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From Quality Inn, my thoughts on the SMU loss..

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Cribby said:
I’m actually intrigued to see how hardheaded Mario is . What level of insanity does he live in? UL could’ve been viewed as a fluke in his head , well this is two out of three with the same issues . Will he adjust things or just beat his brains into smithereens to end the season? If nothing changes next week from roster / rotations , formations , game planning and handling of situational I might check out completely .
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Mario’s changed coordinators, but you are asking him to look in the mirror and create a paradigm shift that starts with him. Again, possible, but I wouldn’t bet the rent money on it. I think it’s relatively easy to go from lousy to good, but tough to go from good to great, to be a perennial top 5/10 team.
 
nvlahos said:
Interesting point.

He also saw Nick Saban constantly bring in top Modern minded OCs (Sark, Lane,etc.) who had fast and physical offenses.

It’s mind blowing he doesn’t model that success
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It's why I ask if maybe his biggest influence in his career is Schiano,are his teams similar to mario's?
 
Odin said:
Nope,regular folk but what I mean is the average cuban is as ****ed and over cristobal as the rest of the fan base.From what I read here and other places it's the Colombus Mafia/Cartel with deep pockets that brought him,very few but filthy rich that will only support a cuban coach.Our last 2 coaches are the only 2 cuban head coaches in college football,I'm sure it's just a coincidence we hired them back to back and apparently they won't give the same support to an outsider.
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Thank you for saying it out loud
 
k9cane said:
OK, so Im back at my room at Quality Inn -- which isn't the highest quality, but not the lowest quality place I've ever stayed at. It's actually decent quality for what I need this weekend (a place to be keep my stuff inside and take a shower). Im sure by now you've heard every opinion/statement on Miami's loss to SMU. Since some of you asked, you shall receive...

- Forget the loss today, it goes beyond that. There are deeper seeded problems with this program and Cristobal. I'll say this again, the way he approaches football(pace, tempo spacing and game management) lends itself to Miami being in closer games than they should regardless of the talent advantage. It's no coincidence.

It's why UM has lost four ACC games since last November as a double-digit favorite. That's telling. Ask yourself this you don't think Rhett Lashlee wouldn't trade rosters with Cristobal?

I'll say this again, as a superior team with more athletes, you want to EXTEND the game not shorten it. You WANT more plays, not less. Miami plays offense at times like it's not allowed to hit big plays but has to play one first down at a time. Today, SMU didn't move the ball consistently, but they set up shot plays.

Mario is good at many things, he has actually moved this program forward in many aspects. But will he recruit well enough to overcome his own defiencies as a game day coach. Today was one of the worst performances I have ever seen on the sideline. From taking timeouts just as plays were moving on, and then insisting on being physical instead of productive offensively

We have Olivia Newton John as our coach -- he wants to get FYZYCAL!!'

Personally, Id like to score a lot more points early and THEN be that later in games. Sometimes I wonder if Cristobal believes all games are meant to be won 24-21. I don't believe Miami is getting rid of Mario any time soon. It is what it is. My question is can be evolve or just play the CEO role with elite coordinators in place?

- the officiating was mind-boggling at times. But again, that's why you try and blow teams out so that a few calls don't impact you that much

- this years O-line is severely overrated. Too many short yardage situations where they dont get push and waaaay too many penalties. Ive never seen a unit with so many pre-snap infractions

- Jojo Trader flashed. But his bobble-turned-INT turned the momentum. That play and the offensive PI on the Alex Bauman catch deep in SMU territory were big

- I dont know who Miami's next QB will be but I'd like a real dual threat with some twitch and athleticism. The way Miami plays offense it's like you need a guy who can bail you out with a big scramble here and there, and be a consistent threat at the mesh point.

- Finally here's what stood out to me at the game. As I was sitting in the 221 section of Ford Stadium, I looked around and the Miami fans were bored to death in the middle of this game. Miami simply isn't a very entertaining and exciting team. It's a reflection of the coaching philosophy at play. As Im seeing the other scores, it dawned on me that I was missing out on a lot of other good games.

After today, Mario has lost the fan base. Perhaps he can get it back. But this is now 6 losses as a double-digit favorite for Cristobal as the head coach at Miami. That speaks for itself.
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to the bolded....this the first year in al ong time i have deleted EVERY DVR games of this szn and have not done one re watch of any of our games because none of our games are actually enjoyable to watch whatsoever.

