Getting back to being D-LINE U

[Speedzone Recruits]

I remember when Miami was a problem for most offenses their defense was built from inside out. UM wasn't know for having quote on quote shut down def backs. It was always the interior that fortified the defense with exceptional LB play. Focus on recruiting not 5 star athletes but athletes who can fit that scheme that they run and look in them areas that people don't recruit at because that is where you find them hidden gems. Also Jermaine Grace is that guy who can be the next jesse armstead he is fast and move sideline to sideline. From what i see that D-line is not durable to last 4 quarters. Target the recruiting on the less high profile players and go after your blue collar guys who wanna run through brick walls for the program.

 

[nystateofmind]

Wait...what?

 

[Gamineal]

I remember when Miami was a problem for most offenses their defense was built from inside out. UM wasn't know for having quote on quote shut down def backs. It was always the interior that fortified the defense with exceptional LB play. Focus on recruiting not 5 star athletes but athletes who can fit that scheme that they run and look in them areas that people don't recruit at because that is where you find them hidden gems. Also Jermaine Grace is that guy who can be the next jesse armstead he is fast and move sideline to sideline. From what i see that D-line is not durable to last 4 quarters. Target the recruiting on the less high profile players and go after your blue collar guys who wanna run through brick walls for the program.

There is no players on this team even remotely close to Jessie Armstead.....if he was even close he would be playing or standing out in special teams....
The reality is Dallas Crawford is our best tackler on the team, he proves it week in week out on Special teams, hat should tell you our future right there...

Miami's special teams always spawned our best players aka Coley this year...if Grace was this good we would see like we did EJ last year...the guy was all over the ball my money is more on Figs ......I see no hope for the D line for the next 2 years for what we all are looking for...MAYBE one of the fros from this year will get that much better and MAYBE a guy coming in is just that good....we need some luck for sure

 

[Gatorhater]

I agree with going back to D-Line U. The difference between Miami and schools like FSU was our DT's vs theirs. Noles had great DEs, LBs, and DBs. We had Cortez, Russell, Jerome .... We eliminated the option from college football because our great DTs shut down the middle, collapsed the center of the oline and pocket. No FB dive, no QB draw, no inside the tackle runs, not time to check down, no time to breath before pain arrived on you chest. Teams would run wide, not because they thought the could beat our speed, cause they could not, but because they had to or be eaten. Jessie, Smith and Barrow were outstanding LBs, but life was easy for them because no 300 lb guard or center was anywhere near them as they launched toward a RB that was smiling to have just escaped the paws of a grizzly bear. Disruptive DTs equals better LBs, corners and safeties. We are not back until you see a center land on his QBs and some beats with a number in the 90's growling over them. Then We Back.

 

[ball915]

Jethro Franklin will not allow this to happen. Cosigned by Mark D'Onfrio

 

[Dandycane]

I agree with going back to D-Line U. The difference between Miami and schools like FSU was our DT's vs theirs. Noles had great DEs, LBs, and DBs. We had Cortez, Russell, Jerome .... We eliminated the option from college football because our great DTs shut down the middle, collapsed the center of the oline and pocket. No FB dive, no QB draw, no inside the tackle runs, not time to check down, no time to breath before pain arrived on you chest. Teams would run wide, not because they thought the could beat our speed, cause they could not, but because they had to or be eaten. Jessie, Smith and Barrow were outstanding LBs, but life was easy for them because no 300 lb guard or center was anywhere near them as they launched toward a RB that was smiling to have just escaped the paws of a grizzly bear. Disruptive DTs equals better LBs, corners and safeties. We are not back until you see a center land on his QBs and some beats with a number in the 90's growling over them. Then We Back.

We eliminated the option from CFB? Nobody reminded Nebraska
of that fact in the mid 90s

 

[ball915]

I agree with going back to D-Line U. The difference between Miami and schools like FSU was our DT's vs theirs. Noles had great DEs, LBs, and DBs. We had Cortez, Russell, Jerome .... We eliminated the option from college football because our great DTs shut down the middle, collapsed the center of the oline and pocket. No FB dive, no QB draw, no inside the tackle runs, not time to check down, no time to breath before pain arrived on you chest. Teams would run wide, not because they thought the could beat our speed, cause they could not, but because they had to or be eaten. Jessie, Smith and Barrow were outstanding LBs, but life was easy for them because no 300 lb guard or center was anywhere near them as they launched toward a RB that was smiling to have just escaped the paws of a grizzly bear. Disruptive DTs equals better LBs, corners and safeties. We are not back until you see a center land on his QBs and some beats with a number in the 90's growling over them. Then We Back.

We eliminated the option from CFB? Nobody reminded Nebraska
of that fact in the mid 90s

um, go watch the 08 Canes at GTech on a Thursday night…..

 

[Port Knox]

WHAT ABOUT ME???????

 

[Awsi Dooger]

I agree with going back to D-Line U. The difference between Miami and schools like FSU was our DT's vs theirs. Noles had great DEs, LBs, and DBs. We had Cortez, Russell, Jerome .... We eliminated the option from college football because our great DTs shut down the middle, collapsed the center of the oline and pocket. No FB dive, no QB draw, no inside the tackle runs, not time to check down, no time to breath before pain arrived on you chest. Teams would run wide, not because they thought the could beat our speed, cause they could not, but because they had to or be eaten. Jessie, Smith and Barrow were outstanding LBs, but life was easy for them because no 300 lb guard or center was anywhere near them as they launched toward a RB that was smiling to have just escaped the paws of a grizzly bear. Disruptive DTs equals better LBs, corners and safeties. We are not back until you see a center land on his QBs and some beats with a number in the 90's growling over them. Then We Back.

We eliminated the option from CFB? Nobody reminded Nebraska
of that fact in the mid 90s

Exactly. Tom Osborne didn't panic. Reporters were literally laughing at him after the press conference following the 22-0 Orange Bowl loss to the Canes in the 1991 season. Osborne insisted it wasn't the offense it was the personnel, that Nebraska was on the right track but needed more talent and speed upgrades, particularly on the line of scrimmage. He was 100% correct and it paid off with a devastating run including trounces of Florida and Tennessee in title years, and the bullying of the Canes in the 4th quarter in 1994. If that game had extended we fall further behind. It wasn't close physically once Sapp's magic wore out.

Apparently lots of fans want to pretend that era never happened, that when we defeated Okahoma between 1985 and 1987 three times due to markedly superior rosters that the option disappeared completely. Frankly, Nebraska was idiotic to get away from that offense a decade ago. It's really paid off, with all the 4-loss seasons.