How do U Spell Poffenbarger?

Your next University of Miami quarterback has a name that sounds like something that may happen after an intense tailgate party.

Yes, your Miami Hurricanes just landed a commitment from Albany, QB transfer Reese Poffenbarger.

Even though Miami will continue to evaluate veteran QBs through the end of this cycle and, if necessary, after spring, Poffenbarger has two years of eligibility, and his addition will not preclude Miami from pursuing another proven arm.

After the Fireball, Jaeger and Tequila shots are done, you may want to know that your new QB, this Poffenbarger guy, led the FCS in passing yards (3,608 yards) and passing TDs (36) while being graded at 2nd in big-time throws by PFF.

Apparently, Miami coaches were blown away by his visit this weekend and compared his personality to Baker Mayfield whatever that means. Alledgedly, they also have high grades on his arm strength and athleticism. He measured at 6.05 and 215 pounds on his visit which is "Baker Mayfield" like I guess?

Anyway, the tailgate crew will LOVE this guy and we hope the average season ticket holding fan does too.

Other than that, we have nothing new to report.

We suggest that U just carry on and be calm.

Comments

[W]

"Poff the Magic Dragon"

Posted by: W | January 08, 2024 at 06:59 PM

[Terrance Sullivan]

lol only God and his Family Soupster

[TJL]

yaaaa we got a frat boy!

[MLALUMNI 1970]

W, I agree. I hope that Poff can do the job. Don’t know anything about him, so I will wait for all of you, to keep me posted, informed, and current on our Canes and this new guy.🟩🟧💚🧡

[CGNC]

I’ve actually had to mute the dolphins game! These announcers are horrible and so pro Bills! You’d think they were in love with freaking Josh Allen

Posted by: AeroCane | January 07, 2024 at 09:18 PM

I know right?! They talk about him like he has actually won a Superbowl. It was nauseating

[CGNC]

86 nice update on the QB situation!

W - LOL at Poff the Magic Dragon

[JCane]

Thx for forwarding the info in the last blog, OC. Also, the guys who went to FSU, Jaylen Brown and Earl Little Jr, were said to have had other issues (ie Brown had issues getting along with many of the UM guys prior to UM and may not have been a great personality fit, and Little had his old HS coach and former Dolphin, Patrick Surtain, as a DB coach at FSU).

I think we benefit by having Poff at UM simply to have enough quarterbacks competing during spring play, let alone whether Emory Williams will be fully ready, as expected, to play by the fall. If Tua's bro is given the green light, I wouldn't be surprised to see that relationship move forward quickly.

On Wednesday, the U will welcome a struggling Louisville (0-3 in conference play so far) basketball team into Coral Gables. Hope they take care of business while Poplar was supposed to return to practice today. I'd like him back, as they can't blow games in the ACC to the bottom feeders, but I'd like his ankle to fully recover, if there is such a thing during any basketball season.

[Herbieibis]

Well, Michigan gave Mario the blueprint he has been chasing. Get bigger, nothing fancy on offense, just play smash mouth football and only throw it when u need to. We got enough QB's now that can steer the ship. Don't know how good they will be passing but hey, when you got a coach who loves for his Qb's to hand the ball off 40 times a game, they don't need to be nothing more than average, that includes our newest addition Poff.
If that is what we got for next year, welcome to anything from 6-6 to 8-4, in other words, the same thing as the last couple couple seasons.

[Terrance Sullivan]

Lmfao if you think Mario is in Jim or Kalan or Nick or Dabo or Kirby, or Steve, league that dude couldn’t Coach himself out of a wet paper bag

[Ohio_Cane]

Puff, Puff, I would've PASSED... IJS

Hope he proves me wrong

[58 Straight]

OC...good one there. I like it!

[Terrance Sullivan]

Mario Went Outlet Mall Shopping for this QB Here. Hope it pans out! JCane yeah we need to Smash Louisville. Yeah get Wooga healthy we got enough to beat a dreadful Louisville Squad and get to 12-3. Hope George continues to shine to help out Nigel, Omier, Cleveland. Need Bensley to find his offensive Game. And Casey, Naoko, defend and rebound and convert the easy bunnies they get instead of fumbling the ball out of bounds. Watson needs to find his stroke as well. Go Canes!

