Offensive line recruiting philosophy

[No_Fly_Zone]

How does his unit look on the field ie the only thing that matters? They don’t finish blocks, can’t pull, and generally don’t know their assignments. That’s coaching hon.

1. Agreed that on field production is everything, but this OL is also among the youngest, least experienced lines in college football. One junior, a RS sophomore, a true sophomore, and two true freshmen starting.

2. Finishing blocks is not coaching, it's aggression and desire. At some point an OL needs to want to exert his will on the man across from him and have the tenacity to do that every play possible.

3. Pulling and knowing assignments can (and should) definitely be coached. But asking guys to pull who have slow feet and no finesse to their game (Donaldson and, to a lesser extent, Gaynor) is bad playcalling.

4. Coach Barry has been here for a cup of coffee and is coaching guys at a position that generally requires a longer timeline for development. His unit is playing pretty bad, but anyone calling for his termination at this point is just being unreasonable.

 

[BooBoo]

Recruit anybody with a lot of corn in their diet.

 

[RedSquare]

They recruit, and RS a whole lot. This is a method shunned upon here at Miami. Remember if your not balling by year two you considered a scrub

More accurately, if you’re not balling by year 2, the thugs at the barber shop are telling you the coaches are holding you back and you should enter the NFL draft

 

[da truth]

wisky gets 2 and 3 stars and builds them into monsters. all about coaching at that school

Wash st gets 2 stars and unranked and does well.

 

[No_Fly_Zone]

More accurately, if you’re not balling by year 2, the thugs at the barber shop are telling you the coaches are holding you back and you should enter the NFL draft

"Thugs at the barber shop," huh? SMH at this from a Cane.

 

[RedSquare]

"Thugs at the barber shop," huh? SMH at this from a Cane.

It's not a swipe at the 'Canes. It's an appropriate stab at the leeches, hangers-on, and swamp rats that get into the kids' ears for their own pathetic agendas.

 

[flcanesfan]

Coaches be like.... Are you slow, fat, lazy and entitled, well the U is place for you!

 

[RightSaidFred]

We recruited the OL fine when we had Jeff Stoutland.

 

[MiamiChris]

They recruit, and RS a whole lot. This is a method shunned upon here at Miami. Remember if your not balling by year two you considered a scrub

In fairness if they don’t play in a year or two they transfer and we don’t show a history in the last 15 years of developing OL

 

[Uom2001]

We need to be signing more than what we’ve got committed so far. A couple of juco lineman would be nice to have as they’re older and more experienced. One of the all time greats was from Lackawanna JC.

 

[305to954]

In fairness if they don’t play in a year or two they transfer and we don’t show a history in the last 15 years of developing OL

It’s all starts with loading up the room, stacking classes untop of classes to create scholarship depth up front. Rn any talented linemen we get will like be in the 2 deep within their first 2 years

 

[MiamiChris]

It’s all starts with loading up the room, stacking classes untop of classes to create scholarship depth up front. Rn any talented linemen we get will like be in the 2 deep within their first 2 years

Yep but evaluating and selecting the OL we get is a huge problem. This is a new O staff so we will see if that changes

 

[Awsi Dooger]

Wisky has turned our historical recruiting strategy on its head.

They load up on country strong farm boys for the lines, LB, FB, and TE and then target fast twitch RBs, WRs, and DBs from Florida and the northeast.

Now they are starting to get highly rated QBs to go with that system.

My wife went to Wisky and this whole situation pains me.

Retreat to the late '80s and early '90s. Tom Osborne applied and announced essentially the same strategy at Nebraska, calmly answering questions from reporters who were essentially mocking him for not switching to a modern passing game instead of physical option-based football.

The mockery was most prevalent among Canes fans. I remember flying back to Las Vegas after the 1991 season Orange Bowl, with a fellow Canes fan occupying the seat next to me and ridiculing Osborne all the way. He was in disbelief that I was telling him that Osborne's strategy was sound, that option football could still produce championships.

I had quite a few laughs at that guy's expense, even though I never saw him again

 

[Caneflake]

The philosophy is we suck and if you'll come we will take you

 

[gogeta4]

Need to be all over the jucos

 

[AllAboutTheUNotAboutU]

We're well below the scholarship limit. Take as many as we can and hope at least 5 pan out.

 

[omaha]

Retreat to the late '80s and early '90s. Tom Osborne applied and announced essentially the same strategy at Nebraska, calmly answering questions from reporters who were essentially mocking him for not switching to a modern passing game instead of physical option-based football.

The mockery was most prevalent among Canes fans. I remember flying back to Las Vegas after the 1991 season Orange Bowl, with a fellow Canes fan occupying the seat next to me and ridiculing Osborne all the way. He was in disbelief that I was telling him that Osborne's strategy was sound, that option football could still produce championships.

I had quite a few laughs at that guy's expense, even though I never saw him again

Ironically Nebraska is now a spread team and can not win crap because their OLine is bad and nothing going to make them any better this season. Hard work and recruiting for several years in order.