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Barry Jackson article

MotoSniper said:
- Patchan might go to UF or UNC...even though Coach K now corches at Toledo (WTF?!?), which could be an option.
- Running the spread offense will translate into much more than just more points, it will influence the whole lifestyle of the team/corches
- Lashlee one of the best at it
- 3rd down on both O & D was just horrendous last season, needs to change
- A bunch of Canes in the NFl draft (That should have stayed)
- We ***** next season...cooking with Crisco with D'King at point.
- I'm sure I missed a bunch and misconstrued a bunch as well, enjoy :4e49c5euykr1o.jpg:
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How the **** can UF continue to have any ICs left with their signess and transfers? They have 23 signees/enrollees and 6 transfers....so 29 ICs already.
 
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PSU Cane said:
How the **** can UF continue to have any ICs left with their signess and transfers? They have 23 signees/enrollees and 6 transfers....so 29 ICs already.
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Miami faced more sanctions placed on itself because of the ponzi scheme *******. I think Miami was ranked in the teens and only had one loss during the 2013 season, and finished 9-4. I don't think the ncaa if did anything to publicly apologize after the school missed 2 straight bowl games and lost scholarship just in case; Turns out the ponzi scheme ***-hat was a narcissistic liar... Urban Meyer turned the Gators locker room into a much more toxic environment.

Every media outlet, even the morning news to the late night news ridiculed Kellen Winslow Jr. for a post game interview when the volunteers were aiming at his knees - during the course of a adrenaline "Student-Athlete, Filled Game." When the entire Miami roster showed up in army fatigues to play penn state in the fiesta bowl; The NCAA/System is more then happy to put on every record how that one 1987 game broke records for; Had more televisions/houses tuned in at the time, plus broke the record for the amount packed into the college football arena.

Al Golden was horrible at designing the defensive schemes, how he would turn nationally recognized pass rush specialists into 3-4 defensive ends. But he knew how to scout offensive linemen, tight ends, and he knew how to recruit/sign skill position players that were more "Gem, than busts." Its obvious the football program lost moral after the b.s. of the college/NCAA - money extortion [Student Debt Crisis].
 
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The summary is simple, we are in trouble with Manny at the helm. All last season he sat there and watched us get into 3rd and long more than any team in the nation and he reacts 2 months after the season. Good coaches react and adjust at halftime of a game, Manny waits until 2 months after the season ends, we are in trouble.

If you can't do anything on 1st and 2nd downs but have some of the fastest receivers in college football last season then do something different. Get your QB to heave some balls long and hope you connect on some, 3rd and 10 is just as un-make-able as 3rd and 8, at least you have a chance to connect or at a minimum loosen up the defense. It doesn't take a genius to figure this out, I sat through the entire UVA game wondering when we were going to do that, and then the rest of the season, we never got it though.

If I want to see someone as dumb as me come up with strategy for a game I can just play Madden, but we don't have to pay someone the amount we are paying Manny. If we can't adjust until after the season we are in trouble.
 
If you ask football coach Manny Diaz what needs to be fixed on this team, two words will quickly be mentioned: third down.

It’s not only on offense, where the Canes ranked 129th of 130 FBS schools in third-down conversions at 27.2 percent, ahead of only Akron. Diaz also sees a problem on defense.

The Hurricanes allowed teams to convert on 37.2 percent of third-down chances last season, which was 42nd in the country, much worse than their rankings in most other key defensive categories. Miami had ranked higher in previous years.

“We are digging deep into some of our failures on third down,” Diaz told WQAM’s Joe Zagacki on Hurricane Hotline. “All of our [other] numbers are where we want it — top 15, top 12, top 10. Third down is an outlier — middle of the country — where it shouldn’t be. “Not just third down, but third-and-longs we surrendered. We are looking into it. It’s never just one thing, but you see some recurring themes. [We need to determine] why some players didn’t play in a position as well as we thought they would. That will be a major emphasis for us all offseason. To lead the nation in third -down defense and have it drop so sharply, that’s what you are looking [for answers] for. The scheme is sound.”

Offensively, third-down performance “was completely unacceptable and never got better,” Diaz said. “You should never finish last in anything at the University of Miami. What does that go back to? We couldn’t run the football. If you can’t run, you have to throw it, and if you have to throw, odds are you are going to have some incompletes. We have to be a much better team running the ball than a year ago.”