[orange 'n green in the vein]

Mary will like this;

'Miami coach Jim Larranaga indicated that Poplar and Pack are questionable, but Omier will play.

"Norchad is a different kind of a human being," Larranaga said. "If you hurt a lion, how does he respond? He gets angry and more aggressive. So, I think Norchad will be fine."'

There's no lions in Nicaragua and considering his undersized stature for his position they play him at, he's more apt to be drawn in a comparison to a jaguar or puma, but other than that I guess the story checks out?

[JCane]

Sounds like Coach L should compare Omier to Mongo from Blazing Saddles? For those who don't remember or who are too young, he was Alex Karras (old Lion football player, and the line was "don't shoot Mongo. It will only make him mad").

I'm guessing the Michigan game plan can be used to assist UM with recruiting though, as who can argue that this approach can't win a championship at the moment. Would anyone have guessed McCarthy would pass for only 140 yards and still win fairly easily?

Hopefully Coach L can beat Louisville at home even with a few banged up players maybe not playing, Terrance. Last year they lost a few games they shouldn't have, so you never know.

[Herbieibis]

Saban gone. I guess Dabo on deck.

[JCane]

Awful shooting, ugly 2nd half, bad loss vs da Ville

[Terrance Sullivan]

Absolutely Brutal Loss Tonight. The worst Loss in the last 3 Years Ugh! SMDH!

[Terrance Sullivan]

JCane Correct bad Loss Tonight SMH!

[Ohio_Cane]

Saban gone. I guess Dabo on deck.

Posted by: Herbieibis | January 10, 2024 at 06:36 PM
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I wish lol. Dabo would ruin Bama. It's prob gonna be Lanning

[Old Skool]

If it's Lanning, Bama will be cutting a check for $20 million. That's his buyout

[Ohio_Cane]

Welp, it's not Lanning lol

[orange 'n green in the vein]

Louisville did a fantastic job as a roster forcing Miami into an overall poor shooting night from the floor with their height advantage and Miami refused to get ahead and then drive to the rim to force them to foul in order to put the Hurrincanes on the free throw line where they struggled from anyway this outing, so congrats to them, they deserved to win.

Miami must rally as a team on the road to stay in the hunt for a successful league championship defense this season, so we'll see how they respond to the taste of their own blood now without their core from last year to rally them for the rest of the way Saturday.

[Ohio_Cane]

Arizona transfer S Isaiah Taylor has committed to Miami. He is DE coach Jason Taylor's son. I have NO clue if he's any good

[Old Skool]

Guess that means JT ain't going to OSU to coach

[Old Skool]

The coaches supposedly in play for the Red Tide job are: DeBoer, Kiffin, Norvell and Swinney. Lanning removed his name from consideration

[Ohio_Cane]

JT's nephew is being brought in as a preferred walk-on, so isn't taking up a scholarship

[Old Skool]

Canes add Elijah Alston from Marshall -- last year's defensive captain of the team and a player when Guidry coached there. 6'2" 255 pounds OLB/Rush End

[86Cane]

I like Kiffin for #RollTide job.

Miami should have hired him.

[Old Skool]

From SI

The Florida State Seminoles and the NCAA reached a negotiated resolution of an infractions case expected to include sanctions against the school, an assistant football coach and a booster, sources told Sports Illustrated. The NCAA announced the penalties later Thursday.

The case centers on violations related to name, image and likeness rules, sources said. The Florida State assistant coach and a booster were attempting to secure the transfer of a player from Georgia, according to sources, and the player chose not to attend FSU.

[Herbieibis]

Kiffin
Norvell
Dabo
In that order with Lanning out. Hope they take Norvell. We can't seem to beat him but he is the portal king.

[Terrance Sullivan]

Preach Soupster Miami should have hired Lane instead of Mario but the powers that be thought otherwise Sigh!

[Ohio_Cane]

Looking more and more like DeBoer from UW to replace Saban. We'll see soon

[Old Skool]

I'm no recruiting guru. This does seem like a significant punishment

FSU was placed on probation by the NCAA for actions stemming from violations concerning the NIL program.

The probation terms are set forth below.

