GAME INFORMATION – GAME 10
#23 MIAMI HURRICANES (7-2, 3-2 ACC) at DUKE BLUE DEVILS (7-2, 3-2 ACC)
Saturday, Nov. 16, 2013 • 3:30 p.m. ET • ESPNU • Wallace Wade Stadium
SERIES HISTORY
Miami leads 9-1 and won last 9 meetings ... Miami is 5-0 in Durham ... Fourth meeting with Miami ranked in Top 25 ... Canes have scored 40+ plus vs. Duke on five occasions.
BROADCAST INFORMATION:
ESPNU • Anish Shroff, Play-by-Play • Kelly Stouffer, Analyst
WQAM 560 AM • Joe Zagacki, PXP • Don Bailey Jr., Analyst • Josh Darrow, Sideline Reporter
RADIO CARACOL 1260 AM • Roly Martin, PXP • Pepe Campos, Analyst • Joe Martinez, Analyst
SATELLITE RADIO • Sirius 137 • XM 195 (Duke Broadcast)
FIVE THINGS U NEED TO KNOW:
1. Senior QB Stephen Morris is the only QB in Miami history to throw multiple 80-yard completions in ACC play. Morris threw TD passes of 84 and 81 yards against Virginia Tech.
2. If P Pat O’Donnell met the NCAA minimum of 3.6 punts per game, his 47.8 yards-per-punt would rank second in FBS.
3. Junior LB Denzel Perryman has 78 tackles, including 51 solo stops.
4. Miami has 21 takeaways in 2013, one shy of matching its 2012 total (22).
5. Sophomore RB Duke Johnson will miss the rest of the season (ankle).
MAKING THE BIG PLAY (Stat courtesy of Tim Reynolds, Associated Press)
· Despite both passes coming in a loss to Virginia Tech, Miami QB Stephen Morris had the two longest passes of his career against ACC opponents, with an 81-yarder to Stacy Coley followed by an 84-yarder to Allen Hurns.
· Morris became the first quarterback from an FBS school with two completions of 80 yards or more in the same game since Arkansas’s Ryan Mallett did it against LSU in 2010.
· He’s also the first ACC quarterback since at least 1995 to have two completions of 80 yards in the same game. And he now has three of the five longest completions by any Miami quarterback in an ACC game.
HURRICANE HOTLINE
Sandbar Sports Grill (@SandbarGrove), located 3064 Grand Ave. in Coconut Grove, will be the new location for the Hurricane Hotline. Fans are encouraged to join third-year head coach Al Golden, various assistant coaches and players each week during the 2013 football season. The Hurricane Hotline, hosted by Joe Zagacki and Don Bailey Jr., will air from 7-9 p.m. on WQAM – players from 7-7:30 p.m., Coach Golden from 7:30-8:30 p.m. and an assistant coach from 8:30-9 p.m.
NOTE: THIS WEEK’S HURRICANE HOTLINE WILL AIR ON WEDNESDAY.
Yup
Posted by: UMike | November 13, 2013 at 09:06 AM
DEUCES!
Posted by: CaneRock | November 13, 2013 at 09:07 AM
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Posted by: SOUP | November 13, 2013 at 09:12 AM
Raize...where U at? See above^^^^^^^^
Posted by: SOUP | November 13, 2013 at 09:14 AM
Rohan Marley!!!!!!!!
Time to focus on those fundamentals we need to execute against Duke...Go Canes Focus on the task!!!!!
Posted by: VA Cane | November 13, 2013 at 09:31 AM
Here's an article that really gets at my worries going forward:
"I wasn't listening when people loved [D'Onofrio] either," Golden said of the critics. "It's always about change. You asked what has changed on defense. It was the discipline in making tough decisions not to change, to stay with it and do all the little things.
Read more here: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/umiami/2013/11/golden-says-boo-me-not-stephen-morris-howard-defends-donofrio.html#storylink=cpy
First off, did anbody 'love' D'Onofrio outside of his nuclear family?
Second, it boggles my mind that somebody can look at the UM defense after almost three years, and say that what's needed is the discipline to make the decision NOT to change.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
-- Albert Einstein
Posted by: dj moonbat | November 13, 2013 at 09:46 AM
Raize...where U at? See above^^^^^^^^
Posted by: SOUP | November 13, 2013 at 09:14 AM
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Sounds good to me. I went to the classic 2 years ago and almost got thrown out because my phone rang during Phil's backswing.....
