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Bender said:
Anyone with half a brain knows that correlation doesnt mean **** either. Apart from the fact that advanced metrics correlate with wins way more than total stats, here is a very basic example as to why correlation doesnt matter until a causation has been proven:

Ice cream sales correlate with shark attacks.

You're welcome.
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Ice cream sales increase in summer. Shark attacks increase in summer.

Yards and points allowed increase when you have a bad defense.
Having a bad defense means more losses.

I agree though, Total yards is a bad stat. At the very least it should be per play, because sometimes you'll play an offense that run 30 plays and other times an offense that run 60 plays...same with points. Just taking the total defense yards or points allowed/defensive plays and you actually have a reasonably good stat. You don't really need super advanced metrics. If you are a defense that ranks top 10 in points/play and yards/play allowed, you are basically guaranteed to be an elite defense. You don't need any advanced metrics to tell you that. Obviously adding situations like allowing yards short of sticks, and holding offenses to fgs in RedZone when they were given good field position are beneficial to include.
 
Cryptical Envelopment said:
The University of Miami’s 2021 football season came to an abrupt end Sunday night — five days before the team was set to play Washington State in the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas — after Atlantic Coast Conference and school officials decided there were far too many COVID-19 cases affecting the roster to safely compete in the game.

How many Hurricanes were out? A source told The Athletic earlier in the day Sunday there were at least 20 players who missed last week’s bowl practices and two position groups — offensive line and the secondary — were decimated, leaving the team in a precarious position when it went home for Christmas break.

When players returned to campus Sunday and were retested, the situation wasn’t any better. The news was hardly surprising considering Florida ranks ninth among states where coronavirus is spreading the fastest on a per-person basis, a USA Today report showed, due to the omicron variant.

That didn’t make Sunday’s news — delivered via Zoom to players in a team meeting led by interim coach Jess Simpson — any less tough to swallow for players like fifth-year senior receiver Mike Harley, who was looking to use the bowl game as a final in-game audition for NFL scouts.

What did school officials tell players?

“They didn’t want to risk getting guys sick. We had some guys out right now that would’ve been back before the game, but it’s just bad timing,” Harley, Miami’s all-time leader in receptions, told local Fox affiliate WSVN on Sunday night.

“We heard something with the ACC saying it’s a new strand. So, usually, it takes 10 to 14 days to come back. Now, it takes seven days to come back. It was just all in the air. They didn’t want to risk it.”

Aside from players testing positive for COVID-19, there were fears players who hadn’t been able to practice or train in weeks would get injured playing in a game more than a month removed from their regular-season finale, a 47-10 win at Duke on Nov. 27.

Miami altered its bowl practices last week, staggering position groups and keeping offensive and defensive players separate during conditioning and individual drills in hopes of avoiding more positive COVID tests.

It all went for naught, though, as Miami became the third ACC school on Sunday to pull out of a bowl game because of COVID protocols, joining Boston College and Virginia. Miami, like BC and Virginia, will still get a cut of the ACC’s bowl money, which is shared between all 14 schools.

What’s next for the Hurricanes? Coach Mario Cristobal, who took over for Manny Diaz a week before the early signing period and pulled in two top 100 recruits in what so far is a small signing class of nine players, is going to spend the next week finalizing his coaching staff for 2022.

On Monday, receivers coach Rob Likens, who was going to serve as Miami’s offensive coordinator in the bowl game, announced his farewell. He’s leaving to become the offensive coordinator and receivers coach at SMU under former Hurricanes offensive coordinator Rhett Lashlee, who previously hired Miami’s Garin Justice as his offensive line coach.

So far, the only assistant Cristobal has hired at Miami is offensive line coach Alex Mirabal, who played with him at Miami Columbus High and has been an assistant with him for years. Receivers coach Bryan McClendon, defensive line coach Joe Salave’a and strength coach Aaron Feld, who were with him at Oregon, have also been rumored to be joining Miami’s staff.

Cristobal spent the past two weeks — after the early signing period ended — meeting with every player on the roster and setting the stage for offseason expectations.

“We don’t shoot from the hip on anything,” Cristobal told WSVN. “We have a lot of good players on this football team and we will assess every single person. We’ll do body fat, body comp, bone density, we’ll do it all to make sure that we have a specific plan and a path for everyone in the program to develop.”

Miami, which was ranked 14th in the preseason AP poll, finished 7-5 in 2021 and has played in the ACC championship game only once since joining the conference. The program’s last bowl victory came in 2016. Cristobal, who will make $8 million a season on a 10-year contract, will have the biggest budget for assistant coaches in the ACC. He is expected to turn Miami into a winner quickly.

