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2005 Canes - what could have been!!!

Tyrone Moss, I remember watching him when he was in highschool and though, "Man, what a beast Coker will have on his hands".
 
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BeastMode said:
Sleep at the wheel. Wha a disaster!
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How does a team coming off of two national championship games let recruiting fall off like that. I remember losing Preston Parker to FSU...that is plausible. But he lost another wideout that he was heavily recruiting...to Syracuse!
 
TerragonSix said:
The issue with that team all year long was a lack of offense....
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When you don’t replace skillmakers in offense your production deteriorates. Honestly, Coker might have been better served going triple option in 2005...definitely 2006 with the lack of wide receivers on the team.
 
I remember that year most for how terribly they wasted Hester. They had stopped playing him at CB but werent really using him on offense outside of some special packages.

So Coker had the best athlete in the country, and just used him on returns.

Hester's TD vs Duke was still the best pr I've ever seen though
 
Butch Davis gave Larry Coker the keys to a Rolls Royce. Coker drove that RR and didn’t keep up the maintenance.
 
filmcane said:
For some reason, games from the 2005 season started popping up on my youtube, so I watched some of the highlight videos. I had forgotten that we were #3 in the country at the end of the season and then lost an idiotic game against GT 14-10!! I remember now how ****ed I was about that. Totally out talented that GT team and we were totally outcouched!

Coaching accounts for so much, which is why I am stoked about the coming season!!!

If that 2005 Cane team had good coaching, they would have either been playing for the natty or at least have ended the season as the #2 or #3 team in the country. What a waste of talent! And, that OL wasn't half bad. If there had been a Dan Enos for Kyle Wright or even a Jed Fish... oh well.

Also, when that D came to play, they were much better than I remembered. And, the DL was really good, filled with guys that aren't really remembered here like Carrol and Nanton. Brown was a stud as well. Hester was on that team.

Let's win 11 regular season games coming up and at least get back in the national discussion!!
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Carroll and Nanton were not players woth mentioning as UM caliber 15 years later. Just not true.

That team was well into the Coker decline.
 
filmcane said:
I respectfully disagree. Lots of examples as to why this happens sometimes because it is an emotional sport and some losses aren't as bad as they appear.

Most recently, I was one of the few people (at least in my circle) who thought that Clemson was going to beat Bama, but no one knew they were going to slaughter Bama. Lots of other examples including Cane examples.

By the time the LSU game happened, Coker had completely lost that team. With good coaches, we don't lose that game or at worst it is a close loss.
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That is false. Four years into country club coker, our team was just not physically SEC. and that was a beastly LSU team built by Saban. We were not physically able to man up on the lines. We were not going to win that game no matter how many times we played it. To think otherwise is to misunderstand everything that Coker failed at.
 
Ethnicsands said:
That is false. Four years into country club coker, our team was just not physically SEC. and that was a beastly LSU team built by Saban. We were not physically able to man up on the lines. We were not going to win that game no matter how many times we played it. To think otherwise is to misunderstand everything that Coker failed at.
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What I meant was, if we had good coaching with those players. You could see the potential, but they were under-coached.
 
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filmcane said:
What I meant was, if we had good coaching with those players. You could see the potential, but they were under-coached.
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Eh. Undercoached, under developed, under S&C’d, under recruited (lines especially), under talented, under schemed, under game planned, under play called, under motivated, under cultured, under toughed.
 
What I remember most about that game while driving down from Orlando was listening to 560 for the last hour or so of the trip.
I don’t recall any callers or the hosts say anything about GT.
All they talked about was who the Canes were playing in their bowl game.
If I remember correctly everyone was saying Penn State or the Irish.
If the team and or coaches were thinking that too, it’s no wonder they lost.
 
GojiraCane said:
How does a team coming off of two national championship games let recruiting fall off like that. I remember losing Preston Parker to FSU...that is plausible. But he lost another wideout that he was heavily recruiting...to Syracuse!
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I can’t explain the last 15 years. It really makes no sense what we have been through.
 
GojiraCane said:
Yes, the 2005 Hurricanes only gave up 11 points per game when you exclude the LSU finale. That's better than any defensive performance except for 2001. The problem was that we went from scoring 32 points per game in 2004 to just 27 in 2005. Our skill position players were thinning out due to Larry Coker's baffling inability to recruit wide receivers (we signed zero in 2005). Those problems would only get worse in 2006 and 2007.
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The 91 Canes only gave up 9.6....
 
Cincycane said:
I was big on Kyle Wright coming out of high school because he had a big arm.
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All of us were. I remember people couldn't wait to get Brock outta here so Kyle could come in. Brock Berlin now that was guy can play. I'll never forget the Louisville and Florida Gators game
 
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filmcane said:
For some reason, games from the 2005 season started popping up on my youtube, so I watched some of the highlight videos. I had forgotten that we were #3 in the country at the end of the season and then lost an idiotic game against GT 14-10!! I remember now how ****ed I was about that. Totally out talented that GT team and we were totally outcouched!

Coaching accounts for so much, which is why I am stoked about the coming season!!!

If that 2005 Cane team had good coaching, they would have either been playing for the natty or at least have ended the season as the #2 or #3 team in the country. What a waste of talent! And, that OL wasn't half bad. If there had been a Dan Enos for Kyle Wright or even a Jed Fish... oh well.

Also, when that D came to play, they were much better than I remembered. And, the DL was really good, filled with guys that aren't really remembered here like Carrol and Nanton. Brown was a stud as well. Hester was on that team.

Let's win 11 regular season games coming up and at least get back in the national discussion!!
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Really frustrating team to watch. No go-to receiver. Ryan Moore had the ability to become that, but didn't. Moss got hurt and Charlie Jones was inconsistent, Kyle Wright was.. well Kyle Wright. They had Devin Hester and didn't know how to use him and only bothered trying to get him involved in the offense in the last game. We really could have used a legit OC that year.
 
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