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This is one of the most important aspects going forward Richt must improve. Hate to say it but this team was pretty dumb!!
 
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SBAMACANE said:
This is one of the most important aspects going forward Richt must improve. Hate to say it but this team was pretty dumb!!
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When your coaches don't have high football IQ, do you really expect your players to have that?
Just upgrading the coaching staff will improve players football IQ instantaneously.
 
Southcane said:
SBAMACANE said:
This is one of the most important aspects going forward Richt must improve. Hate to say it but this team was pretty dumb!!
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When your coaches don't have high football IQ, do you really expect your players to have that?
Just upgrading the coaching staff will improve players football IQ instantaneously.
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Sure, it's on the coaches, too. Too many false starts, too many dumb fouls, tired of kick offs out of bounds, etc.
 
Players do what they are coached up to do within the limits of their respective offensive and defensive systems. Dumb to call our players dumb when you watch the OC run trick plays in a snow storm on three consecutive possessions including inside your opponent's 30 yard line.
 
Bennubird said:
Players do what they are coached up to do within the limits of their respective offensive and defensive systems. Dumb to call our players dumb when you watch the OC run trick plays in a snow storm on three consecutive possessions including inside your opponent's 30 yard line.
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Really? we lead the country in penalties!! That is pretty bad.................#125 !!!!!!!!
 
Don't get me wrong the coaches suck, big time but the bone headed play has got to stop game 1, next year!!
 
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Corches or not, it is hard to describe or understand what Waters was thinking. Coley scores if Waters high tails it and runs to the first row of the stands. And to do it right in front of a linesman who is staring down the play makes you scratch your head even more.
 
SBAMACANE said:
Bennubird said:
Players do what they are coached up to do within the limits of their respective offensive and defensive systems. Dumb to call our players dumb when you watch the OC run trick plays in a snow storm on three consecutive possessions including inside your opponent's 30 yard line.
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Really? we lead the country in penalties!! That is pretty bad.................#125 !!!!!!!!
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Indeed. Bad coaching. Well coached teams don't make those mistakes. Saban or Meyer or Dantonio coached teams avoid those errors because of how they prepare. Ultimately the coach is a teacher and also responsible for the performance of the team. My previous statement was to point up the fact that our coaches are terrible in almost every aspect of what they do. Let me give you an example of how coaching even impacts false starts. I coached youngsters and we always went on set. No false starts. Another team in our organization tried to extend the snap count and was constantly going backwards and complaining to our staff about his kids. The problem was coaching. Adjust what you do to the kids you coach. Stop having them come to the line, get set, come out of their stance, get re-set, if they can't do it. That simple.
 
Football IQ does not work without IQ. Some of our players seem to be really dumb. The Oliner diving for the knees resulting in a loss of 80 yards or the Waters play that wiped out the td are examples for that, just unnecessary and scary dumb.
 
Miami has always been tasked with overcoming the established football world in order to win championships. They've used every trick in the book in order to keep Miami in its "rightful" place (there are countless examples of this). I say all that to say that we have enough garbage to deal with for these mental breakdowns to keep happening. Players everywhere make bone headed decisions, but this team, even while having success, constantly gets in its own way. At some point this goes beyond coaching and goes directly to what YOU are all about. Unfortunately, this is the first thing people think about when they hear The U.
 
Let's be honest, even during the glory days, we had a problem with discipline.The talent disparity was so great that we were able to overcome the lack of discipline most of the time. This isn't a new or just a "golden" issue, this something that may go to SFL high school (just throwing that out there for discussion). And yes, Saban, Dantonio, etc. teams do make dumb decisions too, but just not as much.
 
The median IQ of this team hovers around 85. Richt better be ready to deal with the Miami public school and ghetto banana republic kids he will be recruiting.
 
one of Al's signature monikers, FBI, football intelligence, and his tenure is defined by teams that were at the level of a retarded goat
 
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I'm glad I invested barely any attention to this game and played golf instead of watching it live. I watched the tape early tonight without knowing the result.

I never thought we would pull it out, even though that opponent was next to nothing and ready to be had, especially since we had the wind in the 4th quarter. Gary Danielson is always an astute analyst. He described perfectly that Washington State had pulled out a number of razor close last second games and otherwise their season could have been radically different. We handed them another one. Even our thin mediocre defense didn't have much trouble with their flimsy one-dimensional offense after the first drive.

Regardless, the entire game from our side reminded me of Dade Countyitis. Stupid undisciplined football, delivering far less than physical ability suggests. I had the feeling we could have had 45 interceptions in our hands and dropped every single one of them. We wasted all three second half time outs. Not one of them helped us at all. I love the checkdown passes on 4th and long and third and long. Has Braad Kaaya been studying tapes of Ryan Tannehill?

I have sympathy for Artie Burns and his family situation but I won't be sad to see him depart. Blame the good players. Fine. I'll be happy to. His game is on skates. We've been fragile and thin and on skates for too long. I want wiry guys who make the unlikely play, not throw their hands up in despair time and again. Washington State had a pathetic high field goal snap but Burns barely rushed so he missed his opportunity off the edge. Naturally he threw his hands to his helmet after that situation also, once he sensed what happened.

As I've long emphasized, everything tends to drift back to the beginning. Just after we score to get back into the game, our kickoff guy remembers that early season skill of yanking it left and out of bounds.

