Rhett To The Rescue?

It would be easy to start this blog with a simple statement: "The UM offense has only one way to go and that is up."

Instead, I will start it with a serious question: "Can new UM Offensive Coordinator Rhett Lashlee score?"

Because after going "Zero for 60" in their most recent bowl game the Miami Hurricanes offense proved that scoring points, even with weeks of practice and playing against lowly opponents like La Tech, is hard.

Indeed it is apparently very, very, hard to score points in college football all of a sudden. But we are rooting for Rhett to score. And we would like to see him score early, easily and often.

Last year Miami scored 334 points in the regular season. The over/under for total points for the 2020 season will be 350.

We wish Rhett all the luck in the world in making things better for the UM offense. A third down conversion would be nice once in a while. Touchdowns over field goals are just icing on the cake.

We want Rhett to know that: "Frankly my dear, we do give a damn!"

Now get busy Mr. Lashlee in fixing this putrid offense.

And by all means, please score early an often.

Comments

[raizecane]

nice pics.........i mean article

[Terrance M Sullivan]

Top Notch Top Notch Soupster!

[58 Straight]

1. “The number one criteria I’m looking for from great players is efficacy,” Highsmith said. “That means the power to affect other people and make others great around you. I’ve always felt that my greatest strength as a football player was making people around me better. You make people around you better with your work ethic and being a good teammate. Then that becomes infectious on a team and everybody is pushing each other to get better. I want people to change things because of their work ethic. Those are the type of kids we must recruit to be a better football team.”

2. “I don’t think anybody is going to be successful without talent,” Highsmith said. “That is the bottom line. As long as your recruiting process is right and you are teaching the young people who are cutting up film to evaluate what good players are—you have to have been around great players to understand what great players are. If you haven’t been around great players, it is hard to tell what a great player is.”

Posted by: solarcane | January 08, 2020 at 08:06 PM

1. I agree with this 100%. The best players make the other players around them even better. SYNERGY is the key to success.

2. We have talent. We don't have coaching, strategy, game planning, execution, internal drive, strong desire to win, a common sense of purpose (team) or the proper system of motivation to do the right things.

We simply do not have a collection of all of the worst players in college football. This is NOT a Butch Davis advocacy statement (God forbid) but he could have taken OUR team and beat his FIU team. Manny couldn't beat FIU and that is all you need to know about what is wrong with UM football.

Can Lashlee fix it? Time will tell.

[Terrance M Sullivan]

Preach Soupster!

[Terrance M Sullivan]

Lol Dabo was winning 10,11,12 Games a year in 2011,2012,2013,2014 basically with the Signing Classes that we have had over the last Decade. Then It's been 14 Wins A Year since 2015 and continuing and they just starting to get Top 5 Classes what 2017. So even 2015 14-1 Team finished #2 and 14-1 National Championship Team basically had basically Top 15 Classes. But who knows. Funny Story Dabo said that he believes his 2014 Team was his best Team until 2018 he had but Deshaun Watson got hurt early that Year he felt that team would have won national championship. So Yes Recruiting is Important but you better Coach and Develop Talent otherwise you will average Top 25 Classes but be 13-13 in your last 2 Years SMH 😂.

[86Cane]

On another side note, my research shows that...

Theodore Chaikin Sorensen (May 8, 1928 – October 31, 2010) was an American lawyer, writer, and presidential adviser. He was a speechwriter for President John F. Kennedy, as well as one of his closest advisers. President Kennedy once called him his "intellectual blood bank".[1]

Sorensen was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, the son of Christian A. Sorensen (1890 - 1959), who served as Nebraska attorney general (1929–33),[2][3] and Annis (Chaikin) Sorensen. His father was Danish American and his mother was of Russian Jewish descent.[4] His younger brother, Philip C. Sorensen, later became the lieutenant governor of Nebraska. He graduated from Lincoln High School during 1945. He earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and attended University of Nebraska College of Law, graduating first in his class.[1]

