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This Season Is Mario’s Year 1 and Its going to be a Great One.

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JZCane0825 said:
Best guess -

Maalik Murphy - Texas
Brock Vandagriff - UGA (assuming Beck holds the job down)
One of the Bama QB's (likely Ty Simpson)
Walker Howard - Ole Miss
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ZuCrew said:
You’re good at reading right? Quote the very first line I said back to me..
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The first sentence you wrote doesn’t capture the theme of the whole post. Yes, you acknowledged it was in fact year 2 but there was a “but” afterwards implying that 2023 is actually his first year with his people and yeah, I understand what you’re trying to say but this mentality just feels like we’re dismissing the **** show we witnessed last year. It’s kind of like when coaches tell players the score is 0-0 at halftime if the team is down or up 42-0 to emphasize the importance of maintaining intensity regardless of what’s actually going on. It might be useful in the moment to keep heads level but is useless when you look at the scoreboard after the game, which is what matters most.

I’m not saying we should dwell on the past, but we can’t completely disregard what happened in 2022 when judging Mario and his staff. They’re big boys and they gotta acknowledge it was crap, own it, and make the necessary changes to get better. Hopefully the new OC/DC will do well here. I have a good feeling they will. We might not see it in the first game but I expect us to improve as the season progresses.
 
KrazyCane said:
Last year was a scratch.. not able to get the right coordinators, injuries, and lack of talent.

This year complete roster overhaul… elite recruiting in high school and transfer portal. The right coordinators and a full year for Coach Mario to get the foundation and his plan in place.

Really excited for the season I can tell we are going to surprise a lot of ppl with the level of success we’re going to have this season and how it will further benefit us on the recruiting front this class and going forward.

MARIO IS THE RIGHT MAN FOR THE JOB… I’m just enjoying the ride these next 10+ years under his program.

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I mean it wasn't a scratch; it was his first year and it was a rough one. There are no mulligans. The man went 5-7 and had a very dismal debut; losing a winnable game at aTm (due to a trash OC) which carried over to a soft team not being ready two weeks later for MTSU. The wheels were fast off and things only got worse, blowing a comeback against Duke, getting rolled by rival Florida State and hammered at home against Pitt in the season finale (with a bowl berth on the line.)

All that to say, yes—his first-choice coordinators didn't get on board and his alpha style of management didn't mesh with a roster full of betas that Manny Diaz left him. Mario wanted to believe that putting a boot up the **** of this team and a tough guy approach and hard challenges to this team would will them to wanting to win big, and it didn't.

As a result, the dead weight was cut—roster-wise, as well as with wrong-fit coordinators—and it was "back to work" with team full of kids who stuck around to rebuild and get it right (as well as some portal additions and some solid recruiting.)

I have no doubt that Mario is the right guy for the job and that he will bring Miami back, but I still think this year is going to be good-not-great at this rate.

Miami will go as far as revamped Tyler Van Dyke can take them and the roster needs to stay healthy; not losing the likes of a Don Chaney or Xavier Restrepo early-on and getting things off on the wrong foot. Seems the Canes have gotten every unlucky bounce every year since 2017 and hoping that something gives this year in regards to the football gods taking mercy.

Need to build momentum early this year—like last year, an early showdown against the Aggies a tone-setter.

Win that game and Miami can legit find their way to 5-0 going into a tough road game at North Carolina on October 14th.

Miami (OH), Bethune-Cookman, Temple and Georgia Tech are all dogs—and the Canes need something to will themselves to victory in Chapel Hill, where they haven't won a football game since 2017 and only one twice over the past decade (2013).

Take care of business up to that point and Miami can legit parlay this into a 10-2 season—as a home game against Clemson and road trips to North Carolina State and Florida State loom—but it starts with this team getting the bad taste of 5-7 out of its mouth and having confidence going into North Carolina mid-October.

Show up. Play hard. Rebuild a broken culture. Recruit the right kids. Coach them up. Work harder than everyone else.

This roster will look even better in 2024 and 2025, but there is enough in 2023 (with TVD and a revamped o-line) for Miami to show they were much better than 5-7 last year and underachieved their ****s off with dead-weight player to spiral that badly.
 
Bigdaddycane44 said:
The first sentence you wrote doesn’t capture the theme of the whole post. Yes, you acknowledged it was in fact year 2 but there was a “but” afterwards implying that 2023 is actually his first year with his people and yeah, I understand what you’re trying to say but this mentality just feels like we’re dismissing the **** show we witnessed last year. It’s kind of like when coaches tell players the score is 0-0 at halftime if the team is down or up 42-0 to emphasize the importance of maintaining intensity regardless of what’s actually going on. It might be useful in the moment to keep heads level but is useless when you look at the scoreboard after the game, which is what matters most.

I’m not saying we should dwell on the past, but we can’t completely disregard what happened in 2022 when judging Mario and his staff. They’re big boys and they gotta acknowledge it was crap, own it, and make the necessary changes to get better. Hopefully the new OC/DC will do well here. I have a good feeling they will. We might not see it in the first game but I expect us to improve as the season progresses.
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I don't think you can judge "Mario and staff" in 2023 for 2022 when both Gattis and Steele are gone—as Guidry and Dawson have nothing to do with last year.... but do agree that you don't give a mulligan for 2022. Chalk it up to a learning experience and a dead weight roster full of betas that simply didn't response to Mario's alpha-dog efforts to will them to harder work and playing better football.
 
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