several questions to you a few days ago. You must not have been able to hang. Your prejudices consume your mind. You can't see past whatever judgment you predetermined for yourself. Reality is not all negative, ever. It's never as good as it seems and it's never as bad as it seems.

Cheerlead on brother. Do your thing.

These blind faith optimists are like Kevin Bacon in Animal House with their hands in the air telling everyone to remain calm, all is well.

What's remarkably depressing is to look back at some of the old threads from when this regime was first put into place. Look at some of the concerns people voiced and you'll see that literally nothing has changed since then.

I get jimmies being rustled over those who are pessimistic, but it's more that the cheerleaders can't face the reality of the current state of the program.

You must not have read all my comments or you made a mistake in quoting me.

I described yesterday as a disaster.

The problem here is that you're not allowed to be somewhere in the middle. If you make one positive comment, you're automatically labeled something. It has to be all negative, or nothing.

That's lazy. That's group think. That's mental illness.

 

Coley's offense is so easy to defend that it's kinda hard to tell how well our defense is doing. He's still running the same handful of plays he was running during the season. His whole system is based off his athletes making plays. (i.e. calling verticals every 3 plays and hoping someone beats coverage) There's no concepts to help his WR's get open or his QB to make easy/quick reads. As a DC, I didn't see anything that would create an issue for me schematically or would put my defenders in a bind. I watched other spring games and saw actual concepts. I don't see that when I watch our offense.

With that said...

How the **** is our defense supposed to get a real test before the season? How are they supposed to get better?

You're offense should make your defense work, and vice versa. When we hit the season and see actual concepts our defense is gonna look like a deer in headlights.

Coley's playbook:

*all verticals
*stretch run
*power
*play-action, roll left, TE to the flat
*play-action on 3rd and long
*hitch from #2, dig behind it with #1 (only pass play we have that actually works)
*WR screen


Now tell me I'm lying.

Is Allen Hurns such a great athlete that he put up the best yardage season in Miami history without any schematic help from Coley?

I've written this a number of times but for whatever reason all those route you're begging for I saw plenty of in the 7 on 7 portion. Some in the 11 on 11 stuff. Slants. Scott caught one. Grace broke up another. Another slant was ruined by a bad snap. A shallow cross by Dorsett. An intermediate dig by Dobard while Jones was running a shallow cross.

You have to pick out the occasional intermediate routes to prove your point. OCCASSIONAL. Our first series we went 3 and out. Verticals on 1st down. Run on 2nd down. Verticals on 3rd down. That was a common theme last season.

And LMAO @ Hurns getting help from Coley. GTFOH

 

Jesus ****ies some of you know nothing. I expect more from a supposed DC like Wildcat too.

Listen to the Golden interview, he says himself that the playcalling on both sides was dumbed down. They went vanilla. Don't be idiots, you don't tip your hand and show the world your best plays in a spring game. The offense went basic and didn't show the defense anything that they wouldn't know was coming. The defense, for the most part, did a good job stopping it. Schematically I don't know how you can get anything from this game.

I agree that Coley ran a pretty bland offense last year, but the consensus has been that Morris couldn't handle anything more than that... and multiple people in the media have said that.

You expect more from me? Lmao

I watch every Canes game with two offensive coordinators. They know much more about offense than I do and they both say the same thing.

The offense is bland and easy to defend.

 

Coley's offense is so easy to defend that it's kinda hard to tell how well our defense is doing. He's still running the same handful of plays he was running during the season. His whole system is based off his athletes making plays. (i.e. calling verticals every 3 plays and hoping someone beats coverage) There's no concepts to help his WR's get open or his QB to make easy/quick reads. As a DC, I didn't see anything that would create an issue for me schematically or would put my defenders in a bind. I watched other spring games and saw actual concepts. I don't see that when I watch our offense.

With that said...

How the **** is our defense supposed to get a real test before the season? How are they supposed to get better?

You're offense should make your defense work, and vice versa. When we hit the season and see actual concepts our defense is gonna look like a deer in headlights.

Coley's playbook:

*all verticals
*stretch run
*power
*play-action, roll left, TE to the flat
*play-action on 3rd and long
*hitch from #2, dig behind it with #1 (only pass play we have that actually works)
*WR screen


Now tell me I'm lying.

Is Allen Hurns such a great athlete that he put up the best yardage season in Miami history without any schematic help from Coley?

I've written this a number of times but for whatever reason all those route you're begging for I saw plenty of in the 7 on 7 portion. Some in the 11 on 11 stuff. Slants. Scott caught one. Grace broke up another. Another slant was ruined by a bad snap. A shallow cross by Dorsett. An intermediate dig by Dobard while Jones was running a shallow cross.

You have to pick out the occasional intermediate routes to prove your point. OCCASSIONAL. Our first series we went 3 and out. Verticals on 1st down. Run on 2nd down. Verticals on 3rd down. That was a common theme last season.

And LMAO @ Hurns getting help from Coley. GTFOH

So you're saying Allen Hurns set the single season yardage record at Miami by just being a better athlete then everyone he faced?

Ok