I’m an unapologetic Miami homer so feel free to read this with a mountain-sized grain of salt.
The short answer: you’re right, maybe I should have just left it at better.
The long answer…
Though I can see why you say that after last nights game, I still feel Miami is considerably better than last year, offensively. Here’s why: though I really don’t have any disagreements with your post, last year felt hopeless and helpless because you knew it couldn’t be improved - even when Miami won (Pitt). But this year, especially after watching last nights game, I feel as if the offense can improve.
We all know the areas that need to improve but key among them is Enos - even more than the OL. Enos has to decide if he wants to be multiple for multiple sake or being able to consistently move the offense (first series) and score multiple touchdowns in a game. Last night, though disappointing, didn’t go far enough for me to know the answer to that question.
Posters get too caught up in the anti-UF/FSU/SEC hysteria of this site to realize that Florida is a very good team. And, though Miami lost…Miami is a very good team too. Rivalry had little to do with it. I read today where someone wrote that Florida is a sub-10 win team with a few calls for 8 and 7 wins. Nonsense. They have a horrid schedule in the SEC, but if they played Miami’s schedule in the Coastal they would easily win the rest of the way to the ACCCG. However, if some cosmic anomaly occurred that also forced Miami to play Florida’s SEC east schedule, most CISers would **** a brick in fear. Miami right now is a non-AL/UGA SEC team: Good athletes, great defense, questionable coaching and QB play.
If you believe, and I do, that the Enos offense will get better as the season wears on, then you just have to remember that the second ACC game, VT, is week 7 of Miami’s college football season. Miami’s going to be alright.
But I’m a homer.