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Brains said:
This is true. But you can have a sufficient threshold of the roster opt out of the game.
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Do you even really follow this team! Outside of of injuries we are three deep at every position even if upper classmen opt out smh
 
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SFbayCane said:
We have a 12 win roster and a 7 win gameday head coach.
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RomeoJunior said:
Extreme misnomer to say the least,....suggesting that half the success in W/L's is the HC that's not calling plays but has some magical video game controller.

If we have a 12 win roster,....how'd we get that 12 win roster to begin with? Who's responsible for it?

Because FSU and UF are trying to figure it out and would really like to know.
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It was implied in my initial post.
 
Handsome Squidbum said:
c. Is not something in their control during the season and their backup qb actually won games.

I know fans say we got a bad draw with nothing falling our way the last 3 weeks, but I think fsu also had a run of luck as bad as ours. Worse in some respects in that they won every regular season game and couldn’t make the playoffs because other teams ahead of them didn’t lose and their conferences were more respected. I have a feeling if the other 4 teams were to have lost their qb, they would not have been dropped if they kept winning (as fsu did). I guess just a coincidence these ***** jobs both happened to ACC teams.
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It makes no difference if it is "in their control during the season". We are fully aware of, and should not ignore, that Prison Mike Norvell inherited Jordan Travis and has otherwise failed to identify, recruit, and develop a high-quality QB of his own during his entire tenure at F$U.

If your whole team relies on one player, and you have no decent backups, that is the fault of the coach, and should reflect poorly on the team.

I'm not sure why The Snub was such a shocking surprise. In the week after Jordan Travis got hurt (and Tate Rodemaker performed well against NORTH ALABAMA), both the AP poll and the CFP lowered F$U's ranking from #4 to #5. Off of a WIN. And a blowout win at that.

The next week, Tate Rodemaker and Brock Glenn struggled to beat a 5-7 Florida Gators team, 24-15. Not only did F$U have to come from behind in the 4th quarter, but Tate was only responsible for 17 points on offense. Once he was injured, Brock Glenn came in to finish the final TD drive. FSU moved up one spot in AP and CFP due to an Ohio State loss.

Finally, against a 10-2 Louisville team, Brock Glenn struggled to lead a 16-6 victory. Poor Brock went 8 of 21 for 55 yards passing. By contrast, Texas beat a ranked Oklahoma State team by 28 points in its championship game, and Alabama beat previously undefeated and #1 Georgia in its championship game.

Like it or not, the CFP felt that BROCK GLENN and Jordan Travis were not equivalent. F$U should have recruited better QBs, as well as better OLs to protect those QBs, and then there would not have been such a substantial drop-off.

Whether F$U can "do something in their control during the season" is not my concern. If the CFP criteria allowed them to evaluate a team differently after the loss of key players or coaches, then that is their prerogative, regardless of whether "Tate Rodemaker won a game" or "Brock Glenn won a game.

There is a difference between the CFP Committee following its rules in 2023, as opposed to making up several inconsistent and contradictory criteria during its 2025 press conferences.
 
Ispyin said:
They should just use the American conference tiebreakers, which essentially does a version of this already and changing it in the off-season since it’s not gonna happen now

This conference ******* sucks but Miami can’t act like we’re not passive contributors to why it sucks including how our athletic department and presidents interact with it
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I'm not completely disagreeing. I complained about Beta Blake FOR YEARS before he was replaced. And I'm the first to acknowledge that all of my Radakovich optimism has dissipated, and I now consider him to be a massive disappointment and failure.
 
TheOriginalCane said:
We are not canceling the ND game either.

What P4 team could fill those slots? Particularly as the SEC and Big 10 go to 9-conference-game schedules.

I keep trying to tell people...the college football landscape is quite different than it was 40 years ago.
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Perhaps we can schedule a “non conference” game against an ACC team ala UVA / NC State.
 
Fawk_U Haters said:
And we’ll lose 2-3 games we shouldn’t and be in the same situation. Always stuck in the chair
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Sure, some years, most of alleged Playoff teams lost games they shouldn't, but I know we will always be in the hunt now and we will get in under Mario, the program is going in the right direction
lets see how thus year goes on Tuesday and next Saturday.
 
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passitback said:
Perhaps we can schedule a “non conference” game against an ACC team ala UVA / NC State.
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I know it's not common or preferred, but what would you have had them do?

