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"South Florida Doesn't Produce QBs"

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Can we put this myth to bed already?

Two of the best quarterbacks in the country are from South Florida. So is the best sophomore quarterback. The guy I believe is the next NFL quarterback from the Canes is a Miami kid, too.

Don't get me wrong, that quote was true for a long time. But not anymore. With the way teams are passing down here, it was only a matter of time before the QB position caught up to every other position. That time is now.

And make no mistake: aside from Shoelace, these are all pass-first QBs. The conventional wisdom is that South Florida QBs are so poorly coached that they struggle to adjust to the next level. But guys like Bridgewater and Rakeem Cato led their teams to bowls as true freshman, and many of the guys who ultimately struggled (Jeff Godfrey and Jacory Harris) had their greatest success as young players.

It's a new era, and as a Canes fan, I hope it stays this way for a long, long time:

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So........ who do you think will have a better career

Kevin Baby Jesus Olsen or

Treon Harris
 
Trickle down effect. The NFL is 100% a QB league now so college had to adjust and high schools had to adjust to get their kids to get more options.

You used to have guys that could either throw or run but now you get both. **** even the white QBs from the Midwest can run these days. Probably has something to do with defenses as a whole getting more athletic from top to bottom. Running QBs would get killed these days going against the linebackers we see now.
 
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Spread QBs, fellas...Miami is usually at the cusp of these transformations in college football...

Miami put a proverbial end to the option with speed on defense.
Before the Hal Mumme disciples made the air raid and the spread popular in the NFL, Miami had the bomb squad.
Before USC and Texas would create All-Star recruiting classes, Miami would have the most talented roster in the nation.

But somewhere, Miami stopped innovating.

What Florida did with Tebow and the spread...should have been Miami. That was the next natural evolution of the game and Miami passed it up. This latest crop of spread QBs, Geno, Denard Robinson...shame.
 
Larry said:
Spread QBs, fellas...Miami is usually at the cusp of these transformations in college football...

Miami put a proverbial end to the option with speed on defense.
Before the Hal Mumme disciples made the air raid and the spread popular in the NFL, Miami had the bomb squad.
Before USC and Texas would create All-Star recruiting classes, Miami would have the most talented roster in the nation.

But somewhere, Miami stopped innovating.

What Florida did with Tebow and the spread...should have been Miami. That was the next natural evolution of the game and Miami passed it up. This latest crop of spread QBs, Geno, Denard Robinson...shame.
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I'm a Malzahn fanboy, but I'm cool with a pro style attack.

I just want an explosive, balanced attack.
 
Would be nice to see Morris in that list. Hope the O comes together enough for him to be in that discussion this year.
 
Larry said:
Spread QBs, fellas...Miami is usually at the cusp of these transformations in college football...

Miami put a proverbial end to the option with speed on defense.
Before the Hal Mumme disciples made the air raid and the spread popular in the NFL, Miami had the bomb squad.
Before USC and Texas would create All-Star recruiting classes, Miami would have the most talented roster in the nation.

But somewhere, Miami stopped innovating.

What Florida did with Tebow and the spread...should have been Miami. That was the next natural evolution of the game and Miami passed it up. This latest crop of spread QBs, Geno, Denard Robinson...shame.
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Good post.
 
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The next thing could be what the Patriots (and Saints) do that Fisch says he wants to do - create mismatches by using the TE. I don't know whether we have the guys to pull off what the Patriots do, or if any of our TEs is nearly as athletic as Graham, but that seems to be the direction the game is going. Gronk and Graham are huge athletic freaks (they don't grow on trees), but Hernandez is like a wr/te hybrid - it looks like Golden is looking for guys like that. They are always a mismatch.
 
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Great post Larry, we had Nix come in and try some spread principles, it just didn't fit and he was a god awful coordinator. I prefer the pro style attack, and you can see that if you have the weapons (USC) you can still score in bunches with the more traditional offense.
 
DapperSlapper said:
The next thing could be what the Patriots (and Saints) do that Fisch says he wants to do - create mismatches by using the TE. I don't know whether we have the guys to pull off what the Patriots do, or if any of our TEs is nearly as athletic as Graham, but that seems to be the direction the game is going. Gronk and Graham are huge athletic freaks (they don't grow on trees), but Hernandez is like a wr/te hybrid - it looks like Golden is looking for guys like that. They are always a mismatch.
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I've been saying this for a little while now. Fisch's most recent comments about a 2 TE attack makes me think he wants to use Cleveland and Walford as a poor man's Gronk/Hernandez. I doubt either of our guys possess the ability that Gronk has as a blocker, but both are athletic enough to create some serious mismatches, especially if we get a receiver to step up to the plate and Duke/Crawford are.used effectively in the passing game.
 
The same line was being trotted out there about OL.

Hoping our OL this year will put that to rest.
 
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I'm not against the Pro Style offense...it can be a dominant offense if it has the right pieces (look at USC and Stanford)...its just, Miami has usually been on the forefront - nationally - of these dynamic trends in college football...and it just seems ***** that they missed the boat on the spread and a school like Florida used it, dominated, won championships, and had a Heisman winner with it. Considering Miami's recruiting base, and the use of the spread at the high school level, it makes it an easy transition at the college level.
 
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