I said that in my response, but OSU is getting ragdolled right now in the run game. They have highly ranked kids, but Sawyer is standing on the sidelines watching those kids get flattened like pancakes by Minnesota and Oregon.
My only point is people on this board act like Miami does things differently than anyone else. And, since Manny is toxic as the Springfield Nuclear Plant right now, anything he does is second-guessed. But there's just an avalanche of Monday morning QBs around here who think there's some mountain of evidence that shows Miami has high NFL talent that sits around for years behind kids who stink. It's simply not true. The main example everyone uses is Rousseau, who he himself admitted was not up to speed in camp of his R-Fr. season in 2019 (coming off a broken ankle in Game 1 of the 2018 season), and Patchan started while Greg rotated in. The kid himself admitted he wasn't ready, but OK, even if he was, I'll give the pitchfork mafia that one. The staff is clueless and played Patchan over GR15. Point taken. Show me other examples of dominating players who sit on the bench behind kids who suck. And 2020 really doesn't count for me, there was no spring and very limited summer workouts. So if you want to tell me that Keyshawn Smiff should have played over Mark Pope last year, I won't argue with you, but let's be realistic. How many reps was he really taking before the bullets were live?
This is not defending the staff. I'm not saying they know best and don't make mistakes and all fans are idiots. I'm only saying that this is not a "Miami only" discussion. If you read this board, you'd think that every highly ranked kid at every other school is just balling all over everyone, while our stud recruits ride the pine for years. It's simply not true. Some kids do, some kids don't. But there is no bias here over younger players, the staff needs to feed their families and they do that by being employed. Nobody is purposely playing a worse player and risking losing games/getting fired because they have some rule that says young kids can't play.
All that to say, if 56 isn't out there on Saturday, I'll be shocked. It'd be one thing if they were saying he was way behind, etc. But Simpson has been praising him and saying his PT will increase as the season goes on. It's time to give him some snaps, and I think they will.