Posted by: raizecane | November 13, 2013 at 09:48 AM
MY GOD WE ARE ON UPSET ALERT AGANIST DUKE!!! WTF THIS IS LIKE A BAD DREAM
Posted by: canezilla | November 13, 2013 at 09:51 AM
duke is not the same old duke. they have consistency. they did not fire their coach after 2008 4-8,2009 5-7, 2010 3-9, 2011 3-9, 2012 6-7.
Now they are 7-2 and fighting for a ACC title in year 6.
Posted by: trianglecane | November 13, 2013 at 10:12 AM
Jelani Hamilton playing spoiler for Moten's decision today! LOL
jelani hamilton @jelanibeast_99 18h
Tomorrow is the day I kno what's going on do you haha congrats
Posted by: Ohio_Cane | November 13, 2013 at 10:15 AM
duke is not the same old duke. they have consistency. they did not fire their coach after 2008 4-8,2009 5-7, 2010 3-9, 2011 3-9, 2012 6-7.
Now they are 7-2 and fighting for a ACC title in year 6.
Posted by: trianglecane | November 13, 2013 at 10:12 AM
One thing I've always said about Duke, is if they ever get ANY type of defense...LOOK OUT! Because one thing about a David Cutcliffe offense, is they WILL! put points on the board. And the guy is one HECKUVA! developer of QBs.
Posted by: CaneRock | November 13, 2013 at 10:20 AM
Spoiler Alert!!!
Duke will flare the rb in the flat and run crossing patterns. Please CANES fans don't be surprised. Our lb's and corners have to get depth, and trust what they've seen on film.
Our defense is better than last year and our offense without Duke is worse. Miami will need turnovers and players to step up. duke is riding a high and Miami will have to overcome that as well.
I was at the scoring fest last year and was pretty blown away by the fact that duke did not fold the tents when down big.
I believe MIAMI will win. It will not be raining. LOL!
Posted by: trianglecane | November 13, 2013 at 10:24 AM
Duke will flare the rb in the flat and run crossing patterns.
Posted by: trianglecane | November 13, 2013 at 10:24 AM
With a strategy that simplistic, there's no way they'll rack up more than 500 yards.
Posted by: dj moonbat | November 13, 2013 at 10:31 AM
Not that it matters much, but I was just on SI and Miami doesn't have one player in their top 50 draftable players or in the top 30 teams. No respect for anything on any level. What a sad state this program has fallen to...
What is it going to take to get back into the national conversation?
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Posted by: fmcane | November 13, 2013 at 11:09 AM
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Posted by: THE MAN | November 13, 2013 at 11:11 AM
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Posted by: THE MAN | November 13, 2013 at 11:15 AM
@ THE MAN
What it will take is Miami winning a major bowl game against a solid opponent. We really need our play makers to stay healthy. Losing Dorsett hurt us more than we realize and when Duke when down it destroyed our offensive game plan for the season.
Posted by: D4-Cane | November 13, 2013 at 11:28 AM
If the Defense gets raped again then ALL BETS ARE OFF for Golden, his seat should go from cool to center of the sun hot, even with the ratchet level of talent we have we're better man for man then DUKE.
31-28 Duke
Posted by: SinisterCane | November 13, 2013 at 11:34 AM
D4-Cane anyone with a half of brain should have known losing your deep threat reciever was gonna hurt and he (Dorsett) led the team last season with 58 receptions for 842 yards so of course it was going to hurt and to lose Duke really hurts since he is our best player. But everyone has to step their game up a notch against a good opponent like Duke. Two good teams playing each other 7-2 who will go to 8-2 and who will go to 7-3. My opinion is 35-31 M-I-A-M-I.
Posted by: Terrance Sullivan | November 13, 2013 at 11:47 AM
Posted by: D4-Cane | November 13, 2013 at 11:28 AM
They need to get to a major bowl first. From what I'm seeing the last 2 weeks I'm not sure that will happen this year. When you look at the team as a whole there are HUGE holes every where. I'm hoping they can get their sh!t together and stop defending their coach with words and actually have a COMPLETE game for once. Haven't seen a complete game all around for half a decade or more...
Posted by: THE MAN | November 13, 2013 at 12:10 PM
even with the ratchet level of talent we have we're better man for man then DUKE.
Posted by: SinisterCane | November 13, 2013 at 11:34 AM
LMAO!
DAMN!, SC called our defense "RATCHET"! Hellllll...NAW!
We done went from the "Water Break Boyz"...to "RATCHET"!
LMAO!
Posted by: CaneRock | November 13, 2013 at 12:46 PM
I wonder what our third down conversion rate is this year? Part of the problem is we mostly have third and long. BAH
Posted by: CGNC | November 13, 2013 at 07:21 AM
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Miami 54 of 137 = 39.42% conversion rate
FSU 52 of 99 = 50.53%
Bama 52 of 103 = 50.49%
Posted by: raizecane | November 13, 2013 at 07:49 AM
correction - my stats above are for defense. On offense, Miami was 42 of 109 for a 38.53% conversion
Posted by: raizecane | November 13, 2013 at 12:56 PM
What is it going to take to get back into the national conversation?
