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D2D28

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Someone explain to me how nobody has seen this

1) We have the perfect recruiting base for spread athletes. Last time I checked Florida esp South Florida produced the fastest & most athletic players in the country. 08' MNW & BTW ran spread. We brought them here & put them in a pro set. I imagine scoreboard would look different in Denard Robinson was running spread option here. Fact is Florida athletes don't lift weights in HS like other parts of the country(not Swasey's fault) we run...& we run fast. So let's game plan around our recruiting base.

2) I know this is an issue with alot of fans. Change up the uniform combo's esp the white shoes. That's what attracts young ppl. So how bout green on green, or green combat helmets, or even a ibis somewhere like the Ducks do, or finally ALL BLACK!!!

UM has to do more then win to get back. It has to stand out. Be the cool school again. Oregon has built a powerhouse on being cool.
 
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Lol. I kno I'm not but it's crazy cuz it's so obvious. You always hear how great coaches adjust to their personel. I've had this discussion with former players & they feel the same way. Wisconsin & the Big Ten pound the rock cuz that's what the area produces. We produce speed & we don't take advantage of it. We need to realize it more then ever cuz we don't recruit heavy nationally
 
All about defense at Miami.

We could run anything offensively with the So Fla talent and be successful.
We've proven that.
 
We won't be back until we stop worrying about copying a program like Oregon. Remember in the 90's where teams who were middle of the road had their fanbases talking about copying Washington State and Northwestern...because they were winning and doing well?

Miami is a pro-style school. Unless we would have brought a spread guru like Mike Leach in here, there's no way that changes. Kids come to Miami to prepare to play in the NFL. While NFL teams run spread concepts at times, they're built on multiple sets and running the football to set up playaction. If you want to go to the NFL and succeed as an offensive player, that is what you need to know about--not the spread. Compare the number of kids we've put in the NFL in say, the past 8 years, that are playing/starting on offenses right now, and stack that up against Oregon's numbers in the same time span. 'Nuff said. My suggestion is that the South Florida kids start pumping a little iron in HS and being college-ready if they want to play as Freshmen at Miami in a pro-style offense. If there are kids actually bytching about this--tell them to nut up and lift more weights.

Uniforms do help with recruiting, but having 150 combinations available is an Oregon thing because Nike is based out of Oregon, and Phil Knight is an Oregon alum--he's going to try everything and anything new and shiny on the Ducks first. Our uniforms don't have to be carbon-fiber fly-wire light as a feather futuristic get ups to draw kids to a school. Kids love that U, and they love the Orange/Green--and we will get new uniforms next season. If extreme uniform combos attract young people, how about all those young people who have went to Alabama and won titles recently with the same old uniform that follows the basic template for them dating back to the facking 50's? I think they've won more titles than Oregon has. Come to think of it, we've won as many national titles as Oregon has in the past 10 years. So--sure, let's copy them. /sarcasm
 
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BWCD said:
Uniforms do help with recruiting, but having 150 combinations available is an Oregon thing because Nike is based out of Eugene, and Phil Knight is an Oregon alum--he's going to try everything and anything new and shiny on the Ducks first. /sarcasm
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Nike is headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon. A short drive outside of Portland.

Just sayin'....
 
Oregon is 34-6 under Chip Kelly & has played in a National Championship & a couple of Rose Bowls & has consistently been in the top 10. So yea their a powerhouse by today's standards
 
Gables Cane said:
BWCD said:
Uniforms do help with recruiting, but having 150 combinations available is an Oregon thing because Nike is based out of Eugene, and Phil Knight is an Oregon alum--he's going to try everything and anything new and shiny on the Ducks first. /sarcasm
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Nike is headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon. A short drive outside of Portland.

Just sayin'....
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If a kid chooses us based on our uniform then we got the wrong kid.
 
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Gables Cane said:
BWCD said:
Uniforms do help with recruiting, but having 150 combinations available is an Oregon thing because Nike is based out of Eugene, and Phil Knight is an Oregon alum--he's going to try everything and anything new and shiny on the Ducks first. /sarcasm
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Nike is headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon. A short drive outside of Portland.

Just sayin'....
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I knew that and counted to potato on that one...my bad. Almost went full ******.

Take out the Eugene and replace with Oregon--and my post stands. That, along with Phil Knight being a Duck, is really why Oregon gets their 5 trillion uni combos.
 
I'm tired of hearing that Miami is a pro style school so we can get players ready for the pros. No doubt we do that. We go 7-6, 6-6, maybe 8-4 but atleast our NFL #s are up. & btw spread players are getting drafted high too(Cam, RG3, Blackmon, Tebow, Harvin, etc)
 
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D2D28 said:
Oregon is 34-6 under Chip Kelly & has played in a National Championship & a couple of Rose Bowls & has consistently been in the top 10. So yea their a powerhouse by today's standards
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How many national titles have they won? How many times has their Spread offense gotten bytch-slapped on national TV by solid defenses, and opposing offenses who run a pro-style and know how to control time of possession? Last year's Rose Bowl win was their first in 95 years. Miami had won more Rose Bowls in that time span, and wasn't even eligible to play there until the BCS.

You can't quote the good about Oregon's success and leave out the bad. Doesn't work that way.

At the end of the day, your theory of running the spread at Miami won't stand up. Give it up. If there are players/coaches in South Florida complaining that Miami doesn't run a spread, then they need to either lift more weights or go to school elsewhere. Once we build ourselves back up with the right guys running a pro-style offense, it will run circles around a spread offense...AND we'll still put more solid offensive players in the league than the Ducks.
 
D2D28 said:
I'm tired of hearing that Miami is a pro style school so we can get players ready for the pros. No doubt we do that. We go 7-6, 6-6, maybe 8-4 but atleast our NFL #s are up. & btw spread players are getting drafted high too(Cam, RG3, Blackmon, Tebow, Harvin, etc)
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It doesn't matter how tired of it you are, it's true. That's a major recruiting point. You want to get video game numbers in college, but aren't interested in preparing to play in an NFL offense? Go play for a spread team. You want to get prepared to play in an NFL offense though your numbers might not be crazy-high like at an Oregon? Come play for Miami.

Our records you quoted aren't based off the type of offense we're playing...it's SOOO much deeper than that, it's based off of major problems with the program we had under Coker/Shannon. Golden, I think, is helping to turn those problems around and make us better. We should see improvement sooner than later.

Could you step in here with a straight face and tell us that if, this season, we went to the spread--that we would win more games with this roster than we would with a pro-style offense that we will be running? If so--let me be the first to laugh you on out of here.
 
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