Sorensen during the Kennedy administration.
Sorensen was President Kennedy's special counsel, adviser, and primary speechwriter, the role for which he is remembered best. He helped draft the inaugural address in which Kennedy said famously, "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." In his 2008 memoir, Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History, Sorenson claimed, "The truth is that I simply don't remember where the line came from."[8]

During the early months of the administration, Sorensen's responsibilities concerned the domestic agenda. After the Bay of Pigs debacle, Kennedy asked Sorensen to participate with foreign policy discussions as well. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, Sorensen served as a member of ExComm and was named by Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara as one of the "true inner circle" members who advised the president, the others being Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, General Maxwell D. Taylor (chairman of the Joint Chiefs), former ambassador to the USSR Llewellyn Thompson, and McNamara himself.[9] Sorensen played a critical role in drafting Kennedy's correspondence with Nikita Khrushchev and worked on Kennedy's first address to the nation about the crisis on October 22.

Prior to his resignation, Sorensen stated his intent to write Kennedy's biography, calling it "the book that President Kennedy had intended to write with my help after his second term." He was not the only Kennedy aide to publish writings; historian and special assistant Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. wrote his Pulitzer Prize winning memoir A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House during the same time period. Sorensen's biography, Kennedy, was published during 1965 and became an international bestseller.

[86Cane]

Education. It's what we do.

[solarcane]

Posted by: 58 Straight | January 08, 2020 at 10:46 PM

We don`t always agree on everything but this time its straight up

[solarcane]

So Yes Recruiting is Important but you better Coach and Develop Talent otherwise you will average Top 25 Classes but be 13-13 in your last 2 Years SMH 😂.

Posted by: Terrance M Sullivan | January 08, 2020 at 11:24 PM

BINGO sully

[solarcane]

best college football turn arounds

Georgia Tech, 1951
1 OF 10
After the Ramblin' Wreck stumbled through the 1950 season, finishing 5-6, hopes weren't set too high for the Yellow Jackets in 1951.

Head coach Bobby Dodd had different ideas, and by the end of 1951, his Georgia Tech team was 11-0-1, and had embarked on a 31-game unbeaten streak, which eventually led to a national championship claim in 1952.

Incidentally, Tech also beat rival Georgia 48-6 in 1951 while capturing the first of two consecutive SEC championships.

[solarcane]

Oklahoma, 2000
2 OF 10
While not the biggest turnaround ever, the 2000 Oklahoma team is important in a couple of respects.

First, the Sooners finished 7-5 in 1999, and followed that up with a 13-0, BCS championship season.

Second, it was just Bob Stoops's second season as head coach at Oklahoma, and Stoops began a seismic shift in expectations in Norman. The 1990's was quite frankly an abysmal decade for the Sooners.

The decade saw the first time since the 1920's that the Sooners had three consecutive losing seasons.

It also saw seasons in which Oklahoma set program records for most losses in a season, and worse season win percentages since the 1890's.

Since the turnaround season in 2000, Oklahoma is 122-26. So while the 1999-to-2000 turnaround is important, it's mostly because its effect on Oklahoma can still be seen today.

[solarcane]

Hawai'i, 1999
4 OF 10
In 1998, the Rainbow Warriors finished 0-12 for the first time in program history, and Hawai'i fired coach Fred von Appen as the season's conclusion.

The Rainbow Warriors then made of the greatest moves in their history by hiring June Jones as the new head coach for the 1999 season.

Jones guided Hawai'i to a 9-4 record in his first season, capturing a share of the WAC championship, and topping Oregon State in the O'ahu Bowl.

Going from zero wins to a conference championship and bowl victory easily places Hawai'i on the list.

[solarcane]

Miami (Ohio) University, 2010
8 OF 10
When you're a MAC team, and you go 1-11, the wheels have definitely come off of the wagon. That's exactly the situation Miami was in after the 2009 season.

Under the leadership of head coach Mike Haywood, the Redhawks had a near-miraculous turnaround in 2010, and went on to win 10 games, a MAC championship, and the GoDaddy.com Bowl over Middle Tennessee State.

