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When there is an even semi-logical argument to be made when comparing to 2019, you know it was one really ****** season.
 
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my only conclusion after reading all of this is that we’ve been trash af for a long *** time, too **** long. 2006 was when Ryan Hill dropped that wide open TD in the end zone at Maryland. I was a Sophomore in HS and I swear that day was the day my mama almost put me out the house. I was ready to fight any and everyone after that. God help us, we are due.
 
CashMoneyCane said:
Wasn't that a Patrick Nix offense?

He's now the second worst hire in modern UM history after Jon "Nah Dad, I'll look for a job tomorrow. This couch is comfortable" Richt.
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Nix wasn’t Miami OC until 2007.


2006 was Rich Olson, who Miami forced Coker to hire. He was constantly fighting with Todd Berry, the QB coach who Coker had wanted to hire as OC.
 
bshaw28 said:
The Phillips vs Meriweather thread made me look back at the 2006 Season.

This is just a history lesson and reminder that no matter how bad last season felt - it's actually better now than it was 15 years ago.

In 2006 we went 7-6 with a roster that had

- Jon Beason, Greg Olsen, Brandon Meriweather, Kenny Phillips, Calais Campbell, Sam Shields (5 Pro Bowl players)
- We were ranked #12 pre-season
- We lost 4 games where the defense gave up 13, 14 17, and 17 points
- Opponents scored 20 or less in 11 out of 13 games
- We scored 20 or less in 8 out of 13 games
- QB's threw 15 TD's & 15 INT's
- Offense scored 19.6 pts per game (only season under 20 ppg since 1979)
- We beat Houston by 1. We beat Nevada by 1. We beat Duke by 5. Duke was 0-12 that year.
- Wake Forest won the ACC
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There were some goofy clock rules that season that reduced scoring quite a bit. (I’m a little fuzzy on the details at this point.) Offenses are generally higher scoring now than they were in that era, but 2006 was an especially low scoring year in CFB.

The median points per game for FBS teams was 26.2 in 2005, and plummeted to 23.0 in 2006.

With that being said, Miami was still 3.4 points below the national median in PPG in 2006.
 
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We. Lost. To. FIU. GTFO.

Did you experience that game? Because I did, and this is what happened off the field and only to me:

1. Saw a bunch of my “acquaintances” (friends that were always UM fans until they smelt the blood in the water and wore FIU colors) at the game;
2. My wife trying to take my attention away from these said acquaintances so I wouldn’t get in a fight with them;
3. Her sister trying to reassure me that “we” will win;
4. My drunk cousin feeding me beers telling me no way we lose this game, why are you being so amargado?
5. My answer to my cousin, “I can’t believe this guy doesn’t just run the ball every ******* down.“
6. My cousin, “Papo, here’s a special beer only brewed in Wynwood’s witch’s ***.
7. Me: “Awesome! Cuz, maybe he should just challenge Butch Davis to a time-out challenge. Winner takes game ”
8. ****, it’s now half way through the 3rd quarter, good night sweet prince. 🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻all from Wynwood’s witch’s ***.
9. Wife and SIL, “why are you so serious?”
10. Me: ”I just want to get the **** out of here.”
11. Wife: “****, he’s drunk. He never leaves games early.”
12. SIL: “Can we get Ice Cream?”
13. Me: “****, your ice cream. Get my cousin and his gf and put me in my car before I have to deal with traffic on top of this bull****.”
14. SIL: “he’s just drunk.”
15. Me: “Get me the **** out of here and **** your strawberry ****** *** ice cream.”
16. Car silence
17. SIL: “are we getting ice cream?”
18. Me: “maybe you, I’m going home and jumping in my pool maybe drown myself.”
19. Wife: “We. Are. Just. Going. To. Drop. Him. Off. First. Before. We. Get. Ice. Cream.”
20. SIL: “Do you want us to get you ice cream?”
21: Me: “ I want you to hook up with Manny Diaz so you can **** up his life as my as he ****ed up my life tonight.”
22. Woke up next morning at SUNRISE after sleeping on patio furniture with my cousin as our SO’s were sleeping inside.
23. Still had a better night than Manny Diaz.
 
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Gransapo said:
We. Lost. To. FIU. GTFO.

Did you experience that game? Because I did, and this is what happened off the field and only to me:

