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In my exile, the burning bush spoke to me....

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Gatorhater said:
OP is correct about QB. Must have Miami quality QB. That and our DTs were the difference between us and the rest. Kelly and Vinny were elite. Bernie and Steve had elite brains. All those coaches was important, but you left out the biggest one. Earl Morrall, RIP, was volunteer QB coach for Howard who touched Kelly, Bernie and Vinny. After him, we dropped a notch. Craig, Gino and Ken certainly had plenty of help but I would take any of them back too. Give Miami te right coach, QB and DTs and we are kings again. The rest of the players we need are within short drive on the school by the frigging hundreds. Great olinemen might be a little hard to find, but we won many a NC without great olines.
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Give any college team a great qb and dominating d line and they will be great.
 
A team with a good QB will 9 times out of 10 be a good team. That is why Tom Herman is not a bluff as a upcoming football coach. He will make it and be an elite coach one day because of his job he does with QB. He's already got that track record even as OC. Nothing to worry about, should be plenty of reasons to overlook inexperience at HC.
 
DiegoCane said:
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NVA CANE said:
Herman would make all our QB woes disappear.
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We don't know that.

He hasn't even been a HC a full year.

Jerry Faust could win in that conference.
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Dude won a NC with a 3rd stringer.
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it could be argued that with their top receivers all out of the game, Oregon lost that game more than Oh State won it.
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Where do you people come up with this stuff? Did you even watch the game?

Ohio St had 4 TOs, Oregon had 1 TO.

Ohio St completely controlled the game
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seriously. that game was never in doubt. for a second.
 
GoldenShowers said:
......and spoke to me about what first put Miami on the map. It wasn't "swagger". It wasn't "local recruiting ties", or "understanding South Florida". It wasn't even defense.

It was The Quarterback.

For those too young to know, or too old to remember, this place used to be called "Quarterback U". Kelly, Kosar, Vinny and Walsh one right after the next. Innovative offense meets elite QB play. We used to expect it around here.

But then suddenly Miami fans began to take an odd stance: "all we need is a game manager". It's actually Butch's fault; he built a team that was so insanely talented, including the best O-Line in history, that a big-hearted but physically limited Dorsey was able to guide us to title(s).

Now I bet you expect me to rail on our sophomore QB.....but the burning bush reminded me that we have had a half-dozen highly sought after QB recruits since Dorsey left, and they all experience the same troubling pattern:

Young player shows talent but makes expected rookie mistakes. Rookie mistakes never go away even in 3rd and 4th year. Fans determine player a bust. Rinse and repeat.

Those early years QBs were guided by the likes of Howard Schnellenberger (a Superbowl winning OC), Mark Trestman (a future NFC champion OC, AFC champion OC, and three time CFL Champion HC), and Gary Stevens (who ran the Phins offense for a decade with Marino).

Compare that to the likes of Larry Coker, Patrick Nix, Mark Whipple, and the FSU head recruiter whose name I can't even type he's so bad.

So I ask you what is more likely: Bad luck, or horrendously inadequate coaching at the QB position?

I have my preferences for the next HC, but really, what matters more to me than the specific HC is that we get someone in here that understands that the QB is not only the most important position on the field, but it's the most important position in Miami history. It is much easier to take a talented QB and couple him with an ELITE coach, than it is to hope to field a team of probowlers.

It's time to bring explosive offense back to Miami, and it starts with coaching up the QB.
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What put Miami on the map was Schnelly accepting that his number one asset in Miami was speed. He turned away from what everyone else was doing in football and started using as much speed at as many positions as possible. The QB was the one position who could take advantage of the speed on offense.

Speed is still our number one asset in Miami but when you let those difference making speed guys out of Miami then other schools get to play Miami football. See Dalvin Cook, Sammy Watkins, Amari Cooper and etc. Stephen Morris would have been a hiesman candidate if he had those guys to throw to.

Gino Torretta won the heisman because of guys like Kevin Williams, Lamar Thomas and Horace Copeland. All drafted in front of him and all had better NFL carrers than him. Gino was an avg QB at best and we have to listen to him to talk chit to this day when he rode the backs of all that Miami speed. QBs should want to come here just because of his example.
 
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