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How wide is the gap between Miami and the Elite?

We are not nearly as close as this boards posters would like to believe, but that is the case for every team if you ask their fans. We have some of the pieces, in some of the positions that are young. We are still multiple recruiting cycles and multiple seasons of development away from being better than any of the teams that were in the playoff this year.

We will likely be in the acc championship game again due to the ease of our schedule, but we are not even close to the best team in our conference.
 
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brock said:
Main difference between Miami and the playoff teams Is they have a suitable qb and we didn’t. Still was only 1 game away from the playoff with the team riddled by injuries
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You're right about how close we came, but we weren't going anywhere had we made it. The gap isn't 35 points consistently, but it's there and it's big enough that we probably weren't winning one playoff game and had no shot at winning 2. We just aren't built like a playoff team yet.
 
Hurricane23 said:
I honestly think we're closer than the 35-3 loss to Clemson, we just need a couple ballers in the front 7 and the secondary, we need Oline and a QB and I think we compete with anyone.
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No QB, No OL, and 2nd class RB unit. Switch our OL, QB and RBs with any "elite" team, like Clemson, Bama, UGA, OU, etc etc, and see how much of a gap there is. ****, just switch OL and QB, and we roll any opponent.

THAT is the gap. No QB, No OL, and Ill even give our RB unit a incomplete.
 
I think one of the biggest problems is the attrition rate. Specifically, the loss of marginal NFL prospects passing up their senior season for peanuts. Somehow, someway, this has to stop. Or, we are on a treadmill.
 
If you look at the program it feels like we have been young for decades now.
I think we have to get much better QB play. If Malik isn’t a stud at qb what does that say about his back up? That means we are relying on a redshirt freshman, senior, and true freshman qb next year. I also think the OL play is not elite. Don’t get it twisted though, they played a lot better last year as a whole than we had seen in years. It just isn’t elite. Additionally it doesn’t feel like we have depth in many places.
I think that the offseason development is going to be huuuuuuuge for us.
 
I don't think this season was a good barometer for a lot of reasons. When you are relying on Michael Irving II to win games, it's not a good sign. Rosier was never supposed to be the main engine of the offense. Imagine if Walton stays healthy, Homer gets lots of reps to keep Walton fresh, Dallas gets lots of looks from the slot, and AR82 is healthy. The OL might have looked a lot better with a power back (not taking away from Homer, but he wasn't much of an inside runner) and two game changers at wr. I'm almost forgiving of the clunky offense as the whole plan blew up in the beginning of the season so Richt had to make massive changes to his scheme.

I'm still far more disappointed in the Diaz defense, because I think the plan was always to run the ball, limit turnovers, not ask much of Rosier, and play elite defense. We found a semblance of a run game with a RB who barely had any carries going into the season, limited turnovers, and got way, way more out of Rosier than ever expected. Unfortunately, the defense was generally good, but not elite except in a couple of games. Defense was the one place without a lot of injuries, so they are the one aspect of the formula that didn't have an excuse for failure.
 
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Like many here, IMO, we are in this order from being a playoff team:

1. OL- Need OL that can open running lanes and keep a clean pocket

2. DT's - Not a knock on Big Mac and Norton, but 1 per class will never give us the depth needed. Need at least one 1st rounder each season on the line.

3. QB - One that can make all the passes and make plays when nothing is there.

3a. OC - Ok I know Richt thinks his offensive futility is because of 1 & 3, but Georgia admin and now many of us have seen that modern day play design and calling have long passed CMR by. It was frustrating, no! I was ****ed watching Georgia and Wisconsin, run/execute more diverse offenses. We need an OC that can modernize, increase effectiveness, speed up tempo, more formations/motion and be more clever with the play calling.

I love everything about this staff except the OC. I know he's not going to hire an OC, but to continue doing the same things and expecting different results is crazy.
 
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We all know what the differences between us and the elite are: depth and line play.

Our OL can't run the ball when we want to, and our DL, for all the hype that it got, still wasn't dominant when we needed them the most.

And the depth thing is obvious. We're moving DEs to TE because we only a have true freshman backing up our senior TE. We have three competent corners. We had to move a WR to RB once Walton went down. We're still two classes away from where we want to be.
 
SmokeyRone said:
Hurricane23 said:
I honestly think we're closer than the 35-3 loss to Clemson, we just need a couple ballers in the front 7 and the secondary, we need Oline and a QB and I think we compete with anyone.
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No QB, No OL, and 2nd class RB unit. Switch our OL, QB and RBs with any "elite" team, like Clemson, Bama, UGA, OU, etc etc, and see how much of a gap there is. ****, just switch OL and QB, and we roll any opponent.

THAT is the gap. No QB, No OL, and Ill even give our RB unit a incomplete.
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The gap is also elite DT, elite CB.
 
It’s a gap but it’s also not as wide as people are making it seem either.
 
Honestly there is nothing wrong with a few kids who won't ever play anything other than special teams pwo type players.

All 85 can't be starters and for whatever reason kids don't want to stay at Miami if they not playing.
 
skyman said:
Hurricane23 said:
I honestly think we're closer than the 35-3 loss to Clemson, we just need a couple ballers in the front 7 and the secondary, we need Oline and a QB and I think we compete with anyone.
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Cotdam, basically a whole new defense, and dam near half a offense.. lol
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Lol I’d say about 3-4 more elite players on both sides of the ball from being elite. So about 6-8 more elite players total from being elite, that’s not bad.
 
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