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The # 1 Problem with UM football from 2003 to present

I think the current staff realizes the gravity of need for emphasizing recruiting proper o lineman going forward. Coach Barry sent out a ton of offers, mostly in the Midwest. We have only 3 commits right now and it seems like we're chasing a handful of 3 star guys as Walker is becoming more of a pipe dream. Will Enos alter this offense going forward to incorporate more pace & space/spread concepts ? The biggest disappointment so far this year, minus Baxa, is Enos not scheming to help this subpar o line. Enos is paid 1.5 million to figure this out and I'm sure he's smart enough to realize he doesn't have the monsters up front he had in Bama or Arkansas. If he can make some adjustments we should be fine but we'll see.
 
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RiDLer80 said:
Biggest probably is we hire sh't coaches with ****** schemes that don't put us in a position to excel.

Also, the administration doesn't care whether we win at a high level or not. They're fine cashing conference checks brought in due to revenue sharing. There's no incentive to have a dominant program anymore.
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We had four miserable coaching searches and hires in a row and then spent all of 1 hour on our 5th

Dumbest laziest ******* administration on the planet.

Only excuse to spend 1 hour in that situation is if Urban or Saban wanted to be here
 
#1 Problem is a BOT that doesn't care about the school's reputation, either athletically or academically. All the other things- bad coaches, OL, etc are just symptoms of the disease.
 
WhatTheHell said:
Who do you think decided to run this offense, bub?

Yes, they still suck.
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You realize Enos is new right? First year. He's implementing his offense; not making something up because our OL sucks. We looked fine vs UNC. I think he didn't anticipate us getting dominated by CMU.
 
Again, we have plenty of talent at the skilled positions but what good is that if our OL can't block? We can't get any holes for our RBs and our QB has no time. It's not our overall talent.... its our our lack of football 101 talent. OL.

I don't blame Enos. He has a freshman QB with the worst OL in the country. Yet our QB is still top 20. If anything, I'm excited what Enos has been able to do considering what he inherited.
 
Calvin said:
So in comes troll shalala, her whole agenda was to castrate the football program big 10 style, and while she played the game, let, you'll see where the players were doing things like rolling one of her pants leg up, introducing her to a world she knew nothing about, but let's be real, you not gone find to many females in Life who can understand this ****, let alone alot of males, this is the type of **** that put fear in people, especially when its not fake or manufactured hype:
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Disagree that Shalala had an "agenda" regarding football. My guess is that she did not devote much time at all even thinking about it. Her main job was to raise the academic stature of the school, and she actually did that. Football may not have even qualified as an afterthought. Would it be better for the program to have a university president who's actively engaged with athletics? Probably, but let's be real, this school has NEVER had that. President Foote wasn't exactly the football program's biggest fan.
 
ThomasM said:
The administration not knowing a good coach when they see one is the heart of the problem. For years we went cheap, and now we are just going stupid. Mark Richt gave UM an easy out, and we went and hired a guy with no football playing experience, and no head coaching experience. Just plain stupid. To top it off, we had to pay his buyout. A coach with NO EXPERIENCE... we paid his buyout. "No, Temple, you don't need to pay him to learn on the job. We will pay him, and we will pay you, too."
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Do we know what the buyout paid to Temple was?
 
ItsAUThing.com said:
... and when was the last time before that; 1991.

For a slew of reasons, Miami has never been a hotbed for offensive line talent, outside of the occasional group here or there.

Arthur Francis Kehoe—loved by many for his passion and dedication—was never a great recruiter of top-flight talent. He's recruit scrappy, undersized guys like him, which would eventually land you a KC Jones or Brett Romberg, but there were also a lot more Zev Lumelski types instead of those gems.

Why and how Miami can't go into Big Ten country and entice a lot of these hosses to come south and get on board with the sunshine, laid back vibe and hot girls—no clue.


All that to say, offensive line is the tip of the sh*t iceberg here.
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He was able to grab Mckinnie from Juco which was huge...
 
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Please stop with the Urban talk. We are not an athletics-first university like Florida and OSU. We can't afford him and he wouldn't want this job no matter the salary.

