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252cane said:
This team is just not as talented as many seem to want to believe. They have enough for the coastal but talking about 11-1 and all that is crazy as ****.
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Obviously we aren't going to make the playoff but Michigan is an example of what type of year we can have, best case scenario. Having a guy like Kaaya will go a long way.
 
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You are putting way too much thought into this. We were an embarrassing loss @ Cincy and a Halfback Pass in in the Snow with our RB from winning 10 games. We can win in the Coastal. You will not be able to tell me otherwise. We aren't National Championship level by any means, but we have enough to win the Coastal. If we win less than 8-9 games its a failure of a season IMO.
 
D_G87 said:
You are putting way too much thought into this. We were an embarrassing loss @ Cincy and a Halfback Pass in in the Snow with our RB from winning 10 games. We can win in the Coastal. You will not be able to tell me otherwise. We aren't National Championship level by any means, but we have enough to win the Coastal. If we win less than 8-9 games its a failure of a season IMO.
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Kind of agree with you but we also almost lost to PITT and NEB barely got out alive. I count Duke because those refs gave them the game and just gave the win back to the rightful owners. Virginia also fought us to the end. so 5 SOLID wins with 3 toss up wins
 
Ericrdreier said:
D_G87 said:
You are putting way too much thought into this. We were an embarrassing loss @ Cincy and a Halfback Pass in in the Snow with our RB from winning 10 games. We can win in the Coastal. You will not be able to tell me otherwise. We aren't National Championship level by any means, but we have enough to win the Coastal. If we win less than 8-9 games its a failure of a season IMO.
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Kind of agree with you but we also almost lost to PITT and NEB barely got out alive. I count Duke because those refs gave them the game and just gave the win back to the rightful owners. Virginia also fought us to the end. so 5 SOLID wins with 3 toss up wins
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I think all those games are a result of coarching. Canes out talent all those teams and if we don't drag Duke's *** this year I'm gonna display some serious broken shouldered butt hurt. **** a bunch of Dook.
 
Dynasty said:
If we can stay healthy I'll take my chances with squad '16. We have enough front-line talent to be dangerous. And by dangerous I don't mean 7 or 8 wins. FOOH with the ant-Cane's low expectations. His max was 9, so I expect more than that from a real, professional coach. Even in year 1.

Richt and company have the accountability bar pretty high by calling out players and all. That's cool. Mash gas, coach. At the end of the day, however, coaching will be the determining factor as to how many games we win. I have faith in Richt's offensive system, especially if it is centered around curl/flat combo. He can save the 'Gawga' shallow cross mesh for when we're inside the 20s. Otherwise, between the 20s, fast-break all day (flat/curl/corner/dig/post/streak).

As for Manny, his defense must stop the run first and foremost. It will be interesting to watch how effective those zone fires are against the run. I think Kaaya mentioned recently something about 'strong scrape' with cover-3 behind it. Overloading is good if you guess right. If you guess wrong, well, whatever. Accountability applies to Manny too. So yeah, Diaz's talk game is refreshing, but nobody will buying the verbiage if his defense can't stop the run and get off the field. Thankfully, Diaz has a great understanding of traditional Miami defense. He knows formula. If his unit is on point, we roll. Just gotta stay healthy.
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Dynasty, with this current roster, if this Oline can just be serviceable( which would be an upgrade over last season), this team can win the Coastal. Last I checked they weren't moved to the SEC West or anything...
 
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rustywalkedaway said:
Two quotes stood out to me:

1. Richt - "We do have some guys that can play; we just don't have a lot of them."

2. Diaz - "We've been trying to push our kids to determine whether they're good enough to be at Miami. Some of them are, and my suspicion is some of them are not."
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These cats aint holding no punches back...they are keeping it 100000000%

its clear how down we are in talent ...I just hope we have enough to survive the
and bring in more talent...I think we are gonna bring in 30 plus..2 classes
to almost turn the roster over...and then 2018 will complete the turn over
we need talent infusion

Freshman can come start day 1
 
They might not win as many as some people think, they might win more, but the defense will definitely be different, and that will help get the difference-making DT's that Miami used to get, and now FSU and Clemson are stockpiling. Speed will come on both sides of the ball. The staff is making it a priority. This is the honeymoon class, and it should be huge. Throw in an attacking defense, and a wide open offense, and things will finally change. Richt is ready to go. He let go of too much at UGA.
 
datdude81 said:
rustywalkedaway said:
Two quotes stood out to me:

