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Phil Steele calls Miami "legitimate title contender"

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astabooty said:
skyman said:
I appreciate his outlook but we have a huge question mark at most important position.. Hope he is right tho..
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QB might be the most important position, but the most important question mark at this point is the offensive line. If the line can somehow find a way to dominate, then we have the studs everywhere else on the team to hang with anyone in the country. The defense is potentially championship caliber. And the offense is filled with threatening skill players.
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Yeah if the offense can hold their own, we should have at most 2 losses.
 
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In his magazine, he actually has UF as his #1 surprise team this season. Miami is #2 .

Last year, he had Washington as his #1 surprise team, which obviously was a big hit as they went to the playoffs. But all the rest of his top surprise teams flopped. He had TCU up there, Baylor, few others. But he did hit big on his #1 team. Hopefully he hits big on his #2 team this year.

For the record, I think Miami being a legit title contender is a joke. But I think what he means is, he expects Miami to go 11-1 with a loss at FSU, and he expects Miami in the ACCCG, and if they go to Charlotte at 11-1, they're 60 minutes away from the playoff.
 
CanesFan93 said:
I think our ceiling is probably a top 10-13 team . We don't have enough depth at OL, DB, or RB to compete not to mention we'll have a green QB.
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I agree but feel DB and OL will be ok but RB we are razor thin and can not afford Walton to get injured and QB is a major question mark. The planets would have to align for us to make a run.
 
CanesFan93 said:
I think our ceiling is probably a top 10-13 team . We don't have enough depth at OL, DB, or RB to compete not to mention we'll have a green QB.
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Your "not to mention" part is actually the biggest reason why we won't be higher than that ceiling you mentioned (that 10-13 number sounds about right to me). I can't recall the last time a top 10 team fielded a freshman qb. Does anyone know?
 
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OrangeBowlMagic said:
In his magazine, he actually has UF as his #1 surprise team this season. Miami is #2 .

Last year, he had Washington as his #1 surprise team, which obviously was a big hit as they went to the playoffs. But all the rest of his top surprise teams flopped. He had TCU up there, Baylor, few others. But he did hit big on his #1 team. Hopefully he hits big on his #2 team this year.

For the record, I think Miami being a legit title contender is a joke. But I think what he means is, he expects Miami to go 11-1 with a loss at FSU, and he expects Miami in the ACCCG, and if they go to Charlotte at 11-1, they're 60 minutes away from the playoff.
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I agree with this notion 100%. Major long shot, but it no doubt should be a 1 game season Sept 16. A win propels them, a loss, you see what the character is. If they are 11-1, 12-0 they are 1 game away from the playoff as you stated. Schedule sets up nicely this year.

Talent wise we are probably top 8-12 somewhere in there, with depth issues at some spots, but our schedule is not very demanding at all. Lets goooooooo
 
No chance. Outside of obvious QB issue, OL is still a huge question mark and lack of depth at RB is a concern. I'd also like us to be better at pressuring the QB with only our front 4, still work to be done.
 
FSU beats AL and FL, and we beat FSU twice to begin the playoffs as #1 seed. I truly believe we start the season 13-0. I've been thinking that this year for Miami will be similar to UCONN women '16-'17: A team that plays a year ahead of where they're projected to be.

"I've been talking about it all year," Auriemma said. "We're playing way above our years and way above our experience level. Tonight, it caught up to us. When we really needed to be a little more mature with what we're doing, we didn't have it. A big part of that was because of what they were doing."

He said he thought his team was living a charmed life for much of the season.
 
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I mentioned this a few months ago but it's worth repeating:

- We have two competitive home games: VT and ND
- We have two (maybe three) competitive away games: FSU, UNC and possibly Pitt

UNC and VT are both in rebuilding mode with losses to key positions - I don't see us losing either of those games.
Pitt in late November could be a surprisingly competitive game, but again, I don't see us losing.
ND is the biggest question mark to me - we never should have lost that game last year and I have no clue how good they will be this year (toss up)
FSU is FSU and we'll be throwing a new QB into hostile territory in a prime time game - I'm quietly optimistic but I was quietly optimistic each of the last three years as well.

