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Just how young was our team last year?

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Interesting chart. I generally think Steel is a doucher but this was an eye opener.

Miami ranked 11th in the country on the overall experience chart going into 2013.
http://www.philsteele.com/Blogs/2013/JUN13/DBJune15.html


RANK Team XP PTS ST’RS 2 DEEP EXP PTS RET RET RET STS
1 Texas 88.5 8 4 74 81.5 92.3 83.3 124
2 Rice 83 11 8 79 85.7 84 88.7 80
3 UTSA 80.5 5 2 70 85 91 89 83
4 Washington 79.6 4 7 68 78.4 97.4 80.4 81
5 Bowling Green 78.9 9 2 68 78.1 91.6 86.2 72
6 East Carolina 78.9 13 5 80 74.6 82.5 77.7 83
7 Boston College 77.5 11 2 74 70.9 96.4 77.2 70
8 North Texas 76.8 11 6 76 74.5 79.2 84.2 77
9 Indiana 76.4 7 2 58 74.6 98 81.6 73
10 Old Dominion 76.2 7 5 73 70.6 85.2 63 83
11 Miami, Fl 76 6 6 63 70.7 84.1 78.6 93


I can already hear the naysayers chirping "But, most of our youth was on defense!"

Here is the "returning Tackles" chart. It is referring to the % of total tackles (Meaning the stat not the position) that returned from last year.

Miami ranked 23rd with 78.6% returning tackles for 2013

The deeper I go down the rabbit hole the scarier it gets.
 
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We are gonna be more talented than every team on our schedule save FSU. Yeah our DT situation isnt great, its subpar but it can be over come. Huertolou and Wyche were wanted by other programs, they can suffice enough and against most on our schedule. Other wise we have talent all over the field. This is year three of Al's real first class, no more excuses.
 
My impression is that a lot of those citing our lack of senior leadership (including myself) as a reason for limited success is not that we don't have some older players, it is that the older players we do have are not Miami caliber. I think the draft numbers bear that out.

Particularly with the scheme we run (complicated), we are not going to see results until we are high on the list of experience and we are putting 7-8 guys into the league each year including a few first rounders. Returning 78% of our tackles is meaningless because a lot of those guys making the tackles have low ceilings.

Interesting to note that the teams listed above are not exactly world-beaters, so you seem to be making a pretty strong case that there is no correlation between experience and success in college football. Talent and coaching wins. The talent is improving but I think we still have another year or two until our roster has filled out. Not making excuses for Golden, but some of his recruiting troubles in the first couple years mean that the inventory build is going to take time.
 
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The problem was that most of our older players were the players who weren't very good/gifted. People can say "well why didn't the underclassmen start over them" - that's a good & fair point. I'm not making an excuse, we had plenty of talent to be a LOT better than we were last year. We need to figure out why we couldn't get the more talented kids on the field and functional faster. If it's due to complex scheme, we're missing the boat with the resources SoFla produces.
 
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Does it really mean anything when you beat the Gators and get an assburn against Noles, and they're only 1/2 point between experience number?
 
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The problem was that most of our older players were the players who weren't very good/gifted. People can say "well why didn't the underclassmen start over them" - that's a good & fair point. I'm not making an excuse, we had plenty of talent to be a LOT better than we were last year. We need to figure out why we couldn't get the more talented kids on the field and functional faster. If it's due to complex scheme, we're missing the boat with the resources SoFla produces.
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Exactly this
 
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