In the long history of college football, the 2010 Miami Redhawks are the only team ever to follow a season of double-digit losses with a season of double-digit wins.

[DallasTX Cane]

Solar - take a look at what Navy did this year...

[Old Skool]

Just wondering if anyone would ever combine D'No and Eno on the same staff. If the NCAA ever had to severely punish a program that would probably be the last step before the Death Penalty,

[solarcane]

Solar - take a look at what Navy did this year...

Posted by: DallasTX Cane | January 09, 2020 at 07:20 AM

Great call DTX

[solarcane]

That Bobby Dodd had to be the shyt.
Take over 5-6 team and win 31 games in row with the very next seasons.

[Sarasota 'cane]

Raize your tumbler will arrive tomorrow and Umike your tumbler has been ordered. 2019 is a wrap!!

If UM makes the NCAA basketball (Not the NIT!) or baseball tournament we will have another drawing, otherwise the next drawing will be on opening day of football season.

Go 'canes!!

[TJL]

We may be moving down on the pecking order for QB transfers since UGA needs one:

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/28447520/georgia-quarterback-jake-fromm-entering-nfl-draft

[Herbieibis]

It always inspires The Herb to comment when I see those 2 chicks with the white tanks on. Thoughts just flourish thru my head.
Uh, anyway back to commenting on the Canes.
Every school has had ups and downs, no matter who the schools are. Some go decades before it revolves back around to them being relevant. Tenn., Texas, Nebraska, USC and Da U just to name a few. Once we were little ole Miami, just like Dabo's claims about Clemson. The town is off the beaten path and in the middle of no where but somehow just like Ole Miss was for about 5 years, their getting all these really good players and yes winning helps But But I made a comment on Canespace about 4 years ago, that I had kept up with recruiting since 1970 and had never seen Ole Miss get the kind of talent that they were bringing in, until I believe Tunsil opened his mouth. Clemson brought in 6 five star players, SIX! This school sits 14 miles off the beaten path, in a town that has maybe 3 to 4 stop lights. Last I was down their, they don't even sell alcohol on Sunday.
Georgia, is a fertile recruiting ground but all of the sudden, when Smart gets their, there hauling in 3 and 4 five star players.
Like the Ojay's hit song from the 70's Money Money, Money, that's all it takes.
Now in Dabo's defense, what has helped him, he hasn't lost but a couple coaches off his staff which helps with stability and recruiting. I said a few years ago something wasn't about Ole Miss and something ain't right now.

[HerbieIbis]

Bye to Berry. 2 down a couple more to go. It took long enough. Can't say had good or bad he was as a coach, with that crap to work with BUT he's another dead weight recruiter.
Zo ain't coming. So Blake and Manny start the new year out in a canoe without any paddles. Better learn to navigate the shark infested waters.

[86Cane]

Head coach Bobby Dodd had different ideas, and by the end of 1951, his Georgia Tech team was 11-0-1, and had embarked on a 31-game unbeaten streak, which eventually led to a national championship claim in 1952.

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While not the biggest turnaround ever, the 2000 Oklahoma team is important in a couple of respects. First, the Sooners finished 7-5 in 1999, and followed that up with a 13-0, BCS championship season.

****************************************

In 1998, the Rainbow Warriors finished 0-12 for the first time in program history, and Hawai'i fired coach Fred von Appen as the season's conclusion. The Rainbow Warriors then made of the greatest moves in their history by hiring June Jones as the new head coach for the 1999 season.

Jones guided Hawai'i to a 9-4 record in his first season, capturing a share of the WAC championship, and topping Oregon State in the O'ahu Bowl.

****************************************

No, no, no, no, NO! U have it ALL wrong. First year coaches are NOT allowed to win. Well at least at Miami they can't, but hey, I'm jus sayin. In many ways Manny was NOT a first year coach he had been with the team for the previous three years which makes his failure even worse.

Praying for a "Miracle In Miami" in year 2.

