Fireside Chat w/ Your Beloved Legend

Excellent take @The Franchise.

One issue I have - Why the **** did it take us so long to come round to this sort of Offense. It's actually absurd how many years we wasted.
Short answer: Too many cooks in the kitchen working from grandma's old recipes. All the glory years alums were always in everyone's ears about "the Miami brand" and how it's pro style bro and all that nonsense. It got to be like USC and Baga only wanting to hire alums to coach there.
 
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Short answer: Too many cooks in the kitchen working from grandma's old recipes. All the glory years alums were always in everyone's ears about "the Miami brand" and how it's pro style bro and all that nonsense. It got to be like USC and Baga only wanting to hire alums to coach there.
That **** has done UNTOLD damage to our brand and football team.

Literally infuriating.

We move though.
 
Great post, as expected.

I’m praying when the season comes to an end King, Lashlee, and others look around and see that 2021 could be a NC-type season. Not that 2020 can’t be that magical, but if it isn’t, maybe, just maybe, an ‘Unfinished Business’ attitude carries over to retention instead of the usual departures. The Chief of Staff / Culture Coordinator could help...he’s been there, done that.

Add what appears to be a stellar 2021 recruiting class...

And...Clemson loses Lawrence after this season...
 
Great post, as expected.

I’m praying when the season comes to an end King, Lashlee, and others look around and see that 2021 could be a NC-type season. Not that 2020 can’t be that magical, but if it isn’t, maybe, just maybe, an ‘Unfinished Business’ attitude carries over to retention instead of the usual departures. The Chief of Staff / Culture Coordinator could help...he’s been there, done that.

Add what appears to be a stellar 2021 recruiting class...

And...Clemson loses Lawrence after this season...
2021 with KING & LASH back we would be pre season top 5 I'd have to think. If those 2 stay I'd expect everyone back.
 
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Great post, as expected.

I’m praying when the season comes to an end King, Lashlee, and others look around and see that 2021 could be a NC-type season. Not that 2020 can’t be that magical, but if it isn’t, maybe, just maybe, an ‘Unfinished Business’ attitude carries over to retention instead of the usual departures. The Chief of Staff / Culture Coordinator could help...he’s been there, done that.

Add what appears to be a stellar 2021 recruiting class...

And...Clemson loses Lawrence after this season...
I'd actually feel pretty good kicking off 2021 against Baga with King and Lash back. Without them, not so much. LOL.
 
2021 with KING & LASH back we would be pre season top 5 I'd have to think. If those 2 stay I'd expect everyone back.
There’s always players who family financial situations lead to an early attempt at the draft. I expect Phillips to leave. He’s experienced injuries, and nearly another one due to a cheap shot at Louisville.

But King and Lashlee are the keys. I’m not a scout, player, or coach, but I don’t see King as a high pick QB. He seems well-grounded and not the type to buy into agent false promises. Maybe, just maybe, he’ll realize spending 2021 chasing a NC is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and better than trying to make an NFL roster. 2022 is the year for the NFL dream.
 
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Here we go, boys! This team has some of that 2019 LSU feel to it. Same type of metamorphosis is going on in Coral Gables--a good defensive team that constantly languished in the Stone Ages on offense. Lash is our Joe Brady. King is our Burrow. We've actually got better talent at RB, and they had better talent to WR. But there's still that growing parallel.

Speaking of LSU, I tried to tell the dummies that they're not a great D and that they rode a wave last year. Where's that Youngstown valet, Bernie 2.0, who tried to tell me Bo Pelini was too good to come to UM? Fck Bo Pelini and his cats. And fck Youngstown and fck the Poops family and Eddie Retardolo. Pelini hasn't stopped anyone since Suh left Nebraska.

And where's my Orgeron *** suckers? LOL. Tried to tell you overreacting fools that LSU caught lightning in a bottle last year with Brady and Burrow. If King can continue progressing every week and cut down on some of those occasional lapses where he misses a wide open walk in TD, we have a shot at a magical run. Of course, as everyone already knows, the real test is in two weeks. If we go up to the Hayseed Hilton and **** the sheets, none of this matters. It'll be another Miami mirage, and it'll crash.

LOL at FSU. Decimating them like that was everything to me. People keep crying about 2020. Your Legend has never been happier. Then, there was Saturday night. Watching that fat **** traitor Lucas despondent and seemingly catatonic was like Viagra to me. That OL was was more putrid than microwaved chicken.

