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Hurracanes said:
It’s 2025, year four under Mario, with a portal that speeds everything up and a crazy NIL budget. Skip steps? What are we even talking about? Last year was a colossal failure because our defense was the worst I’ve ever seen in my lifetime with a championship offense.

Going into Spring, the defensive line and linebacker room haven’t upgraded and we still don’t even know who’s playing safety. Miss me with those excuses and low standards.
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You don’t know what the d-line will be. Has Scott played a game in year 2? Has Horton? Have we seen blay with a Miami uniform? As far as LB we don’t know who is going to emerge in this system or who will be in the portal. Safety we know poyser will be one.

It’s not excuses and low standards. It’s facts and reality. Yes it takes steps even with the portal. You can go out and try to quick fix it like fsu did and now look where they are at. Y’all dudes do this shít to yourselves every year for the last 20+ at some point you would think you have learned
 
JHallCanes said:
4 years in and 3 DCs

A wise poster once said Mario brings no advantage coaching wise so he has to hire homerun coordinators

Not sure where Dawson stands. I like him a lot but he’s gonna definitely earn it this year

Heatherman? We just gotta hope beyond all hope he’s that homerun
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Mario is about to kill the QB killa narrative while creating a new one being the Defense killa. I just don’t understand how this staff thinks we have enough. It’s pure insanity.
 
252cane said:
You don’t know what the d-line will be. Has Scott played a game in year 2? Has Horton? Have we seen blay with a Miami uniform? As far as LB we don’t know who is going to emerge in this system or who will be in the portal. Safety we know poyser will be one.

It’s not excuses and low standards. It’s facts and reality. Yes it takes steps even with the portal. You can go out and try to quick fix it like fsu did and now look where they are at. Y’all dudes do this shít to yourselves every year for the last 20+ at some point you would think you have learned
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There is absolutely no evidence to suggest our DL will be our strength. None. Your best argument is Bain and we don’t know what to expect from him. Blay played at LA Tech, we know what he is. Your argument about those young guys and LB’s literally prove my point. Lol.

Let me remind everyone, this staff thought Emory (I drank the kool aide too) was the future before the bowl game. They thought they had the right talent on defense but weren’t able to execute. Forgive me if my confidence on their evaluations, particularly in defense, isn’t there.

It is excuses and low standards. The budget on this team proves my point. It doesn’t take that many steps with the portal if you’re doing it right. Look at Oregon, Texas, OSU, etc. Given our history with Mario in that department, we miss way more than we hit when we are being cheap.

This is classic CIS talk I’ll never understand. Good luck with those hopes and dreams. Im sure it’ll work out for us..
 
Hurracanes said:
There is absolutely no evidence to suggest our DL will be our strength. None. Your best argument is Bain and we don’t know what to expect from him. Blay played at LA Tech, we know what he is. Your argument about those young guys and LB’s literally prove my point. Lol.

Let me remind everyone, this staff thought Emory (I drank the kool aide too) was the future before the bowl game. They thought they had the right talent on defense but weren’t able to execute. Forgive me if my confidence on their evaluations, particularly in defense, isn’t there.

It is excuses and low standards. The budget on this team proves my point. It doesn’t take that many steps with the portal if you’re doing it right. Look at Oregon, Texas, OSU, etc. Given our history with Mario in that department, we miss way more than we hit when we are being cheap.

This is classic CIS talk I’ll never understand. Good luck with those hopes and dreams. Im sure it’ll work out for us..
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One of the most stunning heel turns of all time.
 
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Hurracanes said:
Mario is about to kill the QB killa narrative while creating a new one being the Defense killa. I just don’t understand how this staff thinks we have enough. It’s pure insanity.
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There’s no way this defensive staff thinks we have enough on defense. A Safety, LB, and a DT has to be priorities in the Spring Portal

If you can’t get what you need in the winter portal, spring portal becomes your last resort.
 
Hurracanes said:
There is absolutely no evidence to suggest our DL will be our strength. None. Your best argument is Bain and we don’t know what to expect from him. Blay played at LA Tech, we know what he is. Your argument about those young guys and LB’s literally prove my point. Lol.

Let me remind everyone, this staff thought Emory (I drank the kool aide too) was the future before the bowl game. They thought they had the right talent on defense but weren’t able to execute. Forgive me if my confidence on their evaluations, particularly in defense, isn’t there.

It is excuses and low standards. The budget on this team proves my point. It doesn’t take that many steps with the portal if you’re doing it right. Look at Oregon, Texas, OSU, etc. Given our history with Mario in that department, we miss way more than we hit when we are being cheap.

This is classic CIS talk I’ll never understand. Good luck with those hopes and dreams. Im sure it’ll work out for us..
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You have a point, but I think ur point on the DLine is a little pessimistic. Alston, Baron, Clark, Barrow are the 4 main guys that left and produced last season. Only Barrow produced at a level above average, everybody else production can be replace easily, if they recruited right. Ik a lot of the DL hasn’t played yet, but if I had to project, the DE position is def better than last season. The question is on the DT position, whose replacing Barrow’s production and giving u more, and who is replacing Clark’s production and giving u more.
 
kyle_schick said:
We really don't have any freaks at DE.

We have unproven freshmen/sophomores and tweeners(too small for DT, too big for DE) who've already peaked.

We seriously need monsters at DE. Like what Ohio State had this year. Guys who will play in the NFL.
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I agree with the overall point but osu edges were mediocre this year. Their DTs is what we should want
 
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DTP said:
None of our defensive ends outside of Bain and Messidor has ever started for Miami.

I think you need to see some of the younger guys actually play before just claiming they’d never started at Oregon or Georgia. I’m 100% positive any of those teams would take Armando Blount. Malik Bryant was also offered by Alabama.
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I’m pretty sure schools like Oregon and Georgia would take Lowe also, dude is going to be a beast. If you look at our line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball now compared to where it was under previous regimes it’s like night and day. Keep in mind, we’ve been able to do so without even showing great success on the field so far. If this team does what we hope this year(win the conference and deep playoff run) the floodgates will open even more with recruiting.
 
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