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Is the 2017 team overrated?

Is the 2017 Miami team overrated?

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That Bandy pick-6 was epic. With so many things to complain about you go there OP?
 
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I really wonder if we would’ve been playoff bound with a Real QB. That was literally the only missing piece that year
 
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Earnest T. Bass said:
Hilarious! With all the UM football hate on this message board, you retired to your laboratory to cook up something else to hate concerning UM football and decided belittling the 2017 team would do the trick. Simply amazing!!
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Did you forget to drink the Kool aid at Jonestown?
 
Hugely overrated at the time by the fan base. I think now everyone sees it more clearly as destroyed some good teams and got extremely lucky most everywhere else. Best ride in a long while though
 
Awsi Dooger said:
Notre Dame was considered so invincible the Canes were a 3.5 point underdog
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TBH, Miami should have been more than 3.5 point dogs.

I figured the spread would be higher. Not because ND was “invincible”, but because nobody took Miami that seriously.

IIRC, we were 20 point dogs at FSU in 2013. That’s the equivalent of only 14 points at home, but it’s not like 2017 Miami before the ND game was that much different than 2013 Miami before the FSU game.
 
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Mnhurricane said:
Hugely overrated at the time by the fan base. I think now everyone sees it more clearly as destroyed some good teams and got extremely lucky most everywhere else. Best ride in a long while though
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It still is overrated now. It’s not like people saw the light after the season and realized the season was never that strong in the first place.
 
Silverball said:
God. We sound like Wake Forest with this “overachieving” talk.

10-3 in the ACC Coastal with Miami’s talent is not overachieving.
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It is for us when your program has never won the ACC & only been to one championship game since we been in it for 16 years.

It's absolutely overachieving considering we've only won 10 games ONCE in the last 17 years.
 
Liberty City El said:
It is for us when your program has never won the ACC & only been to one championship game since we been in it for 16 years.

It's absolutely overachieving considering we've only won 10 games ONCE in the last 17 years.
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Our best season since 2005! What a success!

Oh, 10 wins you say! Well, guess what! If they had played an MEAC opponent, 2005 would have been 10 wins too! And the 2005 team would have been winning the MEAC game by at least 28 points.... at halftime.
 
Silverball said:
Our best season since 2005! What a success!

Oh, 10 wins you say! Well, guess what! If they had played an MEAC opponent, 2005 would have been 10 wins too! And the 2005 team would have been winning the MEAC game by at least 28 points.... at halftime.
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You're actually supporting my point without realizing it...
 
I was at the ND game. Absolutely magical. Just an amazing experience. That night ALONE should have convinced admin to go all out for the program because THAT night showed what it COULD be. That game was giving any game in the OB a run for its money in terms of atmosphere
 
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A QB and perhaps only a good OC play caller from 12-1 and top 10 finish.

we got lucky in a couple of game but only because the offense sucks.

they were not overrated at all... also key injuries happened Richard, Herndon, Walton
 
Silverball said:
What? Nobody (except people with huge Canes glasses on) thought they were any better than about #10 even when they were 10-0.

And are you going to pretend the last 3 games didn’t happen?
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I didn’t say they were the second best team in the nation going into the last game. I said they deserved the ranking. Very different things. That wasn’t a top ten team, but they beat everyone they played up to that point, including a couple of decent teams.

So they deserved the ranking going into pittt. They earned it. They weren’t the 5th or even 10th best team that year tho.
 
ColdCane said:
I really wonder if we would’ve been playoff bound with a Real QB. That was literally the only missing piece that year
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I think that even a half decent QB would have had us competing with Clemson in that ACC title game. And a lot of those regular season games wouldn't have been as close. While Malik was a gutsy kid, the fact was that he missed a lot of open receivers and didn't notice almost as many open guys. Say what you will about Brad "The Statue" Kaaya, but he didn't miss wide open guys very often. That team would have been better if he'd stayed his last year.
 
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