The reason our coach selections have been so poor is because very few people want this job. Poor facilities, fickle fans, reputation, etc. The BOT want to replicate the success of Butch. Hire a coordinator and hope he has success.

From an elite coach perspective.. how do we compete with Alabama, Texas, OSU, Georgia, etc. (Richt was an Alumni)
 
Liquidstoke said:
Miami CANNOT AFFORD URBAN— $6million+ per year...
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Miami's endowment is $1.1 billion. Clemson's is 750 million. Auburn 750 million. FSU 600 million. Miami has PLENTY of money, but you've been tricked into thinking that the school is poor because it chooses to be cheap. Manny makes 3 million. Let's say you hire a coach at 7 million. Over a 3 year period that's 12 million more, which doesn't even make a dent in the endowment. Plus, offset that by all the additional revenue from playing in bigger bowl games , donations, ticket, and merchandise sales. More than makes up the money.

Please stop buying into the narrative that Miami doesn't have money. It has more than a lot of schools with much higher paid coaches.
 
Put the freaking OL in two yard splits and at least create some gaps where we might be able to slip through. Nothing I love more that on 4th & 1 watching us bunch up around the center and everyone knows we're running up the gut...for a two yard loss.
 
PanamaCityCanes said:
Leftovers? Serious people don't believe that. Good recruiters get the talent they want in year eight. Nine TDs? Awesome. How many did his team allow? FYI......they lost a game in which they threw 9 TD passes.

Who we need to hire? There isn't an opening.
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There will be if you think 2-2 (almost 1-3) is okay.
 
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TimeB0mb said:
Miami's endowment is $1.1 billion. Clemson's is 750 million. Auburn 750 million. FSU 600 million. Miami has PLENTY of money, but you've been tricked into thinking that the school is poor because it chooses to be cheap. Manny makes 3 million. Let's say you hire a coach at 7 million. Over a 3 year period that's 12 million more, which doesn't even make a dent in the endowment. Plus, offset that by all the additional revenue from playing in bigger bowl games , donations, ticket, and merchandise sales. More than makes up the money.

Please stop buying into the narrative that Miami doesn't have money. It has more than a lot of schools with much higher paid coaches.
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You'd have been better off saying "I don't understand how endowments work".
 
Side note: the OU OL that protected Baker Mayfield? The one that was in the CFB playoff? Yeah, they had 4 OL drafted last year.

Hmm wonder why OU made the playoff. Lost to UGA which had a STOUT OL.. which lost to Alabama with an even more STOUT OL.

Its really simple, Miami. Start by building a strong OL and all the pieces will fall into place.

Give Enos and Williams and strong OL. We'll be top 5.
 
CaneDogX said:
Miami is known to be a hot-bed of skilled players. 5 Star, skilled athletes at nearly every school in Dade/Broward county. Positions like WR, FS, RB, etc. Teams like Alabama, Ohio State, Clemson come to south Florida and cherry pick our athletes but Miami can match big schools recruiting athletes like Pope, Lingard, Thomas, etc. Recruiting classes are always top 10// top 20. However, the fundamental problem with Miami since 2003 is more than just our coordinators, or play-calling or our coaching.

What do Ohio State, Clemson, OU and Alabama have in common.. year after year. Their QBs change, their RBs change... yet they still dominate. Why?

The # 1 problem with UM football is we do not prioritize our OL. South Florida is deep with speed and skill but not deep with big uglies. Top schools always dominate the line of scrimmage. So we can go on about our talent and recruiting classes, our QB play but we're not landing top OL and DL.

When was the last time we had a dominate OL and DL? I'd say it was 2000, 2001. We continually target these athletes yet Wisconsin dominates us twice... with nowhere near the athletes. We have more 'skill' and more 'athletes' then every team we play.. yet we lose. Why? Because our we're not prioritizing the OL. This year is just another example of misguided recruiting.
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Nothing screams louder than "Jeff Thomas running free on just about every play I watched against UF and Jarren can't get him the ball because he's either on his back or running for his life".
 
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