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Plenty of negatives again this week. Sad to say that after a win. First, let me say after rewatching the game, we should have put 40 on Duke. I can not remember the last time our offense and defense played a complete game at the same time. Maybe twice under Golden.

After last weeks negative thought about never forcing the other team to punt we turn around and force Duke to punt the most times an opponent has punted against Miami with Golden coaching. Makes me think this weeks negative thought should be never scoring 100 points against a school who's uniforms are made by Russel Athletic. Yes that company still makes stuff.

But for this weeks negative thought I want to take a closer look at what some people have touched on a bit but give some other examples. Coaching Scared. This season is 5 games old and I am going to give you 3 coaching decisions that show me Golden has no balls and coaches not to lose.
  • Down 7 to Nebraska in the 4th Q. Nebraska has the ball and gets a penalty on 3rd down. Instead of accepting the penalty and making it 3rd and 16. Golden declines and make its 4th and 6. Nebraska's kicker bounces the ball of the upright and in. 1 yard further back and it would have been a miss. So if on 3rd and 16 we had givien up 9 yards it would have been and 7pt game and Miami ball.
  • Against Duke we score to make it 16-7. On the score there is a penalty on Duke. 15 yard horsecollar. If we accept the penalty on the try we would be going for 2 from the 1.5 yard line. The way our line was blocking, I loved those odds. But for some reason Golden applys the penalty to the kick off. We end up attempting a hurried 2pt play after the Yearby TD and looked lost in a terrible effort.
  • Finally, we stop Duke on 3rd and 6 or 7 from their 40 something yard line with around 1 minute to go in the half and two timeouts. I dont understand why you dont take the timeout and force Duke to punt. Instead we let them run the clock down to about 10 seconds and punt. They are not going to go for it and chance us needing 5-10 yards to be in field goal range. Not only that but Duke got the ball to start the 2nd half. There is no doubt in my mind we left 3 points minimum on the board in that instance and I am still confused what Golden was thinking.

These are just a few examples that I remember from this season, feel free to add more. But I am tired of watching our team walk onto the field with the reigns pulled back slowing them down at all times. I want to see some ballsy coaching and hunger to step on another teams throat and end them.
 
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Miami04 said:
Plenty of negatives again this week. Sad to say that after a win. First, let me say after rewatching the game, we should have put 40 on Duke. I can not remember the last time our offense and defense played a complete game at the same time. Maybe twice under Golden.

After last weeks negative thought about never forcing the other team to punt we turn around and force Duke to punt the most times an opponent has punted against Miami with Golden coaching. Makes me think this weeks negative thought should be never scoring 100 points against a school who's uniforms are made by Russel Athletic. Yes that company still makes stuff.

But for this weeks negative thought I want to take a closer look at what some people have touched on a bit but give some other examples. Coaching Scared. This season is 5 games old and I am going to give you 3 coaching decisions that show me Golden has no balls and coaches not to lose.
  • Down 7 to Nebraska in the 4th Q. Nebraska has the ball and gets a penalty on 3rd down. Instead of accepting the penalty and making it 3rd and 16. Golden declines and make its 4th and 6. Nebraska's kicker bounces the ball of the upright and in. 1 yard further back and it would have been a miss. So if on 3rd and 16 we had givien up 9 yards it would have been and 7pt game and Miami ball.
  • Against Duke we score to make it 16-7. On the score there is a penalty on Duke. 15 yard horsecollar. If we accept the penalty on the try we would be going for 2 from the 1.5 yard line. The way our line was blocking, I loved those odds. But for some reason Golden applys the penalty to the kick off. We end up attempting a hurried 2pt play after the Yearby TD and looked lost in a terrible effort.
  • Finally, we stop Duke on 3rd and 6 or 7 from their 40 something yard line with around 1 minute to go in the half and two timeouts. I dont understand why you dont take the timeout and force Duke to punt. Instead we let them run the clock down to about 10 seconds and punt. They are not going to go for it and chance us needing 5-10 yards to be in field goal range. Not only that but Duke got the ball to start the 2nd half. There is no doubt in my mind we left 3 points minimum on the board in that instance and I am still confused what Golden was thinking.

These are just a few examples that I remember from this season, feel free to add more. But I am tired of watching our team walk onto the field with the reigns pulled back slowing them down at all times. I want to see some ballsy coaching and hunger to step on another teams throat and end them.
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Before the incident you are talking about. Duke game 1:40 something left in the 1st half. We let Duke run the clock down to around a min left instead of calling the TO and giving us more time with the long field. All because the corches were scared that Duke would go for it on 4th.
 
