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hoops156 said:
DrCane said:
I understand why the coaches chose Kaaya over Heaps. Heaps has no future at UM. Kaaya can be developed for the future. But, I think the coaches forget that the fans don't care about the future. We care about THIS season. We care about NOW. And the coaches already lost the fan base, they won't have a future at UM if they don't win the Coastal this year.
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Lol there was a thread calling golden a coward if he chose heaps. Now that kaaya is chosen and struggled like a normal freshman would, you guys can handle it lol? Get real. No one is going to be a star the moment they hit the field as a true freshman
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Not everyone was on that train. The Hype For A True freshman Was unreal. Didn't even go thru spring. I was sure Golden was going to start heaps on the road at UL....And that was the right call imo. I can't remember many true FR doing much in CFB and it's not like we have a bunch a coaching geniuses. They deserve the blame for it. Playing against our soft unaggressive defense was not preparing anyone for anything.
 
uncw305 said:
And still no word why, after having 9 months to prepare for Louisville, a team that destroyed you in your last game, you came out with that offensive game plan? Can't wait to see what they do when they have less than a week to come up with something.

Absolutely, no originality in the play calling, unless you consider an end around to the short side of the field inside the red zone original. They are going to lose every conference game this year if they repeat that crap.
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No doubt the offensive gamplan was conservative, BUT ALOT of that had to do with the fact our Senior starting QB tore his ACL in the spring, our RS freshman QB seemingly can't stay out of trouble, and we started a true freshman, because SURPRISE SURPRISE the journeyman QB isn't very good.

I rewatched the game almost through 3 quarters, the ONE time we lined up in a more traditional 4-3 look, we gave up a double digit passing play. The 3-4 was much more effective in confusing the Louisville QB. We played alot of different looks. 3 man, 4 man, 5 man fronts, we played press man outside, we played off man, we played some zone.

We had some different blitzes we used, we walked a safety down in the box right around the snap, we did alot of different things. Our defense played with alot of intensity, they were fired up, they played hard. We played with emotion, anyone who doesn't think so needs to watch the game. Artie was talking mad smack a few times, so did Elder, so did Perryman.
 
"* Part of the growing process for him will be James Coley trusting him to throw the ball downfield."

This is interesting to me in that in all of the camp highlight vids (I know.... ridiculously small sample size), Kaaya's picks seemed to be in the short game..... horizontal or 1st/2nd level passes, including several pick 6s. When you mess up in that area, it's often 6 the other direction. I'd much rather him throw a pick 25 yards downfield than on a swing pass with a LB's eyes as big as saucers. Perhaps they're less worried about picks and more worried about him getting blasted giving our ****acular OL.
 
I went to the 2nd scrimmage and the offense looked nothing like Louisville...In the redzone they were actually throwing a lot of fades, and there was a ton of passing downfield. what a ****
 
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I think Al and Co. are stuck in a fallacy loop. They can point to poor execution. However, repeated failures of the same issues isn't lack of execution.

That is a systemic failure. It cannot be both its own cause and effect. You can't say poor execution is why we are executing poorly.

There is a fundamental flaw in the strategy and logic. That is why execution is continually poor.
 
That game was not lost because of Kaaya. Not even close. He honestly made 2 bad throws. The screen to Coley, and the throw to Stan that was picked off. Louisville knew when we were going to pass, they knew when we were going to run. I don't care who you are, if you are playing on the road and constantly in 3rd and long situations, you are not going to be successful. We had the ball inside the 3 yard line 3 times and got 3 points because of horrendous play calling and horrendous blocking at the point of attack. Why in the **** would Coley call a reverse pass inside the 10 yard line on a short field on 3rd down? He has no idea of when to call plays and when not to. Kaaya did plenty enough for us to win that game.
 
TheSwagger1 said:
"* Part of the growing process for him will be James Coley trusting him to throw the ball downfield."