Looking at the above, I can't help but believe 10-2 is bare minimum this season. If we play consistent and our offense is able to keep our defense off the field at times, then we should have a solid 10 wins with an ACCCG booked.
 
all comes down to the oline and coach searls earning his keep

if they only gradually improve from what we saw in the WVU game, I'll be surprised if we're not in the playoffs

fsu game is the only real question mark, the rest of the games.. gl moving the ball on this defense
 
Tetragrammaton Cane said:
FSU beats AL and FL, and we beat FSU twice to begin the playoffs as #1 seed. I truly believe we start the season 13-0. I've been thinking that this year for Miami will be similar to UCONN women '16-'17: A team that plays a year ahead of where they're projected to be.

"I've been talking about it all year," Auriemma said. "We're playing way above our years and way above our experience level. Tonight, it caught up to us. When we really needed to be a little more mature with what we're doing, we didn't have it. A big part of that was because of what they were doing."

He said he thought his team was living a charmed life for much of the season.
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This.

Also, I expect Perry to shock the world and win two Heismans in one year.
 
We're very capable of losing to FSU, Notre Dame, Virginia Tech, North Carolina.
 
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rokulika said:
We're very capable of losing to FSU, Notre Dame, Virginia Tech, North Carolina.
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Fair point and I'm not sure I can argue with the way you worded it. I said 2-2 in October 2016 against these four teams and we finished 0-4. I do not see that happening again and anything worse than 2-2 will be shocking to me.
 
Phil's been bullish on Miami for years. He sees what we've all seen. A team full of NFL players that somehow managed to lose 5 or 6 games a year. The only knock I'd give on his evaluations is he doesn't put enough credence into the "poor coaching effect". It's why he always overrated Miami when Al Golden was here and it's why he has Florida so highly overrated this year. He sees a team with good talent and a schedule full of winnable games and predicts they'll win most of them. If you factor in poor coaching to the equation, you have to assume the team will lose at least two or three games against teams less talented because the coaching is just that pathetic. Phil doesn't do that enough IMO.

As for Miami being a playoff contender, it's not out of the realm of possibility. The schedule is baby soft and the regular coastal contenders all lost a lot of pieces from last season. Barring catastrophic injury, Miami should be in the ACCCG. That should at least put them in the playoff discussion. Even if they're on the outside looking in.
 
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FSU killed our spirits for the last few seasons... It's about time we go to DOAK and give our lil brothers a fresh *** whipping
 
BigDikCane said:
FSU killed our spirits for the last few seasons... It's about time we go to DOAK and give our lil brothers a fresh *** whipping
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Even if we lose to them we get Toledo, Duke, GT, Syracuse before the schedule gets tough again.

If we can enter those last 5 games with just 1 loss we should be in the driver's seat.

But I've seen us blow it too many times to expect that we'll win the Coastal.

Would be perfectly happy with a 10 win season.
 
This defense won't give up more than 15 points per game. We gave up 18.5 last year and it's not crazy to think we improve by 3 points this year. That's a top 5 defense. Last year's top 5 defenses were Alabama, Michigan, Ohio State, Wisconsin and LSU. 4/5 finished with 10+ wins. Score 17 and win most of our games. Our schedule, outside of FSU, is weak for the first 8 weeks. After FSU, we have a tough one against GT, who Richt is like 14-2 against all time or some **** and follows a bye week. We should be going into the meat of our schedule 6-1 (3-1) with 3 of our last 4 ACC games at home. 10-2 at worst regardless of who is playing QB. What ACC offense is going to score on us this year besides FSU, Clemson or Louisville (the latter 2 we don't play until Charlotte, possibly)? Y'all are overthinking things.
 
just like we can have a high ceiling and lose 1-2 games and be in the ACCCG/playoffs I feel that at the same time we can have a potentially disastrous season.

What if our QB position does not work out? What if we have some unfortunate injuries? Our O-line has never been consistent, why this year?

Questions that could come to fruition just as easily as having a great season. Very unfortunate when you consider this recruiting class we have currently and its upmost importance to our future.

Wow... what an important season this will be, could potentially get us a couple of years ahead of schedule to where we want to be.
 
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