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I guess it brings new meaning to being “full of it!”I take massive amounts of D on a daily basis.
I’m definitely not deficient in D!
Will revisit this a year from now. I keep receipts. Hopefully this works out
And if Gattis hadn't been such a toxic *******, Mario would have signed more WR recruits ALL BY HIMSELF.
So it's not a case of "gosh, if we would have had a better WR coach to recruit WRs", it's more like "****, if we hadn't had such a disastrous OC/WR we would have signed more".
And THAT is why hiring a WR super-recruiter is more of a "want" than a "need".
****, we are going to get 2 good WRs in the Portal just because of who we've hired (and fired) ALONE.
A friend and fellow Cane fan did some analysis of Dawson over the last 2 years compared to the rest of college football by looking at scoring, run and pass efficiency, turnovers, YPP, etc... He said he didn't go beyond 2 years because of all of the staff shakeup and covid year really makes it more inconsistent and a lot more work to do it on a coordinator basis... Anyway.. over the last 2 years Houston's offense was:
11th in scoring - Right with Utah, UTSA, and SMU
62nd best rushing (Miami is 117th in the same time frame) - Houston was in the 40s in 2022 and averaged over 4 YPC in both years. Miami was 3.3 in both years.
16th best passing - adjusts down to 14th when you remove 2 service academies who appear to be very good passing teams due to large Yards per attempt numbers
20th in 3rd down
37th in turnovers
His overall assessment has them as the 15th best offense over the last 2 years combined. Right behind/nearly equal to UNC over the same period.
To give an idea of what it could be.. lets just say everything remains consistent at Miami but we are able to improve the yards per carry to 5.0 (top 20 - at a Tennessee, TCU, Arkansas, Ole Miss level) the offense would have ranked 12th in the country over the 2 year period
Playoff teams over the 2 years are ranked:
1 (OSU), 2 (Georgia), 3 (Alabama), 4 (Michigan), 22 (TCU), and 46 (Cincinnati)
For comparison... Tennessee wraps up the top 5. FSU is 27th. SMU is 21 (covering Dykes/Riley and Lashlee). Utah is 8, UCLA is 10. Texas is 18. Good company.
11th in scoring - Right with Utah, UTSA, and SMU
62nd best rushing (Miami is 117th in the same time frame) - Houston was in the 40s in 2022 and averaged over 4 YPC in both years. Miami was 3.3 in both years.
16th best passing - adjusts down to 14th when you remove 2 service academies who appear to be very good passing teams due to large Yards per attempt numbers
20th in 3rd down
37th in turnovers
His overall assessment has them as the 15th best offense over the last 2 years combined. Right behind/nearly equal to UNC over the same period.
To give an idea of what it could be.. lets just say everything remains consistent at Miami but we are able to improve the yards per carry to 5.0 (top 20 - at a Tennessee, TCU, Arkansas, Ole Miss level) the offense would have ranked 12th in the country over the 2 year period
Playoff teams over the 2 years are ranked:
1 (OSU), 2 (Georgia), 3 (Alabama), 4 (Michigan), 22 (TCU), and 46 (Cincinnati)
For comparison... Tennessee wraps up the top 5. FSU is 27th. SMU is 21 (covering Dykes/Riley and Lashlee). Utah is 8, UCLA is 10. Texas is 18. Good company.
Why must you be so profane and vulgar, my dearest friend?
A man who cannot get his point across without swearing is hardly a man at all.
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Thanks for this - so this is a very good hire then. In my eyes at least.
Reality is that UM would have been better in 2022 if Ponce had been the OC and Gattis never stepped foot on campus. Staff dissension = Gattis as the root cause. A lot of the player attitude on the offensive side was also due to friction with Gattis. Could have operated with 9 on field assistants instead of 10 and been significantly more productive.
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I expect a lot of their fans to sound like some of ours. Ya know the ones that trashed Lashlee at every turn but then last year were talking about how much they miss him
He ****ed up 2 minutes after you posted this
Thank you for this. Interesting assessment since people treat Longo like a gawd around here
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Those were the guys that were so sure Miami would have a dominant running game if they just called different running plays. Like play calling was why the line couldn't run block and Knighton was running right into tackles. Gattis had a deep playbook full of running plays and they were actually worse than they were in 2021.
The fans that still trash Lashlee given what we’ve trotted out there since 2004 are complete idiots. No other way around it.
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It’s tough to have real conversations with people these days. Everything is so black and white, so over the top and hyperbolic
It’s like ugh…alright you’ve got it all figured out after one drive, got it
Certainly not bad when you consider that if the hire was a college guy... those ranked ahead would be run by Ryan Day, Monken, O'Brien, Harbaugh (Moore and Weiss), Heupel, Lincoln Riley, Jamey Chadwell, Ludwig, Chip Kelly, WKU (multiple OCs - moved on to Texas Tech and Wazzu), UTSA (multiple OCs moved on to Illinois and Oregon), Aaron Roderick, and Longo.
All of those are Head coaches, already moved on to other programs, or moved up to the NFL. Aaron Roderick is the only other guy and he may not be willing to move.
Not one time have I snapped on someone on here until today bro. CIS comes for everyone eventually
