It's all about the X's & O's...

[NorthEastCane]

I enjoyed how posters were worried about Enos leaving for Michigan State before even coaching a single game.
They researched the fvck out of it lmao. Stalked the boards, looked up the details of dantonio's contract and everything.

That's more research than James did on his last few hires.

 

[Fluffhead]

U think it's worse than the chippewas? Rest assured they'll have a coming to jesus moment against us

Magically just about every QB over the last decade has had a career game against us.

 

[RiDLer80]

He runs alot of pro go back and watch the games

I'm guessing you meant to put RPO there. And I'm not saying he doesn't do those things, I'm saying it's not his background.

There was a quote from him around the time he got hired where he mentioned that his short time at Alabama "opened his eyes" to all the new RPO concepts or something along those lines. He's not prevalent in RPOs and spread concepts because that's not his background. He's an old dog trying to learn new tricks.

 

[canesbaby]

The thing that absolutely makes no **** sense to me is that Manny is the guy who is super/over aggressive on defense and he said we will be the same on offense but yet this is what we are left with? in what world can this be acceptable to Manny?

 

[TruCane81]

The only team in the nation that I would call a contender who's still running a majority of their offense under center is Georgia. Clemson, Alabama, LSU, Ohio State, Oklahoma, even teams like Notre Dame and Texas have transitioned into some variation of the spread.

Not every version of the spread/air raid is the same either. We would not have to go hurry up the entire game (not a huge fan) nor would we be limiting ourselves to an all passing attack like Washington State.

I have always found it ridiculous that a team like Miami who always has good skill talent would want to line up in a power formation and just try to out-muscle their opponents with their offensive line. It's like taking the Golden State Warriors and saying you want to start running their offense out of the low post by dumping it inside to the center.

The best coordinators find ways to work around their teams' weak areas. Clearly, Miami's offensive line is the weak link of their offense. Maybe, instead of trying to force a power running game or making the quarterback take deep drops with play action, Enos can speed it up. Not by going no huddle but by placing the QB in the shotgun and allowing him to see everything instead of turning his back to the play and wasting precious seconds with five and seven step drops. The line struggles to protect, you want the QB to get the snap, make the read and throw the ball as fast as possible. Asking your line, which struggles with protection, to have to hold protection for long periods of time is suicidal.

Enos can switch it up and we can make do with what we have or he can keep running out of the I into a crowded box with a bad offensive line. Mark Richt did the same thing midway through 2016 and it salvaged our season.

We have seen this movie before.

Richt left Brad stranded in 5 step drops with a bad oline and got him murdered. We looked like **** and went on the first four game skid of the Richt era.

Finally at Pitt, he adjusted the offense to a heavy emphasis on 3 step drop and Brad got hot. We ended 2016 on a win streak and won our first bowl game in eons.

Same team, completely different results based completely on play calling.

Enos is in the EXACT same situation and could have the EXACT same kind of turnaround.

Why can’t everyone see this?

 

[AHURT12]

I'm guessing you meant to put RPO there. And I'm not saying he doesn't do those things, I'm saying it's not his background.

There was a quote from him around the time he got hired where he mentioned that his short time at Alabama "opened his eyes" to all the new RPO concepts or something along those lines. He's not prevalent in RPOs and spread concepts because that's not his background. He's an old dog trying to learn new tricks.

Yeah my bad rpo, this teams best player on offense has starter four games and he's the qb. Like it or not this offense could of had Eric Bienemy and Andy Reid Andy and your still stuck with a freshman qb, left, and right guard. Gaynor is ok and Donaldson plays to his competition and Scaife does too. Until the oline gels and becomes solid this team is going to be a rollercoaster on offense.

 

[RiDLer80]

Yeah my bad rpo, this teams best player on offense has starter four games and he's the qb. Like it or not this offense could of had Eric Bienemy and Andy Reid Andy and your still stuck with a freshman qb, left, and right guard. Gaynor is ok and Donaldson plays to his competition and Scaife does too. Until the oline gels and becomes solid this team is going to be a rollercoaster on offense.

Being a freshman QB, let alone a redshirt freshman, is no longer an excuse in this day and age of football. Auburn has a top 10 team right now and just went into College Station and beat aTm with a true freshman. UNC beat us with a true freshman. Boise State took a true freshman to trailerhassee and left with a W. Manziel and Wintson won Heismans as redshirt freshmen. See where I'm going with this?

Also, our best players on offense are Jordan, Dallas and Osborn.

 

[Memnon]

talent helps, Coley threw a stink fest against ND saturday but the Jimmy's & Joe's won the game

No one disagrees with that, but that's a recruiting discussion.

And I think it's safe to say we're significantly more talented than CENTRAL MICHIGAN, at least talented enough to score more than 17 points.

 

[AHURT12]

Being a freshman QB, let alone a redshirt freshman, is no longer an excuse in this day and age of football. Auburn has a top 10 team right now and just went into College Station and beat aTm with a true freshman. UNC beat us with a true freshman. Boise State took a true freshman to trailerhassee and left with a W. Manziel and Wintson won Heismans as reshirt freshmen. See where I'm going with this?