The philosophy of fear and playing not to lose has seaped into the entire offense. Could you imagine none of our rbs know what to do at the second level because they seldom get there or get any space...we arent breaking 20 yd runs and we run not much tempo whatsoever...teams on defense dont play on their heels against us they play moving full speed forward pressing the action. Every drive we waste downs with certain pays ..thats a consistent...this is why the pre snap penalties are killers because mario/dawson offense is based off getting 4 yards at a time,....smh
 
TemplarCane said:
I would be curious to know why Mario left Alabama during a multiple-NC run for a lateral move to Oregon.

Or did Nick Saban fire him? He raves about Mario's recruiting ability but the Alabama machine kept right on humming after Mario left.
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Calinative said:
It's worse than just that. Not only is that the case but they employ a run philosophy and general passing attack that doesn't even hope for an explosive play. The entire offensive game plan quite literally is to pick up 3ypc running and like 6yds through the air on 15-20play drives. Not a lot of ******* wiggle room for the QB to make a mistake.

Secondly they then treat every ******* turnover ONLY BY THE QB as some signal from God that they MUST get even more conservative. Isn't it funny though how when a RB fumbles they don't get conservative in the aspect of taking that RB out of the game for a few drives, do they? No they put that ************ right back in the game. But when the QB throws a pick - even if it isn't the QBs fault AT ALL like in this case where jojo drops it - they immediately panic and go uh oh now we can't throw the ball 10+ yards anymore cause of that 1 play.

Quite literally of EVERY DRIVE Mario just told Dawson "Be Very aggressive and try to score as many points as possible" I'm confident we'd be undefeated right now.
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Beck must be awful in practice. It’s the only logical conclusion.
 
Odin said:
I will never understand how Mario played at miami when he did,in the offenses that he played and has the philosophy he does.He played here under Erickson and came back to coach when we had Santana,Wayne,Andre,Scockeyt,Bubba,Winslow.When he was at Bama they had incredible game breaking wrs and would run and throw all over teams.Where the **** did he develop this stubborn run up the middle against 11,shorten the game **** at?Maybe he got it all his years with Schiano.
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he only coached like one year with lane kiffin other tan that bamas offense was just as boring an not creative.which is why he likes this sh*t thats where he learned this b.s....
 
gogeta4 said:
to the bolded....this the first year in al ong time i have deleted EVERY DVR games of this szn and have not done one re watch of any of our games because none of our games are actually enjoyable to watch whatsoever.

The philosophy of fear and playing not to lose has seaped into the entire offense. Could you imagine none of our rbs know what to do at the second level because they seldom get there or get any space...we arent breaking 20 yd runs and we run not much tempo whatsoever...teams on defense dont play on their heels against us they play moving full speed forward pressing the action. Every drive we waste downs with certain pays ..thats a consistent...this is why the pre snap penalties are killers because mario/dawson offense is based off getting 4 yards at a time,....smh
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agree 100%. Mario even made the ND, FSU and UF games boring.

Our talent was clearly shining in those games and we were ready to break things open, but good ol Mario got in the way to slow things down to a hault
 
Cribby said:
I’m actually intrigued to see how hardheaded Mario is . What level of insanity does he live in? UL could’ve been viewed as a fluke in his head , well this is two out of three with the same issues . Will he adjust things or just beat his brains into smithereens to end the season? If nothing changes next week from roster / rotations , formations , game planning and handling of situational I might check out completely .
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Took 4 straight losses before Richt adjusted for Kaayas lack of mobility. I don’t have a lot of confidence Mario fixes the issues. And the reality is it is far too late to do anything about being so heavily penalized. That is taken care of before the season. Not going to fix it now.

Nor is he benching Beck. He should sit him as he needs to evaluate Nickel. Otherwise we’re in the same predicament next season. Beck **** the bed enough. Dont need Beck on the field to run a conservative offense.
 
Cribby said:
I’m actually intrigued to see how hardheaded Mario is . What level of insanity does he live in? UL could’ve been viewed as a fluke in his head , well this is two out of three with the same issues . Will he adjust things or just beat his brains into smithereens to end the season? If nothing changes next week from roster / rotations , formations , game planning and handling of situational I might check out completely .
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Nothing will change. And you know it.

To change requires an understanding of what's wrong. Mario has no idea of that.
 
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Cribby said:
The losing isn’t bad enough it’s the losing and watching a caveman beating his head in the wall offensively. Playing this pace with no explosives leaves you no wiggle room for penalties or errors . Today was as bad of a Mario coached game since maybe MTSU. It looked like a total **** show at times . Right down to 13 attaching the ball at the 10 kicking it into the End zone . The most simple things but this teams ***.
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You adapt or you die. Mario can recruit, but he has absolutely lost the fan base and needs to let Dawson have complete control of the offense. He won’t and this will be what we deal with for about 3-5 years until maybe someone puts us out of our mystery
 
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