They both had an open slot due to opponents canceling. If they add "Bethune-Cookman", then their strength of schedule plummets.

I hope it never happens again, but I'm not mad at UVa/NC State. **** happens.

Again, ACC leaders and various university ADs need to plan out the rules and scenarios for tiebreakers...a bit better...a LOT better...

If you **** well know that a new "expansion" to 12 teams (and new rules) have been implemented, rules in which a P4 conference champion MIGHT be excluded, you have to take action to guard against that doomsday scenario, as it will cost you over $15M in revenue (and probably more in the future).

Make it clear in the "tiebreaker" language that only teams ranked in the Top 25 at a certain date may be considered for the championship game slots.

Period.

Problem fixed.

Duke would be "out" of the tiebreaker scenarios based on that simple change in language.
 
This is where I’m at. This is the hill I’m dying on because the rest of them are out of sight out of mind for me. If we get a K Lacy to LSU rumor within the next 72 hours, we might be cooking.

We need lane kiffin to go full scorched earth; he needs to poach more players than CC going from JMU to IU.

 
tdjones34 said:
Sure, some years, most of alleged Playoff teams lost games they shouldn't, but I know we will always be in the hunt now and we will get in under Mario, the program is going in the right direction
lets see how thus year goes on Tuesday and next Saturday.
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All I know are the facts……Mario has had an OVERWHELMING financial advantage and the advantage of a conference that is down a both his HC gigs in the last 8 years…….and he hasn’t ever made the dance.

those are facts
 
cookies said:
This is where I’m at. This is the hill I’m dying on because the rest of them are out of sight out of mind for me. If we get a K Lacy to LSU rumor within the next 72 hours, we might be cooking.

We need lane kiffin to go full scorched earth; he needs to poach more players than CC going from JMU to IU.

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I don't see how that's leverage for lane because he's going to do that anyway lol
 
Fawk_U Haters said:
All I know are the facts……Mario has had an OVERWHELMING financial advantage and the advantage of a conference that is down a both his HC gigs in the last 8 years…….and he hasn’t ever made the dance.

those are facts
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well good thing he's got 6 more years and then as long as he wants here to prove you wrong.
 
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The single most important thing the University of Miami can do is leave the ACC conference for either of the SEC or Big Ten. Those two conferences along with Fox and Disney/ESPN economically control college football. The Big Ten is the more likely landing spot.

Back to back 10 wins seasons is a step in the right direction. The team stumbled midseason with those two losses in three games but rather than tank the team rebounded with four dominating wins.

Mario needs to build off this back to back success, and yes, it was success based on the prior 20 years. He needs to retain an excellent pair of coordinators and position staff. He needs to close high school recruiting strong and bring in another top portal class.

I see a lot of potential on both sides of the trenches as expected, but there’s a lot of potential in the wide receiver room and the defensive back room. The linebacker and tight end rooms need some work. We didn’t get a chance to see Wiley, Schott, or Gilbert. I would not mind another RB with speed.

The elephant in the room is who will be the starting quarterback in 2026?

Become so good they can’t ignore us.
 
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Fawk_U Haters said:
And we’ll lose 2-3 games we shouldn’t and be in the same situation. Always stuck in the chair
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Cam's play was key to us taking that next step last year.

Our coach capitalized on that somehow and repeated the 10 wins. In the midst of all of that, I see a program that's been heavily rebuilding their brand and gaining trust with potential players.

I'm not gonna pretend like we've had an automatic 10 win roster year after year after year, because that simply hasn't been the case. We're beginning to get there.

OU, Alabama, and Virginia all had 10 win seasons as well, but they all seem to be on the inside looking out.

Texas was #1 Preseason but ended up with 3 losses, and are trying to state their case. Penn State fell off a cliff.

In the end you just gotta decide whether the glass is half-empty or half-full. Your call but if it's half-empty, I'd sure love to know the coach that's available and would do much better rebuilding and winning.

The gripes you have,...the honest truth is the portal and NIL has drastically lessened the degrees of separation between #5 to #15 in the country and the only way to sensibly make things any fairer is an expanded playoff.
 
Lokest said:
I don't see how that's leverage for lane because he's going to do that anyway lol
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As of this moment, there is no portal period scheduled for post spring. There is only one scheduled for January. In other words, lane is saying let me finish the season or else you’re going to go into the playoffs (or not if the committee decides to let em out) with backups and third stringers and grad assistants calling plays.
 
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