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why are O skill positions strengths?

QB...obvious...likely will have to gameplan around weak OL (again...I want to be wrong)...

RB...meh...

TE...Njoko is an athlete...behind him though???

WR...outside Coley (actual)...and Berrios (flashes but still waiting)....lots of hopes on athletes who haven't really done much kr haven't played their first real.game down yet of D1 P5...
 
Jeeperaf said:
why are O skill positions strengths?

QB...obvious...likely will have to gameplan around weak OL (again...I want to be wrong)...

RB...meh...

TE...Njoko is an athlete...behind him though???

WR...outside Coley (actual)...and Berrios (flashes but still waiting)....lots of hopes on athletes who haven't really done much kr haven't played their first real.game down yet of D1 P5...
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If Walton is still on the team we have 3 good (and diverse) backs. That will not be an issue.

WR doesn't have the depth it had last year but it's talented and diverse as well. Coley, Berriors and Cager can play.

Not really concerned with backup TE.
 
if Njoku goes down...very likely negative...no one has shown (yet) they could fill that void...

let alone if Kaaya gets hurt (cringe worthy OL play must improve..good luck Searles)
 
Brian Piccolo said:
Zbrod95 said:
See there you go again, it doesn't matter how many points dorito gave up, in our win column we had 8 wins and you again bring up another pointless stat to try to "disprove" that we're all wrong.
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Proving once again that you don't know anything about competitive athletics.

If a football team gives up 5 more points than they scored they will generally win 6 games. We won 8. That's an overachievement. That kind of thing isn't sustainable. It tends to even out over time.

If you think Richt is worth 2 wins then you need to make the adjustment from 6 and not 8.

If the over/under on Miami is 7 or 7.5 then take the over. That's a good bet. But if it's 8.5 or 9 and you take the bet then you're a sucker.
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Brian Piccolo said:
Zbrod95 said:
On top of that you don't even include that we lost 58-0 to clemson early and 59-21 to UNC late which significantly bumped it in the first place.
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That's the actual 'point' regarding point differential. When Miami played an elite (or even very good) team they got destroyed. When they played middle of the road teams they won close (Nebraska, Pittsburgh) and even managed to lose by double digits to one (Cincinnati).

The point is that point differential is a much better gauge of true ability than simple win/loss records.
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Brian Piccolo said:
Zbrod95 said:
I love reading your posts, they constantly provide me with a good laugh.
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Because you are absolutely clueless.

You are the typical conventional sports fanboy.

Spouting cliches that you overheard at the bar or at a tailgate party.
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Since, I don't need to clog up the board with 5 different answers to prove a point.

1) We didn't overachieve, we were far from overachieving. We lost a completely winnable game to Cincy, we blew a lead to FSU, and then lost another completely winnable game to WSU. That's three games we should've won that were lost by coaching, not talent. Overachieving is taking a team that was expected to be a bottom feeder in their conference like Washington State who were expected to win 3-4 games, winning 9 games and going 6-3 in their conference...we went into the season as the favorites to win the coastal, that comes with at minimum 9-10 wins and we finished fourth with a bowl loss...that's underachieving. So if we won 8 games with a staff that did nothing but underachieve their entire time at Miami, why would you expect 8 wins from a coach that's only gone under 9 wins 4 times in 15 years with a returning 8 win squad that only lost 5 starters in total??

2) Point differential isn't a better gauge than wins and losses because it doesn't tell the full story. We averaged a rounded number of 29 PPG a game, while our opponents averaged a rounded number of 27 PPG including the losses of Clemson, UNC, the blowout win of Bethune Cookman, but not the bowl loss to WSU. You want to know the differential without those games?? a rounded number 31 PPG game, while our opponents averaged a rounded number of 25 PPG without including the Clemson and UNC loss, the blowout win of Bethune Cookman, and the bowl loss. You're right, the games were close when they finished but out of those 9 games how many did we lose due to playing calling?? Cincinnati and FSU right?? How many of those games were closer than they should've been because of late game defensive play calling?? probably 3-4 right but especially Nebraska and Pittsburgh right??

3) I laugh at your posts because you lack common sense. You literally said a 8 win team that has a supposed talent "deficiency", a horrible overall scheme and were poorly coached the year before will struggle to get 8 wins. Even though the vast majority of the same 8 win team is coming back with a overall scheme that's a complete 180 from last year's and fits their skill sets, an actual staff with 6 proven coaches out of the 9, and the staff has lauded what we perceived as an absolute weak point in our D-Line as the most talented position group outside of QB every chance they've gotten and you still think it's stupid to say 10 wins is achievable.
 
