Are teams still shocked by our physicality?

[SayWhat]

I think this is a hugely under the radar aspect not being talked about enough. Previously it felt like Mario seemed to try to be like Saban: all business, no smiles. Since the SMU game it feels like he has had so much more fun than previously. He’s showing more emotion and passion now. Just look at his reaction when Carter hit his FG to go up 10.

I have always said that teams take on the demeanor of their head coaches. Now that Mario is coaching more freely (but still disciplined) and showing passion, the players seem to be having way more fun and playing with that edge, playing loose and trusting instincts.

Yeah we have adjusted some of our schemes, but I definitely think this plays a big part.

I agree wholeheartedly.

Even though your description of Saban is accurate, he's one of those guys who tells you what he thinks with just a simple look. He was always so dialed in, thinking plays ahead, even quarters like a master chess player, you just knew if he looked your way why he was.

My kids former pro and travel soccer coach had this trait. My son would always say how he didn't ever have to say much, you knew what he was thinking because you knew you did something great or the opposite. He also had this thing where if you were doing your job, he wasn't going to give you a ton of praise, you were doing what was expected. As a former pro, he was tough, not because he was an *** (very likeable and kind guy outside of the whistles), but because he had that pro attitude of nothing is ever good enough l, you've gotta continually work. Be proud of what you can do, but always think how you can do it better.

Saban was never content, such a pro mindset always striving for perfection.

 

[lfoliva9988]

Yes. All you need to see is lil slot WR blocking Downs out of a run lane. It’s a mindset top down.

you talking about Mali's block on Fletch's 20 yard run on the first play of that last drive?
That was a thing of beauty!!!

 

[lfoliva9988]

Thanks, I missed that as I don't typically listen to it watch any of the press conferences. They're generally fluff pieces with the same lines regurgitated.

In game and after game, I've noticed a much more elevated level of intensity from Mario. It's almost like he was content to give the same cliche lines before while being some image he thought was the right one. Now he's being more real, candid, and has an edge to him that wasn't there before. I really feel like the disrespect of us on the outside looking in behind a team we beat changed things with him. He had to fight for our spot and it's carrying over, he wants that respect.

bro, Mario has been a man possessed. He just has that look in his eye.
His passion and nastiness has overflowed into the team/locker room and I ******* love it!!

 

[SayWhat]

bro, Mario has been a man possessed. He just has that look in his eye.
His passion and nastiness has overflowed into the team/locker room and I ******* love it!!

Yup, exactly and this is a coach I can get behind.

Prior, I always felt like he just wasn't being real, same bland and candid responses to everything. Like he was reading from a book of good things to say at pressers.

Real reaches further and he's owning things while fighting back. Love it and it's been strikingly different.

 

[lfoliva9988]

Yup, exactly and this is a coach I can get behind.

Prior, I always felt like he just wasn't being real, same bland and candid responses to everything. Like he was reading from a book of good things to say at pressers.

Real reaches further and he's owning things while fighting back. Love it and it's been strikingly different.

100%

If this is the Mario we now get moving forward, we could be entering a REALLY fun era of Canes football!!

 

[M3N]

Mario’s pre game and halftime interview had me ready to run through a wall. Can’t imagine how his guys feel.

Reporter: what does Miami have to do?
Mario: play fast, physical, relentless, violent. hurricane football.

Reporter: how are your guys prepared for a potential rock fight?

Mario: It’s what we do.

Mario looked like a man ready to kill someone. And this team is modeled after him. They flat out get after it

 

[Mnhurricane]

Yes. We look like an NFL team where guys have planted feet and somehow still strike and pop a guy backwards at point of contact. It’s unreal how big of a change in a few short years (or even last year)

 

[Canes Device]

Thanks, I missed that as I don't typically listen to it watch any of the press conferences. They're generally fluff pieces with the same lines regurgitated.

In game and after game, I've noticed a much more elevated level of intensity from Mario. It's almost like he was content to give the same cliche lines before while being some image he thought was the right one. Now he's being more real, candid, and has an edge to him that wasn't there before. I really feel like the disrespect of us on the outside looking in behind a team we beat changed things with him. He had to fight for our spot and it's carrying over, he wants that respect.

Yeah, I think he's maturing as a HC

 

[BigDikDaddyFromCincinnati]

I'm glad we figured it out late in the season. Seems they all turned it up and got serious about it. I do wonder what the change was, where or who it came from, and to me that's the real question on this season.

