Miami is firing DC Lance Guidry

DMoney

Tuesday at 10:42 AM 1 min read

After a season in which Miami's defense likely cost the Hurricanes a spot in the College Football Playoff, the Hurricanes will be making a change at defensive coordinator.

Lance Guidry is expected to be fired, sources tell CanesInSight. Against FBS opponents, Miami finished 70th in scoring defense (26.7 PPG), 50th in 3rd Down Defense (37.75%) and 82nd in takeaways (1.3),

Mario Cristobal issues the following statement on the decision:

“I want to first thank Coach Guidry for his contributions to the University of Miami.

“In a continuous effort to always improve all aspects of our program, I have decided to make a change on defense. We will move forward and make decisions that provide our players, staff and program the best opportunity to win and develop at the highest level.”

The defense was one of the worst in the ACC during conference play, struggling with communication and pre-snap movement, among other areas.

Miami will now look for its third defensive coordinator of the Cristobal Era, following Guidry and Kevin Steele.

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twes.305

Wednesday at 11:18 AM

Nothing will change until unless Mario les the next guy bring his own staff.

CANEFAN83

Wednesday at 11:20 AM

Miami supposedly reached out to gatech defensive coordinator.

Wednesday at 11:27 AM

Alex Del Piero said:
We recruited bad DBs under Addae and the portal ones are expensive, they went all in on the defensive line hoping it would’ve helped out a below average secondary.

The below-average secondary sucked and the supposedly good DL underperformed all year.

Here it is the recipe for this disaster.

I never thought the dline would cover up the bad db play

Big reason it didn’t is because we got out schemed. When we didn’t get out schemed, didn’t have coverage busts, actually aligned well the dline did what we expected unfortunately we didn’t do that enough

Dline is getting way too much blame imo..People hyped it as a top10 group so they didn’t meet those crazy expectations

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G Reg3rdLeg

Wednesday at 11:28 AM

Cribby said:
We had to upperclassmen at safety who directed traffic. Which were huge losses.

Sure, but one of those safetys had been in the system for a year and the other was a 5th year senior.

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GOCANES05

Wednesday at 11:30 AM

G Reg3rdLeg said:
Sure, but one of those safetys had been in the system for a year and the other was a 5th year senior.

That tells you couple things, player work ethics and ownership of their position basically the complete opposite of X .

This is rampant throughout the team

Damiencane86

Wednesday at 11:36 AM

CANEFAN83 said:
Miami supposedly reached out to gatech defensive coordinator.

It's not supposed it's confirmed

305 MOUNTAIN MAN

Wednesday at 12:02 PM

JG14 said:
He always wore a different hat than everybody else. Not sure why but it bothered me. Looked like he got it at the The Miccosukee Reservation on Alligator Alley.

As a leader, if you’re not bought in, how do you expect those you lead to do it ? Simplest way I can put it. Ultimately, that’s what happened with this guy. How else do you explain what we saw ?

pyhooya

Wednesday at 12:17 PM

CANEFAN83 said:
Miami supposedly reached out to gatech defensive coordinator.

SMH......this will end up no better than Shannon hiring Nix.

Mr. Dynasty1

Wednesday at 12:27 PM

pyhooya said:
SMH......this will end up no better than Shannon hiring Nix.

Not a fan?

pyhooya

Wednesday at 12:44 PM

Mr. Dynasty1 said:
Not a fan?

Not really. Think there are better options. GT allowed more Points, passing yards, rushing yards, total yards and less turnovers in the same conference.

CANEFAN83

Wednesday at 12:54 PM

pyhooya said:
Not really. Think there are better options. GT allowed more Points, passing yards, rushing yards, total yards and less turnovers in the same conference.

It sounds like he may end up at A&M anyways due to his ties to Elko but we'll see.