This is interesting to me in that in all of the camp highlight vids (I know.... ridiculously small sample size), Kaaya's picks seemed to be in the short game..... horizontal or 1st/2nd level passes, including several pick 6s. When you mess up in that area, it's often 6 the other direction. I'd much rather him throw a pick 25 yards downfield than on a swing pass with a LB's eyes as big as saucers. Perhaps they're less worried about picks and more worried about him getting blasted giving our ****acular OL.
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Also, if you pick a guy as your starter, and Coley hand-picked Kaaya as his guy in the recruiting process...then why is it a growing process for Coley to learn to trust Kaaya to throw the ball down the field? If you're going to play him and he's your guy, shouldn't you have confidence that the kid can make all of the throws you ask him to?

Just another Pricko Suave failure. Kaaya can do it, but CoRch CoRley doesn't "trust" him yet and that's a "growing process". That's more bullsh1t than I can stand.
 
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HurricaneU said:
I think Al and Co. are stuck in a fallacy loop. They can point to poor execution. However, repeated failures of the same issues isn't lack of execution.

That is a systemic failure. It cannot be both its own cause and effect. You can't say poor execution is why we are executing poorly.

There is a fundamental flaw in the strategy and logic. That is why execution is continually poor.
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yep, Ive been saying this, and if you notived Monday we are falling into the Shannon dynamic that after every positive play, theres a negative play.

- several of the positive offensive plays we had were immediately followed by penalties i.e. false starts, illegal man downfield, etc
- after the field goal to take the lead we give up a KO return for TD

that was a staple of the shannon teams when they went into systemic failure, and it will continue to happen, the team will never play well as a cohesive group, each unit will take turns phucking **** up
 
The staff should abandon the Jersey area completely. Waste of time and money to recruit players from there. Hasn't worked out for any player from there for different reasons. Should focus more on MD and VA area if they want to stay in the NE area.
 
Sabetta said:
Duval904 said:
Pete whats up with rumors that the players hate Kaaya and want Heaps instead?

i thought Kaaya was dat *****?
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Please stfu. Golden and Coley complete set him up to fail.
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YOU'RE the one that needs to shut. the. ****. up.

People like you are the reason this program is in the m'fn toilet.

Passive, "its ok", I'll stay pay my money crowd ENABLE this ****** administration to keep putting out a ****** and mediocre product.
 
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Jpvegas said:
The staff should abandon the Jersey area completely. Waste of time and money to recruit players from there. Hasn't worked out for any player from there for different reasons. Should focus more on MD and VA area if they want to stay in the NE area.
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I wouldn't abandon the Jersey area. If you think there is an athlete that can help you win, go get him. I don't care the zip code.

However, having said that, I admit to a strong bias to Florida and specifically Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.
 
I LOL'd when Pete said, "...I've waited until now to let the post-game frustrations die down..."

Man we still have the pitchforks ready, gasoline in-hand! All we need are the matches, bro.
 
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arizonacane said:
4-3 defense will cure a lot of what's going on. Nickel package verses a spread with Burns. Crawford and Howard on the field together in man coverage will also help. 4-2-5 verses a spread offense. The 3-4 isn't suited to the talent at UM.
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i would agree with you if this coaching staff knew how to run a 4-3 base defense but that's really not their expertise and i'm not sure why you have confidence in them running it successfully. even though i'm not a fan of 3-4 defenses i will say that it could work with the personnel we have. however, our coaches don't seem to run it correctly and sure as **** aren't creative. lbs in a 3-4 defense should not be lined up 8 yards behind the defensive line like we do. nor should the dbs be playing a cover 3 zone every fricken play. an amoeba 3-4 defense should be utilized like how Louisville was doing to disguise coverages and blitzes. and it may also be a possibility that this staff use complicated terminologies which eludes to these college guys not learning the playbook and looking out of position even after being 4 years in this system.
 
hey pete. what about joseph yearby's stature or running style makes you think he's a good short yardage back? you don't want a guy who dances around or who weighs 185lbs. i think walter tucker would be a better option because he runs hard and has the power to pick up the short yards needed.
 
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