Seeing Blackman switch it off so blatantly gave me incredible blood flow.

Seeing that FSU DL gasping for air and wanting out by the 2nd quarter was gold. Seeing all mouth Wilson looking for an out by ducking his head and praying for a targeting call like a fat billy goat should have its own category on Pornhub.

I called my doctor for an erection that lasted longer than 4 hours watching that midget traitor Samuel laughing on the sideline down by 40.

Philosophy: Do everything you can to swallow all this in. Lashlee is a star in every sense of the word. He's a one and done guy unless he's holding on for a major P5 HC gig. If he'll take a Temple type gig, he's gone after this year. If King goes, there's no King walking through those doors any time soon. I'll use LSU again, but look at that stiff Brennan compare to Burrow. So, soak it in, and relish it, and don't waste the season nitpicking every little thing.

The hope is that a season like this gives the program the momentum I've been talking about. Play in the ACCCG. Sign a great class. Play in the ACCCG again, and sign a better class. Take the incremental steps that Clemson took. The only problem is that when you strike it big with an OC like Lashlee, you need to do it again right away. Clemson got lucky because Venables turned that program around, and he was too much of a spazz to be a HC. Now, he's become a Pud Foster lifer. Diaz needs to have a plan when it comes to that OC spot because this is exactly what this program has needed and exactly what I've been calling for for over a decade.

Pros: The number one pro is the pornography of seeing us humiliate, castrate and defenestrate FSU.

King. My beloved little Staffy Bull King is the elixir this parched fanbase has been waiting for. Instead of taking this gift and trying to force him into a decayed system, he's got the great Lashlee. Any chance we squeeze one more year out of this marriage? As good as it is this year, could you imagine year 2 with these two cold blooded killers together?

Best play was when he saw that fat ***** Wilson bearing down on him ready to flop all his dead useless weight on him, he didn't flinch. Stood in there like the tough guy he is and hit Wiggins for a long TD.

Lashlee. Stud. He gives me those old JJ swag vibes. I could imagine him red-faced in the locker room at half-time screaming "Don't let up!" over and over ala JJ when he was in the process of sodomizing Jerry Faust.

This dude gave zero fcks about glad handing FSU and easing up on them. He's out there throwing it in the endzone up by 35 with 5 minutes left. THAT IS MOTHERFCKING FOOTBALL!! That's what I live for and why I fell in love with football. The hate of rivals and the desire to choke the life out of them and then fck their lifeless corpses. I hate Boner Hayes, but I'll never forget when a reporter asked him why he went for 2 instead of kicking the PAT at the end of a game against Michigan that he had won, and Boner replied, "Because I couldn't go for 3." That is football.

Until Lash got here, our swag was fake. There was bluster, but it all seemed rehearsed, and it was just lip service. This dude gives us that real deal stuff.

Al Blades. This dude gets better every week. He's playing with confidence and juice.

DJ Ivey. Way to rally, dude. Our corners shut them down again like we did last year. They picked up some useless yards in the throw game, but it was Charlie Checkdown **** and garbage time yards outside of the 2 scripted series.

That 3 headed monster at RB is special. How about Duck Chaney? Anyone who thought he was soft based on HS stuff was dead wrong. He ran like a lion last night. He was looking to punish people. Reminds me of the people who were questioning Deon Bush's toughness, and then he got here and did nothing but sacrifice his body and bushwhack people.

Dee Wiggins loves buttfcking FSU. He's going to show up for a long TD every time we play those fazzits.

Big Ragu out there making plays in garbage time. That's what I want to see.

How about big Zion stepping in and Wally Pipping John Campbell. Haven't read the board, so I don't know what happened to Campbell, but this is what it looks like to have a few competent backup OL and a great OC and OL coach. Haven't that in forever.

Who's the guy who was trying to tell me Bubba Bolden isn't our best S? Not only is he our best S, but he's one of the best S in the country.

That loud "WHEW!!" you heard was from Knighton. He was almost another in the long line of S FL traitors who wound at one of those redneck dumpsters up north. Glad he came to his senses.

Cons: None really because we just beat FSU by a thousand points.

Things we can work on:

Harley looked like he turned it around, and then he starts dropping passes again.

Pope is an adventure on PR.

Love Phillips's emotion because that's why he goes as hard as he does. He's a driven kid. But he can't get kicked out against a good team.

Need more speed at LB. There is some of that on the team, but they must not trust those guys yet.

