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The Svengali said:
Seems like a nice guy, but I think Miami was too big of a jump for him. This was Pat Nic like play calling but on the defensive side of the ball

Some of the play calls tonight were frightening. 4th and 17 blitz, without having 7 dbs on the field??!?!?! Wowsers
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Do we even have 7 DB’s? Serious recruiting question
 
section9 said:
The AD didn't want to pay the money for a Wartime Consigliere at DC like Clemson or OSU. You want to play with the big boys these days, you have to pay Major Money for a top OC and DC.

Miami is still in Richt Land, although Manny won't admit it.
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I am guessing it is more likely that Manny decided to use most of the budget for the OC.
 
I don't get good vibes from this defense at some points of the game. I understand we're thin on players. It showed because it seems like they ran out of gas at the end of the game. With that being said 2 games in I'm concerned with the D.
 
I think he'll improve with time - but he's learning on the job and it's showing.

He's shown a lot of promise in two games, but arguably cost us this one with some of his play calls.

That said, we're really missing an eraser on the backend. Last year for us it was Johnson. For the Panthers it's Kuechly - just a guy that, mentally, is a step ahead of everyone else and stops those 5 yard runs to the boundary turning into 12+ yard killers.

Too many times today they got to the outside on runs and nobody was there.
 
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section9 said:
The AD didn't want to pay the money for a Wartime Consigliere at DC like Clemson or OSU. You want to play with the big boys these days, you have to pay Major Money for a top OC and DC.

Miami is still in Richt Land, although Manny won't admit it.
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Or did Manny just hire a friend of his because of familiarity and he ran the same defense?
 
Insanecane said:
We have a dedicated corner coach and a dedicated safeties coach, yet both sucked monkey balls. Then we have Patke....
We need to fire all 3 plus that Baker ****** and hire 1 DC, 1 Special Teams coach, and 1 Defensive backs (both corners and safeties) coach. Most teams do this.
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I like Rumph - he’s a technician and I think he should be coaching all DBs (plus safeties)

But I agree with your premise. Id keep Rumph, move one from everyone else and hire 1 ST coach and 1 stud DC.

The learning curve is too big for Baker. The jump to Miami is just waaaaaaay too big for him. You can see it. He needed to go to someplace like UCF or Vanderbilt as a mid tier move to learn at one of those schools before jumping to this level.

Miami needs to poach outstanding DCs from other P5 programs, not from a low tier program like Louisiana Tech.
 
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OldhamA said:
I think he'll improve with time - but he's learning on the job and it's showing.

He's shown a lot of promise in two games, but arguably cost us this one with some of his play calls.

That said, we're really missing an eraser on the backend. Last year for us it was Johnson. For the Panthers it's Kuechly - just a guy that, mentally, is a step ahead of everyone else and stops those 5 yard runs to the boundary turning into 12+ yard killers.

Too many times today they got to the outside on runs and nobody was there.
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Since when did the UM DC job become a “learn as you go” gig?
 
acento said:
Since when did the UM DC job become a “learn as you go” gig?
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It's not, he was very successful at Louisiana Tech.

My hope is that as the season goes on he learns to shelve our more 'exotic' plays as they just don't work at this level.
 
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OldhamA said:
It's not, he was very successful at Louisiana Tech.

My hope is that as the season goes on he learns to shelve our more 'exotic' plays as they just don't work at this level.
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You just said: “He’s learning on the job...” I say, **** anyone who needs to learn on the job on my ******* team. “He’ll get better...” Do you understand what a loss like tonight does for recruiting?

Want to know how Clemson got to where they are? Cause they stopped losing to basketball schools. They made recruits take them seriously. They weren’t ok with their coaches “figure things out as they go”. Pathetic
 
Manny needs to take over the D play calling, and poach a whale DC asap. Tonight was pathetic.
 
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