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You are trying too hard.

First, SMU doesn't have anywhere near the roster we have. Period.

We failed to convert on a 3rd and 1 and ended up with a FG when we decided to play in a phone booth.

Then, we did not convert on a 4th and 1 and ended up with no points when we again decided to play in a phone booth. This isn't personnel or talent or want-to, it's bad playcalling or a desire to outmuscle teams when a little creativity would put us in a better position. That's coaching, as is the lack of discipline that led to way too many turnovers.

I'm not trying hard at all. I saw mistake after mistake by that - what did you call it - "talent" . You think a 4th and 1 play call cost the game. I think a dropped touchdown and catch-turned-interception cost the game.
 
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When I see our team continually run up the gut with no success and not pass to set up the run against one of the worst secondary in college football, I know there’s no scheme going on there. Those are facts.
So when we have a wide open play and the receiver or QB f's it up, who do you blame?
 
So when we have a wide open play and the receiver or QB f's it up, who do you blame?
I’m done with this conversation with you, you’re a novice and you don’t know what the **** you’re looking at on television. There is no scheming being done to attack the weaknesses of the defense. It’s arrogant play calling at Best on the offensive side of the football. You don’t believe me, go watch a Louisville or an Indiana game and then you’ll see what scheming looks like.
 
I’m done with this conversation with you, you’re a novice and you don’t know what the **** you’re looking at on television. There is no scheming being done to attack the weaknesses of the defense. It’s arrogant play calling at Best on the offensive side of the football. You don’t believe me, go watch a Louisville or an Indiana game and then you’ll see what scheming looks like.

Why are you getting angry? I didn't say anything about you personally. I just find it telling that you can't answer the question.

By the way, Louisville "schemed" their way to 10 points over 52 minutes against us after the first two scores.
 
My friend, that’s football. You are right, plays are going to go against you but this is a trend. I saw a post on Twitter (never calling it x) that states Miami has lost five games by 19 points over th past two years. That’s an alarming trend. We’re playing to shorten the game with a significant talent advantage.
For reference, GT last year played to shorten the game and controlled top because they were less talented and missing their starting qbs right arm… I don’t know if I will move you from your position but the reason we get stopped on 4th down and the reason we scored to 87 is because we changed tendencies.
This. The preferred style of offense by our head coach is counterproductive to having any type of real success. We’re playing to get four yards at a time and at an incredibly slow pace and it requires our offense to be perfect for long stretches. A single holding penalty (our offensive line has got to be the most penalized unit in the country) and we might as well just punt. We have no chance of converting if we fall behind the sticks because our offense isn’t designed to gain chunk yards.

We play at such a GOD **** SLOW pace that every single play is a borderline delay of game penalty. We break the huddle with ten seconds on the play clock and then have to rush a play or waste a timeout. No chance for the quarterback to see the defense and call an audible or make any kind of adjustment.

We bunch everyone into tight formations to where if a single player misses a block, our plays are easily blown up.

We require pinpoint precision just to execute plays that net us four yards. Do you know how hard it is for a college offense to execute perfectly on a 15 play drive? We play like we’re a service academy who’s just trying to keep the game close and pull off a miracle win in the final seconds. We purposely play close games and then get shocked when lesser teams upset us.
 
This. The preferred style of offense by our head coach is counterproductive to having any type of real success. We’re playing to get four yards at a time and at an incredibly slow pace and it requires our offense to be perfect for long stretches. A single holding penalty (our offensive line has got to be the most penalized unit in the country) and we might as well just punt. We have no chance of converting if we fall behind the sticks because our offense isn’t designed to gain chunk yards.

We play at such a GOD **** SLOW pace that every single play is a borderline delay of game penalty. We break the huddle with ten seconds on the play clock and then have to rush a play or waste a timeout. No chance for the quarterback to see the defense and call an audible or make any kind of adjustment.

We bunch everyone into tight formations to where if a single player misses a block, our plays are easily blown up.

We require pinpoint precision just to execute plays that net us four yards. Do you know how hard it is for a college offense to execute perfectly on a 15 play drive? We play like we’re a service academy who’s just trying to keep the game close and pull off a miracle win in the final seconds. We purposely play close games and then get shocked when lesser teams upset us.

Are you saying that having ten drives in a game and scoring drives of 7, 10 plays is a sign of incompetence?
 
Its so funny how all off season people hype up the roster then when the players show they are mid a coach has to be fired lol

All off season this board brushed off us losing literally every starting offensive weapon we had and now dawson is just trash lol

Mario is a mid coach but what everyone is missing is how in year 4 this roster doesn’t match the elite recruiting status people give him. We should be way more worried about his evaluations than his Xs and Os, one was expected but his supposed strengths is whats really failing us to me
Oh, now we are allowed to say this?
 
He needs to bring in a legit spread OC and a dual threat QB that can throw it next year and just step out of the way. I watched Bailey and Nc State go nuts last night. Running lanes wide open with RBs not getting touched. Receivers running open and Bailey running free if nothing was open. Funny how we didn’t recruit him because he was a 3* project but rather take 3* project “passing QBs” who apparently can’t throw or run.
Can’t have a statue running a 5.2 40 that doesn’t have a Brady Level arm n IQ in today’s college football smh
 
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Its so funny how all off season people hype up the roster then when the players show they are mid a coach has to be fired lol

All off season this board brushed off us losing literally every starting offensive weapon we had and now dawson is just trash lol

Mario is a mid coach but what everyone is missing is how in year 4 this roster doesn’t match the elite recruiting status people give him. We should be way more worried about his evaluations than his Xs and Os, one was expected but his supposed strengths is whats really failing us to me
We’re losing because of ****** play calling n subpar execution it’s a coaching issue not a talent issue .
 
