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Trench Life interview with Mirabal

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The only thing about the style that irks me is that you minimize possessions and let teams hang in games where you are the far superior team. So if you're having an off day or the opponent is playing really well, you got a game on your hands. We saw this against UF. 13-0 felt like 30-0 yet they were down 1 score with the ball.
 
As long as we are winning I could care less if we run the triple option. Just WIN. Style means nothing.
Now if we don't win they will have to answer that.
 
DrNovaCane said:
Hmmmm that may true in “some” respects but Miami has a totally different culture and recruiting landscape…

Plus, we’re not getting top WRs nor top TE’s to come here just to block…

This plodding style of offense is why we fall into so many lulls throughout the game and keep our opponents in it…

But it is what it is so just keep winning; that’s all that matters…
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I don’t think this style is with us for all of Mario’s tenure. But if he had a blueprint (I’m sure he does), the trenches had to come first as it can’t all be built at the same time. I expect the WR’s to be the final piece of the plan. We just have to be patient to allow this program to be completely built out. But I am confident we are doing it exactly as Mario envisioned.

Whether that vision is right or wrong remains to be seen.
 
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AtlAtty said:
Great interview.

But be warned CIS, you may not all like what Mirabal has to say BECAUSE he offers great praise to Jim Harbaugh, Sherrone Moore and the style of play at the University of Michigan. Specifically, that sometimes forget RPO and just run to run. And using 2,3 and even 4 TE’s to just overpower teams. Mirabal literally said he wants UM to be held in the same light as U of M.

Yes friends, as I told many of you 2-3 years ago, Mario wants us to play like Michigan. I know that is distasteful to those of you who prefer to pass the ball 35-45 times per game, but don’t expect to see much of that now that Mario has his roster the way he wants it. Cam Ward and the 2024 team, was the anomaly, not the rule.

But expect UM to win a lot more games than we lose, because in college football this style (with the right personnel), does equate to winning.
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When we move to the Big10 at some point soon, and it's snowing and colder than a bucket of ice in Columbus, OH in early December, and we can win the game because we can bully people and march 75 yards down the field running at five yards a clip . . . that Mario ball is going to look pretty good.
 
AtlAtty said:
Great interview.

But be warned CIS, you may not all like what Mirabal has to say BECAUSE he offers great praise to Jim Harbaugh, Sherrone Moore and the style of play at the University of Michigan. Specifically, that sometimes forget RPO and just run to run. And using 2,3 and even 4 TE’s to just overpower teams. Mirabal literally said he wants UM to be held in the same light as U of M.

Yes friends, as I told many of you 2-3 years ago, Mario wants us to play like Michigan. I know that is distasteful to those of you who prefer to pass the ball 35-45 times per game, but don’t expect to see much of that now that Mario has his roster the way he wants it. Cam Ward and the 2024 team, was the anomaly, not the rule.

But expect UM to win a lot more games than we lose, because in college football this style (with the right personnel), does equate to winning.
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I posted that last year and got booed off the stage. We look like Michigan from 2 & 3 years ago. That's not a bad thing
 
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AtlAtty said:
I don’t think this style is with us for all of Mario’s tenure. But if he had a blueprint (I’m sure he does), the trenches had to come first as it can’t all be built at the same time. I expect the WR’s to be the final piece of the plan. We just have to be patient to allow this program to be completely built out. But I am confidence we are doing it exactly as Mario envisioned.

Whether that vision is right or wrong remains to be seen.
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No doubt…trust me I believe in the direction we’re heading in…

I’m just looking for a little more creativity and a willingness to mix things up more; run and pass from game to game…

When we get those things operating together, we cooking with grease…

That’s all I’m saying
 
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Beck had 30 attempts v ND/UF, would have had 30 against bethune and USF if we didn't blow them out

JJ Mcarthy for example had 6 games of 20 or less attempts, he had 8 attempts in one game against Penn State

We are never going to play like Michigan
 
Gosh, that first clip—what a contrast between this Canes O-Line and that one we opened the season with against the Burrows LSU team. There was more footwork in this example than was displayed all **** game by those flat-footed unathletic guys watching stunts go by and not even getting a hand up.
 
DMoney said:
Agree but with a caveat- we ran the same way last year with Ward and scored a million points.

To me, the best comparison is Alabama under Saban. They won with the running game and defense for years. They added an explosive component with Tua and four first-round wide receivers that took them to a new level. But they never stopped running with physicality.

I think we want to be like our 2024 offense or the Tua Alabama teams that could do both. But if we only have one, give me the power running game that wins championships over the Big 12-style passing attack.
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Bama should be the goal & we’re trending, but not there until we get the elite receivers. Recruiting them looks encouraging. What we don’t want to be is Penn State - defense, running game & struggle in passing game, even with a decent, though overhyped QB.
 
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AtlAtty said:
I agree that the Bama formula is the plan. I just don’t think we have the experienced WR’s to do it; yet.

You know recruiting much better than I do, but I think in 2 years we will have the team that we need to be Bama with Tua/Hurts. Your thoughts?
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Wild, I same the same **** thing in another thread and get shredded wtf
 
DrewZ2 said:
Wild, I same the same **** thing in another thread and get shredded wtf
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Like Mirabal said in the interview, and I am paraphrasing, ‘I think some of our fans would rather see us lose 45-42 than win 10-7’. That isn’t coming from you and me. That is from our Oline coach. And I believe him based on what we read on CIS. All these so-called experts who are not coaching college football for a living who think they care more and know better than the actual coaches.
 
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