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Diaz and staff deserve some praise.....

They played well but defensively, Baker is still iffy.... we also got a flurry of ridiculous penalties from them to start off the game..
 
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CountDookoo said:
This is the bare minimum of expectations for UM. They have leveled the disadvantages on the sidelines, re not handing teams victories 4th and 17 UNC, is prepared to play VT, and giving more effort GT. I still believe Manny needs to upgrade his assistants but we'll see.
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The bare minimum at Miami should be 10-3. And that’s in a year when the Coastal isn’t as bad as it is this year, and we’re playing against an FSU coach not named Willie Taggart.
 
Jassid82 said:
This OL looks light years better then it did the first 4-5 games of the season. There was a point where we all thought they would eventually get JW or Kosi seriously injured at the pace they were going. Season-ending type serious.

And before the “Well, we haven’t played a team with a great pass rush these past few weeks so it’s probably fools gold” crowd pops in, Pitt led the nation in sacks when we played them and FSU was terrorizing team as well. Stopped both teams cold.

Stubbs has earned his praise off what he has done to Wiggins alone. Talk about a huge development with this kid! Another offseason with Wiggins, Pope, Payton and Harley should do wonders for this group taking the next step.
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We've also sat back in Shotgun for the last few games. That takes so much pressure off the Oline (and of course limits the plays you can run).
 
FrancisSaywer said:
Stubblefeild and Barry have really distinguished themselves. Their units are showing marked improvement and they are developing their players. Much respect to those two. They had to weather all of the adversity that came when the team started at 3-4 but they just kept their noses to the grindstone and kept working. Much respect to those two and the entire staff for hanging in there when the going got nearly unbearable. I would like to single out Butch Barry as his unit was getting an insane amount of heat and deservedly so as that unit was as awful as you will see the first half of the year. Barry hung in there and never let his guys quit. They just kept working and we are beginning to see the results as the OL has made a significant improvement over the last few weeks.

All of these position coaches and coordinators who have stuck it out and have kept coaching and teaching through the shytstorm are motivated by one man and that's the head coach as it all starts at the top. Being the head coach Manny Diaz was responsible for the poor start we had and by the same logic he is also responsible for what is starting to look like a huge turnaround. This team has most definitely turned a corner and has improved in all facets of the game most notably OL, penalties, defense and special teams with WR being in there as well. I'm not here trying to proclaim that the guy is Nick Saban or Dabo Swinney just that Diaz has engineered a nice turnaround in the face of tremendous adversity and deserves to be praised for it.


We still need to finish it out by beating FIU and Duke but that task seems so much more doable than it did a month ago. I remember ripping Diaz and staff for the clown show we were witnessing on a game to game basis and I said that I would much rather Diaz turn it around and prove me wrong because that would be so much better for the program right now. Well, Diaz has gone a good way towards doing exactly that and the finish line is in sight in terms of completing a total team turnaround. Winning out and finishing 9-4 with a Bowl win while continuing to improve is the goal now and it is reachable. If Diaz pulls that off after the way things were going after GT, he will earn major respect and admiration from this fan base and deservedly so. I'm pulling for him and this team in a big way.

Guys, again I'm not sitting here trying to tell you that Diaz is the guy that's going to lead us to multiple titles. I'm not saying that he is some Yoda level type guru/coach. All I want to get across is that after the Georgia Tech loss this team was 3-4 and at a point where the locker room could have completely disintegrated and this team could have easily packed it in and tuned out the staff. That did not happen however and what we have seen is tangible improvement in many areas like penalties, lack of discipline, poor OL play. Erratic and disjointed play on defense, average WR play, terrible special teams and horrendous play calling. We have seen tangible evidence of improvement in every one of those areas in addition to player development and a team that is clearly still together. I'm not saying we're ready for Clemson but I am saying that Diaz deserves some credit for keeping this team together and improving in the face of tremendous adversity.
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It’s been a tale of 3 seasons..First we all thought we would be 11-1 and cruise to Charlotte after the UF loss..then we thought we would be 5-7 after losing to GT..Now we are pretty confident we can end the season at 8-4. It just depends how you see things. Was the season a success? No. But we **** sure found a way to salvage it.
 
South Side Chi Cane said:
I am gonna hold mine until after he brings home three more convincing wins.
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I wouldn't love anything more than to be all in on the coaching staff. The sad thing is they left us with question marks at the beginning of the year. I will say with confidence that their is marked improvement in a lot of the doubtful areas. Special teams really caught my eye yesterday. JW= better, stretching the field= better, Shaq= better, Ivey=better, etc..
Now it has to be consistency. Then I can rest easy with concerns about the staff.
Go Canes!!!
 
1LuvCane said:
I wouldn't love anything more than to be all in on the coaching staff. The sad thing is they left us with question marks at the beginning of the year. I will say with confidence that their is marked improvement in a lot of the doubtful areas. Special teams really caught my eye yesterday. JW= better, stretching the field= better, Shaq= better, Ivey=better, etc..
Now it has to be consistency. Then I can rest easy with concerns about the staff.
Go Canes!!!
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Preach, Knight of the Franchise Order !
 
The boys have been ready the last two games and for the first time all season I felt we took the field not just knowing we were the superior team, but that we were going to dominate.

OL in particular has been STOUT.

Players deserve some credit as well for upholding a standard.
 
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South Side Chi Cane said:
Haha yeah, him and Tatesdutyhole are red flag city. Trolls for sure, I just can’t tell if it’s my favorite variety (troll from another fan base posing as a cane) so I haven’t gone for the jugular yet. What’s your assessment?
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Haven't paid much attention to the schtick. Seeing that they suck, we whooped that ***, and they're coach got fired. All in recent time. I'll go on a limb and say it's a semenholes troll...
 
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Manny and Enos both deserve some credit for making changes.theyll probably both insist they didn't, but...

Manny saw the D was regressing. He got involved. No matter how much you dislike the guy, theres no denying the Defense has been exceptionally better since the HC entered the fray.

Enos has added more Shotgun, RPO, and more pass pro. The results have been exemplary.
 
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SinisterCane said:
Great write-up

If Manny didn't come out front runnin' on Twitter before season started I believe the level of heat would have been less at 3-4
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That was another one of Manny's rookie mistakes. He should have taken a page out of the Lou Holtz playbook and constantly bemoaned our youth, depth, inexperience at QB, poor special teams and so on. Lou was the master sandbager.

The thing with Diaz is that he seems to be aware of his mistakes and has shown the willingness and ability to correct them. That's a great quality to have.
 
Amazing how utterly low people's standards are. No rational person was expecting an undefeated regular season, most of us would have been happy with 9+ regular season wins(with this tissue soft schedule), and Diaz, even if he wins out won't be able to deliver even that. Miami is showing signs of progress, but it's hard to definitively know because Miami has beaten two mediocre teams. Is it that Miami has taken steps forward, or is it that FSU(Whose coach got canned) and Louisville(Who won 2 games last season) are so mediocre, that even a team like Miami can beat them handily? If U of L had anywhere near a competent D, this game would have been close, because the Miami D was giving up chunk plays left and right. Luckily Miami pulled away, and exposed Louisville as a limited team that cannot consistently push the ball downfield with the pass.

There's nothing wrong with being optimistic, but don't act shocked that a lot of us aren't buying this stock right now. The underlying metrics aren't where one would like, so I'm looking for more data points before I start to believe in this staff. Remember, this staff managed to give away multiple games this year, by failing to address the kicking situation, and by being utterly inept offensively.
 
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