1. Saw a bunch of my “acquaintances” (friends that were always UM fans until they smelt the blood in the water and wore FIU colors) at the game;
2. My wife trying to take my attention away from these said acquaintances so I wouldn’t get in a fight with them;
3. Her sister trying to reassure me that “we” will win;
4. My drunk cousin feeding me beers telling me no way we lose this game, why are you being so amargado?
5. My answer to my cousin, “I can’t believe this guy doesn’t just run the ball every ******* down.“
6. My cousin, “Papo, here’s a special beer only brewed in Wynwood’s witch’s ***.
7. Me: “Awesome! Cuz, maybe he should just challenge Butch Davis to a time-out challenge. Winner takes game ”
8. ****, it’s now half way through the 3rd quarter, good night sweet prince. 🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻all from Wynwood’s witch’s ***.
9. Wife and SIL, “why are you so serious?”
10. Me: ”I just want to get the **** out of here.”
11. Wife: “****, he’s drunk. He never leaves games early.”
12. SIL: “Can we get Ice Cream?”
13. Me: “****, your ice cream. Get my cousin and his gf and put me in my car before I have to deal with traffic on top of this bull****.”
14. SIL: “he’s just drunk.”
15. Me: “Get me the **** out of here and **** your strawberry ****** *** ice cream.”
16. Car silence
17. SIL: “are we getting ice cream?”
18. Me: “maybe you, I’m going home and jumping in my pool maybe drown myself.”
19. Wife: “We. Are. Just. Going. To. Drop. Him. Off. First. Before. We. Get. Ice. Cream.”
20. SIL: “Do you want us to get you ice cream?”
21: Me: “ I want you to hook up with Manny Diaz so you can **** up his life as my as he ****ed up my life tonight.”
22. Woke up next morning at SUNRISE after sleeping on patio furniture with my cousin as our SO’s were sleeping inside.
23. Still had a better night than Manny Diaz.
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I need to go to games with this guy
 
GojiraCane said:
Larry Coker failed to recruit wide receivers at a replacement level from 2004 onward. Going into that summer, we had six scholarship wide receivers. One of them - Ryan Moore - was largely unavailable. A cornerback (Hill) and a punter (Monroe) were converted to wide receivers.

Miami was suited to run a triple-option offense - not a passing attack.

It's the biggest sustained recruiting failure I've seen, as it crippled Miami's offense once Devin Hester and SInorice Moss departed for the NFL. And it squandered the last traditionally great Miami defense.
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The WR's weren't good - but were probably better than our QB's & RB's. It was just all around bad on Offense.

WR's - Lance Leggett, Sam Shields, Darnell Jenkins
QB - Kyle Wright/Kirby Freeman
RB - Charlie Jones started the first 3 games before Javarris James took over. Tyrone Moss was coming off an ACL and overweight

My only defense of Coker is he was partially a victim to this really weird period where Florida just wasn't producing good WR & RB talent. And it wasn't just South Florida, it was the whole state of Florida.

RB's 2002 - 2008 - CJ Spiller was pretty much it in FL during this time
WR's 2004 - 2010 - Unless you were able to uncover Antonio Brown or TY Hilton, which no one did, there wasn't much talent in FL
 
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bshaw28 said:
The Phillips vs Meriweather thread made me look back at the 2006 Season.

This is just a history lesson and reminder that no matter how bad last season felt - it's actually better now than it was 15 years ago.

In 2006 we went 7-6 with a roster that had

- Jon Beason, Greg Olsen, Brandon Meriweather, Kenny Phillips, Calais Campbell, Sam Shields (5 Pro Bowl players)
- We were ranked #12 pre-season
- We lost 4 games where the defense gave up 13, 14 17, and 17 points
- Opponents scored 20 or less in 11 out of 13 games
- We scored 20 or less in 8 out of 13 games
- QB's threw 15 TD's & 15 INT's
- Offense scored 19.6 pts per game (only season under 20 ppg since 1979)
- We beat Houston by 1. We beat Nevada by 1. We beat Duke by 5. Duke was 0-12 that year.
- Wake Forest won the ACC
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Holy christ that's even worse than I remembered. Thanks for dragging my day ever so slightly lower than it was.
 
So the defense was good and the offense couldn't get out of its own way?

Where have I heard that before? And again? And basically every god**** year except when No D was here.
 
Rellyrell said:
Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh. We just went 1-2 against G5 opponents. We are the first P5 team to lose to FIU in their history. We lost to a 3-9 GT team. We struggled against CMU. Our O got shut out by LA Tech in a bowl game, and if I’m not mistaken, we’re the first team to get blanked in the Independence Bowl.

2006, 5 of our 6 losses came to top 25 teams. The lone “bad” loss was against 5-7 UVA

We followed that lost by beating #18 BC to become bowl eligible and won our bowl game.

Make no mistake about it; we tricked off the 2006 season w the caliber of NFL players on the roster, but this past season was a low point in our history. No comparison.
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2006 we actually only played 4 Top 25 teams and went 1-3. I know the 2019 losses to La Tech & FIU feel worse. In 2006 - Nevada, Houston, Duke - even though we won these teams took us down to the final drive, and we were lucky to pull them out. These were closer games than the Miami-CMU game this year. At least we won though.

But to give some context of how much more talented and frustrating that 2006 team was than 2019:

2006 had 5 Pro Bowl Players. Since 2007 we've had 3.
2006 had 4 players make Pro Bowls in multiple seasons. Since 2007 we've had 1. Jimmy Graham. Who wasn't a football recruit & played 1 year here.
2006 had 9 players on the defense get drafted in Rounds 1-4. Since 2007 we've had 11.
2006 had 9 5 star players on the roster. Since 2007 we've signed 9 total.
2006 we lost 4 games where the defense gave up 17 pts or less. Since 2007, we've lost 2.
2006 was the 3rd 7 or less win team since 1980 - 27 years. Since 2007 we've had 8 teams win 7 or less in 13 years.
2019 was our weakest Strength of Schedule in 20 years. 2nd weakest? 2006

We didn't know it at the time, but 2006 was thee beginning of the end for Miami - and that's what makes it worse IMO.
 