Posted by: THE MAN | November 13, 2013 at 10:57 AM
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Something that remotely looks like this -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_lZ2qAnWtU
Posted by: raizecane | November 13, 2013 at 01:05 PM
How do you beat Miami, throw to RB's in the flat & Te's who are always open in space. Run straight at our pin cushion defense.
TH-3, on taking up for your coach, how about stop thinking you are Deon Sanders and start getting your uniform dirty. I don't see you helping your beloved D-Coord. to much with you're whiffing tackling ability.
Posted by: herbieibis | November 13, 2013 at 01:11 PM
Posted by: canezilla | November 13, 2013 at 09:51 AM
Cutcliffe has worked hard there. Peyton Manning went and worked with him at Duke when he was rehabbing his neck injury
Posted by: CGNC | November 13, 2013 at 01:15 PM
LOL Kudos to the canespace model above. Who is she?
Posted by: CGNC | November 13, 2013 at 01:17 PM
correction - my stats above are for defense. On offense, Miami was 42 of 109 for a 38.53% conversion
Posted by: raizecane | November 13, 2013 at 12:56 PM
So basically average or worse?
Posted by: CGNC | November 13, 2013 at 01:17 PM
So our offense has been just as bad as the defense when U cant convert better than 39% on 3rd down is unacceptable. That mark should be at least 45%. That alone would make a big differnce i bet on average we have the ball for probably less than 25 minutes per game. While our defense is on the field I would guess for at least 35 minutes or more per game. Go Canes! Beat Duke!
Posted by: Terrance Sullivan | November 13, 2013 at 01:18 PM
CGNC - Yup
Posted by: raizecane | November 13, 2013 at 01:19 PM
Posted by: trianglecane | November 13, 2013 at 10:12 AM
The question really is did their coach make any coordinator or other coaching changes to his staff or did he stick with everyone no matter what
Posted by: CGNC | November 13, 2013 at 01:20 PM
If there was ever a DL coach who could make chicken salad out of chicken sh!! is this bad mothaF@@ka right here "John Palermo" http://coachingroots.com/football/coaches/john-palermo
Posted by: SinisterCane | November 13, 2013 at 01:30 PM
I think we could use a new S&C coach, infuse some blood and ideas, SOMEONE WHO DOSEN'T NEED TO BE PUSHED BY THE HC
Posted by: SinisterCane | November 13, 2013 at 01:33 PM
^^^^^^
The real question is, where is he coaching AT???
Who expects duke to win in football??? Who cares??
Posted by: WWIN | November 13, 2013 at 01:37 PM
If you're not going to listen to this former player, you might listen to a current one actually in the system. One that was a 5 star showing his high football IQ. How come we get it, but you do not? Oh, because you never played D1 ball. Ahhhhhh. Lol
Posted by: 360Cane | November 13, 2013 at 08:07 AM
As a former player, you might not understand what some fans go through. Some of us spend serious shillings and have FOR YEARS to see coaches struggle with headsets, timeouts and just basically bad football for almost a decade. As fans of the Canes, we know what good football looks like - standards which were set by former players and coaches ending with Butch Davis. Every coaching change we pin our hopes on the next regime. Please believe me when I say we want Golden and Co. to be successful.
Posted by: CGNC | November 13, 2013 at 01:42 PM
^^^^^
Yeah and it doesn't take 3yrs to execute a defensive game plan. Well in our case 4yrs now.
Posted by: WWIN | November 13, 2013 at 01:59 PM
Is there Viagra to make the defense stiffen up.
Posted by: Old Skool | November 13, 2013 at 02:06 PM
@360: As fans we take a lot of crap too from fans of other teams but we always defend the Canes. If we were just fans of winning we would have moved on to cheering for Bama by now
Posted by: CGNC | November 13, 2013 at 02:07 PM
Skool - LOL I was thinking that the Viagra ad was showing up on here so that we would
Posted by: CGNC | November 13, 2013 at 02:07 PM
Let me gon and get this out my system...
So I hope everybody heard Golden admit to signing off on this defensive scheme, right?????
See dats dat $h*t I don't like
Soft zones, dats dat $h*t I don't like
Don't like
Don't like... Bang Bang
Posted by: WWIN | November 13, 2013 at 02:23 PM
360, to follow up on what CGNC said (agree with her on all points), I didn't play girl's softball but I can coach it effectively, and I may not know meterology but I can tell what a rain cloud is. Using a football analogy, do you really want to argue that only an NFL wide receiver could tell you Wallace should have at least tried to catch that last pass that Revis intercepted?
