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I have good news and bad news

umfire2005 said:
I used to be on Shadow’s board a lot. I went to my first home game this year. I am commenting on personnel.

Good news:

We have improved on the lines. No question. You’d expect Mario to do that and he has—mostly.

Borregales is an excellent kicker.

Mark Fletcher played well. He’s going to be very good.

LB corps had a rough day but can see growth there. Wes needs to be told where to line up constantly

Bad News:

We lack and have lacked difference makers for 20 years. We have ONE, Reuben Bain. He’s a freshman, he’s played a ton of snaps and is still our best DL. Great teams have 3 or 4.

See above on DL, Harrison hunte is playing well but other than that we could be wake forest.

Our RBs are slow. No other notes. 2 or 3 times today there were holes where excellent fast running backs get 40+ and we got 8-12 yards.

Our WRs are barely above average. Young is the one with the highest ceiling but the separation was pretty minimal. Restrepo is above average but is so athletically deficient that he makes defenses bend but not break

Our DBs aren’t fast enough to be this middling technique wise.

Safeties — woof. Kinchens gambles. When he guesses right he makes the interception. When he doesn’t he’s a pretty slow pretty small safety. JW… decent. That’s it. Average.

None of this attempts to describe the horror show that is Cristobal’s game day management.
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I remember you UMFire. Welcome
 
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Alex Del Piero said:
What the **** is a shadow board
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Miami-Hurricanes.com.

@skeeter used to be be part fo that group.

Heyday was circa 2003-2010ish.. The. started dying off.

Some of the best posters ever were part of that board. Took a huge hit when Laus03 (Josh Giggey) passed. He was the LCE of that board. Imagine LCE's knowledge of ball with Dmoney's recruiting acumen.

Shadow was the name of the main dude ( he was the Dmoney of the site) and had some good connects. Very little foolishness, real ball talk.

Eventually lack of maintanence and the rise of canesinisght killed off the board.

Good times for sure.
 
umfire2005 said:
I used to be on Shadow’s board a lot. I went to my first home game this year. I am commenting on personnel.

Good news:

We have improved on the lines. No question. You’d expect Mario to do that and he has—mostly.

Borregales is an excellent kicker.

Mark Fletcher played well. He’s going to be very good.

LB corps had a rough day but can see growth there. Wes needs to be told where to line up constantly

Bad News:

We lack and have lacked difference makers for 20 years. We have ONE, Reuben Bain. He’s a freshman, he’s played a ton of snaps and is still our best DL. Great teams have 3 or 4.

See above on DL, Harrison hunte is playing well but other than that we could be wake forest.

Our RBs are slow. No other notes. 2 or 3 times today there were holes where excellent fast running backs get 40+ and we got 8-12 yards.

Our WRs are barely above average. Young is the one with the highest ceiling but the separation was pretty minimal. Restrepo is above average but is so athletically deficient that he makes defenses bend but not break

Our DBs aren’t fast enough to be this middling technique wise.

Safeties — woof. Kinchens gambles. When he guesses right he makes the interception. When he doesn’t he’s a pretty slow pretty small safety. JW… decent. That’s it. Average.

None of this attempts to describe the horror show that is Cristobal’s game day management.
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Shadows board takes me back...shadow, Laus03, bigbluecane, skeeter etc, nole80 etc. those were the days. I remember back in 2002 there were people on that board saying things weren't right with our program and I thought to myself these people are nuts were on the verge of winning back 2 back national championships. Turns out in the coming years I would see how right they were and we've been mediocre at best every since. Those guys on that board saw our downfall coming smh
 
Seems like the speed at RB and WR's is in the freshman class. I'm surprised, but then again not, that they haven't tried to get Johnson in the game more. He should still be able to RS if he plays against BC. I'd think he'd be deadly on wheel routes against LB's, but that might be too creative.
 
Number1CanesFan said:
We need to continue to recruit at a high level.

It is mind boggling that schools with recruiting rankings in the 30's - 40's are competitive and some even better than our team.

As I've said previously, other schools do more with less, and we do less with more.
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Could be the difference between football player and athlete.
 
Number1CanesFan said:
Not entirely true. Mauigoa and Flagg lack speed in coverage. Cloyd can run and just about all the young LBs can run. It isn't like we need to go out and get fast LBs. They're already on the team. They're just young and haven't played other than special teams.

TE is also in good shape speed wise. For whatever reason they don’t play Skinner. Arroyo can run, but he's injured, and Riley Williams has + speed at his position.

CB needs to continue recruiting speed. I think we have a couple of young guys with speed.

I definitely would like to see an athletic QB. The guys with speed at WR don't play.

I agree speed needs to be a priority in recruiting certain positions. We need guys that scare the opposition.
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Skinner has a massive issue hanging onto the ball. Combine that with his weight and he isn’t seeing the field.
 
Udynasty said:
Miami-Hurricanes.com.

@skeeter used to be be part fo that group.

Heyday was circa 2003-2010ish.. The. started dying off.

Some of the best posters ever were part of that board. Took a huge hit when Laus03 (Josh Giggey) passed. He was the LCE of that board. Imagine LCE's knowledge of ball with Dmoney's recruiting acumen.

Shadow was the name of the main dude ( he was the Dmoney of the site) and had some good connects. Very little foolishness, real ball talk.

Eventually lack of maintanence and the rise of canesinisght killed off the board.

Good times for sure.
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Good times is an understatement.
 
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