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My Thoughts on UNC (FWIW)

I'm expecting to see slanting up front to get backside pressure on all those guard pulls they try to run. This is usually a style of run we excel against and we will need to because Carter is a good back.
You may be right, but I anticipate seeing more pressure instead of spying with the intent of collapsing the pocket while taking away the first read. In theory both styles could work though
 
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Sometimes, early in the season people forget how crazy college football can get. Don’t forget that the 2014 Ohio State team that won the BCS Playoff National Championship lost by two touchdowns and were manhandled in the trenches by a Virginia Tech team that went 7-6 and lost to a 6-7 Miami team 30-6.

Sometimes college football defies logic. We better be prepared for a UNC team that is going to show up to play
 
If I was Manny I hope the whole staff was over at his house on Saturday watching the game together and taking notes.
 
CoolestNerd23 said:
I'm by no means an expert but I watched the UNC-USCe game again today as well as Roman's "From The Perch" and collected some thoughts...

USCe is not a good team! Like some others have said they look like a 5-7 loss team. The defense is ok but their tackling was ABYSMAL, like worse than ours or UFelony's in Week 0. It was disgusting. Also, their offense is sad and slow. The schemes are bad and the players were average at best. Feaster had some decent runs but the playcalling was predictable so it was easy to keep him in check. Jake Bentley is halfway awful and the playcalling didn't help him. Despite all of that they could've/should've won this game.

Sam Howell is pretty decent but not unlike anything we haven't seen before. As Roman pointed out in his breakdown, it was one read and go all game. When his first read wasn't there he started dancing around and looked to run. Often that first read was a RPO slant or Go/Fade. I wouldn't be surprised to see Garvin or Patch standing up and playing a spy role for when Howell wants to pull the ball down ala the game plan for Ballpark Franks. Brown, Newsome and Groves are good not great but will make some tough catches and make you pay if you don't wrap them up.

They ran the ball almost twice as much as they passed which isn't shocking considering they have some good backs. Again, USCe was horrible at tackling though and the Yards After Contact on run plays had to be high. They ran to the left side quite a bit so Neo and Pat will have to handle business. Expect Manny and Blake to focus on taking away the run similar to how they, effectively holding them to 52 yards, did against the Porch Lizards.

They are still respectable defensively but nothing special there either. Their leading tackler was Chaz Surratt and if that name sounds familiar it's because the last time we saw him he was at QB and after throwing his 3rd pick that game he injured his wrist and missed the rest of 2018. He's now a starting linebacker and was their leading tackler...I don't know about you but to me that says a lot about a defense.

All in all this should be a W for Manny & Co. We all know our defense will be up to the task and perform well but what the offense does will say if this is a dogfight or not. If Enos can't find success in this game we're probably in for a long season.

Go Canes!
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Guard play is our strength. Carolinas strength is dt. That should nullify their advantage. They'll stunt heavy but we should be okay. Gaynor isnt bad. Long as jarren gets a lil time well blow them out.
 
HurricaneHauk said:
Spurrier had them 11-2 3 straight years
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... yup, but the Muschump curse is in effect and that dead weight is taking down South Carolina in the same fashion he did Florida.

Never have I see a coach's worth go up due to a "head coach in waiting" designation like the one he got at Texas under Mack Brown—parlaying it into nice jobs in Gainesville and Charleston.
 
MISTER OWL said:
Sometimes, early in the season people forget how crazy college football can get. Don’t forget that the 2014 Ohio State team that won the BCS Playoff National Championship lost by two touchdowns and were manhandled in the trenches by a Virginia Tech team that went 7-6 and lost to a 6-7 Miami team 30-6.

Sometimes college football defies logic. We better be prepared for a UNC team that is going to show up to play
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Yes that is correct. But ... UNC comes to compete. They have playmakers, and are not afraid to use them. We will have to win this game, it won't be given to us. In short, we are not as good as our fan base thinks and UNC is not as bad. On paper we should win, but the game is not played by algorithms.
 
dsddcane said:
Guard play is our strength. Carolinas strength is dt. That should nullify their advantage. They'll stunt heavy but we should be okay. Gaynor isnt bad. Long as jarren gets a lil time well blow them out.
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All due respect, but Miami never blows them out up in Chapel Hill. Some fans have a really short memory or don't pay attention to history.

Much like games in Charlottesville, playing at North Carolina is always harder than it should be for the Canes.

3-7 in Chapel Hill since joining the ACC; starting with that disastrous loss in 2004.

This game is setting up to be a dogfight as Mack Brown is a good coach that already has last year's two-win squad overachieving—and Miami is coming off the bye and a neutral site heartbreaking loss to rival Florida. New quarterback. New offensive staff. Working to break old, bad habits.


2017: Way too close for comfort against a one-win team seven games into the season. Barely got out of there 24-19 when UM was undefeated.

2015: Heels rolled 59-21 en route to a Coastal Division title.

2013: Miami pulled out 27-23 win on a Thursday night with a miracle second half and some huge work out of Dallas Crawford.

2011: Canes almost blew a 27-3 third quarter lead, hanging on for 30-24 win.

2009: Miami fell in 23-7 hole early third quarter, pulled to within six, choked it away with Harris pick-six. Got close again. Defense could hold. Lost 33-24.

2007: Down 27-0 half—again in a hole—had a 20-point third quarter to scrap back. Miami gave up two fourth quarter field goals. Lost 33-27.

2004: No. 3 in the country and undefeated. Fell to a garbage 3-4 Tar Heels team, 31-28—saving Carl Torbush's job.
 
ItsAUThing.com said:
Never have I see a coach's worth go up due to a "head coach in waiting" designation like the one he got at Texas under Mack Brown—parlaying it into nice jobs in Gainesville and Charleston.
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Well, he’s not in Charleston yet. But after he fails in Columbia that may be his next stop.
 