Two years of probation. Probation includes further educating coaches on NCAA compliance, informing prospects in the football program in writing that the institution is on probation for two years and detail the violations committed (as well as making similar info visible to recruits on official visits or signees), publicly acknowledging the violation via a statement on the athletic department's website, and more.
A two-year show cause order for the assistant coach, including a suspension from the next three regular-season games, a two-week restriction on recruiting communication, and required attendance at a NCAA Regional Rules Seminar attendance.
A restriction from off-campus recruiting during fall 2023 for the assistant coach.
A three-year disassociation from the booster.
A one-year disassociation from the collective.
A $5,000 fine plus 1% of the football budget.
A 5% reduction in football scholarships over the two-year probationary period, amounting to a total reduction of five scholarships.
A reduction in official (paid) visits in the football program in the 2023-24 academic year by seven. The school also will not roll over six unused official visits from the 2022-23 academic year.
A reduction in football recruiting communications for a total of six weeks during the 2023-24 and 2024-25 academic years.
A reduction in the number of in-person recruiting days during the 2023-24 academic year by six evaluation days during fall 2023 and 18 during spring 2024.
These violations allegedly occurred last season. Per Yahoo Sports, a Florida State assistant coach, who was identified as offensive coordinator and offensive line coach Alex Atkins, initiated an impermissible contact between a booster and a recruit for purposes of inducing him to transfer. The player was identified by 247Sports as Georgia offensive tackle Amarius Mims.

[Ohio_Cane]

It is definitely significant. Couldn't have happened to a better program. ;-)

[Old Skool]

On Friday, Florida State head coach Mike Norvell Norvell publicly announced that he would be remaining in Tallahassee while reaffirming his commitment to the program.

Meanwhile, here's a quick blast from the past courtesy of ESPN writer Mark Kreidler of the Sacramento Bee

"Nearly every time something like this happens, a top college coach ditching his program in a crucial moment (and when isn't there a crucial moment in the college game anymore?), you find yourself inundated with what are best described as reality-qualifiers. Generally speaking, these are offered by the coach's supporters as a means of defending the kinds of actions that would get you tossed out of the local Rotary club were they put into motion in any venue other than sports.

Reality Qualifier No. 1: Sure, he told those recruits he wasn't leaving right up until the day before he left, but he had to do what was best for his family.

Reality Qualifier No. 2: Right, he wasn't entirely truthful about his intentions, but who tells the whole truth anymore in the midst of a secret negotiation? We all know how the game is played, don't we?

Like that. The coach didn't mean to hurt anyone, but it was (a) the opportunity of a lifetime, (b) a move he had to make, (c) a job he couldn't turn down, (d) stop me if you're getting queasy out there.

As you'd expect, there isn't one of these arguments that is worth a bucket of warm spit. Butch Davis said he'd be staying in Miami as recently as Sunday, while in the midst of a visit with a prized recruit. Not 10 days ago, Davis said, "I will have a new contract, and I will be the coach at Miami next year." On Monday, Davis made known his decision to jump to the Cleveland Browns.

Why bother with the qualifiers? Butch Davis lied like a Watergate co-conspirator. This guy shouldn't be able to turn a corner in a hallway; his nose ought to be getting places 10 minutes ahead of him.

You want qualifiers on Davis? I could give you a fistful. Davis, up until now, has enjoyed a reputation as the man who cleaned up Miami football in the wake of the Dennis Erickson mess. Davis went in there and took his licks, endured the NCAA post-Erickson sanctions and yet returned the Hurricanes to national prominence. He deserves every one of the accolades that have flowed his way over the past couple of years of the turnaround.

Not only that, but the Davis family is going to come out ahead financially on a scale that's dazzling even by fat-money standards. His proposed new contract at Miami -- the one that Davis kept telling university officials was all but done, yet repeatedly failed to finalize -- was to pay him upward of $1.4 million per year. Under the Al Lerner Money Machine program in Cleveland, the coach will more than double that: five years, nearly $15 million.

And all together: So what? At what point does the context outweigh the action? Here is Buck Ortega, quarterback at Miami Gulliver High School and a recruit whom Davis visited on Sunday. Interviewed by the Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, Ortega quoted Davis as telling him this: "I took this job to be my last one. I'm going to stay until I retire."

[KYcane]

Has Buck graduated yet?

[JCane]

Looks like DeBoer has agreed to a deal to become Bama's next coach per Pete Thamel

[Ohio_Cane]

Look for Kliff Kingsbury to take the UW job, possibly, too

[Herbieibis]

That's the fastest the NCAA has ever acted. Had it been us it would be a year and half.