[roachcane77]

James shared what UM is looking for to fill the chief of staff role.
“Someone who will work with Manny,” James said. “In any organization, you have to have alignment and you have to have the right chemistry. That is something that he feels could be helpful to him and so I am going to be full supportive with making that happen.”

In other words... they're looking for a "Yes Man." (Which I'm pretty sure Lonzo Highsmith would NOT be... )

[TJL]

FIU kicker to the U! kicking game just got ALOT better

[nemo2020]

FIU kicker to the U! kicking game just got ALOT better

Posted by: TJL | January 09, 2020 at 01:24 PM

We used to say:
"You come to the U, or you lose to the U."
Now we say:
"You come to the U, after the U loses to you."

[nemo2020]

Just posted on the Miami Herald app:

Former Miami great and NFL executive Alonzo Highsmith is a ‘no-go’ for UM football job
BY BARRY JACKSON AND SUSAN MILLER DEGNAN|

Manny (and Blake?) really did not want him.
Also, the proposed salary was not nearly high enough for Alonzo.

[nemo2020]

nice pics.........i mean article

Posted by: raizecane | January 08, 2020 at 10:36 PM

SoftPornSpace?
I like it!

[MDCane]

Leach to Miss St.’ Kiffin and Leach in the same state...that should be fun.

[nemo2020]

“There never was really a lot of talk other than trustees wanted me,’’ Highsmith told the Herald.

[CGNC]

Seems like every coach with a vagina besides Manny is doing their job.

Posted by: solarcane | January 08, 2020 at 03:40 PM

Oh my, that's gonna leave a mark.

Posted by: 58 Straight | January 08, 2020 at 06:16 PM

Yup

[CGNC]

We simply do not have a collection of all of the worst players in college football. This is NOT a Butch Davis advocacy statement (God forbid) but he could have taken OUR team and beat his FIU team. Manny couldn't beat FIU and that is all you need to know about what is wrong with UM football.

Can Lashlee fix it? Time will tell.

Posted by: 58 Straight | January 08, 2020 at 10:46 PM

Agreed
Also great post by TSully

[CGNC]

Posted by: roachcane77 | January 09, 2020 at 12:35 PM

When the worse P5 AD is speaking on what they are looking for or that Mandy is right for the job, it is scintillating, isn't it?

#sarcasm intended

[86Cane]

SoftPornSpace? I like it!

Posted by: nemo2020 | January 09, 2020 at 01:58 PM

Is that what she said?

[86Cane]

it is scintillating, isn't it?

Posted by: CGNC | January 09, 2020 at 02:29 PM

Well looky there, it IS what she said!

[alpine]

Bye to Berry. 2 down a couple more to go.

Posted by: HerbieIbis | January 09, 2020 at 11:44 AM

we keep getting bad info repeated on this blog
. . . i don't find a barry-firing anywhere
. . . are you retweeting another canes' fantasy?

[alpine]

it is scintillating, isn't it?

Posted by: CGNC | January 09, 2020 at 02:29 PM

Well looky there, it IS what she said!

Posted by: 86Cane | January 09, 2020 at 02:55 PM

yep, and when sin titillates, the vibes be dancin'

[CGNC]

Alpine, don't get it twisted LOL

[Terrance M Sullivan]

Thank U CGNC U Rock!

[alpine]

Alpine, don't get it twisted LOL
Posted by: CGNC | January 09, 2020 at 03:01 PM

sorry CGNC
. . . i know you were referring to the fact that the origin of "scintillate" is from the early 17 c. latin "scintilla", meaning "spark"

. . . and you were referring to earlier discussions of billy joel

. . . in this case, that famous song about history:

"manny didn't start the fire
our dumpster was burning
'for this temple-coach turning

became the famous james'y hire
now we're having new firings
and prayerful new hirings

. . ."

[TonyCane]

Three things have helped Clemson immensely, and one doesn’t get talked about nearly enough:

1) Coaching Stability
2) Enhanced Recruiting

And not talked about enough...quarterbacks.