With football, any rational person can see there's a problem with the way the D played against Va. Tech. When a receiver catches a ball with nobody within 10 yards, and doesn't get touched for 15 more, something is wrong. When it happens 8-10 times something is very, very wrong. It's one thing to see a team like Savannah State not being able to compete athletically against a superior team, but I'm not buying that the Hokies offense (ranked below 100 before our game) was so superior to Miami's defense that we can forgive a performance like that.
Maybe it isn't the "scheme," but it's not just athletic ability. Is it discipline? Is it conditioning? Is it not understanding assignments? And it it is one of those 3, doesn't that fall on the coaching staff this late in the season? We aren't using markedly different lineups out there.
Posted by: j.w. | November 13, 2013 at 02:24 PM
Stephen Wiseman @stevewisemanNC 2h
Got an email from Chick-fil-A Bowl folks that they will be at Wallace Wade on Saturday scouting both teams as possibilities. #miami #duke
Posted by: Ohio_Cane | November 13, 2013 at 02:32 PM
Actually this might be a good week for the U to be on the road.
A home loss to Duke might be more than the fans can accept.
If VT was a must win, then this one has become the entire season. Another loss and we won't have enought site admin's to keep the blog under control......
Posted by: Account Deleted | November 13, 2013 at 03:02 PM
Here’s exactly what your team needs to get to Charlotte:
What Duke needs: Win out and have somebody beat Georgia Tech
What Miami needs: Win out and have somebody beat Virginia Tech
What Georgia Tech needs: Beat Clemson and have Miami AND Virginia Tech lose
What Virginia Tech needs: Win out and have somebody beat Duke
The latter seems the most likely. At this point, we have the Hokies in Charlotte.
http://espn.go.com/blog/acc/post/_/id/63227/acc-conference-race-update-5
Posted by: Ohio_Cane | November 13, 2013 at 03:06 PM
@DNordy_: Eddie Johnson wants back in pic.twitter.com/pe5jkhC2yV
Posted by: Ohio_Cane | November 13, 2013 at 03:11 PM
^^^ How about Storm? We could use him now.
Posted by: CalgaryCane | November 13, 2013 at 03:19 PM
Here's an article that really gets at my worries going forward:
"I wasn't listening when people loved [D'Onofrio] either," Golden said of the critics. "It's always about change. You asked what has changed on defense. It was the discipline in making tough decisions not to change, to stay with it and do all the little things.
Read more here: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/umiami/2013/11/golden-says-boo-me-not-stephen-morris-howard-defends-donofrio.html#storylink=cpy
First off, did anbody 'love' D'Onofrio outside of his nuclear family?
Second, it boggles my mind that somebody can look at the UM defense after almost three years, and say that what's needed is the discipline to make the decision NOT to change.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
-- Albert Einstein
Posted by: dj moonbat | November 13, 2013 at 09:46 AM
i feel U dj. this is proof Al Golden and his staff don't have what it takes to develope an aggressive and dominant defense.
Posted by: PapaCane1963 | November 13, 2013 at 03:27 PM
^^^ How about Storm? We could use him now.
Posted by: CalgaryCane | November 13, 2013 at 03:19 PM
sure could
Posted by: PapaCane1963 | November 13, 2013 at 03:29 PM
360, to follow up on what CGNC said (agree with her on all points), I didn't play girl's softball but I can coach it effectively, and I may not know meterology but I can tell what a rain cloud is. Using a football analogy, do you really want to argue that only an NFL wide receiver could tell you Wallace should have at least tried to catch that last pass that Revis intercepted?
With football, any rational person can see there's a problem with the way the D played against Va. Tech. When a receiver catches a ball with nobody within 10 yards, and doesn't get touched for 15 more, something is wrong. When it happens 8-10 times something is very, very wrong. It's one thing to see a team like Savannah State not being able to compete athletically against a superior team, but I'm not buying that the Hokies offense (ranked below 100 before our game) was so superior to Miami's defense that we can forgive a performance like that.
Maybe it isn't the "scheme," but it's not just athletic ability. Is it discipline? Is it conditioning? Is it not understanding assignments? And it it is one of those 3, doesn't that fall on the coaching staff this late in the season? We aren't using markedly different lineups out there.
Posted by: j.w. | November 13, 2013 at 02:24 PM
another reason Al Golden don't have what it takess to develope anagressive and dominant defense.
Posted by: PapaCane1963 | November 13, 2013 at 03:40 PM