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This deserves special mention. The Canes once again upheld a trend that has been well known in Las Vegas for decades. For 30 years our offense has been figured out and shut down in bowl games, far beyond the projections going in. It began in that 1985 season against Tennessee in the Sugar Bowl. We were 7.5 point favorites and scored exactly 7. Since that stage we've scored more than the estimate only a handful of times. Even in some of our big bowl wins like 1987 against Oklahoma and 1988 and 1991 against Nebraska we scored far less than the spread/total projection and therefore the one-team total. For example, let's say you are a 3 point favorite and the total is 51. That aligns with a projection of 27-24. There are numerous sportsbooks and offshore sites that deal the one-team totals. Miami's over/under for points scored is 27. This has been going on for decades. It's always exactly the spinoff of the spread and total, although that will never prevent some genius conventional wisdom simpletons from trying to claim that a spread and total are not an actual prediction of the outcome, but merely to balance action.

I have one loud mouthed friend in Las Vegas who always says that the one impossible combination in bowl game betting is Canes and over. It can't happen because Miami will never score enough to match their one-team total, let alone go far enough above to drag the entire game total over. He knows it bugs me but he doesn't care because it's so devastatingly accurate.

The last time Miami went over the one-team total in a bowl game was the 37-14 Rose Bowl victory over Nebraska by the great 2001 team. We were projected to score 33 and had 34 at halftime before finishing with 37 after an offensively lazy second half. Then a few years later we came close, scoring 27 in the victory over Florida, just beneath the one-team total of 27.5.

In every subsequent bowl game the Canes have not managed their one-team total and only occasionally is it remotely close. We fell a few points shy against Nevada. None of the recent ones have threatened. In fact, I'm sure I'll hear from my Las Vegas buddy again tomorrow. I'm surprised it hasn't happened already. He never fails to rub it in after cashing on that trend again. No other team in the country has that type of long term bowl game tendency, whether it's scoring higher than projected or lower.
 
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YES & THAT'S WHY THE OFFICIALS COME INTO EVERY GAME JUST LOOKING FOR THE SAME STUPID MISTAKES THAT THE TEAM MAKES OVER & OVER! 105 yds! TWO TD's called back!! Would have won the game. Goodbye to this staff.

SBAMACANE said:
Bennubird said:
Players do what they are coached up to do within the limits of their respective offensive and defensive systems. Dumb to call our players dumb when you watch the OC run trick plays in a snow storm on three consecutive possessions including inside your opponent's 30 yard line.
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Really? we lead the country in penalties!! That is pretty bad.................#125 !!!!!!!!
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Awsi Dooger said:
I'm glad I invested barely any attention to this game and played golf instead of watching it live. I watched the tape early tonight without knowing the result.

I never thought we would pull it out, even though that opponent was next to nothing and ready to be had, especially since we had the wind in the 4th quarter. Gary Danielson is always an astute analyst. He described perfectly that Washington State had pulled out a number of razor close last second games and otherwise their season could have been radically different. We handed them another one. Even our thin mediocre defense didn't have much trouble with their flimsy one-dimensional offense after the first drive.

Regardless, the entire game from our side reminded me of Dade Countyitis. Stupid undisciplined football, delivering far less than physical ability suggests. I had the feeling we could have had 45 interceptions in our hands and dropped every single one of them. We wasted all three second half time outs. Not one of them helped us at all. I love the checkdown passes on 4th and long and third and long. Has Braad Kaaya been studying tapes of Ryan Tannehill?

I have sympathy for Artie Burns and his family situation but I won't be sad to see him depart. Blame the good players. Fine. I'll be happy to. His game is on skates. We've been fragile and thin and on skates for too long. I want wiry guys who make the unlikely play, not throw their hands up in despair time and again. Washington State had a pathetic high field goal snap but Burns barely rushed so he missed his opportunity off the edge. Naturally he threw his hands to his helmet after that situation also, once he sensed what happened.

As I've long emphasized, everything tends to drift back to the beginning. Just after we score to get back into the game, our kickoff guy remembers that early season skill of yanking it left and out of bounds.

***

This deserves special mention. The Canes once again upheld a trend that has been well known in Las Vegas for decades. For 30 years our offense has been figured out and shut down in bowl games, far beyond the projections going in. It began in that 1985 season against Tennessee in the Sugar Bowl. We were 7.5 point favorites and scored exactly 7. Since that stage we've scored more than the estimate only a handful of times. Even in some of our big bowl wins like 1987 against Oklahoma and 1988 and 1991 against Nebraska we scored far less than the spread/total projection and therefore the one-team total. For example, let's say you are a 3 point favorite and the total is 51. That aligns with a projection of 27-24. There are numerous sportsbooks and offshore sites that deal the one-team totals. Miami's over/under for points scored is 27. This has been going on for decades. It's always exactly the spinoff of the spread and total, although that will never prevent some genius conventional wisdom simpletons from trying to claim that a spread and total are not an actual prediction of the outcome, but merely to balance action.

I have one loud mouthed friend in Las Vegas who always says that the one impossible combination in bowl game betting is Canes and over. It can't happen because Miami will never score enough to match their one-team total, let alone go far enough above to drag the entire game total over. He knows it bugs me but he doesn't care because it's so devastatingly accurate.

The last time Miami went over the one-team total in a bowl game was the 37-14 Rose Bowl victory over Nebraska by the great 2001 team. We were projected to score 33 and had 34 at halftime before finishing with 37 after an offensively lazy second half. Then a few years later we came close, scoring 27 in the victory over Florida, just beneath the one-team total of 27.5.

In every subsequent bowl game the Canes have not managed their one-team total and only occasionally is it remotely close. We fell a few points shy against Nevada. None of the recent ones have threatened. In fact, I'm sure I'll hear from my Las Vegas buddy again tomorrow. I'm surprised it hasn't happened already. He never fails to rub it in after cashing on that trend again. No other team in the country has that type of long term bowl game tendency, whether it's scoring higher than projected or lower.
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So Miami won't go over in a bowl game because the 1985 team didn't? Guys that are in the 50s now?
 
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