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The biggest difference between Miami and Michigan

DMoney said:
Physical, ball-control football still wins the games that matter. Miami tried to establish this culture all year. Our OL is actually better than Michigan’s right now- watch how the NFL draft plays out.

Yes, Michigan is the better team overall with the better defense and deeper NFL talent. But the difference should not be as stark as it is. What’s the biggest difference between the two teams? Game management.

Michigan is 5th nationally in fewest giveaways. Miami is 107th. And despite Michigan using a dozen different head coaches, they consistently make better decisions in crucial situations. They also had a smart quarterback who was at his best when his team needed a conversion.

You can’t be a physical, grind-it-out team if you consistently fail to manage the game. The reason Miami is 7-5 is because the coaches and quarterback did not consistently manage the game all season.
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Although I don't know this for a fact, I strongly suspect they also have a DL coach that is capable of recruiting quality DTs.
 
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Gocanes1990 said:
I gotta back my boy @DMoney here. I’d add something @Cribby and I have spoken about as well. UGA has dudes at skill positions, as in multiple RBs, tes and WRs, so does every other CFB playoff team. If we hold on to Carr and Riley (which we should), we start to look more and more dangerous on offense. Yes I think they are both that explosive. We still need a portal WR but we should have money to spend with our departures.
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No doubt Those are great additions! (And for the record Jojo chance and if we flip Lyle and keep lofton I like them too) But to really be dangerous on top of additions we gotta also keep our guys and these rumors of dudes leaving is a little bit concerning!
 
Salt said:
That’s the culture change Mario wants to bring. Those guys that played yesterday had every reason to pack it in. They went out there and kicked ***. Manny’s teams wouldn’t have shown up.
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We used to have it, and we were unstoppable. We lost it under Coker and haven't gotten it back since. We need elite culture before all else.
 
DMoney said:
Physical, ball-control football still wins the games that matter. Miami tried to establish this culture all year. Our OL is actually better than Michigan’s right now- watch how the NFL draft plays out.

Yes, Michigan is the better team overall with the better defense and deeper NFL talent. But the difference should not be as stark as it is. What’s the biggest difference between the two teams? Game management.

Michigan is 5th nationally in fewest giveaways. Miami is 107th. And despite Michigan using a dozen different head coaches, they consistently make better decisions in crucial situations. They also had a smart quarterback who was at his best when his team needed a conversion.

You can’t be a physical, grind-it-out team if you consistently fail to manage the game. The reason Miami is 7-5 is because the coaches and quarterback did not consistently manage the game all season.
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So we need a better QB and new smarter coaches
 
E1k said:
Funniest thing this fanbase does is compare our mediocre product to the elite teams after their big games lol **** happens every year.

The real difference is administration and coaching.
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Yoyo82 said:
You have zero margin for error when you play that type of football.

And Michigan makes very few errors.

We're not like that and may never become like that. We can be disciplined and execute well without making mistakes but Mario seems like he instills the kind of culture where you're afraid to make mistakes which causes you to make more.
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Do you get the feeling Harbaugh is a laid-back, player's coach? I don't, but maybe you're right.
 
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The U is back to work said:
Michigan’s OL is more impactful when you need them to be. Miami’s OL has similar talent but they do what they need to do seemingly always on third and short. Also, Michigan does the play action short passing game better than almost any in CFB. Those two things keep drives alive.
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We don’t even have the play action short passing game or screens to RBs. We just learned what a slant is two weeks ago. We throw 50 WR screens per game smh
 
OrangeBowlMagic said:
Yanno, I listen to a lot of podcasts in the summer for gambling purposes. One stuck out to me. Now listen, it’s one guy’s opinion. It doesn’t mean **** in the grand scheme. But this guy is a northerner and knows a TON about CFB. Very prominent better and follower of the sport.

When doing the ACC preview, he had some reasonable things to say about us. And then he said something to the effect of “I don’t think the kids take football very seriously down there. If you’re REALLY serious about the game, if you’re a professional and your whole life is football, you go to Michigan, Taint, Bama, UGA, etc. When you go to Miami, you go to play ball, of course, but I don’t feel like very many kids who have an insatiable appetite for the game and want to consume football 24/7/365 go there”.

Now,,,,AGAIN….this isn’t every single kid, obviously. Some kids we get are very serious about the game. Some kids the upper echelon programs get or not. But overall, I can’t argue with him. The results and performance speaks for themselves. Now I do think Mario is trying to change this. He’s said it in so many words a ton of times. But I think it’s a pretty big part of what’s separated Miami from those schools for the last decade plus. I just don’t see 85 kids who are ******* cyborg T-1000 football players who are smart, disciplined, trained, etc. Those teams are like soldiers. Mercenaries. They’re ALL-IN and razor focused. I don’t think our kids are really like that, overall.

Anyway, just one dude talking into a mic in July. But it really stuck with me. At first I got defensive but when I really thought about it I was like ****, you really can’t argue that. If you wanna essentially be a pro before you’re a pro, you’re not likely going to Miami. Hope that changes soon with this staff.
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what podcast sir?
 
This is such a necessary thread. The tough and physical commentary here makes me want to puke. It’s dumb af.

Tough and physical is the only way to play football. Stop being ****. If you’re upset about being unbalanced or not explosive, then say so. You don’t have to fault physicality or toughness for the same.
 
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Yoyo82 said:
10 weeks? Mario has had 2 years and is STILL behind every coach we've ever had here (in 40+ years) after the same 2 years.

Anybody that thinks he hasn't been a MAJOR disappointment to this point isn't being real.

Doesn't mean we can't be optimistic that he'll succeed at some point but up to now he's absolutely underperformed.
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Compare the roster now versus the roster we had when he got here. He came in & pull the David Copperfield with a Manny special, dead recruiting class & a dog **** roster.

He's made some unthinkable game day blunders but this program is night and day better than when he started here and if you can't see that you're a moron.
 
SWFLSWAGG17 said:
Compare the roster now versus the roster we had when he got here. He came in & pull the David Copperfield with a Manny special, dead recruiting class & a dog **** roster.

He's made some unthinkable game day blunders but this program is night and day better than when he started here and if you can't see that you're a moron.
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He's built the roster up enough to almost be competitive with the previous regime.
 
SWFLSWAGG17 said:
Compare the roster now versus the roster we had when he got here. He came in & pull the David Copperfield with a Manny special, dead recruiting class & a dog **** roster.

He's made some unthinkable game day blunders but this program is night and day better than when he started here and if you can't see that you're a moron.
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And THAT'S the problem with Mario. This program IS much better than when he took over.

And yet he still found a way to go 7-5.

He'll need an elite/top 5 roster if we ever want to be a top 10 team again.
 
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