▪ Diaz, with Zagacki, offered more insight on the move to a spread offense:
“There are a lot of people running a tempo, spread offense that are doing a terrible job doing it. [Offensive coordinator] Rhett Lashlee is one of the best doing it anywhere in the country. All you have to do is spend five minutes with him [and you know]. It’s not just putting a bunch of plays on the board and saying “do this.” You got to have the connection. If players feel that connection for you, they will give you a little bit extra.”

Diaz expects the new offense “will probably be a little more simple and a little less learning than in the past. What I would equate it to is what we did defensively in 2016.”

Diaz has finally come to the conclusion that the speed and athleticism of the quintessential South Florida athlete must be accentuated in UM’s program on offense as much as it is on defense.

“The worst thing we can do is get really athletic guys and really fast guys and slow them down with a bunch of rules,” Diaz said. “That’s the biggest crime a coach can commit. We’re trying to get guys to play faster, and sometimes lessening the thinking is a good way to do that.”

▪ Diaz said “one of the great things about coach Lashlee is he has done it with different styles of quarterbacks. At SMU, incorporating the Air Raid concepts into this offense is what in my mind has taken it to the next level.
“That is very difficult to stop when you have a quarterback that can run. You are seeing it at all levels, with how Lamar Jackson burned down the NFL this year. That puts so much stress on the defense. When you have a guy who can do both [throw and run], that’s a real problem.”
UM has that now at quarterback with grad transfer D’Eriq King.

▪ Diaz believes the move to a spread offense will have intrinsic benefits beyond the obvious of it leading to more points.
“This is not just a scheme change,” he said. “It’s a lifestyle change. Going fast, it will affect the defense being lined up. It will be good for us. It will take everyone out of their comfort zone, which I love about it. That’s what we need.
“Guys are really excited to see it go. All it is right now is a daydream. We have to put in work as coaches and our guys need to put in work of not only learning it for themselves but how to do it for the guy next to you.”

▪ Quick stuff: New UM grad transfer kicker Jose Borregalas’ decision to transfer to UM was about more than football. “Just having a degree from the University of Miami is a big deal,” he said, as he works toward a master’s degree in liberal studies. “Outside of football, you can get any job that you want in your field with a degree from here.” He was 50 of 65 on field goals in his career at FIU; UM was 12 for 20 on field goals last season....

Former UM receiver Evidence Njoku transferred to UCLA… Among schools that have reached out to defensive end Scott Patchan, who’s in the transfer portal: UF, North Carolina and Toledo (where former defensive line coach Craig Kuligowski is employed).
 
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Big drop on the 3rd down conversion on defense.

I think we were #1 the year before.
 
Calvin said:
Im a Hurricane man, and i approve this message! Coach diaz still thinking he has to keep running his trap every time somebody shoves a mic in his face, he's not certified to tell us who's a good coach or what a "best week of practice is":

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STFU you sound 2 years old. Wish we had the same hate around here for the person who left this place a $h*t show rather than hating the guy who inherited it and trying to fix it.
 
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Looks like Manny got the cliff notes on CIS. He's been regurgitating stuff from these boards. Either that or he's a genius. Wait, if he's a genius for saying stuff already on CIS...
 
PSU Cane said:
How the **** can UF continue to have any ICs left with their signess and transfers? They have 23 signees/enrollees and 6 transfers....so 29 ICs already.
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They had low numbers the last two years. 20 in 18 and 21 in 19. So, it isn’t insane that they might have one more.
 
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ThomasM said:
Exactly. Shall we bring up all the positive crap he said about Enos? Nothing he says carries any weight until I see him beat teams he should trounce, and not struggle against mighty CMU.
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Manny never said one good thing about Enos after he was hired and had to bite his tongue until the season was over. You can't do **** once the AD paid $1.5mill for that fraud OC.
 
I gotta admit that this doesn’t come across as corch speak to me. It reads that he understands what went wrong last year conceptually, and that the addition of Reed, Justice and Lashlee help him to correct it immediately. Manny is a master organizer, and last year proved to him that it isn’t enough. His problem is doing. He knows what needs to happen, which is a commendable skill, but how to do it is the next step and he needed help.

The line about “drawing plays on the board and saying, do it” was a clear shot at Enos. He is right, playing style changes culture and morale. And there must be a connection between the coach and his players for them to give a little extra. Our players definitely checked out last season.

What Manny has done this off-season is all you can ask for. Pure intentions, unlike Golden for example.
 
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