2011-2013: Tajh Boyd
2014-2016: Deshaun Watson
2018-2020: Trevor Lawrence

Those were really good quarterbacks (and Kelly Bryant was not bad in 2017 either). Dabo has stacked fantastic quarterback after fantastic quarterback. I just wonder if he can continue to do it for ten or twenty more years.

[BigWindyCane1]

Manny (and Blake?) really did not want him.
Also, the proposed salary was not nearly high enough for Alonzo.

Posted by: nemo2020 | January 09, 2020 at 01:55 PM

I think the salary range might say it all. If you set the salary range VERY low, then you have to expect to attract football executives of VERY low quality.

[senior]

FIU kicker to the U! kicking game just got ALOT better

Posted by: TJL | January 09, 2020 at 01:24

Wait til his little brother gets here in 21 kid kicks 50 plus yard field goals as a junior.

[solarcane]

Remember when you were in high school and you went from your sophomore year to your junior year?
You were a sophomore now you are a junior.

Jimmy limp arm is a rising junior at over rated Academy South.

No he is just a junior, when did everybody that passes to the next grade start rising.
My youngest grandson is a rising 3ed grader.

[VA Cane]

That Bobby Dodd had to be the shyt.
Take over 5-6 team and win 31 games in row with the very next seasons.

Solar my Uncle "Wild Bill" Thayden played at GT for Bobby Dodd...then played on the last Detroit teams to win an NFL title. He was really something according to my uncle. After leaving GT my uncle was a pilot for American out of GA for 30 years...degree engineering from GT.

solar, happened across Baby Driver on AMC Sunday night....watched some but was bz....recorded it. Been at my Mother in Laws Tue Night Wed and today....watched on my phone via my Comcast stream...last night.....awesome movie...remembered you said it was! Great gonna watch tonight again!

At MIL Tue-Thurs take her with me on appraisals....she bad dementia patient...so sad but I have a way of working with her...sweet 71 year old lady!

Monday very tough....buried my player Sean C. played baseball football for me....Marine Corp...was gonna get DUI NY Eve home on leave...ran to car blew his brains out.....so sad great kid....I said a few words at graveside.....family asked me to....one of my hardest tasks in life....I worry about all our young people out there....

blog is always great....helps me forget my tough times....a safe haven....a sanctuary city for lifes troopers in a crazy world....

[BigWindyCane1]

Bye to Berry. 2 down a couple more to go.

Posted by: HerbieIbis | January 09, 2020 at 11:44 AM

we keep getting bad info repeated on this blog
. . . i don't find a barry-firing anywhere
. . . are you retweeting another canes' fantasy?
Posted by: alpine | January 09, 2020 at 02:56 PM

Stephan ADAMS at Canesinsight is reporting that Butch BARRY will not be returning, but Stubblefield and the other coaches will be returning

[BigWindyCane1]

I heard a rumor from a local coach that if there was an opening at UM, Cristobol would jump on it.

Not sure if that Cristobol rumor is true, but even if it weren’t true, CMD still has a lot of pressure to win next season. If they continue to perform like this next season, CMD will be lucky to be HC by midseason. Rhett Lashlee is his only hope at this point. If RL can turn this anemic offense around like he has done at other programs, then the Canes should see some wins

[Joe]

I think Dan Morgan would be a great “Chief of Staff” he’s done a great job scouting for the Buffalo Bills and you could say is apart of that turn around as he has scouted most of their draft picks the past 3 years.

[solarcane]

VA,
I feel for you my man, life's been grinding on you full time for awhile now. Just remember you have friends on here that care about you.

[Terrance M Sullivan]

VA. I second what SolarCane said.

[86Cane]

I think Dan Morgan would be a great “Chief of Staff” he’s done a great job scouting for the Buffalo Bills and you could say is apart of that turn around as he has scouted most of their draft picks the past 3 years.

Posted by: Joe | January 09, 2020 at 09:33 PM

I second that emotion.