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ThomasM said:
I'd say some of the kicking problems stemmed from Diaz playing mind games with kickers. I get it, Baxa was in a funk. He was also 7-10 his freshman year, and could hit from 50 out. You try to get his mind right, because he has the most talent of any kicker on the roster. Also, when is someone going to teach Manny that it's a good idea to center the ball for your kickers if you know you're going to settle for a FG attempt? ESPECIALLY knowing your kickers are struggling.

As shaky as Baxa was, if he kicks all three FGs against GT, he makes one. By the way, who is our special teams coach? If he can't help our kicker get straight, maybe he shouldn't be a special teams coach. There's not much more important on special teams than making a FG. Our fix for missed FGs? Keep benching kickers instead of getting their heads right. I might be wrong, but I don't think that's the best idea.
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Patke is the ST coach.
 
jkaz1 said:
Reed will add value, for sure.

Glad that he's back to help the team out.

I think we'll definitely see some attrition from a few chaps who won't want to buy in to the culture that Manny will (hopefully) be trying to instill now.
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Not sure how, when Manny has all the power when it comes to the program. Ed can suggest things, that's all. He is not operating from a position of any real authority.
 
Anyway, I can't believe that some people seriously think Reed will have any real power in this role.

It's basically a made up position that I've never heard of any other CFB team even having.
 
TimeB0mb said:
Ended up being for the best IMO. Lets say we have a FG kicker that makes a couple more and we win 8 games. Would have been a 1 game improvement over Richts last season. Blake James would be crowing about the teams upward trajectory. You think Diaz makes wholesale changes after an 8 win season? We go into 2020 with JW as QB and Enos as OC.

I think its inarguable that Miami is much better off with King at QB and Lashlee at OC. It would not have happened if 2019 went any other way. Miami's chances of winning 10 games and the ACC coastal in 2020 are significantly better now than before.
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What's with how everybody considers 10 wins to now be a big success?

9-3 seasons used to be considered bad seasons. A justification for firing 4 or 5 assistants. 10-3 is basically what 9-3 used to be, except with a win over FAMU or Bethune (or now Wagner I guess) added in.
 
dumbo said:
Anyway, I can't believe that some people seriously think Reed will have any real power in this role.

It's basically a made up position that I've never heard of any other CFB team even having.
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The browns just hired Blake James doppelganger as a COS
 
NDE said:
Unlike all of the trolls here who want IMMEDIATE results and if not fire the entire staff. Trolls here forget we lost most of our games by less than 7 points and 3 of those was because we could not make a 20 yeard field goal. When you add in the last place Enos Offense and horrible QB play always putting the Defense in bad possisions, 10 wins is very different from 6 wins. Enos is gone, we now have a Heisman level QB with a coordinator that can put some points on the board. What would have happened if last year we scored 35 plus points a game, with minimal turnovers, poor field position, Borregales field goals from 40 plus? We would win every game except for Clemson. Wake up you FSU and FL loving Trolls.
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FIU beat us

It was the worst loss in program history

Shut the **** up
 
NDE said:
Unlike all of the trolls here who want IMMEDIATE results and if not fire the entire staff. Trolls here forget we lost most of our games by less than 7 points and 3 of those was because we could not make a 20 yeard field goal. When you add in the last place Enos Offense and horrible QB play always putting the Defense in bad possisions, 10 wins is very different from 6 wins. Enos is gone, we now have a Heisman level QB with a coordinator that can put some points on the board. What would have happened if last year we scored 35 plus points a game, with minimal turnovers, poor field position, Borregales field goals from 40 plus? We would win every game except for Clemson. Wake up you FSU and FL loving Trolls.
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Worst take ever. My anal glands are leaking after reading this drivel.
 
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ThomasM said:
We flat out sucked last year. You can also add that we almost lost to CMU. Fact is, none of the games we lost because we missed a kick or three were games that should have come down to a kick. Say we win 9 games last year because we made FGs. We'd STILL lose to FIU, LaTech, and Duke. WL record doesn't tell the whole story. How you win and lose tells a lot. We lost to bad to below average teams.
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Yup, and you can put the majority of that on sub-par quarterback play—made even worse by a garbage-*** offensive line.

Williams' lack of awareness and inexperience cost Miami games against Florida and North Carolina—while his turnovers directly cost UM the Virginia Tech game, starting another season of musical quarterbacks as N'Kosi Perry was thrown back into the mix (solely due to his mobility and better awareness.)

Miami has always gone as far as quarterback plays has taken them. Even that 2017 season—Malik Rosier overachieved his *** off for those first 10 games; but was quickly brought back down to earth by Pittsburgh, Clemson and Wisconsin (which carried over to how defenses played 12 in 2018, as well.)

Enos is gone, Lashlee and the spread are in, Barry is gone, the o-line will get shored up better under Justice—and Miami reeled in a Heisman-caliber talent in D'Eriq King.

The Canes are far from "back"—but it's absolutely idiotic to act like 2020 isn't shaping up to be night and day different offensively with all these moves that have been made.

