Not sure how accurate this really is, and also doesn't account for situation obviously, but teamrankings.com has Miami at 127th in the country in seconds per play. Meaning, we take 29.6 between each play, which ranks 127th out of 136. Yes, Army and Navy are lower/slower, but not many other teams.
HOWEVER, and again I think some of this is situation driven because they're almost always winning, but Ohio State is dead last. 136th out of 136. Vanderbilt, who is a Top 10 team, is 131st. So I don't think this directly correlates to winning or offensive production. There is more than one way to skin a cat. Last year, we were 77th in this number. So it wasn't exactly hyperspeed there either.
Again, I don't think the problem is pace. Some could disagree, and that's OK, I'm not saying I'm right. I'm not saying pace = production, but if you want to argue we should go faster, I'll agree because what we're doing isn't working.
But Ohio State, again, is dead last. They're 25th in yards per play. We're 55th. So slow isn't necessarily bad, but if you're slow AND inefficient, maybe try to switch it up? I do think though the staff understands they have a championship defense and perhaps their line of thinking is, we can win games with that side, so possess the ball, obviously try to score points but don't sacrifice quick punts to do it, and keep our defense fresh because that's our superior unit? Just spitballing. Obviously it'd be ideal to be Top 10 on both sides, but there's probably a reason very few teams historically are. You usually need to play complementary, and scoring 50 and allowing zero probably only exists on XBox. Again, thinking/typing out loud.