I agree with your third point, but disagree with the first two.

1. It doesn't necessarily follow that the kicker would have made the same exact kick in two different scenarios.
2. Most coaches will go for the one-point conversion if a two is not necessary. At the time, I don't think it was necessary to go for a two there. When we scored to make it 22-10, going for the two at that point made sense late in the game, since a one-point conversion would have no bearing on the outcome should Duke score two touchdowns and go for the one-point conversions.
 
Travis Bickle said:
I agree with your third point, but disagree with the first two.

1. It doesn't necessarily follow that the kicker would have made the same exact kick in two different scenarios.
2. Most coaches will go for the one-point conversion if a two is not necessary. At the time, I don't think it was necessary to go for a two there. When we scored to make it 22-10, going for the two at that point made sense late in the game, since a one-point conversion would have no bearing on the outcome should Duke score two touchdowns and go for the one-point conversions.
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Most of the time I agree with this. But you have to know in the back of your mind at some point you might need a 2pt conversion. So why not take the gift?
 
I prefer Russell Athletic above Nike. Anybody above Nike, although their golf balls are pretty good.

Enforcing the penalty on the kickoff was the proper move. The disgust was failing to drop a high kickoff into the field of play, forcing a runback. In college football with a touchback now brought out to the 25 yard line there's so much room to be gained there if the bloop kickoff from midfield is executed properly.

End of the first half strategy was decent even if the crowd booed a little bit. We would have called time out if Duke had been deeper in its own end.

The incompetence of that game was not running the ball more often and from power sets. But I've detailed that in other threads. Drive blocking pays dividends later in the game and asserting yourself as a physical running team lends itself to an attitude throughout the team, not merely the offense. For some reason fans don't mind stupid deep sideline passes with low percentage of success but are frustrated when one or two basic running plays fail.
 
Awsi Dooger said:
I prefer Russell Athletic above Nike. Anybody above Nike, although their golf balls are pretty good.

Enforcing the penalty on the kickoff was the proper move. The disgust was failing to drop a high kickoff into the field of play, forcing a runback. In college football with a touchback now brought out to the 25 yard line there's so much room to be gained there if the bloop kickoff from midfield is executed properly.

End of the first half strategy was decent even if the crowd booed a little bit. We would have called time out if Duke had been deeper in its own end.

The incompetence of that game was not running the ball more often and from power sets. But I've detailed that in other threads. Drive blocking pays dividends later in the game and asserting yourself as a physical running team lends itself to an attitude throughout the team, not merely the offense. For some reason fans don't mind stupid deep sideline passes with low percentage of success but are frustrated when one or two basic running plays fail.
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This, when we are in rhythm from under center running the ball, and all of a sudden we run from out of shotgun I cringe...Our offensive line does not block well in the spread shotgun formations, but very well out of the power sets you mentioned
 
Declining that 3rd down penalty against NU should have been a fireable offense. And every Golden supporter should have been executed as well.
 
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caneaddict said:
Awsi Dooger said:
I prefer Russell Athletic above Nike. Anybody above Nike, although their golf balls are pretty good.

Enforcing the penalty on the kickoff was the proper move. The disgust was failing to drop a high kickoff into the field of play, forcing a runback. In college football with a touchback now brought out to the 25 yard line there's so much room to be gained there if the bloop kickoff from midfield is executed properly.

End of the first half strategy was decent even if the crowd booed a little bit. We would have called time out if Duke had been deeper in its own end.

The incompetence of that game was not running the ball more often and from power sets. But I've detailed that in other threads. Drive blocking pays dividends later in the game and asserting yourself as a physical running team lends itself to an attitude throughout the team, not merely the offense. For some reason fans don't mind stupid deep sideline passes with low percentage of success but are frustrated when one or two basic running plays fail.
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This, when we are in rhythm from under center running the ball, and all of a sudden we run from out of shotgun I cringe...Our offensive line does not block well in the spread shotgun formations, but very well out of the power sets you mentioned
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Completely disagree. We struggle mightily when we invite numbers in to the box on offense. See the Louisville game as a prime example.

Maybe we can do it against the Duke's of the world but we certainly aren't going to do it vs FSU and VTech. I prefer spreading teams out with 3 and 4 wides and give Duke and Yearby space to run. Sort of like how teams gash us consistently. OL can still be physical in spread sets.
 
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