Enough *****ing about last year. It's dead, buried and nothing can be done about it. The future is now. Get over all this, "we should've lost to CMU" bullsh1t.
 
ilovelamp51 said:
Has it been discussed where Reed can go as COS. Does he have less, more or same limits than coaches? For instance is he limited with off season workouts time wise? Anyone know? Just curious.
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he can’t be coaching them at all cause he’s not one of the coaches so he cant work them out at all. Really All he can do is give manny advice, and manny can take it or ignore it.
 
ThomasM said:
I'd say some of the kicking problems stemmed from Diaz playing mind games with kickers. I get it, Baxa was in a funk. He was also 7-10 his freshman year, and could hit from 50 out. You try to get his mind right, because he has the most talent of any kicker on the roster. Also, when is someone going to teach Manny that it's a good idea to center the ball for your kickers if you know you're going to settle for a FG attempt? ESPECIALLY knowing your kickers are struggling.

As shaky as Baxa was, if he kicks all three FGs against GT, he makes one. By the way, who is our special teams coach? If he can't help our kicker get straight, maybe he shouldn't be a special teams coach. There's not much more important on special teams than making a FG. Our fix for missed FGs? Keep benching kickers instead of getting their heads right. I might be wrong, but I don't think that's the best idea.
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If a kicker gets the yips like Bustxa did you’re not gonna fix it by patting him on the head and giving him a warm glass of milk and reading him Cat in the Hat.

Did you see the far away look in Bustxa’s eyes when they were trotting him out there? He wanted nothing to do with that stage.

It’s not like he was Morten Andersen and Manure ruined him. Wasn’t he something like 4 for 8 as a HS senior?
 
dumbo said:
What's with how everybody considers 10 wins to now be a big success?

9-3 seasons used to be considered bad seasons. A justification for firing 4 or 5 assistants. 10-3 is basically what 9-3 used to be, except with a win over FAMU or Bethune (or now Wagner I guess) added in.
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Bro. We have won 10 games only once in almost 15 years. When Miami has back to back 10 win seasons and has the ACC coastal on lockdown, it will be reasonable to believe that the program has finally rebuilt its foundation. Funny that you mention 9 games as a prior metric. Last time we won a championship, Miami had to establish consistency over a few years.

5-6 1997
9-3 1998
9-4 1999
11-1 2000
12-0 2001

We didn't go from 6 wins to a national championship overnight.

Hypothetically, if Diaz turned out to be a good HC and actually got the program back on a championship track I think would probably play out like:
6-7 2019
10-3 2020
10-3 2021
11-2 2022
12-0 2023
 
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TimeB0mb said:
Ended up being for the best IMO. Lets say we have a FG kicker that makes a couple more and we win 8 games. Would have been a 1 game improvement over Richts last season. Blake James would be crowing about the teams upward trajectory. You think Diaz makes wholesale changes after an 8 win season? We go into 2020 with JW as QB and Enos as OC.

I think its inarguable that Miami is much better off with King at QB and Lashlee at OC. It would not have happened if 2019 went any other way. Miami's chances of winning 10 games and the ACC coastal in 2020 are significantly better now than before.
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Losing ineptly is for the best? That’s absurd, imo. If the problem was Diaz, the solution is no more Diaz. Bolstering a failure may help, but it sure won’t change him into a real coach.
 
dumbo said:
What's with how everybody considers 10 wins to now be a big success?

9-3 seasons used to be considered bad seasons. A justification for firing 4 or 5 assistants. 10-3 is basically what 9-3 used to be, except with a win over FAMU or Bethune (or now Wagner I guess) added in.
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10 regular season wins should be the baseline. More is great and less is a failure.

With UMs schedule, that’s not asking too mych.
 
Your entire post is fodder for the “immediate result trolls”. You’re making the case that we should expect a great upcoming season...
NDE said:
Unlike all of the trolls here who want IMMEDIATE results and if not fire the entire staff. Trolls here forget we lost most of our games by less than 7 points and 3 of those was because we could not make a 20 yeard field goal. When you add in the last place Enos Offense and horrible QB play always putting the Defense in bad possisions, 10 wins is very different from 6 wins. Enos is gone, we now have a Heisman level QB with a coordinator that can put some points on the board. What would have happened if last year we scored 35 plus points a game, with minimal turnovers, poor field position, Borregales field goals from 40 plus? We would win every game except for Clemson. Wake up you FSU and FL loving Trolls.
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Ethnicsands said:
Losing ineptly is for the best? That’s absurd, imo. If the problem was Diaz, the solution is no more Diaz. Bolstering a failure may help, but it sure won’t change him into a real coach.
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Problem is a 1st year HC made some bad decisions. Is he ultimately going to end up a corch? Maybe. But Diaz made the choices so far in year 2 that I wanted in year 1 (spread OC, dual threat QB, recruiting focus on more polished players that have a winner's mentality). Both Richt and Golden doubled down when things went sideways. To them, the problem wasn't philosophy, it was execution. Diaz after one year seems to have realized he was wrong in his staff choices and philosophy, and made significant changes. That's a big departure from his predecessors, so that is progress.
 
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