It's just an opinion, but I feel like Bain wasn't in the right head space, maybe had some pain or nagging injury. We lost two and he seemed to be just cruising through the remainder of the season. People were busy talking double team nonsense and I said the effort wasn't there, Meaidor was outshining him. Something changed in his effort and it's made a huge difference.

I don’t agree with your take on Bain at all. He was the most disruptive DL in America this year.

 

[AtlAtty]

Pate had the best comment about it

He said when he visits Miami, there's a rawness to our practices that's different to everyone else.

Yep. And that means Pate isn’t comparing us to an SEC team, as in ‘Mario has built UM to play like an SEC team’ which we hear a lot.
Pate said we were different from EVERY team.
Forget playing like the SEC or Big Ten. Mario wants us to be different from EVERY team.

 

[Silver King]

How many times did you see OSU have a big play, ending with one of our DBs coming like a freight train bringing the lumber? Some of those hits were straight-up assassin-vicious.

 

[SayWhat]

I don’t agree with your take on Bain at all. He was the most disruptive DL in America this year.

He had a major slump in the middle of the season. He's playing on a different level, not sure why, but Mesidor was looking better during the time I'm talking about.

 

[PennsylvaniaCane]

Everyone has a plan…..

 

[lfoliva9988]

Mario’s pre game and halftime interview had me ready to run through a wall. Can’t imagine how his guys feel.

Reporter: what does Miami have to do?
Mario: play fast, physical, relentless, violent. hurricane football.

Reporter: how are your guys prepared for a potential rock fight?

Mario: It’s what we do.

Mario looked like a man ready to kill someone. And this team is modeled after him. They flat out get after it

gives me goosebumps just reading it/thinking about it. Dude looked like he was ready to strap on a helmet and go play and the players feed off that!

 

[lfoliva9988]

I don’t agree with your take on Bain at all. He was the most disruptive DL in America this year.

this right here. He doesnt have the numbers that pop out like crazy and make you say OMG, but if you know football, you know that he impacts every, single, play.

N. Suh at Nebraska had the greatest season in the history of CFB for a DL and at times, Bain has been equally as "disruptive" as Suh was throughout that year, Bain just doesnt have the WOW numbers that Suh had. If he did, many people would be saying Bain's name right alongside Suh's.

 

[lfoliva9988]

He had a major slump in the middle of the season. He's playing on a different level, not sure why, but Mesidor was looking better during the time I'm talking about.

Bain was also getting held/choke held on every single snap during ACC play

 

[JHallCanes]

I don’t agree with your take on Bain at all. He was the most disruptive DL in America this year.

Our DEs had to play a ton of contain this year and Mesidor was incredible as well

But just rewatch the 4th quarter of the OSU game

Bain literally was unblockable and I’m sure he was gassed but it didn’t matter

 

[SayWhat]

Bain was also getting held/choke held on every single snap during ACC play

****, they all were. I've watched more football this season than past seasons and I'm constantly amazed how much holding, hands to the face, handfighting / PI, and even face mask calls they don't make.

I haven't watched a single play of the NFL, are they letting more of this go these days?

 

[Salt]

Mario likes to bring up Greentree and even Irvin wears his "built by Greentree" or whatever it says shirt on the sidelines. Seems like a badge of honor to the old school canes.

This tradition was started by JJ's notorious practices that made game day seem like a break. You basically have two of the nation's top units going blow for blow at practice each week. Iron sharpening iron.

So teams have no idea of the level of competitiveness and intensity that gets these guys mentally and physically ready week to week.

Mario understands this and is instilling this mindset back into the program.

 

[lfoliva9988]

Mario likes to bring up Greentree and even Irvin wears his "built by Greentree" or whatever it says shirt on the sidelines. Seems like a badge of honor to the old school canes.

This tradition was started by JJ's notorious practices that made game day seem like a break. You basically have two of the nation's top units going blow for blow at practice each week. Iron sharpening iron.

So teams have no idea of the level of competitiveness and intensity that gets these guys mentally and physically ready week to week.

Mario understands this and is instilling this mindset back into the program.

was it JJ that always said, "by the time gameday rolled around, our guys were sick and tired of kicking the sh*t out of each other on the practice field, that they were soo ready to kick the sh*t out of someone not wearing a Miami uniform".