OrangeBowlMagic said:
So the defense was good and the offense couldn't get out of its own way?

Where have I heard that before? And again? And basically every god**** year except when No D was here.
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2006 was our best Defense in the last 14 years - by far
2006 was our worst Offense in the last 14 years - except maybe 2007

2006 created the blueprint and gold standard for ineptitude and underachievement that every Miami team since has been trying to replicate.
 
CashMoneyCane said:
Neither Nix nor Richt are currently employed in real football either.

I think you/Canes fans are putting WAY too much stake into that FIU loss. Enos knew he was fired at that point and was mailing it in. All the available QB's were probably at the lowest point in their 'Canes careers.

We would've played better if we didn't field the offense and just put the D in their place, which was basically the game anyway. Meanwhile, it was probably the biggest game FIU has ever seen.

Don't get me wrong, it was a horrendous, awful loss. But it's not like we were even fielding an offense at that point.
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Enos didn’t know he was fired at the time of the FIU game. That was the La Tech game.

And the news of his firing was leaked a few hours before the game. He wouldn’t have known he was getting fired at the time he was doing the prep for the game.
 
bshaw28 said:
The WR's weren't good - but were probably better than our QB's & RB's. It was just all around bad on Offense.

WR's - Lance Leggett, Sam Shields, Darnell Jenkins
QB - Kyle Wright/Kirby Freeman
RB - Charlie Jones started the first 3 games before Javarris James took over. Tyrone Moss was coming off an ACL and overweight

My only defense of Coker is he was partially a victim to this really weird period where Florida just wasn't producing good WR & RB talent. And it wasn't just South Florida, it was the whole state of Florida.

RB's 2002 - 2008 - CJ Spiller was pretty much it in FL during this time
WR's 2004 - 2010 - Unless you were able to uncover Antonio Brown or TY Hilton, which no one did, there wasn't much talent in FL
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Miami was going after Preston Parker but lost him to FSU.
 
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Willie Cooper got shot in the *** and Merriweather clapped back...the FIU brawl...the Pata murder...ST26 got murdered the following year...that was just a bad time for the program.

And keep in mind, the aforementioned incidents had parents afraid to send their kids to UM.
 
bshaw28 said:
2006 we actually only played 4 Top 25 teams and went 1-3. I know the 2019 losses to La Tech & FIU feel worse. In 2006 - Nevada, Houston, Duke - even though we won these teams took us down to the final drive, and we were lucky to pull them out. These were closer games than the Miami-CMU game this year. At least we won though.

But to give some context of how much more talented and frustrating that 2006 team was than 2019:

2006 had 5 Pro Bowl Players. Since 2007 we've had 3.
2006 had 4 players make Pro Bowls in multiple seasons. Since 2007 we've had 1. Jimmy Graham. Who wasn't a football recruit & played 1 year here.
2006 had 9 players on the defense get drafted in Rounds 1-4. Since 2007 we've had 11.
2006 had 9 5 star players on the roster. Since 2007 we've signed 9 total.
2006 we lost 4 games where the defense gave up 17 pts or less. Since 2007, we've lost 2.
2006 was the 3rd 7 or less win team since 1980 - 27 years. Since 2007 we've had 8 teams win 7 or less in 13 years.
2019 was our weakest Strength of Schedule in 20 years. 2nd weakest? 2006

We didn't know it at the time, but 2006 was thee beginning of the end for Miami - and that's what makes it worse IMO.
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We actually played 5 top 25 teams my guy. One of the five wound up falling out the top 25 by seasons end, but at the time, they were a top 25. But I would argue, 2005 was the beginning of the end. That fake swag was finally exposed on epic proportions against LSU, and we carried that chit onward and it's been the same chit since the end of 2015 until now. We have a MPC and Russell Athletic Bowl trophy to our names since then. FML.
 
I remember going to that bowl game and Nevada fans kept saying. How is Miami playing in this game smh. I for sure thought it was just a hiccup and that Randy would take us back quickly boy how wrong I was. Bright spot was that Boise was a surprisingly fun town more than I expected.
 
Rellyrell said:
We actually played 5 top 25 teams my guy. One of the five wound up falling out the top 25 by seasons end, but at the time, they were a top 25. But I would argue, 2005 was the beginning of the end. That fake swag was finally exposed on epic proportions against LSU, and we carried that chit onward and it's been the same chit since the end of 2015 until now. We have a MPC and Russell Athletic Bowl trophy to our names since then. FML.
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Actually, we played 6 opponents who were ranked at the time of the game.

With that being said, I think the end of season top 25 is a more accurate metric. It shows that our opponents seem to have been overrated at the time we played them.

And nobody finished unranked because we beat them. Boston College was the only opponent we beat with a pulse, and they finished ranked despite losing to us.

And actually I think we played 3 opponents that year that finished ranked. (Louisville #6, Virginia Tech #17 and Boston College #20.) I’m not sure where the OP is getting 4 final ranked opponents from.
 
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