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Same. I don't think we are not trying. But we appear to move slower than other teams when it comes to the portal. Or it's never "easy"
Respectfully disagree re: JHH vs Taylor. They asked Leonard Taylor to do a lot of things JHH can’t do. You’d never see Hunte lined up at zero or 1. That’s pretty much what they made Taylor do all year because they had a bunch of 280 lb guys at tackle.
Everything else is spot on.
Sounded to me like he wanted to continue to be paid like a Top 100 recruit/talent but he wasn’t producing or developing to warrant that pay.
So you approach him about restructuring his NIL based on what he’s accomplished so far. And he’s like, “no thanks, I’ll leave instead”. What’s the staff to do with that? Continue to pay someone based on high school accomplishments and projected contributions or restructure his NIL to reflect what he’s accomplished after 1-2 years in the program?
I got scoffed at by some of the board last year by saying we are going to get run over vs the good teams with how small our DT's were and was told by a few "we can scheme around that" "trust Guidry bro" crowd.
Can't teach size
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A year ago this board was saying we should back up the Brinks truck for that bum that went to Ohio St and didn’t even play
I like Mario's chances on making things right with the roster.
I have so little faith in the world anymore, I look both ways on one way streets.
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let’s see how this shakes out but we lost 3 quality players in Kelly, JHH and Wayne. Personally Indint think our haul to replace these dudes will be that strong. We are taking about two starters on list teams and a possible third. But if we manage to get a better haul I will gladly eat crow. Just don’t see it
Any NIL deal Gore is getting is way above his performance
**** Leonard Taylor
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I think he did a great job last year. Where is that OL without Cohen and Lee and Kiko was our best defensive player outside of Bain. All 3 were All Acc. Davis played well despite having to play out of position. Richards played some big snaps down the stretch. Where Mario has underwhelmed is at DL. Unfortunately Deen and Mesidor injuries added to that.
Those 3 were huge hits. Cloyd and Deen were solid. The other 12 takes last year were garbage.
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What is the average yards per carry in an NCAA FBS game? Hint: it’s around 4.5. Miami’s average on defense was 3.3.
That game where we gave up 3.7 and lost was against Georgia Tech. You’re going to pin that loss on run defense? One of the other losses you mentioned was NCState. You’re pinning that one, a game where we scored 6 points on our rush defense? North Carolina killed us. Louisville did a good job but hardly dominated on the ground. The bowl game was what it was. I don’t really consider that a true measure of our team.
Stopping the run was literally the thing Miami did best last year. Were they the 1985 Bears? No but they were better than 120 teams in FBS last year. Especially considering the defensive line injuries that he last few weeks of the season.
Davis was garbage? Davis played great at nickel then had to play out of position because of injury and still played admirably. Richards played well down the stretch too. Harrell was a BS late add. Cam, Campbell and Gore are head scratchers. Devonte was not good. I’ll take 7 impact players. They can’t all be all stars.
I was being polite calling Davis garbage. Richard’s outside of a solid performance against FSU was nonexistent. There were 3 impact players in that portal class with Deen and Cloyd being solid out of 17 takes.
Burroughs was always a ‘24 guy and worth the risk. Cristobal is not on scholarship. Terry Roberts transferred out immediately. Rocky Shelton wasn’t on scholarship. So if it makes You feel better to build this narrative by being disingenuous that’s fine.
