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STG said:
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Mario, is that you? The amount of excuses in this post are nauseating. Jeezus what utter nonsense. I mean, literally pointing to losing to a team by X points as some achievement, just might get you the ultimate Mario guzzler award.

The PAC 12 was straight trash when he happened to be at Oregon. Both Washington and USC were down during that time.

That Washington team he was 3-1 against, was 25-18 during his 4 years at Oregon.

USC was 21-21 during his 4 years at Oregon.

The best team in the conference over the 4 year span he was the HC at Oregon was Utah (33-14), and guess what, he was 1-3 against them.

As a 7 point favorite against Arizona in 2018, he lost by 29.

As a 13 point favorite against Arizon State in 2019, he lost.

As a 13 point favorite against Oregon State in 2020, he lost.

As a 9 point favorite against Cal in 2020, he lost.

As a 8.5 point favorite against Stanford in 2021, he lost.

At Oregon, he was 7-6 against ranked opponents.

Thus far during his tenure at Miami, where he has had the highest paid staff and roster of any team in the conference, he has delivered a conference record of 14-14 (50%) with no conference championships or even an appearance.

In comparison, Manny Diaz was 16-9 (64%) in ACC play during his 3 years at Miami. Mark Richt was 16-8 (67%) during his 3 years at Miami. Both with substantially better results in coference, with no financial support to speak of. Unlike Mario, who has had one of the best budgets to work with in the country.

Furthermore, Mario is 4-6 against ranked opponents (at the time they played) while at Miami.

But the best is always saved for last, as we all know, he has lost 6 games as a double digit favorite in 3.5 years at Miami. The most by any HC in FBS during that time span.

So stop with the bull**** excuses. The guy is a flat out bum as a HC.
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Thank you for putting this out there. People defending him need to read this over and over again until they realize there is not a single justifiable reason to keep him employed. This isn't emotional, it is a fact. He is the worst coach we have had since Randy. For those in power, how can you sit back and think this is okay? We are paying at minimum double, investing at minimum double, no "cloud" excuse, no indoor practice facility excuse, no cheating at recruiting by bama, and others excuse. I am not sure what the excuse could be at this point? Manny Diaz, Mark Richt, and Al Golden - all better coaches than what we have today. What is **** show considering how things went with that trio.

Rip the **** band-aid off Miami and go get someone with a functioning brain. Then, give that staff the same resources you are giving this bum. Results will be dramatically improved.
 
Memnon said:
Nothing.

He already simplified & stripped down the Offense to its bare bones.

Beckson just needs to make better decisions.

Every Offense that he's played in has been designed to protect his poor decision making. When he was under Mike Bobo, it was an extremely simplistic West Coast Pro-style, that was predicated on half field one read progressions, and he still threw 12 picks.

What a lot of you guys just aren't understanding is that Beck is not the QB he was presented to you all to be. He's been carried for his whole college career & as soon as he lost the NFL caliber talent surrounding him, he got exposed.

This is who Beck is.
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they are who we thought they were
 
If Lofton lived up to the Greentree hype, it wouldn’t matter.

In 2025, you can’t have an offense where a major component of it is a glorified fullback.

I don’t care about some random NFL team that does it. I don’t care if Oklahoma had it for a season.

Mario’s vision of offense is bunching the box, pounding the football, and dumping it out to a guy like Lofton on a safe pass that the fullback turns into a decent gain.

That cannot work. It was never going to work even in the best case scenario.
 
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Bipolarcane said:
The CIS myths are wild man. This team is mid and was hyped up as one of the best teams in America. maybe Mario’s teams wear down because of how they practice. You can do that **** in Alabama when you have 5 stars as backups. Everywhere else that **** takes a toll.
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We are mid because defensive coordinators realized just after the FSU game that they had zero need to respect the pass game. Has very little to do with the team wearing down. The players are tired because losing sucks. From watching film DCs knew exactly which WR was Becks primary target. He can’t read the field. If they took away his primary, he got happy feet and would invariably throw to then next WR who looked open, but of course it was a trap, they were baiting him to throw a pick.