“I don’t think culture can ever be a T-shirt, a tagline, a slogan. People all the time ask, ‘What’s your slogan?’ I don’t need a slogan,” Cristobal said. “Why don’t you just get your butt up at 4:30 in the morning and get your butt to work. I don’t think anybody’s really focusing on, ‘Hey, bring back the old days.’ We want to launch Miami into the future with a lot of those principles and values. Because great principles and values stand the test of time.”

The Hurricanes are also expected to invest heavily in upgrading facilities under new athletic director Dan Radakovich, who will drive down from Clemson with his family on Jan. 1 and begin work shortly thereafter. The Hurricanes will begin work on new locker rooms immediately and look to upgrade their athletic home.
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As an editor, this would be the perfect example of a fluff piece that basically states nothing. It's a word landfill full of regurgitated quotes and lazy summaries.
 
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TheOriginalCane said:
Uhhh...no.

His name was Marvin Lee Aday, and his father called him Meat Loaf (mocking his real first and middle names).
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After I posted that,...curiosity prompted me to check,...naturally,..I've been waiting patiently,.to be called out on that one!!
Lol
 
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MedleyCane said:
Why would a Cane Fan want a guy at DC who is on trajectory to become an NFL DC within the next 24 months? Also, it appears that TRob and Chance will be coaching DBs, we don't need a third DB coach. Companies actually sounds like an interesting name, given his prep and college background plus the fact that he comes from a family of very successful coaches.
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If we grab him then maybe he would like college better and stay here until he's a HC. Alexander would run the entire Defense, he wouldn't need to just work with the DBs. Flores Cross trains his coaches so I'm sure he knows how to coach LBs as well
 
Doug Belk and Derek Mason auditioning for our DC position right now on ESPN

(I wish Belk is a candidate and it's just that his name hasn't leaked)
 
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gacaneaddict said:
So basically Miami didn't want to go to
El Paso? But if it was the college football playoff they would have made it work? That's about what im reading in this.

The coaches that aren't staying are ready to head to their new jobs take a week off and enjoy New Years Eve in somewhere not El Paso.
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To be honest, if we were in the college football playoffs, Manny D’*** wouldn’t be in Happy Valley nor would Mario be in Coral Gables. And being in the playoffs would have given our guys more a few more days to get back from Covid issues, and have a little practice time, at least. So yeah they would have made it work. Don’t forget the money either. That’s always a deciding factor.
 
OriginalCanesCanesCanes said:
Actually, no. I guess you’ve never heard of Hadrian’s Wall. London (name is actually a Latin name: Londinium) was basically a Roman town for hundreds of years. There are literally thousands of archaeological sites underground that haven’t even been discovered. But ok.

That’s actually relatively a lot, especially considering the distance from Rome to London. No planes, trains or automobile, no powered boats, no form of modern conveyances.
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Some of the best Roman ruins are in Rome. And EPCOT.
 
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Mackmiller974 said:
He's going to have to change his philosophy down here.
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If we run the Briles Veer and Shoot he really won't. It's a variation of the "smashmouth spread" offense that yes, uses the pass to set up the run, but also leads to massive holes in the run game. You can be a physical football team and run a pass first offense. Not saying Briles is the guy, but if he is, I think his overall philosophy still jives with what Mario preaches. Just a different way to get there.
 
calinative umstudent said:
Ice cream sales increase in summer. Shark attacks increase in summer.

Yards and points allowed increase when you have a bad defense.
Having a bad defense means more losses.

I agree though, Total yards is a bad stat. At the very least it should be per play, because sometimes you'll play an offense that run 30 plays and other times an offense that run 60 plays...same with points. Just taking the total defense yards or points allowed/defensive plays and you actually have a reasonably good stat. You don't really need super advanced metrics. If you are a defense that ranks top 10 in points/play and yards/play allowed, you are basically guaranteed to be an elite defense. You don't need any advanced metrics to tell you that. Obviously adding situations like allowing yards short of sticks, and holding offenses to fgs in RedZone when they were given good field position are beneficial to include.
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As strange as it sounds.

Ice cream sales actually increase in Winter, not summer.
 
tsimonitis said:
Well my *****-mick friend
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I knew at kid at UM that had a band. He was Irish-German and the rest of the band was all Italian. He wanted to call the band "Mick ***** & The Dagos". They refused and broke up like less than a year later. He's a doctor now.

Storytime is over. Finish your juiceboxes and animal crackers and get back to work.
 
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