It seems we don't care what our opponents do on d. We are gonna run the same **** no matter what. Same plays, same speed, same old **** to shorten the game. Same predictable rb rotation. Same predictable ****** QB throws. Same predictable illegal motion, holding, unnecessary roughness. ******* ground hog day every week. We say "come and stop us" and everybody laughs and stuffs us in a locker.
SMU rush defense was ranked 11 and pass defense was ranked 134. To your point, did we design our game plan attack their weakness and avoid their strength? Nope.
 
I am not going to argue. You guys are right. The reason we went from having the #1 offense to struggling to score 20 pts week after week even though we have the same OC, far more talented WRs, and a more experienced OL has nothing to do with QB.

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Its because we're running the same run scheme as last year and use less spread formations vs a year ago...

We created wider spaces for a strong armed QB vs condensed sets for a QB who isn't as strong armed.
 
Can’t have a statue running a 5.2 40 that doesn’t have a Brady Level arm n IQ in today’s college football smh
It fits Mario’s persona of making it much harder than it needs to be. A QB who can run causes so much chaos. I wouldn’t even characterize someone like Bailey as a runner but rather a QB who can run if he needs to. But even with that you have to account for him otherwise he’s gonna make you pay.
 
A lack of execution is absolutely a talent issue. Really good players don't drop passes in the end zone or flip passes in the air for the other team to pick it off.
Fair point but I feel like the issue is more so our talent not playing to their potential/lackadaiscal..that falls more on the coaches to me. we don’t look prepared to handle business, it’s like we feel like we can just show up and Win because we have more blue chips then the opposing team smh. It takes 0 talent to not commit drive killing false starts and holds bruh ..We saw this team be dominant in spurts those first five games but we’ve looked mostly subpar since being up 28-3 on FSU.
 
It fits Mario’s persona of making it much harder than it needs to be. A QB who can run causes so much chaos. I wouldn’t even characterize someone like Bailey as a runner but rather a QB who can run if he needs to. But even with that you have to account for him otherwise he’s gonna make you pay.
Bingo when you pose no threat to run the opposing defense isn’t under any pressure unless you are Great at processing the game and have true arm talent which Beck lacks in both departments.
 
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than at any time in history, coaching and scheming are at a premium. Which leads me to the glaring weakness of this program right now: offensive X’s and O’s. Everyone today has talent, but it’s more spread thin because of NIL. So the issues we have can’t be fixed by simply out-recruiting the competition. The days of loading your roster up and out-manning teams are over — just like thinking you can line up and out-physical opponents all game, winning 20–17.

Teams like Indiana out-scheme their talent by consistently creating open receivers and easy touchdowns through smart play design and mismatches.

Somebody needs to get ahold of the head caveman and explain how offensive football works in 2025. There are times in a game that call for physicality and simply beating the man in front of you — but there are also plenty of plays that require creativity and outthinking the coach on the other sideline.

Which brings me to my final point: Mario is a CEO-type coach who brings value mainly through recruiting and teaching offensive line play. That makes his hires enormously important. The first rule of leadership is to hire people smarter than yourself — and then let them work. On the offensive side, it really feels like people who lack the intelligence or understanding needed to run a modern offense have far too much input in the game plan.

Even Nick Saban realized he had to evolve a decade ago when offenses kept advancing and becoming harder to defend. On top of that, the game today is slanted toward the offense — yet we continue to run 1980s smash-mouth football, the exact style any defensive coordinator in America would prefer to face.

Like Al Golden, one side of the ball could be Mario’s undoing — ironically, the same side the head coach has the most input on. I really hope Mario can recognize this and get it through his thick cranium. The greatest coaches are always adapting and evolving. Fired coaches die on the hill of their identity.

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Fair point but I feel like the issue is more so our talent not playing to their potential/lackadaiscal..that falls more on the coaches to me. we don’t look prepared to handle business, it’s like we feel like we can just show up and Win because we have more blue chips then the opposing team smh. It takes 0 talent to not commit drive killing false starts and holds bruh ..We saw this team be dominant in spurts those first five games but we’ve looked mostly subpar since being up 28-3 on FSU.

That's also a fair point, and it forces the discussion in a different direction. If there's a lack of focus, preparation, etc., then it ISN'T "game day coaching" or "running the ball". We are absolutely putting guys in a position to succeed and to win. They just aren't finishing.
 
Why are you getting angry? I didn't say anything about you personally. I just find it telling that you can't answer the question.

By the way, Louisville "schemed" their way to 10 points over 52 minutes against us after the first two scores.
This is what I’m going to say and I’m gonna leave it there. I was one of if not the biggest Mario supporter there is and he has done amazing things for our program as far as talent gathering and finances. Amazing things! But he needs to change his approach if he wants to contend for any kind of championship here at his alma mater. Now I used to believe he didn’t have to do that because I would look at his Oregon teams, and I would see all the strengths and ignore the deficiencies. The penalty problem is a problem He also had back in Oregon and losing to teams as a double digit favorite is also a problem he had back in Oregon. These things are a pattern and if he wants to be successful here and I know he wants that more than anything, he has to break that pattern and it starts with him. He has to change his way of thinking on how he wants this program to play from an offensive standpoint or we are going nowhere.. those are facts and as much as I tried to ignore them, I’m not anymore.
 
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