Romberg on Reed hire

[Jedi Master Cane]

It's a clear Blake James attempt to placate the mob calling for his head. Bring in a big name from the past but give him a dotted line right to Manny, effectively neutering his authority.

Thing is, if that ******* moron Flake had any brains he'd give Reed a REAL role where he can make an actual difference. He knows more about football than the majority of our staff put together.

Hopefully Reed sticks around, outlasts the current incompetent regime, and moves up the ranks to a position where he can EVENTUALLY make a real difference. I have a ton of respect for Reed's football IQ.

 

[cowboycane]

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.

Yes we all forget because we don't have mouth breathers like you making the same tired argument every single post.

We were the worst Miami team I have ever watched, win, lose or draw.

 

[Ethnicsands]

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.

Diaz has done nothing whatsoever to convince he he is a real coach. He talks **** and fires people during the off-season, but coaches like **** and tolerates quitting during the season. Whatever.

And progress is just a word. Improving on failure doesn’t mean much more than a lesser extent of failure. I would like to see a competent coach who can succeed.

 

[ThomasM]

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.

While I agree with you, we said the same things last year. We weren't trotting Rosier out there. We didn't have Richt's pre-historic O. 2019 was going to be so much better than 2018.

Here's hoping 2020 IS different.

 

[We the Boss]

So you’re saying ‘if we had scored 35 points a game, if we’d had fewer turnovers, if we’d had brtter field position, if we’d hit long field goals....’?

Are there any coaches other than Eddie O who can’t say the same sort of excuse shizzle?

“If we didn’t suck, we wouldn’t suck trollz!”

 

[Liquidstoke]

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.

True....but

Every game in a season is inter-connected...

The more you win the more momentum you can build…

And the more you lose the more the teams morale drops...

By the last three games of the season you could see the defense and the rest team had thrown in the towel for the season.

 

[Twhizman]

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.

Last season basically told everyone what the culture,character and work ethic our team had.good teams police themselves make each other accountable.

 

[Dghustla]

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.

Lol bruh we lost to FIU, Ga Tech and Duke...there are no excuses to be made.

Manny was hired without even interviewing another candidate and the justification was “he’s knows exactly what we need for immediate results and we don’t have to start over.”

Guess what he failed and failed worst than even worst our corches.

Yes there is reason to be cautiously optimistic and manny won’t have any excuses with his 2nd OC (and his first choice) and a heisman caliber QB.

In short the only trolls are the ppl who defend losing to inferior opponents and blame everyone except the coaches as if they were just bystanders. It’s a loser mentality quite frankly.

 

[dumbo]

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

That was because scholarships were cut from 1997-1999.

 

[Handsome Squidbum]

That was because scholarships were cut from 1997-1999.

The 2017 recruiting class was the 1st since 2013 that didn't have scholarship restrictions. I'm fairly certain that Mark Richt didn't use up all 85 scholarships in 2018. Then he was gone for 2019 and Diaz had to salvage the class. So functionally whats the difference? Whether through choice or the NCAA's mandate, Miami didn't have a full roster. Diaz is to blame for a lot of things, but didn't control the number of scholarships when Richt was HC. The 2020 recruiting class is Diaz's first class where he was the HC for the early signing period. So far I think recruiting is on point.

I think a lot of the fans forget about the 2018 season and actually believe that Miami went from a 10-3 season under Richt to 6-7 under Diaz. Again I want to point out a key difference about how coaches reacted to failure. Every fan demanded that Al Golden fire D'Nofrio and switch to a 4-3. He refused. Every fan demanded that Richt hire an OC. He refused. Every fan demanded Diaz switch to a spread offense. He immediately fires Enos, and did something for the 1st time in the history of the program- switched from a prostyle offense to a spread offense, then managed to land one of the best DT QBs in the country and pair the #1 sack leader in CFB with the #3 sack leader. Not sure what else you want a HC to do when a season doesn't go as planned.

 

[Southcane]

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.

I don't who is the troll in this case. I'm hugely critical of this adminstraton and this HC but I know I'm among the few who paid premium price to watch this team win the last NC in the Rose Bowl 20 years ago. Look in the mirror buddy.
I'm hoping for the best but before we get too excited let's see how much of an impact someone in an "advisory" role makes when the executive who is being "advised" is no es bueno.

 

[nuprin]

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.

Makes sense...have everything go our way, but nothing for the other team. The IF game is dangerous...

 

[ibis4441]

If we had made those 5 chip shot FGs we missed, then we would have beaten mighty La Tech.

Actually we would have needed a kicker who could kick 4 different field goals from over about 70 yards. The only time we got the ball past the 50 was when the defense returned an interception to about the La Tech 25 yard line.


In order to have won the game, we'd have needed to make 4 field goals from our own side of the field, and then make a 5th field from about 42 yards.

 

[ibis4441]

I don't who is the troll in this case. I'm hugely critical of this adminstraton and this HC but I know I'm among the few who paid premium price to watch this team win the last NC in the Rose Bowl 20 years ago. Look in the mirror buddy.
I'm hoping for the best but before we get too excited let's see how much of an impact someone in an "advisory" role makes when the executive who is being "advised" is no es bueno.

When we go anywhere from 5-7 to 9-4 next year, it'll become clear who the real trolls are. The sunshine pumpers.

 

[jjjrcanes]

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.

Team tanked and our QB was doing his best impersonation of John Travolta at the clubs instead of preparations for FIU and L Tech. I do think we can turn this around just off the changes Manny has made during this off season. But your point is well taken.

 

[NDE]

Yes we all forget because we don't have mouth breathers like you making the same tired argument every single post.

We were the worst Miami team I have ever watched, win, lose or draw.

Defense has been top 15 for the last 4 years. Last year our Offense was dead LAST. We had NO kicker. We had NO QB. We resolved all three, now go crawl back to sucking up a Gator's ***.

 

[SinisterCane]

3-9

 

[Rellyrell]

Funny he brought up patience and the Reed affect not being over night..and also the Players being accountable..and that some of the kids with a ego not taking it well...funny.

Romberg is a Cane, always will love him; but man, I dunno know how much stock I put into his statements. He’s all over the place.
Taking ER20 completely out of this; w/ all the changes made to ON FIELD staffing, there’s no reason we shouldn’t win at least 9 regular season games. The schedule is favorable, once again.

 

[ibis4441]

Romberg is a Cane, always will love him; but man, I dunno know how much stock I put into his statements. He’s all over the place.
Taking ER20 completely out of this; w/ all the changes made to ON FIELD staffing, there’s no reason we shouldn’t win at least 9 regular season games. The schedule is favorable, once again.

To be honest, we shouldn't go worse than 11-1 in the regular season.

And I predict 6-6.

 

[Rellyrell]

To be honest, we shouldn't go worse than 11-1 in the regular season.

And I predict 6-6.

Brethern, I agree w u; but I’m trying to be conservative and give a benefit of the doubt based upon everything that’s transpired last season.

if we go another middling 8 wins or below and not win the Coastal, man......complete changes need to be made