This isn’t something we haven’t seen before . We saw almost the exact same thing with TVD. How did Lashlee make him productive while Gattass and Dawson failed? Because Lashlee schemed WRs open. TVD had one read and got the ball out. Cristobal’s offensive philosophy is “I have better players than you.” Neither of his OCs scheme WRs open, they run talent-dependent schemes where WRs have to win their 1 on 1 matchups. It forces the QB to make decisions. Beck can’t. So bottom line this is a Beck and Cristobal offensive philosophy problem.
 
bacane said:
Key take-away is the lack of urgency on offense is a recipe for disaster. When you run down the play clock & grind it out, you’re shortening the game while allowing less talented teams to hang around. Then, throw in our penchant for penalties & you’re now in a dog fight. Laugh at chatter about being in one possession & one score games - well, we’re writing the script. Don’t need an MIT degree to figure this **** out.
Finally, the offensive line play has been on a steady decline for 3-4 weeks - pre-snap penalties galore & an undersized center who is almost unplayable. Chuckle recalling our board geniuses pumping up Mario & his little coaching friend during the recruitment of Jackson Cantwell. We boasted about the best OL tutors in the country. Stacy Searels & Mike Bobo were absolute trash. Well, play on the field is what matters & UGA’s offense isn’t perfect, but it’s more creative & stat-wise clearly better than what we’re putting out. Just imagine our offensive production if Toney had hung around for his HS senior year.
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You have to truly wonder how a guy like Meathead can’t understand this basic concept!!!

When you have the horses, you want as MANY plays as possible to be played so that separation occurs as it will naturally be inclined to do.
But Meathead Mario, for all his braggadocio persona is a *****. Him taking a KNEE w 30 sec and a timeout tell you who he truly is!!!

A big giant *****!
 
Dawson: Disappointingly boring, fearful, and repetitive.
Beck: I was adamant we were getting somewhere in between 2023 and 24 (and 24 PFF still gave him a good grade). He’s been much worse than 2024. Enormous waste of money. Disaster.
Oline: Didn’t grade out as dominant as they looked last year, but the results this year are embarrassing. They pushed ND around. Now they can’t compete with Louisville and SMU. Anez Cooper hasn’t blocked anyone in months. Mauigoa is beyond overrated and I wouldn’t touch him in the 1st round. Brockermeyer is not a P4 starter.
WR: Daniels is limited. Marion is not a P4 starter. Incomprehensible that JoJo wasn’t playing over them. Dawson scared to improve bc it would’ve been uncomfortable for 1 play.
Defense: I feel bad for. The intensity is fading which is understandable when the offense is anemic. Prevent Hetherman from getting a HC job
Mario: keep recruiting but if you can’t find a way to fix it you might be moved upstairs
 
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mossmadness said:
If Loften lived up to the Greentree hype, it wouldn’t matter.

In 2025, you can’t have an offense where a major component of it is a glorified fullback.

I don’t care about some random NFL team that does it. I don’t care if Oklahoma had it for a season.

Mario’s vision of offense is bunching the box, pounding the football, and dumping it out to a guy like Lofton on a safe pass that the fullback turns into a decent gain.

That cannot work. It was never going to work even in the best case scenario.
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Yet Lofton is never given the ball to run, which apparently he was pretty good at doing.
 
Odin said:
I think he's leaving on his own or getting fired.Dowson has been frustrated for weeks now,we've seen it in the games and in his weekly pressers,also told the reporters to not ask him about the running game that it was Mirabal's.Can't see him coming back.
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Dawson wants out. I think he’s gone
Meatheads butt buddy and Mario conservative personality are at odds and stack the deck against dawson
Beck has been major disappointment at LOS
As well which limits offense

It’s really quite pathetic
 
Dgixxer252525 said:
I think now more than ever, teams will benefit from having an X’s and O’s Head coach rather than a “recruiter”. Recruiting in NIL era has been largely neutralized by money. Teams who pay the most get the most talent.