Still waiting for a big moment from Gurvan Hall.
Great post! By George, you've done it again!

Also, Bubba is not only our best D player right now, he is playing himself into the 1st round. We always talk about how we're TE U, but we're Safety U as well.

My deepest hope in regards to Lashlee is that he will hold on ONE more year for a primo, P5 job. Can't remember who's on the hotseat, but someone is and he'll get looks. Hopefully, he'll give us just one more year. Just one more...
 
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Great post! By George, you've done it again!

Also, Bubba is not only our best D player right now, he is playing himself into the 1st round. We always talk about how we're TE U, but we're Safety U as well.

My deepest hope in regards to Lashlee is that he will hold on ONE more year for a primo, P5 job. Can't remember who's on the hotseat, but someone is and he'll get looks. Hopefully, he'll give us just one more year. Just one more...
Bubba will be a great ambassador for our program like Colbert. To transfer here and flourish into a 1st round pick would be incredible for us.

Same hope with Lash. I think if it's going to happen it'll be a package deal with him and King. Either they both come back or they're both gone.
 
It would be nice if they could get a good OC, like Lashlee, and actually keep him around for a while. Pay him almost head coach money. Most of the money, with none of the headaches of being the head coach.
 
Here we go, boys! This team has some of that 2019 LSU feel to it. Same type of metamorphosis is going on in Coral Gables--a good defensive team that constantly languished in the Stone Ages on offense. Lash is our Joe Brady. King is our Burrow. We've actually got better talent at RB, and they had better talent to WR. But there's still that growing parallel.

Speaking of LSU, I tried to tell the dummies that they're not a great D and that they rode a wave last year. Where's that Youngstown valet, Bernie 2.0, who tried to tell me Bo Pelini was too good to come to UM? Fck Bo Pelini and his cats. And fck Youngstown and fck the Poops family and Eddie Retardolo. Pelini hasn't stopped anyone since Suh left Nebraska.

And where's my Orgeron *** suckers? LOL. Tried to tell you overreacting fools that LSU caught lightning in a bottle last year with Brady and Burrow. If King can continue progressing every week and cut down on some of those occasional lapses where he misses a wide open walk in TD, we have a shot at a magical run. Of course, as everyone already knows, the real test is in two weeks. If we go up to the Hayseed Hilton and **** the sheets, none of this matters. It'll be another Miami mirage, and it'll crash.

LOL at FSU. Decimating them like that was everything to me. People keep crying about 2020. Your Legend has never been happier. Then, there was Saturday night. Watching that fat **** traitor Lucas despondent and seemingly catatonic was like Viagra to me. That OL was was more putrid than microwaved chicken.

Seeing Blackman switch it off so blatantly gave me incredible blood flow.

Seeing that FSU DL gasping for air and wanting out by the 2nd quarter was gold. Seeing all mouth Wilson looking for an out by ducking his head and praying for a targeting call like a fat billy goat should have its own category on Pornhub.

I called my doctor for an erection that lasted longer than 4 hours watching that midget traitor Samuel laughing on the sideline down by 40.

Philosophy: Do everything you can to swallow all this in. Lashlee is a star in every sense of the word. He's a one and done guy unless he's holding on for a major P5 HC gig. If he'll take a Temple type gig, he's gone after this year. If King goes, there's no King walking through those doors any time soon. I'll use LSU again, but look at that stiff Brennan compare to Burrow. So, soak it in, and relish it, and don't waste the season nitpicking every little thing.

The hope is that a season like this gives the program the momentum I've been talking about. Play in the ACCCG. Sign a great class. Play in the ACCCG again, and sign a better class. Take the incremental steps that Clemson took. The only problem is that when you strike it big with an OC like Lashlee, you need to do it again right away. Clemson got lucky because Venables turned that program around, and he was too much of a spazz to be a HC. Now, he's become a Pud Foster lifer. Diaz needs to have a plan when it comes to that OC spot because this is exactly what this program has needed and exactly what I've been calling for for over a decade.

Pros: The number one pro is the pornography of seeing us humiliate, castrate and defenestrate FSU.

King. My beloved little Staffy Bull King is the elixir this parched fanbase has been waiting for. Instead of taking this gift and trying to force him into a decayed system, he's got the great Lashlee. Any chance we squeeze one more year out of this marriage? As good as it is this year, could you imagine year 2 with these two cold blooded killers together?