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This is how someone like [MENTION=14309]Brian Piccolo[/MENTION] thinks...

9 wins!! Thats a "reasonable" prediction...

10 wins (1 more than 9) "delusional bc double digits scare me!" lol
 
Zbrod95 said:
1) We didn't overachieve, we were far from overachieving. We lost a completely winnable game to Cincy, we blew a lead to FSU, and then lost another completely winnable game to WSU.
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See. This is what fanboys do. Count all the games we could've won and forget to mention all the games we could've lost.

We almost blew the Nebraska game. We could've easily lost to Duke. And Virginia. And Pittsburgh.

As I said before these things tend to even out.
 
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Zbrod95 said:
we went into the season as the favorites to win the coastal, that comes with at minimum 9-10 wins and we finished fourth with a bowl loss...that's underachieving.
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Once again irrelevant fanboy cliches.

We won 8 games while getting outscored and winning 4 out of 6 close games.

That's overachieving based on the results.

Saying we underachieved because some media pundits said we should've won the Coastal is asinine. You're assuming that their feelings matter more than the facts of the games that were played.
 
Zbrod95 said:
2) Point differential isn't a better gauge than wins and losses because it doesn't tell the full story
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Wins and losses can be random. Much more so than point differential.

We went 4-2 in one score games while being outscored on the season.

We won more games than we should have. That was a 6-6 or 7-5 team that went 8-4.
 
Zbrod95 said:
You literally said a 8 win team that has a supposed talent "deficiency", a horrible overall scheme and were poorly coached the year before will struggle to get 8 wins.
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I didn't say we would literally struggle to get 8 wins.

Do you even know what literally means?
 
We almost blew the Pitt and Nebraska games because of poor coaching. Is it not fair to assume this staff will be much better and if so, then it's safe to assume this team will be better overall and in late game situations.
 
If Richt is as good of a head coach now, as he was at Georgia in his worst seasons there there is no reason why he can't get Miami to the ACCCG. The landscape of the ACC, especially our division, is very easy by comparison and he's got a ton of upperclassmen to work with all over the field. He should truly be a plug'n'coach guy with some instant results. We are clearly a cut below FSU and Clemson, but there is no reason we shouldn't be beating UNC, Georgia Tech, Virginia, Virginia Tech, etc. The data from our previous head coaches was pretty damning, especially when it came to ACC play. The way the team was in constant dog fights against mid-tier ACC competition despite clear and obvious talent advantages never boded well for the big games. Coaching was never more clearly inferior then those dog fight games where even bad head coaches like Mike London were looking good against Golden, Shannon, etc.
 
Dirty Sprite said:
This is how someone like [MENTION=14309]Brian Piccolo[/MENTION] thinks...

9 wins!! Thats a "reasonable" prediction...

10 wins (1 more than 9) "delusional bc double digits scare me!" lol
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And it's how Vegas takes your money every year.

In fact Vegas has been taking a lot of Miami money in the last decade with all the wayward predictions that our fans have given.
 
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Canes21 said:
We almost blew the Pitt and Nebraska games because of poor coaching. Is it not fair to assume this staff will be much better and if so, then it's safe to assume this team will be better overall and in late game situations.
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This is why Vegas has so many sparkling casinos.

Because they go by the hard numbers and fans go by emotion and gut feelings.
 
Brian Piccolo said:
Zbrod95 said:
1) We didn't overachieve, we were far from overachieving. We lost a completely winnable game to Cincy, we blew a lead to FSU, and then lost another completely winnable game to WSU.
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See. This is what fanboys do. Count all the games we could've won and forget to mention all the games we could've lost.

We almost blew the Nebraska game. We could've easily lost to Duke. And Virginia. And Pittsburgh.

As I said before these things tend to even out.
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If those things tend to even out, then why are you claiming we overachieved last year? We achieved what we achieved, which was 8 wins. And that achievement was enough to get the previous staff eliminated.
 
The Franchise said:
If those things tend to even out, then why are you claiming we overachieved last year?
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Because they evened out to 361 points scored and 366 points against.

A team that gets outscored and wins the majority of it's tossup games is fortunate if it wins 8 games.
 
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