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### Against schools from major conferences (including the Big East), UM is now 19-18 under Al Golden.

### UM entered 1-16 in its last 17 road games against ranked teams. Georgia Tech, now 5-0, wasn’t ranked, so that record remains unchanged.

### The Hurricanes had beaten the Yellow Jackets five in row, but Tech's option offense flummoxed Miami; Tech finished with 311 yards on the ground on 65 carries, equaling 4.8 per carry. Tech needed to throw the ball only seven times, with Justin Thomas completing four for 53 yards.

That makes the Yellow Jackets the fifth team since 2011 (and second in three weeks) to run for 300-plus yards against UM. And UM has allowed an opponent to rush for 200-plus yards an absurd 16 times during Golden’s tenure.
 
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I'll have the site built tomorrow - it may be started at some point today, but it won't be live until tomorrow at earliest. The bye will make it easier to get it done.
 
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Jorge Milian ‏@caneswatch Sep 21

Quick calculation: Al Golden is 3-7 vs. ranked teams 4 games into 4th season; Randy Shannon was 3-7 vs. Top 25 4 games into 4th season.
 
Barry Jackson @flasportsbuzz · Oct 4
UM loses 28-17. Since opening 7-0 last season, Miami has played 12 games and lost seven of them, all seven by double digits.
 
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### Gouged. Gutted. Gashed.

Pick whatever word you like. All of them will do to describe a UM defense that was dissected for 458 yards, including 345 on the ground. Of course, we’ve seen this nauseating story before, time and again, over the past three years.

As colleague Manny Navarro noted, UM has relinquished at least 200 yards rushing 15 --- 15! --- times since 2011. And four times since then, Miami has allowed 300-plus yards on the ground. Unacceptable.

Freshman Brad Kaaya’s splendid work again offered real hope for the future. But if you’re about the bottom line, these are the numbing numbers:

Of the last 10 games UM has played, the Hurricanes have lost six of them --- all by double figures. Braxton Berrios’ four-yard TD reception cut the margin to 10 with 18 seconds left, thus avoiding a sixth loss of 17 points or more since last November.

UM is now 1-16 in its last 17 road games against ranked teams.

Against schools from major conferences (even including the Big East), UM is 18-17 under Al Golden.

UM entered eighth in total defense, fourth in yards allowed per rush (2.0) and 35th in scoring defense, at 19.3 per game. But those stats --- built up against Louisville, Florida A&M and Arkansas State --- were obviously not reflective of this defense’s quality.

Yes, 24th-ranked Nebraska entered averaging the second-most yards per rushing attempt in the nation, behind Arkansas. But UM was simply overwhelmed by a physical offensive line, an elite running back (Ameer Abdullah) and a nimble quarterback (Tommy Armstrong).

Abdullah buffaloed for 229 yards on 35 carries and scored three touchdowns. Armstrong ran for 96 yards on 13 carries. He threw just 13 times, completing nine for 113 yards.

Defensive issues? Where do we start?

Calvin Heurtelou couldn’t shed blocks on at least a half dozen sizable gains and committed an offsides penalty on a third and five. Olsen Pierre and Courtel Jenkins were pushed aside on a number of plays. On several plays, the defensive ends couldn’t set the edge on runs to the perimeter. The linebackers and safeties weren’t helpful enough in run support.

Though Nebraska threw for only 113 yards, there was confusion between Ladarius Gunter and Jamal Carter on Kenny Bell’s 40-yard touchdown reception in the first quarter. Artie Burns was later beaten by Bell on a key 3rd and 11.

UM badly needed a stop when Nebraska got the ball with 13:30 left and the Cornhuskers leading by seven. Instead, this happened:

Armstrong faked out Darrion Owens for a 13-yard gain on an option play. Owens and Pierre, among others, were obliterated on a 26-yard run by Abdullah, and according to WQAM, Denzel Perryman wasn’t in the game on that play. Anthony Chickillo then chased Armstrong fruitlessly on a 15-yard gain, setting up a 39-yard Drew Brown field goal that padded the lead to 10.

### Nebraska averaged 6.4 yards per rush and was 7 of 10 on third down. There were only a few high-impact defensive plays by Miami, most notably Tracy Howard’s interception and a Deon Bush-forced fumble against Armstrong, with Chickillo recovering.

### Interesting that McNeese State allowed fewer points (31), fewer yards (437) and fewer rushing yards (195) against Nebraska than UM did.

### It’s regrettable that defensive tackle Michael Wyche, who this staff privately hoped would be an immediate starter, isn’t even playing because of conditioning issues.

### Al Golden's thoughts, on WQAM: "We turned it over too many times. [We allowed] too many yards on the ground. We gave up four big plays to Bell. The first one was an unforced error. No excuse. We didn't tackle well enough, didn't get off the field well enough on third down. We needed to play better on defense.

"[But] I didn't think it was too big for them. We are growing up. There are a lot of teams not playing these games. We played it and we came out of it healthy and have a chance to learn a lot and ignore everything else."
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while some of the kids are decommitting...honestly i think this would be the perfect time to gut the staff and get a competitent coach in.

Our mane needs on defense are still not addressed and I believe in my heart of hearts most of the kids currently committed would stick...
 
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DaU83 said:
will have no effect on whether he gets fired or not.. but go for it.
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I don't know why people think this way. Does the website by itself cause a coach to get fired? Of course not. But that's not the point.

All of this--the websites, the banners, the emails, the message boards, the alumni, the calls to talk-radio, the lack of attendance--it all builds up to a tipping point. We may not know where that point is, but it's there, and the more smoke that is created, the closer we get to fire.
 
I have no idea why people say banners and website hurt recruiting. In the last couple of weeks, a member of the board of trustees - these are the people who run the whole institution - said our players aren't very good, and, more recently, someone very close to the staff said our safeties basically suck. We have a staff and an administration that throws kids under the bus and trashes them in public - these are the same kids specifically recruited to play at UM - but people think fans who demand better hurt recruiting?

Why would a kid want to play at a school where the administration and coaching staff will say you suck after they've successfully recruited you to play at the school?
 
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