Also, our best players on offense are Jordan, Dallas and Osborn.

It's not an execuse and every player and team is different. New qb, left tackle has played 4 games in college after being a tight end, right guard 2 games in college after being a high school center, no offensive coordinator. You cant compare these veteran teams with this team. It's going to take time its not going to happen over night. This is going to be a rollercoaster. Our best player on offense is a red shirt freshman and on defense Rousseau is a redshirt freshman. Those are our best players. Like it or not.

 

[Garnacho]

I haven't watched the game yet from Saturday. The mass hysteria has me chomping at the bit now! I don't believe there is 1 correct answer when it comes to schemes. Its more important to have good teachers on the staff than anything else. I am personally a proponent of a multiple offense or defense. You have to use the talent you do you have to win games though. I believe Enos was a good hire, he is qualified coach with a good resume. I enjoy football too much to just hate on everything Miami, everyday.

Please. Watch. Game.

 

[simplycanes]

To me the issue with this team on both sides of the ball is scheme more so than personnel.

Particularly on Offense, I've felt we need to go to a Spread Offense since 2016 due to the fact we simply don't have the OL to run the scheme these play callers Miami keeps hiring wants us to run.

WE ARE NOT A POWER RUN UNDER CENTER "PRO STYLE" Offense. We don't have the OT's to protect long enough for 5-7 step Play Action drops & we don't have the the interior line to open up big holes & create sufficient run lanes.

We need to stop fighting against ourselves & transition to a Spread/Air Raid style offense, because 1) we have the Offensive weapons that fit that scheme perfectly & 2) it would neutralize having to always rely on the Defense to be more stout than they're capable of.

We should be beating teams off the fact we have speed & athleticism combined with making them defend the ENTIRE field. The exact same issues we had last year, we have this year, we're slow, predictable & easily shut down on Offense by any DC with half a brain because we don't apply any pressure to Defenses whatsoever, we play right into their hands.

In today's era of College Football you can manufacture yards without having elite talent all over the field, the name of the PACE & SPACE! When you don't have an elite OL with a bunch of maulers & road graders the one thing you don't do is put them in a position to lose by making them block longer than they should. In an uptempo offense the ball is moving quickly on both Pass & Run plays which makes it easier for the OL to sustain quicker blocking assignments & doesn't force them to deal with a pass rush they can't contain.

For whatever reason we keep getting these fckin play callers that think the way to solve our OL issues is to just let them get beat over & over again and then eventually they'll figure it out smfh. Jakai Clark, Zion Nelson, Donaldson & Scaife all looked like sh*t vs CMU, that to me speaks to the coaching staff not properly developing them & not teaching them correctly. It's un-fckin-believable that we haven't had an OL worth a **** in basically 5 years.

We play extremely slow as an offense with these long developing plays that get blown up in the backfield as soon as the ball is snapped. We play with no tempo at all, we should be going at breakneck speed & forcing teams to pick their poison in what they wanna sellout to Defend. PACE & SPACE, you can run the ball effectively out of the Spread while still having a lethal passing attack going with multiple 4-wide sets & when you pickup the pace of play going tempo you keep the Defense on their heels & off balanced.

Look at most of the top 30 teams in Total Offense, Oklahoma, Wash St, Arizona, LSU, Utah St, UCF, Bama, Maryland, Wake Forest, Ok St, Oh St, SMU, Baylor, Texas, Memphis & Boise St, what do they ALL have in common... SCHEME, TEMPO (PACE) & SPACING. The specific scheme may differ from each team in terms of verbiage & play calling, but the concepts are all similar & the overall philosophy is very much the same... ATTACK YOUR OPPONENTS WEAKNESSES WITH YOUR STRENGTHS & SPREAD THE DEFENSE OUT TO OPEN UP THE FIELD.

I've seen enough on this slow antiquated 1995 under center Offense, we're not Wisconsin, or BC, or Iowa, or Michigan State, we don't have the players to run this type of Offense that our OC's keep wanting to run here. We need to get with the times & Spread the got **** ball out & start utilizing our skill players better putting them in position to succeed.

The reason why we always have a bunch of talented under utilized players is because we get these dictator OC's that wanna run these old *** overly & unnecessarily complicated offenses that take 4 years to learn the playbook, while simultaneously never actually yielding any results. What fckin sense does it make to run the most complex offense ever that essentially neutralizes your own skill players & debilitates your OLine & can still be easily beaten by FCS D Coordinators & teams with less talent?

Back in November of last year I made a thread about the next HC candidates I think would do well here, the top guys were Josh Heupel, Mike Norvell, Dino Babers & Neal Brown. My reasoning was, they would bring their high powered offenses to Miami with the caliber of athletes we have which would immediately increase offensive productvity which would get us easy W's vs teams that we're more talented than, which would then also put us in position to go on a run making us a more viable team in the Coastal, which would then make us more attractive to recruits.