1. Richt - "We do have some guys that can play; we just don't have a lot of them."

2. Diaz - "We've been trying to push our kids to determine whether they're good enough to be at Miami. Some of them are, and my suspicion is some of them are not."
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These cats aint holding no punches back...they are keeping it 100000000%

its clear how down we are in talent ...I just hope we have enough to survive the
and bring in more talent...I think we are gonna bring in 30 plus..2 classes
to almost turn the roster over...and then 2018 will complete the turn over
we need talent infusion

Freshman can come start day 1
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Richt was talking about the skill players when he made that comment specifically the wide receivers. Outside of coley we don't have much explosion there at all until the freshman get here. Richt did say in the podcast that we have some really good players and kaaya is as accurate as any qb he has been around
 
You mfs who keep saying we don't have talent are delusional. Just watch...
 
We gotz one corner back worth a ****. Miami gonna get torched in da air unless Richt or Panda can play dem some corner back. Miami gotz talent in spots but da cub bard bare in others. Talent is word only a fool would use in a sentence when describing Miami's Olinemen. Last I checked, Oline is important in fooseball. Richt gonna earn his grub dis year.
 
Canedog said:
We gotz one corner back worth a ****. Miami gonna get torched in da air unless Richt or Panda can play dem some corner back. Miami gotz talent in spots but da cub bard bare in others. Talent is word only a fool would use in a sentence when describing Miami's Olinemen. Last I checked, Oline is important in fooseball. Richt gonna earn his grub dis year.
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We have one experience CB, the rest are unknown. Doesn't mean they won't become anything.
 
holycane said:
Gonna take 3-5 years to rebuild this program. This is what happens when your cheap administration hires 3 incompetent hacks in a row. I expect teams similar to Butch's probation era teams: not so talented kids who will play hard, get the most out of what they can offer, and only have an average of three losses each year until recruiting well gets us back to being a really competitive program again.
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It better not take more than 3 years for Richt's sake. If he doesn't have this team competing by year 3 he may get run out of town also. It shouldn't 5 years to rebuild this program...not with all of the talent in our back yard. Look at what Harbaugh has done in one year already with the hand that he was dealt, that program is about to explode.
 
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Gotta love the offseason where something its raining skittles and others think the sky is falling. Its usually somewhere in between. In any case I more interested in comparing to who we play against. The Coastal division suck and we have the best QB in it. We need to win all the games in it and finally beat a team the world expect us lose.
 
If we can win 8 games last year, which SHOULD HAVE been 9-10, why can't we do it this year? Why can't we beat FSU? Golden, for all his ineptitude, nearly beat them the last two years. Richt wouldn't have lost to Cincy last year. Someone tell me how we are less talented than last year? Yes, we lost Artie Burns, but if you think our front seven isn't going to make things easier for the secondary, you need to rethink. Our QB play should be improved. Our O-line play should be improved. Our RB play should be improved. Our WR play should be improved. Our TE play should be improved... ****, just what Richt brings to the offence alone will mean more wins. Now, add the talent, depth, and Coach Kool to that D-line. Someone tell me why we are talking 8 wins right now. I'm not saying national championship, but I don't see why 10 wins is out of the question.
 
ThomasM said:
If we can win 8 games last year, which SHOULD HAVE been 9-10, why can't we do it this year? Why can't we beat FSU? Golden, for all his ineptitude, nearly beat them the last two years. Richt wouldn't have lost to Cincy last year. Someone tell me how we are less talented than last year? Yes, we lost Artie Burns, but if you think our front seven isn't going to make things easier for the secondary, you need to rethink. Our QB play should be improved. Our O-line play should be improved. Our RB play should be improved. Our WR play should be improved. Our TE play should be improved... ****, just what Richt brings to the offence alone will mean more wins. Now, add the talent, depth, and Coach Kool to that D-line. Someone tell me why we are talking 8 wins right now. I'm not saying national championship, but I don't see why 10 wins is out of the question.
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I totally agree I refuse to believe that we can't win 10 games this year. **** we only lost 1 Coastal game last year. 2 years ago Ga.Tech won the Coastal at 10-2 and last year North Carolina won at 11-1. I'm looking for Miami to duplicate that type of season. Do you guys realize ******* Duke has been to the ACCCG and Miami hasn't. That's coaching
 
It's all about coaching, and we have a coach that could very well be the best coach in the ACC. I think he was wronged at Georgia, and handcuffed by the school, and by the conference. When I read how the SEC refused to let him run his uptempo offence I was shocked. He won't have that in the ACC. Things could get really, really good for us, sooner than the doomsayers would have us believe.
 
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