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November 13, 2013

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UMike

Yup

CaneRock

DEUCES!

SOUP

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SOUP

Raize...where U at? See above^^^^^^^^

VA Cane

Rohan Marley!!!!!!!!

Time to focus on those fundamentals we need to execute against Duke...Go Canes Focus on the task!!!!!

dj moonbat

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

raizecane


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.....

canezilla

MY GOD WE ARE ON UPSET ALERT AGANIST DUKE!!! WTF THIS IS LIKE A BAD DREAM

trianglecane

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.

Ohio_Cane

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

CaneRock

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.

trianglecane

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!

dj moonbat

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.

THE MAN

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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fmcane

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At least that's what she said!!!!!

THE MAN

Yes, maybe they should all take Viagra right before kick off!

THE MAN

I wonder if they have viagra for the cojones then we can all pitch in to buy a truck load for DNO. Then he will actually have a set!

D4-Cane

@ 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.

SinisterCane

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

Terrance Sullivan

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.

THE MAN

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...

CaneRock

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!

raizecane

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

raizecane

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

herbieibis

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.

CGNC

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

CGNC

LOL Kudos to the canespace model above. Who is she?

CGNC

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?

Terrance Sullivan

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!

raizecane

CGNC - Yup

CGNC

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

SinisterCane

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

SinisterCane

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

WWIN

^^^^^^
The real question is, where is he coaching AT???

Who expects duke to win in football??? Who cares??

CGNC

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.

WWIN

^^^^^
Yeah and it doesn't take 3yrs to execute a defensive game plan. Well in our case 4yrs now.

Old Skool

Is there Viagra to make the defense stiffen up.

CGNC

@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

CGNC

Skool - LOL I was thinking that the Viagra ad was showing up on here so that we would

WWIN

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


j.w.

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.

Ohio_Cane

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

Account Deleted

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......

Ohio_Cane

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

Ohio_Cane

@DNordy_: Eddie Johnson wants back in pic.twitter.com/pe5jkhC2yV

CalgaryCane

^^^ How about Storm? We could use him now.

PapaCane1963

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.

PapaCane1963

^^^ How about Storm? We could use him now.

Posted by: CalgaryCane | November 13, 2013 at 03:19 PM


sure could

PapaCane1963

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.

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