[JCane]

Will Rogers is available in the portal again from UW after leaving MSU. Anyone need a qb?

[360Cane]

Bama did not mess around. They took the next hottest coach on the market, but wasn't on the market. Why can't []_[] do that? It's experimentation after experimentation. Nothing proven. Mario was never a good pick. Couldn't beat Utah, and doesn't know victory formation even though he played on O.

And we paying Mario $8M per. I'm in the wrong business.

[TonyCane]

Bama did not mess around. They took the next hottest coach on the market, but wasn't on the market. Why can't []_[] do that? It's experimentation after experimentation. Nothing proven. Mario was never a good pick. Couldn't beat Utah, and doesn't know victory formation even though he played on O.

And we paying Mario $8M per. I'm in the wrong business.

Posted by: 360Cane | January 13, 2024 at 08:12 AM

Mario was the best, conservative pick at the time. He's also unlikely to leave Miami for another job - this is his home.

[TonyCane]

MIAMI (2024) vs FSU (2024) ROSTER COMPARISON

AVERAGE COLLEGE EXPERIENCE
2024: 1.78 years (Miami), 1.95 years (FSU)
2023: 1.80 years (Miami), 2.30 years (FSU)

AVERAGE 247 RATING
2024: 0.8999 (Miami), .8928 (FSU)
2023: 0.8994 (Miami), .8800 (FSU)

MIAMI POSITION ADVANTAGES (COMPOSITE RATING)
Wide Receiver (Miami .9243, FSU .9044)
Tight End (Miami .9088, FSU .8921)
Defensive Tackle (Miami .9050, FSU .8869)
Defensive End (Miami .9287, FSU .8994)
Linebacker (Miami .9154, FSU .8757)
Safety (Miami .8924, FSU .8788)

FSU POSITION ADVANTAGES (COMPOSITE RATING)
Running Back (FSU .9144, Miami .9094)
Offensive Line (FSU .8911, Miami .8838)
Quarterback (Florida State .9201, Miami .8790)
Cornerback (Florida State .9128, Miami .8955)
Special Teams (Florida State .8003, Miami .7789)

NOTES
Miami is carrying a combined total of twenty defensive ends and tackles, Florida State seventeen

Florida State is fielding a relatively heavy 13 wide receivers going into 2024. Nine of them have one or zero years of experience, and overall they return no starters. Miami brings back two (George and Restrepo)

Four of Miami's eight safeties are true freshmen

Florida State is carrying eleven cornerbacks. Seven have one or zero years of experience

Florida State is carrying just 3 quarterbacks, and aside from DJ Uiagalelei they have 1 and 0 years experience respectively. Miami now has 4 with the addition of Poffenbarger, with an improving Jacurri Brown bringing 2 years of experience.

Florida State has the single highest ranked player in a position group with wide receivers (Hykeem Williams .9874), tight ends (Landon Thomas .9698), running backs (Kameron Davis .9649), quarterbacks (Luke Kromenhoek .9724), and cornerbacks (Charles Lester .9829).

Miami has the single highest ranked player in a position group with offensive line (Francis Mauigoa .9962), defensive tackle (Justin Scott .9949), defensive end (Marquise Lightfoot .9711), linebacker (Adarius Hayes .9637), safety (Zaquan Patterson .9649), and special teams (Andres Borregales .8297).

Miami has 19 transfer portal players on roster compared to 24 the previous season

Florida State has 21 transfer portal players on roster compared to 24 the previous season

[AeroCane]

Ward bypasses nfl and commits to the U!!

[360Cane]

Cam Ward is in. Hopefully he takes a knee.

[360Cane]

For those not paying attention, we had until Januray 15th. That's when you have to get an NFL agent.

[W]

WOW
W

[W]

Top-rated Cam Ward transferring to UM

"Baby, you can drive my car."

[JCane]

As long as he hadn't signed with an agent, Ward was still an option. Huge pickup.

Nice 2nd half on the road in hoops for a needed win over the Hokies.

[Terrance Sullivan]

Much Needed Road Win Tonight against Those Castrated Turkeys of VT. Miami is now 12-4 and 3-2 in ACC Play. Go Canes!