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A Legendary Perspective on Game 1...

Lots of mistakes but biggest mistake of game was the offensive game scheme. Do absolutely nothing to help the biggest known weakness of the team . . Our young tackles never had a chance.
 
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JHallCanes said:
One of our biggest issues the last, oh I don’t know, 15 years, was being saddled with coaches that were too egotistical to admit they were wrong.

Manny had many flaws as a DC, but the willingness to adapt, and to seek never ending improvement was not one of them. Though you may argue he almost over-adjusted at times.

There won’t be any of this “Dan and I know best, we just didn’t execute” stuff while continuing to do everything exactly the same.

Least, I hope not...
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Obviously I hope not too, but Enos insisting on going under center and then not scheming to help out the tackles *far* more heavily like this entire board knew had to happen gives me bad flashback juju. Hopefully he learns from it and addresses the gaping deficiency in our line going forward instead of calling plays like he never left bama.
 
No disagreement with this post. Our DL simply didn’t do enough from a pressuring the QB perspective. Great run stopping but man sacks would have been nice.

I think the biggest thing going forward for TNM is how they respond. TNM should go into Chapel Hill and take out all their frustration on a bad UNC team. If we go up there and mess around and keep it close then that’s concerning and resembles TOM. I know Manny’s trying to change the culture and after last nights game I feel like he’s started well on that front.
 
10 wins at the end of this season and everyone gets raises based on how vastly we improved in all phases after last night. As usual, Miami fans are devaluing our opponents when the reality is we will be in dog-fights more often than not. 10 wins is achievable but it's going to require major league stepping up in every single phase.
 
Hurracanes said:
Franks sucks but he beat our Defense through the air. The guy literally led the way to the game winning TD. At some point, you have to abandon the game plan and adjust.
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The two long pass plays were a short pass with numerous missed tackles and a busted coverage where Frierson didn't get safety help. I recognize that the plays still count. But it was not because of the game plan. Neither was it because of plays that Franks made.

And we did abandon the game plan offensively. Too early in my opinion. We gave up on the motion and short crossing patterns.
 
Ammok said:
I don't disagree with that assessment...but it doesn't address why it was unexpected. I fully expected them to go after Jarren full bore, It seemed the national TV annoucers did too. So our "contain" Franks was unexpected?
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I think most was expecting the d-line to just attack. That's why you keep seeing people saying they were disappointed with the d-line because they are looking at just sack numbers.

And uf had questions at o-line and i think fans expected the defense to come after franks like uf came after jarren.
 
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Hegemon said:
Great post and completely agree.

We can win our division and the mistakes made last night are fixable. Time to see if we have coaches capable of doing that.

4 turnovers resulting in 3 points
Muffed punt
Missed field goal
Fake punt
UF making 4 4th downs
JT dropping that TD
135 penalty yards

I want to see this squad in November.

IMHO we did everything we could to give them the game. They didnt take it from us straight up.
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I still think we’re better than them. They anally raped us on the edges, but, other than that, we were better than them.
 
252cane said:
I think most was expecting the d-line to just attack. That's why you keep seeing people saying they were disappointed with the d-line because they are looking at just sack numbers.

And uf had questions at o-line and i think fans expected the defense to come after franks like uf came after jarren.
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If we're attacking the QB, we open ourselves up for big run gains or screens, etc. It would be nice to say we had a dozen sacks, but we would've allowed a lot more than 52 yards rushing.
 
Manolo Montana said:
No disagreement with this post. Our DL simply didn’t do enough from a pressuring the QB perspective. Great run stopping but man sacks would have been nice.

I think the biggest thing going forward for TNM is how they respond. TNM should go into Chapel Hill and take out all their frustration on a bad UNC team. If we go up there and mess around and keep it close then that’s concerning and resembles TOM. I know Manny’s trying to change the culture and after last nights game I feel like he’s started well on that front.
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They did nothing, but the Qb had what, three turnovers to Jarren's zero?
 
252cane said:
Yall have to pay attention to what our d-line was asked to do. They were told to contain franks. Looking back at the game garvin was spying on franks a lot.

The d-line was basically trying to force franks to his left and garvin was spying him on that side. Uf d-line was just pinning their ears back and coming.
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If that was the plan, then UF had the better plan. Because Franks sucks and isn’t fast enough or dangerous enough with his feet to justify that plan. It’s not like he’s Mike Vick.
 
The Franchise said:
If that was the plan, then UF had the better plan. Because Franks sucks and isn’t fast enough or dangerous enough with his feet to justify that plan. It’s not like he’s Mike Vick.
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I don't agree with it but you can see that the coaches was concerned about him running. I would have like to see them try to apply more pressure because he would have likely threw more picks.
 
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rokulika said:
10 wins at the end of this season and everyone gets raises based on how vastly we improved in all phases after last night. As usual, Miami fans are devaluing our opponents when the reality is we will be in dog-fights more often than not. 10 wins is achievable but it's going to require major league stepping up in every single phase.
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First real world post in this thread. Strength of schedule is light years the most overrated variable in college football. How good are you? That is the determining factor. Miami is not good enough to take those conference games for granted. The Coastal teams may be in group flux but bottom line they have only slightly less overall manpower than the Canes. That means there will be dogfights and likely defeats. Only if our power rating were 7-10 points higher could those games be assigned to the win column with some confidence level.

Is Miami a Top 10 caliber team? In late November a team with 2 losses will be late in the Top 10, somewhere in the 7-10 range. That is the perspective to keep in mind. Anyone assuming we will run the table until the conference championship game basically believes we are a Top 5 caliber program right now.

I don't know any competent evaluator who pays a fleck of attention to strength of schedule. Sports Illustrated decades ago earned the reputation for making one stupid preseason national championship selection after another because those picks were made with overboard emphasis on strength of schedule. Whoops. The team they chose simply wasn't good enough. Now they are losing to teams on that supposedly weak schedule. What a shock.

I yearn for the days when I didn't care who we played. Ability level picks them off one by one like dominoes.
 
I believe there's a God and I believe deep down that he's a Canes fan so I have hope that we look back at this very winnable game in the future and that how ever minor it might be that we can say Greentard and Daphne Zuniga were kinda like Larry Triplett in Kenny Dorsey's first game.

This theory would also involve us somehow playing UiF again really soon and beating them by 142 pts and their AD vowing to never play us again.
 
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