Why can't Miami win this year?

[Consigliere]

117th in defense will finish no higher than 50th at the high this year if lucky. can't win the close and tough games with a liability of that nature.

With our offense, if we can get to 50th in defense we will be unstoppable. If we were 50th last year we prob go undefeated.

If serious, how does this make any sense?

 

[Consigliere]

I don't want to hear anymore excuses from Goldens

Haven't heard any excuses at all from Golden.

:rollcanes:

What are you laughing at, seriously I don't follow?

 

[rok]

I don't want to hear anymore excuses from Goldens

Haven't heard any excuses at all from Golden.

:rollcanes:

What are you laughing at, seriously I don't follow?

Al doesn't throw people under the bus. I get the feeling that insubordination is where he draws the line. But he's never been bashful about bringing up the previous regime and/or the shapiro scandal, and he has every right to.

 

[dk72]

I don't want to hear anymore excuses from Goldens

Haven't heard any excuses at all from Golden.

:rollcanes:

What are you laughing at, seriously I don't follow?

Al doesn't throw people under the bus. I get the feeling that insubordination is where he draws the line. But he's never been bashful about bringing up the previous regime and/or the shapiro scandal, and he has every right to.

Apparently you don't know the difference between excuses and stating facts.

 

[De Pinga]

Haven't heard any excuses at all from Golden.

:rollcanes:

What are you laughing at, seriously I don't follow?

Al doesn't throw people under the bus. I get the feeling that insubordination is where he draws the line. But he's never been bashful about bringing up the previous regime and/or the shapiro scandal, and he has every right to.

Apparently you don't know the difference between excuses and stating facts.

:rollcanes:

 

[rok]

If we were undefeated, 24-0, since Godlen took over you'd have never heard him say a peep about those things one time. Sure they're facts, but that doesn't mean he hasn't used them to defend himself.

All he's had to defend himself on is wins/losses. He's completely changed the culture of the program and has recruited his *** off. All that's left for him to prove is that he can coach on this level and achieve a high degree of success. I think he'll do it, but I expect things to change dramatically on the field in 2013.

 

[Jassid82]

If anybody gets a pass its Golden for the first 2 years. No QUALITY depth. (Yeah we had bodies but alot of those mofos sucked. Golden found that out real quick.) Sanctions hanging over his head. He just wasnt put in a good spot. But this year he has to stand and deliver. 9 wins. No BS. No excuses. We have a stud QB with stud weapons. And a stud OL. An adequate defense. Not solid or average. Just good enough to get us to 9-3.

If we had beat UVA and UNC (which we should have) we win 9 games last year and come into this season with hella momentum and preseason top 15 ranking. We need that lucky 9 this year. And we HAVE to beat either FSU or FLA. Anything more then 9 is gravy.

 

[Consigliere]

I don't want to hear anymore excuses from Goldens

Haven't heard any excuses at all from Golden.

:rollcanes:

What are you laughing at, seriously I don't follow?

Al doesn't throw people under the bus. I get the feeling that insubordination is where he draws the line. But he's never been bashful about bringing up the previous regime and/or the shapiro scandal, and he has every right to.

What are you the defender of the previous regime?

Seriously though, what is the funny part of any of this? Do we have sarcasm?

 

[rok]

What's funny to me is the notion that Al hasn't used these things in his defense. Not saying he's wrong for doing so either.

 

[De Pinga]

What's funny to me is the notion that Al hasn't used these things in his defense. Not saying he's wrong for doing so either.

He used it a few times last season, in regards to playing a lot of younger players when prior to last season he said there would be no excuses.

 

[jruiz]

what worries me is that we mayl lose to teams we shouldn't lose to

 

[JHallCanes]

Look at our ******* schedule, Bros.

You're god**** right we can win this year.

 

[rok]

What's funny to me is the notion that Al hasn't used these things in his defense. Not saying he's wrong for doing so either.

He used it a few times last season, in regards to playing a lot of younger players when prior to last season he said there would be no excuses.

And I've got no real problem with it. But there is no denying that it's true.

 

[usfcane]

Look at our ****ing schedule, Bros.

You're god**** right we can win this year.

Agreed, and put me on record, we WAX UVA this year, no doubt in my mind.

 

[JHallCanes]

Look at our ****ing schedule, Bros.

You're god**** right we can win this year.

Agreed, and put me on record, we WAX UVA this year, no doubt in my mind.

I know our defense is suspect at best at the moment, but anytime you have a Heisman candidate QB and RB, you can do some great things.

 

[usfcane]

Look at our ****ing schedule, Bros.

You're god**** right we can win this year.

Agreed, and put me on record, we WAX UVA this year, no doubt in my mind.

I know our defense is suspect at best at the moment, but anytime you have a Heisman candidate QB and RB, you can do some great things.

And they lost thr duel threat qb and a bit of talent from last year. Home game, triple??? revenge game, like i said, we destroy these fools this year.

 

[Gatorhater]

I agree that the main issue will be that UM's D is a joke and has no depth. I do not recall any decent UM (10 wins) team much less an NC team with a D raked outside the top 15 or 20. UM has no such D.

BUT, I still have nightmares about how the O, which as you note pretty much returns intact, simply disappeared against any team with a top 30 defense. UM's "offense" laid an egg against KSU, was owned by ND and evaporated against FSU.

And we just hired a new and significantly less experienced OC.

So, can UM win this year? Sure, 9 games, maybe. But until the O shows up in a big game against a top flight defense, I'm not willing to assume that the D is the only issue.

Everyone is talking about 2014 and 2015, but why can't Miami win this year? They have an experienced quarterback with talent, one of the best running backs in the country, talented receivers, and pretty much their top seven or eight offensive linemen back. Defensively I have to think they will be better since they cannot be any worse; in fact I feel they will be much improved since the freshmen that were forced to play will now be sophomores. Jenkins, Crawford, Bush, Kirby, and Howard all have the potential to be all-conference. Granted, I do not think they will have a top ten defense, but top fifty or sixty is not out of the question. That should be enough to win the ACC. Florida State has to break in a new QB and V-Tech doesn't scare me. Additional, NC lost one of the conferences best players in Bernard. Clemson is probably the best on paper, but they lost key offensive players in Ellington, Hopkins and Freeman.

True. We are not there yet. But KSU was one choke from playing NC against Cheater U. If we beat all the teams we should beat this year and out score swamp scum, we have shot at ACC title game and top 10 finish. Morris is senior now and we can expect his big game performance to be better. If D does improve we could make some noise in the post season.

 

[Canemang]

117th in defense will finish no higher than 50th at the high this year if lucky. can't win the close and tough games with a liability of that nature.

Finally someone who makes cents!! +rep for you

lmao

slowly starting to like you.........."as a poster"

 

[1CN]

11-12 great season
9-10 win good season
8 win same ole same
7 or less no comment

 

[3FW]

This is going to be a good football team, top 10-20. Needs more talent and depth on defense to get into the top 5. I could see a scenario where the defense stays healthy and we out perform and end up inside the top 10. Not ready for top 5 however.