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We clearly got outplayed by both UVA and Pitt. Louisville outgainedoutgained Miami as well. It’s pretty ridiculous we didn’t lose any of those games.

If we had lost just one of those games, we’d be playing for bowl eligibility. If we had lost 2 of those game, we’d already be bowl ineligible.

Think about it. Bowl ineligible, vs this schedule.
 
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Louisville got a lot of those yards when they were down 30. That really, really doesn't mean they had a prayer that game.

The others, yes, we lucked out. We also lucked out against mighty CMU. If they don't drop every other pass, they beat us as well.
 
Don’t forget the Central Michigan game. Imagine losing that game and then to FIU? No one would’ve survived.
 
****..trolls are out and about and y’all just biting..we’re in the end times now tony🤣
 
callme said:
We clearly got outplayed by both UVA and Pitt. Louisville outgainedoutgained Miami as well. It’s pretty ridiculous we didn’t lose any of those games.

If we had lost just one of those games, we’d be playing for bowl eligibility. If we had lost 2 of those game, we’d already be bowl ineligible.

Think about it. Bowl ineligible, vs this schedule.
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This season has a lot of "if's". Don't care about if's, only results. We won 6 games, we lost 5.
 
A few went our way (Pitt/uva) and others didn’t go our way (ga tech/fiu/va tech) so it basically evens out to 6-5..our record is reflective of our program and right now it’s a middling one..
 
Gables Canes said:
But but but I thought we were 4 plays away from 10-1!
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I was seating in the end zone at the FIU game, if their QB was 10% mobile we would have lost by 3 TDs, he had open lanes and just sat there stationary many times and we had NO rush. I"m talking about lanes that were 10 yards wide and he did not takeoff.
 
ThomasM said:
Louisville got a lot of those yards when they were down 30. That really, really doesn't mean they had a prayer that game.

The others, yes, we lucked out. We also lucked out against mighty CMU. If they don't drop every other pass, they beat us as well.
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Fair enough about Louisville. They lost because of the penalties they got called for, but they also outgained Miami in a large part because they got away with as many penalties as they got called for.
caneholic88 said:
A few went our way (Pitt/uva) and others didn’t go our way (ga tech/fiu/va tech) so it basically evens out to 6-5..our record is reflective of our program and right now it’s a middling one..
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Pitt and UVA were games we definitely got outplayed in and should have lost. Ga Tech was a game where the 2 teams played about evenly, and either team could have won. There’s a pretty big difference there.

How could we have beaten FIU with a little more luck? We were losing by 20 before FIU let us back into the game. Butch made a particularly stupid move when he didn’t go for 2 after the TD that briefly reexpanded their lead to 12. That was similar to Bobby Bowden’s infamous decision not to go for 2 after taking a 26-14 lead in the 2002 Miami game, except I’m pretty sure that Butch made his decision with even less time left than Bobby did.
 
Only games we really looked good in were FSU and Louisville outside of that this year has been a complete shxt show.
 
callme said:
We clearly got outplayed by both UVA and Pitt. Louisville outgainedoutgained Miami as well. It’s pretty ridiculous we didn’t lose any of those games.

If we had lost just one of those games, we’d be playing for bowl eligibility. If we had lost 2 of those game, we’d already be bowl ineligible.

Think about it. Bowl ineligible, vs this schedule.
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I said as much 10 secs after 4th and 17.

The structural problems have existed since 21 pts needed by D to beat UVA 2 years ago.

Before that obviously, but brutally glaring then.
 
callme said:
We clearly got outplayed by both UVA and Pitt. Louisville outgainedoutgained Miami as well. It’s pretty ridiculous we didn’t lose any of those games.

If we had lost just one of those games, we’d be playing for bowl eligibility. If we had lost 2 of those game, we’d already be bowl ineligible.

Think about it. Bowl ineligible, vs this schedule.
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I look at it the other way as discussed this morning on ACCN. If Miami did what they were supposed to do, they would be 9-2 at worst. This is a coaching failure by a young staff not knowing how to handle a team. Yes, players must take responsibility, but it is the coaches job to have his team ready. Just look around the country at Baylor and Louisville. These coaches have turned these programs around with the same players from the previous regime.

Coaching matters. There's no way a team can be competitive with Florida, UVA, Pitt, Louisville, dominate FSU, and lose or perform poorly to all the teams at the bottom of our strength of schedule. That's a mentally weak team, that some how feels entitled to just show up and get a win. Worse yet, they haven't learned their lesson.

I'm tired of the excuses. Diaz saying on WQAM that he should have paid closer attention to the little details going on at practice. I'm so sick of him trying to lesson the blow. He has a systemic problem that he has not resolved and doesn't know how to fix. This is to be expected from a guy who has never been a head coach. He is learning on the job.

