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Well said. The game evolves at a much faster pace than most fans even realize. I mean we have people here who think all spread offenses are the same offense still. TV commentators don’t know the difference between an RPO and a zone read still. But defensive coordinators do. What worked...

Couple of reasons. Chip's offense is no longer cutting edge. The zone blocking scheme he used so well was originally designed by him at New Hampshire in the mid 90's. He took the Oregon job in 2007 and his best years were a decade ago. His UCLA offenses haven't been terrible (they were much...

A lot of times, the teams running the absolute most plays are doing so because they need to. They don't have much help on defense and are often in close, shoot-out type games. Their only chance at victory is going lighting fast and scoring as much as they can. They also don't often have huge...

I was expecting something similar to what Alabama ran in 2017. They didn't operate at lighting pace but you would definitely call their offense a spread system. It looked nothing like what Enos ran at Miami. Enos literally dusted off his old Arkansas playbook and slapped a U on it.

I’d like to see. Mallory used as a wideout more too. He’s proven capable and I’d like to see him used more than just when Brevin comes out of the game

The defense was statistically worse because the offense was scoring so fast and so much, they had to defend more opponent possessions. You also tend to relax a bit as a defender when you’re up 30 points in the third quarter. I’m curious what their per play average was. You can still play great...

Ensimger put on his big boy pants and accepted the fact that his offense, specifically the passing game needed help. Instead of being a stubborn prick, like most of the guys we hire, he let someone else re write his playbook. It obviously worked because Ensimger still called plays. It will be...

I’ll ask again. What did LSU do different? Joe Brady wasn’t even their OC

We’re just not as far off as a lot of people think we are. We have been a functional offense away from being the 2nd best ACC team for a while now. I know 2nd best ACC team doesn’t mean much but you have to start somewhere. You string together 3 or 4 double digit win seasons with some occasional...

Most of the skill players who contributed at LSU were not more highly rated recruits than what Miami has. LSU has recruited above Miami overall but that includes defensive players and linemen. Their skill talent was very comparable. Still, even if the talent is a tier below, we don’t need to get...

The Enos hire was a head scratcher. Manny talked about bringing in an offensive coach to match the aggression on the defense and then hired the absolute opposite. I was nervous that he’d try to make us Arkansas but during off season interviews, he talked up a “spread coast” offense and I got...

It's really that simple. They hired a coach who better used the players available. They didn't make any other changes. They had almost all the same players. ****, they still had the same offensive coordinator. They just brought in a guy to introduce Air Raid/ Spread passing concepts. There's no...

Go back and take a look at some of the draft classes from 2002-2006 ish. I mean there were plenty of super talented guys who deserved to be first rounders but there's quite a few guys who not only got drafted but got drafted fairly early simply off reputation. Did you know Matt Walters was a 5th...

The reason guys like Bandy and Quarterman are considered 6th or 7th rounders instead of 3rd or 4th rounders has a lot to do with Miami's reputation falling off. Average guys on good teams tend to get overrated by NFL scouts and good players on bad teams get ignored. There was a time when anyone...

Of course. "Development" is a two way street. A player has to put in the time and effort. A coaching staff only gets so many hours to work with the kids. It's up to the players to determine how good they want to be. It's just like learning in school or learning a musical instrument. Your teacher...

I’d say good evaluation is seeing a guy like Greg Rousseau and knowing he could play even though the scouting services didn’t think much of him. Development would be a guy like Allen Hurns who came in as a nobody but worked his way into a very capable player. Hurns wasn’t underrated coming out...

Not every position is of equal importance. I’ll take the nation’s best quarterback over the best guard. It doesn’t mean you should disregard linemen completely, it means there are ways to scheme around an average offensive line. LSU did it last year. I’ll have to check but I believe 4 of the 5...

They had the same guys on the line in 2018. What changed?

Correct. Jefferson caught like 53 passes and their next leading receiver had 23. The same Joe Burrow who won the Heisman in 2019 and will probably be the first player drafted was still the quarterback in 2018 so, it's not like they just brought in a miracle quarterback.

The funny thing is, outside of a short 3 year run, Miami never had a great offensive line. We've never been a "line up and run the ball down their throat" type of team outside of that tiny window in the early 2000's. The offenses under Howard, Jimmy and Dennis were cutting edge, game changers...