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I keep reading all of the post game conjecture about why the Canes entire team including coaching staff did not show up on last Saturday. And Manny said it after the game "something caught up to us." And we all know what it is a variety of things of course but summed as Manny Diaz simply cannot coach on this level. If we are honest the team has been like a drunk walking home from the bar just stumbling along every once a while as he seems to be about to fall he catches himself and walks in perfect stride then suddenly seemingly out of nowhere he falls and breaks his behind. On Saturday our stumbling team fell and bust its behind, but it was always going to fall and bust its butt it was just a matter of time. Ineptitude in every form caught up with the team.
But we knew that last season as evidenced by the loss to FIU and Louisiana among other things like deciding to put an untested freshman at left tackle against a proven defensive end.. The losses to Florida and North Carolina was as much the result of mental errors along with the lack of a kicker.
His ineptitude is is evidenced by: 1) the absolute failure to discipline his team. 2) lack of accountability for mistakes and bone head plays-- notice how the receivers for a time upped their game when the coach announced all the positions were up for grabs 3) The seeming inability to help our seemingly not so football smart young people understand the mental aspect of the game of football 4) the inability to teach them the math of football-- proper angles, leverage, spacing etc. 4) the fundamentals needed to master every position, which includes on defense tackling on offense blocking and catching the football. 5) the insistence on playing lesser talented upper classmen over equally or even more talented freshmen and sophomores 6) and the insistence on using a gimmicky defense which when its figured out cannot be adjusted 6) poor preparation for what the team will actually face from opponents --the players caught on to this after the Clemson game (ultimately this undermines and destroys the confidence of a team
But what really caught up to them on Saturday was Manny's inability to understand and motivate his team. He didn't realize as most of us fans did that his team after beating Duke thought they would just show up and beat NC it sounds crazy but there is evidence in the play. He does not seem to understand the psychology of the game --why else would he wear black uniforms in the afternoon.? And why else would he allow players to talk to the press about the damned Duke game and their NFL future. A real coach would have cussed them out and told them to forget that damned game the other team was out manned and that was all.
And his inability to anticipate what the opponent may or may not do is lacking. Did his entire forget that Searles coached at the U last year or that Mack Brown is quite familiar with Manny's defense? It was like they NC had a cheat sheet. It seems that the U ought to hire someone with fresh eyes to look over their game plans because they can't see adjustments that even us fans can see need to be made.
And Lashlee's odd game plans caught up with them as well. The Canes were done with the two 3rd and three decisions to run in the first three drives of the game. Was Lashlee not aware that NC had a porous defense and that with a little imagination you could pick up three yards likely through the air? Did he not know that the Canes were going to have to score to beat Carolina, even if the defense had an above average game. Has his line been picking up third and three on the ground?
And what also caught up with him was the absolute inability or refusal to just try something anything defensively, sit on the damned counter blitz or something to at least force North Carolina to have to adjust.
And he has the nerve to say the players quit. He forced their hand by not disciplining them and not preparing them. Manny is a likeable guy but he likely never will win on a large scale because the other thing that he lacks is courage and honesty. I would be hopeful for the future if he simply said, I took a big dump on the field on Saturday put it all on me and I ask the players, staff and the fans to forgive me. I will do better. But he did not so he is right all his deficiencies caught up to him. I hope I am wrong but unless he really does some soul searching he won't last and we will be forced to suffer more indignities.
But we knew that last season as evidenced by the loss to FIU and Louisiana among other things like deciding to put an untested freshman at left tackle against a proven defensive end.. The losses to Florida and North Carolina was as much the result of mental errors along with the lack of a kicker.
His ineptitude is is evidenced by: 1) the absolute failure to discipline his team. 2) lack of accountability for mistakes and bone head plays-- notice how the receivers for a time upped their game when the coach announced all the positions were up for grabs 3) The seeming inability to help our seemingly not so football smart young people understand the mental aspect of the game of football 4) the inability to teach them the math of football-- proper angles, leverage, spacing etc. 4) the fundamentals needed to master every position, which includes on defense tackling on offense blocking and catching the football. 5) the insistence on playing lesser talented upper classmen over equally or even more talented freshmen and sophomores 6) and the insistence on using a gimmicky defense which when its figured out cannot be adjusted 6) poor preparation for what the team will actually face from opponents --the players caught on to this after the Clemson game (ultimately this undermines and destroys the confidence of a team
But what really caught up to them on Saturday was Manny's inability to understand and motivate his team. He didn't realize as most of us fans did that his team after beating Duke thought they would just show up and beat NC it sounds crazy but there is evidence in the play. He does not seem to understand the psychology of the game --why else would he wear black uniforms in the afternoon.? And why else would he allow players to talk to the press about the damned Duke game and their NFL future. A real coach would have cussed them out and told them to forget that damned game the other team was out manned and that was all.
And his inability to anticipate what the opponent may or may not do is lacking. Did his entire forget that Searles coached at the U last year or that Mack Brown is quite familiar with Manny's defense? It was like they NC had a cheat sheet. It seems that the U ought to hire someone with fresh eyes to look over their game plans because they can't see adjustments that even us fans can see need to be made.
And Lashlee's odd game plans caught up with them as well. The Canes were done with the two 3rd and three decisions to run in the first three drives of the game. Was Lashlee not aware that NC had a porous defense and that with a little imagination you could pick up three yards likely through the air? Did he not know that the Canes were going to have to score to beat Carolina, even if the defense had an above average game. Has his line been picking up third and three on the ground?
And what also caught up with him was the absolute inability or refusal to just try something anything defensively, sit on the damned counter blitz or something to at least force North Carolina to have to adjust.
And he has the nerve to say the players quit. He forced their hand by not disciplining them and not preparing them. Manny is a likeable guy but he likely never will win on a large scale because the other thing that he lacks is courage and honesty. I would be hopeful for the future if he simply said, I took a big dump on the field on Saturday put it all on me and I ask the players, staff and the fans to forgive me. I will do better. But he did not so he is right all his deficiencies caught up to him. I hope I am wrong but unless he really does some soul searching he won't last and we will be forced to suffer more indignities.
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