Manny was not on my list. I like Manny & am willing to give him time to get it right realizing full well he's not gettin fired in year 1; what my hope is is that Enos gets hired somewhere else after this season (no he's not going to Mich St as a HC, if anything he'll go be a OC for another team or possibly get hired by a MAC/Sun Belt team as a HC) & maybe we can finally get smart & hire a guy from the Oklahoma Air Raid/Spread tree to put us in position to stop playing down to competition.

Dude, this program just has to make everything hard on itself. Manny has fallen right into that very deep well.

Hire an Alabama coach to run your offense, and then let him hire a MAC level staff.

Talk about a fast, explosive Miami offense, and out comes the opposite, complete with a fullback.

Our defense was the jewel of the program the last three years, and the guy who was running it turns it over to some nincompoop who we heard was an up-and-comer but has done nothing but underwhelm.

And offensively you hit the nail on the head. We don't have a great power game, but we have an accurate quarterback and fast skill positions. So, get these guys the ball in space fast and make some plays. It doesn't have to be this hard.

Take advantage of the natural recruiting base you have and put these kids in a high-level version of the offenses they know. Spread out teams and let your athletes do their thing.

I really like Diaz, I want to see this work, but I'm not sure he can dig himself out of the hole he's digging.

 

[Memnon]

I haven't watched the game yet from Saturday. The mass hysteria has me chomping at the bit now! I don't believe there is 1 correct answer when it comes to schemes. Its more important to have good teachers on the staff than anything else. I am personally a proponent of a multiple offense or defense. You have to use the talent you do you have to win games though. I believe Enos was a good hire, he is qualified coach with a good resume. I enjoy football too much to just hate on everything Miami, everyday.

I enjoy football a lot too & I NEVER hate on everything Miami everyday, that just don't apply to me.

Ask anybody familiar with me on the board I'm a 1,000% ardent diehard supporter of Miami & do not just mope & aimlessly attack the staff or the program.

My criticism is valid & based on what I've seen. If it wasn't that bad, I wouldn't have made the thread. I don't make dumb pointless threads any time a thought pops into my head, that's not my get down.

 

[TruCane81]

I like what he 's trying to accomplish with this offense. THis offense is very hard to prepare for it if you're a defense BUT you need a competent OL line to many breakdowns because of youth/lack of experience. It is NOT a cohesive group now THis is a an offense which will causes defenses too many issues to defend specially with TEs. If you built a foundation on this type of offense it will get us to the promised land BUt there is difficult growing pains and based upon a society of instant gratification do you compromise the foundation. The spread only is exciting and suits many teams but faced with equal or greater talent on defense it sputters more often than succeeds IMHO . Either way, this Enos offense with a good and experienced OL with hurt many defenses.

ALL offenses struggle against elite defenses.

The only thing that beats championship level defense is elite QB play.

Championship teams have offenses and defenses that help each other when the other struggles.

The defending national champion is a spread team. Just because many spread/air raid head coaches neglect their defenses doesn’t mean we can’t become a playoff contender with a spread system.

 

[Andrew]

Anytime you hear fans talking about how we need to hire someone like Riley you know it’s over.

Miami isn’t supposed to need those coaches to win. Our players just aren’t that good and the high schools in Miami are falling behind.

 

[ddann]

Anytime you hear fans talking about how we need to hire someone like Riley you know it’s over.

Miami isn’t supposed to need those coaches to win. Our players just aren’t that good and the high schools in Miami are falling behind.

Well, then we’re doomed to permanent mediocrity. Winning a lousy Coastal every once in a while is the ceiling.

 

[Disgustipated]

I enjoy football a lot too & I NEVER hate on everything Miami everyday, that just don't apply to me.

Ask anybody familiar with me on the board I'm a 1,000% ardent diehard supporter of Miami & do not just mope & aimlessly attack the staff or the program.

My criticism is valid & based on what I've seen. If it wasn't that bad, I wouldn't have made the thread. I don't make dumb pointless threads any time a thought pops into my head, that's not my get down.

I'm with you, I wasn't directing my comment at anyone. Just throwing my worthless 2 cents in!

 

[RiDLer80]

Anytime you hear fans talking about how we need to hire someone like Riley you know it’s over.

Miami isn’t supposed to need those coaches to win. Our players just aren’t that good and the high schools in Miami are falling behind.

Why not? We **** sure aren't gonna out-talent teams. We need a schematic edge. We can't keep the best players home.

 

[AUcane]

U think it's worse than the chippewas? Rest assured they'll have a coming to jesus moment against us

lol, yep. Their defense wasn't good last year either and their DTs destroyed us. I have no doubt Marvin Wilson will be the immovable object inside

 

[Andrew]

Why not? We **** sure aren't gonna out-talent teams. We need a schematic edge. We can't keep the best players home.

The problem is there isn’t many guys like Riley, Saban, or Dano. The odds of us hiring a random coach and him turning out to be that elite is more than 1 in 100. We can’t afford the big names.

 

[Brooklyndee]

The thing that absolutely makes no **** sense to me is that Manny is the guy who is super/over aggressive on defense and he said we will be the same on offense but yet this is what we are left with? in what world can this be acceptable to Manny?

Hes a politician's son... maybe he knows how to sell something