Pair talent ($$$) with good innovative coaching and you have something
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So you are saying we should have hired Lane😊
Some of us wanted him while others liked Meathead Mario
 
ssvir said:
We need to play with pace on offense.

We need to go 4 wide and spread them out.

Will help the running game and get the 5 best offensive weapons on the field ... no more Lofton/Bauman
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Stop it, you are making way too much much awnse that even MOST cavemen could figure it out!!!

MOST
 
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ssvir said:
LOL - I'll never get this Lane infatuation. He's had 2 losses once and 3+ every other year and literally had the 2nd most talented roster last year, and didn't make the playoffs.

You should switch your *****ing to wanting Cignetti since he's actually accomplished something
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Hmmm
SEC = acc. ???
 
PRcane787 said:
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I see your Pop Tart and raise you this!
 
DMoney said:
Before this week's post, I wanted to talk to people outside the Canes bubble. I spoke to NFL personnel people, college coaches, and others to get an external perspective on our annual collapse. Afterwards, I spoke to Miami to get the inside perspective. This post will summarize their thoughts, along with my own.

Let's start with a disclaimer. Mario is in Year 4. These are his players, his coaches, and his culture. He owns everything that's failing. A rash of injuries would be outside his control, but we've been pretty healthy to this point. So there are no excuses.

I'll provide my own thoughts first. Most of what we're seeing follows Mario's pattern from Oregon. Those teams were tough, strong up front, competed hard, produced NFL players, and won big games. It was a high-floor operation. They also failed to pull away from weaker competition, lost games as double-digit favorites, struggled with penalties, made gameday blunders, and lacked explosiveness in the passing game. The same stuff is happening here, but without the conference titles. We've yet to reach the same ceiling, and that ceiling was already below title caliber.

If I could sum up this year's problem, it's this: We're a down-and-distance offense that commits an extraordinary amount of penalties. That combination will get you beat in close games.

Two things shocked me about this year's team. First, I expected us to push around ACC defensive lines. The conference is thin on NFL bodies and we'd already powered through the tough part of the schedule. I was dead wrong. We're averaging 3.9 yards per carry, good for 84th nationally. The running game that ran for 5+ yards per carry behind TVD and Anthony Brown looks like ancient history now. We're as bad as everyone says we are.

My second big miss comes from a trio of offensive players. Coming out of spring, I thought Elija Lofton, Jordan Lyle and JoJo Trader would be the focal points of our offense. At his current pace, Lofton will go down as an all-time Greentree All American. I'll wear that albatross forever. He's been that bad.

I'll get defensive for a second here, if only to avoid the Baker Act - everybody watching spring practice thought Lofton was going to be a stud. He was running all over our first-team defense and getting more targets than anybody. But a couple of things happened. He hurt his shoulder, which removed any pop he had as a lead blocker. He hurt his leg, which sapped him of explosiveness. And he appears to be in below-average condition. Finally, we didn't add enough game-ready TE bodies from the Portal, so we haven't been able to use Lofton as much in the backfield (where he's most natural). Add it up, and it's my worst call since the Coker era.

I can't tell if Lyle is struggling with our blocking schemes or if he just has poor vision. But he's another practice standout, which is why he's being force-fed reps. Lyle and Trader will get a ton of opportunities due to injury, and they have a chance to raise the ceiling of this offense. But it hasn't happened yet and it may never happen. My big takeaway- don't put too much stock in spring (which is far away from the season) and base expectations on August camp, which is more predictive.

Now onto the external opinions. I found these were pretty consistent. Everybody pointed out the obvious penalty issues. We're 134rd nationally, and we finished 98th in 2024 and 80th in 2023. Raw penalty numbers can be deceptive (man coverage teams get more DPI, for example), but most of our penalties are controllable pre- and post-snap errors. That's an indictment on team discipline.

Not surprisingly, everybody felt we lacked urgency on offense. We slow the game down at weird times and never catch teams napping with tempo. Our pace works fine against better teams, but allows inferior teams to hang around and win. Our passing game is also straightforward, which is not uncommon for the Air Raid (which relies on execution of simple plays). But it's not clicking for us. Other teams are scheming guys wide open. It's hard to find a comparable examples on our team. SMU played 95% Cover 3 against us, and we couldn't make them pay for the single-high look with downfield passing.

