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Was that Al's worst coaching job?

Canes21 said:
Al Golden losing to the defending national champions in the middle of 26 straight wins is a bad coaching job? Let's go back and review the game shall we.

Up 23-10, throw a pass to the endzone, Berrios drops the TD that would have made it 30-10. Golden's fault obviously.

The FG on that drive is missed. Obviously that was on Golden.

Come out running a little more, but still moving the ball in the 2nd half, but the TE fumbles. C'mon Al, protect the ball.

Again, run the ball some more, still moving it, but Kaaya is missing open guys this half. That's on Al, he controls Kaaya' accuracy.

The defense looks to make a stop, but a tipped pass goes for a TD. Obviously Al made that ball tip at the appropriate angle for them to catch for the TD.

Again, running the ball, but Kaaya is still missing his throws when needed. All on Al.

Kaaya throws into triple coverage to end the game. Al threw the pass really.

C'mon guys. Be real here. The players did not make the plays to win. They came out milking the clock, but were still moving the ball on the ground with 4-5 yards a carry. The problem was when they'd let Kaaya throw, he was not accurate in the 2nd half. Nothing is on Al. We still were trying to get 15 yard passes over the middle and had the guys, Kaaya was just getting his passes batted at the line or just missing guys completely every time.

Al didn't turn the ball over 3 times, miss a FG, or look like an idiot blocking on an XP. Al didn't let a tipped pass get caught for a TD. Al did not drop a TD pass to make it 30-10 that would've likely sealed the deal. The players simply did not make enough plays to win. They almost did, but just didn't.

Please return to being a moper, call me a slurper. I don't care. I still believe we'll wipe the floor with UVA and Pitt. If we struggle or even lose, I'll come back here and start having 2nd thoughts. But right now I think we win out easily and are likely to get a favorable bowl game. I feel we'll win it too.
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Let me help you with this...when you go conservative and stop attacking vertically or become predictable, as we did, you put pressure on the qb and team. We would run on first, pass on second or vice versa. We stopped attacking their defense. We didn't attack schematically, did not create mismatches, stopped trying to get over the top to dorssett. We ran on first or second down, as if we could run out the clock at the beginning of the second half. Every subsequent. FSU stop placed more pressure on Kayaa to complete on third down. That's the coaching fail we are referring to. Players make mistakes; not being confident in their ability to overcome mistakes in second half cost us the game.
 
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Miami beat Duke by 12. They'll face someone "barely better than Duke," and roll them? I guess.
 
I have no problem with the coaching last night. The team showed a ton of heart and was unable to close it out. You can second guess the 2nd half play calling to death, but they knew they had to keep our D off the field to win that game. We needed to chew clock and were getting 6 yards a carry on first down.

What lost us that game were two huge plays in the second half. If McCord intercepts that ball or Dobard holds on to that ball we win the game. The momentum switch was huge after the Dobard fumble.
 
Gut check: we are all diehards here, but let's say you had a kid with special football talent that had a shot at making NFL millions. Would you seriously let your kid go play for Al Golden? Do you think Golden would develop your son's talents, optimize his draft standing, add any net value to your son's game, prepare him for the NFL grind? I've been a Miami fan for over 30 years and am a grad-school alum of the place and I wouldn't let my kid anywhere near this guy. There's loyalty--and I have it in spades today as I am sick about last night. But there is also blindly and stupidly following a pied piper. I'd send my kid out of state (would not encourage him to play for UF or FSU) before I'd let him go play for Golden.
 
mydas77 said:
Canes21 said:
Al Golden losing to the defending national champions in the middle of 26 straight wins is a bad coaching job? Let's go back and review the game shall we.

Up 23-10, throw a pass to the endzone, Berrios drops the TD that would have made it 30-10. Golden's fault obviously.

The FG on that drive is missed. Obviously that was on Golden.

Come out running a little more, but still moving the ball in the 2nd half, but the TE fumbles. C'mon Al, protect the ball.

Again, run the ball some more, still moving it, but Kaaya is missing open guys this half. That's on Al, he controls Kaaya' accuracy.

The defense looks to make a stop, but a tipped pass goes for a TD. Obviously Al made that ball tip at the appropriate angle for them to catch for the TD.

Again, running the ball, but Kaaya is still missing his throws when needed. All on Al.

Kaaya throws into triple coverage to end the game. Al threw the pass really.

C'mon guys. Be real here. The players did not make the plays to win. They came out milking the clock, but were still moving the ball on the ground with 4-5 yards a carry. The problem was when they'd let Kaaya throw, he was not accurate in the 2nd half. Nothing is on Al. We still were trying to get 15 yard passes over the middle and had the guys, Kaaya was just getting his passes batted at the line or just missing guys completely every time.

Al didn't turn the ball over 3 times, miss a FG, or look like an idiot blocking on an XP. Al didn't let a tipped pass get caught for a TD. Al did not drop a TD pass to make it 30-10 that would've likely sealed the deal. The players simply did not make enough plays to win. They almost did, but just didn't.

Please return to being a moper, call me a slurper. I don't care. I still believe we'll wipe the floor with UVA and Pitt. If we struggle or even lose, I'll come back here and start having 2nd thoughts. But right now I think we win out easily and are likely to get a favorable bowl game. I feel we'll win it too.
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Let me help you with this...when you go conservative and stop attacking vertically or become predictable, as we did, you put pressure on the qb and team. We would run on first, pass on second or vice versa. We stopped attacking their defense. We didn't attack schematically, did not create mismatches, stopped trying to get over the top to dorssett. We ran on first or second down, as if we could run out the clock at the beginning of the second half. Every subsequent. FSU stop placed more pressure on Kayaa to complete on third down. That's the coaching fail we are referring to. Players make mistakes; not being confident in their ability to overcome mistakes in second half cost us the game.
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I'd love to know how conservative looks when they aren't blitzing a safety who apparently got arm extensions during halftime and is swatting at every got **** throw we are making down the field and the lineman bat down every got **** ball we throw and our home run threat in Duke Johnson pulls a lebron. How EXACTLY do you adjust for that? Because we put Yearby back there and he'd get ran through by their blitzing safety and the reason there weren't more picks is because all the other DBs were playing "Onofrio" and playing deep off the recievers. The batted balls would fall to the space between the line and the defenders way down field.

HERE'S JIMBOS HALFTIME ADJUSTMENT:

Duke is cramping and won't be that much of a factor NOW we can start blazing the frosh with blitzes and cover off in deep man or zone. Yearby is good but still needs work so run thru his little *** all night Ramsey.
 
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Republicane said:
Miami beat Duke by 12. They'll face someone "barely better than Duke," and roll them? I guess.
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Did you even watch the Duke game? It was never in question. The final score doesn't show how badly Miami dominated. And doesn't your logic here with the Duke game sort of go against your argument against the coaching staff sucking? We just lost by 4 to the only undefeated team in the power 5 who has won 26 straight and is the defending national champions. They barely beat us, we must be on their level, right? By your logic, yes.

I'd even say we are right on their level. If Miami had played out of the gate like they have the past 2 months, then they are 8-2 at the worst.
 
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A little extreme there huh.

Players make the pros from all colleges. There are players in the NFL that went to ******* Harvard. I honestly would feel comfortable with my kid playing for Al Golden. He's a good guy and cares for his players. My concern with him is his game day coaching. He just doesn't have what it takes to win big games and can't make the right adjustments during the big games.
 
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