Best play was when he saw that fat ***** Wilson bearing down on him ready to flop all his dead useless weight on him, he didn't flinch. Stood in there like the tough guy he is and hit Wiggins for a long TD.

Lashlee. Stud. He gives me those old JJ swag vibes. I could imagine him red-faced in the locker room at half-time screaming "Don't let up!" over and over ala JJ when he was in the process of sodomizing Jerry Faust.

This dude gave zero fcks about glad handing FSU and easing up on them. He's out there throwing it in the endzone up by 35 with 5 minutes left. THAT IS MOTHERFCKING FOOTBALL!! That's what I live for and why I fell in love with football. The hate of rivals and the desire to choke the life out of them and then fck their lifeless corpses. I hate Boner Hayes, but I'll never forget when a reporter asked him why he went for 2 instead of kicking the PAT at the end of a game against Michigan that he had won, and Boner replied, "Because I couldn't go for 3." That is football.

Until Lash got here, our swag was fake. There was bluster, but it all seemed rehearsed, and it was just lip service. This dude gives us that real deal stuff.

Al Blades. This dude gets better every week. He's playing with confidence and juice.

DJ Ivey. Way to rally, dude. Our corners shut them down again like we did last year. They picked up some useless yards in the throw game, but it was Charlie Checkdown **** and garbage time yards outside of the 2 scripted series.

That 3 headed monster at RB is special. How about Duck Chaney? Anyone who thought he was soft based on HS stuff was dead wrong. He ran like a lion last night. He was looking to punish people. Reminds me of the people who were questioning Deon Bush's toughness, and then he got here and did nothing but sacrifice his body and bushwhack people.

Dee Wiggins loves buttfcking FSU. He's going to show up for a long TD every time we play those fazzits.

Big Ragu out there making plays in garbage time. That's what I want to see.

How about big Zion stepping in and Wally Pipping John Campbell. Haven't read the board, so I don't know what happened to Campbell, but this is what it looks like to have a few competent backup OL and a great OC and OL coach. Haven't that in forever.

Who's the guy who was trying to tell me Bubba Bolden isn't our best S? Not only is he our best S, but he's one of the best S in the country.

That loud "WHEW!!" you heard was from Knighton. He was almost another in the long line of S FL traitors who wound at one of those redneck dumpsters up north. Glad he came to his senses.

Cons: None really because we just beat FSU by a thousand points.

Things we can work on:

Harley looked like he turned it around, and then he starts dropping passes again.

Pope is an adventure on PR.

Love Phillips's emotion because that's why he goes as hard as he does. He's a driven kid. But he can't get kicked out against a good team.

Need more speed at LB. There is some of that on the team, but they must not trust those guys yet.

Still waiting for a big moment from Gurvan Hall.
Had me at defenestrate.
 
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It would be nice if they could get a good OC, like Lashlee, and actually keep him around for a while. Pay him almost head coach money. Most of the money, with none of the headaches of being the head coach.
Not always as easy as paying more. A winner like Lash wants to be a HC and run his own program. If the right offer comes, he's gone.
 
@The Franchise

I think we’ll be alright after King leaves. They are almost certain to take another Grad guy again and there’s no way a guy in a similar mold of King or even somebody like KJ Costello is going to look at this O and say “nah, I’m good”.
We'll find someone, but KJ Costello ain't no D'Eriq King. Not even close from the standpoint of the stress he puts on an opposing D. King is so special as a college QB.

I'm just going to enjoy this season, friend.
 
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Bubba will be a great ambassador for our program like Colbert. To transfer here and flourish into a 1st round pick would be incredible for us.

Same hope with Lash. I think if it's going to happen it'll be a package deal with him and King. Either they both come back or they're both gone.
Agreed. And, to add to that thought, I think if we get close this year AND scouts still need more tape from King, then I think both come back. If we make it to the playoffs, they are probably both gone, but I wouldn't blame them and I'll take it. Don't know who we'd go after for OC at that point, but at least Manny knows what to look for now.

The one caveat to that is if we get super close to playing for, or even close to winning, then they may have a chat with Ed Reed about returning for your senior season in order to make history. Ed coming back certainly didn't hurt his pro career.
 
Short answer: Too many cooks in the kitchen working from grandma's old recipes. All the glory years alums were always in everyone's ears about "the Miami brand" and how it's pro style bro and all that nonsense. It got to be like USC and Baga only wanting to hire alums to coach there.

What made us, eventually killed us

And the whole 'NFL U' thing was damaging over the long run, in my view
 
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