On the running game, multiple people told me there's more variety than fans think (at least lately). The bigger issue is short yardage. We have zero creativity in those situations, and it killed us against SMU. We're missing opportunities to hit explosive plays against stacked boxes, and we're no longer good enough to bully teams that know what's coming. We'd be better off stealing plays off YouTube than running into the same brick walls.

Which brings me to their next observation- even accounting for stacked boxes, our run blocking has taken a huge step back. My NFL sources pointed to C and LG as major problem areas, and Anez Cooper has been disappointing as well. Mirabal teaches the double-under block technique, where you strike with your palms facing up and catch movement as opposed to firing off the ball. The benefit is you play with balance and get your hands inside without getting on the ground too much. But it's somewhat of a passive technique that requires brute strength to get movement. We aren't getting that push right now with our current interior personnel. Lastly, as much as we miss Elijah Arroyo, we also miss Cam McCormick and Riley Williams. The blocking at the tight end position has been a problem.

The feedback was better than expected on Carson Beck. He still projects as a mid-round type pick. His biggest issue is that he's the type of guy who runs the play that's called. Not only did Cam Ward change more plays at the line, but he was a perfect fit behind our pass protection (which remains elite). Cam would use the extra time to find angles and rip off explosive throws to Xavier Restrepo. Beck is better getting rid of it quick, and almost looks uncomfortable when he has too much time.

Finally, there is the receiver position. Aside from Malachi Toney and JoJo Trader, our receivers aren't explosive. Recruiting misses on guys like RayRay Joseph, Robbie Washington, Ny Carr, and (maybe) Trader are killing us. We also missed on guys like Zechariah Branch and Eric Singelton in the Portal. Both guys visited and signed elsewhere. The fact that we don't have great route runners is compounding the issue.

I was encouraged talking to folks inside the building because they seemed self-aware. No excuses, even off the record. One guy said flat out, "The fans are right." Penalties are their number one focus- they can't fix everything in November, but cleaning up the penalties would have numerous downstream effects. Nobody said anything about the refs, either. They've raised issues with the league office, but the message to me was about accountability. They know they've failed to this point and lost to less-talented teams.

Now we're going to find out about the culture. My prediction before the season was 10-2. Right now, I'd bet against that. November losses come in bunches and our trajectory has been downhill for a month. The message internally, is "Let it rip." We'll see if that plays out on the field. Go Canes.
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We pulled our guards twice against SMU, and those 2 runs were our best all game long. Lyle also had a 7-yard run on an outside run.

The announcers were actually making fun of our run game at one point, until Brown ran for 8 yards, and they said it was now our longest run of the game. Later on in the 2nd half, Fletcher had a 13 yard run, which then was our biggest rushing attempt.

The running game lacking is not Lyle’s fault, or Brown’s fault, or Fletcher’s fault. These guys are all talented backs. But when you keep on calling the same running plays over and over and you have no RB toss, and virtually no other outside zone runs, combined with poor run blocking, you’re gonna struggle to run the ball.

This is another indictment on the Meathead. I have been saying it since Mario was hired and was negged for saying it by some of the slurpers. Mario is a micro-manager (which even Barry Jackson mentioned in his latest article), and he wants the OC to run the scheme that he prefers. He needs to learn to stay out of any offensive game planning or play calling, and let the OC have full control.

But, after this many years as HC, it’s doubtful that he will change. He is as stubborn as they come. He’s the dude that bangs his head against the concrete wall repeatedly expecting to break the wall, while the only thing that’s breaking is his egg head.
 
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skyman said:
The thing with Lane is he took Ole miss and the fact they have that roster and expectations AT FREAKING OLE MISS?! They had NO TALENT or standards at ole miss prior.. Ole mis was a dump and when they were in SEC west it was auto win compared to when he got there. The fact people have playoff exectation for Ole freaking Miss lets you know how successful he has been there. They never even won 10 regular season games before he got there, lol..


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