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ItsAUThing.com said:
All due respect, but Miami never blows them out up in Chapel Hill. Some fans have a really short memory or don't pay attention to history.

Much like games in Charlottesville, playing at North Carolina is always harder than it should be for the Canes.

3-7 in Chapel Hill since joining the ACC; starting with that disastrous loss in 2004.

This game is setting up to be a dogfight as Mack Brown is a good coach that already has last year's two-win squad overachieving—and Miami is coming off the bye and a neutral site heartbreaking loss to rival Florida. New quarterback. New offensive staff. Working to break old, bad habits.


2017: Way too close for comfort against a one-win team seven games into the season. Barely got out of there 24-19 when UM was undefeated.

2015: Heels rolled 59-21 en route to a Coastal Division title.

2013: Miami pulled out 27-23 win on a Thursday night with a miracle second half and some huge work out of Dallas Crawford.

2011: Canes almost blew a 27-3 third quarter lead, hanging on for 30-24 win.

2009: Miami fell in 23-7 hole early third quarter, pulled to within six, choked it away with Harris pick-six. Got close again. Defense could hold. Lost 33-24.

2007: Down 27-0 half—again in a hole—had a 20-point third quarter to scrap back. Miami gave up two fourth quarter field goals. Lost 33-27.

2004: No. 3 in the country and undefeated. Fell to a garbage 3-4 Tar Heels team, 31-28—saving Carl Torbush's job.
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Yep. We don't play well there and the ACC refs are going to do everything they can to help out UNC.

Be prepared for any big plays we have to be called back.

We should win, but the spread is less than a TD for a reason.
 
MISTER OWL said:
Sometimes, early in the season people forget how crazy college football can get. Don’t forget that the 2014 Ohio State team that won the BCS Playoff National Championship lost by two touchdowns and were manhandled in the trenches by a Virginia Tech team that went 7-6 and lost to a 6-7 Miami team 30-6.

Sometimes college football defies logic. We better be prepared for a UNC team that is going to show up to play
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I always tell people "One crazy night in (insert college town name here) can change everything." I love this sport.
 
KrazyCane said:
When has South Carolina ever been a good team? Some of y’all acting like UNC beat some power house football program with all these separate threads... UNC is trash and we are going to blow them out.
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Mac Brown beat a guy who found a way to lose to Al Golden. Do I need to say that again? Let’s not act like UNC just beat Clemson or even Notre Dame.
 
5Rings&an Asterisk said:
Mac Brown beat a guy who found a way to lose to Al Golden. Do I need to say that again? Let’s not act like UNC just beat Clemson or even Notre Dame.
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I don't think anyone believes UNC is all that good.

But is Miami any good? And on the road? I'm not worried about UNC being some juggernaut. I'm worried about Miami being average.

Which is what they are, at best, if this game is a loss or a real struggle.
 
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ItsAUThing.com said:
All due respect, but Miami never blows them out up in Chapel Hill. Some fans have a really short memory or don't pay attention to history.

Much like games in Charlottesville, playing at North Carolina is always harder than it should be for the Canes.

3-7 in Chapel Hill since joining the ACC; starting with that disastrous loss in 2004.

This game is setting up to be a dogfight as Mack Brown is a good coach that already has last year's two-win squad overachieving—and Miami is coming off the bye and a neutral site heartbreaking loss to rival Florida. New quarterback. New offensive staff. Working to break old, bad habits.


2017: Way too close for comfort against a one-win team seven games into the season. Barely got out of there 24-19 when UM was undefeated.

2015: Heels rolled 59-21 en route to a Coastal Division title.

2013: Miami pulled out 27-23 win on a Thursday night with a miracle second half and some huge work out of Dallas Crawford.

2011: Canes almost blew a 27-3 third quarter lead, hanging on for 30-24 win.

2009: Miami fell in 23-7 hole early third quarter, pulled to within six, choked it away with Harris pick-six. Got close again. Defense could hold. Lost 33-24.

2007: Down 27-0 half—again in a hole—had a 20-point third quarter to scrap back. Miami gave up two fourth quarter field goals. Lost 33-27.

2004: No. 3 in the country and undefeated. Fell to a garbage 3-4 Tar Heels team, 31-28—saving Carl Torbush's job.
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This really has no bearing on the game Saturday. We've struggled up there because we've had terrible coaching the last decade and a half, not because Chapel Hill is some kind of mystical disadvantage for us. If Manny and Enos are the right guys, we should win this game comfortably. UNC isn't a pushover, but history has nothing to do with Saturday. We're the more talented team, and should win by 2 scores minimum.
 
We’ve played better offenses in the last few years then what they have now and stuffed them.
I was at game when they beat us with trubiski and it was one of the most one way officiating I’ve ever seen and I expect the same given that Mack is from the good ole boy club and manny is the new kid on the block.
That unc offense isn’t better than what wv had in the bowl game we beat them. It isn’t better than Toledo or Syracuse. And isn’t better than the FSU offense that barely beat us 3 years ago at the rock.
We can complain about the oline but I don’t see them scoring anywhere over 14 points on us unless it’s gatbage time.
Brevin and DJ can put that up that much by themselves.
We can speculate all you want about that line. But I just do t see it being anywhere that close. It reeks of a fix by gamblers or a referee crew about to visit the laundromat.
But if it is the refs they’re gonna have to call back and flag too much without making too obvious.
The way to look at it is that we were penalized for over 100 yards for the uf game. If the same or more happens it would be 2 referee crews that can point the finger at an unprepared staff and offense. It seems like we’re the kings of holding calls 40yards away from the play. Expect them to keep it as close as the shave on **** stars snatch.
 
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