Diaz will infamously be known for the worst lost in program history. There is a silver lining in this.
The lost to FIU accelerates the pressure on Diaz to turn the program into a winner. His leash just got tighter.
I think he has to win 10 games next year and a Coastal tile or it's the end of the road. If he fails, he may NOT be fired, but wouldn't be renewed after 2021. Just like Golden, the administration's hand will be forced because the bottom line is that fans will stop showing up for games. If the team looks like it doesn't care, the fans won't either. If we were playing Duke at home this week, I believe there would be less 30,000 fans in attendance. There's going to be a tremendous amount of pressure this off season Next year, fans will be skeptical. If Diaz doesn't show sign of a massive turnaround, fans will turn in a heartbeat calling for him to be fired. Banners will fly and fans will not show up for games. A mass exodus like we saw against Clemson in 2015 will happen leaving the administration no choice but to remove Diaz. In that situation, I believe Diaz would resign.

So, like we say in software development, "fail fast so we can get onto the right solution."
 
Number1CanesFan said:
I look at it the other way as discussed this morning on ACCN. If Miami did what they were supposed to do, they would be 9-2 at worst. This is a coaching failure by a young staff not knowing how to handle a team. Yes, players must take responsibility, but it is the coaches job to have his team ready. Just look around the country at Baylor and Louisville. These coaches have turned these programs around with the same players from the previous regime.

Coaching matters. There's no way a team can be competitive with Florida, UVA, Pitt, Louisville, dominate FSU, and lose or perform poorly to all the teams at the bottom of our strength of schedule. That's a mentally weak team, that some how feels entitled to just show up and get a win. Worse yet, they haven't learned their lesson.

I'm tired of the excuses. Diaz saying on WQAM that he should have paid closer attention to the little details going on at practice. I'm so sick of him trying to lesson the blow. He has a systemic problem that he has not resolved and doesn't know how to fix. This is to be expected from a guy who has never been a head coach. He is learning on the job.

Diaz will infamously be known for the worst lost in program history. There is a silver lining in this.
The lost to FIU accelerates the pressure on Diaz to turn the program into a winner. His leash just got tighter.
I think he has to win 10 games next year and a Coastal tile or it's the end of the road. If he fails, he may NOT be fired, but wouldn't be renewed after 2021. Just like Golden, the administration's hand will be forced because the bottom line is that fans will stop showing up for games. If the team looks like it doesn't care, the fans won't either. If we were playing Duke at home this week, I believe there would be less 30,000 fans in attendance. There's going to be a tremendous amount of pressure this off season Next year, fans will be skeptical. If Diaz doesn't show sign of a massive turnaround, fans will turn in a heartbeat calling for him to be fired. Banners will fly and fans will not show up for games. A mass exodus like we saw against Clemson in 2015 will happen leaving the administration no choice but to remove Diaz. In that situation, I believe Diaz would resign.

So, like we say in software development, "fail fast so we can get onto the right solution."
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I agree that we should be 9-2 at the worst.

My point is that this is a 10-2 talented team playing a bad schedule that is 6-5 and with a little less fortune could be 5-6 or even 4-7 without a few bounces.
 
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callme said:
I agree that we should be 9-2 at the worst.

My point is that this is a 10-2 talented team playing a bad schedule that is 6-5 and with a little less fortune could be 5-6 or even 4-7 without a few bounces.
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True. Regardless of how we look at it, I think we both agree Diaz is responsible. Some fans say this is on the players. The players have some responsibility. However, it is the coaches #1 job to have his team mentally and physically ready to play. It's the HC's job to dictate behavior and the signature of the team (ie. tough vs finesse, ground and pound vs air raid etc). He's done that for the defense mostly, but, Diaz have failed miserably in 4 of the 5 losses 3 of which were after bye weeks. It's incomprehensible.

On another note, Diaz needs to reach out to Matt Rhule. He should fly out to Waco and spend some time with Rhule on how he coaches. Rhule has Baylor playing at a high level with recruiting classes no better than 29th (2016 - 40th, 2017 - 40th, 2018 - 29th, 2019 - 35th). Baylor put it on Texas with far less talent. That's coaching.

Enos need to go to Oklahoma and do the same thing or simply just watch some Oklahoma film and steal their plays. We have the players to execute their offense. Just copy and keep it moving. The NFL does it all the time. Why these guys are so stuck trying to prove their way is the best instead of grabbing plays from other teams that are successful is beyond me.
 
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callme said:
We clearly got outplayed by both UVA and Pitt. Louisville outgainedoutgained Miami as well. It’s pretty ridiculous we didn’t lose any of those games.

If we had lost just one of those games, we’d be playing for bowl eligibility. If we had lost 2 of those game, we’d already be bowl ineligible.

Think about it. Bowl ineligible, vs this schedule.
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Real ground-breaking stuff here, "If we had lost more games we wouldn't be bowl eligible."
 
I was told by the DBJ slurpers that we were a kicker and an aggregate of 19 points away from undefeated.

Was I led astray?
 
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